Carpentras, a town in the French department of Vaucluse, on the Auzon, 17 miles NE. of Avignon by rail. It was the Carpentoracte of the Romans, and a triumphal arch attests their former presence here. Carpentras has besides a cathedral (1405), the stately Porte d'Orange of the 14th century, a massive aqueduct (1734), and manufactures of cottons, woollens, &c. Pop. 7563.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 785
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