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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Zacatecas
During the religious persecution in 1859 all the religious of the college were imprisoned, and all priests who denied absolution to those who had given their oath to the constitution of 1857, were liable to punishment; the few priests in the town hastily fled.
The Diocese of Zacatecas was created from parishes of Guadalajara by Pius IX in 1863, and became suffragan of Guadalajara.
On the hill known as the Bufa, on the outskirts of Zacatecas, is the venerated sanctuary of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios.
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 Zacatecas, state, Mexico - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lying on the central plateau, Zacatecas is a state of semiarid plains and mountains.
With gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, zinc, lead, bismuth, antimony, and salt, Zacatecas is one of Mexico's largest producers of mineral wealth.
Zacatecas is known for its numerous examples of baroque architecture.
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 Zacatecas --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Formerly known simply as Jerez, the city is on the Jerez River, 6,650 feet (2,027 m) above sea level and southwest of Zacatecas, the state capital.
It is the commercial and manufacturing centre for an agricultural and pastoral hinterland in which beans, quince, and apples are the principal crops and...
The major mining area during the colonial period was the Silver Belt, a region that extended from Zacatecas and Guanajuato in the northern part of the Mesa Central into Chihuahua on...
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 ZACATECAS - LoveToKnow Article on ZACATECAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A few cattle are raised, and considerable attention is given to the rearing of sheep, goats and swine.
A naturaj product is guayule, a shrub from which rubber is extracted, The chief industry of Zacatecas, however, is mining for silver, gold, mercury, copper, iron, zinc, lead, bismuth, antimony and salt.
The state is traversed by the Mexican Central and the Mexican National railways.
www.1911ency.org /Z/ZA/ZACATECAS.htm   (338 words)

  
 Zacatecas - Quinta Real, Zacatecas, Mexico
Zacatecas city, capital of Zacatecas estado (“state”), north-central Mexico.
Zacatecas has a trolley that extends between the two bluffs, The map of Zacatecas is very easy to read, and we all decided to meet there later that day.
Zacatecas - Main Square "Zacatecas is the town everyone wants to go back to," a Zacatecas was the first town we stayed in the first time we came to
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