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Stafford, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England, lying along the River Sow. It includes a large rural agricultural area and the towns of Stone and Stafford.
Founded by Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, the town of Stafford had its own m... |
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Staffordshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county in the Midlands of west-central England. It extends north from the West Midlands metropolitan county (centred on Birmingham) and is bordered by Shropshire to the west. Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire to the northeast, Warwickshire to th... |
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Stamford, city, coextensive with the town (township) of Stamford, Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies at the mouth of the Rippowam River on Long Island Sound and is 36 miles (58 km) northeast of New York City. The town was founded in 1641 by 28 pioneers from Wethersfield (near Hartford) a... |
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Staraya Russa, also spelled Staraia Russa, or Staraja Russa, river port and capital of the Staraya Russa raion (sector), Novgorod oblast (region), northwestern Russia, on the Polist River. It is one of the oldest settlements by Lake Ilmen, having been mentioned in documents as early as 1167. Its mineral ... |
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State College, borough (town), Centre county, Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies in the Nittany Valley between Bald Eagle Mountain (northwest) and Tussey Mountain (southeast), near the state’s geographic centre. Settled in 1859, it was named for Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University), whi... |
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…archaeological repository, as does the State Historical Museum in Stockholm, which houses material recovered as early as the 17th century. The national archaeological museum in Greece was started at Aeginia in 1829. Certain European countries, however—the United Kingdom and Germany, for example... |
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Staten Island, island and borough, New York City, southeastern New York state, U.S. The island lies in New York Harbor south of Manhattan and between New Jersey and Brooklyn. With several smaller islands it forms Richmond county and the Staten Island borough of New York City. Roughly triangular, the isla... |
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Stavropol, city and administrative centre of Stavropol kray (territory), southwestern Russia, situated on the Stavropol Upland near the source of the Grachovka River. It was founded in 1777 as a fortress. Although it was at first a major route and administrative centre, the city was later bypassed by the Ros... |
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Stellenbosch, town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It lies east of Cape Town, in the fertile Eerste River valley bordering mountains on the east. Founded in 1679 and named for Governor Simon van der Stel, it is South Africa’s next oldest settlement after Cape Town. Stellenbosch is known for its rest... |
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Sterkfontein, site of paleoanthropological excavations just south of Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its artifacts as well as its fossils of ancient hominins (members of the human lineage). Located in the Highveld, the site was mined throughout the 20th century for its lime deposits. In 1936 Robert ... |
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Steubenville, city, seat (1797) of Jefferson county, eastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River, there bridged to Weirton, West Virginia, with which it forms a metropolitan area, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Pittsburgh. Settled temporarily in 1765 by Jacob Walker, it later (1786) was the site of Fo... |
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Stevenage, new town and borough (district) in the administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. It lies along the Great North Road (a major English transportation artery) in the northern periphery of the London metropolitan region.
Stevenage was the first new town to be designated by British ... |
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Steyr, city, northeast-central Austria. The city is situated at the confluence of the Enns and Steyr rivers, southeast of Linz. Originating in the 10th century around the castle of the Traungau family, it was the centre of Austria’s iron industry in medieval times.
