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PLASENCIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLASENCIA  , a

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city of
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Spain and an episcopal see, in the
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north of the
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province of
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Caceres . Pop . (1900), 8208 . Plasencia is situated on the
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river Jerte, a subtributary of the
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Tagus, and at the
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foot of the sierras of Bejar and
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Vera . The
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place has some
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interest on
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account of its
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fine walls, built in 1197 by
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Alphonso VIII. of
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Castile, and its
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cathedral, begun in 1498, a favourable specimen of the ornate
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Gothic of its
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period . The Hieronymite
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convent of Yuste, the
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scene of the last years of the
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emperor
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Charles V . (1500-1558), is 24 M.
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east .

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