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PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PUERTO DE See also:

SANTA

SANTA MARIA , a seaport of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

Spain, in the See also:

province of See also:

Cadiz, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river Guadalete, with a station on the railway from Cadiz to See also:

Seville. Pop. (1900), 20,120. Puerto de Santa Maria, commonly called " El Puerto," is probably the Menesthei See also:

PORTUS

Portus of See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy. Its most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is the See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine See also:

trade; there are also See also:

glass,liqueur, See also:

ALCOHOL

alcohol, See also:

STARCH

starch and See also:

SOAP

soap manufactures. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal buildings are a Moorish citadel, a See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

church founded in the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, a Jesuit See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, and a See also:

bull-See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring which accommodates 12,000 spectators. The See also:

TOWN

town is noted for its bull-fights, that given here in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Wellington being the subject of the considerably idealized description in See also:

Byron's Childe Harold.

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