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CAZORLA

Volume 6 · 67 words · 1860 Edition

a town on the Vega, Jaen, Spain. It contains about 964 houses, generally well built, 2 old castles, one of them Arabic, 2 schools, several hospitals, a spacious theatre, a very ancient church, and several convents. Agriculture is the prevailing occupation. Pop. 7383. Cazorla was an important military station under the Romans and Moors; and has suffered considerably during the vicissitudes of the civil wars in Spain.