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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Cuban legation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later.
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At one stage the station, not far from the foreign legations, was connected to them by a tram line.
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In 581 a Frankish legation sent by Chilperic I returned from Constantinople with numerous gifts.
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The roofs of every embassy and legation in London are draped with aerials of every size and shape.