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Chernihiv, Russian Chernigov, city, north-central Ukraine, on the Desna River, northeast of Kiev. Archaeology suggests a 7th-century origin, although Chernihiv was first mentioned in 907. It was one of the chief towns of Kievan Rus and the centre of a princedom. Its Transfiguration Cathedral dates from 1036.... |
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Chernivtsi, Russian Chernovtsy, Romanian Cernăuți, German Czernowitz, formerly (until 1944) Chernovitsy, city, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408, when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief... |
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Cherokee, city, seat (1861) of Cherokee county, northwestern Iowa, U.S., on the Little Sioux River, about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Sioux City. A colony from Milford, Massachusetts, settled a site north of the present city in 1856. Sioux attacked the settlement the following year (in what became know... |
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…the ancient Greek colony of Chersonesus, founded in 421 bce. Originally a republic, Chersonesus (Heracleotic Chersonese) became, in turn, part of the kingdom of Pontus, of the Cimmerian Bosporus, of the Roman empire, and of the Byzantine Empire. In 988 or 989 Prince Vladimir of Kiev captured the town and…
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, park, eastern United States. It consists of the former Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, a waterway running along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Md. Construction of the canal, which extends 184.... |
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Chesapeake Bay, largest inlet in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States. Created by the submergence of the lower courses of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, it is 193 miles (311 km) long and 3 to 25 miles (5 to 40 km) wide. The southern part of the bay is bordered by Virginia ... |
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Chesapeake, independent city, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies along the Elizabeth River on the Tidewater coastal plain, adjacent to Suffolk, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, and extends southward from Hampton Roads (natural roadstead) to the North Carolina border. Formed as an independent city i... |
98857d41114fcffa242803fba6aa78af | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chhattisgarh-Plain | Chhattisgarh Plain | Chhattisgarh Plain
Chhattisgarh Plain, plain, central India, forming the upper Mahanadi River basin. About 100 miles (160 km) wide, it is bounded by the Chota Nagpur plateau to the north, the Raigarh hills to the northeast, the Raipur Upland to the southeast, the Bastar plateau to the south, and the Maikala Range to t... |
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Chiang Rai, also spelled Chiengrai, town, northern Thailand.
Chiang Rai lies at an elevation of 1,150 feet (350 m) in the basin of the Kok River, near the Khun Tan Range. It has an airport with scheduled flights, and road connections lead south to Lampang and north to Myanmar (Burma) and the Laotian border.... |
71fef45b63b203832b445569a1642d06 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chiapas | Chiapas | Chiapas
Chiapas, estado (state) of southern Mexico. It is bounded to the north by the state of Tabasco, to the east by Guatemala, to the southwest by the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Pacific Ocean, and to the west by the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The capital and largest city is Tuxtla (Tuxtla Gutiérrez).
The relie... |
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Chichén Itzá, ruined ancient Maya city occupying an area of 4 square miles (10 square km) in south-central Yucatán state, Mexico. It is thought to have been a religious, military, political, and commercial centre that at its peak would have been home to 35,000 people. The site first saw settlers in 550, p... |
764a10423179f26353ddaebd493b9048 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chichester-England | Chichester | Chichester
Chichester, city, Chichester district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, southern England. It lies on the coastal plain of the English Channel at the foot of the chalk South Downs about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the head of Chichester Harbour, with which it is connected by canal. I... |
74a0e425f1b62869095263ad88434854 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chickasha | Chickasha | Chickasha
Chickasha, city, seat (1907) of Grady county, central Oklahoma, U.S., on the Washita River, southwest of Oklahoma City. Founded in 1892 near a Rock Island Railroad stop, it was named for an Indian tribe and populated largely by Kiowa and Comanche Indians until 1901, when the area was opened to white settleme... |
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Chihuahua, estado (state), northern Mexico. It is bounded to the north and northeast by the United States (New Mexico and Texas), to the east by the state of Coahuila, to the south by the state of Durango, and to the west by the states of Sinaloa and Sonora. Its capital is the city of Chihuahua.
