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    El Bierzo (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈβjeɾ.θo]; Leonese: El Bierciu or El Bierzu; Galician: O Bierzo) is a comarca in the province of León, Spain. Its...
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    Villafranca del Bierzo (Galician: Vilafranca do Bierzo) is a village and municipality located in the comarca of El Bierzo, in the province of León, Castile...
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    42°33′N 6°35′W / 42.550°N 6.583°W / 42.550; -6.583 Bierzo is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) for wines located in the northwest of...
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    numerous small valleys in the mountainous part (Alto Bierzo) and of a wide, flat plain (Bajo Bierzo). The denominación de origen covers 23 municipalities...
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    married in 1508 Maria Osorio Pimentel, 2nd Marchioness of Villafranca del Bierzo. They had seven children: Eleanor of Toledo, married in 1539 Cosimo I de'...
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    Valerio of Bierzo (or Valerius of Bierzo; c. 630–c. 695) was an ascetic hermit and monk from the Bierzo region of Visigothic Spain. A number of his writings...
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    Coalition for El Bierzo (CB, Coalición por El Bierzo) is a Bercian regionalist coalition founded in 2015, by the Party of El Bierzo and the Party of the...
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    Torre del Bierzo (Asturian: Torre de Santa Marina) is a village and municipality in the region of El Bierzo (province of León, Castile and León, Spain)...
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    The Bierzo Edict, also referred to as the Edict of Augustus from El Bierzo and the Bembibre Bronze is a controversial document dated to 15 BC found in...
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  • The Torre del Bierzo rail disaster occurred on 3 January 1944 near the village of Torre del Bierzo in the El Bierzo region of Spain's León province when...
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