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Severnaya Zemlya, (Russian: “Northern Land”, ) also spelled Severnaja Zeml’a, or Severnaia Zemlia, archipelago, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northern Russia. It lies in the Arctic Ocean between the Kara Sea (west) and Laptev Sea (east). Severnaya Zemlya lies immediately north of Cape Chelyuskin, the mos... |
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Sevilla, conventional Seville, ancient Hispalis, city, capital of the provincia (province) of Sevilla, in the Andalusia comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of southern Spain. Sevilla lies on the left (east) bank of the Guadalquivir River at a point about 54 miles (87 km) north of the Atlantic Ocean and a... |
274fdc292aecf45c3dc37afe308014e4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Seward-Alaska | Seward | Seward
Seward, city, southern Alaska, U.S. Situated on the Kenai Peninsula, at the head of Resurrection Bay, it lies (by highway) 125 miles (200 km) south of Anchorage. Settlers first went into the area in the 1890s, and the city was founded in 1903 as a supply base and ocean terminus for a railway to the Yukon Valley... |
98ab03a4cc6463f131afd02fd81da88b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sfax | Sfax | Sfax
Sfax, also spelled Ṣafāqis, major port town situated in east-central Tunisia on the northern shore of the Gulf of Gabes. The town was built on the site of two small settlements of antiquity, Taparura and Thaenae, and grew as an early Islamic trading centre for nomads. It was temporarily occupied in the 12th centu... |
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Shahjahanpur, city, north-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies on the Garra (Deoha) River, about 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Bareilly and 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Lucknow.
The city was founded in 1647 and named for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān. It is a road and rail junction and ... |
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Shamāl Sīnāʾ, (Arabic: “Northern Sinai”) formerly Sīnaʾ al-Shamāliyyah, (Arabic: “Northern Sinai”), muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The governorate was created out of Sīnāʾ muḥāfaẓah in 1978 after the initial stages of Israel’s withdrawal from the peninsula. The town ... |
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Shantiniketan, also spelled Śantiniketan, former town, north-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It is now part of the town of Bolpur.
Shantiniketan (Sanskrit: “The Abode of Peace”) began as Shantiniketan Ashram, a meditation centre founded and endowed in 1863 by Maharishi Debendranath, the fa... |
b05389364899a66a68adbcfe6f5ee900 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shanxi | Shanxi | Shanxi
Shanxi, Wade-Giles romanization Shan-hsi, conventional Shansi, sheng (province) of northern China. Roughly rectangular in shape, Shanxi is bounded by the provinces of Hebei to the east, Henan to the south and southeast, and Shaanxi to the west and by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north. The name S... |
8a439edb8dcaf110c25a2d8791816b82 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sharm-el-Sheikh | Sharm el-Sheikh | Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-Sheikh, also spelled Sharm al-Shaykh, resort town on the southeastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Located in Janūb Sīnāʾ muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt, the area was occupied from 1967 to 1982 by the Israelis, who began building the town as a tourist destination. Its development as such cont... |
40c458fcdc19f3a78cf837ecc0e9b902 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sharon-Pennsylvania | Sharon | Sharon
Sharon, city, Mercer county, western Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies along the Shenango River at the Ohio border, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Youngstown, Ohio. Sharon is part of an industrial area that includes Sharpsville, Farrell, and Wheatland. The original settlement developed about 1802 around a gristmill. It... |
4fbd3bc20a91bbeb75275708cce2a1cd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shawnee-Oklahoma | Shawnee | Shawnee
Shawnee, city, seat (1907) of Pottawatomie county, central Oklahoma, U.S., on the North Canadian River, east-southeast of Oklahoma City. The first buildings on the town site were a log house built in 1881 by a Louisiana trapper and a Quaker mission built in 1885 to serve the Shawnee people for whom the town wa... |
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Shechem, also spelled Shekhem, Canaanite city of ancient Palestine. Located near Nāblus, the two cities have been closely—though erroneously—linked for almost 2,000 years: both rabbinic and early Christian literature commonly equated Nāblus with ancient Shechem, and Nāblus has been called Shekhem in Hebrew to ... |