In precoloni... |
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Because only quite limited amounts of precious metal were found in Chile, the settlers early turned their attention to agriculture. They grew a wide variety of cereals, vegetables, and fruits; raised livestock; and consumed nearly all of their production locally. Largely because of the poverty of the co... |
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Mining, historically the mainstay of the Chilean economy, has been a catalyst for both external commerce and domestic industrial development. Copper, molybdenum, iron, nitrates, and other concentrated minerals make up a large part of the total value of national exports.
Metals accoun... |
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There is ample recreational and sports opportunity in Chile; the people can engage in most such activities common to Western cultures. The Pacific beaches are notably beautiful, but the cold water encourages more sunbathing than swimming. Viña del Mar is a particularly well-known summer resort, and the scene... |
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On September 11, 1973, the armed forces staged a coup d’état. Allende died during an assault on the presidential palace, and a junta composed of three generals and an admiral, with Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as president, was installed. At the outset the junta received the support... |
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Chilka Lake, lake and lagoon in eastern Odisha state, eastern India. It is separated from the Bay of Bengal by a narrow spit.
One of India’s largest saltwater lakes, it is 40 miles (65 km) long, 5 to 13 miles (8 to 20 km) wide, and about 6 feet (2 metres) deep. The Daya and Bhargavi rivers feed the lake ex... |
8fd0a1b6ceeb221d1d00bfc63548797c | https://www.britannica.com/place/China | China | China
China, Chinese (Pinyin) Zhonghua or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-hua, also spelled (Pinyin) Zhongguo or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-kuo, officially People’s Republic of China or Chinese (Pinyin) Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-hua Jen-min Kung-ho-kuo, country of East Asia. It ... |
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…the headquarters for Beijing’s state-owned China Central Television (CCTV; 2004–08). The CCTV building, noted for its angular-loop shape, is the centrepiece of a complex including the Koolhaas-designed Mandarin Oriental hotel, which was under construction when it was severely damaged ... |
b1d93ecfb06707dc8904720bc4b19865 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/A-land-revolution | A land revolution | A land revolution
One reason for communist success was the social revolution in rural China. The CCP was now unrestrained by the multi-class alliance of the United Front period. In mid-1946, as civil war became more certain, the party leaders launched a land revolution. They saw land redistribution as an integral part ... |
dbd0bc67fcb7da2b2a198beb3b4506ab | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Administration-of-the-state | Administration of the state | Administration of the state
The Tang unification had been far more prolonged and bloody than the Sui conquest. That the Tang regime lasted for nearly three centuries rather than three decades, as with the Sui, was largely the result of the system of government imposed on the conquered territories. The emperor Gaozu’s r... |
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Gradual transference of the revolution to top echelons of the party was managed by a group centred on Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng, and Chen Boda. In May 1966 Mao secretly assigned major responsibilities to the army in cultural and educational affairs. Another purpose of the Cul... |
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By then, however, the CCP was in serious difficulty. The railway unions had been brutally suppressed, and there were few places in China where it was safe to be a known communist. In June 1923 the Third Congress of the CCP met in Guangzhou, where Sun Yat-sen provided a sanctuary. After... |
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The Song achieved consolidation under the third emperor, Zhenzong (reigned 997–1022). A threatening Khitan offensive was directly met by the emperor himself, but a few battles assured neither side of victory. The two empires pledged peaceful coexistence in 1004 through an exchange of sworn documents that ... |
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Careful balancing of powers in the bureaucracy, through which the rulers acted and from which they received advice and information, was essential to good government in China. The demonstrated success of this principle in early Bei Song so impressed later scholars that they described it as the art of go... |
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In the 1640s and ’50s the Manchu abolished all late Ming surtaxes and granted tax exemptions to areas ravaged by war. Tax remissions were limited, however, by the urgent need for revenues to carry on the conquest of China. It was not until the 1680s, after the consolidation of military victory, tha... |
