Elché, a town of Spain, 13 miles SW. of Alicante by rail, fringed by an encircling grove of nearly 100,000 palms, which gives the place an appearance half Moorish. It has a fine collegiate church, with a lofty tiled dome, and some trade in esparto, wine, dates, and palm-branches. Pop. 23,854.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 250
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