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Encyclopedia Britannica



ECIJA

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 884 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
ECIJA , a town of southern Spain, in the province of Seville; on the Cadiz-
Cordova
  railway and the left bank of the river Genii. Pop. (1900) 24,372 The river, thus far navigable, is here crossed by a fine old bridge; and the antiquity of the town betrays itself by the irregularity of its arrangement, by its walls and gateways, and by its numerous
inscriptions
  and other relics. Its
chief
  buildings include no fewer than twenty convents, mostly secularized. The principal square is surrounded with pillared porticoes, and has a fountain in the centre; and along the river bank there runs a fine
promenade
 , planted with poplar trees and adorned with statues. From an early period the shoemakers of Ecija have been in high repute throughout Spain; woollen cloth,
flannel
 , linen and silks are also manufactured. The vicinity is fertile in corn and wine, and
cotton
  is cultivated. The heat is so
great
  that the spot has acquired the sobriquet of El Sarten, or the " Frying-pan " of Andalusia. Ecija, called Estija by the Arabs, is the ancient A stigis, which was raised to the rank of a Roman colony with the title of Augusta Firma. Ac-cording to Pliny and
Pomponius
  Mela, who both wrote in the 1st century A.D., it was the rival of
Cordova
  and Seville. If local tradition may be believed, it was visited by the apostle Paul, who converted his hostess Santa Xantippa; and, according to one version of his life, it was the see of the famous St Crispin (q.v.) in the 3rd century.


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