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ALGEZIRA

Volume 1 · 73 words · 1778 Edition

a town of Andalusia in Spain, with a port on the coast of the Straits of Gibraltar. By this city the Moors entered Spain in 713; and it was taken from them in 1344, after a very long siege, re- markable for being the first in which cannon were made use of. It was called Old Gibraltar, and is about four leagues from the New. W. Long. 5° 2'. N. Lat. 36° 0'.