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Carrollton, city, seat (1829) of Carroll county, western Georgia, U.S. It is situated near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Atlanta. Formerly called Troupsville, it was renamed (1829) for the Maryland plantation of patriot Charles Carroll. It developed as a trade and processi... |
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…the Schlesinger-Mayer Department Store (later Carson Pirie Scott) in Chicago (1898–1904), in which the towered corner marked the climax of the logic of the steel frame and the entrance was made inviting with rich, naturalistic ornament. At the very end of the 19th century, the important ... |
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Carthage, city, seat (1833) of Hancock county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Mississippi River, about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Davenport, Iowa. Laid out in 1833 and named for the ancient North African city (see Carthage), the community was hostile to the Mormons who settled at nearby Nauvoo in... |
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Carthage, city, seat of Jasper county, southwestern Missouri, U.S. It lies along Spring River, just east of Joplin. Established in 1842, it was named for ancient Carthage. During the American Civil War, it was a centre of border warfare and was destroyed by Confederate guerrillas in 1861; it was rebuilt in 18... |
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The Casa de la Moneda (“House of Money”) was built in the 1570s and rebuilt in the 18th century; it now houses a museum of local history (including early mining machinery), ethnography, and art. The city is the seat of Tomás Frías Autonomous University (1892). UNESCO…
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Casa Grande, city, Pinal county, south-central Arizona, U.S. It lies near the Santa Cruz River, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The city is a health resort in an irrigated agricultural area where cotton, fruit, and alfalfa are raised.
Local mines produce copper, silver, a... |
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…notably the facade; and the Casa Milá (1905–10), the several floors of which are structured like clusters of tile lily pads with steel-beam veins. As was so often his practice, he designed the two buildings, in their shapes and surfaces, as metaphors of the mountainous and maritime character of Catalonia.
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Caseros, cabecera (county seat) of Tres de Febrero partido (county), in Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, lying immediately west of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). The present-day city is the site of the Battle of Caseros (February 3, 1852), in which the Argentine ... |
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Casper, city, seat (1890) of Natrona county, east-central Wyoming, U.S., on the North Platte River. It originated around Fort Caspar at the site of a pioneer crossing on the Oregon Trail and the Pony Express route. The fort, now restored, was named for Lieutenant Caspar Collins, who was slain by Indians in 1865... |
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Cassiopeia, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky easily recognized by a group of five bright stars forming a slightly irregular W. It lies at 1 hour right ascension and 60° north declination. Its brightest star, Shedar (Arabic for “breast”), has a magnitude of 2.2. Tycho’s Nova, one of the few ... |
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James Bogardus built the Cast Iron Building (1848, New York City) with a rigid frame of iron providing the main support for upper-floor and roof loads.
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…their defeat at Clastidium (modern Casteggio) by Roman forces in 222 bc, they continued to be troublesome and aided the Carthaginian general Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218–201 bc). The Insubres were finally subdued in 196 bc and gradually lost their identity in the rise of municipal communities. They…... |
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…(a remarkable 9th-century stone cross), Castell-Dinas-Bran (a 13th-century Welsh prince’s stronghold gateway), and a 14th-century bridge across the Dee. Pop. (2001) 3,412; (2011) 3,658.
