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JEREZ DE LOS CABALLEROS

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 325 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JEREZ DE LOS CABALLEROS , a town of
south
 -western Spain, in the province of Badajoz, picturesquely situated on two heights overlooking the river Ardila, a tributary of the Guadiana, 12 M. E. of the Portuguese frontier. Pop. (1900), 10,271. The old town is surrounded by a Moorish
wall
  with six
gates
 ; the newer portion is well and regularly built, and planted with numerous orange and other fruit trees. Owing to the lack of railway communication Jerez is of little commercial importance; its
staple
 
trade
  is in agricultural produce, especially in ham and
bacon
  from the large herds of swine which are reared in the surrounding oak forests. The town is said to have been founded by
Alphonso
  IX. of Leon in 1229; in 1232 it was ex-tended by his son St Ferdinand, who gave it to the knights templar. Hence the name Jerez de los Caballeros, " Jerez of the knights."


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