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SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 193 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANTIAGO DE See also:LAS VEGAS , an inland See also:city of See also:Havana See also:province, See also:Cuba, about 12 M. S. of Havana. Pop. (1907) 6462. See also:Tobacco is the See also:principal See also:industry. An agricultural experiment station is maintained here by the Cuban See also:government. The See also:town See also:dates from 1688, when a See also:church was built for a See also:colony of tobacco cultivators of the neighbourhood. In 1721 it received the See also:title and privileges of a See also:villa, and in 1824 those of a See also:ciudad.

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