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Telangana, also spelled Telengana or Telingana, constituent state of south-central India. It is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north, Chhattisgarh and Odisha to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the southeast and south, and Karnataka to the west. The area of what is now Telangana constituted the... |
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Telluride, town, seat (1883) of San Miguel county, southwestern Colorado, U.S., located on the western flank of the San Juan Mountains at an elevation of 8,750 feet (2,667 metres). Telluride sprang up in 1875 as a mining camp called Columbia and quickly flourished with the discovery of abundant lodes of silv... |
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… Sant’ Angelo (Hadrian’s mausoleum), the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Aurelius’ Column, as well as the aqueducts whose arches spanned across Campagna to keep the city and its innumerable fountains supplied with water.
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A well-preserved 5th-century-bce temple to Aphaea, the ancient Aeginetan deity related to the Cretan Britomartis (Artemis), is situated on a wooded crest in the east of the island. Its Doric peripheral construction (having columns surrounding the building) of local gray limestone has been partially res... |
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…significant of these is the Temple of Aphrodite, a circular Doric temple, excavated by Iris C. Love in 1970. At this site Love found the marble base and fragments of the famous statue of Aphrodite sculpted by Praxiteles in the 4th century bc. The statue, one of the most celebrated…
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…of statuary, as at the Temple of Apollo (420 bc) on the island of Delos; the crowning group is dominated by Eos, the dawn, being lifted up by the handsome god Cephalus. At first, acroteria were made of terra-cotta, as were the roof tiles; later they were made of stone.…
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…was later housed in the Temple of Apollo. According to legend, the oracle at Delphi originally belonged to Gaea, the Earth goddess, and was guarded by her child Python, the serpent. Apollo is said to have slain Python and founded his own oracle there.
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…the 3rd century, and the Temple of Apollo at Pompeii, of about 120 bc, had approximately the Greek single-cella, peripheral (having a single row of columns surrounding the building) plan; the latter retained the Italic podium and open porch, and it had pronounced modifications of the Greek Ionic order... |
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The Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae (in Arcadia, near Phigalia) was said to be modeled after the Temple of Athena Alea (by Scopas) at Tegea, the most beautiful temple in the Peloponnese, which incorporated the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders in novel ways. Most of…
…as the site of th... |
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Temple of Luxor consisted of a large peristyle court and a complex of halls and chambers beyond. In one hall is a granite shrine of Alexander the Great. The great peristyle forecourt is surrounded on three sides by a double row of graceful papyrus-cluster columns,…
…huge third pylon, and at Luxor he ded... |
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…colossal Doric temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas, begun in about 500 bc and left unfinished a century later. To carry the weight of the massive entablature, the outer columns were not freestanding but were half-columns engaged against (that is, partially attached to) a continuous solid wall. A... |
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Temuco, city, southern Chile. It lies on the Río Cautín.
It was founded in 1881 as a frontier outpost after the area was ceded to Chile in a treaty signed on nearby Cerro (Hill) Nielol with the Araucanian Indians, long inhabitants of the region. Temuco’s development was aided by the arrival of European settlers... |
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Ten Sleep, town, Washakie county, north-central Wyoming, U.S., situated in the Bighorn Basin, west of the Bighorn Mountains, 25 miles (40 km) east of Worland. The site, at the junction of Nowood and Ten Sleep creeks, was an Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort ... |
51afe240cc70b10632cad4af00b1c014 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tennessee | Tennessee | Tennessee
Tennessee, constituent state of the United States of America. It is located in the upper South of the eastern United States and became the 16th state of the union in 1796. The geography of Tennessee is unique. Its extreme breadth of 432 miles (695 km) stretches from the Appalachian Mountain boundary with Nor... |
6ee854ff23a09be61371efb19ebb95e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Terceira-Island | Terceira Island | Terceira Island
Terceira Island, Portuguese Ilha Terceira, island, part of the Azores archipelago of Portugal, in the North Atlantic Ocean. It occupies an area of 153 square miles (397 square km).
