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REGLA , formerly an important suburb of See also:Havana, See also:Cuba, opposite that See also:city, on the See also:bay; now a See also:part of Havana. Pop. (1899) 11,363. It was formerly the See also:scene of the Havana See also:bull-fights. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church is one of the best in Cuba; the See also:building See also:dates substantially from 1805, but the church See also:settlement goes back to a hermitage established in 169o. Regla is the See also:shipping-point of the Havana See also:sugar See also:trade. It has enormous sugar and See also:tobacco warehouses, See also:fine wharves, a dry See also:dock, foundries and an electric railway plant. It is the western See also:terminus of the eastern See also:line of the See also:United See also:Railways of Havana, and is connected with the See also:main city of Havana by See also:ferry. A fishing See also:village was established here about 1733. At the end of the 18th See also:century Regla was a See also:principal centre of the See also:smuggling trade, and about 1820 was notorious as a resort. of pirates. It first secured an See also:ayuntamiento (city See also:council) in 1872, and after 1899 was annexed to Havana.
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