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Sheffield, city, Colbert county, northwestern Alabama, U.S., about 65 miles (105 km) west of Huntsville. It lies on the south bank of the Tennessee River in the Muscle Shoals region and forms, with Florence, Tuscumbia, and the city of Muscle Shoals, a four-city metropolitan area. Sheffield began as a trading... |
ded49898a8c009941620d8f5f1c164df | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shelbyville-Indiana | Shelbyville | Shelbyville
Shelbyville, city, seat (1822) of Shelby county, central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the forks of the Big Blue and Little Blue rivers, 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Indianapolis. Laid out in 1822 as the county seat, it was named for Isaac Shelby, American Revolutionary War hero and the first governor of Ke... |
8a4c7ac4e656b133fc2cb9c3072008f4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shelbyville-Tennessee | Shelbyville | Shelbyville
Shelbyville, city, seat (1809) of Bedford county, south-central Tennessee, U.S. It lies along the Duck River, some 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Nashville. Laid out as the county seat in 1809, it was named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, the American Revolutionary War leader of a force of riflemen against the Br... |
f378d5bc80e60aba831eab1fe82a4160 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shenandoah-Valley | Shenandoah Valley | Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley, chiefly in Virginia, U.S. It extends southwestward from the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on the Potomac River and lies between the Blue Ridge to the east and the Allegheny Mountains to the west. Drained by the Shenandoah River, it ... |
e3b38a9fbcbc591b338613786d6e2749 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, city, Estrie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, at the confluence of the Magog and Saint-François rivers. It originated as a fur-trading post, about 75 miles (120 km) east of Montreal city and 30 miles (48 km) north of the Vermont, U.S., boundary, and later served as a grist-milling centr... |
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Shetland Islands, also called Zetland or Shetland, group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom. They constitute the Shetland Islands council area and the historic county of ... |
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Shexian, Wade-Giles romanization She-hsien, also called Huicheng, formerly (until 1912) Huizhou, town, southeastern Anhui sheng (province), China. It is a communications centre in the Xin’an River valley, at a point where the natural route from Hangzhou on the coast of Zhejiang province and Shanghai into north... |
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Shibīn al-Kawm, also spelled Shebin el-Kom, capital of Al-Minūfiyyah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Cairo in the southern Nile River delta. Its centre, 10 miles (16 km) east of the Rosetta Branch of the Nile, is situated on the west side of the Shibīn Canal, ... |
a2a6fc1aed8bb873cf39917816739979 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shinano-River | Shinano River | Shinano River
Shinano River, river, the longest in Japan, draining most of Nagano and Niigata prefectures. It rises at the foot of Mount Kobushi, in the Japanese Alps of Honshu, and flows north-northeast for 228 miles (367 km) to enter the Sea of Japan at Niigata. Its upper course is joined by numerous tributaries, i... |
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Shipka Pass, Bulgarian Shipchenski Prokhod, pass in the Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria. Situated on the main road from Ruse on the Danube River through Stara Zagora to Edirne (Adrianople) in Turkey, it was a strategically important pass and was the scene of fierce fighting during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78... |
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Shiprock, town, San Juan county, northwestern New Mexico, U.S. Lying on the vast Navajo reservation, the town, originally called Needles, was founded in 1903 as a centre of tribal government. It served as such until 1938, when the Navajo nation established its capital at Window Rock, Arizona. The town takes i... |
e91d4950202236b161aa6229e915da9e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shizuoka-prefecture-Japan | Shizuoka | Shizuoka
Shizuoka, ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Cape Omae (west) and the Izu Peninsula (east) in the prefecture are separated by the deeply indented Suruga Bay. The capital is Shizuoka city, which is located on the alluvial fan of the Abe River along the northwestern coast of the ... |
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Shkodër, also called Shkodra, Latin Scodra, Italian Scutari, town, northwestern Albania. It lies at the southeast end of Lake Scutari, at a point where the Buenë (Serbian and Croatian: Bojana) River, one of Albania’s two navigable streams, flows out of the lake toward the Adriatic Sea.
