Querétaro, a high-lying Mexican town in a province of the same name, 150 m. NW. of Mexico; has large cotton-spinning mills; here the Emperor Maximilian was shot by order of court-martial in 1867.
Population (circa 1900) given as 36,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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