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What does Algeciras mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Algeciras? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in the Bay of Gibraltar, in the Spanish province of Andalusia.
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I had it under my hand in the hotel at Algeciras, and I left it on the table.
The city receives high numbers of ferries each day from Algeciras in Andalusia in the south of Spain, along with Melilla and the Canary Islands.
By the time he was fourteen he was a full fledged docker staggering under the crates his boyish frame hauled from the ships unloading at Algeciras.
The characteristic solid grey limestone was quarried from the east face of the Rock of Gibraltar as well as being shipped across from a Spanish quarry outside Algeciras.
Algeciras had become a fortress of great strength and magnificence, and Gibraltar was a mere sort of outlying post.
On the opposite side of the bay was a town of considerable size, which the captain told him was Algeciras.

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