CARDONA (perhaps the anc. Udura)
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CARDONA (perhaps the anc. Udura) , a town of north-eastern Spain, in the province of Barcelona ; about 55 M. N.W. of Barcelona , on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardoner, a branch of the Llobregat. Pop. (Igloo) 3855. Cardona is a picturesque and old-fashioned town, with Moorish walls and citadel, and a 14th-century church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
. It is celebrated for the extensive deposit of rock salt in its vicinity. The salt forms a mountain mass about 300 ft. high and 3 M. in circumference, covered by a thick bed of a reddish-brown clay, and apparently resting on a yellowish-grey sandstone . It is generally more or less translucent, and large masses of it are quite transparent. The hill is worked like a mine; pieces cut from it are carved by artists in Cardona into images, crucifixes and many articles of an ornamental kind.
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