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Castellammare di Stabia, city and episcopal see, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies in the southeast angle of the Bay of Naples southeast of Naples. Its name is derived from the Roman resort of Stabiae (just northeast), destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79, and from a castle bu... |
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Castellón, Valencian Castelló, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Valencia, eastern Spain, and northernmost of the three provinces corresponding to the ancient kingdom of Valencia. Castellón comprises three distinct regions: the inhospitable Maestrazgo in the mountainous... |
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…Luigi Vanvitelli; for example, the Castelluccio Reale (1774) in the park at Caserta, an octagonal structure with a round superstructure. Other barometers of the new taste were the Villa Albani, Rome (completed c. 1760), built by Carlo Marchionni to house a collection of ancient marbles formed by Car... |
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New Mexico’s Castile Formation, for example, consists of alternating layers of gypsum and calcite that may reflect an annual temperature cycle in the hypersaline water from which the minerals precipitated. In moist, temperate climates, lake sediments collecting in the summer are richer in organic matt... |
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Castile–La Mancha, Spanish Castilla–La Mancha, comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) and historic region of Spain, encompassing the provincias (provinces) of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Albacete. Castile–La Mancha is bounded by the autonomous communities of Madrid to the north, ... |
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Castile, Spanish Castilla, traditional central region constituting more than one-quarter of the area of peninsular Spain. Castile’s northern part is called Old Castile and the southern part is called New Castile. The region formed the core of the Kingdom of Castile, under which Spain was united in the late 15t... |
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Castine, historic resort town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S., on a promontory in Penobscot Bay, across the water from Belfast (west). For 200 years the place held a key position in the struggle between England and France—and to a lesser extent the Netherlands—for control of the Acadian seaboard. In 1613... |
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On Castle Island are the ruins of the late 14th-century Lochleven Castle, which served as a place of detention for many important persons, including Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1567 she signed her abdication there. During her escape in 1568 the castle keys were thrown into…
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Castlereagh, Irish An Caisleán Riabhach, former district (1973–2015) located directly southeast of Belfast, astride the former counties of Down and Antrim, now part of the Lisburn and Castlereagh City district, Northern Ireland. Its rolling lowlands border the former districts of Lisburn to the southwest, ... |
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…its name was continued in Castra Bonnensia, a fortress built by the Romans in the 1st century ad. Castra Bonnensia survived the breakup of the Roman Empire as a civilian settlement, and in the 9th century it became the Frankish town of Bonnburg.
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…Roman stronghold and legionary camp, Castra Regina (founded ad 179). The Roman north gate (Porta Praetoria) and parts of the walls survive. The capital of the dukes of Bavaria from 530, Regensburg was made a bishopric in 739 and shortly afterward became a capital of the Carolingians. From about 1000…
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110e6729b5c91481e457b253d1892464 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Castres | Castres | Castres
Castres, town, Tarn département, Occitanie région, southern France, on the Agout River, east of Toulouse. The site of a Gallo-Roman camp, the town developed around a Benedictine monastery that was founded about 647. Guy de Montfort, brother of Simon de Montfort, handed down the seigneury in the 13th century. F... |
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Castries, capital and chief city of Saint Lucia island state, in the eastern Caribbean Sea 40 miles (65 km) south of Fort-de-France, Martinique. Its fine landlocked deepwater harbour on the northwestern coast is Saint Lucia’s chief port, shipping mainly bananas but also exporting sugarcane, rum, molasses, cac... |
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Castrop-Rauxel, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies near the Rhine-Herne Canal, in the eastern part of the Ruhr industrial district. First mentioned in 834, Castrop was chartered in 1484. It belonged to the duchy of Cleves- (Kleve-) Mark until 1609, when it came unde... |
96bbeeec90ff153f11824a2b33716092 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Catania | Catania | Catania
