Blaye (ancient Blavia), a river-port of France, in the department of Gironde, 20 miles NNW. of Bordeaux. It is built on the right bank of the isleted Gironde, here 2½ miles broad, at the base of a rocky eminence crowned with Vauban's strong citadel (1652). Roland the Brave is said to have been buried at Blaye by Charlemagne. Pop. 4157.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 215
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