Madrid

(mad-rid',) (anc. Mantua Carpet a no rum,) a fine city of Spain, of which kingdom it is the cap., on the Manzanares, 39 m. N. by E. of Toledo. It is walled, is built in an oblong form, has many handsome modernized streets, squares, and promenades, and contains many elegant public edifices, prominent among which are the Royal Palace, and several magnificent churches. M. po e es some excellent academies and literary and scientific institutions, and has manu fs. of carpets, porcelain, paper, hats, jewelry, silks, . It derived its present name from the Moors who occupied it in 1109. Under Philip II. it became the Spanish metropolis; was held by the French 1808-12, and again entered by them in 1823. Pop. 1878, 416,000. [s. 567]