Medina Sidonia, a city of Spain, 25 miles SSE. of Cadiz, stands on an isolated hill overlooking a wide plain, and has the ruins of a castle, the ancestral seat of the dukes of Medina Sidonia, descendants of Guzman the Good, conqueror of Tarifa (1292). It was a member of this house who commanded the 'invincible Armada' (q.v.). Pop. 12,397, who make pottery.
Medina Sidonia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 120
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