Santiago de Compostela (English spelling)

Japanese: サンチアゴ・デ・コンポステラ(英語表記)Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela (English spelling)
A city in the Galicia region in northwestern Spain. Population 81,536 (1979). In medieval Europe, it was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage sites, comparable to Jerusalem and Rome. There are a Romanesque cathedral, 36 monasteries and 46 churches, and a university founded in the 16th century. Santiago is the Spanish name for James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Christ. Compostela is generally said to be derived from the Latin campus stellae (field of stars), and some say it is derived from compositam (cemetery), but the exact reason is unknown.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
スペイン北西部,ガリシア地方の都市。人口8万1536(1979)。中世ヨーロッパでは,エルサレムとローマに比肩するキリスト教三大巡礼地のひとつだった。ロマネスク様式の大聖堂をはじめ,36の修道院と46の教会があり,16世紀に創立された大学もある。サンチアゴはキリストの十二使徒の中の大ヤコブのスペイン語名。そしてコンポステラは一般にはラテン語campus stellae(星の原),また一説にはcompositum(墓場)に由来するといわれるが,はっきりしたことは不明。

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