In the old town centre are the parish church (1... |
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Stillwater, city, seat (1851) of Washington county, eastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the St. Croix River (bridged to Wisconsin), at the head of Lake St. Croix, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of St. Paul. Sioux and Ojibwa Indians were early inhabitants of the area, which was originally part of Wisconsin ... |
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Stockholm, capital and largest city of Sweden. Stockholm is located at the junction of Lake Mälar (Mälaren) and Salt Bay (Saltsjön), an arm of the Baltic Sea, opposite the Gulf of Finland. The city is built upon numerous islands as well as the mainland of Uppland and Södermanland. By virtue of its location, ... |
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Stockholm, län (county) of east-central Sweden. It lies along the Baltic Sea and surrounds Stockholm, the national capital and seat of the län’s governor, yet is administratively separate from that city. The län includes parts of the traditional landskap (provinces) of Södermanland (south) and Uppland (north... |
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Stockport, urban area (from 2011 built-up area) and metropolitan borough in the southeastern part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northwestern England. Most of the borough, including the historic town of Stockport, lies in the historic county of Cheshire, but it includes an area west of the... |
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Stonington, town (township), New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound and the Rhode Island state line. The town includes Stonington borough (incorporated 1801) and the villages of Mystic and Pawcatuck. Settled in 1649 by colonists from Plymouth, it was given its present name i... |
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Stony Brook, unincorporated village in Brookhaven town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. Located on the northern shore of Long Island, on Stony Brook Harbor, it was settled by Boston colonists in 1655. In the 19th century the shipbuilding industry flourished there. Stony Brook is now ... |
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Stoughton, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., 17 miles (27 km) south of Boston. It was settled about 1713 as part of Dorchester and was separately incorporated in 1726 and named for William Stoughton, first lieutenant governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Suffolk Resolves, ... |
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Strait of Georgia, narrow passage of the eastern North Pacific between the central east coast of Vancouver Island and the southwest mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It averages 138 miles (222 km) in length and 17 miles (28 km) in width. To the north the strait ends in a jumble of islands separat... |
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Strait of Magellan, Spanish Estrecho de Magallanes, channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, between the mainland tip of South America and Tierra del Fuego island. Lying entirely within Chilean territorial waters, except for its easternmost extremity touched by Argentina, it is 350 miles (56... |
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Straits Settlements, former British crown colony on the Strait of Malacca, comprising four trade centres, Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Labuan, established or taken over by the British East India Company. The British settlement at Penang was founded in 1786, at Singapore in 1819; Malacca, occupi... |
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Stralsund, Swedish Strålsund, city, Mecklenburg–West Pomerania Land (state), northeastern Germany. It is a Baltic Sea port on the Strelasund (strait) opposite Rügen island, with which it is connected by the Rügendamm, a road and rail embankment. There was a village that specialized in ferrying goods and pass... |
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Strasbourg, German Strassburg, city, capital of Bas-Rhin département, Grand Est région, eastern France. It lies 2.5 miles (4 km) west of the Rhine River on the Franco-German frontier.
The city was originally a Celtic village, and under the Romans it became a garrison town called Argentoratum. It was capture... |
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Stratford-on-Avon, district, administrative county of Warwickshire, central England. It is in the southern part of the county and occupies almost half of the county. The town of Stratford-upon-Avon is the administrative centre.
Most of the district lies within the historic county of Warwickshire, but... |
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Stratford-upon-Avon, also called Stratford, town (parish), Stratford-on-Avon district, administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, central England, and the birthplace of William Shakespeare. For centuries a country market town, it became a major British tourist centre because of its associa... |
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Stromboli Island, Italian Isola Stromboli, Latin Strongyle, northeasternmost of the Eolie (Lipari) Islands, in the Tyrrhenian Sea (of the Mediterranean), off northeastern Sicily. It has an area of 5 square miles (12 square km). Of volcanic formation, the island is still active, and fluid lava flows co... |
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Stroudsburg, borough (town), seat of Monroe county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. A resort community, it lies along Brodhead Creek, adjacent to East Stroudsburg, in the Pocono Mountains area, near the Delaware River (there bridged to New Jersey). The site was first settled in 1760 by Colonel Jacob Stroud, bui... |
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Sturgeon Bay, city, seat (1861) of Door county, northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. Situated about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Green Bay, it is a lake port at the head of Sturgeon Bay, an inlet of Green Bay on the northwestern side of the Door Peninsula. The federal government maintains a ship canal, construct... |
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Stuttgart, city, northern district seat of Arkansas county (the southern seat is De Witt), east-central Arkansas, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Little Rock. Settled in 1878 by Lutheran minister Adam Buerkle (born in Stuttgart, Germany) and his congregation, the city was incorporated in 1889, rais... |
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Stuttgart, city, capital of Baden-Württemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. Astride the Neckar River, in a forested vineyard-and-orchard setting in historic Swabia, Stuttgart lies between the Black Forest to the west and the Swabian Alp to the south. There were prehistoric settlements and a Roman fort ... |
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Sucre, judicial capital of Bolivia. (La Paz is the country’s administrative capital.) Sucre lies in a fertile valley crossed by the Cachimayo River, at an elevation of 9,153 feet (2,790 metres) above sea level.