The city is situated at ... |
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Shomolu, also spelled Somolu, town, Lagos state, southwestern Nigeria, just north of Lagos city. A residential suburb of Lagos, the town is plagued by problems of overcrowding, poor housing, and inadequate sanitation. Most of its inhabitants are Yoruba. The town’s local activities include work in leather handi... |
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Shreveport, city, seat (1838) of Caddo parish, northwestern corner of Louisiana, U.S., on the Red River, opposite Bossier City. In 1835 Henry Miller Shreve, a river captain and steamboat builder, opened the Red River for navigation by clearing it of a 165-mile (266-km) jam of natural debris called the Great... |
213dbef8b83121c13cf3c18cbcc2878e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Shrewsbury-England | Shrewsbury | Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury, town, administrative and historic county of Shropshire, western England. It is the county town (seat) of Shropshire, and its strategic position near the border between England and Wales has made it a town of great importance.
The older, central portion of the town lies on a peninsula within a so... |
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Shropshire, also called Salop, geographic and historic county and unitary authority of western England bordering on Wales. Historically, the area has been known as Shropshire as well as by its older, Norman-derived name of Salop. Shrewsbury, in central Shropshire, is the administrative centre.
The geographi... |
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Shuangyashan, Wade-Giles romanization Shuang-ya-shan, city, eastern Heilongjiang sheng (province), far northeastern China. Located some 265 miles (430 km) northeast from Harbin, the provincial capital, Shuangyashan is a new city that has grown up since 1949; its importance is based almost entirely on coal... |
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Siachen Glacier, one of the world’s longest mountain glaciers, lying in the Karakoram Range system of Kashmir near the India–Pakistan border, extending for 44 mi (70 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast. It has a number of fast-flowing surface streams and at least 12 medial moraines. It is the ... |
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The district (area 2,067 sq mi [5,354 sq km]) stretches from the Rāvi valley on the southeast to the Chenāb River on the northwest. The northern portion is very fertile; the southern, less fertile, is irrigated by the Upper Chenāb Canal. About nine-tenths of the cultivable…
The Sialkot region is a narrow submon... |
bf2b9d1399a2bd3aa9c7d64d883f55df | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sialkot-Pakistan | Siālkot | Siālkot
Siālkot, city and district, Lahore division, Punjab province, Pakistan. The city, the district headquarters, lies just north of the Aik Nāla (Aik Stream) and south of the Jammu Hills and is connected by rail with Wazīrābād and Jammu and by road with Lahore and Gujrānwāla. It was once famous as a centre for the... |
68a6987f89d805d85fc121966a5c5570 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sibasa | Sibasa | Sibasa
Sibasa, village, Limpopo province, South Africa. It was once the capital of the nonindependent Bantustan of Venda. A station was established there in 1872 by Carl Beuster of the Berlin Mission. The village is an industrial growth centre just northeast of Thohoyandou and about 4 miles (7 km) north of the Luvuvhu... |
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Sichuan, Wade-Giles romanization Ssu-ch’uan, conventional Szechwan, sheng (province) of China. It is located in the upper Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley in the southwestern part of the country. Sichuan is the second largest of the Chinese provinces. It is bordered by the provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi to t... |
e2c3e64fbad552f6996023ef996ee39b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sicilian-Range | Sicilian Range | Sicilian Range
…Mount Alto; and, finally, the Sicilian Range, 10,902 feet at Mount Etna. The ranges in Puglia (the “boot heel” of the peninsula) and southeastern Sicily are formed by low, horizontal limestone plateaus, which remained less affected by the Alpine orogeny.
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…dockyard at Sidi Abdallah (Sīdī ʿAbd Allāh) and was named after Tunisia’s first president, Habib Bourguiba. Although its prosperity declined considerably following the French evacuation of naval installations in 1963, the town and its economy were greatly rejuvenated after the establishment of an iron ... |
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… (near Tighenif, Algeria) and at Sidi Abd el-Rahmane, Morocco. Hand axes associated with the hominin Homo erectus have been found at Ternifine, and Sidi Abd el-Rahmane has produced evidence of the same hominin dating to at least 200,000 years ago.
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Sidi Bouzid, also spelled Sīdī Bū Zayd or Sidi Bou Zid, Latin Qamudah, town in central Tunisia. It is located in the upland steppe country and was controlled by the Aghlabids in the 9th century ce.
