ALMODOVAR DEL CAMPO, or ALMODOVAR
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ALMODOVAR DEL CAMPO, or ALMODOVAR , a town of Spain , in the province of Ciudad Real, 18 m. S.S.W. of Ciudad Real, on the northern side of the Sierra de Alcfdia. Pop. (1900) 12,525. Almod6var was a Moorish fortress in the middle ages, but contains little of antiquarian interest . It owes its modern prosperity to the nearness of the valuable Puertollano coal-field See Also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- DUDLEY _18o5_1894_.html">FIELD, DAVID
DUDLEY (18o5-1894) - FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
, 3 M. S. by a branch of the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. Its manufactures are lace and linen and it has a brisk trade in live-stock, oil and wine. South of the Sierra lies thg Alcildia valley, owned by the crown, and. used as pasture for immense flocks of sheep.
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