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PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUERTO DE

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SANTA MARIA  , a seaport of
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southern
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Spain, in the
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province of
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Cadiz, on the right
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bank of the
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river Guadalete, with a station on the railway from Cadiz to
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Seville . Pop . (1900), 20,120 . Puerto de
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Santa Maria, commonly called " El Puerto," is probably the Menesthei
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Portus of
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Ptolemy . Its most important
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industry is the
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wine
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trade; there are also
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glass,liqueur,
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alcohol,
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starch and
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soap manufactures . The
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principal buildings are a Moorish citadel, a
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Gothic
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church founded in the 13th
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century, a Jesuit
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college, and a
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bull-
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ring which accommodates 12,000 spectators . The
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town is noted for its bull-fights, that given here in
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honour of
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Wellington being the subject of the considerably idealized description in
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Byron's Childe Harold .

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