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A Coruña, Spanish La Coruña, also called Corunna, formerly The Groyne, city, capital of A Coruña provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, in extreme northwestern Spain. It lies on an inlet facing the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Mero River. Under the Romans, A C... |
1d4ea9dc9bfc5bf15327d6c9e265cc92 | https://www.britannica.com/place/A-Estrada | A Estrada | A Estrada
A Estrada, Spanish La Estrada, town, Pontevedra provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It lies in a densely populated mountainous area about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Santiago de Compostela. Its industries include lumbering and processing of... |
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A-mdo, also spelled Amdo, Chinese (Pinyin) Anduo or (Wade-Giles romanization) An-to, also called Mdo-smad, one of three historical regions of Central Asia (the other two being Dbus-Gtsang and Khams) into which Tibet was once divided.
Between the 7th and 9th centuries ce, the Tibetan kingdom was extended until it... |
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Aalsmeer, gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Amsterdam, on the Ring Canal and Westeinder Lake, a remnant of Haarlem Lake. The older part of the town is on peaty soil at about sea level, surrounded by polders with loamy soil 9–15 feet (3–5 metres) below sea level. Once k... |
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Aarau, capital of Aargau canton, northern Switzerland, at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, on the right bank of the Aare River, west of Zürich.
Founded about 1240 by the counts of Kyburg, it passed to the Habsburgs in 1264 and was taken by the Bernese in 1415. In 1798 it became the capital of the Helveti... |
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… massifs in France and the Aare (or Aar) and Gotthard massifs in Switzerland. Moreover, with the elevation of the Alps above the Po plain of northern Italy, a southward overthrusting has carried the southern part of the Alps back onto the basin there as the Italian promontory has continued to…
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Aare River, also spelled Aar, tributary of the Rhine and the longest stream (183 miles [295 km]) entirely within Switzerland; it drains an area of 6,865 square miles (17,779 square km). The river rises in the Aare Glacier of the Bernese Alps in Bern canton, below the Finsteraarhorn and west of the Grimsel P... |
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Aargau, (German), French Argovie, canton, northern Switzerland. It borders Germany to the north and is bounded by the demicanton of Basel-Landschaft and by the cantons of Solothurn and Bern to the west, Lucerne to the south, and Zug and Zürich to the east. It forms the northeastern section of the great Swiss P... |
f8657107540d1f8f282f70b69f7e457c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aba-Nigeria | Aba | Aba
Aba, city, Abia state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the west bank of the Aba River at the intersection of roads from Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, Ikot Ekpene, and Ikot Abasi (Opobo).
Aba was a traditional market town for the Igbo (Ibo) people of the tropical rainforest before the establishment of a British m... |
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Ābādān, Arabic ʿAbbādān, city, extreme southwestern Iran. The city is situated in Khūzestān, part of the oil-producing region of Iran. Ābādān lies on an island of the same name along the eastern bank of the Shaṭṭ Al-ʿArab (river), 33 miles (53 km) from the Persian Gulf. The city thus lies along Iran’s border wi... |
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Ābādān lies on an island of the same name along the eastern bank of the Shaṭṭ Al-ʿArab (river), 33 miles (53 km) from the Persian Gulf. The city thus lies along Iran’s border with Iraq. Ābādān Island is bounded on the west by the Shaṭṭ…
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Abae, ancient town in the northeast corner of Phocis, Greece. The town was famous for its oracle of Apollo, which was one of those consulted by the Lydian king Croesus. Although the Persians sacked and burned the temple in 480 bc, the oracle continued to be consulted—e.g., by the Thebans before the Battle of Leu... |
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…late ʿAbbāsid architecture include the ʿAbbāsid Palace (late 12th or early 13th century) and the Mustanṣiriyyah madrasah (an Islamic law college built by the caliph al-Mustanṣir in 1233), both restored as museums, and the Sahrāwardī Mosque (1234). The Wasṭānī Gate, the only remnant of the medieval wall... |
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Abbeville, town, Somme département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, near the mouth of the canalized Somme, northwest of Amiens.
