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See also:PUEBLA (full See also:title La Puebla de los Angeles, and more recently, Puebla de Zaragoza) , a See also:city of See also:Mexico and See also:capital of the See also:state of the same name, on the See also:banks of the Atoyac See also:river, 6o m . S.E. of the city of Mexico, with which it is connected by two lines of railway . Pop . (1900), 93,152, including a large percentage of See also:Indians . Its railway connexions put it in daily communication with the See also:national capital, See also:Vera Cruz, See also:Pachuca, See also:Oaxaca, and the terminal ports of the See also:Tehuantepec railway—Coatzacoalcos and See also:Salina Cruz . The city is built on a broad healthy See also:plain, about 7200 ft. above See also:sea-level . It is well provided with See also:street See also:railways, electric and See also:gas See also:illumination, See also:water and drainage . The See also:great Doric See also:cathedral, about 165 X32o ft., is perhaps the finest ecclesiastical See also:building in Latin See also:America . It was begun about 1552, but not completed until 1649 . Among other churches, famous for their lavish decorations, are those of See also:San Jose, San Cristobal, See also:Santa Catarina and San Domingo . The " Teatro See also:Principal," built in 1790, is said to be the See also:oldest existing See also:theatre on the See also:continent . There are two other theatres, and an immense See also:bull-See also:ring . Among the more conspicuous public buildings are the See also:palace of See also:justice, the building of the state legislature, a school of See also:medicine to which is attached the Palafoxiana Library of over See also:loo,000 volumes, an See also:academy of See also:fine arts, and the national See also:college . At Fort Guadalupe, near the city, there are several hot See also:sulphur springs, which are used for medicinal See also:baths . See also:Puebla is one of the busiest manufacturing cities in Mexico, and among its products are See also:cotton and woollen textiles, See also:soap, See also:glass, See also:straw hats, pottery and See also:leather goods . There are also some large foundries . Puebla was founded in 1532 by See also:Sebastian Ramirez de Fuenleal, See also:archbishop of Santo Domingo, and the celebrated Franciscan See also:friar Toribio Motolinia . In 1550 it became the see of the bishopric originally created in 1526 at See also:Tlaxcala . The appellation " de los Angeles," which is now practically dropped, originated in a popular belief that during the building of the cathedral two angels every See also:night added as much to the height of the walls as the workmen had completed on the preceding See also:day . Its See also:present See also:title was given in See also:honour of See also:General Ignacio Zaragoza (1829-1862), who successfully defended the city against the first See also:French attack in 1862 . It was captured in the following See also:year by the French, and then by the Mexicans under Porfirio See also:Diaz in 1867 . In the See also:war between Mexico and the See also:United States it was captured by General See also:Winfield See also:Scott and was his headquarters from See also:June to See also:August 1847 . |
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