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SAN GERMAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 150 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAN
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GERMAN  , a
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city of the
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department of
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Mayaguez,
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Porto Rico, in the
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south-western
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part of the
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island, about Io m . S.S.E. of the city of Mayaguez . Pop. of the city (1899) 3954; of the municipal
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district 20,246, of whom 10,715 were of mixed races . The city is served by the
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American railway of Porto Rico . It is situated near the Guanajibo
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river, in a fertile agricultural region which produces
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sugar,
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coffee,
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fruit, cacao and
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tobacco, In one of the public squares is a Dominican
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church built in 1538•
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San
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German was founded in 1517, was plundered by the
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French in 1528, was destroyed by corsairs in 1554, and was unsuccessfully attacked by the
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English in 1748 . Until 1782 it was the seat of
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government of the western district of the island . It was made a city in 1877 .

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