Terceira (The Third) was so called because it was the third island in the Azores to be discovered by the Portuguese. The c... |
cc92179db4174637c910358efc5810d4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Terek-River | Terek River | Terek River
Terek River, river that rises in northern Georgia and flows north and then east through Russia to empty into the Caspian Sea. It is one of the main streams draining northward from the Caucasus mountain system. The Terek is 370 miles (600 km) long and drains a basin of 16,900 square miles (43,700 square km... |
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Termez, city, Uzbekistan, and a port of the Amu Darya (river) on the frontier of Afghanistan. The ancient town of Termez, a little to the north, flourished in the 1st century bce and was finally destroyed at the end of the 17th century ce. The present city originated as a Russian fort built in 1897 beside the s... |
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Terni, city, capital of Terni provincia, Umbria regione, central Italy. It lies along the Nera River, north of Rome. The city was founded on the site of the ancient city of Interamna Nahars and in the 14th century became a dominion of the papacy. Terni’s important archaeological remains include a Neolithic villa... |
34701ea6573a3dc0a802ba7d72d357f1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Teton-Range | Teton Range | Teton Range
Teton Range, segment of the Middle Rocky Mountains in the western United States, extending southward for 40 miles (64 km) across northwestern Wyoming, from the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park to Teton Pass, just west of Jackson. Some foothills reach into southeastern Idaho. Many peaks exceed... |
cc8fe03a1a40e7ba75788ed75076dc8d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Texarkana-Texas | Texarkana | Texarkana
Texarkana, dual municipality astride the Texas-Arkansas boundary, U.S. The city also lies near the Louisiana and Oklahoma state lines. First settled in 1874 at the junction of the Cairo and Fulton and the Texas and Pacific railways, it derived its name from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The two cities—Texa... |
1104eb29d0487991c0a07ca39d9c3446 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Texas-City | Texas City | Texas City
Texas City, city, Galveston county, Texas, U.S. It is part of the Galveston–Texas City complex on Galveston Bay. Texas City is a deepwater port on channels to the Gulf of Mexico, and its industrial activities have considerably expanded since World War II to include the production of petrochemicals, tin smel... |
90003cf5241143b6e3af5bc9ae24832b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Texcoco | Texcoco | Texcoco
Texcoco, city built in the present-day Valley of Mexico by the Acolhuas, a pre-Columbian people of the Nahuatl-speaking group of tribes, which gained mastery of the valley after the collapse of the Toltec hegemony in the mid-12th century ad. The rulers of Texcoco were the first among Nahuatl tribal leaders to... |
915d9a1d9edd468e809e132f8d0a4f38 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Texel-Island | Texel Island | Texel Island
…east the inhabited islands of Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, and Schiermonnikoog and the virtually uninhabited group of Simonszand, Boschplaat, Rottumerplaat, and Rottumeroog (Rottum). Extending southeast from the coastal dunes, Texel has an extensive area of polder (land previously under water) ... |
2415275970c8bc1fa78c2e3320204f18 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tha-River | Tha River | Tha River
Tha River, river in northwestern Laos, one of the 12 principal tributaries of the Mekong River. The Tha River rises on the Chinese frontier and flows generally southwestward in deep, narrow valleys for about 134 miles (215 km) to join the Mekong River at a point some 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Ban Houayx... |
c011f9e3e35472473353415c57fe4b7a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thailand | Thailand | Thailand
Thailand, country located in the centre of mainland Southeast Asia. Located wholly within the tropics, Thailand encompasses diverse ecosystems, including the hilly forested areas of the northern frontier, the fertile rice fields of the central plains, the broad plateau of the northeast, and the rugged coasts ... |
f5f65f02f5df7dc16cef2b42ee17fb55 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thailand/Sports-and-recreation | Sports and recreation | Sports and recreation
The traditional martial art of Thai boxing (muay Thai) is Thailand’s national sport. It is a spectacular form of unarmed combat that is accompanied by a traditional music ensemble—as well as frenzied ringside betting. Any part of the body is a fair target, and only the head may not be used to stri... |
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Thanjavur, formerly Tanjore, city, eastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies in the Kaveri (Cauvery) River delta, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Tiruchchirappalli.
