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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OCAFIA , a See also:

town of central See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Toledo; on the extreme See also:north of the tableland known as the See also:Mesa de Ocana, with a station on the railway from See also:Aranjuez to See also:Cuenca. Pop. (1900) 6616. The town is surrounded by ruined walls, and in it are the remains of an old See also:castle. In one of its See also:parish churches is the See also:chapel of Nuestra Senora de los See also:Remedios, in which See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella were married in 1469. Ocana is the Vicus Cuminarius of the See also:Romans, and was the See also:dowry that El Motamid of See also:Seville gave his daughter Zaida on her See also:marriage with See also:Alphonso VI. of See also:Castile (1072-1109). Near Ocana, on the 19th of See also:November 1809, the See also:Spanish under their Irish See also:general See also:Lacy were routed by the See also:French under See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte and See also:Marshal See also:Soult.

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