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Ming China’s northward orientation in foreign relations was accompanied by a flow of Chinese migrants from the crowded south back into the vast North China Plain and by a concomitant shift in emphasis from an urban and commercial way of life back to a rural and agrarian pattern. Thus, d... |
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The Mongol conquest of the Song empire had, for the first time since the end of the Tang, reunified all of China. Song China had traded with its neighbours, the Liao and the Jin, but trade had been strictly controlled and limited to authorized border markets. The Mongol conquest therefore reintegrated China’s e... |
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The educational system in China is a major vehicle for both inculcating values in and teaching needed skills to its people. Traditional Chinese culture attached great importance to education as a means of enhancing a person’s worth and career. In the early 1950s the Chinese communists worked hard to increase ... |
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Whereas in Ming times the Chinese organized themselves along wholly bureaucratic and tightly centralized lines, the Ming emperors maintained China’s traditional feudal-seeming relationships with foreign peoples. These included the aboriginal tribes of south and southwest China, who often rose in isola... |
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The Zongli Yamen had two offices attached to it: the Inspectorate General of Customs and Tongwen Guan. The former was the centre for the Maritime Custom Service, administered by Western personnel appointed by the Qing. The latter was the language school opened to train the children of ban... |
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The Ming state system was built on a foundation of institutions inherited from the Tang and Song dynasties and modified by the intervening dynasties of conquest from the north, especially the Yuan. The distinctive new patterns of social and administrative organization that emerged in Ming ... |
d0e9a931f41c1605922e554480367210 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Literature | Literature | Literature
Chinese literature of the period also showed conservative tendencies. Poetry composition remained a favourite pastime of the educated class, including the Sinicized scholars of Mongol, Central Asian, and western Asian origins, but no great works or stylistic innovations were created. During the last chaotic ... |
3ab5472c0df36968dfcbb2621eeb5e7b | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Major-cultures-and-sites | Major cultures and sites | Major cultures and sites
There was not one Chinese Neolithic but a mosaic of regional cultures whose scope and significance are still being determined. Their location in the area defined today as China does not necessarily mean that all the Neolithic cultures were Chinese or even proto-Chinese. Their contributions to t... |
9c4ca341325c3e34ce41c372991ba6c4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Minerals | Minerals | Minerals
China’s most important mineral resources are hydrocarbons, of which coal is the most abundant. Although deposits are widely scattered (some coal is found in every province), most of the total is located in the northern part of the country. The province of Shanxi is thought to contain about half of the total; o... |
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Muslim rebellions in Yunnan and in Shaanxi and Gansu originated from clashes between the Chinese and Muslims in those provinces. Religious antipathy must be taken into account, but more important were social and political factors. In the frontier provinces the late-dynastic confusions were felt as kee... |
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The military weakness in 1944 was symptomatic of a gradual deterioration that had taken place in most aspects of Nationalist Chinese public life. Inflation began to mount alarmingly as the government pumped in large amounts of paper currency to make up its fiscal deficits. Salaries of governme... |
4198c7e4214359ff0386e35616060536 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Phase-two-stalemate-and-stagnation | Phase two: stalemate and stagnation | Phase two: stalemate and stagnation
During the second stage of the war (1939–43), the battle lines changed only slightly, although there were many engagements of limited scale. Japan tried to bomb Free China into submission; Chongqing suffered repeated air raids in which thousands of civilians were killed. In 1940 Japa... |
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The socialist transformation of agriculture, industry, and commerce thus went relatively smoothly. Nevertheless, such changes could not take place without considerable tensions. Many peasants streamed into the cities in 1956–57 to escape the new cooperatives and to seek employment in the rapidly ... |
42caf53e1e7f7f89349bed1de81bf859 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Popular-uprising | Popular uprising | Popular uprising
The third quarter of the 19th century was marked by a series of uprisings, again as a result of social discontent.