It was founded in 1539 by the conquistador Pedro de Anzúrez on the site of a Charcas Indian village an... |
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British forces invaded and occupied Egypt in 1882 to put down a nationalist revolution hostile to foreign interests and remained there to prevent any further threat to the khedive’s government or the possible intervention of another European power. The consequences of this were far-reaching. A perm... |
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Sudeten, (German), Czech and Polish Sudety, system of east-west mountain ranges of northeastern Bohemia and northern Moravia, Czech Republic, bordering on Poland. The system has three subgroups: the West Sudeten range is composed of the Lusatian Mountains, the Jizera Mountains, and the Giant (Krkonoše) Mountai... |
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Sudetenland, sections of northern and western Bohemia and northern Moravia, in the vicinity of the Sudeten mountain ranges. The Sudetenland, which had a predominately German population, was incorporated into Czechoslovakia when that new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19. The Sudeten and other German... |
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Suez, Arabic Al-Suways, port at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminal of the Suez Canal, northern Egypt. Together with its two harbours, Port Ibrāhīm and Port Tawfīq (Tewfik), and a large portion of the Eastern Desert, Suez constitutes the urban muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of Al-Suways.
An ancient... |
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Suffolk, administrative and historic county in East Anglia, eastern England. It is bounded to the north by Norfolk, to the west by Cambridgeshire, to the south by Essex, and to the east by the North Sea. The administrative county comprises seven districts: Forest Heath and the borough of Saint Edmundsbury in t... |
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Ṣuḥār, also spelled Sohār, town and port, northern Oman. It is situated about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Muscat on the Al-Bāṭinah coast of the Gulf of Oman. Ṣuḥār’s origins are prehistoric; it is located near the sites of several ancient copper mines, some possibly dating to 2500 bc. The town became an earl... |
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Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.
A brief treatment of Sumerian civilization follows. For full treatme... |
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Summit, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Summit is a suburb of Chicago, located about 13 miles (21 km) southwest of downtown. It lies on the Des Plaines River, straddling the watershed between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Named for the ridge dividing the watershed, it was the site... |
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Sundarbans, formerly Sunderbunds, vast tract of forest and saltwater swamp forming the lower part of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga])-Brahmaputra River delta in southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, and southern Bangladesh. The tract extends approximately 160 miles (260 km) west-east along the Bay o... |
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Sundsvall, town and seaport in Västernorrland län (county), northern Sweden. It lies at the mouth of the Selånger River on the Gulf of Bothnia. It was chartered in 1624 by Gustavus II Adolphus. In 1721 it was burned by the Russians and in 1803 and 1888 it suffered further disastrous fires. The town centre, t... |
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Native groups have inhabited Suriname for millennia. Among the larger of these historically were the Arawak and the Carib peoples. The Surinen (from whom the country’s name derives) were also some of the area’s earliest known inhabitants. By the 16th century, however, the Surinen either had been driven out by o... |
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Surrey, administrative and historic county of southeastern England. It is situated just southwest of London, adjoining the River Thames. Surrey is bordered to the northwest by Berkshire, to the northeast by the Greater London conurbation, to the east by Kent, to the south by Sussex, and to the west by Hampshire... |
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Sutlej River, Ancient Greek Zaradros, Sanskrit Shutudri or Shatadru, longest of the five tributaries of the Indus River that give the Punjab (meaning “Five Rivers”) its name. It rises on the north slope of the Himalayas in Lake La’nga in southwestern Tibet, at an elevation above 15,000 feet (4,600 metres)... |
