Burgos (Boor'gos), a city of Spain, the ancient capital of Old Castile, on the river Arlanzon, 225 miles N. of Madrid by rail. Founded in 884, it has a castle, in which our Edward I. was wedded, and Pedro the Cruel born, and an archi-episcopal cathedral (1221), which ranks with those of Toledo and Leon as one of the three great Spanish churches of the Early Pointed period. It is a glorious building, with its twin-spired western facade, its exquisite lantern, and its fifteen chapels so rich in fine sculpture and tombs. Burgos was the birthplace of the Cid, whose bones are preserved at the town-hall. It has manufactures of woollens and linens. The university (1550) is now extinct, but there is a college with twenty-one professors. The city formerly had 50,000 inhabitants; but on the removal of the court to Madrid in the 16th century, it began to decline in importance. It was further greatly injured in 1808 by the French. In 1812 the castle was four times unsuccessfully besieged by Wellington, who, however, took it in the next year, when the French blew it up, and the fortifications. Pop. 30,250.