An early capital of the Chola empire from the 9th to the 11th century, it was important during the Vijayanagar, Maratha, and British ... |
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Thar Desert, also called Great Indian Desert, arid region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent. It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan.
The Thar Desert covers some 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of ... |
81d849d81def3d4517e72880dd4d2311 | https://www.britannica.com/place/The-Dalles | The Dalles | The Dalles
The Dalles, formally City of The Dalles, also called Dalles City, inland port, seat (1854) of Wasco county, Oregon, U.S., on the south bank of the Columbia River, 75 miles (121 km) east of Portland, within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The area around The Dalles is known to have been a trad... |
12705942f431bc4c4252c64139e159eb | https://www.britannica.com/place/The-Los-Angeles-Zoo | The Los Angeles Zoo | The Los Angeles Zoo
The Los Angeles Zoo, byname Griffith Park Zoo, zoological park founded in 1912 in Los Angeles as the Griffith Park Menagerie. It is a completely outdoor zoo that has holdings of the emperor tamarin, mountain tapir, and California condor. The Los Angeles Zoo was also the first to breed the tarictic ... |
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…Cliff in the east to The Needles in the west. The ridge is the thickest bed of chalk in the British Isles. The Needles are three detached masses of chalk that lie off the island’s westernmost point and rise to about 100 feet (30 metres). In the northern portion of…
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Other examples of pales include the English pales in Ireland and France. “The Pale” in Ireland (so named after the late 14th century) was established at the time of Henry II’s expedition (1171–72) and consisted of the territories conquered by England, where English settlements and rule were most…
The independe... |
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The Pampas, also called the Pampa, Spanish La Pampa, vast plains extending westward across central Argentina from the Atlantic coast to the Andean foothills, bounded by the Gran Chaco (north) and Patagonia (south). The name comes from a Quechua word meaning “flat surface.” The Pampas have a gradual downward... |
88695d0744bfaad70505523b9192bc73 | https://www.britannica.com/place/The-Sound | The Sound | The Sound
The Sound, Danish Øresund, Swedish Öresund, strait between Zealand (Sjælland), Denmark, and Skåne, Sweden, connecting the Kattegat strait (northwest) with the Baltic Sea (south). The Sound is one of the busiest sea lanes in the world.
Its total length, between the Kullen peninsula in the north and Falsterbo ... |
31415bf61ab2c9364ca59917e98cabd9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/the-Steppe | The Steppe | The Steppe
The Steppe, belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, dividing it into distinct segments; but horsemen could cross such barriers easily, so that steppe peoples could and... |
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The earliest human occupants of the Eurasian Steppe seem not to have differed very much from neighbours living in wooded landscapes. As elsewhere in Eurasia, hunters and gatherers using Paleolithic tools and weapons were succeeded on the steppes by Neolithic farmers who raised grai... |
9a17a9cece6542c75224e0da3b756f44 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thebes-Greece | Thebes | Thebes
Thebes, Modern Greek Thíva, dímos (municipality) and city, Central Greece (Modern Greek: Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region). The city lies northwest of Athens (Athína) and was one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the present commercial and agricultura... |
619fa05d21f7207f402775b59c6bce50 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thera | Thera | Thera
Thera, Modern Greek Thíra, also called Santorin, or Santoríni, island, southernmost island of the Cyclades (Modern Greek: Kykládes) group, southeastern Greece, in the Aegean Sea, sometimes included in the Southern Sporades group. It constitutes a dímos (municipality) within the South Aegean (Nótio Aigaío) perifé... |
8623d95ef97c989435ec697ec1c998cb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Theresienstadt | Theresienstadt | Theresienstadt
Theresienstadt, Czech Terezín, town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), founded in 1780 and used from 1941 to 1945 by Nazi Germany as a walled ghetto, or concentration camp, and as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.
