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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 See also:

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

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