Sidi Bouzid lies in the semiarid land south of the Dorsale Mountains. Although the surrounding area has infer... |
b8bf3a48f823de0231f4351ffe4bddec | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sidmouth | Sidmouth | Sidmouth
Sidmouth, town and coastal resort, East Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, 15 miles (24 km) east-southeast of Exeter by road. Lying in a hollow formed by the River Sid, the town is shut in by hills that terminate in the forelands of Salcombe Hill and Peak Hill, ... |
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Sidon, Arabic Ṣaydā, also spelled Saida, or Sayida, ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon and the administrative centre of al-Janūb (South Lebanon) muḥāfaẓah (governorate). A fishing, trade, and market centre for an agricultural hinterland, it has also served as the Mediterranean terminus of the Tra... |
30a9926ddf2e531b5aa4257ce4b36d66 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Siebengebirge | Siebengebirge | Siebengebirge
Siebengebirge, English Seven Hills, cluster of hills southeast of Bonn, Germany. Volcanic in origin and actually about 40 in number, they rise on the right bank of the Rhine between Königswinter and the Cologne–Frankfurt am Main Autobahn. A popular tourist resort area and nature reserve, the hills form t... |
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Siemianowice Śląskie, German Laurahütte, city, Śląskie województwo (province), south-central Poland. It is a northern suburb of Katowice and is situated in the Upper Silesia coalfield and industrial district. Incorporated in 1932, it developed as a centre of coal mining, ironworking, and steelwork... |
4ea8ff04c8f58f312522c5a208ff28d1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Siena-Italy | Siena | Siena
Siena, city, central Italy, in the Toscana (Tuscany) regione. It lies about 30 miles (48 km) south of Florence. The city was important in history as a commercial and banking city until surpassed by Florence in the 13th–14th century.
The site of Siena was originally an Etruscan settlement that later became the Ro... |
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The northern watershed of the Sierra de Guadarrama spreads from east to west across the remainder of the province and is quarried for granite, marble, and limestone. Construction, food processing, forestry, and services are the main sources of income. Summer upland resorts are found at El Espinar a... |
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Sierra Leone, country of western Africa. The country owes its name to the 15th-century Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra, the first European to sight and map Freetown harbour. The original Portuguese name, Serra Lyoa (“Lion Mountains”), referred to the range of hills that surrounds the harbour. The capi... |
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Sierra Leoneans are avid football (soccer) fans, and prior to the civil war the country boasted dozens of amateur and semiprofessional squads that vied for national honours. Baseball and basketball are also popular, and several Sierra Leone-born athletes play professionally outside the country. In... |
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The remoteness, relative inaccessibility, and many habitable valleys of the Sierra Madre made it a refuge for a number of indigenous peoples who succeeded in retaining much of their aboriginal culture for two or three centuries after their first contact with the Spaniards. These groups include the Huichol and Co... |
41ccc667253fa9997e025bd2376a2870 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Madre-mountain-system-Mexico/Physiography | Physiography | Physiography
The Sierra Madre Occidental extends approximately 700 miles (1,100 km) from northwest to southeast and is about 100 to 300 miles (160 to 480 km) in width. Summits mostly exceed elevations of 6,000 feet (1,800 metres), and some peaks rise above 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). From the east the mountains present... |
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The largely volcanic Sierra Madre Occidental, which forms the western border of the Mexican Plateau, has an average elevation of 8,000–9,000 feet (2,400–2,700 metres) and extends roughly 700 miles (1,100 km) from north to south. It has been highly incised by westward-flowing streams that have fo... |
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Sierra Maestra, mountain range, southeastern Cuba. The range extends eastward from Cape Cruz, at the southern shore of the Gulf of Guacanayabo, to the Guantánamo River valley. The heavily wooded mountains rise sharply from the Caribbean coast, culminating in Turquino Peak, Cuba’s highest peak, 6,476 fee... |
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Sierra National Forest, region of forests and streams in central California, U.S., extending along the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite and Kings Canyon national parks (north and southeast, respectively) and bordered by Inyo (northeast), Sequoia (south), and Stanislaus (northwest) national forests... |
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The mid-latitude location of the range and its proximity to the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean give the Sierra Nevada an unusually mild mountain climate. Although winter temperatures below 0° F (-18° C) are common in valley locations, they are rare on mountain slopes. The northwest-southeast orientat... |
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Sierra Vista, city, Cochise county, southeastern Arizona, U.S. Located 70 miles (113 km) southeast of Tucson, Sierra Vista is the county’s commercial and residential centre. At first a hamlet outside the gates of Fort Huachuca, a U.S. cavalry command post during the Apache Wars and later a communications ... |
70e1fb8c4c90ef4c793e3456dca26612 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierre | Sierre | Sierre
…in the Pennine Alps, and Sierre, Switzerland, look up to peaks that tower a mile and a half above them. In the valley of the Arve River near Mont Blanc, the difference in relief is more than 13,100 feet.