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Svalbard, (Old Norse: “Cold Coast”) archipelago, part of Norway, located in the Arctic Ocean well north of the Arctic Circle. The islands lie between longitude 10° and 35° E and latitude 74° and 81° N, about 580 miles (930 km) north of Tromsø, Norway. The archipelago is composed of nine main islands: Spitsber... |
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Svealand, region, central Sweden, encompassing the landskaper (provinces) of Uppland, Södermanland, Västmanland, Närke, Värmland, and Dalarna (qq.v.). Svealand is the smallest of Sweden’s three regions and lies between the regions of Götaland on the south and Norrland on the north. From the Baltic Sea and the... |
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Sverdlovsk, oblast (region), west-central Russia. The oblast occupies an area along the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, stretching from the crestline, which reaches 5,148 feet (1,569 m) in Mount Konzhakovsky Kamen, to the West Siberian Plain. Almost the entire oblast is in swampy forest, or taiga, of ... |
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Erik’s son Knut killed Sverker’s son (1167) and was accepted as king of the entire country. Knut organized the currency system, worked for the organization of the church, and established a fortress on the site of Stockholm. After his death in 1196, members of the families of Erik and Sverker succeeded each o... |
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The magnates now seized control of Sweden and reasserted their power to elect a king. They chose Magnus, the three-year-old son of Duke Erik, who had shortly before inherited the crown of Norway. In connection with the election, the privileges of the church and the nobility were confirmed, and the king was ... |
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Sweden’s per capita gross national product (GNP) is among the highest in the world, but so are its taxes. Most enterprises are privately owned and market-oriented, but when transfer payments—such as pensions, sick pay, and child allowances—are included, roughly three-fifths of gross domestic product (GDP) passe... |
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After Gustav I Vasa was elected to the throne in 1523, he began to restore the power of the Swedish king and to organize a central administration under his own direct leadership. On the one hand, this task was facilitated by the elimination of a great part of the high nobility by the St... |
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Charles XII acceded to the throne at age 15 at a time when, in the hinterland of the Baltic coast, dominated by the Swedes, new states were being formed. Brandenburg and Russia, together with such older states as Denmark and Poland, were natural enemies of Sweden. Denmark, Poland, and Russia ma... |
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The coalition government that was formed in 1939 was replaced shortly after the end of the war in 1945 by a Social Democratic government under the leadership of Per Albin Hansson. After his death in 1946, Tage Erlander became prime minister, a post that he held until his resignation in 1969. He was su... |
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Exports account for about one-third of Sweden’s GDP. The emphasis has shifted from export of raw materials and semimanufactured products (pulp, steel, sawn wood) to finished goods, dominated by engineering products (cars, telecommunications equipment, hydroelectric power plant equipment) and, increasingly, high t... |
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He founded the University of Åbo (Turku) in 1640 and acted as its chancellor from 1646 until his death. While serving as lord high chancellor (1641–80), he also exerted great influence as a member of the regency council (1660–72) for Charles XI. Brahe’s brother Count Nils Brahe also…
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Four major European climates affect Switzerland. From the west, influenced by the North Atlantic Drift, come mild and moist air masses; dry and cold air arrives from the North Arctic areas; continental air from the east brings dry colder air in winter and warmer air in summer; and relatively moist and warm air ... |
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Sword Beach, the easternmost beach of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion of World War II. It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 (D-Day of the invasion), by units of the British 3rd Division, with French and British commandos attached. Shortly after midnight on D-Day morning, elements of the 6th Air... |
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Sydney, city, capital of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Located on Australia’s southeastern coast, Sydney is the country’s largest city and, with its magnificent harbour and strategic position, is one of the most important ports in the South Pacific. In the early 19th century, when it was still a smal... |