Reinhard Heydrich, the he... |
9082cc279eebb8e9efe49a73346ac7eb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thermopolis | Thermopolis | Thermopolis
Thermopolis, resort town, seat (1913) of Hot Springs county, north-central Wyoming, U.S., on the Bighorn River, opposite East Thermopolis. The site was originally within the Wind River Indian Reservation (Shoshone and Arapaho). Founded in 1897, its name was derived from the Greek thermos, “hot,” and polis,... |
9d622fa898f42bec6903113bddb98e24 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thingvellir | Thingvellir | Thingvellir
Thingvellir, historical site, southwestern Iceland, on the northern shore of Lake Thingvalla. From 930 to 1798 it was the annual meeting place of the Althing (Parliament). Though little remains of any of the early buildings, the spectacular setting in which much of Iceland’s early history unfolded is now a... |
0f1c0898d0f1f6b277302735365f2579 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thiruvananthapuram | Thiruvananthapuram | Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram, also spelled Tiruvanantapuram, formerly Trivandrum, city, capital of Kerala state, southwestern India. It is situated along the Arabian Sea with isolated hills on a coastal plain.
The community became prominent under Raja Martanda Varma, who made it the capital of his kingdom of ... |
c9c3fa5cb2dfddbfe250d7b79c362ccd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thousand-Oaks | Thousand Oaks | Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks, city, Ventura county, southern California, U.S. Situated in the Conejo (Spanish: “Rabbit”) Valley along the Ventura–Los Angeles county line, it lies 40 miles (60 km) west of Los Angeles. Originally inhabited by Chumash Indians, the area was reached in 1542 by the Spanish explorer Juan Rodr... |
5c682baed81663d79c3204a922853505 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thrace | Thrace | Thrace
Thrace, Modern Greek Thráki, Latin Thracia, ancient and modern region of the southeastern Balkans.
The historical boundaries of Thrace have varied. To the ancient Greeks it was that part of the Balkans between the Danube River to the north and the Aegean Sea to the south, being bounded on the east by the Black ... |
1835f97deb370d8059c9bfb3654eb921 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Three-Pagodas-Pass | Three Pagodas Pass | Three Pagodas Pass
Three Pagodas Pass, Thai Phra Chedi Sam Ong, mountain pass in the Tenasserim Mountain Range on the Myanmar (Burma)-Thailand border, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Moulmein, Myanmar. The pass, at an elevation of 925 feet (282 m), links southeastern Myanmar and western Thailand. For centuries it was ... |
1f2af8dfa2d152cf56cc5857d3704e29 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thriptis-Mountains | Thriptís Mountains | Thriptís Mountains
…the far eastern Tryptí (Thriptís) Mountains. Another range, the Asteroúsia (Kófinas) Mountains, runs along the south-central coast between the Mesarás Plain and the Libyan Sea. Of Crete’s 650 miles (1,050 km) of rocky coastline, it is the more gradual slope on the northern side of the island that pr... |
24bbe98ef7667a9ffdb1fe1c94101a4d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thunder-Bay-city-Ontario | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay, also called Lakehead, city, seat of Thunder Bay district, west-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior’s Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River. Probably first occupied by French fur traders as early as 1678, its site was permanently settled only after the birth of the towns Po... |
4e0ca728781aebdafb2e5cb8999f1e43 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thuringia | Thuringia | Thuringia
Thuringia, German Thüringen, historic region and Land (state) of east-central Germany. Thuringia is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony to the northwest, Saxony-Anhalt to the northeast, Saxony to the southeast, Bavaria to the south, and Hessen to the west. The capital is Erfurt. Area 6,244 squar... |
6e9c899c20dbb3e41eb1370b7dd51d7d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Thuringian-Basin | Thuringian Basin | Thuringian Basin
Thuringian Basin, German Thüringer Becken, fertile agricultural region of Germany, between the Harz mountains on the north and the Thuringian Forest range on the south. It extends westward from the Saxon lowland. The basin’s eastward-flowing streams, tributaries of the Saale River, swell—and sometimes... |
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Thursday Island, island in the Torres Strait off northern Queensland, Australia. It is surrounded by Prince of Wales, Friday, Good’s, Hammond, Wednesday, and Horn islands, and it is the administrative centre for the area. The principal town is Port Kennedy, on the eastern shore. The mixed population of... |
4c65a51caa798d40f5627d2a2690ebe3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tianjin-China/The-city-layout | The city layout | The city layout
