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CANGAS DE ONES, or CANGAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANGAS DE ONES, or CANGAS  , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Oviedo; situated on the right.See also:bank Of the See also:river See also:Sella, in a fertile, well-watered, partly wooded, undulating region . Pop . (r000) 8537 . The See also:trade of Cangas de Onis is chiefly in live-stock and See also:coal from the neighbouring mines . A Latin-CANTS See also:MAJOR inscription on the town-See also:hall records the fact that this See also:place was the See also:residence of the first See also:Spanish See also:kings after the spread of the See also:Moors over the See also:Peninsula . Here See also:early in the 8th See also:century lived See also:King Pelayo, who started the See also:Christian reconquest of Spain . His historic See also:cave of Covadonga is only 8 m. distant (see See also:ASTURIAS) . The See also:church of the See also:Assumption, rebuilt in the 19th century, is on the See also:model and site of an older church of the See also:middle ages . Near Cangas are ruins and See also:bridges of the See also:Roman See also:period .

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