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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLGUIN , a See also:

town of the high See also:plateau See also:country in the interior of See also:Oriente See also:province, See also:Cuba, about 65 m. N.W. of See also:Santiago de Cuba. Pop. (1907) 7592. The town is near the Maranon and Jigue See also:rivers, on a See also:plain from which hills rise on all sides except the E., on which See also:side it is open to the winds of the plateau. Holguin was See also:long the See also:principal See also:acclimatization station for See also:Spanish troops. The See also:oldest public buildings are two churches built in 1800 and 1809 respectively. Holguin has See also:trade in See also:cabinet See also:woods, See also:tobacco, See also:Indian See also:corn and See also:cattle products, which it exports through its See also:port See also:Gibara, about 25 M. N.N.E., with which it is connected by railway. Holguin was settled about 1720 and became a See also:ciudad (See also:city) in 1751. In the Ten Years' See also:War of 1868–78 and in the revolution of 1895–98 Holguin was an insurgent centre.

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