Barcelona


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Europe, Spain Seaport, City Barcelona

City (1990 1,707,286; metropolitan area 4,040,000), (cap.) Barcelona prov. and chief city of Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea; 41º23'N 02º11'E. Situated on a plain bet. the Llobregat and Beses rivers and lying bet. mts. and the sea, Barcelona is the 2d-largest city of Spain, its largest port, and its chief commercial and industrial center. Barcelona vastly expanded both its Mediterranean trade, becoming a rival of Genoa and Venice.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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