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ORMOC

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 295 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORMOC  , a

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town of the province of Leyte, island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on the W. coast about 35 m . S.W. of Tacloban . Pop . (1903), after the annexation of Albuera, 20,761 . There are
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thirty-three barrios or villages in the town, and the largest of them had a population in 1903 of 5419 . The language is Visayan . Ormoc is in a
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great hemp-producing region and is open to coast trade .

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