Alcazar-kebir, a city of Morocco, about 80 miles NW. of Fez, with considerable trade. In a battle here in 1578, Sebastian, king of Portugal, was defeated and slain by the Moors. Pop. nearly 9000, many Jews.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 130
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