Alcoy, a manufacturing town of Spain, on the river Alcoy, 15 miles N. of the town of Alicante. It is 'built in a funnel of the hills, on a tongue of land hemmed in by two streams, with bridges and arched viaducts.' The staple manufacture is paper, especially cigarette-paper. Pop. 29,952.
Alcoy,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 137
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