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ALMODOVAR DEL CAMPO, or ALMODOVAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 714 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALMODOVAR DEL CAMPO, or ALMODOVAR  , a

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town of
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Spain, in the
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province of
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Ciudad Real, 18 m . S.S.W. of Ciudad Real, on the
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northern
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side of the Sierra de Alcfdia . Pop . (1900) 12,525 . Almod6var was a Moorish fortress in the
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middle ages, but contains little of antiquarian
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interest . It owes its
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modern prosperity to the nearness of the valuable Puertollano
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coal-
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field, 3 M . S. by a
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branch of the
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Madrid-
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Badajoz-
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Lisbon railway . Its manufactures are
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lace and
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linen and it has a brisk
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trade in live-stock, oil and
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wine .
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South of the Sierra lies thg Alcildia valley, owned by the
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crown, and. used as pasture for immense flocks of
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sheep .

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