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…the historical Wolof states of Dianbour, Cayor, Djolof, and Baol. Here the soils are sandy and the winters cool; peanuts are the primary crop. The population is as diverse as the area itself and includes Wolof in the north, Serer in the Thiès region, and Lebu on Cape Verde.
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…islands in the Senkaku (Diaoyu in Chinese) chain southwest of Japan—an archipelago hotly disputed between Japan and China—forced the Japanese government to preemptively purchase them, which then set off mass protests in China and worsened relations between the two countries.
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Hand axes found at Didwana, Rajasthan, similar to those from the Shiwalik Range, yield slightly younger dates of about 400,000 years ago. Examination of the desert soil strata and other evidence has revealed a correlation between prevailing climates and the successive levels of technology that constitute the Pa... |
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Digby, town, seat of Digby county, western Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated at the southern end of Annapolis Basin, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy. In 1783 British Admiral Robert Digby convoyed a group of loyalists to settle the site. Digby is now a popular summer resort and fishing port; it has a large scallop... |
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…earliest is situated on the Dijeng Plateau. This is a high volcanic region, about 6,000 feet (2,000 metres) above sea level, where there are sulfur springs and lakes. The whole mountain seems to have been sacred to the Hindu deity Shiva, for all temples on the Dijeng are dedicated to…
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Dijon, city, capital of Côte d’Or département and of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, east-central France. The city is 203 miles (326 km) southeast of Paris by road and lies at the confluence of the Ouche and Suzon rivers. Situated at the foot of the Côte d’Or hills to its west and near a plain of fertile vineyar... |
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Dikwa, also called Dikoa, town and traditional emirate, Borno state, Nigeria. The town lies near the Yedseram River, which flows into Lake Chad, and has road connections to Maiduguri, Bama, Ngala, and Kukawa. Precisely when the town was founded and when its walls (30 feet [9 metres] thick) were built is unknown;... |
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…with the organization of the Dimona Nuclear Research Centre to be built in the Negev. Ground was broken at Dimona in late 1958 or early 1959. By 1965 the first plutonium had been produced, and on the eve of the Six-Day War (see Arab-Israeli wars) in June 1967 Israel had…
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Dinajpur, city, northwestern Bangladesh. It lies on the Punarbhaba River, just northeast of the border with Sikkim state in India.
Dinajpur is located on a flat alluvial plain intersected by rivers and broken by the slightly elevated Barind region. It is an important rice-, wheat-, jute-, and sugarcane-growin... |
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…by the modern town of Dinar, Tur. Founded by Antiochus I Soter in the 3rd century bc, it superseded the ancient Celaenae and placed it in a commanding position on the great east–west trade route of the Seleucid Empire. In the 2nd century bc Apamea passed to Roman rule and…
…by the modern town of Dinar, Tur.
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Dinder National Park, park, southeastern Sudan. The park lies in the clayish floodplain of the Dinder and Rahad rivers, at an elevation of 2,300 to 2,600 feet (700 to 800 metres). Established in 1935, it covers an area of 2,750 square mi (7,123 square km). Vegetation in the park consists of thornb... |
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Dingle Peninsula, peninsula and bay in County Kerry, on the southwestern coast of Ireland. The peninsula begins south of Tralee as the Slieve Mish range, with elevations of more than 2,000 feet (600 metres), but in the west it becomes a mixture of hills and lowlands, with a north-trending line of hill... |
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Dinosaur Provincial Park, public park located in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, Canada. The nearly 29-square-mile (75-square-km) park is best known for its extensive fossil beds, within which have been identified some 35 different species of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Epoch (abo... |
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…small iron field and with Diósgyőr, farther up the Szinva River valley, which in the 14th and 15th centuries was a regular retreat for royalty; its splendid castle is now largely in ruins. The long-established wealth and importance of Miskolc are apparent in some fine old buildings, including St. Stephen’s,…
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…and anhydrite occur in the Dirk Hartog Formation in the Carnarvon Basin; more extensive halite or anhydrite beds or those of both have been discovered in comparable formations from the Canning and Bonaparte Gulf basins.