Stone Age artifacts unearthed by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes in 1844 attesting to early occupation of the site are displayed at the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes. T... |
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Abbottabad, city, east-central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. It is situated 38 miles (61 km) northeast of Rawalpindi. A hill station (4,120 feet [1,256 metres]), it lies on a plateau at the southern corner of the Rash (Orash) Plain and is the gateway to the picturesque Kagan Valley. It is connected... |
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ʿAbdali sultanate, former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Located just north of Aden city, it was one of the most important tribal areas of the Aden Protectorate, which was the forerunner of independent Yemen (Aden); its capital was Laḥij. The sultanate... |
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Abel Tasman National Park, wildlife preserve in northwestern South Island, New Zealand. Established in 1942, it was named for Abel Tasman, the Dutch navigator. With an area of 55,699 acres (22,541 hectares), it extends inland for about 6 miles (10 km) from the beaches of Tasman Bay on its we... |
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Abengourou, town, eastern Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), on the road from Abidjan (the national capital) to Ghana. The major trading centre for a productive forest region, it is also the residence of the Anyi (Agni) paramount chief, who is the present king of Indénié (an Anyi kingdom founded in the mid-18th c... |
b954b1ddb232040cf3551f289d39e1ed | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdare | Aberdare | Aberdare
Aberdare, Welsh Aberdâr, town (community), Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), southern Wales. It lies on the River Cynon.
The community dates from the Middle Ages. Its Saint John’s Church was built about 1189. Aberdare’s main growth in the 19th century was based on ir... |
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…serves as the gateway to Aberdare National Park. The town is linked by road and rail with Nanyuki, about 36 miles (58 km) to the northeast, and Nairobi, about 60 miles (96 km) to the southwest. There is an airfield nearby. Pop. (1999) 46,969; (2009) 63,626.
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…for the nearby 113-square-mile (293-square-km) Aberdeen Proving Ground (established 1917), a U.S. Army test site for guns, ammunition, and military vehicles; one of the world’s largest collections of weapons is displayed there in the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum. There is also some light manufactu... |
c547a6d9407f0016e6d9ad7872b27124 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdeen-Scotland | Aberdeen | Aberdeen
Aberdeen, city and historic royal burgh (town) astride the Rivers Dee and Don on Scotland’s North Sea coast. Aberdeen is a busy seaport, the British centre of the North Sea oil industry, and the commercial capital of northeastern Scotland. Aberdeen’s primary industries were once fishing, textiles, shipbuildi... |
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…and fine sandstones constituting the Aberystwyth Grit Formation to a deepwater basinal setting in west-central Wales. Less commonly, Silurian shales passively accumulated in broad platform settings. The Longmaqi Formation of the Yangtze platform in South China is one such shale body, which i... |
fdab2a45c03ab96bd2dcce63f61834e4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abha | Abhā | Abhā
Abhā, city, southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is situated on a plain at the western edge of Mount al-Hijāz and is surrounded by hills. The valley of the Wadi Abhā near the city is filled with gardens, fields, and streams. The city consists of four quarters, the largest of which contains an old fortress. Abhā was free... |
c7151443dea321fbd110bc14941a26bb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abington-Massachusetts | Abington | Abington
Abington, town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Boston and 4 miles (6 km) east of Brockton. Ames Nowell State Park is nearby (to the west).
The area now occupied by the town was purchased in 1649 from Massasoit, chief of the Massachusett (Wampanoag... |
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Abitibi River, river, northeastern Ontario, Canada. From its source in the shallow 359-square-mile (931-square-km) Abitibi Lake, lying across the Ontario-Quebec border, the river descends 868 feet (265 m) as it flows generally northward for 340 miles (547 km) to join the Moose River and empty into the so... |
531e3c4434c4301ad39ce25a4975498c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abo-Elementary-School | Abo Elementary School | Abo Elementary School
Artesia’s Abo Elementary School is the first underground school in the United States; it was designed to protect against atomic radiation and fallout. Inc. village, 1905; city, 1930. Pop. (2000) 10,692; (2010) 11,301.
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Abomey, town, southern Benin. It is located about 60 miles (100 km) north of Cotonou.
Probably founded in the early 17th century, it soon became the capital of the kingdom of Abomey (later Dahomey; the country’s previous name), which dominated production and trade with the European enterprises on the Slave Coas... |
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…found in the environs of Abomey, Kétou, Aplahoué (or Parahoué), and Zagnanado. The plateaus consist of clays on a crystalline base. The Abomey, Aplahoué, and Zagnanado plateaus are from 300 to 750 feet high, and the Kétou plateau is up to 500 feet in height.