The urban core of Tianjin extends for about seven miles from east to west and about nine miles from north to south. Heping, the central district, is located on the west bank of the Hai River, just below the large bend of the Hai. It is the main commercial and financial centre, and its two main streets o... |
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Tiber River, Italian Fiume Tevere, historic river of Europe and the second longest Italian river after the Po, rising on the slope of Monte Fumaiolo, a major summit of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. It is 252 miles (405 km) long. Twisting in a generally southerly direction through a series of scenic gorges ... |
bc99af07195fae56f761295259b55089 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiberias | Tiberias | Tiberias
Tiberias, Hebrew Teverya, city, northeastern Israel, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee; one of the four holy cities of Judaism (Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Ẕefat [Safed]).
Tiberias was founded by Herod Antipas (ruled 4 bc–ad 39), tetrarch of Galilee under the Romans, in ad 18, and named for the reig... |
84004c71ab81470c4fc4e432f305f5f1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ticino-River | Ticino River | Ticino River
Ticino River, ancient (Latin) Ticinus, river, tributary of the Po River, rising in the Swiss part of the Alpilepoutine (mountains) near Novena Pass, Switz., at about 8,000 feet (2,440 m) and draining an area of 2,790 square miles (7,226 square km), mostly in Italy. The river is 154 miles (248 km) long, fl... |
105ad2ee045bb6404b6ced0eadd371ec | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ticonderoga-fort-and-village | Ticonderoga | Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga, unincorporated village and town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S., at the north outlet (La Chute River) of Lake George where it drains into Lake Champlain. Located on an ancient Indian portage, its name is derived from the Iroquois word cheonderoga meaning “between two wate... |
c747ad28a6f7b174300a4e5110e8fc88 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tidewater | Tidewater | Tidewater
Tidewater, also called Coastal Plain, natural region in eastern Virginia, U.S., comprising a low-lying alluvial plain on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay between the Atlantic Ocean and the Fall Line (a line marking the junction between the hard rocks of the Appalachians and the softer deposits of the coas... |
c581c5f40e6a486623141efd90c6d00a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tierra-del-Fuego-archipelago-South-America | Tierra del Fuego | Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego, archipelago, at the southern extremity of South America. In shape the main island, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan, is a triangle with its base on Beagle Channel. The total area is 28,473 square miles (73,746 square km), about two-thirds of which is Chilean and ... |
b5cc56be4dcf6e0e3b45d945a43cf2df | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Climate | Climate | Climate
The Tigris and Euphrates make habitable and productive one of the harshest environments in the world. The region has a continental subtropical climate, with average temperatures greater than 90 °F (32 °C) in summer and less than 50 °F (10 °C) in winter, as well as great diurnal variations. Precipitation is ligh... |
e29777898d3fd8afe1c45b72e954e457 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Economy | Economy | Economy
The economic life of the Tigris-Euphrates basin continues to depend heavily on the waters of the rivers, even though oil revenues have also played a dominant role in Iraq. Modern water-control technology has reduced the devastating effects of the flood-and-drought cycle, but at a cost of desiccated marshlands a... |
6383a449a60d5ea9d7378d866a6dcae5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Physiography-of-the-Tigris | Physiography of the Tigris | Physiography of the Tigris
The Tigris, rising in Lake Hazar (a small mountain lake southeast of Elazığ) and fed by a number of small tributaries, drains a wide area of eastern Turkey. After flowing beneath the massive basalt walls that surround Diyarbakır, it forms the border between Turkey and Syria below Cizre, and i... |
9d2ebf45df7d1c6cd541616148adc36c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Study-and-exploration | Study and exploration | Study and exploration
As one of the world’s major ecosystems and a cradle of civilization, the Tigris-Euphrates system long has been a focus of scientific and historical research. A mass of data on the environment, soils, flora, fauna, land use, settlement patterns, and artifactual history of the entire region has beco... |
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The Tigris (Sumerian: Idigna; Akkadian: Idiklat; biblical: Hiddekel; Arabic: Dijlah; Turkish: Dicle) is about 1,180 miles (1,900 km) in length.
