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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VIVERO , a

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TOWN

town of

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north-western'

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Spain, in the

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LUGO

Lugo; on the Ria de Vivero, an

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ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary formed by the

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RIVER

river Landrove, which here enters the

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BAY

Bay of

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Biscay . Pop, (1900) 12,843 . Vivero is an old-fashioned and picturesque town, connected with the opposite

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BANK

bank of the estuary by a

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BRIDGE

bridge of twelve

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ARCHES, COURT OF

arches and a

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CAUSEWAY

causeway . Its fishing

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FLEET

fleet, its

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COASTING

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trade and the agricultural products of the fertile

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country around are important . The only means of communication with the interior is by the road to Cabreiros, for Lugo and

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FERROL [El Ferrol]

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