Irun, a town in the Spanish province of Guipuzcoa, on the Bidassoa, near the French frontier, 24 miles by rail SW. of Bayonne. In 1837 General Sir De Lacy Evans (q.v.) captured it from the Carlists. Pop. 7040.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 226
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