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The Dismal Swamp Canal (built 1790–1828) is an intracoastal waterway 22 miles (35 km) long connecting Chesapeake Bay, by way of Deep Creek and the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, with Albemarle Sound in North Carolina through the Pasquotank River. The canal forms a link…
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In September 2015 Banksy debuted Dismaland, his most elaborate project to date, in Weston-super-Mare, England. The temporary amusement park and conceptual art show, which included work from other artists, was described by Banksy as “a family attraction that acknowledges inequality and impending catastrophe.” ... |
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Dja River, also called Ngoko River, river in west-central Africa that forms part of the border between Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo. It rises southeast of Abong Mbang, in southeastern Cameroon, and flows generally southeast past Moloundou to Ouesso, Republic of the Congo, where it empties into the ... |
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To the west is the Djerma Ganda region. Its large valleys are filled with sand, while dallol (fossilized valleys of rivers that formed tributaries of the Niger in ancient times) descend from the Aïr and the Iforas Massif of neighbouring Mali. The central region consists of the rocky Adar Doutchi…
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Djibouti, small strategically located country on the northeast coast of the Horn of Africa. It is situated on the Bab el Mandeb Strait, which lies to the east and separates the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden.
Formerly known as French Somaliland (1896–1967) and the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (1967–... |
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Wolof states of Dianbour, Cayor, Djolof, and Baol. Here the soils are sandy and the winters cool; peanuts are the primary crop. The population is as diverse as the area itself and includes Wolof in the north, Serer in the Thiès region, and Lebu on Cape Verde.
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…of the basin is the Djourab Depression, which is 573 feet (175 metres) above sea level.
…its lowest point in the Djourab Depression, some 300 miles (480 km) away. Lake Chad occasionally overflows into the generally intermittent El-Ghazal River leading into the depression, but it is usually confined ... |
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Dobrich, also spelled Dobrič, formerly (1949–91) Tolbukhin, town, northeastern Bulgaria. It lies on the road and railway line between Varna and Constanța, Rom., and is a long-established market town. Under Turkish rule from the 15th century until 1878, the town was called Bazardzhik; after liberation it became... |
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…fixed at a horizon in Dob’s Linn near Moff in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The effect on sea level of Late Ordovician glaciation, combined with increasing deglaciation during the early Silurian, accounts for widespread stratigraphic unconformities at the Ordovician-Silurian boundary that usually omit t... |
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Dodecanese, Modern Greek Dodekánisa, group of islands in the Aegean Sea, off the southwestern coast of Turkey in southeastern Greece. The islands constituted a nomós (department) until 2011, when local government in Greece was reorganized and the islands were divided among four new perifereiakés enótites (r... |
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Dodoma, city, designated national capital of Tanzania since 1974 (pending complete transfer of official functions from Dar es Salaam), eastern Africa, about 300 miles (480 km) inland (west) from the Indian Ocean. Situated at an elevation of 3,720 feet (1,135 metres) in a sparsely populated agricultural region, ... |
771ead2fc00d1c075390c43f5aa0b831 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dogger-Bank | Dogger Bank | Dogger Bank
Dogger Bank, extensive isolated shoal in the North Sea, lying about 60 miles (100 km) off the northeastern coast of England. It rises 70 feet (20 metres) higher than the surrounding seafloor, is 160 miles (260 km) long and 60 miles wide at the 120-foot (35-metre) level, and reaches its shallowest point (50... |
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Doğubayazıt, town, eastern Turkey. It lies at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) and is situated about 10 miles (16 km) from Turkey’s border with Iran.
