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Lusitania   /lˌusətˈeɪniə/   Listen
Lusitania

noun
1.
Ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain.



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"Lusitania" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the vast peninsula of India, there did exist a flourishing and extended kingdom, eminent for the beauty of the country, the fertility of the soil, and the salubrity of the climate. This kingdom was bounded on the east by a country named Lusitania, that lies northerly towards the coast of Iceland, so called from the excessive heat of the winter. On the south it was bounded by a slip of land, the name of which has slipped my memory; but it runs into the seas under the dominion ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat

... published articles from its neutral correspondent in England which point out that each phase of frightfulness had precisely the opposite effect of that which was intended. The bombardments of coast towns, the use of asphyxiating gases, the sinking of the Lusitania all led, he remarks, to increased recruiting and intensified war feeling. Each act of frightfulness has of course been represented to the German public in a very different light from that in which it has been presented to us,[49] and it is therefore the ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton



Words linked to "Lusitania" :   Spain, geographical area, Espana, geographic region, Portuguese Republic, geographical region, Feliz Lusitania, geographic area, Portugal, Kingdom of Spain



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