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PUENTEAREAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUENTEAREAS  , a

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town of north-western Spain in the province of
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Pontevedra; on the
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Tuy-Santiago de Compostella railway and on the
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river Tea, a right-hand tributary of the Mino . Pop . (1900), 13,452 . Puenteareas is the chief town of a fertile hilly region, which produces wine, grain and fruit, and contains many cattle farms . The
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industries of the town itself are
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porcelain manufactures, tanning and distilling . Close by are the ruins of the castle of Sobroso, which played an important
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part in the
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medieval
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civil
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wars .

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