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Salta, city, capital of Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies in the irrigated Andes Mountains valley of Lerma, on a headstream of the Salado River.
It was founded in 1582 as San Felipe de Lerma by Hernando de Lerma, governor of Tucumán. The Spanish royal forces were defeated at Salta (1813... |
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Salvador, also called São Salvador or Bahia, city, major port, and capital (since 1889) of Bahia estado (state), northeastern Brazil. It is the country’s third largest city. Salvador is situated at the southern tip of a picturesque, bluff-formed peninsula that separates Todos os Santos (All Saints) Bay, a dee... |
518e8e6ec4c8cac0135b6e988643b404 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Salzburg-state-Austria | Salzburg | Salzburg
Salzburg, Bundesland (federal state), west-central Austria. It is bordered by Bavaria (Germany) on the west and north and is bounded by the Bundesländer Oberösterreich on the north and east, Steiermark on the east, Kärnten on the south, and Tirol on the south and west. The province is drained by the Salzach, ... |
154abc7da11ffc543b33f9bbf44902ac | https://www.britannica.com/place/Samara-Russia | Samara | Samara
Samara, formerly (1935–91) Kuybyshev also spelled Kujbyšev, or Kuibyshev, city and administrative centre, west-central Samara oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the Volga River at the latter’s confluence with the Samara River. Founded in 1586 as a fortress protecting the Volga trade route, it soon b... |
4b13213ec7b44eebba66183b8d66ac78 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Samaria-historical-region-Palestine | Samaria | Samaria
Samaria, Hebrew Shomron, the central region of ancient Palestine. Samaria extends for about 40 miles (65 km) from north to south and 35 miles (56 km) from east to west. It is bounded by Galilee on the north and by Judaea on the south; on the west was the Mediterranean Sea and on the east the Jordan River. The ... |
606b1fbdcf94a837672bbd5ce8250c0f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Samaria-West-Bank | Samaria | Samaria
Samaria, also called Sebaste, modern Sabasṭiyah, ancient town in central Palestine. It is located on a hill northwest of Nāblus in the West Bank territory under Israeli administration since 1967. Excavations (1908–10; 1931–33; 1935) revealed that the site had been occupied occasionally during the late 4th mill... |
909582f635e04855952989da93875741 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Samarkand-Uzbekistan | Samarkand | Samarkand
Samarkand, Uzbek Samarqand, city in east-central Uzbekistan that is one of the oldest cities of Central Asia. Known as Maracanda in the 4th century bce, it was the capital of Sogdiana and was captured by Alexander the Great in 329 bce. The city was later ruled by Central Asian Turks (6th century ce), the Ara... |
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Sambhal, city, northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies on the alluvial Indo-Gangetic Plain, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Moradabad.
Sambhal is an ancient settlement that was also important during the period of Muslim rule and was one of Sikandar Lodī’s provincial capitals in the late 1... |
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Sámos, Greek island in the Aegean Sea, the closest one to the mainland of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the narrow Sámos Strait. The island is wooded and mountainous; Mount Kerketeus, the highest peak (4,701 feet [1,433 metres]), forms the western tip of the island. The east coast is amply indented, ... |
7bac122e8703615daa7e12016dafbc51 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Angelo | San Angelo | San Angelo
San Angelo, city, seat (1875) of Tom Green county, west-central Texas, U.S. It lies about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Abilene. Founded in 1869 near Fort Concho (now a museum) at the confluence of the North, South, and Middle Concho rivers, it was first known as Over-the-River but was renamed Santa Angela... |
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San Antonio, city, seat (1837) of Bexar county, south-central Texas, U.S. It is situated at the headwaters of the San Antonio River on the Balcones Escarpment, about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Austin. The second most-populous city in Texas, it is the focus of a metropolitan area that includes Alamo Hei... |
c91261b0d9721e346e4e0528b39143fa | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Bernardino | San Bernardino | San Bernardino
San Bernardino, central city of the San Bernardino–Riverside–Ontario metropolitan complex, seat (1853) of San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Located east of Los Angeles, the city lies at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains. It was the site of a Spanish mission (1810) named for St. Ber... |
97ea20913c6a48dc2829bc996057ce14 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Carlos-de-Bariloche | San Carlos de Bariloche | San Carlos de Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche, also called Bariloche, resort town, Río Negro provincia (province), southwestern Argentina. It lies on the southeastern shore of Lake Nahuel Huapí, in the Andean lake district.
