SANCTI SPIRITUS

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SANCTI SPIRITUS , an old Cuban city in Santa Clara province, situated on a sandy plain in an

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

of the Yayabo river, which winds through the city. Pop. (1907) 17,440. It is connected by railway with Zaza del Medio, on the main railway line of the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

, and with its port, Tunas de Zaza, 30 M. (by rail) to the S. The hill called Pan de Azucar (

Sugar

SUGAR

-loaf) is S.W. of the city. One

church

is said to be as old as the city, and others date from 1699, 1716, 1717, &c. The surrounding country is devoted principally to grazing. Sancti Spiritus was one of the seven cities founded by Diego Valasquez. Its

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

was ordered in 1514 and accomplished in 1516, and it is the fifth town of the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

in age. The present city is about two leagues from the

original

ORIGINAL

site (Pueblo Viejo). In 1518, as a result of the war of the Comunidades of Castille, a mimic war broke out in Sancti Spiritus among its two

score

SCORE (O.E. scor, from sceran, to cut, notch, cf. " shear ")

villagers. The place was sacked by French and English corsairs in 1719. Illicit

trade

with Jamaica was the basis of local prosperity in the 18th century.

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