Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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SAN, a town of Spain, province of New Castile, on the Cogolludo river, 40 miles from Madrid. The town contains a magnificent palace built by Philip V., also a large plate glass manufactory.

ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (ēl"dä-frängs"), one of the old provinces of France, having Paris as its capital, and now mostly comprised in the departments of Seine, Seine-et-Oise, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Somme, and Oise. In the middle of the 9th century it was made a dukedom.

The 2d duke, Odo, commonly called Count of Paris, was crowned King of ILFOV France in 888. Another, Hugh Capet, founded in 987 the Capetian dynasty.

Ile-de-France was formerly the name of Mauritius.

ILETZK (il'etsk), a town in the Russian government of Orenburg, near the confluence of the Ilek with the Ural.

Close by is the richest salt-bed in Russia.

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