Coimbra

[ kween-bruh ]

/ ˈkwĩ brə /

a city in central Portugal: noted university founded at Lisbon 1290, transferred here 1537.

Example sentences from the Web for coimbra

But it was not only Terzi's churches which were copied at Coimbra.

Portuguese Architecture |Walter Crum Watson
At Salamanca, at Coimbra, or at Rome, he would have been obliged to retract and to ask pardon.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Such churches are best seen at Coimbra, where many were built, all now more or less deserted and turned to base uses.

Portuguese Architecture |Walter Crum Watson
It will be safer then to attribute it to one of the Coimbra Frenchmen.

Portuguese Architecture |Walter Crum Watson

He has placed your city of Coimbra under a ban of excommunication.

The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series |Rafael Sabatini

Coimbra

/ (Portuguese ˈkuimbrə) /

a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)