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Abong Mbang, also spelled Abong-Mbang, port located in southeastern Cameroon. It lies on the upper Nyong River, at the head of seasonal river navigation from Mbalmayo.
Timber (especially mahogany), tobacco, and coffee are major products in the area; bricks are manufactured locally. The Dja Faunal Reserve—w... |
8bf5ee1b1ab3cdd58c5d36386b7d982e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abron | Abron | Abron
…the states established was the Abron kingdom of Gyaman founded by Tan Daté. It was conquered by the Asante in the 1730s, and, despite numerous revolts, remained subject to it until 1875. In much the same circumstances the Anyi kingdoms of Indénié (Ndenye) and Sanwi were founded. Following the death…
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The Abşeron Bank, a belt of shoals and islands rising from submerged elevations of older rocks, marks the transition to the southern Caspian, a depression covering about 57,570 square miles (149,106 square km). That depression is fringed by a shelf that is narrow to the west…
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Abşeron Peninsula, also spelled Apsheron, Azerbaijani Abşeron Yasaqliği, peninsula in Azerbaijan that extends 37 miles (60 km) eastward into the Caspian Sea and reaches a maximum width of 19 miles (30 km). An eastern extension of the Caucasus Mountains, the Abşeron Peninsula consists of a gently undu... |
5afdc5f0ec55eaebf472e8a9f0ec0b62 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu | Abu | Abu
Abu, also called Mount Abu, town, southwestern Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It is situated on the slopes of Mount Abu, an isolated massif in the Aravalli Range.
The town is a noted hill resort, and the Jaina temples built of marble at nearby Dilwara are famous. Tejpal temple, built about 1200 ce, is known ... |
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Abu Dhabi, also spelled Abū Ẓaby, constituent emirate of the United Arab Emirates (formerly Trucial States, or Trucial Oman). Though its international boundaries are disputed, it is unquestionably the largest of the country’s seven constituent emirates, with more than three-fourths of the area of the entire ... |
99f7d78461360231974b7bfc96a32b7a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu-Jirab | Abū Jirāb | Abū Jirāb
Abū Jirāb, also spelled Abu Gurab, Abu Ghurab, or Abu Gurob, ancient Egyptian site, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Abū Ṣīr, between Ṣaqqārah and Al-Jīzah; it is known as the location of two 5th-dynasty (c. 2465–c. 2325 bce) sun temples. The first part of the 5th dynasty is recognized as a period of unusually... |
723c2f384b5edd0b0feed7a35624cacc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abuja-federal-capital-territory-Nigeria | Federal Capital Territory | Federal Capital Territory
Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ; also known as Abuja Federal Capital Territory, administrative territory, central Nigeria, created in 1976. The territory is located north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. It is bordered by the states of Niger to the west and northwest, Kaduna... |
31964abe1c23b3aeef18eb09076bc6be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abukuma-Mountains | Abukuma Mountains | Abukuma Mountains
Abukuma Mountains, Japanese Abukuma-kōchi or Abukuma-sammyaku, range in northern Honshu, Japan. It extends for 106 miles (170 km) north to south and parallels the Pacific Ocean coast of Fukushima prefecture in the Tōhoku region. Its southern end reaches into northern Ibaraki prefecture in the Kantō r... |
e2fe999ef3e6f342712123293aa03703 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abuna-River | Abuná River | Abuná River
Abuná River, Spanish Río Abuná, Portuguese Rio Abunã, a headwater of the Amazon, east of the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes. The navigable river flows for about 200 miles (320 km) northeast through rain forests, forming Bolivia’s northern border with Brazil. It joins the Río Madeira, a tributary of the A... |
ff3046927be88aa9f8eb10c9862b9a4f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aburatsubo-Bay | Aburatsubo Bay | Aburatsubo Bay
Jōga Island, in Aburatsubo Bay, is linked to the mainland at Miura by a large bridge. The island and bay, together with Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park and local beaches, help make Miura a popular tourist and recreational centre. The city also serves as a residential suburb for the…
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…of the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City. Brought up in a middle-class home, he received his B.A. from Colgate University (Hamilton, N.Y.) in 1930 and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932. He succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church i... |
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…as it developed in the Academy of Gondēshāpūr. There Zoroastrian culture, Indian and Greek sciences, Alexandrian-Syrian thought, medical training, theology, philosophy, and other disciplines developed to a high degree, making Gondēshāpūr the most advanced academic centre of learning in the later... |
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…membership of “40 Immortals”; the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, founded in 1663 by Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert; the Academy of Sciences, founded in 1666, also by Colbert; the Academy of Fine Arts, two sections formed at different times by... |
e3fa3831db04ad3db5fea6aa2184b112 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acadia | Acadia | Acadia
Acadia, French Acadie, North American Atlantic seaboard possessions of France in the 17th and 18th centuries. Centred in what are now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Acadia was probably intended to include parts of Maine (U.S.) and Quebec.
