Vittoria, the capital of Alava, a Basque province in the North of Spain, famous as the scene of one of Wellington's victories in June 1813; has a fine old 12th-century cathedral and extensive manufactures; it is one of the most prosperous towns in Spain.
Population (circa 1900) given as 127,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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