Bilbao (Bilba`o) , capital of the Basque prov. of Biscay, in Spain; a commercial city of ancient date, famous at one time for its steel, specially in Queen Elizabeth's time, when a rapier was called a “bilbo.”
Population (circa 1900) given as 50,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bijapur` * Bilderdijk, Willem