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HUESCA (anc. Osca)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUESCA (anc. Osca)  , the capital of the
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Spanish province of Huesca, 35 M . N.N.E. of Saragossa, on the Tardienta-Huesca-
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Jaca railway . Pop . (19oo), 12,626 . Huesca occupies a height near the right
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bank of the
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river Isuela, overlooking a broad and fertile plain . It is a very ancient city and bears many traces of its antiquity . 'I'he streets in the older
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part are narrow and crooked, though clean, and many of the houses witness by their
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size and style to its former magnificence . It is an episcopal see and has an imposing
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Gothic
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cathedral, begun in 1400, finished in 1515, and enriched with
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fine
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carving . In the same plaza is the old palace of the kings of Aragon, formerly given up for the use of the now closed Sertoria (the university), so named in memory of a school for the sons of native chiefs, founded at Huesca by Sertorius in 77 B.C . (Plut . Sert . 15) .

Among the other prominent buildings are the interesting

parish churches (
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San Pedro, San Martin and San Juan), the episcopal palace, and various benevolent and religious
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foundations . Considerable attention is-HUET 855 paid to public
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education, and there are not only several good
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primary
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schools, but schools for teachers, an institute, an ecclesiastical seminary, an
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artistic and archaeological museum, and an economic society . Huesca manufactures
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cloth, pottery, bricks and leather; but its chief trade is in wine and agricultural produce . The development of these
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industries caused an increase in the population which, owing to emigration to France, had declined by nearly 2000 between 1887 and 1897, Strabo (iii . 161, where some editors read Ileosca) describes Osca as a
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town of the Ilergetes, and the scene of Sertorius's
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death in 72 B.C.; while Pliny places the Oscenses in regio Vescitania . Plutarch (loc. cit.) calls it a large city .
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Julius Caesar names it Vencedora; and the name by which Augustus knew it, Urbs victrix Osca, was stamped on its coins, and is still preserved on its arms . In the 8th century A.D. it was captured by the Moors; but in 1og6 Pedro I. of Aragon regained it, after winning the decisive
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battle of Alcoraz .

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