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Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera Cádiz province, Spain
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Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz province, Spain.

Cádiz

province, Spain
Written by
Vicente Rodriguez
Research Scientist, Instituto de Economía y Geografía, Madrid, Spain. Co-author of Northern Europeans and the Mediterranean: A New California or a New Florida?; Southern Europe and the New Migrations...
Vicente Rodriguez
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Cádiz, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain, fronting the Mediterranean Sea to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It was formed in 1833 from districts taken from Sevilla. The enclave of Ceuta on the Moroccan coast was administratively part of Cádiz until 1995. The eastern part of the province is crossed by wooded spurs of the Baetic Cordillera, while the west-central part is a low plain...

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