Lying near the ancient trade route from Trabzon (ancient Trebizond) to northwestern Iran, Doğubayazıt was once an important trading town, but its si... |
39c137580b98619f8f0282c2add4d270 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dole-France | Dole | Dole
Dole, also spelled Dôle, town, Jura département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, eastern France. The town lies along the Doubs River and the Rhine-Rhône Canal, southeast of Dijon. It was called Dolla under the Romans. It was the seat of the dukes of Burgundy in medieval times and was the capital (1332–1674) of Fr... |
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Dolnośląskie, Polish Województwo Dolnośląskie, województwo (province), southwestern Poland. It was established in 1999 when the provinces of Poland were consolidated from 49 into 16. It is bordered by the provinces of Lubuskie and Wielkopolskie to the north, Opolskie to the east, the Czech Republic to the... |
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Dolomites, Italian Alpi Dolomitiche, mountain group lying in the eastern section of the northern Italian Alps, bounded by the valleys of the Isarco (northwest), the Pusteria (north), the Piave (east and southeast), the Brenta (southwest), and the Adige (west). The range comprises a number of impressive peaks... |
d6c76156bd0c16e4841ebfa832bc21af | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dome-of-Discovery | Dome of Discovery | Dome of Discovery
…& Partners for the Dome Discovery built in London in 1951. Fuller’s own patented forms were used in 1958 to build two large hemispheric domes 115.3 metres (384 feet) in diameter using steel tube members. These are used as workshops for the Union Tank Car Company in Wood River, Illinois,…
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61e44b14e45be78725aa84c422ad075d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Domica-Aggtelek-Cave | Domica-Aggtelek Cave | Domica-Aggtelek Cave
…such large caves as the Domica-Aggtelek Cave on the Slovak-Hungarian boundary, which is 13 miles long. Mountain groups of volcanic origin are important in this part of the Carpathians; the largest among them is Pol’ana (4,784 feet).
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b50038ef4683f2db3cb30de9dea20716 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dominica-Channel | Dominica Channel | Dominica Channel
Dominica Channel, marine passage in the Lesser Antilles, West Indies, connecting the Caribbean Sea with the open Atlantic Ocean to the east. It flows between the island of Dominica (north) and the French island and overseas département of Martinique (south) and is about 25 miles (40 km) wide.
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cc24630acb1712ebedfce28fbc8bc9ca | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dominican-Republic | Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic, country of the West Indies that occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, the second largest island of the Greater Antilles chain in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti, also an independent republic, occupies the western third of the island. The Dominican Republic’s shores are washed b... |
6533b3c97f19072bfeee6055337c21c4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dominican-Republic/Justice | Justice | Justice
The legal system is based on the Napoleonic Code. A nine-member Supreme Court is the final court of appeal. The Senate appoints Supreme Court justices, who in turn appoint judges to lower courts, which include courts of appeal and provincial, municipal, commercial, and land courts. The constitution of 2010 prov... |
99738c48e312253c0d983da8548be2d3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Don-River | Don River | Don River
Don River, one of the great rivers of the European portion of Russia. It has been a vital artery in Russian history since the days of Peter I the Great, who initiated a hydrographic survey of its course. Throughout the world the river is associated with images of the turbulent and colourful Don Cossacks—roma... |
85fd7f9dd4ec677a617109474e6db9b5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Don-River-Basin | Don River Basin | Don River Basin
…expansion of irrigation in the Don River basin, which grew from about 124,000 acres (50,000 hectares) in 1950 to nearly 2.5 million acres by 1980. In the upper basin an extensive network of ponds aids irrigation; these ponds are also used for raising fish.
