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GUINES

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUINES  , a See also:

town in the interior of See also:Havana See also:province, See also:Cuba, about 30 m . S.E. of Havana . Pop . (1907) 8053 . It is situated on a See also:plain, in the midst of a See also:rich See also:plantation See also:district, chiefly devoted to the cultivation of See also:tobacco . The first railway in Cuba was built from Havana to Guines between 1835 and 1838 . One of the very few See also:good highways of the See also:island also connects Guines with the See also:capital . The See also:pueblo of Guines, which was built on a See also:great private See also:estate of the same name, See also:dates back to about 1735 . The See also:church dates from r85o . Guines became a " See also:villa " in 1814, and was destroyed by See also:fire in 1817 .

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