Catania, Latin Catana, or Catina, city, eastern Sicily, Italy, in the broad plain of Catania on the Ionian seacoast, south of Mount Etna. The city was founded in 729 bc by Chalcidians (settlers from Chalcis in the Greek island of Euboea) from Naxos, 50 miles (80 km) north. It acquired importance in the 5th cen... |
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Cathay, name by which North China was known in medieval Europe. The word is derived from Khitay (or Khitan), the name of a seminomadic people who left southeastern Mongolia in the 10th century ce to conquer part of Manchuria and northern China, which they held for about 200 years. By the time of Genghis Khan (d... |
5993bb0f5bc600830447e68dde915aec | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cathedral-Square-Moscow-Russia | Cathedral Square | Cathedral Square
Around the centrally located Cathedral Square are grouped three magnificent cathedrals, superb examples of Russian church architecture at its height in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. These and the other churches in the Kremlin ceased functioning as places of worship after the Russian Revolutio... |
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Catherine I commissioned the palace (1717–23); it was later enlarged (1743–48) and rebuilt (1752–57) in the Russian Baroque style by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli. The palace and its park, also laid out by Rastrelli, were considerably embellished under Catherine II (the Great) by the Scottish architec... |
770144626117ebda2a19bfe02779053e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cauto-River | Cauto River | Cauto River
Cauto River, river in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces, eastern Cuba. The island’s longest river, it flows for 230 mi (370 km) from its source in the Sierra Maestra westward through alluvial swamps into the Golfo (gulf ) de Guacanayabo. Its tributaries include the Salado, Bayamo, and Contramaestre ri... |
cd69f5e2bdb3fba0d3772d5dc407b5da | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cavalla-River | Cavalla River | Cavalla River
Cavalla River, also called Cavally, Youbou, or Diougou, river in western Africa, rising north of the Nimba Range in Guinea and flowing south to form more than half of the Liberia–Côte d’Ivoire border. It enters the Gulf of Guinea 13 miles (21 km) east of Harper, Liberia, after a course of 320 miles (515 ... |
37db12661c86e3c265f33a51e9dc91db | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cavendish-Prince-Edward-Island | Cavendish | Cavendish
Cavendish, unincorporated rural community, Queens county, on the central northern coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada, 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Charlottetown. It lies near a sandy beach (called Penamkeak by the Micmac Indians and now a popular recreational area) at the western end of Prince Edward Isl... |
d1119e714d9bf0006e3deb19c1038f19 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cavite-Philippines | Cavite | Cavite
Cavite, city, southern Luzon, Philippines. Cavite occupies a peninsula on the southern shore of Manila Bay and is primarily a residential centre for commuters to Manila, which lies to the northeast. In 1872 the city was the site of the Cavite Mutiny, a brief and unsuccessful uprising of Filipino soldiers and ... |
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Cawdor, village and castle in the Highland council area, historic county of Nairnshire, Scotland, south of Nairn, near Inverness. The local castle, according to a now discredited tradition perpetuated by Shakespeare, was the scene of the murder of King Duncan I by Macbeth, the thane of Cawdor, in 1040. The olde... |
6216a545ffe1f16d87ed240535cc7b53 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cayey | Cayey | Cayey
Cayey, town, central Cayey Mountains, Puerto Rico. The town, at an elevation of 1,300 feet (400 metres), was founded in 1773 as Cayey de Muesas on the Spanish military highway linking San Juan with Ponce on the southern coast. Its cool summers made it a favourite Spanish military post. It is recognized by its tw... |
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Cebu City, city, Cebu Island, south-central Philippines. Located on Cebu Island’s eastern coast, it is protected by offshore Mactan Island and by the inland Cordillera Central. It is one of the country’s largest cities and is a bustling port. Its harbour is provided by the sheltered strait between Mactan Isl... |
7d8c849fb8a10a2462c942a2d15843c2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cecil | Cecil | Cecil
Cecil, county, northeastern Maryland, U.S., lying at the head of Chesapeake Bay and bounded by Pennsylvania to the north, Delaware to the east, the Sassafras River to the south, and the Susquehanna River to the west. The county is drained by Octoraro Creek, the Northeast River, and the Elk River, which is the we... |
b8f7b8bca7f489dfb90e873cf3fb003f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cedar-Breaks-National-Monument | Cedar Breaks National Monument | Cedar Breaks National Monument