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3f816a716f3ba8d636bc708ca257df17 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Donegal-Ireland | Donegal | Donegal
Donegal, Irish Dún na nGall (“Fort of the Foreigners”), seaport and market town, County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Eske at the head of Donegal Bay. It is famed for its historic associations and picturesque environs. South of the town are the ruins of the Franciscan Donegal Abbey (founded 1474). Donegal Cas... |
657fabc391f8dba5a4f804eb4a8e749a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Donets-River | Donets River | Donets River
Donets River, Russian Seversky Donets, Ukrainian Siverskyy Donets, a tributary of the Don River, southwestern Russia and eastern Ukraine. The Donets is 650 miles (1,050 km) long and drains a basin of 39,000 square miles (100,000 square km). Rising in the Central Russian Upland, it flows south past Belgoro... |
e560f927471d7c8c5c15d86dc942cd52 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Donetsk-Ukraine | Donetsk | Donetsk
Donetsk, also spelled Doneck, formerly (until 1924) Yuzivka or Yuzovka, also spelled Iuzovka, (1924–61) Stalino, city, southeastern Ukraine, on the headwaters of the Kalmius River. In 1872 an ironworks was founded there by a Welshman, John Hughes (from whom the town’s pre-Revolutionary name Yuzivka was derived... |
209340cff49c9495ba056a0485606efe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Donostia-San-Sebastian | Donostia–San Sebastián | Donostia–San Sebastián
Donostia–San Sebastián, Basque Donostia, Spanish San Sebastián, city, capital of Guipúzcoa provincia (province), northeastern Basque Country comunidad autónoma(autonomous community), north-central Spain. It is a fashionable seaside resort at the mouth of the canalized Urumea River on the Bay of ... |
01f46a2d4277f74fda50e7975d1cc027 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dortmund | Dortmund | Dortmund
Dortmund, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. Located at the southern terminus of the Dortmund-Ems Canal, it has extensive port installations. First mentioned as Throtmanni in 885, Dortmund became a free imperial city in 1220 and later joined the Hanseatic League. Its far-ranging trade... |
4d25e317078a5f097416a63baa43b48a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dorval | Dorval | Dorval
Dorval, city, Montréal region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on Île de Montréal (Montreal Island). It is a southwestern suburb of Montreal city facing Lac Saint-Louis, an extension of the St. Lawrence River. Offshore to the south is Île Dorval, a summer resort. Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International ... |
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Dos Pilas, ancient capital of the Petexbatún kingdom of the Maya, situated near the Salinas River in what is now Petén, west-central Guatemala, about 5 miles (8 km) east of the border with Mexico. At the height of its hegemony the kingdom covered an area of some 1,500 square miles (3,885 square km).
At the t... |
b6dc0d4bfc123bdf0df6a2423861fa5f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Douglas-county-Nevada | Douglas | Douglas
Douglas, county, west-central Nevada, U.S., adjacent to the lower half of Lake Tahoe and the California border. The first permanent settlement in Nevada was established in 1851 at Mormon Station, renamed Genoa in 1855 (the Mormon Station Historic State Monument commemorates the event). Douglas, created in 1861... |
0d76e679d6ef92b9835dec9e0bf3a782 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Douglas-Wyoming | Douglas | Douglas
Douglas, city, seat (1887) of Converse county, east-central Wyoming, U.S., on the North Platte River, 52 miles (84 km) east of Casper. Founded in 1886 with the arrival of the railroad, it was first called Tent Town but was renamed to honour Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln’s political opponent. It is a trade centre... |
08e9ba6ead38a6d9f88dcc6b20c42abe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dover-Delaware | Dover | Dover
Dover, city, capital (1777) of Delaware, U.S., seat of Kent county, in the east-central portion of the state on the St. Jones River. It was laid out in 1717 around an existing county courthouse and jail on the order (1683) of William Penn and was named for the English city. Dover was incorporated as a town in 18... |
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Dover, district, eastern part of the administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England, on the Strait of Dover. The port of Dover is the administrative centre.
