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HUESCA (anc. Osca)

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HUESCA (anc. Osca) , the See also:capital of the See also:Spanish See also:province of Huesca, 35 M. N.N.E. of See also:Saragossa, on the Tardienta-Huesca-See also:Jaca railway. Pop. (19oo), 12,626. Huesca occupies a height near the right See also:bank of the See also:river Isuela, overlooking a broad and fertile See also:plain. It is a very See also:ancient See also:city and bears many traces of its antiquity. 'I'he streets in the older See also:part are narrow and crooked, though clean, and many of the houses See also:witness by their See also:size and See also:style to its former magnificence. It is an episcopal see and has an imposing See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, begun in 1400, finished in 1515, and enriched with See also:fine See also:carving. In the same plaza is the old See also:palace of the See also:kings of See also:Aragon, formerly given up for the use of the now closed Sertoria (the university), so named in memory of a school for the sons of native chiefs, founded at Huesca by See also:Sertorius in 77 B.C. (Plut. Sert.

15). Among the other prominent buildings are the interesting See also:

parish churches (See also:San Pedro, San See also:Martin and San Juan), the episcopal palace, and various benevolent and religious See also:foundations. Considerable See also:attention is-See also:HUET 855 paid to public See also:education, and there are not only several See also:good See also:primary See also:schools, but schools for teachers, an See also:institute, an ecclesiastical See also:seminary, an See also:artistic and archaeological museum, and an economic society. Huesca manufactures See also:cloth, pottery, bricks and See also:leather; but its See also:chief See also:trade is in See also:wine and agricultural produce. The development of these See also:industries caused an increase in the See also:population which, owing to See also:emigration to See also:France, had declined by nearly 2000 between 1887 and 1897, See also:Strabo (iii. 161, where some editors read Ileosca) describes Osca as a See also:town of the Ilergetes, and the See also:scene of Sertorius's See also:death in 72 B.C.; while See also:Pliny places the Oscenses in regio Vescitania. See also:Plutarch (loc. cit.) calls it a large city. See also:Julius See also:Caesar names it Vencedora; and the name by which See also:Augustus knew it, Urbs victrix Osca, was stamped on its coins, and is still preserved on its arms. In the 8th See also:century A.D. it was captured by the See also:Moors; but in 1og6 Pedro I. of Aragon regained it, after winning the decisive See also:battle of Alcoraz.

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