Chalet-type building construction, introduced in 1905 by Swiss immigrants, provides an approp... |
851d27933b689289d1f54728dd5e37a4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Cristobal-Venezuela | San Cristóbal | San Cristóbal
San Cristóbal, city, capital of Táchira estado (state), western Venezuela. Situated in the western Andes at 2,700 feet (820 metres) above sea level, the city occupies three sloping alluvial terraces overlooking the Torbes River.
Founded in 1561 by conquistador Juan Maldonado y Ordoñez, it retains a colon... |
196a7d9cabd86a145cd5b1b389c32bc3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Fernando-county-Argentina | San Fernando | San Fernando
San Fernando, cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of northeastern Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies north of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province), on the Río de la Plata estuary.
Colonization of the area began with the second and permanent founding of Buenos... |
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The pattern of immigration into San Francisco during the latter half of the 19th century was significantly different from that of anywhere else in the United States. The waves of newcomers included not only native-born Americans moving west but also Europeans arriving directly by ship who had not previously live... |
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San Juan Capistrano, city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Located near the Pacific coast, it lies halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles. The seventh in the California chain of 21 Franciscan missions, Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 by Father Junípero Serra and named fo... |
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San Luis Potosí, city, capital of San Luis Potosí estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is situated on the Mesa Central at an elevation of 6,158 feet (1,877 metres) above sea level, giving it a temperate climate. Founded as a Franciscan mission in 1583 and made a city in 1658, San Luis Potosí was the... |
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San Luis Potosí, estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is bounded by the states of Coahuila to the north; Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz to the east; Hidalgo, Querétaro, and Guanajuato to the south; and Jalisco and Zacatecas to the west. The capital, the city of San Luis Potosí, is located in t... |
5261845825043880306bf901ad647f0d | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Marino-California | San Marino | San Marino
San Marino, residential city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. The affluent city lies southeast of Pasadena. In 1903 the American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington purchased the San Marino Ranch and founded the community. His estate, deeded to the public, includes the Huntington Library, Art... |
58ac7c7dbc66764916c792fb9c5f47c5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Pedro-California | San Pedro | San Pedro
San Pedro, main unit of the Port of Los Angeles (the other units are Wilmington and Terminal Island), southern California, U.S. The port is situated on the southeastern slopes of Palos Verdes Peninsula, overlooking Los Angeles Harbor (a section of San Pedro Bay) from the west.
San Pedro’s recorded history da... |
cf132a0a6ad45813b9776fbc9eb61817 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Rafael-California | San Rafael | San Rafael
San Rafael, city, seat (1893) of Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies on the northwestern shore of San Francisco Bay. The area developed around the Mission San Rafael Arcángel (1817; restored) as a ranch town. Growth was sustained by the arrival of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (188... |
6c75cde85c12d7fdb7f3adef8b195cde | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Salvador-de-Jujuy | San Salvador de Jujuy | San Salvador de Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy, city, capital of Jujuy provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies between the Xibi-xibi and Grande rivers, overlooking the valley of Jujuy at 4,131 feet (1,259 metres) above sea level.