The first organized French settlement in Acadia wa... |
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…most important, known as the Acadian Platform, occupies a large semicircle between the Gaspé Peninsula and Cape Breton. The relief of this area is not at all uniform because it includes depressions such as the Chaleurs Trough, shelves such as the Bradelle Bank, the Northumberland Strait, and above-wat... |
74dc1e5ca5f90742c09b0b9198f3bae2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acambaro | Acámbaro | Acámbaro
Acámbaro, city, southeastern Guanajuato estado (state), central Mexico. Acámbaro lies along the Lerma River in the southern portion of the Mesa Central at 6,388 feet (1,947 metres) above sea level. A Spanish settlement was founded there in 1526 on the site of a small Tarascan Indian village. With the construc... |
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Acaraí Mountains, also spelled Acarahy, or Akarai, Portuguese Serra Acaraí, low range on the border of Brazil (Pará state) and southern Guyana. The mountains, which rise to about 2,000 feet (600 metres) above sea level, run in an east–west direction for about 80 miles (130 km) and form part of the nor... |
a16b074bb53d32510f955b42bd77ac41 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acarigua | Acarigua | Acarigua
Acarigua, city, northern Portuguesa estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. Formerly the state capital, Acarigua is a principal commercial centre of the northern portion of the Llanos (plains), in which cattle, peanuts, sorghum, cashews, beans, cotton, corn (maize), and rice are the principal products. Indust... |
1cb6f3c47de8ac9da7b4fa198151f627 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Accademia-degli-Incamminati | Accademia degli Incamminati | Accademia degli Incamminati
…and his cousins founded the Accademia degli Incamminati, an art school that became the most progressive and influential institution of its kind in Italy. Lodovico led this school for the next 20 years, during which time he and his cousins trained some of the leading Italian artists of the y... |
ff5f2af6b2f63fa1b7dc6416639853be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Accra-Plains | Accra Plains | Accra Plains
…consists of the gently rolling Accra Plains, which are underlain by some of the oldest Precambrian rocks known—mostly gneisses (coarse-grained rocks in which bands containing granular minerals alternate with bands containing micaceous minerals); in places they rise above the surface to form inselbergs (pr... |
143b0652a275ecbdf86cd8dba07600e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Achen-Pass | Achen Pass | Achen Pass
…road and railway and at Achen Pass (3,087 feet [941 metres]) by road. Tourism and winter sports are the region’s main activities. A large national park preserves the original Alpine landscape, plants, and animals from the steady encroachment of urbanization.
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Acheng, Wade-Giles romanization A-ch’eng, former city, central Heilongjiang sheng (province), far northeastern China. In 2006 it was incorporated into the city of Harbin, and it became a southeastern district of that city.
It was originally named Ashihe, for the Ashi River that flows through the eastern part of... |
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Achill Island, mountainous island off the west coast of Ireland. It is part of County Mayo, joined to the mainland by a bridge across Achill Sound. The island is Ireland’s largest, with an area of 56 square miles (145 square km), and its highest points are the quartzite peaks of Slieve Croaghaun (2,182 f... |
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Acre River, Portuguese Rio Acre, river, chiefly in western Brazil, rising on the Peruvian border, along which it continues eastward to form part of the Brazil–Bolivia border. Turning north at Brasiléia, the remainder of its 400-mi (645-km) course flows in a north-northeasterly direction, through the Brazili... |
4b5c777ccd2da3a041879ec4f576533a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acropolis-district-Athens-Greece | Acropolis | Acropolis
…a vengeful sea, but the Acropolis is just up above, just under the stars.