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Sylacauga, city, Talladega county, central Alabama, U.S. It is located at the southwestern corner of Talladega National Forest (eastern section) in the Coosa River valley, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Birmingham. The area was visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540 and was inhabited by th... |
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Syr Darya, also spelled Syrdarya, Kazak Syrdarīya, Tajik Daryoi Sir, Uzbek Sirdaryo, ancient name Jaxartes, river in the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. The Syr Darya is formed by the confluence of the Naryn and Qoradaryo rivers in the eastern Fergana Valley and generally f... |
08f2c47d3ece68b214f98c2765ebaac1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Syria | Syria | Syria
Syria, country located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Asia. Its area includes territory in the Golan Heights that has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The present area does not coincide with ancient Syria, which was the strip of fertile land lying between the eastern Mediterranean ... |
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In March 2011 antigovernment protests broke out in Syria, inspired by a wave of similar demonstrations elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa that had begun in December 2010. In the southwestern city of Darʿā, several people were killed on March 18 when security forces opened fire on prote... |
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Syrian Desert, Arabic Bādiyat Al-Shām, arid wasteland of southwestern Asia, extending northward from the Arabian Peninsula over much of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq. Receiving on the average less than 5 inches (125 mm) of rainfall annually and largely covered by... |
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Szczecin, German Stettin, port city and capital, Zachodniopomorskie województwo (province), northwestern Poland, on the western bank of the Oder River near its mouth, 40 miles (65 km) from the Baltic Sea. Shipbuilding and shipping are the main occupations. Evidence suggests that the area was first inhabited b... |
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Táchira, estado (state), western Venezuela. It is bounded on the west by Colombia, on the east by the Venezuelan states of Mérida and Barinas, on the north by the Venezuelan state of Zulia, and on the south by the Venezuelan state of Apure. The territory lies in the southwestern reaches of the Andean Cordille... |
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Tacuarembó, formerly San Fructuoso, city, north-central Uruguay. The Haedo Mountains dominate the adjoining area. Orchids and hardwoods, including quebracho, algarrobo, urunday, and guayabo, grow there. Founded in 1831 by Bernabé Rivera, it was first called Villa de San Fructuoso; later, it adopted the Guar... |
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Tafilalt, also spelled Tafilet or Tafilalet, largest Saharan oasis of Morocco, in the southeastern part of the country. The oasis comprises the fortified villages of Erfoud, Arab Sebbah du Ziz, Rissani, Seffalat, Aoufous, and Jorf, together with palm groves stretching 30 miles (50 km) along the Wadi Ziz. Its ... |
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Taganrog, city and seaport, Rostov oblast (region), southwestern Russia. It lies on the northern coast of Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov. Founded as a fortress and naval base in 1698 by Peter I the Great, Taganrog developed in the 19th century as a grain-exporting port. Although overshadowed by Rostov-na-Do... |
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Tagus River, Portuguese Rio Tejo, Spanish Río Tajo, longest waterway of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises in the Sierra de Albarracín of eastern Spain, at a point about 90 miles (150 km) from the Mediterranean coast, and flows westward across Spain and Portugal for 626 miles (1,007 km) to empty into the Atla... |
0510789ae3f402dcdc70885d6a30b86f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tahlequah | Tahlequah | Tahlequah
Tahlequah, city, seat (1907) of Cherokee county, eastern Oklahoma, U.S., in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, near the Illinois River and Lake Tenkiller. Settled by Cherokee Indians and made capital of the Cherokee Nation (1839–1907), the town site was laid out on Cherokee council grounds in 1843. The na... |
e603080a2034e8040e1791d8d6b26547 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tahuantinsuyu | Tahuantinsuyu | Tahuantinsuyu
Tahuantinsuyu, (Quechua: “Realm of the Four Parts”) , also spelled Tawantinsuyu, territories spread over parts of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina that, by the 1500s, were all part of a single Inca state. See also pre-Columbian Meso-American religions.