Cedar Breaks National Monument, a vast natural amphitheatre, with a diameter of more than 3 miles (5 km), eroded in a limestone escarpment (Pink Cliffs) 2,000 feet (600 metres) thick in southwestern Utah, U.S., 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Cedar City. Once a part of Sevier (now Dixie) N... |
0941a916612df5fe819d7e7c0813389f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cedar-Falls | Cedar Falls | Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls, city, Black Hawk county, east-central Iowa, U.S., on the Cedar River, just west of Waterloo. Settled in 1845 by William Sturgis and laid out in 1852, it was first called Sturgis Falls until 1849 when it was renamed for the cedar trees along the river. Cedar Falls served briefly as the county s... |
bfca6705cc1af2dbb6f273af297ed5c0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cedar-Rapids | Cedar Rapids | Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids, city, seat (1919) of Linn county, east-central Iowa, U.S. It lies astride the Cedar River adjacent to the cities of Marion (northeast) and Hiawatha (north), about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Iowa City. The east bank, settled in the late 1830s and surveyed in 1841, was called Rapids City fo... |
120a50fe45cf8d0f25249afdfb5ff23f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cedar-River | Cedar River | Cedar River
Cedar River, nonnavigable stream in the north-central United States, flowing from southeastern Minnesota southeasterly across Iowa and joining the Iowa River about 20 miles (32 km) from the Mississippi River. Over the river’s 329-mile (529-kilometre) course, it descends 740 feet (226 m). The Cedar River’s... |
cc5e1033bcdf9f2a3a6ac46aca66631a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ceduna | Ceduna | Ceduna
Ceduna, town and port, west-central South Australia. It lies on Denial Bay along the Great Australian Bight, 340 miles (550 km) northwest of Adelaide. It was founded in 1896. Its name is of Aboriginal derivation and means “resting place,” referring to a nearby water hole. It is situated on the Eyre Highway east... |
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The violent phase of Central African colonialism, involving the forced extraction of rubber, ivory, and timber, was followed by a more systematic phase of economic organization. One facet was the establishment of formal plantations on which to grow oil palms and rubber trees. These plantations req... |
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The development of the copper industry caused many of the peoples of Central Africa to look to their own resources for produce that could be sold in order to buy the prestigious new metal and other exotic goods. The salt industry developed out of the needs of long-distance trade. The salt lagoons of the... |
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The colonial period in Central Africa came to an abrupt end in 1960. At a constitutional level, dramatic changes occurred. Both France and Belgium decided that they could not resist the winds of change with armed force. Once the Black nationalists of West Africa had won the right to self-... |
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Central African Republic, landlocked country located in the centre of Africa. The area that is now the Central African Republic has been settled for at least 8,000 years. The earliest inhabitants were the probable ancestors of today’s Aka (Pygmy) peoples, who live in the western and southern f... |
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Dacko’s return was not well received. To maintain his power, Dacko was forced to rely on French paratroops and on administrative officials who had also served in Bokassa’s government. As opposition grew, followed by labour strikes and bomb attacks, Dacko increasingly depended on the ar... |
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The 1995 constitution was suspended in 2003, following a military coup. Under a new constitution promulgated in late 2004, the president is head of state and limited to two consecutive five-year terms. The constitution also provides for a prime minister, a council of ministers, and a 105-member... |
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Agriculture is the largest sector and the basis of the Central African economy, contributing half of the gross domestic product and occupying nearly four-fifths of the workforce; diamonds and timber also contribute to the economy. International (mostly French) capital dominates the economy, but the Central Afri... |
eca9548df3bfb8949e0b0f4d1d9d6d4f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Central-African-Republic/Health-and-welfare | Health and welfare | Health and welfare
For all practical purposes, no modern health care facilities exist outside Bangui, which itself has only one major hospital, and a few other towns. Prior to civil unrest that erupted in late 2012, a number of hospitals and clinics that were staffed and operated by missionaries provided relatively goo... |
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This discussion focuses on the Central African Republic since the 15th century. For a treatment of the country in its regional context, see Central Africa.
