Traz-os-Montes ('Beyond the Mountains'), a province forming the north-east corner of Portugal, bordering on Spain and bounded S. by the Douro, now falls into the two districts of Braganza and Villa Real, with a collective area of 4300 sq. m., and a population of 417,380. It is a coldish plateau, with bare mountain masses, broken through by deep romantic ravines; but the port-wine district known as the Alto-Douro is fertile. Wine is the chief product, but the mountains are also rich in unutilised metallic wealth.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 279
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