English

Location of Asturias (red) in Spain.

Alternative forms

• Asturia (old-fashioned spelling)
• Asturies (obsolete)

Proper noun

Asturias

1. An autonomous community of Spain, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea. The capital city is Oviedo.
   • 2000, Richard Sterling & Allison Jones, Spain (Lonely Planet; World Food), page 145

     To this day the Asturians say to each other "Have a care. Asturias is Spain. The rest is Araby."

Derived terms

• Asturian

Translations

See also

• Astur

Aragonese

Proper noun

Asturias

1. Asturias

Related terms

• asturiano

Galician

Proper noun

Asturias

1. Asturias

Related terms

• ástur
• asturiano

Spanish

Proper noun

Asturias f pl

1. Asturias (an autonomous community and province of Spain)
2. (historical) Asturias (a mediaeval kingdom in northern Iberia)

Related terms

• astur
• asturiano