Mataro, a seaport of Spain, 17 miles by rail NE. of Barcelona, has cotton, sailcloth, glass, and machinery factories, iron-foundries, and shipbuilding-yards, besides a marine school. Pop. 17,405.
Mataro
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 88
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