meseta

plural mesetas

1. A plateau, especially in Spanish-speaking countries.

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   This factor is particularly relevant to the history of Spanish, since Spanish has its geographical roots in what is now the northern part of the province of Burgos, an area of the northern meseta which was remote from the centres of economic activity and cultural prestige in Roman Spain, which was latinized fairly late, […]

   2002, Ralph Penny, “The Latin of Spain”, in A History of the Spanish Language, Cambridge University Press