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MONFORTE, or MONFORTE DE LEMOS

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

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