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BARACALDO

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARACALDO , a See also:

river-See also:port of See also:north-eastern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Biscay; on the See also:left See also:bank of the river Nervion or See also:Ansa (in Basque, Ibaizabal), 5 M. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Bilbao. Pop. (1900) 15,013. Few See also:Spanish towns have See also:developed more rapidly than Baracaldo, which nearly doubled its See also:population between 188o and 1900. During this See also:period many immigrant labourers settled here; for the ironworks and See also:dynamite factory of Baracaldo prospered greatly, owing to the increased output of the Biscayan mines, the See also:extension of See also:railways in the neighbourhood, and the growth of See also:shipping at Bilbao. The See also:low See also:flat See also:country See also:round Baracaldo is covered with See also:maize, pod See also:fruit and vines.

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