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Encyclopedia Britannica



BAZAS

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 561 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAZAS , a town of
south
 -western France, in the department of Gironde, 382 m. S.S.E. of Bordeaux by rail. Pop. (1906) town, 2505; commune, 4684. The town, which was the seat of a
bishop
  from at least the beginning of the 6th century till 1790, has a
Gothic
 
church
  (formerly the
cathedral
 ) dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. There are remains of ramparts (15th and 16th centuries) and several old houses of the 16th century. The vineyards of the vicinity produce white wine. The town is
capital
  of an arrondissement, and carries on tanning, &c., and
trade
  in the well-known Bazadais cattle.
Bazas (Cossio) was
capital
  of the ancient > ribe of the Vasates, and under the Romans one of the twelve cities of Novempopulana. In later times it was capital of the
district
  of Bazadais. It was the
scene
  of much bloodshed during the religious wars of the 16th century.


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