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SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 193 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAS VEGAS  , an inland
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city of
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Havana
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province,
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Cuba, about 12 M . S. of Havana . Pop . (1907) 6462 .
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Tobacco is the
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principal
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industry . An agricultural experiment station is maintained here by the Cuban
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government . The
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town
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dates from 1688, when a
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church was built for a
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colony of tobacco cultivators of the neighbourhood . In 1721 it received the
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title and privileges of a
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villa, and in 1824 those of a
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ciudad .

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