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Pamplona

/pamˈplona/

proper noun/pamˈplona/

Pamplona (a city in Navarre, Spain)

Related: pamplonés

Inherited from Latin *Pompelōnem, Roman name of the city, reconstructible from attested Pompelōnēnsis (“related to Pamplona”), found in Pliny, and Pompaelō, the name as found in the Antonine Itinerary. Apparently named after the Roman general Pompey.