… on the other, concerns the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, whose headwaters lie in Turkey. Turkey had already built several dams, including the Atatürk Dam, on the ... |
55154bc24d60e8c4e921ffc6a1313e68 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tikrit | Tikrīt | Tikrīt
Tikrīt, also spelled Takrit or Tekrit, city, capital of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn muḥāfaẓah (governorate), north-central Iraq. It lies on the west bank of the Tigris River about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Baghdad. In the 10th century Tikrīt had a noted fortress and was home to a large Christian monastery. Its wealth at... |
a0399e75fa3bfc93be51416f51fefc67 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tillamook | Tillamook | Tillamook
Tillamook, city, seat (1873) of Tillamook county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Trask River, at the head of Tillamook Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1851, the settlement was known successively as Lincoln and Hoquarton before being named in 1885 for the local Tillamook Indians. The city se... |
587aeb577d919bd779021400566ee638 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timaru | Timaru | Timaru
Timaru, city (“district”) and port, east-central South Island, New Zealand, on Canterbury Bight.
Although the settlement’s boundaries were delineated as early as 1856, the actual founding did not take place until 1859, when the first ship taking immigrants directly from Britain to New Zealand arrived. Made a bo... |
638232dea3efa249dc10fbec11a306c6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timbo | Timbo | Timbo
Timbo, the seat of the Fulani almamys (Muslim political, religious, and military leaders) of the 18th- and 19th-century state of Fouta Djallon, lies 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Mamou. Pop. (1996) 49,479.
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f3031f6ebbed8520e125792e7eb74689 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timbuktu-region-Mali | Timbuktu | Timbuktu
Timbuktu, also spelled Tombouctou, région, northern Mali, West Africa, bordering Mauritania on the northwest, Algeria on the northeast, and the régions of Gao on the east and Mopti and Ségou on the south. Timbuktu région was created in 1977 from the western part of Gao région. It is entirely within the Sahara... |
3bdd827d2ab1f8431eaff9b2dc1928c0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timios-Stavros | Timios Stavros | Timios Stavros
One of Ídi’s two peaks, Timios Stavros, at 8,058 feet (2,456 m), is Crete’s highest mountain. According to one legend Zeus was reared in the Ídiean cave on the peak’s scrub-covered slopes. The well-known Kamares wares (Minoan polychrome pottery) are named for Kameres cave, where they were discovered. The... |
d45d788ad9e394e7c4276540c5ec20b5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timis | Timiș | Timiș
Timiș, județ (county), southwestern Romania, bounded by Serbia on the southwest. The Western Carpathian Mountains lie in the eastern portion of the county, with settlement areas in the valleys and lowlands. The Timiș, Bega, and Poganiș rivers drain southwestward through the county.
