Masaya
a town in Nicaragua, 10 miles from Lake Nicaragua. Tobacco, coffee, and sugar are products of the vicinity. Has large hat factories. Pop. about 13,000.
MASBATE (-bä'tā), an island of the Visayan group in the Philippine Islands, constituting a province; area, 1,732 square miles; pop. (1920) about 30,000, including 66 dependent islands. It is under a civil government in accordance with the provincial organization act of 1901. Lignite and gold are found, and a leading industry is the manufacture of sugar sacks. an Italian composer; born in Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 7, 1863. He produced, after a somewhat irregular musical education, the brilliantly successful one-act opera ry) in 1890, in competition for a prize, the plot being taken from a story by Verga. Later operas were "Friend Fritz" ca" (1905); "Isobel" (1911); "L'Alodoletta" (1913). He made a financially disastrous tour of the United States in ! → MASCALONGE MASCALONGE (Esox nobilior), a fine North American fresh-water fish of the pike genus, inhabiting the St. Lawrence basin, but also introduced into other waters.
MASCARA (mäs-kä-rä'), a town in Algeria, picturesquely situated on the S. slope of Mount Atlas, 48 miles S. E. of Oran. It was a stronghold of Abd-el- Kader, and was taken by the French in 1835 and 1841. Pop. about 25,000.
MASCARENE (mäs-ka-rēn') ISLANDS, the islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, so called from Mascarenhas, a Portuguese navigator, who discovered Bourbon in 1545.