The history and economy of the district reflect its location as the part of England closest to France. Major routes between London and the... |
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Dover, city, seat (1769) of Strafford county, southeastern New Hampshire, U.S. It is located at the falls (a 33-foot [10-metre] drop) of the Cocheco River, near its junction with the Piscataqua River, just northwest of Portsmouth. Originally settled in 1623 by fishermen and traders, it was known as Bristol. A se... |
ad69f6bd3c36735aca921598cb1bde08 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dresden-Germany | Dresden | Dresden
Dresden, city, capital of Saxony Land (state), eastern Germany. Dresden is the traditional capital of Saxony and the third largest city in eastern Germany after Berlin and Leipzig. It lies in the broad basin of the Elbe River between Meissen and Pirna, 19 miles (30 km) north of the Czech border and 100 miles (... |
b1cac94a2672529af4b9b229179ed63f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Drogheda | Drogheda | Drogheda
Drogheda, Irish Droichead Átha (“Bridge of the Ford”), urban district and seaport on the southern border of County Louth, Ireland. Drogheda lies along the River Boyne about 4 miles (6.5 km) from its mouth. Drogheda was a stronghold and trading post of the Norsemen in the 8th–11th century and of the Anglo-Norm... |
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Contrary to popular belief, Dubai does not have an oil-based economy. The little oil wealth it did enjoy between the 1960s and the 1990s was used to enhance other sectors of its economy by building physical infrastructure. Trade remains at the core of Dubai’s economy, with the city operating two of the world’s ... |
02cae1972f44255abf0f3e174cbc3a75 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dublin | Dublin | Dublin
Dublin, Irish Dubh Linn, Norse Dyfflin (“Black Pool”), also called Baile Átha Cliath (“Town of the Ford of the Hurdle”), city, capital of Ireland, located on the east coast in the province of Leinster. Situated at the head of Dublin Bay of the Irish Sea, Dublin is the country’s chief port, centre of financial a... |
9af6d7882e824b16f7622e7c61a87d17 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dublin-county-Ireland | Dublin | Dublin
Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, geographic county in the province of Leinster, eastern Ireland. In 1994 it was replaced administratively by three counties—Fingal to the north, South Dublin to the southwest, and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown to the southeast—as well as by the city of Dublin itself, which was given the... |
cc618a47061eef18b1ec2766eb2e02cb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dulwich | Dulwich | Dulwich
Dulwich, fashionable residential neighbourhood in the Greater London borough of Southwark, part of the historic county of Surrey. It lies in the southern part of the borough and is centred on Dulwich College.
The name Dilwihs (Dulwich), meaning “Marshy Meadow Where Dill Grows,” was first recorded in 967 ce. Th... |
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Dumfriesshire, also called Dumfries, historic county, southwestern Scotland. Along the Solway Firth in the south, Dumfriesshire incorporates a coastal plain stretching from the mouth of the River Nith in the west to the English border in the east. A series of river valleys—Nithsdale, Annandale, and Eskda... |
8f338b8e16e7081cac9a1ad9d029b45d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dundo | Dundo | Dundo
Dundo, mining town, northeastern Angola. It lies 15 miles (24 km) south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo border. Founded near a site where diamonds were first discovered in 1912, the town was developed as a planned community privately operated by Diamang (Companhia de Diamantes de Angola). This internatio... |
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Dungarpur, town, southern Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It is situated on a level upland, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Udaipur.
Dungarpur was founded in the 14th century and was named for Dungaria, an independent chieftain of the Bhil people. It was the capital of the princely state of Dungarpur. T... |
db39408166c150caf3ac458ca7924b51 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dunoon | Dunoon | Dunoon
Dunoon, small burgh (town), Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, western Scotland, on the northwestern shore of the Firth of Clyde. It grew as a seaside resort (especially for Glaswegians) from the early 19th century to the latter part of the 20th century, when its prominence as a touri... |
32853dff7bf82b0b1ec8b2f7e5c95cc7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dunwich | Dunwich | Dunwich
Dunwich, village (parish), Suffolk Coastal district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England, on the North Sea coast.
