a town of Spain, in the province of Jaen, and partido of Carolina, six leagues N.N.W. of Jaen. Pop. 4976. This is the ancient Barcula, where Scipio gained a signal victory over Hasdrubal, b.c. 209, and over Mago and Massinissa, b.c. 206 (Polyb. x. 38, xi. 20; Liv. xxvii. 18-20, xxxviii. 13.) In the Epitome of Livy, however, the place is called Betulia. Near this also, in 1212, was fought the great battle of Navas de Tolosa, where Alonso VIII. is said to have left 200,000 Moors dead on the field, with the loss of only 25 Christians! Here again, on the 23d of July 1808, the French general Dupont, after a bloody contest of several days, signed the Capitulation of Bailen, by which 17,000 men were delivered up to the Spaniards as prisoners of war. This disaster was the first great blow to the French arms in the Peninsula. (Madoz, Diccionario; Ukert, vol. x. p. 379.)