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…end he secured command of Sigeum and installed a younger son, Hegesistratus, as its ruler. More important, he encouraged the Athenian Miltiades to lead a private venture that gained mastery over Chersonesus (near modern Sevastopol, Ukraine).
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Sighișoara, German Schässburg, Hungarian Segesvár, town, Mureș județ (county), central Romania. Situated in the historic region of Transylvania, it is 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Sibiu city and 110 miles (175 km) northwest of Bucharest. The town circles a hill, on the summit of which stands a citadel with... |
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… and Lion’s Rump (later called Signal Hill), on the north by Table Bay, on the south by Devil’s Peak, and on the east by marshlands and the sandy Cape Flats beyond. The nearest tillable land was on the lower eastern slopes of Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain and, farther to…
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9c1bb59ad3e8bc4e3a935bdd5d011889 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Signes | Signes | Signes
Signes, in Var, commemorates Saint Eligius during the fourth week in June, and the sailors of Antibes honour Saint Peter late in June. Menton hosts a festival of lemons in February; floats are decked with lemons and oranges.
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…in the Mexico Basin (Sigsbee Deep), which is 17,070 feet (5,203 metres) below sea level. From the floor of the basin rise the Sigsbee Knolls, some of which attain heights of 1,300 feet (400 metres); these are surface expressions of the buried salt domes.
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Sikasso, city, southern Mali, West Africa. Sikasso was a small village before becoming the capital of the Kingdom of Kénédougou in the late 19th century. Today it constitutes a centre for cotton ginning and textile manufacturing. A road links Sikasso with Bamako, the national capital. The surrounding region is... |
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Silchester, village (parish), Basingstoke and Deane borough, in the northern part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, southern England, southwest of Reading.
Near the small modern village is the deserted site of the important Roman British town of Calleva Atrebatum, a node of the Roman r... |
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Silesia, Polish Śląsk, Czech Slezsko, German Schlesien, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland. Silesia was originally a Polish province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335, passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526, and was taken by Prussia in 1742. In 1945, a... |
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Since the invention of the integrated circuit, Silicon Valley and growth have been nearly synonymous. In 1959 there were roughly 18,000 high-technology jobs in the area. By 1971 there were approximately 117,000 such jobs, and in 1990 nearly 268,000 filled positions. From 1992 to 1999 Silicon Valley add... |
e1ed0a5245546e377ab759f3edbd6505 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Silla | Silla | Silla
Silla, one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea and the one that in 668 unified Korea under the Unified Silla dynasty (q.v.; 668–935). Silla is traditionally believed to have been founded by Hyŏkkŏse in 57 bc. By the 2nd century ad, a distinct confederation of local tribes was definitely in existence in the s... |
957890ab9482936f98e8eab17432c18e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Silliman-University | Silliman University | Silliman University
Silliman University, an American Presbyterian missionary school with a well-known liberal arts college, was founded there in 1901. Its presence has resulted in a considerable degree of Americanization. This university and the Foundation College (1949) attract students from various sectors of the arc... |
779c55509fa7218fa1ccad076c2febb7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Silpakorn-University | Silpakorn University | Silpakorn University
…of branches throughout the country), Silpakorn University, and the National Theatre. Silpakorn University, located in Bangkok, provides training in all of the Thai fine arts, including drama and music. Its faculty members also design buildings for the government and for religious institutions in s... |
c6bc240e4fd829c33d5a63c5f4e5a369 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Silvassa | Silvassa | Silvassa
Silvassa, also spelled Silvasa, town, capital of Dadra and Nagar Haveli union territory, western India. The town is located about 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Daman on the Daman Ganga River, some 15 miles (25 km) inland from the Arabian Sea.