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Taihang Mountains, Chinese (Pinyin) Taihang Shan or (Wade-Giles romanization) T’ai-hang Shan, also called T’ai-hsing Range, mountain range of northern China, stretching some 250 miles (400 km) from north to south and forming the boundary between Shanxi and Hebei provinces and between the Shanxi plate... |
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Taiwan Strait, also called Formosa Strait, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) T’ai-wan Hai-hsia or (Pinyin) Taiwan Haixia, arm of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles (160 km) wide at its narrowest point, lying between the coast of China’s Fukien province and the island of Taiwan (Formosa). The strait extends fro... |
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Taiwan’s culture may be described as traditional and conservative, like most other Asian cultures but to a greater degree. It is mainly Chinese in origin and is patriarchal and patrilineal, with the family at the centre of cultural activities. The society is hierarchical and class-oriented, though it is e... |
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Taïyetos Mountains, Modern Greek Táygetos, also spelled Tayghetus, Taygetus, or Taiyetos, mountain range, southern Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), Greece. The maximum elevation is approximately 7,874 feet (2,400 m) in the range, which imposes a barrier between the regions of Laconia (Lako... |
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Takoma Park, city, Montgomery county, central Maryland, U.S., on Sligo Creek. It was founded in 1883 by real estate developer Benjamin F. Gilbert along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track as a northern residential development for Washington, D.C. The Seventh-day Adventists arrived in the 1900s and made T... |
4204945b2349d66ee1f976ba5f7fc32a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Takutea | Takutea | Takutea
Takutea, or Fenua Iti, raised coral atoll of the southern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. Its first sighting by a European (1777) was by the English navigator Capt. James Cook. The island is very low and occupies about 0.5 square mile (about... |
0959ae44b07c3e23f692485d56b8b691 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Talladega | Talladega | Talladega
Talladega, city, seat (1834) of Talladega county, east-central Alabama, U.S., in the foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Birmingham. The site was originally inhabited by Creek Indians, and its name was derived from Creek words meaning “border town.” On November 9,... |
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Tamaqua, borough (town), Schuylkill county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Little Schuylkill River. The area was settled in 1799, and its name derives from the Iroquois Indian word for “land of the beaver.” After the opening of the horse-drawn Little Schuylkill Railroad in 1831, the town prospered as ... |
0f6bc586c4988ca6c744cacee9416b84 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tampa-Bay | Tampa Bay | Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay, arm of the Gulf of Mexico, indenting the west coast of Florida, U.S., covering about 400 square miles (1,000 square km). The bay, shaped roughly like a crescent some 40 miles (65 km) long, is partly sheltered from the gulf on the west by the Pinellas Peninsula. The smaller Interbay Peninsula exten... |
bb1c110087b7e745b28a36774240d54c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tampere | Tampere | Tampere
Tampere, Swedish Tammerfors, city, southwestern Finland. It is located on an isthmus traversed by the Tammer Rapids between Lakes Näsi and Pyhä, northwest of Helsinki. Tampere is Finland’s second largest city and both an educational and an industrial centre. It is also a lake port and major rail junction. Foun... |
c6afc7cfb3d38d930f74d69cda7e011f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tanga-Tanzania | Tanga | Tanga
Tanga, city and port, northeastern Tanzania, eastern Africa, located on the Pemba Channel of the Indian Ocean. The city itself was established on the coast by Persian traders in the 14th century, but early Iron Age sites in the nearby foothills of the Pare and Usambara mountains and in the Digo Hills are evidenc... |
71f82cce54bd3fd6c51c8e4bb76f3e57 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tangier-Morocco | Tangier | Tangier
Tangier, French Tanger, Spanish Tánger, Arabic Ṭanjah, port and principal city of northern Morocco. It is located on a bay of the Strait of Gibraltar 17 miles (27 km) from the southern tip of Spain; Tétouan lies about 40 miles (65 km) to the southeast. Pop. (2004) 669,685.
Tangier is built on the slopes of a c... |
befcf468298dd107c8213d67058baf57 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tarai | Tarai | Tarai
Tarai, also spelled Terai, region of northern India and southern Nepal running parallel to the lower ranges of the Himalayas. A strip of undulating former marshland, it stretches from the Yamuna River in the west to the Brahmaputra River in the east. At its northern edge are numerous springs forming several stre... |
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Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, (catalog number NGC 2070) immense ionized-hydrogen region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way system (in which Earth is located). The nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar gas—principally hydrogen—lit from within by young, h... |
3ba862875205f5c361f1f2e1d97b637c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tarim-River | Tarim River | Tarim River
Tarim River, Chinese (Pinyin) Talimu He or (Wade-Giles romanization) T’a-li-mu Ho, chief river of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, extreme northwestern China. It lies immediately north of the Plateau of Tibet. The river gives its name to the great basin between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain sys... |
9a5b7cc2c52b26fdd5788f04c286bc65 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tarraconensis | Tarraconensis | Tarraconensis
Baetica and imperial Lusitania and Tarraconensis. Three legions enforced Roman authority from Gibraltar to the mouth of the Rhine. Augustus ignored the advice of court poets and others to advance still farther and annex Britain.
