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Encyclopedia Britannica



BAZA

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 559 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAZA , a town of southern Spain, in the province of
Granada
 ; in the Hoya de Baza, a fruitful valley of the Sierra Nevada, not far from the small river Gallego, and at the terminus of a railway from Lorca. Pop. (1900) 12,770. The
dome
 -shaped mountain of Javaleon (4715 ft.) overlooks the town from the north-west. The ancient collegiate church of San Maximo occupies the traditional site of a
cathedral
  founded by the Visigothic king Reccared about 6co, and afterwards converted into a mosque. There is a brisk local
trade
  in farm produce, and in the linen, hempen goods and pottery manufactured in Baza. The town nearly doubled its population in the last
quarter
  of the 19th century. Sulphurous springs exist in the vicinity.
Baza is the Roman Basti, the medieval Basta or Bastian; and numerous relics of antiquity, both Roman and medieval, have been found in the neighbourhood. Its bishopric was founded in 306. Under Moorish
rule
  (c. 7131489) it was one of the three most important cities in the kingdom of
Granada
 , with an extensive
trade
 , and a population estimated at 50,000. In 1489, after a stubborn defence lasting seven months, it was captured by the Spaniards under Isabella of Castile, whose cannon still adorn the Alameda or public
promenade
 . On the loth of August 1810 the French under
Marshal
  Soult defeated a large Spanish force close to the town.


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