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CIUDAD JUAREZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CIUDAD

CIUDAD See also:
JUAREZ, BENITO PABLO (1806-1872)
JUAREZ , formerly EL PASO DEL NORTE, a See also:

NORTHERN

northern frontier See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Mexico, in the See also:

state of See also:

CHIHUAHUA

Chihuahua, 1223 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.N.W. of Mexico See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. Pop. (1895) 6917. Ciudad Juarez stands 3800 ft. above See also:

sea-level on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Rio Grande del Norte, opposite the city, of El Paso, See also:

TEXAS

Texas, with which it is connected by two See also:

bridges. It is the northern See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the Mexican Central railway, and has a large and increasing transit See also:

trade with the See also:

UNITED

United States, having a See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom-See also:

house and a United States consulate. It is also a military See also:

POST

post with a small See also:

garrison. The town has a straggling picturesque See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, a considerable See also:

PART

part of the habitations being small See also:

ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

adobe or See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick cabins. In the fertile neighbouring See also:

DISTRICT

district See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle are raised, and See also:

wheat, See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn, See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and grapes are grown, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and See also:

BRANDY

brandy being made. The town was founded in 1681-1682; its See also:

PRESENT

present importance is due entirely to the railway. It was the headquarters of See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President Juarez in 1865, and was renamed in 1885 because of its devotion to his cause.

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