It was founded in 1593 by Francisco de Argañarás y Murguia, a colonial soldier... |
85213eec907032818e013a7988174fc0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Simeon | San Simeon | San Simeon
San Simeon, village, San Luis Obispo county, southwestern California, U.S. It lies along the Pacific Ocean overlooking San Simeon Bay. Part of a Mexican land grant of 1840, Rancho Piedras Blancas was purchased by George Hearst, father of publisher William Randolph Hearst, in 1865. George Hearst later acquir... |
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San Telmo, or Barrio Sur, south of the Plaza de Mayo, began to be restored and gentrified in the early 1990s after nearly a century of neglect and decay. By the later part of the decade the area had become trendy and bohemian. Its numerous…
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Sand Springs, city, Tulsa county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., near a spring in the Osage Hills. First settled in 1933 by Creek Indians, who called it Adams Springs after U.S. President John Quincy Adams, the area was renamed Sand Springs by oilman Charles Page, who bought land on the site and built the S... |
cb7e19f902bb48b63ee027d5179b31aa | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sandhurst-England | Sandhurst | Sandhurst
Sandhurst, town (parish), Bracknell Forest unitary authority, historic county of Berkshire, southeastern England. It is situated 9 miles (14 km) north of the town and military base of Aldershot. Sandhurst, which lies some 30 miles (48 km) west-southwest of central London, is best known for the Royal Military... |
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Sandwell, metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, west-central England. It consists of several urban industrial communities just west of the city of Birmingham. Most of the borough—including Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Cradley Heath, Smethwick, and Hamstead—belongs to the historic county of... |
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Sandwich, town (parish) at the northern edge of Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It lies along the River Stour, 2 miles (3 km) from the North Sea.
Originally, the tidewater came far enough up the Stour estuary to make Sandwich a port. By the 9th century the tow... |
9879481b16606d3e630655a49945e34c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sanford | Sanford | Sanford
Sanford, city, seat (1913) of Seminole county, east-central Florida, U.S., on the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Orlando. Permanent settlement dates from 1836, when Camp Monroe (late Fort Mellon) was established. A trading post called Mellonville had evolved by 1845, and i... |
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Sangha River, also spelled Sanga, tributary of the Congo River, formed by the Mambéré and Kadeï headstreams at Nola, southwestern Central African Republic. The Sangha River flows 140 miles (225 km) south to Ouesso in Congo (Brazzaville), forming part of Cameroon’s border with the Central African Republic ... |
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Sangre de Cristo Mountains, segment of the southern Rocky Mountains, extending south-southeastward for about 250 miles (400 km) from Poncha Pass, in south-central Colorado, U.S., to the low divide southwest of Las Vegas, N.M., in north-central New Mexico. Usually considered an extension of ... |
8a16547b5525ae501a9187eb53e203be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sankt-Gallen-Switzerland | Sankt Gallen | Sankt Gallen
Sankt Gallen, (German), French Saint-Gall, town, capital of Sankt Gallen canton, northeastern Switzerland, in the Steinach Valley, just south of Lake Constance (Bodensee). In 612 the Celtic missionary St. Gall founded a hermitage on the site. Disciples joined him, and c. 720 the foundation became a Bened... |
0015160740c1b16348c3523bf6114ef4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santa-Clara-California | Santa Clara | Santa Clara
Santa Clara, city, Santa Clara county, west-central California, U.S. It lies along the Guadalupe River in the Santa Clara Valley, about 48 miles (77 km) southeast of San Francisco and immediately adjacent to San Jose on the southeast. The original settlement grew around the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, whi... |
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Santa Clarita, city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Situated along the Santa Clara River in the Santa Clarita valley between the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains, it lies 35 miles (55 km) northwest of central Los Angeles. It consists of several communities, including Canyon Country, ... |
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Santa Claus, town, Spencer county, southwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of Evansville. Laid out in 1846, it was jocularly called Santa Claus after the preferred name, Santa Fe, was found to be that of another Indiana community (and because it was the Christmas season). Its pos... |
fdaf86046ddfab60dae43d949aceb875 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santa-Cruz-Bolivia | Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, in full Santa Cruz de la Sierra, city, east-central Bolivia. It is situated in the hot, tropical lowlands at an elevation of 1,365 feet (416 metres) above sea level.