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago loca... |
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Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest, but he left the priesthood and formed the Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (Mouvement pour l’Évolution Sociale de l’Afrique Noire; MESAN). MESAN gained control of the Territorial Assembly in 1957, and Boganda became president of the Grand Council of French Equa... |
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Rafael Carrera quickly dismantled the liberal program in Guatemala and supported conservative caudillos in other Central American states. Although many entertained the possibility of reunification, all attempts failed, and conservative rulers in all the states opposed reunif... |
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Despite revitalization of the colonial economy and of Spanish military strength under the Bourbons, the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic Wars brought disintegration to Spain’s empire. The Kingdom of Guatemala suffered hard times resulting from the disruption of Spanish shipping in wart... |
b210f9580e82fb076aeffb488b4599fe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Central-Park-New-York-City | Central Park | Central Park
Central Park, largest and most important public park in Manhattan, New York City. It occupies an area of 840 acres (340 hectares) and extends between 59th and 110th streets (about 2.5 miles [4 km]) and between Fifth and Eighth avenues (about 0.5 miles [0.8 km]). It was one of the first American parks to b... |
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…200 metres) in elevation, the Central Plateaus cover northern Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, southern Flemish Brabant, and the Hesbaye plateau region of Liège. The area is dissected by the Dender, Senne, Dijle, and other rivers that enter the Schelde (Escaut) River; it is bounded to the east by the Herve P... |
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…the south and east, the Central Slovakian Block; in the latter they run in a practically straight line from northwest to southeast, following the line of a tectonic dislocation, or zone of shattering in the Earth’s crust, parallel with this part of the mountains. Between this volcanic range and... |
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plateau, the Eastern Ghats, the central tract, and the coastal plains. The northern plateau (in the northern part of the state) is an extension of the forest-covered and mineral-rich Chota Nagpur plateau centred in Jharkhand. The Eastern Ghats, extending roughly parallel to the coast and rising to an elev... |
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Central University Botanical Garden, Spanish Jardín Botánico De La Universidad Central, state-supported tropical garden occupying a 65-hectare (160-acre) site in Caracas, Venez. The garden has excellent collections of palms, cacti, aroids, bromeliads, pandanuses, and other groups of... |
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Ceres, dwarf planet, the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, and the first asteroid to be discovered. Ceres was found, serendipitously, by the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi of the Palermo Observatory on January 1, 1801. Additional observations of the object by Piazzi were cut short by illness, but C... |
7ef932899517012a30b370610e552707 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cesis | Cēsis | Cēsis
Cēsis, German Wenden, Russian Tsesis, city and district centre, Latvia, situated on the Gauja River at the foot of the Vidzeme (Livonia) highlands, 55 miles (90 km) northeast of the city of Riga. It is an old city, first mentioned in documents in 1206, and its castle dates from 1207. It was once a prosperous tow... |
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Cévennes, mountain range of southern France containing peaks over 5,000 feet (1,525 m) and forming the southeastern rim of the Massif Central, overlooking the lower valley of the Rhône River and the plain of Languedoc. A part of the Atlantic-Mediterranean watershed, its Mediterranean slope is riven by valley... |
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Chachoengsao, town, south-central Thailand, about 25 miles (40 km) east of Bangkok. It is a port on the Bang Pakong River. On the railway between Bangkok and the Cambodian border, Chachoengsao is connected by a coastal road to Trat (southeast) and is a site of Buddhist pilgrimage. Rice cultivation and mil... |
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…River is known as the Chaco Central. Argentines have named the area southward to latitude 30° S, where the Pampas begin, the Chaco Austral (“Southern Chaco”). The Gran Chaco in Argentina descends in flat steps from west to east, but it is poorly drained and has such a challenging combination…
… north of ... |
116b53e136d5007e43f758a6f906b7ea | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chaco-province-Argentina | Chaco | Chaco
Chaco, provincia (province), northeastern Argentina. It is located between the northwestern Argentine highlands and the Paraná River and is bounded on part of the east by Paraguay. Resistencia, in the southeast on the Paraná, is the provincial capital.
