Alcantara (Alcan`tara) , a town of Spain, on the Tagus, near Portugal, with a bridge of six arches, 670 ft. long and 210 ft. high, built in honour of Trajan in 104. The Order of Alcantara, a religious and military order, was established in 1176 here, for defence against the Moors, and was suppressed in 1835.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alca`la de Hena`res * Alceste