In the first half of the 19th century, the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, the homeland of the Taiping people, had been beset with accelerating social unrest. After the first Opium War... |
45f6a44619966e786a7a374f743361b9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Population-distribution | Population distribution | Population distribution
China’s complex natural conditions have produced an unevenly distributed population. Population density varies strikingly, with the greatest contrast occurring between the eastern half of China and the lands of the west and the northwest. Exceptionally high population densities occur in the Yang... |
dd8f8d66545887b636780e3cc1f4d0e4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Population-movements | Population movements | Population movements
Censuses taken during the Sui and Tang dynasties provide some evidence as to population changes. Surviving figures for 609 and 742, representing two of the most complete of the earlier Chinese population registrations, give totals of some 9 million households, or slightly more than 50 million perso... |
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Precipitation in China generally follows the same pattern as temperatures, decreasing from the southeast to the northwest. The annual total of certain areas along the southeastern coast amounts to more than 80 inches (2,000 mm). The Yangtze valley receives about 40 to 45 inches (1,000 to 1,150 mm). Farthe... |
abeb6bd5eab427d6289821b1fc5241ee | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Provincial-government | Provincial government | Provincial government
At the outset of the Han dynasty, vast areas were entrusted as kingdoms to the emperor’s kinsmen, while the central government administered the interior provinces as commanderies. But by about 100 bce the imperial government had deprived the kingdoms of their strength, and most of their lands had ... |
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The post-rebellion settlement not only pardoned several of the most powerful rebel generals but also appointed them as imperial governors in command of the areas they had surrendered. Hebei was divided into four new provinces, each under surrendered rebels, while Shandong became the province of An... |
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During this initial period, the CCP made great strides toward bringing the country through three critical transitions: from economic prostration to economic growth, from political disintegration to political strength, and from military rule to civilian rule. The determination a... |
58ae6dbe5ddc952340e9c5eb2a6781b3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/The-Northern-Expedition | The Northern Expedition | The Northern Expedition
During the Northern Expedition the outnumbered southern forces were infused with revolutionary spirit and fought with great élan. They were assisted by propaganda corps, which subverted enemy troops and agitated among the populace in the enemy’s rear. Soviet military advisers accompanied most of... |
e746228efe3cc17ffcd8c1a433a69bd0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/U-S-aid-to-China | U.S. aid to China | U.S. aid to China
One U.S. response was the decision to send large amounts of arms and equipment to China, along with a military mission to advise on their use. The underlying strategy was to revitalize China’s war effort as a deterrent to Japanese land and naval operations southward. The Nationalist army was ill-equip... |
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Chita, former oblast (region), far eastern Russia. In 2008 it merged with Agin Buryat autonomous okrug (district) to form Zabaykalye kray (territory).
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Chita, also spelled Čita, city and administrative centre of the former Chita oblast (region), far eastern Russia. In 2008 Chita region merged with Agin-Buryat autonomous okrug (district) to form Zabaykalsky kray (territory).
The city lies at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda rivers. It was founded in 1653 a... |
96e3143ed4968b7bb76c80809e260715 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cholula | Cholula | Cholula
Cholula, in full Cholula de Riva Dabia or Cholula de Rivadavia, city, northwestern Puebla estado (state), central Mexico. It lies on the Mesa Central at 7,052 feet (2,149 metres) above sea level, just northwest of Puebla city, the state capital. Cholula (Nahuatl: “Place of Springs”), an important pre-Spanish-c... |
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Christchurch, city, Canterbury regional council, eastern South Island, New Zealand, on the Avon River. It was the last and most successful colonizing project inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his New Zealand Company.
