Oviedo, capital of the Spanish province of Asturias, near the river Nalon; is the seat of a university, library, and cathedral; it is the centre of the chief coal-field of Spain; in the neighbourhood are a gun-factory and many iron-works.
Population (circa 1900) given as 44,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ovid * Owen, John