…at Emerita Augusta (Mérida); and Tarraconensis (still called Hispania Citeri... |
a157449b6feaa7781cdcbc27034b95d9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tarrytown | Tarrytown | Tarrytown
Tarrytown, village in Greenburgh town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. A northern suburb of New York City, it is just northwest of White Plains, where the Hudson River widens to form the Tappan Zee (there bridged by the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway). With Irvington and Sleepy H... |
6ecebf8856849957df5ec43da936e39e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tartus | Ṭarṭūs | Ṭarṭūs
Ṭarṭūs, also spelled Tartous, town, western Syria, situated on the Mediterranean coast opposite Arwād Island. It was founded in antiquity as Antaradus, a colony of Aradus (now Arwād Island). It was rebuilt in 346 ce by Emperor Constantine I and flourished during Roman and Byzantine times. Crusaders occupied Ṭar... |
46cf02bf5f4df4e1be06e57747984c18 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tasman-Sea | Tasman Sea | Tasman Sea
Tasman Sea, section of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, between the southeastern coast of Australia and Tasmania on the west and New Zealand on the east; it merges with the Coral Sea to the north and encloses a body of water about 1,400 miles (2,250 km) wide and 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 square km) in... |
345ca2231354cfba329a0f875f685b3a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tasmania | Tasmania | Tasmania
Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen’s Land, island state of Australia. It lies about 150 miles (240 km) south of the state of Victoria, from which it is separated by the relatively shallow Bass Strait. Structurally, Tasmania constitutes a southern extension of the Great Dividing Range. The state comprises a main is... |
e8574b68fcae17fa659dc9a0deaec7d4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Taunton-Massachusetts | Taunton | Taunton
Taunton, city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Taunton River, 33 miles (53 km) south of Boston. Elizabeth Poole, an early proprietor, was said to have purchased the site from Native Americans in 1638. It was organized as a town in 1639 and later named for Taunton, England. During the K... |
662790086eb8a02ea4b217754a81d3e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tawang-Monastery | Tawang Monastery | Tawang Monastery
…Buddhist monasteries and hermitages, while Tawang, in the far-northwestern extremity of Arunachal Pradesh, is famous for its 17th-century Mahayana Buddhist monastery with gold-lettered Buddhist scriptures. Parasuramkund, on the Lohit River in the state’s eastern region, is a place of Hindu pilgrimage ... |
2b9d3e036909c7d2c5689a18e95bd8ce | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tawi-Tawi | Tawi Tawi | Tawi Tawi
Tawi Tawi, island, southwestern Sulu archipelago, Philippines, lying between the Celebes Sea (southeast) and the Sulu Sea (northwest). Tawi Tawi’s westernmost tip is a scant 40 miles (64 km) east of Borneo. Of volcanic origin, Tawi Tawi Island is about 34 miles (55 km) long and from 6 to 14 miles (10 to 23 k... |
02da13adbe3fb5cb9c116a644cee226c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Teatro-Olimpico | Teatro Olimpico | Teatro Olimpico
He completed Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in 1585, adding to it the model streets behind the doorways of the frons scaenae; these streets were constructed of timber and plaster on a raking stage and arranged so that each member of the audience could see into at least one of…
The design of the Teatro Olimp... |
13ecb2a020c833d0f8cd4dfe7c41f2c2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Teddington | Teddington | Teddington
Teddington, residential area in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, about 11 miles (18 km) southwest of central London. Teddington is situated on the north bank of the River Thames, and its large lock (1912) marks both the North Sea tidal limit on the Thames and the upstream limit of the jurisdictio... |
0c1fa88331457a31dcb63a04aeca8abe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tegucigalpa | Tegucigalpa | Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa, city and capital of the Republic of Honduras. It is located on hilly terrain hemmed in by mountains, at an elevation of 3,200 feet (975 metres) above sea level.
Tegucigalpa, founded in 1578 on the slopes of Mount Picacho as a gold- and silver-mining centre, alternated with Comayagua, 35 miles ... |
c499e141267d40dec811bba2e1b8e204 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tehran/Cultural-life | Cultural life | Cultural life
Even though the city is the meeting point of many ethnic and linguistic groups, it is dominated by the Persian culture and language, as well as the Shiʿi branch of Islam, with which the majority of the population identifies. The Iranian Revolution had a distinctive cultural impact, limiting particular for... |
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