ALMANSA (ALMANZA), a town in Spain, province of Alba cete, at the foot of a castle-topped crag, above a fertile plain, which is the principal "gate" to the interior of Spain on the Mediter ranean side. Pop. (193o) 14,63o. Almansa is, in consequence, an important railway junction, and was the scene of a decisive defeat of the British and their peninsular allies by the French under the Duke of Berwick (1707). (See SPANISH SUCCESSION, WAR OF