Christchurch was founded by the Canterbury Association, which was formed in 1848 la... |
a11fe9d26a5be6063b0bbe5799bad93f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chula-Vista | Chula Vista | Chula Vista
Chula Vista, city, San Diego county, southern California, U.S. Chula Vista lies on the eastern shore of San Diego Bay, south of San Diego and just north of Tijuana, Mexico. Once the territory of the Kumeyaay Indians, the area now known as Chula Vista was claimed by the Spanish, the Mexicans, and then, with... |
070f0a9309e0654da006a7a954c93e9c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-Saint-Mary-church-Harrow-London | Church of Saint Mary | Church of Saint Mary
The medieval Church of St. Mary stands on Harrow Hill and is a conspicuous landmark rising above flat clay country that was overspread by housing in the 20th century, following the development of the electrified suburban railways. Also on the hill is the eminent public (i.e., fee-paying)…
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…from the fact that the church of San Bernardo was built into one of the chambers some 500 feet (150 metres) west of the central hall of the frigidarium (cold room), into which Michelangelo built the cloister church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in 1561. A portion of the Museo…
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Cienfuegos, city and port, central Cuba. One of the country’s chief ports, it stands on a broad, level peninsula opposite the narrow entrance to the sheltered Cienfuegos Bay on the Caribbean Sea.
The bay was visited by Christopher Columbus in 1494 but attracted no permanent settlement until 1738; the Castil... |
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Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, zoological park owned by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., and administered in conjunction with the Zoological Society of Cincinnati. It maintains one of the largest animal collections in the United States, with more than 17,000 specimens repre... |
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At Cîteaux the early manuscripts show evidence of strong Norman and English influence in their decoration and a satirical delight in observation (as in Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job, 1111). Later, in a group of manuscripts of the second quarter of the century, the illustrations…
…monastic reformer, a... |
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City of London, municipal corporation and borough, London, England. Sometimes called “the Square Mile,” it is one of the 33 boroughs that make up the large metropolis of Greater London.
The borough lies on the north bank of the River Thames between the Temple Bar memorial pillar (commemorating the old T... |
473a5478cccac59692f95128f3c779a4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ciudad-Guayana | Ciudad Guayana | Ciudad Guayana
Ciudad Guayana, formerly Santo Tomé De Guayana, city and industrial port complex, northeastern Bolívar estado (state), Venezuela, at the confluence of the Caroní and Orinoco rivers in the Guiana Highlands. Taking its name from the Guiana (Guayana) region, the traditional designation of Bolívar state, it... |
43ce1f8460581dc849753d7490590e7e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ciudad-Ojeda | Ciudad Ojeda | Ciudad Ojeda
Ciudad Ojeda, city, Zulia estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. Lying on the northeastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Ciudad Ojeda is an important oil centre.
Just to the south of Ciudad Ojeda lies the Lagunillas oil field, the largest in Latin America. From derricks on land and in the water, oil is piped ... |
104d0ab4d8e1a6017fbfccef1a62e757 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ciudad-Real-Spain | Ciudad Real | Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real, city, capital of Ciudad Real provincia (province), in Castile–La Mancha comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), south-central Spain. On a fertile plain watered by the Guadiana and Jabalón rivers, it was founded in 1255 by Alfonso X (the Wise) as Villa Real and declared a city by John II in ... |
71d2c81d3e43a8852b52ad5e2be8a615 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cividale-del-Friuli | Cividale del Friuli | Cividale del Friuli
Cividale del Friuli, town, Friuli–Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy, lying on the Natisone River just northeast of Udine.
Founded in Roman times as Forum Julii, perhaps by Julius Caesar, it gave its name to, and was the capital of, Friuli, the first Lombard duchy formed in Italy. From 730 ... |
35e24cb7c7a1059b814ad48b584fdaca | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clare-county-Ireland | Clare | Clare
Clare, Irish An Clár, county in the province of Munster, western Ireland. The town of Ennis, in central Clare, is the county seat.