…archaeological remains of the ancient Acropolis site that were formerly housed in the original Acropolis Museum (first opened in 1876). The New Acropolis Museum opened in June 2009.
for the Athenian Acropolis. The Acropolis architectu... |
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Adamawa Plateau, also spelled Adamaoua Plateau, volcanic upland in west-central Africa. Though the plateau is chiefly in north-central Cameroon, the part of it known as the Gotel Mountains is in southeastern Nigeria. The plateau is the source of the Benue River. Its highest elevations are more than 8,7... |
bb1a20fbe96a3e187a172aa87eed6dcd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adamawa-state-Nigeria | Adamawa | Adamawa
Adamawa, state, northeastern Nigeria. It was administratively created in 1991 from the northeastern half of former Gongola state. Adamawa is bordered on the north and northwest by Borno and Gombe states, on the west and southwest by Taraba state, and on the southeast and east by Cameroon.
The Mandara Mountains... |
287a63f4e62d62630df55c8ccb3228be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adamawa-traditional-emirate-Africa | Adamawa | Adamawa
Adamawa, traditional emirate centred in what is now Adamawa state, eastern Nigeria. The emirate was founded by Modibbo Adama, who, under the authority of Sheikh Usman dan Fodio, began a Fulani jihad (holy war) in the region in 1809. Adama moved the capital of his kingdom, which was then known as Fumbina, sever... |
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Adam’s Peak, mountain in southwestern Sri Lanka (Ceylon), 7,360 feet (2,243 m) high and 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Ratnapura; it is located in the Sri Lanka hill country. Its conical summit terminates in an oblong platform about 74 by 24 feet (22 by 7 m), on which there is a large hollow resembling the... |
61b9fdfd3500e67c38b3d99d18ee1214 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adana-province-Turkey | Adana | Adana
In 1608 Adana was reconstituted as a province under direct Ottoman administration. Adana became a provincial capital in 1867. One of the earlier extant monuments in the area is a stone bridge 220 yards (200 metres) long spanning the Seyhan River, dating from the time of the…
…the “land of Adaniya” (Adana), was re... |
97c8652054272eb8aa69329fb8e1d2f3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adda-River | Adda River | Adda River
Adda River, Italian Fiume Adda, river, in the Lombardia (Lombardy) regione of northern Italy, issuing from small lakes in the Rhaetian Alps at 7,660 feet (2,335 m). The Adda flows southward from Bormio to Tirano, where it turns west past Sondrio to enter Lake Como near its northern end after a course of 194... |
96a6385125b7a58ef4715eb015c6fb01 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adderley-Street | Adderley Street | Adderley Street
…that name, it was renamed Adderley Street in 1850. Other main roads paralleled it as the town grew. In Strand Street, on what once was the shore of Table Bay, stands the Castle of Good Hope, built by the company between 1666 and 1679. Near the Castle are the Botanic…
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7737e965bdf50b8ea360278bf3c0a5d3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adelaide-Range | Adelaide Range | Adelaide Range
The Adelaidean succession crops out in the region of South Australia between Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges and contains an almost complete sedimentary record of the late Proterozoic. The early Adelaidean Callanna and Burra groups are confined to troughs faulted down into basement. A sheet of…
…of rain... |
12ab85360d2817ccac5c657cb87fe4bd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adelphi-development-London | Adelphi | Adelphi
…to be known as the Adelphi (it was almost totally destroyed in 1936). They invested a large sum on embanking the site and building several terraces of houses (1768–72) in which the Adam interior style of slim pilasters supporting a shallow frieze and cornice—the middle and uppermost sections of an…
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ce9f176ecbbb99431fad74e174996dd8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aden | Aden | Aden
Aden, Arabic ʿAdan, city of Yemen. It is situated along the north coast of the Gulf of Aden and lies on a peninsula enclosing the eastern side of Al-Tawāhī Harbour. The peninsula enclosing the western side of the harbour is called Little Aden.
