Cicest8r

Cicest8r. See Cirencester.

Cienfuegos

Cienfuegos (See-en-foo-ay'gos), a port of Cuba, on the south coast, on the Bahia de Jagua, 140 miles ESE. of Havana by rail. Pop. 30,560.

Cieza

Cieza (Thee-ay'tha), a town of Spain, 26 miles NW. of Murcia. Pop. 13,892.

Cilicia

Cilicia, an ancient division of Asia Minor, now included in the Turkish province of Adana, lay between the Taurus range and the Cilician Sea.

Cimiez

Cimiez (anc. Civitas Cemeneliensis), a place with many fine villas, 2 3/4 miles N. of Nice. Queen Victoria stayed here in 1895.

Cinque Ports

Cinque Ports. The five great ports on the coast of Kent and Sussex lying opposite to France - Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney, and Hastings - were, subsequently to the battle of Hastings, constituted by the Conqueror a jurisdiction entirely separate from the counties of Kent and Sussex, and erected into a sort of county palatine, under a warden, the seat of whose administration was Dover Castle (now Walmer Castle). Privileges similar to theirs were afterwards extended to Winchelsea and Rye; and all the seven municipal towns except Winchelsea had subordinate ports and towns attached to them, which were called limbs or members. See Montagu Burrows, Cinque Ports (1888).

Cintra

Cintra, a town of Portugal, 17 miles WNW. of Lisbon. Pop. 5500. The convention of Cintra (1808), between Britain and France, provided for the evacuation of Portugal by the French.

Ciotat

Ciotat, La (She-o-ta'), a seaport in the French dep. of Bouches-du-Rhone, on the Mediterranean, 23 miles SE. of Marseilles by rail. Pop. 11,474.

Circars

Circars, The Northern (Sarkar, 'a government '), the historical name for an Indian territory lying along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, from 18 to 100 miles wide, with an area of 17,000 miles. It nearly corresponds with the present Madras districts of Ganjam,Vizagapatam, Goda-vari, Kistna, and parts of Nellore and Karnul.

Circassia

Circassia, a territory on both sides of the western Caucasus. See Caucasus.

Cirencester

Cirencester, a town of Gloucestershire, amid the Coteswold Hills, on the Churn, a headstream of the Thames, and on the Thames and Severn Canal, 14 miles SSE. of Cheltenham, and 18 NW. of Swindon. It has a very fine Perpendicular church (restored 1867), a public hall (1863), some remains of an abbey (1117), and, 1 mile distant, an agricultural college (1846), a Tudor edifice. Near this is the handsome seat of Earl Bathurst. There is a considerable trade in wool and agricultural produce, and the town is a hunting centre. Till 1867 it returned two members; till 1885 one. The population is over 7500. Cirencester (pron. Cisseter) was the Roman Corinium, and was stormed by Rupert in 1642 and 1643. The chronicler Richard of Cirencester was a native.

Cis-Sutlej States

Cis-Sutlej States, a term including the British districts of Umballa (Ambala), Ludhiana, Firoz-pur, Hissar, and the native states of Patiala, Jind, and Nabha.