Clare is bounded by Counties Galway (north), Tipperary (east), and Limerick (southeast); by the long estuary of the River Shannon (south); and by the Atlantic Ocean (west). The large... |
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Claremont, city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Claremont lies in the Pomona Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, adjacent to Pomona and 30 miles (50 km) east of Los Angeles. The Cahuilla Indians were the area’s first inhabitants, and Spanish settlers later built a mission the... |
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Claremore, city, seat (1907) of Rogers county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., northeast of Tulsa. In 1880 John Bullette, a Delaware Indian, settled on the site, which he called Claremore for an Osage chief whose tribe once lived there. In 1882 it was moved from the banks of the Verdigris River to its present l... |
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Clark, county, southern tip of Nevada, U.S., wedged between California and Arizona. The county seat is Las Vegas, the internationally famous gaming and entertainment city. The broad desert valleys crisscrossed by mountains of the McCullough, Spring, Newberry, and Sheep ranges also include the cities of North Las... |
e5d0c80d4b8754349518fed5891eaa80 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clarksdale | Clarksdale | Clarksdale
Clarksdale, city, seat (1892) of Coahoma county, northwestern Mississippi, U.S. It is situated in the Mississippi River valley and lies along the Sunflower River, about 75 miles (120 km) south-southwest of Memphis, Tennessee. It was settled in 1848 by John Clark on a Native American fortification site; in 1... |
ccfe86bdebee5730307094965d8084d5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clarksville-Tennessee | Clarksville | Clarksville
Clarksville, city, seat (1796) of Montgomery county, northern Tennessee, U.S. It lies near the Kentucky state line, at the confluence of the Cumberland and Red rivers, about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Nashville. Founded in 1784 by Colonel John Montgomery, a settler from North Carolina, it was named for ... |
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Clearfield, city, Davis county, northern Utah, U.S., at an altitude of 4,487 feet (1,368 metres). Founded in 1877 as a farming centre, it is mainly a residential community and suburb of Ogden and Salt Lake City, with some industrialization. The Clearfield Naval Supply Depot just outside the city has been de... |
2153dc9387d3aac8ec9989a56a0159f0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cleveland-Ohio | Cleveland | Cleveland
Cleveland, city, seat (1810) of Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It is a major St. Lawrence Seaway port on the southern shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Greater Cleveland sprawls along the lake for about 100 miles (160 km) and runs more than 40 miles (65 km) inland, encompassin... |
3c5aeb8de9cd8f1dba9c239815b164f0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cleveland-Tennessee | Cleveland | Cleveland
Cleveland, city, seat (1836) of Bradley county, southeastern Tennessee, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Chattanooga. Established in 1836 following the agreement for the evacuation of the area by the Cherokee, the community was named for Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a hero of the American Revolution.... |
09298444bfae8a2759e2432bdf7b7961 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clinton-Iowa | Clinton | Clinton
Clinton, city, seat (1869) of Clinton county, eastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (there bridged to Fulton and East Clinton, Illinois), about 40 miles (65 km) north-northeast of Davenport. The original settler, Joseph M. Bartlett, operated a trading store for Native Americans in the 1830s an... |
1aa8ef3ecdcd656abcc7fdc5909618f2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clinton-Massachusetts | Clinton | Clinton
Clinton, town (township), Worcester county, central Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the south branch of the Nashua River, just north of Wachusett Reservoir, 13 miles (21 km) north of Worcester. Settled in 1654 as part of Lancaster, it was separately incorporated in 1850 and named for the statesman DeWitt Cli... |
0e9586dd05a3bcf54398069060e53c6f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clipperton-Island | Clipperton Island | Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island, uninhabited French island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 1,800 miles (2,900 km) west of Panama and 1,300 miles (2,090 km) southwest of Mexico. It is a roughly circular coral atoll (2 square miles [5 square km]), barely 10 feet (3 m) high in most places but with a promontory 70 feet ... |
feed6fe54641270d69a4a1cc74002a07 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clovis-New-Mexico | Clovis | Clovis
Clovis, city, seat (1909) of Curry county, eastern New Mexico, U.S., in the High Plains (4,260 feet [1,298 metres] above sea level) near the Texas state line. It was founded in 1906 as a division point for the Santa Fe Railway. Centre of an irrigated farm and ranch area, it has extensive livestock-auction and c... |
