Ebro

[ ee-broh; Spanish e-vraw ]

/ ˈi broʊ; Spanish ˈɛ vrɔ /

a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.

Example sentences from the Web for ebro

Within this curve, with its back to the Pyrenees and its face to the Ebro, lay the French army.

Sir Charles Napier |Sir William Francis Butler
The Ebro, as all the world knows--or will pretend to know, being an ignorant and vain world--runs through the city of Saragossa.

The Velvet Glove |Henry Seton Merriman
These are the Keltiberians, and those who dwell on either side of the Ebro, as far as the sea-coast.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume I (of 3) |Strabo
There we find that all the great rivers have been successfully at work—more especially the Rhone, the Ebro and the Po.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 |Various

I first set out from the city of Saragossa, and proceeded down the river Ebro to Tortosa.

Early Travels in Palestine |Arculf et al.

Ebro

/ (ˈiːbrəʊ, Spanish ˈeβro) /

the second largest river in Spain, rising in the Cantabrian Mountains and flowing southeast to the Mediterranean. Length: 910 km (565 miles)