It is the economic centre of the territory, which is primarily agri... |
475583fd0997f99b78cafddfc276eccf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Simancas | Simancas | Simancas
Simancas, town, Valladolid provincia (province), in the Castile-León comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), north-central Spain. It lies on the right bank of the Pisuerga River, just southwest of Valladolid city. The town originated as the Roman Septimanca, and its most important landmark is a citadel dat... |
477082889fdb621430d1ba7909081b26 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Simi-Valley | Simi Valley | Simi Valley
Simi Valley, city, Ventura county, southern California, U.S. It is adjacent to the northwestern boundary of the San Fernando Valley, 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Los Angeles. The area was founded on the site of a Chumash Indian village and designated a Spanish rancho in 1795. The settlement developed as a... |
20343c0160a241ce94dacd984cc7ed6b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Simons-Town | Simon's Town | Simon's Town
Simon’s Town, also spelled Simonstown, Afrikaans Simonstad, town and naval base, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is located on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula, on False Bay of the Atlantic Ocean, 25 miles (40 km) south of Cape Town. Named for Governor Simon van der Stel, it was a Dutch nava... |
eb8f28ea6d24593994e8874d74ecace7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Simpson-Desert-National-Park | Simpson Desert National Park | Simpson Desert National Park
Simpson Desert National Park (1967) occupies 3,907 square miles (10,120 square km) in western Queensland. Adjoining it from South Australia are Simpson Desert Conservation Park (1967), covering 2,675 square miles (6,927 square km), and Simpson Desert Regional Reserve (1988), which stretches... |
c0b3efe2d31d44f922db2f26c066c23d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sind-Kohistan | Sind Kohistan | Sind Kohistan
Sindh Kohistan, in the west of Sindh province, Pakistan, is a barren hilly tract consisting of outlying spurs of the Kirthar Range. Cultivation is possible only along the numerous hill streams (nalas) that carry water during the rains. Cattle grazing is the principal occupation.
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5363ef0e63a86d8bb8d67a57b70e78c4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sindh-province-Pakistan | Sindh | Sindh
Sindh, also spelled Sind, province of southeastern Pakistan. It is bordered by the provinces of Balochistān on the west and north, Punjab on the northeast, the Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat to the east, and the Arabian Sea to the south. Sindh is essentially part of the Indus River delta and has derived ... |
da093780869c3119d1380281b44ba515 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore-Strait | Singapore Strait | Singapore Strait
Singapore Strait, channel extending for 65 miles (105 km) between the Strait of Malacca (west) and the South China Sea (east). The strait is 10 miles (16 km) wide and lies between Singapore Island (north) and the Riau Islands (south), part of Indonesia. It includes Johore Strait (q.v.), Keppel Harbou... |
f1d41454eb1f983668b95390b88988f3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore/The-people | The people | The people
The population of Singapore is diverse, the result of considerable past immigration. Chinese predominate, making up some three-fourths of the total. Malays are the next largest ethnic group, and Indians the third. None of those three major communities is homogeneous. Among the Chinese, more than two-fifths o... |
425eab82282570735ed6c6f211613f4a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore/Trade | Trade | Trade
Singapore continues to perform its traditional function as a financial intermediary, shipping raw materials such as rubber, timber, and spices from the Southeast Asian region in exchange for finished goods from both within and, especially, outside the region. Major imports are machinery and transport equipment an... |
155d0385f2f306132c98d96dda49ec87 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Singaraja | Singaraja | Singaraja
Singaraja, also spelled Singaradja, city, Bali propinsi (or provinsi; province), north-central Bali, Indonesia. It is located near the north coast and is linked by road with other cities on the island. Buleleng to the north is its port on the Java Sea.