The first development on the site was probably a Romano-British community, and in Anglo-Saxon days it became the most important commercial centre in East Anglia. Early in the 7th... |
9d9190d4f1d5d6e3636e695a1e6e591c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dur-Kurigalzu | Dur-Kurigalzu | Dur-Kurigalzu
Dur-Kurigalzu, modern ʿAqarqūf, fortified city and royal residence of the later Kassite kings, located near Babylon in southern Mesopotamia (now in Iraq). This city was founded either by Kurigalzu I (c. 1400–c. 1375 bc) or by Kurigalzu II (c. 1332–08). Between ad 1943 and 1945, Iraqi excavations unearthe... |
02c90442203b3d0065243e44c88ba581 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Durango-Colorado | Durango | Durango
Durango, city, seat (1881) of La Plata county, southwestern Colorado, U.S. It is situated on the Animas River in the foothills of the La Plata Mountains at an elevation of 6,512 feet (1,983 metres), about 100 miles (160 km) south of Montrose.
Durango was founded in 1880 during a mining boom by the Denver and R... |
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Durango, in full Durango de Victoria, city, capital of Durango estado (state), north-central Mexico. It lies in the south-central part of the state in a fertile valley of the Sierra Madre Occidental, about 6,200 feet (1,900 metres) above sea level.
Although first settled in 1556, Durango was not officially fou... |
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Durango, estado (state), north-central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of Chihuahua to the north, Coahuila and Zacatecas to the east, Jalisco and Nayarit to the south, and Sinaloa to the west. The state capital is the city of Durango (Durango de Victoria).
The western portion of the state’s territory lies ... |
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Durban, formerly Port Natal, largest city of KwaZulu-Natal province and chief seaport of South Africa, located on Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean. European settlement began with a band of Cape Colony traders led by Francis G. Farewell, who charted the port in 1824 and named the site Port Natal. Land was ceded to ... |
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Durham, town (township), Strafford county, southeastern New Hampshire, U.S., on the Oyster River just southwest of Dover. Settled in 1635, it was known as the parish of Oyster River until it was incorporated in 1732 and named for Durham, England. A series of savage Indian attacks began in 1675; in 1694 the town... |
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Durham, city, seat (1881) of Durham county, north-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Chapel Hill and 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Raleigh, the three cities forming one of the state’s major urban areas—the Research Triangle. The first settlement (about 1750) in what ... |
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The small town of Dürnstein, known as the “pearl of the Wachau,” possesses perfectly preserved medieval and Baroque buildings and the ruins of a fortified castle that once held Richard I of England as a prisoner (1192–93).
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Duxbury, town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Duxbury Bay (an inlet of Cape Cod Bay), 33 miles (53 km) south of Boston, and includes the villages of Duxbury and South Duxbury. Settled about 1628, it counts among its founders the Pilgrim colonists Myles Standish, William Brew... |
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Duyun, Wade-Giles romanization Tu-yün, city, central Guizhou sheng (province), southern China. It is situated on the Jian River, some 60 miles (100 km) southeast of the provincial capital of Guiyang.
