Cáceres

Cáceres, the second largest province of Spain, in the north of Estremadura, owned chiefly by large proprietors, and mostly devoted to cattle-raising; the northern half is a good wine country. The area is over 8000 sq. m., and the population close on 350,000.—The capital, Cáceres, 45 miles N. of Merida by rail, is famous for its bacon and sausages, and has a bull-ring of granite, dye-works, and manufactures of woollens, crockery, and rope. It was the Castra Cæcilia of the Romans, by whom it was founded in 74 B.C.; and here the allied forces defeated the rear-guard of the Duke of Berwick, 7th April 1706. Pop 14,173.