Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Azpeita

AZPEITIA, a town of Spain, in the province of Guipuz- coa, on the left bank of the Urola, 15 miles S.W. of Sau Sebastian. The neighbouring country is fertile, and quarries of marble are wrought in the mountains. During the Carlist movement in 1870-74, Azpeitia was the seat of the Guipuzcoan Diputacion, or court for the management of the war ; and gunpowder, cartridges, and cannon were manu factured in the town. The famous monastery of San Ignacio, dedicated to Loyola, about a mile distant, was also appropriated for military purposes. Population stated at 2335.