Duyun is a transport centre, with a highway route running eastward into Hunan province and a main route, followed... |
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Dvůr Králové nad Labem, city, north-central Czech Republic. The city lies just north of Hradec Králové, on the left bank of the Elbe (Czech: Labe) River. The name in both Czech and German (Königinhof an der Elbe) means ”the court of the queen on the Elbe,” recalling the founding of the town by K... |
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Eagle Pass, city, seat (1856) of Maverick county, southwestern Texas, U.S., on the Rio Grande, bridged to Piedras Negras, Mexico, 130 miles (210 km) southwest of San Antonio. It evolved as a garrison town laid out as El Paso de Aguila (Spanish: “Eagle Pass”), so named for the area’s abundant birds of prey, ... |
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Earth is surrounded by a relatively thin atmosphere (commonly called air) consisting of a mixture of gases, primarily molecular nitrogen (78 percent) and molecular oxygen (21 percent). Also present are much smaller amounts of gases such as argon (nearly 1 percent), water vapour (averaging 1 percent but h... |
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More than 90 percent of Earth’s mass is composed of iron, oxygen, silicon, and magnesium, elements that can form the crystalline minerals known as silicates. Nevertheless, in chemical and mineralogical composition, as in physical properties, Earth is far from homogeneous. Apart from the superficial lateral... |
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East African lakes, group of lakes located in East Africa. The majority of the East African lakes lie within the East African Rift System, which forms a part of a series of massive fissures in the Earth’s crust extending northward from the Zambezi River valley through eastern and northeastern Africa... |
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The East African rifts attained their present form mainly as a result of earth movements during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), and the lakes must have been formed after the landscapes in which they are set. The shallowness of such lakes as Albert (maximum r... |
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East Anglia, traditional region of eastern England, comprising the historic counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and, more loosely, Cambridgeshire and Essex. The traditional central town is the cathedral city of Norwich, which since 1961 has been the site of the University of East Anglia and its Centre of East ... |
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East Aurora, village, Erie county, western New York, U.S. It lies 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Buffalo and, oddly enough, 90 miles (145 km) west of Aurora. Settled in 1804, it was incorporated as Willink in 1849 and as East Aurora in 1874. Inspired by the English designer William Morris and his communal K... |
709d13d220fe1faef60620acbe067049 | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Berlin | East Berlin | East Berlin
East Berlin, German Ost Berlin, eastern part of the city of Berlin (q.v.) that served as the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until the reunification of the German state in 1990.
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East China Sea, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Tung Hai or (Pinyin) Dong Hai, arm of the Pacific Ocean bordering the East Asian mainland and extending northeastward from the South China Sea, to which it is connected by the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China. The East China Sea and the South C... |
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East Cleveland, city, suburb of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., just southeast of Lake Erie. The site was settled in 1801 by farmers, and East Cleveland township was organized in 1805. The boundaries were reduced because of annexations by the city of Cleveland, and the village, whic... |
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East End, traditional area of London, lying east of Shoreditch High Street, Houndsditch, Aldgate High Street, and Tower Bridge Approach. It extends eastward to the River Lea and lies mainly in the Inner London borough of Tower Hamlets, part of the historic county of Middlesex. In the Middle Ages the East End ... |
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East Hampton, town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the southern shore of Long Island, 100 miles (161 km) east of New York City, and includes East Hampton village and Gardiners Island. Settled in 1648 by English yeomen from Kent and first called Maidstone, the town prospe... |
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East Java, Indonesian Jawa Timur, propinsi (or provinsi; province), eastern Java, Indonesia. It is bounded by the province of Central Java (Jawa Tengah) to the west, the Java Sea to the north, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the Bali Strait to the east. It includes numerous surrounding islands, most notab... |
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East Kalimantan, Indonesian Kalimantan Timur, propinsi (or provinsi; province), east-central Borneo, Indonesia. It is bounded by the East Malaysian state of Sarawak to the northwest, by the Celebes Sea to the northeast and the Makassar Strait to the southeast, and by the Indonesian provinces of North K... |
ec05e7ffd094095a8b3d1f6e5a2577ef | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Lansing | East Lansing | East Lansing
