Calais

Calais, a fortified seaport in France, on the Strait of Dover, where it is 21 m. across; was in possession of the English from 1347 to 1558, and the last town held by them on French soil; is the chief landing-place for travellers from England to the Continent, and has considerable export trade, as well as cotton and tulle manufactures.

Population (circa 1900) given as 56,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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