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Huesca[wA´skA] Pronunciation Key, town (1990 pop. 42,805), capital of Huesca prov., NE Spain, in AragOn, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a farm center. In this ancient town Sertorius founded a school in 77 B.C. After Peter I of AragOn liberated it (1096) from the Moors, Huesca was the residence of the kings of AragOn until 1118. A university, later discontinued, was founded there in 1354. The 13th-century Gothic cathedral, the early Romanesque Church of San Pedro, and the royal palace of the Aragonese monarchs are notable landmarks.
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