Founded by Spaniards from Paraguay in 1561 at what is now San José de Chiquitos, it was attacked repeatedly by Indians until 1595,... |
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Santa Cruz, city, seat (1850) of Santa Cruz county, west-central California, U.S. It lies on the north shore of Monterey Bay, at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is about 80 miles (130 km) south of San Francisco. The area was first explored by the Spaniard Gaspar de Portolá (1769), who named the hi... |
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In 1984 Gell-Mann cofounded the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit centre located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that supports research concerning complex adaptive systems and emergent phenomena associated with complexity. In “Let’s Call It Plectics,” a 1995 article in the institute’s journal, Complexity, he ... |
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Santa Lucia Range, segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), west-central California, U.S. The rugged range extends southeastward for about 140 miles (225 km) from Carmel Bay to the Cuyama River in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. Lowest in the south, the range rises to 5,862 f... |
01c79b4e4749c08fd0985c6a9b1a8c73 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santa-Marta-Mountains | Santa Marta Mountains | Santa Marta Mountains
Santa Marta Mountains, Spanish Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta, Andean mountain range, northern Colombia, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea and encircled on three sides by the coastal lowlands. The volcanic massif rises abruptly from the coast, culminating in snowcapped Pico (peak) Cristóbal... |
1697d3786f8edeefc179293b9979d59c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santander-Spain | Santander | Santander
Santander, port city, capital of Cantabria provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), northern Spain. It is situated on the narrow coastline along the southern shore of Cape Mayor, a rocky peninsula extending eastward and sheltering Santander Bay (an inlet of the Bay of Biscay). The ... |
1ec2bbd47fb6b1afe10b3b0b4a2b378b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santiago-Chile | Santiago | Santiago
Santiago, capital of Chile. It lies on the canalized Mapocho River, with views of high Andean peaks to the east.
The city was founded as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo (“Santiago of the New Frontier”) in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. The area was inhabited by the Picunche Indians, who were p... |
5482c8c573cb2b547c565b575b35cc42 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Santos | Santos | Santos
Santos, port city, southeastern São Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil. It occupies an alluvial plain on the inner side of São Vicente Island, cut off from the mainland by a tidal channel. The city lies only a few feet above sea level, and its swampy island is drained by deep concrete conduits. The chann... |
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São Francisco River, Portuguese Rio São Francisco, major river of eastern South America. With a length of 1,811 miles (2,914 kilometres), it is the fourth largest river system of the continent and the largest river wholly within Brazil. The São Francisco has been called the “river of national unity... |
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São Luís, city, capital of Maranhão estado (state), northeastern Brazil. It lies on the west side of São Luís Island on the Atlantic coast. The island is really a long, narrow peninsula between the drowned mouths of the Mearim and Itapicuru rivers (São Marcos Bay to the west and São José Bay to the east), and... |
2247bb72f3c6c91007977a21f6946438 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sao-Tome-and-Principe | Sao Tome and Principe | Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe, country of central Africa, located on the Equator in the Gulf of Guinea. It consists of two main islands—São Tomé and Príncipe—and several rocky islets, including Rôlas, south of São Tomé island, and Caroço, Pedras, and Tinhosas, south of Príncipe.
São Tomé, which is oval i... |
a4b4c5b96fce37cf331c52af2250783c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Saone-et-Loire | Saône-et-Loire | Saône-et-Loire
…the central départements of Côte-d’Or, Saône-et-Loire, Nièvre, and Yonne. In 2016 the Burgundy région was joined with the région of Franche-Comté to form the new administrative entity of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Vineyards in the Saône-et-Loire district are prolific but less distinguished than vineyards ... |
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Sapporo, capital, Hokkaido dō (territory), Japan, on the Ishikari-gawa (Ishikari River). Laid out in 1871, with wide, tree-lined boulevards intersecting each other at right angles, the city was made the prefectural capital in 1886. It owed its early development to the colonization bureau of the government. It ... |
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Šar Mountains, Šar also spelled Sharr, Serbian and Macedonian Šar Planina, Albanian Mali i Sharrit, mountain range in western North Macedonia and southern Kosovo, one of the most rugged and impassable in the Balkans, extending northeast–southwest for about 47 miles (75 km). A southern continuation along ... |
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Saratov, oblast (region), western Russia, in the basin of the middle Volga River, which bisects it north–south. Saratov city is the administrative centre.
