Pontevedra, a cathedral town of Spain, in Galicia, at the head of a bay, 30 miles S. of Santiago. Cloth and hats are manufactured, and there are sardine-fisheries. Pop. 19,857.—The province has an area of 1695 sq. m. and a pop. (1887) of 443,385.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 308
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