The province is mostly low hardwood forest with patches of s... |
a72a3d57014f28ad7f6b584a73b99f0f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chad/Continuing-conflict | Continuing conflict | Continuing conflict
Habré continued to face threats to his regime. In April 1989 the interior minister, Brahim Mahamot Itno, and two key military advisers, Hassan Djamouss and Idriss Déby, were suspected of plotting to overthrow Habré. Itno was arrested and Djamouss was killed, but Déby escaped and began new attacks a ... |
0e49d3c159a9403b0d3d4b19196fc91d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chad/Religion | Religion | Religion
About three-fifths of the population are Sunni Muslim. The great majority of Muslims are found in the north and east of Chad. Islamization in Kanem came very early and was followed by the conversion to Islam of the major political entities of the region, such as the sultanates of Wadai, Bagirmi, and Fitri, and... |
5c93e6ac9ab50c147851cc568ecdc1aa | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chad/Resources | Resources | Resources
Historically, Chad’s principal mineral resource was natron (a complex sodium carbonate), which is dug up in the Lake Chad and Borkou areas and is used as salt and in the preparation of soap and medicines. The discovery of oil north of Lake Chad led to further exploration and development, and in 2003 Chad bega... |
699bbae3f379dfd97ac59ef0cf0307ef | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chad/Settlement-patterns | Settlement patterns | Settlement patterns
Conditioned by soil and climate, land is put to different uses in the three vegetation zones, which dictates settlement patterns. The wet and dry tropical zone is inhabited by farmers who cultivate rice and sorghum in the clay soils and peanuts (groundnuts) and millet in the sandier areas. Cassava (... |
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Chaeronea, in ancient Greece, fortified town on Mt. Petrachus, guarding the entry into the northern plain of Boeotia. Controlled by the Boeotian city of Orchomenus (q.v.) in the 5th century bc, it was the scene of the battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated Thebes and Athens (338 bc). The battle is co... |
973f0a10bb309ca4469503ffcbd59adc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chafarinas-Islands | Chafarinas Islands | Chafarinas Islands
Chafarinas Islands, also spelled Zafarin, or Djaferin, three small rocky islets of the Spanish exclave of Melilla, located off northeastern Morocco, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the mouth of the Oued Moulouya. They are probably the tres insulae (“three islands”) of the 3rd-century Roman roadbook Iti... |
2ee6dd6d597210a03062494b28967298 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chagos-Archipelago | Chagos Archipelago | Chagos Archipelago
Chagos Archipelago, island group in the central Indian Ocean, located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) south of the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. It is coterminous with the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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f31c6dfd7b82c8e1253fb6260264b9b6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chalcidice-peninsula-Greece | Chalcidice | Chalcidice
Chalcidice, Modern Greek Khalkidhikí, peninsula and a perifereiakí enótita (regional unit), Central Macedonia (Modern Greek: Kendrikí Makedonía) periféreia (region), northern Greece. It terminates in (east–west) the three fingerlike promontories of Kassándra, Sithonía, and Áyion Óros (Mount Athos). The prom... |
fb0d9c29c190232f66a004af0916b20f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chambery | Chambéry | Chambéry
Chambéry, town, capital of Savoie département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It lies in the Leysse Valley between the massifs of Beauges and La Grande Chartreuse, northeast of Grenoble.
The Roman station of Lemincum gave its name to the Rock of Lémenc, which overlooks the town on the north... |
f8993aff7b6a38b465a4774bf34eeda3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chambeshi-River | Chambeshi River | Chambeshi River
Chambeshi River, also spelled Chambezi, river in northeastern Zambia. It rises in hills on the Tanzanian border and flows 300 miles (480 km) southwest to the Lake Bangweulu swamps. The swamps act as a check to the annual flooding, releasing the flood waters slowly through a myriad of channels and lagoo... |
90c9d47c76984560ae1a4ad9638d736d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chancellor-College | Chancellor College | Chancellor College
…the establishment in 1974 of Chancellor College, a constituent campus of the University of Malawi, Zomba changed in character from a government centre to a university town. The town is the centre for the tobacco and dairy farms of the surrounding area, which also produces rice, corn (maize), fish, a... |
5af9e925ced6f7f07ccd1c32d4834daa | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chandler-Arizona | Chandler | Chandler
Chandler, city, Maricopa county, south-central Arizona, U.S. Founded in the 1890s, the city was named for veterinarian and real-estate developer A.J. Chandler, who built an extensive agricultural canal system in the area. Chandler is a winter resort in a cotton, alfalfa, citrus fruit, pecan, sugar beet, and c... |
b6ebcefac8cc636a8ba495a79c28b351 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Changbai-Mountains | Changbai Mountains | Changbai Mountains
Changbai Mountains, Chinese (Pinyin) Changbai Shan, or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’ang-pai Shan, Korean Changbaek-sanjulgi, mountain range forming the border between the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and North Korea. The name in Chinese means “Forever White Mountains”; the Korean name mea... |
6bdde590b363b9339342c078e76b2467 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Changchun | Changchun | Changchun
Changchun, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ang-ch’un, city and provincial capital of Jilin sheng (province), China.