Most of the right- (west-) bank area is occupied by the Volga Upland, which is greatly dissected by river valleys and erosion gullies; the left (east) bank ... |
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Sarawak, historic region that is now a state of Malaysia. It comprises the northwestern part of the island of Borneo and is bounded by the sultanate of Brunei and Sabah (Malaysia) on the north and by Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan) on the east and south. Sarawak has a low-lying and heavily indented coastline al... |
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Sardinia, also called Piedmont-sardinia, orSardinia-piedmont, kingdom of the house of Savoy from 1720, which was centred on the lands of Piedmont (in northwestern Italy) and Sardinia. In 1718, by the Treaty of London among the great powers, Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy and sovereign of Piedmont, was force... |
152c119b4f2462f93879dd38089894f3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sari-Iran | Sārī | Sārī
Sārī, city, capital of Māzandarān province, northern Iran. Founded during the Sāsānian period (224–651 ce), it became the capital of Tabarestan (7th–9th century) after the Arab conquest of the region. The city was ravaged by the Mongols in the 13th century and visited by the historian Mostowfi in the 14th century... |
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Saronikós Gulf, also spelled Saronic Gulf, also called Gulf of Aegina or Gulf of Aígina, gulf of the Aegean Sea between Ákra (cape) Soúnion of the Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) peninsula and Ákra Skíllaion of the Argolís peninsula of the Greek Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos). A maximum of 50 miles (80 km) lo... |
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Sassari, city, Sardinia, Italy, near the north coast of the island and on the edge of the limestone hills above the plain of Riu Mannu, north-northwest of Cagliari.
In the 12th century Sassari, then called Tathari, grew as the coastal peoples retreated inland from the raiding Saracens. It became important as t... |
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There are three climatic zones in the kingdom: (1) desert almost everywhere, (2) steppe along the western highlands, forming a strip less than 100 miles (160 km) wide in the north but becoming almost 300 miles (480 km) wide at the latitude of Mecca, and (3) a small area of humid and mild temperature conditions,... |
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Saudi political leadership was challenged when Iraq, after having rejected attempted Saudi mediation, reasserted its earlier claims and invaded neighbouring Kuwait on August 2, 1990, precipitating the Persian Gulf War (1990–91). The Kuwaiti government fled to Saudi Arabia, and Kin... |
b0a3701d633ec8eb16d8c8bbd03c684e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Savona-Italy | Savona | Savona
Savona, Latin Savo, or Vada Sabbata, city and seaport, Liguria region, northwestern Italy, on the Riviera di Ponente, southwest of Genoa. First recorded as the Gallo-Roman town of Savo, an ally of Carthage against Rome in 205 bc, it was next noted in ad 568–569, when the Ligurians were fighting the barbarians, ... |
57da12d18ebe9378fa8cc5e3be8312e8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Savoy-historical-region-Europe | Savoy | Savoy
Savoy, French Savoie, Italian Savoia, historical and cultural region encompassing the Haute-Savoie and Savoie départements, Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It is coextensive with the historic region of Savoy.
The early inhabitants of the area were the Allobroges, members of a Celtic tribe who fiercely r... |
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Sawatch Range, segment of the southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado, U.S., extending southeastward for 100 miles (160 km) from the Eagle River to the city of Saguache (a variant spelling of Sawatch). Bounded by the Arkansas River (east) and the Elk Mountains (west), its middle portion is usually c... |
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Saxony-Anhalt, German Sachsen-Anhalt, Land (state), east-central Germany. Saxony-Anhalt borders the German states of Brandenburg to the east, Saxony to the south, Thuringia to the southwest, and Lower Saxony to the northwest. The state capital is Magdeburg. Area 7,895 square miles (20,447 square km). Pop... |
247e7f234b0597d683ba33f9150450ce | https://www.britannica.com/place/Scarsdale | Scarsdale | Scarsdale
Scarsdale, village and town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. It is a northern residential suburb of New York City. The site was settled in 1701, following its purchase by Caleb Heathcote, who received a royal edict from William III for the Manor of Scarsdale, so named for Heathcote... |
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Schleswig, city, Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), northern Germany. The city forms a semicircle around the head of the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea that affords access to small vessels, northwest of Kiel. First mentioned in 804–808 as Sliesthorp (and later as Sliaswich), the town was in the area ... |
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Schleswig-Holstein, Land (state) located in northwestern Germany. Schleswig-Holstein extends from the lower course of the Elbe River and the state of Hamburg northward to Denmark and thus occupies the southern third of the Jutland Peninsula. Along its eastern coast is the Baltic Sea, and along its w... |
