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Encyclopedia Britannica

REGLA

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 45 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU

REGLA , formerly an important suburb of Havana, Cuba, opposite that city, on the bay; now a

part

PART

of Havana. Pop. (1899) 11,363. It was formerly the

scene

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

of the Havana

bull

-fights. The

church

is one of the best in Cuba; the building

dates

DATES

substantially from 1805, but the

church

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

goes back to a hermitage established in 169o. Regla is the shipping-point of the Havana

sugar

SUGAR

trade

. It has enormous

sugar

SUGAR

and tobacco warehouses, fine wharves, a dry dock, foundries and an electric railway plant. It is the western terminus of the eastern line of the United Railways of Havana, and is connected with the main city of Havana by ferry. A fishing

village

VILLAGE

was established here about 1733. At the end of the 18th century Regla was a

principal

PRINCIPAL

centre of the smuggling

trade

, and about 1820 was notorious as a resort. of pirates. It first secured an ayuntamiento (city council) in 1872, and after 1899 was annexed to Havana.

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