The area around the city was originally the grazing ground of a Mongol banner (army division). In 1796 the Mongol duke requested and was granted permission from the Qing (Manchu) court to open this ... |
ec1298ca34993cfd58166fc99b7187c5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chania | Chaniá | Chaniá
Chaniá, also spelled Khaniá or historically Canea, city, dímos (municipality), port, and capital of Chaniápereferiakí enótita (regional unit), on the northwestern coast of Crete, Greece. It was the capital of Crete from 1841 to 1971. The city lies along the southeastern corner of the Gulf of Khaniá and occupies... |
6d570076e2bad899beeaacbb17d08563 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chapel-Hill-North-Carolina | Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, town, Orange county, central North Carolina, U.S., about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Durham and some 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Raleigh; with these two cities it constitutes one of the state’s major urban areas, the Research Triangle. It was founded in 1792 and named for the Church of Eng... |
257ec69acc1043b81973df4149d15b87 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chapel-of-Niccolo-V | Chapel of Niccolò V | Chapel of Niccolò V
…his decorative painting for the chapel of Niccolò V. There he painted scenes from the lives of Saints Stephen and Lawrence, along with figures of the Evangelists and saints, repeating some of the patterns of the predella on his altarpiece of San Marco. The consecration scene of St. Stephen and…
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4e86b56e9407a3d7dc75770fda5e4cbe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charenton-le-Pont | Charenton-le-Pont | Charenton-le-Pont
Charenton-le-Pont, town, a southeastern suburb of Paris, in Val-de-Marne département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, at the confluence of the Seine and Marne rivers immediately southwest of the Bois (forest) de Vincennes and its pont (“bridge”). An old inner, industrial area, Charenton-l... |
29286e0405065e377053a76de35cb17d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charleston-Illinois | Charleston | Charleston
Charleston, city, seat (1830) of Coles county, east-central Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Embarras River, about 45 miles (70 km) south of Champaign. First settled by Benjamin Parker (1826), it was named for Charles Morton, its first postmaster. In September 1858 Charleston was the scene of the fourth deba... |
8a2d0e9dbea1d589a5646af0937cf502 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charleston-South-Carolina | Charleston | Charleston
Charleston, city, seat of Charleston county, southeastern South Carolina, U.S. It is a major port on the Atlantic coast, a historic centre of Southern culture, and the hub of a large urbanized area that includes Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Hanahan, and Goose Creek. The city is situated on a peninsula ... |
cb543a1c1d25d1eb0147f1aabb286f47 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charlotte-Harbor | Charlotte Harbor | Charlotte Harbor
Charlotte Harbor, shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, indenting the southwest coast of Florida, U.S., between Sarasota and Fort Myers. It covers about 270 square miles (700 square km). The Peace and Myakka rivers enter the harbour’s north end, and a dredged channel serves the port of Punta Gorda. The... |
b847586a3db6b7c838a435cecea09da6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charlotte-North-Carolina | Charlotte | Charlotte
Charlotte, city, seat (1774) of Mecklenburg county, south-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies just east of the Catawba River in the Piedmont region. Settled about 1750, it was incorporated in 1768 and named for Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III’s queen. The so-called Mecklenburg ... |
7c11fad89a4b0e2b319027f61b2a4da7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charlottesville | Charlottesville | Charlottesville
Charlottesville, city, administratively independent of, but located in, Albemarle county, central Virginia, U.S. It lies on the Rivanna River, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 70 miles (112 km) northwest of Richmond, on the main route west from the Tidewater region. It was settled in... |
