MONFORTE, or MONFORTE DE LEMOS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 709
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MONFORTE, or MONFORTE DE LEMOS
, a town of north-western Spain, in the province of Lugo, on the Cabe, a small right- hand tributary of the Sil, and at the junction of the railways from Tuy and Astorga to Corunna
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Pop
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(1900), 12,912
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Monforte is built on a 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)
surmounted by a ruined medieval citadel; it contains an ancient Benedictine monastery converted into a hospital, a Jesuit college, and a fine Renaissance parish 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)
, besides several convents and palaces of the Leonese nobility
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Monforte has manufactures of soap and linen, and some trade in timber and livestock
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End of Article: MONFORTE, or MONFORTE DE LEMOS
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