40d610d1958740c944d9620c4973a3d1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cocos-Island | Cocos Island | Cocos Island
Cocos Island, Spanish Isla del Coco, island of volcanic origin lying in the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles (480 km) south of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. It rises to an elevation of about 2,800 feet (850 metres) above sea level, is about 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, and has a total area ... |
6e05757c6089bd728307439d4231d383 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cody | Cody | Cody
Cody, city, seat (1909) of Park county, northwestern Wyoming, U.S. It lies along the Shoshone River east of the Absaroka Range, at an elevation of 5,096 feet (1,553 metres). Laid out in 1895 and developed by Colonel William F. (“Buffalo Bill”) Cody, who convinced the Burlington Railroad to extend a line to the ne... |
ca78cecb554dd7c411fd3eba0afbe465 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coffeyville | Coffeyville | Coffeyville
Coffeyville, city, Montgomery county, southeastern Kansas, U.S., on the Verdigris River. Founded in 1869, it was named for James A. Coffey, a pioneer settler. During the early 1870s, following the completion of a railroad, Coffeyville became a major shipping point for Texas cattle and later developed into ... |
9b8eef3069d8acd0ab4aaa10a5782f3e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cognac-France | Cognac | Cognac
Cognac, town, Charente département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, western France. It lies 20 miles (30 km) west-northwest of Angoulême. The town gives its name to the brandy distilled there and exported all over the world. The distilling of cognac is its main industry and provides the impetus for the manufacture o... |
06bec7453eb8fb9e8b7e0ccfebed0262 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coimbatore | Coimbatore | Coimbatore
Coimbatore, city, western Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is located on the Noyil River, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Tiruppur, on the road between Chennai (Madras; northeast) and Kozhikode (Calicut; southwest), Kerala state.
Coimbatore was long important for its command of the Palghat Gap throug... |
a5eac0f6a442226689b3fc6ed11803a7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colchester-England | Colchester | Colchester
Colchester, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the northeastern part of the county on the River Colne.
As Camulodunum, the town of Colchester was the capital of the pre-Roman Belgic ruler Cunobelinus and is so named on his coins. Although it was bu... |
4ae5f47c301757b3bfb0775f710707ef | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cold-Spring-Ranch | Cold Spring Ranch | Cold Spring Ranch
…group of partners soon opened Cold Spring Ranch in Central City, which became popular with miners needing a meal, a bed, and supplies. Miners also stopped there to switch out their tired teams of animals for fresh ones before ascending the mountain passes, earning the ranch the name Pullman’s Switch.... |
c16342a4be86d0387caee7873483b6a8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coleraine-Northern-Ireland | Coleraine | Coleraine
Coleraine, Irish Cúil Raithin, town and former district (1973–2015) astride the former counties of Antrim and Londonderry, now part of the Causeway Coast and Glens district, Northern Ireland. Coleraine town is located near the mouth of the River Bann. It is the administrative centre of the Causeway Coast a... |
532711f67fcc4d13184f36261eb6bab7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/College-Park-Maryland | College Park | College Park
College Park, city, Prince George’s county, central Maryland, U.S., lying 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. It developed around Maryland Agricultural College (established 1856), which became Maryland State College of Agriculture in 1916 and merged with the University of Maryland (1807) in 1920... |
0c76d7ffddaca412adfbffd86d293214 | https://www.britannica.com/place/College-Station | College Station | College Station
College Station, city, Brazos county, southeastern Texas, U.S. It is adjacent to the city of Bryan and lies 96 miles (154 km) northwest of Houston. Having grown up around the Texas A&M University (established 1871 and opened 1876), the city is essentially residential with its economy geared to that of ... |
1d550f04ab748eeb9ea0c18e8e6580c1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Collinsville-Illinois | Collinsville | Collinsville
Collinsville, city, Madison and St. Clair counties, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies a few miles east of the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri. First settled in 1810 by John Cook of Virginia, the community was laid out in 1837 on bluffs above the river’s floodplain. The village was origin... |
6c5086a48889680d88d30e494b2391da | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cologne-Germany | Cologne | Cologne
Cologne, German Köln, fourth largest city in Germany and largest city of the Land (state) of North Rhine–Westphalia. One of the key inland ports of Europe, it is the historic, cultural, and economic capital of the Rhineland.
