MEDINA SIDONIA, or MEDINASIDONIA
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 67
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MEDINA SIDONIA, or MEDINASIDONIA
, a town of southern Spain, in the province of Cadiz, 21 M. by road E.S.E. of Cadiz
.
Pop
.
(1900), 11,040
.
Medina Sidonia is built on an isolated See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
surrounded by a cultivated plain
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It contains a fine Gothic See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, several convents, and the ancestral palace of the dukes of Medina Sidonia
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It has a small agricultural trade, chiefly in wheat, olives and oats
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Medina Sidonia has been identified by some with the Asido of Pliny, but this is uncertain
.
Under the Visigoths the place was erected into a bishopric (Assidonia), and attained some importance; in the beginning of the 8th century it was taken by Tariq
.
In the See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
of Idrisi (12th century) the province of Shaduna or Shidona included, among other towns, Seville and Carmona; later Arab geographers place Shaduna in the province of Seville
.
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