Tarascon, a picturesque old town of France, 18 m. SW. of Avignon; is surrounded by walls, has a 15th-century castle (King Rent's), a Gothic church, silk and woollen factories.
Population (circa 1900) given as 7,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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