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Lar (Capital of the district)

capital of the district of Larisdistrict of Laris- 60 miles from the Persian Gulf and 170 has trade in tobacco, cotton, and grain; pop. about 12,000. family, the founder of which was Ferdi- LARA (lä'rä), a celebrated Spanish nand Gonzales, Count of Castile and Lara; died in 970. In 1130, the family from Manrique De Lara, which took the was divided into two branches, the first title of Viscount of Narbonne, for its stock; and the second deriving from Orpreserving the title of Count of Lara, till it became extinct in the latter half of the 14th century. The members of this family played an important part in the portant part in the civil wars of Castile, Sancho IV., Ferdinand IV., and Alphonso XI., with whom they often disputed the crown.

Albany co., Wyo., on the Laramie river,