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REUS , a city of N.E. Spain, in the province of Tarragona, on the Saragossa -Tarragona railway, 4 M. N. of Salou, its port on the Mediterranean. Pop. (1900) 26,681. Reus consists of two parts, the old and the new, separated by the Calle Arrabal, which occupies the site of the old city wall
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.suburbs. Reus has excellent primary, normal and higher-grade state schools, many private schools, an academy of fine arts and a public library. The hospitals and foundling refuge
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The earliest records of Reus date from about the middle of the 13th century. Its modern prosperity is traced to about the year 1750, when a colony of English settled here and established a trade in woollens, leather, wine and spirits. The principal incidents in its political history arose out of the occurrences of 1843 (see SPAIN, History), in connexion with which the town received the title of city, and Generals Zurbano and Prim were made counts
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