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Tarragona (city)
Port and capital of Tarragona province in Cataluña, northeast Spain, at the mouth of the Francoli River on the Mediterranean coast; population (2001) 113,100. Industries include petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical goods. It has a cathedral and Roman remains, including an aqueduct and amphitheatre.
Tarragona was sacked by the Visigoths in 467, and taken by the Moors in 714; Alfonso I of Aragón captured it from the Moors in 1120. The Romanesque and Gothic cathedral stands on the site of a temple of Jupiter.
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