Cologne’s commercial importance grew out of its position at the point where the huge t... |
a7eafe883c3970c679ccbf3f33900379 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coloma | Coloma | Coloma
…along the American River in Coloma, California, approximately 50 miles (80 km) east of present-day Sacramento. On January 24 his carpenter, James W. Marshall, found flakes of gold in a streambed. Sutter and Marshall agreed to become partners and tried to keep their find a secret. News of the discovery,…
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0bcd01b2dbda0081eab4a6c597b37911 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colony-Church | Colony Church | Colony Church
…these are the Greek Revival-style Colony Church (1848), the village’s first permanent building; the Bjorklund Hotel (1852); and the Steeple Building (1854), which houses the Bishop Hill Heritage Museum. A new building (1988) features Olof Krans’s paintings chronicling daily life in the village. Several f... |
3a020b38d891531bb70017708c177c7b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colophon-ancient-city-Turkey | Colophon | Colophon
Colophon, ancient Ionian Greek city, located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Ephesus, in modern Turkey. It was a flourishing commercial city from the 8th to the 5th century bc with its harbour at Notium. Colophon was ruled by a timocracy (government based on wealth) and was famous for its cavalry, its lu... |
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Colorado River, major river of North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, U.S., and flowing generally west and south for 1,450 miles (2,330 kilometres) into the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico. Its drainage basin covers 246,000 square miles (637,000 square kilometres) and includ... |
2cabef4e21dde2b81fbc7e6a9a2c5aa8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Columbia-Mountains | Columbia Mountains | Columbia Mountains
Columbia Mountains, range in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, that is bounded by the Rocky Mountain Trench (east), the Columbia River (south), the Interior Plateau (west), and the Fraser River (north). The Columbia Mountains parallel the Canadian Rockies, of which they are sometimes considere... |
406c2b0268e07ea7081f4391e448ac41 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Columbus-Georgia | Columbus | Columbus
Columbus, city (since 1971 consolidated with Muscogee county), western Georgia, U.S., at the head of navigation on the Chattahoochee River, opposite Phenix City, Alabama. Founded in 1828 and carved out of the wilderness, it had by 1840 become a leading inland cotton port with a thriving textile industry utili... |
aae72b9d5a6fc603ece4d224e3fad710 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Columbus-Nebraska | Columbus | Columbus
Columbus, city, seat (1857) of Platte county, eastern Nebraska, U.S., on the Loup River near its confluence with the Platte, about 85 miles (135 km) west of Omaha. Pawnee, Omaha, and Oto Indians were early inhabitants of the area. Columbus was founded in 1856 on the proposed railroad route by settlers from Co... |
41826fdf68e7bc360b003d6dadf54d4f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Comana | Comana | Comana
Comana, modern Şahr, ancient city of Cappadocia, on the upper course of the Seyhan (Sarus) River, in southern Turkey. Often called Chryse to distinguish it from Comana in Pontus, it was the place where the cult of Ma-Enyo, a variant of the great west Asian mother goddess, was celebrated with orgiastic rites. Th... |
90eb81e61a9dbe283ad49842b1ce2b26 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Comino | Comino | Comino
Comino, Maltese Kemmuna, one of the Maltese islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Malta to the southeast and Gozo to the northwest by narrow channels. It has an area of 1 square mile (3 square km). Comino boasts three popular beaches—St. Nicholas Bay, St. Mary’s Bay, and the sought-after Blue Lagoon... |
c2fdd49e167d1cd0c6f304f9536bde23 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Compton-California | Compton | Compton
Compton, city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. The tract was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, a 1784 Spanish land grant. Founded as a Methodist colony in 1867 and named for G.D. Compton, a pioneer settler, it developed as a farming village. Following an earthquake (March 10, 1933), wh... |
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