Aden has its earliest recorded mention in the Old Testament book of Ez... |
d2f0365cad7b930e1af1e0145401eb25 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adirondack-Anorthosite | Adirondack Anorthosite | Adirondack Anorthosite
…(1,040 square miles), and the Adirondack Anorthosite is exposed over an area of about 3,900 square km (1,560 square miles). The Bushveld Complex underlies an area of about 50,000 square km (20,000 square miles); and the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, another layered complex, has been traced for more th... |
795cad353941c470be20c40163fa8af1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Admiralty-Inlet | Admiralty Inlet | Admiralty Inlet
Admiralty Inlet, passage of water located between Brodeur and Borden peninsulas and indenting for 230 miles (370 km) the northwest coast of Baffin Island in the Baffin region of Nunavut territory, Canada. The inlet, leading southward from Lancaster Sound of Baffin Bay, is 2 to 20 miles (3 to 32 km) wid... |
5a30100241661ec9f835e7e39cde7688 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Admiralty-Islands | Admiralty Islands | Admiralty Islands
Admiralty Islands, islands in Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean, an extension of the Bismarck Archipelago comprising about 40 islands. The group lies about 190 miles (300 km) off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The volcanic Manus Island constitutes the majority of its land area and... |
4c227a4b8f483ca341f6d4628ce3ff20 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adour-River | Adour River | Adour River
Adour River, river in southwestern France. The Adour River rises in the central Pyrenees near Tourmalet Pass, just south of Midi de Bigorre Peak, and flows in a curve, north, then west, to enter the Bay of Biscay just below Bayonne after a course of 208 miles (335 km). Draining a basin of 5,800 square mil... |
d37d0759d667b6b9157b327a6be04ab9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adrar-oasis-Algeria | Adrar | Adrar
Adrar, formerly Timmi, palm grove settlement, the largest of the Touat oasis group, southwestern Algeria, in the Sahara. Adrar’s historical name was given it by the local Berber (Amazigh) people, the Timmi, who established their ksar (fortified village) here. The modern name is derived from the Berber adrar (“mo... |
ce8e6541a3389dc77feb5f3e3c0397d3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adriatic-Karst | Adriatic Karst | Adriatic Karst
…geologic structure and to the Adriatic coastline. Although isolated poljes have been identified elsewhere, their large numbers in the karst of the Dinaric Alps are attributable to a system of active faults as well as to intense solution activity in nearly 9,000 metres of carbonate rock.
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80c5141ede7ce5e4d387f096a3230f3b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adullam-region-Israel | ʿAdullam | ʿAdullam
In modern Israel the name ʿAdullam is given to the planned development region in the former (1949–67) “Jerusalem corridor,” west of the capital. This hilly area, on the boundary of Ha-Shefela and the Yehuda (Judaean) Mountains, includes the ancient site. Settlement commenced in 1958; several agricultural villa... |
3f1ca06bb8ab0c814c51824bf193adae | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adwa | Adwa | Adwa
Adwa, also spelled Adowa, Italian Adua, town, northern Ethiopia. Adwa lies on the east-west highway between Aksum and Adi Grat at its junction with the road north to Asmara (Asmera), in Eritrea. Adwa is a market centre (grains, honey, hides, coffee) for the Tigray people. The town is located 10 miles (16 km) west... |
99fe5548f696653aa42a260af306bc9b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adygeya | Adygeya | Adygeya
Adygeya, also spelled Adygea, republic, southwestern Russia. It extends from the Kuban River south to the Caucasus foothills. Adygeya was established as an oblast (province) in 1922 for the Adyghian people, one of two major branches of the Circassians (Cherkess), who make up about one-fifth of its total popula... |
74e5dae89280f13b720f7ddd5c9ac741 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aegina-island-Greece | Aegina | Aegina
Aegina, Modern Greek Aíyina, island, one of the largest in the Saronic group of Greece, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Piraeus. With an area of about 32 square miles (83 square km), it is an eparkhía (eparchy) of the nomós (department) of Piraeus. The northern plains and hills are cultivated with vin... |
9d3f12c5e4ab009618a3fda03899f9ca | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aeolis | Aeolis | Aeolis
Aeolis, also called Aeolia, group of ancient cities on the west coast of Anatolia, which were founded at the end of the 2nd millennium bc by Greeks speaking an Aeolic dialect. The earliest settlements, located on the islands of Lesbos and Tenedos and on the mainland between Troas and Ionia, resulted from migrat... |
a32314309eacf1fb1d881663b8a1b340 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Civil-war-communist-phase-1978-92 | Civil war, communist phase (1978–92) | Civil war, communist phase (1978–92)
Nur Mohammad Taraki was elected president of the Revolutionary Council, prime minister of the country, and secretary-general of the combined PDPA. Babrak Karmal, a Banner leader, and Hafizullah Amin were elected deputy prime ministers. The leaders of the new government insisted that... |