37270fd5e992fc1c14e4ad9362c8645d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chartres-France | Chartres | Chartres
Chartres, town, capital of Eure-et-Loir département, Centre région, northwestern France, southwest of Paris. The town is built on the left bank of the Eure River, and the spires of its famous cathedral are a landmark on the plain of Beauce. Wide boulevards, bordered by elms, encircle the old town with its ste... |
9a87568d1b7fe88eb0ab0004b768087e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chateauroux | Châteauroux | Châteauroux
Châteauroux, town, capital of Indre département, Centre région, central France. It lies along the Indre River, south of Orléans, on the highway and railway from Paris to Toulouse. It derives its name from a castle built toward the end of the 10th century by Raoul le Large, prince of Déols. The present Chât... |
79996d6b3a76417f62d6df81fed11d70 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chatellerault | Châtellerault | Châtellerault
Châtellerault, town, Vienne département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, west-central France. It lies north-northeast of Poitiers, on the main road from Paris to Bordeaux. Situated on the Vienne River, it derives its name from a 10th-century castle built by the 2nd Viscount Airaud of the district. The Henri I... |
eb439eeed70c77ef4e765834c903b9ab | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chauk | Chauk | Chauk
Chauk, town and port, north-central Myanmar (Burma). Situated in the Irrawaddy River basin, it is a petroleum port for the Singu-Chauk oil fields. Traditionally, people of the Mon group gathered asphalt in the area to weatherproof houses. In 1902 the British discovered the Chauk-Lonywa oil field. Later, crude oi... |
3ceb2d328fce6731c36a0414392da21f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chavin-de-Huantar | Chavín de Huántar | Chavín de Huántar
Chavín de Huántar, site of temple ruins, west-central Peru. The ruins belong to the Chavín pre-Columbian culture, which flourished c. 900–c. 200 bc. The central building is a massive temple complex constructed of rectangular stone blocks; it contains interior galleries and incorporates bas-relief car... |
605bc5263e81797cc9807593749e84e0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cheb | Cheb | Cheb
Cheb, German Eger, city, extreme western Czech Republic. Cheb lies along the Ohře River, near the German border. Its history has been full of violence, for it guards the easiest approach to Bohemia from the northwest. The city passed in the 13th century from Swabian rulers to Otakar I, king of Bohemia, and it was... |
cfadd69acbce5a7efe6624641c86280f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cheddar-England | Cheddar | Cheddar
Cheddar, village (parish), Sedgemoor district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It is situated at the mouth of a spectacular limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills.
The gorge (now owned by the National Trust) and caverns, in which human remains and artifacts dating to the Ston... |
6f5bf0cb9109aa15561ae3d25dc440f6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cheektowaga | Cheektowaga | Cheektowaga
Cheektowaga, town (township), Erie county, western New York, U.S. It lies immediately east of Buffalo, on Ellicott, Scajaquada, and Cayuga creeks, near Lake Erie. Originally part of the Holland Land Purchase and the town of Amherst, the site was first settled in 1808 by Appollos Hitchcock, who was appointe... |
365552576e723e9249f9cce25c94c1b8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chegutu | Chegutu | Chegutu
Chegutu, formerly Hartley, town, central Zimbabwe. Named originally for Henry Hartley, who discovered gold in the vicinity, it was founded in 1891 on the Umfuli River but about 1900 was moved 18 miles (29 km) west. A town-management board was constituted in 1942.
On the main road and railway line from Harare (... |
ef0675247706ab28831c339af8803ece | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chenab-River | Chenab River | Chenab River
Chenab River, river of the Indian subcontinent in northwestern India and northeastern and eastern Pakistan.
The Chenab is formed by the confluence of two streams, Chandra and Bhaga, in the western (Punjab) Himalayas in India’s Himachal Pradesh state. It flows west through Jammu and Kashmir state—the India... |
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