isabella i

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isabella i - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Isabella I
      n 1: the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon
           in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain;
           they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and
           sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492
           (1451-1504) [syn: Isabella, Queen Isabella, Isabella I
           , Isabella the Catholic]