135ca9e2c613f1d231b03ab7139afa0e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Civil-war-mujahideen-Taliban-phase-1992-2001 | Civil war, mujahideen-Taliban phase (1992–2001) | Civil war, mujahideen-Taliban phase (1992–2001)
Najibullah was finally ousted from power in April 1992, soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union (which had continued to provide military and economic assistance to the Kabul government). A coalition built mainly of the mujahideen parties that had fought the communists ... |
d10ca836c7bbcb8eec6e49296dcf0da5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Daily-life-and-social-customs | Daily life and social customs | Daily life and social customs
Religion has long played a paramount role in the daily life and social customs of Afghanistan. Even under the mujahideen leaders, Afghanistan appeared to be on a course of Islamization: the sale of alcohol was banned, and women were pressured to cover their heads in public and adopt tradit... |
f42784970a28072a24883b9a8f7cf9de | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Finance | Finance | Finance
The largest bank in the country, the Bank of Afghanistan, became the centre of the formal banking system. It formerly played an important role in determining and implementing the country’s financial policies. Traditionally, private money traders provide nearly all the services of a commercial bank. The currency... |
c2a77f27167c8b0f7678dc28cdd0cf57 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Historical-beginnings-to-the-7th-century-ce | Historical beginnings (to the 7th century ce) | Historical beginnings (to the 7th century ce)
In the 6th century bce the Achaemenian ruler Cyrus II (the Great) established his authority over the area. Darius I (the Great) consolidated Achaemenian rule of the region through the provinces, or satrapies, of Aria (in the region of modern Herāt), Bactria (Balkh), Sattagy... |
bda2c5a755e434509da8f61e065cad84 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Political-process | Political process | Political process
Those government institutions established during the reign of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (1880–1901) laid the groundwork for the modern Afghan state. They gave primacy to a strong military, centralized government control from Kabul, and signaled the primacy of the Pashtun as the country’s ruling group.
In practic... |
c44187b0d14924e394d5bd258826d280 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/The-arts-and-cultural-institutions | The arts and cultural institutions | The arts and cultural institutions
In music and dance, a revival of traditional folksinging has gone hand in hand with the imitation of modern Western and Indian music. Afghan music is different from Western music in many ways, particularly in its scales, note intervals, pitch, and rhythm, but it is closer to Western t... |
14b8d482c16e2bda306ff57b80b17477 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Africa/Animal-life | Animal life | Animal life
Africa includes two regions of the zoographic area known as the Paleotropical realm: the Afrotropical region, which comprises the continent south of the Sahara and the southwestern part of Arabia, and the Madagascan region. The continent also includes a southern part of the Palaearctic (Old World) region of... |
c382d02e112b8fe3d4f76e091413ca39 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Africa/Economy | Economy | Economy
With the exception of South Africa and the countries of North Africa, all of which have diversified production systems, the economy of most of Africa can be characterized as underdeveloped. Africa as a whole has abundant natural resources, but much of its economy has remained predominantly agricultural, and sub... |
9b39b82d862d050c94b1f0f441233b4f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Africa/Mangrove-swamp | Mangrove swamp | Mangrove swamp
Mangroves include a variety of species of broad-leaved, shrubby trees (10–40 feet high) that fringe muddy creeks and tidal estuaries. They require warm saline water—hence their distribution along tropical coastlines. Often they form nearly impenetrable stands, for which the easiest access is by sea. The ... |
cc4b2186129a2fc915eac689b856e1ca | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agadez | Agadez | Agadez
Agadez, also spelled Agades, town, central Niger, at the southern edge of the Aïr massif. Agadez is a market town at a crossroads, 460 miles (740 km) northeast of Niamey, the national capital. Once the seat of a Tuareg sultanate (dating from the 15th century), it was occupied by the French in the early1900s. In... |
82ec954118def4694140534f69290752 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agassiz-Peak | Agassiz Peak | Agassiz Peak
three summits— Humphreys, Agassiz, and Fremont peaks—on the rim of an eroded extinct volcano 10 miles (16 km) north of Flagstaff on the Colorado Plateau in north-central Arizona, U.S. Humphreys Peak (12,633 feet [3,851 metres]) is the state’s highest point, and from it places more than 150 miles…
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149e1c9b6a837bc08b5e13825af97b89 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agen | Agen | Agen
Agen, town, capital of Lot-et-Garonne département, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou région, southwestern France. It lies along the Garonne River at the foot of Ermitage Hill (530 feet [162 metres]), northwest of Toulouse.
