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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COMAYAGUA , the See also:

capital of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Comayagua in central See also:

HONDURAS

Honduras, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river Ulua, and on the interoceanic railway from Puerto See also:

Cortes to See also:

Fonseca See also:

BAY

Bay. Pop.., (1900) about 8000. Comayagua occupies See also:

PART

part of a fertile valley, enclosed by See also:

mountain ranges. Under See also:

SPANISH

Spanish See also:

RULE

rule it was a See also:

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

city of considerable See also:

SIZE

size and beauty, and in 1827 its in-habitants numbered more than 18,000. A See also:

FINE

fine See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral, dating from 1715, is the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument of its former prosperity, for most of the handsome public buildings erected in the colonial See also:

period have fallen into disrepair. The See also:

PRESENT

present city chiefly consists of See also:

low 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 houses and See also:

CANE

cane huts, tenanted by See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. The university founded in 1678 has ceased to exist, but there is a school of See also:

jurisprudence. In the neighbourhood are many See also:

ancient See also:

INDIAN

Indian ruins (see CENTRAL, See also:

AMERICA

AMERICA: See also:

ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

Archaeology). Founded in 1540 by Alonzo See also:

CACERES

Caceres, who had been instructed by the Spanish See also:

government to find a site for a city midway between the two oceans, See also:

VALLADOLID

Valladolid la Nueva, as the See also:

TOWN

town was first named, soon became the capital of Honduras.' It received the privileges of a city in 1557, and was made an episcopal see in 1561. Its decline See also:

DATES

dates from 1827, when it was burned by revolutionaries; and in 1854 its See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population had dwindled to 2000. It afterwards suffered through See also:

war and See also:

REBELLION

rebellion, notably in 1872 and 1873, when it was besieged by the Guatemalans. In 188o See also:

TEGUCIGALPA

Tegucigalpa (q.v.), a city 37 M. See also:

east-See also:

south-east, superseded it as the capital of Honduras.

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