Barcelona

Barcelona (Barcelo`na) , the largest town in Spain next to Madrid, on the Mediterranean, and its chief port, with a naval arsenal, and its largest manufacturing town, called the “Spanish Manchester,” the staple manufacture being cotton; is the seat of a bishopric and a university; has numerous churches, convents, and theatres.

Population (circa 1900) given as 280,000.

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