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ALFAQUES

Volume 2 · 71 words · 1860 Edition

a seaport in the province of Catalonia, in Spain. It is on a peninsula formed by the river Ebro, near its mouth. The government has expended vast sums on its improvement, but without correspondent success, chiefly owing to the insularity of the situation.

among the Moors, the name generally used for their clergy, or those who teach the Mahometan religion; in opposition to the Morabites, who answer to monks among Christians.