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ALCALA DE HENARES , a town of Spain, in the province of Madrid, 17 M. E.N.E, of Madrid, on the river Henares, and the Madrid- Saragossa railway. Pop. (1900) 11,206. Alcala de Henares contains a military academy
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monument of Jimenes (d. 1517) and a fine reredos. The greatest of Spanish writers, Cervantes, was born at Alcala de Henares, and baptized in the otherwise insignificant church of S. Maria on the 9th of October 1547. A tablet, set up in 184o, marks the house
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Inquisition , showing all its workings from the 15th to the 19th century. One of the principal libraries is the former palace of the archbishops of Toledo.For a fuller description of Alcala see the Guia del viajero en Alcala de Henares, by L. A. de la Torre (Alcala, 1882). The following works are mainly of historical interest
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