East Lansing, residential and university city, Ingham county, south-central Michigan, U.S., adjoining Lansing on the Red Cedar River. The site was a remote area east of Lansing when Michigan State University, a pioneer land-grant school, was founded there as Michigan Agricultural College in 1855. First kn... |
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East Malaysia, component of the 13-state federation of Malaysia in Southeast Asia. It consists of the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo and is separated from mainland Peninsular, or West, Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula by some 400 miles (640 km) of the South China ... |
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East Orange, city, Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Newark on the northwest. Originally settled in 1678 by 30 families from Newark, it was set off from Orange township and established as a municipality in 1863. Mainly a residential suburb, it nevertheless has an industrial section, wh... |
89d72488a90dfb837bd6f04e0b7d9df7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Point-Georgia | East Point | East Point
East Point, city, Fulton county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., a southwestern suburb of Atlanta. Established as the eastern terminus for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad (completed 1853), it was an important defense post for the South during the American Civil War and was the site of forts and ammunition d... |
4b3a76f28f7754016d941ee30dabe088 | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-River | East River | East River
East River, navigable tidal strait linking Upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound, New York City, U.S. It separates Manhattan Island from Brooklyn and Queens. About 16 miles (26 km) long and 600–4,000 feet (200–1200 metres) wide, it connects with the Hudson River via the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil C... |
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Eastern Cape, province, south-central South Africa. It is bordered by Western Cape province to the west, Northern Cape province to the northwest, Free State province and Lesotho to the north, KwaZulu-Natal province to the northeast, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast and south. The eastern portion of t... |
b4c0e7c38285fff2509384645ab2af3b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eastpointe | Eastpointe | Eastpointe
Eastpointe, formerly (1929–92) East Detroit, city, Macomb county, Michigan, U.S., adjacent to the northeast corner of the Detroit city limits. It is primarily a residential suburb of Detroit with a large retail sector but does have some light manufacturing (metal fabrication, meat products). First settled i... |
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Eberswalde, formerly called (1970–93) Eberswalde-Finow, city, Brandenburg Land (state), northeastern Germany. It lies in the Thorn-Eberswalder glacial valley, approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Berlin. Occupation of the area from the early Bronze Age is attested by the discovery in 1913 of a gold h... |
d9adf956506b8765a3c1d565ad172372 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ecole-Normale-Superieure | École Normale Supérieure | École Normale Supérieure
…first schools so named, the École Normale Supérieure (“Normal Superior School”), was established in Paris in 1794. Based on various German exemplars, the school was intended to serve as a model for other teacher-training schools. Later it became affiliated with the University of Paris.
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7af47b892e80fa8b4a555e4e5a3d5019 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ecuador/Climate | Climate | Climate
Because Ecuador lies on the Equator, most of the country, except the Sierra, experiences a humid tropical climate. The Oriente is influenced throughout the year by an unstable maritime tropical air mass, while the Costa is subject to greater variations associated with seasonal movements of the intertropical con... |
0cd2afead6afb7b34dabb824aa39893b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ecuador/Media-and-publishing | Media and publishing | Media and publishing
Many Ecuadorans are avid readers, and they support numerous newspapers and periodicals. El Comercio (“Commerce”), published in Quito, is perhaps the country’s most prestigious newspaper; it provides detailed, serious coverage of political, economic, environmental, and cultural news, together with c... |
aa4da370f03cd5a009dfa611c4c6fb10 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Edirne | Edirne | Edirne
Edirne, formerly Adrianople or Hadrianople, city, extreme western Turkey. It lies at the junction of the Tunca and Maritsa (Turkish: Meriç) rivers, near the borders of Greece and Bulgaria. The largest and oldest part of the town occupies a meander of the Tunca around the ruins of an ancient citadel. Edirne’s si... |
6d93bb4eb5602088f7fb0bdb4986e7e6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Edom | Edom | Edom
Edom, ancient land bordering ancient Israel, in what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The Edomites probably occupied the area about the 13th century bc. Though closely related to the Israelites (according to the Bible, they were descendants of Esau), they had frequent confl... |
3d26fe7630444a20bf99697a47b9f10a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Effingham | Effingham | Effingham
Effingham, city, seat (1860) of Effingham county, east-central Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Little Wabash River, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Decatur. Settled about 1814 by farmers, the community grew slowly as pioneers moved westward along the Cumberland (National) Road, which had been extended t... |
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