HOLGUIN  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of the high See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the interior of See also:

• ORIENTE, OR LA REGION ORIENTALE

Oriente See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, See also:

• CUBA (the aboriginal name)

Cuba, about 65 m . N.W. of See also:

• SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago de Cuba . Pop . (1907) 7592 . The town is near the Maranon and Jigue See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, on a See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain from which hills rise on all sides except the E., on which See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side it is open to the winds of the plateau . Holguin was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• ACCLIMATIZATION

acclimatization station for See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish troops . The See also:

• OLDEST

oldest public buildings are two churches built in 1800 and 1809 respectively . Holguin has See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• CABINET

cabinet See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn and See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle products, which it exports through its See also:

• PORT

port See also:

• GIBARA, or JIBARA

Gibara, about 25 M . N.N.E., with which it is connected by railway . Holguin was settled about 1720 and became a See also:

• CIUDAD

ciudad (See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city) in 1751 . In the Ten Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of 1868–78 and in the revolution of 1895–98 Holguin was an insurgent centre .