Ovar
Encyclopedia Britannica
OVAR, a town of Portugal, in the district of Aveiro (Beira), with a station on the railway 20 miles south of Oporto, lies at the northern end of the Aveiro lagoon, —an extremely unhealthy position. It contains 10,022 inhabitants (1878), and carries on a brisk trade with the colonies and northern Africa.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 76
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