2) Asturias, Miguel Angel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Asturias, Miguel Ángel, (megel´ ang´hel astoo´ryas) (KEY) , 1899-1974, Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat. Living in Paris in the 1920s, Asturias was influenced...

3) Asturias. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Spain south of the Bay of Biscay. The original Iberian inhabitants were conquered by Rome in the second century b.c. As·turi·an -ADJECTIVE & NOUN...

4) Asturias, Miguel Angel. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Guatemalan writer whose El Senor Presidente (1946) is often considered his greatest novel. He won the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature....

5) Carlos, prince of the Asturias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Carlos, prince of the Asturias, 1545-68, prince of the Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal. Don Carlos, who seems to have been mentally unbalanced...

6) Alfonso I, Spanish king of Asturias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alfonso I, Spanish king of Asturias, (Alfonso the Catholic), 693?-757, Spanish king of Asturias (739-57). He was the son-in-law of the first Asturian king, Pelayo....

7) Alfonso III, Spanish king of Asturias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alfonso III, Spanish king of Asturias, (Alfonso the Great), 838?-911?, Spanish king of Asturias (866-911?). He recovered the territory of Leon from the Moors. The...

8) Alfonso II, Spanish king of Asturias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alfonso II, Spanish king of Asturias, (Alfonso the Chaste), 759-842, Spanish king of Asturias (791-842), grandson of Alfonso I. He established his capital at Oviedo,...

9) 3. Christian Spain, Castile and Leon. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...Leon 718-37 Pelayo, with the Visigothic leaders who escaped Tarik, created the kingdom of Asturias in northwestern Spain, south of the Bay of Biscay. Pelayo's victory...

10) Pelayo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pelayo, (pala´yo) (KEY) , d. 737, first king (c.718-737) of Asturias. He was elected king by the tribespeople of Asturias and by Visigothic leaders who had escaped...