Under Dutch colonial rule, Singaraja was the capital of ... |
3f89a400214227d10bac4975784bc9df | https://www.britannica.com/place/Singidunum | Singidunum | Singidunum
…known by the Romans as Singidunum. It was destroyed by the Huns in 442 and changed hands among the Sarmatians, Goths, and Gepidae before it was recaptured by the Byzantine emperor Justinian. It was later held by the Franks and the Bulgars, and in the 11th century became a frontier…
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22defe59c44f9c5d7b3243f0a5b86839 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Siniolchu | Siniolchu | Siniolchu
…a German party succeeded on Siniolchu (22,600 feet [6,888 metres]) in 1936, and the English climbed Nanda Devi (25,646 feet [7,817 metres]) the same year. In 1940–47The Alpine Journal of London, a reliable chronicler of ascents, listed for the first time no peaks ascended—a reflection, of course, of the impe... |
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Sint Anna Bay, English Santa Anna Bay, Dutch Sint Anna Baai, deep channel separating the two parts of Willemstad, capital of Curaçao. The bay is a narrow waterway, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 300 to 1,000 feet (90 to 300 metres) wide. The south end opens into the Caribbean Sea, and the north end opens... |
32fde20f7e1d3e2a98316b63cd99518e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sintra | Sintra | Sintra
Sintra, also spelled Cintra, town, western Portugal. It is located about 15 miles (24 km) west-northwest of Lisbon. The town constitutes three parishes of Lisbon (Santa Maria e São Miguel, São Martinho, and São Pedro de Pennaferrim) and is within the much larger Sintra concelho (municipality).
Sintra is picture... |
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Sinŭiju, city, capital of North P’yŏngan do (province), northwestern North Korea. It was developed during the Japanese occupation (1910–45) at the Korean terminus of a railway bridge across the Yalu (Amnok) River, 7 miles (11 km) west of the old city of Ŭiju (Sinŭiju means “New Ŭiju”).
An open port 25 miles (4... |
6854e5cd589cdd56298d86309e0dc84c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sion | Sion | Sion
Sion, (French), German Sitten, capital of Valais canton, southwestern Switzerland. It lies along the Rhône River, at the mouth of La Sionne River, southeast of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman). It originated as a Celtic and Roman settlement called Sedunum. Sion became the seat of a bishop in the late 6th century, and from... |
66c193862e5f5cd1c13082ff563d1422 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sipapu-Bridge | Sipapu Bridge | Sipapu Bridge
The largest bridge, Sipapu, rises 220 feet (67 metres) above the streambed and has a span of 268 feet (82 metres). The Kachina and Owachomo bridges are, respectively, 210 and 106 feet (64 and 32 metres) high with spans of 204 and 180 feet (62 and 55 metres).…
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77a5f2483ae4935bf88ffdbf722c06ba | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sisaket | Sisaket | Sisaket
Sisaket, also spelled Si Sa Ket, or Srisaket, town, eastern Thailand. Sisaket lies on the railway between Nakhon Ratchasima and Udon Thani. The surrounding area is one of Thailand’s poorest regions; rice and tobacco are the main products. The region borders Cambodia and has a substantial Khmer-speaking populat... |
2926a36da39abd7fbc27abac4ede7c3b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sissu | Sissu | Sissu
…prince of Kundu (Cyinda) and Sissu (Sisium, modern Sis), who had allied himself with Phoenician rebels against Assyrian rule. The regions to the north of the Cilician plain repeatedly caused trouble for Assyria. Early in the reign of Ashurbanipal (668–627), however, another Cimmerian invasion threatened the Anat... |
add2b84714ffb1b321fe95f12d8433c8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sitapur | Sitapur | Sitapur
Sitapur, city, north-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated along the Sarayan River, about 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Lucknow.
Sitapur was a military centre under the British and contains a cantonment (military installation). The city is located at the junction of several roads an... |
9a4b358683fe4a28e45aeab1e39af3d6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sithonia | Sithonia | Sithonia
fingerlike promontories of Kassándra, Sithonía, and Áyion Óros (Mount Athos). The promontories were once islands, and their isthmuses consequently are composed of loose sediments through which the Kassándra Canal was cut (1937). In antiquity, a canal was dug through the isthmus of Áyion Óros by the Persian kin... |
49b08a00b223b8118db736d2144cbe1d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sitka | Sitka | Sitka
Sitka, city and borough, southeastern Alaska, historically the most notable Alaskan settlement. U.S. Situated 95 miles (150 km) southwest of Juneau, on the western coast of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago, it is the only city in southeastern Alaska that lies on the Pacific Ocean.
