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CHICLANA, or CHICLANA DE LA FRONTERA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 131 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHICLANA, or CHICLANA DE LA FRONTERA , a town of southern Spain, in the province of Cadiz, 12 M. by rail S.E. of Cadiz. Pop. (1900) Io,868.
Chiclana
  occupies a fertile valley, watered by the river Lirio, and sheltered, on the north and
south
 , by low hills covered with vines and plantations. It faces the gulf of Cadiz, 3 M. W., and, from its mild climate and pleasant surroundings, is the favourite summer residence of the richer Cadiz merchants; its hot
mineral
  springs also attract many visitors. In the neighbourhood are the Roman ruins of
Chiclana
  la Vieja, the town of Medina Sidonia (q.v.), and, about 5 M. 5.,,, the battlefield of Barrosa, where the British under Sir
Thomas
  Graham (Lord Lynedoch) defeated the French under
Marshal
 
Victor
 , on the 5th of
March
  1811.


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