The New Student's Reference Work/Majorca

Majorca (mȧ-jôr′kȧ), the largest of the Balearic Isles; area, 1,310 square miles. In the north are mountains 3,500 to 5,000 feet in height. Olive-groves abound everywhere, and almond, orange, fig and other fruit-trees are common. A London company in 1871 drained 5,000 acres of marsh-lands, which are of extraordinary fertility. Majolica ware is still made here to a small extent. Majorca, with Minorca and Ivica, all lying in the Mediterranean off the coast of Valencia, forms a province of Spain, called Baleáres (or in English the Balearic Isles); total area 1,935 square miles; population 311,649. The chief town is Palma on the southwestern coast (population 63,937). See Balearic Isles.