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…important of these was the School of Architecture (1831), with walls of red brick ornamented with glazed violet tiles, windows of unpainted terra-cotta, and internal construction of iron beams and brick cap vaults. For Schinkel, who was not a pure Functionalist, the poetry of architecture was as... |
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Schwerin, city, capital of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania Land (state), northern Germany. It lies on the southwestern shore of Schweriner Lake, southwest of Rostock. Originally a Wendish settlement first mentioned in 1018, the German town was founded and chartered by the Saxon duke Henry the Lion in 1160. A bisho... |
b622ba8cdd72e242bc1ae45530388e43 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Scone-Scotland | Scone | Scone
Scone, village, Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland. It lies near the River Tay just north of Perth. Old Scone was traditionally the capital of a Pictish kingdom, succeeding Forteviot in the 8th century. Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of the united Scots and Picts, is believed t... |
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Scranton, city, seat (1878) of Lackawanna county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the Lackawanna River valley, on the western fringes of the Pocono Mountains. It is the centre of an urbanized industrial complex that includes Carbondale and Wilkes-Barre.
The area was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Munsee... |
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Scripps Canyon, shallow submarine canyon in the Pacific off La Jolla, Calif.; it is the best studied of all submarine canyons by virtue of its proximity to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for which it was named. The canyon’s shallow tributary valleys head very close to shore in water only 40 feet ... |
1a389f0446f675b60c682333d1a7b9f4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sea-of-Crete | Sea of Crete | Sea of Crete
Sea of Crete, also called Sea Of Candia, Modern Greek Kritikón Pélagos, southern part of the Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), lying between the Cyclades (Kikládhes) islands to the north and the island of Crete (Kríti) to the south. It is the deepest section of the Aegean Sea, reaching depths ... |
b31de5211f44d235f64ba9f616b87561 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sea-of-Marmara | Sea of Marmara | Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmara, Turkish Marmara Denizi, historically Propontis, inland sea partly separating the Asiatic and European parts of Turkey. It is connected through the Bosporus on the northeast with the Black Sea and through the Dardanelles on the southwest with the Aegean Sea. It is 175 miles (280 km) long ... |
19f9e5a9f84e6f9de0d92a6524845387 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sea-of-Okhotsk | Sea of Okhotsk | Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk, Russian Okhotskoye More, or Ochotskoje More, northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, bounded on the west and north by the east coast of Asia from Cape Lazarev to the mouth of the Penzhina River, on the east and southeast by the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, on the south by th... |
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The Sea of Okhotsk is one of the most biologically productive of the world’s seas. The river drainage, the intense intermingling of waters by straits and wind, and the upwelling of deep, nutrient-laden ocean waters are all favourable to marine life. In those months when it is warm enough, there occurs ... |
63616fd8f5fdde79f1f2d5d5f7ee3ab2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Searcy | Searcy | Searcy
Searcy, city, seat (1837) of White county, east-central Arkansas, U.S., near the Little Red River, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Little Rock. It originated as White Sulphur Springs, a spa popular in the 19th century until the springs ran dry. Incorporated in 1835, it was renamed for Richard Searcy, an Arkansas ... |
a44f99f95c9c1e626bd6227f05563d19 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seaside-Oregon | Seaside | Seaside
Seaside, city, Clatsop county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Pacific Coast, south of Astoria. The site became popular as a seaside resort with the construction of a lavish guesthouse in the 1870s. A 2-mile (3-km) boardwalk runs atop a seawall paralleling the coast. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition... |
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Sebring, city, seat (1921) of Highlands county, south-central Florida, U.S. The city encircles Lake Jackson and is situated about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Tampa. Founded and laid out on a circular plan in 1911 by George E. Sebring, an Ohio ceramics manufacturer, the city is now the processing and shippin... |
9ee29f69cdf75816199efc2ae0eb8015 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Secunda | Secunda | Secunda
Secunda, modern company town (built after 1974), Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It is located about 80 miles (130 km) east of Johannesburg in a region of extensive coal reserves and adequate water supplies, at the site of South Africa’s second and third oil-from-coal extraction plants. Like the world’s fi... |
