Toulouse

Toulouse, a historic and important city of South France, capital of Haute-Garonne, pleasantly situated on a plain and touching on one side the Garonne (here spanned by a fine bridge) and on the other the Canal du Midi, 160 m. SE. of Bordeaux; notable buildings are the cathedral and Palais de Justice; is the seat of an archbishop, schools of medicine, law, and artillery, various academies, and a Roman Catholic university; manufactures woollens, silks, &c.; in 1814 was the scene of a victory of Wellington over Soult and the French. Under the name of Tolosa it figures in Roman and mediæval times as a centre of learning and literature, and was for a time capital of the kingdom of the Visigoths.

Population (circa 1900) given as 136,000.

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

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Torricelli, Evangelista
Torrington
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Tory
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Tourneur, Cyril
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Tourville, Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, Count de
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Tower Hamlets
Towers of Silence
Townshend, Charles, Viscount

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