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ILERDA

Volume 9 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), the capital of the Illegertes; situated on an eminence between the rivers Sicoris and Cinga: An unhappy city, often besieged, and often taken, because lying exposed to the incursions from Gaul; and under Gallienus it was destroyed by the Germans. Now Lerida, in Catalonia, on the river Segra.