Mentioned by Julius Caesar as Aginnum, capital of the Nitiobriges people, it was captured by the Fr... |
1a6e6d64ef5c16ac999393b2ab8f8fb5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ageo | Ageo | Ageo
Ageo, city, Saitama ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies on the terrace between the Ara River (west) and the Ayase River (east).
Ageo was a former post town between Tokyo and Maebashi that was connected to Tokyo (25 miles [40 km] southeast) in 1883. It remained the market centre of the neighbouri... |
95ec0c6b90b749a512c8cad916f0db50 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aghstev | Aghstev | Aghstev
…Kura—the Debed (109 miles), the Aghstev (80 miles), and others—pass through Armenia’s northeastern regions. Lake Sevan, with a capacity in excess of 9 cubic miles (39 cubic kilometres) of water, is fed by dozens of rivers, but only the Hrazdan leaves its confines.
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0bf53aa338319f00e0efc60de3196260 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agua-Fria-National-Monument | Agua Fria National Monument | Agua Fria National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument, area of prehistoric ruins and petroglyphs, central Arizona, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) north of Phoenix. It was established in 2000 and covers some 111 square miles (287 square km).
The monument encompasses the riparian forest canyons of the Agua Fria River (a... |
21faf1e659945c884cc367547472cc3e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aguan-River | Aguán River | Aguán River
Aguán River, Spanish Río Aguán, river in northern Honduras, 150 mi (240 km) in length. After rising in the central highlands west of Yoro, it descends to the northeast between the Cerros de Cangreja and the Sierra de la Esperanza to the coastal lowlands, on which it forms a maze of channels and empties int... |
d7d37ad3b175c1f93a246cb22601380e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aguarico-River | Aguarico River | Aguarico River
Aguarico River, Spanish Río Aguarico, river, northeastern Ecuador, rising south of Tulcán, in the Andes mountains near the Ecuador-Colombia border, and flowing east-southeast for approximately 230 miles (370 km) to its juncture with the Napo River at Pantoja. It is navigable for smaller boats. The Rio d... |
cfb838b1dc278f90e945fb89a4c87e0c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aguascalientes-Mexico | Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, city, capital of Aguascalientes estado (state), central Mexico. It is located in the south-central part of the state on the Mesa Central, 6,194 feet (1,888 metres) above sea level, on the left (east) bank of the Juchipila (Aguascalientes) River. Founded in 1575 and designated a town in 1... |
577f889917f8cd1cc8b60315b1a2f64c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aguascalientes-state-Mexico | Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, estado (state), central Mexico. One of Mexico’s smallest states, it is bounded to the west, north, and east by the state of Zacatecas and to the south and southeast by the state of Jalisco. The city of Aguascalientes is the state capital.
The Chichimec were the original inhabitants of th... |
2f18c84dd3cef5d90dfad72bc7ad1cb8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agueda-River | Agueda River | Agueda River
Agueda River, Spanish Río Agueda, river, western Spain. It rises on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Gata and flows 80 miles (130 km), generally northwest, to the Douro River. For the last 15 miles (24 km) of its course, the Agueda forms part of the Portugal-Spain boundary.
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58e07844ef15c836e3410bfd801053ce | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aguirre-Gap | Aguirre Gap | Aguirre Gap
…cuts the eastern cordillera at Aguirre Gap (latitude 6° S). The Cordillera Oriental ends in the Amazon basin at 5° S.
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e213d8b1399911101c1dcc93ce7138a1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ahhiyawa | Ahhiyawā | Ahhiyawā
Ahhiyawā, also called Ahhiyā, ancient kingdom lying to the west of the Hittite empire. The exact location of Ahhiyawā is not definitely known but may have been western Anatolia or one of the islands in the Aegean Sea. The most commonly held theory is that the people of Ahhiyawā were the Achaeans of Homer, ear... |
c8e52643a6282f4909e618d8095d5729 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ahmadabad | Ahmadabad | Ahmadabad
Ahmadabad, also spelled Ahmedabad, city, eastern Gujarat state, west-central India. It lies along the Sabarmati River about 275 miles (440 km) north of Mumbai (Bombay). Ahmadabad is at the junction of the main roads leading to Mumbai and central India, the Kathiawar Peninsula, and the Rajasthan border. The c... |
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