The area was origina... |
67d1b7cab4e02fdaaac562e89bba803a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sitka-National-Historical-Park | Sitka National Historical Park | Sitka National Historical Park
Sitka National Historical Park, historic site in southeastern Alaska, U.S., that preserves remnants of Native American and Russian occupation of the area. The park is situated in the city of Sitka on Baranof Island in the Gulf of Alaska. The site was named a federal park by Pres. Benjami... |
0458b22d329496dfc9cb71c338076d80 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sitrah-island-Bahrain | Sitrah | Sitrah
…island is also exported from Sitrah.
Two of these—Al-Muḥarraq and Sitrah, both to the northeast—are joined to Bahrain Island by causeways that have facilitated residential and industrial development; other islands in the group are Nabī Ṣāliḥ, Al-Muḥammadiyyah (Umm al-Ṣabbān), Umm al-Naʿsān (linked by the King F... |
b1802e9ccbc6ab8c6f1ae82e280c44e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sittwe | Sittwe | Sittwe
Sittwe, also called Akyab, town, western Myanmar (Burma). It is the chief settlement of the Arakan region. Situated on the Bay of Bengal at the mouth of the Kaladan River, Sittwe occupies the eastern side of a hilly ridge affording shelter from the southwest monsoon. After the cession of Arakan to the British i... |
e26aee4c4c095f86ddda2cde02ca1816 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Siwalik-Range | Siwalik Range | Siwalik Range
Siwalik Range, also called Siwalik Hills or Outer Himalayas, Siwalik also spelled Shiwalik, sub-Himalayan range of the northern Indian subcontinent. It extends west-northwestward for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the Tista River in Sikkim state, northeastern India, through Nepal, across northwest... |
51df48fdb059db59d6ec6b25eb797253 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Sixteen-Kingdoms | Sixteen Kingdoms | Sixteen Kingdoms
The term Sixteen Kingdoms traditionally denotes the plethora of short-lived non-Chinese dynasties that from 303 came to rule the whole or parts of northern China. Many ethnic groups were involved, including ancestors of the Turks (such as the Xiongnu,…
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09aaddbfdc190cf7f455080f8dfad0f0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Skane-county-and-province-Sweden | Skåne | Skåne
Skåne, also called Scania, län (county) and traditional landskap (province), southern Sweden. Skåne county was created in 1997 from the counties of Malmöhus and Kristianstad and is coextensive with Skåne province. Occupying the peninsular southern tip of Sweden, it is bounded by water on three sides—the Baltic S... |
8c9e573e1de9b862d4dc2958ee92db78 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Skaraborg-former-county-Sweden | Skaraborg | Skaraborg
Skaraborg, former län (county) of south-central Sweden, located between Lakes Vänern and Vättern. Founded as a county in 1634, it was merged with the counties of Älvsborg and Göteborg och Bohus in 1998 to form the county of Västra Götaland.
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4ae52bb44cb3709d2e229e39b2810970 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Skeleton-Coast | Skeleton Coast | Skeleton Coast
…narrow coastal belt, called the Skeleton Coast, is often foggy and humid because of cool offshore currents. Water is scarce except along the Kunene River; elsewhere in Kaokoland pools of water are sometimes found in otherwise dry riverbeds. There are a few springs adequate to support limited irrigation ... |
04ddb2280321b93304373a3a319820ee | https://www.britannica.com/place/Skelmersdale | Skelmersdale | Skelmersdale
Skelmersdale, town, West Lancashire district, administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It lies on the western periphery of the older industrial town of Wigan.
During the early 10th century Scandinavians settled in the area, naming it Skjalmar’s Dale. In Domesday Book (1086)... |
af4cf7e6c22ae270196099e01ff58862 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Skjeggedals-Falls | Skjeggedals Falls | Skjeggedals Falls
…notably the Vørings Falls and Skjeggedals Falls, flank the fjord’s clear waters. There are many smaller branch fjords, including Kvinnherads, Granvin, Sør, Eid, and Osa fjords. From Sør Fjord there is a magnificent view of Folgefonna Glacier. The area is frequented by tourists, and there are hotels a... |
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