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Cádiz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 156,903), capital of Cádiz prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Bay of Cádiz. Picturesquely situated on a promontory (joined...industries. There is a Spanish naval base in Cádiz and a U.S. naval base at nearby Rota. The Phoenicians...
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Andalusia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...comprising the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga...several coastal colonies, notably Gadir (now Cádiz and, supposedly, the inland town of Tartessus...declined, although the ports of Seville and Cádiz flourished as centers of trade with the...
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Gades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Spain: see Cádiz .
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Gadir
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Spain: see Cádiz .
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La Línea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 61,597), Cádiz prov., S Spain, on the Strait of Gibraltar. Situated on the Spanish border north of the neutral zone that separates the city from...
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Arcos de la Frontera
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, town (1990 pop. 27,722), Cádiz prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on a rocky hill above the Guadalete River. A Gothic church and the palace of the duke of Arcos are...
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San Fernando
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 83,923), Cádiz prov., S Spain, in Andalusia. An Atlantic port, it has a naval academy and arsenal, naval workshops, and an observatory. Salt is commercially obtained from nearby marshes by evaporation.
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Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 56,375), Cádiz prov., S Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, in Andalusia. It is a port shipping sherry from nearby Jerez. It is the...
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George Gordon Meade
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
1815-72, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Cádiz, Spain. Graduated from West Point in 1835, he resigned from the army the next year and became a civil engineer. In 1842, Meade...
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Balbus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
(Lucius Cornelius Balbus) , fl. 1st cent. BC, Roman statesman, b. Gades (now Cádiz, Spain). He won notice for brilliant service against Sertorius, and Pompey brought him to Rome and had him made a citizen. Balbus...
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