8c53786b7cc47b65218bf739834901d9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sedom | Sedom | Sedom
Sedom, also spelled Sodom, industrial site in southeastern Israel, near the southern end of the Dead Sea. It is the location of Dead Sea Works, originally an Israeli national company (founded 1952), which was sold to private interests in 1999. The biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are believed to have been l... |
ae5413bc4baee11d9fb7f50867e7219f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seine-Saint-Denis | Seine-Saint-Denis | Seine-Saint-Denis
of Val-d’Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville-de-Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, and Yvelines. Île-de-France is bounded by the régions of Hauts-de-France to the north, Grand Est to the east, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to the southeast,
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d23a37417e111091f081787ee4595b5d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Selangor | Selangor | Selangor
Selangor, region of western West Malaysia (Malaya), occupying part of a coastal alluvial plain on the Strait of Malacca. In 1974, a 94-square-mile (243-square-kilometre) portion of Selangor, centring on Kuala Lumpur, was designated a wilayapersekutuan (federal territory). Selangor’s history and economic deve... |
1e1d515447b9367a9b3a67c17ff0be6c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seleucid-Empire | Seleucid empire | Seleucid empire
Seleucid empire, (312–64 bce), an ancient empire that at its greatest extent stretched from Thrace in Europe to the border of India. It was carved out of the remains of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian empire by its founder, Seleucus I Nicator. (See also Hellenistic Age.)
Seleucus, one of Alexander’s l... |
9d148679be2f2cb1816ba951dcd2c2f1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Selma | Selma | Selma
Selma, city, seat (1865) of Dallas county, central Alabama, U.S. It lies on the Alabama River about 50 miles (80 km) west of Montgomery. The site was first recorded on a map in 1732 as Ecor Bienville; it was later called Moore’s Bluff, for a settler who arrived about 1815. It was renamed about 1819 by William Ru... |
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Semey, formerly Semipalatinsk, city, eastern Kazakhstan. It is a port on the Irtysh (Ertis) River where the latter emerges into the West Siberian Plain.
It was founded as a Russian fort in 1718, 11 miles (18 km) downstream from the present site, near the ruins of a Buddhist monastery consisting of seven building... |
31008aff043ae3ab95119c283f24daea | https://www.britannica.com/place/Semisopochnoi-Volcano | Semisopochnoi Volcano | Semisopochnoi Volcano
Semisopochnoi Volcano, which rises to 4,005 feet (1,221 metres), has erupted several times since the 18th century, and the region continues to be seismically active.
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ec5d2b00460b5b6158c02da2204155fb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Semnan-province-Iran | Semnān | Semnān
Semnān, also spelled Samnān, ostān (province), northern Iran, bounded by the ostāns of Raẕavī Khorāsān and South Khorāsān on the east, Eṣfahān on the south, Qom and Tehrān on the west, and Māzandarān and North Khorāsān on the north. The northern half of the region is an extension of the Elburz Mountains pierced... |
f9064e302017dcf79a0dac8b018c0102 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Senegal | Senegal | Senegal
Senegal, country in western Africa. Located at the westernmost point of the continent and served by multiple air and maritime travel routes, Senegal is known as the “Gateway to Africa.” The country lies at an ecological boundary where semiarid grassland, oceanfront, and tropical rainforest converge; this diver... |
479b1955c228ec916ef662d3aff5252c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Senegal/Independent-Senegal | Independent Senegal | Independent Senegal
As president, Senghor maintained collaboration internally with Muslim religious leaders and externally with France, which continued to provide economic, technical, and military support. The economy, however, remained vulnerable both to fluctuations in world prices for peanuts and phosphates and to t... |
bfabd4aba16b6fc3862ddfc136664524 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sens | Sens | Sens
Sens, town, Yonne département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, central France, southeast of Paris. The old town, situated on the right (eastern) bank of the Yonne River, is surrounded by shady boulevards and promenades built on the site of the old Roman walls. The railway station and industrial zone are located o... |
6d9c4852b0f75333da1ad89c34d91ddf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Serb-Republic | Serb Republic | Serb Republic
…entities, the Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic) and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The latter is a decentralized federation of Croats and Bosniaks. Each entity has its own legislature and president. The central institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina include a directly elected tripartite... |
fda8d73040067dcc5d1b28aa4622da57 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Serbia | Serbia | Serbia
Serbia, country in the west-central Balkans. For most of the 20th century, it was a part of Yugoslavia.
