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BAROTAC NUEVO

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAROTAC NUEVO  , a

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town of the province of Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Islands, near the Jalaur
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river, above its mouth on the S.E. coast, and about 15 M . N.E. of Iloilo, the capital . Pop . (1903) 9904; in 1903 after the census had been taken the neighbouring town of Dumangas (pop . 12,428) was annexed to Barotac Nuevo . The town lies in a fertile plain and deals in rice, trepang and pina . Here, in what was formerly Dumangas, are a
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fine church and convent, built of iron, pressed brick and marble . Dumangas was destroyed by fire in
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June 1900, during a fight with insurgents, but its rebuilding was begun in May 1901 .

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