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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORTARA  , a

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town of
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Lombardy,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Pavia, 354 ft. above
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sea-level, a railway junction situated between the
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Ticino and the Po, 32 M. by
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rail S.W. of
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Milan . Pop . (1901), 7298 (town); 8697 (
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commune) . Lines run to Milan, Pavia,
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Alessandria, Casale Monferrato and
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Vercelli . The
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church of
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San Lorenzo is in the
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Gothic
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style of the 14th
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century with a
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brick
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facade . Outside the town is the Lombard Romanesque church of S .
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Albino . Mortara has
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iron-
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works and manufactures of hats and
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cheese . Here the Austrians defeated the Piedmontese in 1849 .

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