The capital of Serbia is Belgrade (Beograd), a cosmopolitan city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers; Stari Grad, Belgrade’s old town, is dominated by an ancient fortress called the Kalemegdan and... |
bc9cb047687b450b1ed1224fbc36fc3b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Serbia/People | People | People
Most of the population of Serbia and neighbouring Montenegro is of South Slavic origin. Slavic tribes entered the region from the north during the 5th to 7th century ce, encountering Illyrian-speaking peoples. Although the Slavs acculturated large numbers of Illyrians, many of the latter retained their distincti... |
3eb348419b1c953bddf863385fe6d041 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seria | Seria | Seria
Seria, town, Brunei, on the South China Sea, southwest of the national capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. It is the centre of an important petroleum-producing area that includes offshore wells. A tanker terminal at Seria accommodates ships carrying crude oil. Seria’s oil has provided much of the revenue for Brunei’s ... |
f2b57f2ef9c403f81b227c13fa5637e7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Serpens | Serpens | Serpens
Serpens, (Latin: “Serpent”) the only constellation divided into two parts, Serpens Caput (Latin: “Head of the Serpent”) and Serpens Cauda (Latin: “Tail of the Serpent”). The two parts represent the serpent held by the constellation of Ophiuchus. Serpens Caput is located at about 16 hours right ascension and 10... |
d727256f4f96eb128e85c6bd9a29a260 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Serra-do-Mar | Serra do Mar | Serra do Mar
Serra do Mar, (Portuguese: “Mountain Range of the Sea”) great escarpment on the eastern margins of the Brazilian Highlands, which descend abruptly to the Atlantic coast. It extends for about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) from Rio Grande do Sul estado (state) all the way northward to Bahia state but is known as t... |
11a375e9ff8a735043d280bf10f2962e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seshego | Seshego | Seshego
Seshego, town, Limpopo province, South Africa. It lies directly northwest of Polokwane. Until 1974 Seshego was the capital of the nonindependent Bantustan of Lebowa, which was abolished in 1994. The town’s industries produce food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, wearing apparel, leather goods, wood and wood prod... |
8df3dcf7ced899c5a8cd1c579200877b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Setif | Sétif | Sétif
Sétif, also called Stif, town, northeastern Algeria, near the Wadi Bou Sellam. As ancient Sitifis, it became important when the Roman emperor Nerva established a veterans’ colony there in 97 ce. Sitifis became the chief town of the province of Mauretania Sitifensis (created 297 ce) and remained so under Byzantin... |
18eb86953d4060c20b961ec446523896 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seto-Japan | Seto | Seto
Seto, city, Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, northeast of Nagoya. Seto, established about 1230, is known for its porcelain (Seto ware). Since the Meiji period (1868–1912), the pottery industry has expanded to include over 900 factories and 1,000 kilns. Tableware, electric insulators, and toys are al... |
1eab0aa163ca789be5244c82513dc425 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Setubal | Setúbal | Setúbal
Setúbal, city and concelho (municipality), southwestern Portugal. It is located southeast of Lisbon, on the northern shore of the deep estuary formed by the Sado, Marateca, and São Martinho rivers.
The city served as a royal residence during the reign of King John II (1481–95). With the exception of the church... |
691bda1c2c28dfff62dd8097182dd737 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sevastopol | Sevastopol | Sevastopol
Sevastopol, Ukrainian Sevastopil, also spelled Sebastopol, city and seaport, Crimea, southern Ukraine, in the southwestern Crimean Peninsula on the southern shore of the long, narrow Akhtiarska Bay, which forms a magnificent natural harbour. West of the modern town stood the ancient Greek colony of Chersone... |
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