Timișoara, the county capital,... |
f67601bdb40f8bf87f18bf6615640dc4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timis-Cerna-gap | Timiș-Cerna Gap | Timiș-Cerna Gap
Timiș-Cerna Gap, mountain pass, southwestern Romania, located in the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians). The pass links the Tisza River plain and the city of Timișoara (northwest) with the Danubian Plain (southeast). The Banat Mountains, including the Almaj and Semenic ranges, lie west of the Ti... |
2929e6e509fe13ef567b595ba54ade27 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Timis-River | Timiş River | Timiş River
Timiş River, Hungarian Temes, Romanian Timişul, Serbo-Croatian Tamiš, river, rising in the Cernei Mountains at the western end of the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania, and flowing north, west, then south in an arc through Caransebeş and Lugoj to enter the Danube River at Pančevo, east of Belgrade, ... |
a0e45fef02911a34a4499752ecd8a09c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tindouf-Syncline | Tindouf Syncline | Tindouf Syncline
…primary sandstone, which covers the Tindouf Syncline (a fold in the rocks in which the strata dip inward from both sides toward the axis); in the centre is the vast synclinal basin of Taoudeni, bounded by the Adrar, Tagant, and ʿAçâba (Assaba) plateaus. The basin is scarcely indented to the…
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549ba404ae4a4304eed249adc16f113b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tineba-Mountains | Tineba Mountains | Tineba Mountains
The Tineba Mountains and the Takolekaju Mountains form the northern part of the chain; separated by steep-sided rift valleys, these two ranges run parallel to each other and cover most of the northern half of the province. The highest peak in Celebes, Mount Rantekombola, rises to…
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888a2e5a0591f172f2114c41580de567 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tingi-Mountains | Tingi Mountains | Tingi Mountains
…feet (1,948 metres), and the Tingi Mountains rise to 6,080 feet (1,853 metres) at Sankanbiriwa Peak. Numerous narrow inland valley swamps associated with the river systems occur in this region.
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894741e13b72d4d940c5d5aa78fa089a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tingo-Maria | Tingo María | Tingo María
Tingo María, also called Rupa-Rupa, city, central Peru. The city lies at an elevation of 2,133 feet (650 metres) on the right bank of the Huallaga River. It is located at the head of navigation of the river’s middle course in an intermediate geographic zone known as a ceja de selva (“eyebrow of the jungle”... |
4a134a2b6153d0e17977166fd1ce8405 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tingstad-Tunnel | Tingstad Tunnel | Tingstad Tunnel
…a Swedish experiment on the Tingstad tunnel, in which the precast sections were supported on water-filled nylon sacks and the water later replaced by grout injected into the sacks to form the permanent support. Also, the cross section has been greatly enlarged—the 1969 Schelde River tunnel in Antwerp, ... |
1e49d8b46d1f3455388030a301e19099 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tinian | Tinian | Tinian
Tinian, one of the Mariana Islands and part of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States, in the western Pacific Ocean. It lies about 100 miles (160 km) north of Guam. Of volcanic formation, it rises to an elevation of 614 feet (187 metres). Tinian was administered by Japan before World ... |
358fde17b92096b8e4a0cc6e73866825 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tioga-county-Pennsylvania | Tioga | Tioga
Tioga, county, northern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by New York state to the north and Lycoming Creek to the southeast. It consists of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau. The principal waterways are the Cowanesque and Tioga rivers and Crooked, Pine, and Babb creeks, as well as Hammond, Tioga, and Cow... |
9bde42002d934cf74b9bf3066e46a642 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tioga-historical-site-Pennsylvania | Tioga | Tioga
…was also the site of Tioga, one of the largest Seneca Indian towns in northern Pennsylvania; the town was destroyed by white settlers in 1778 in retaliation for the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778).
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253c280e94841e991be461da019cead0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tioga-Pass | Tioga Pass | Tioga Pass
Tioga Pass, highest (9,945 feet [3,031 metres]) roadway across the Sierra Nevada, central California, U.S. Originally the pass served the nearby mining district, and it was named about 1878 for the Tioga mine; it now functions as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park. Inyo National Forest is east o... |
cac1dad4220264a194067b5c45efd448 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tipperary-county-Ireland | Tipperary | Tipperary
Tipperary, Irish Tiobraid Árann (“House of the Well of Ara”), geographic county in the province of Munster, south-central Ireland, occupying a broad strip of country between the Rivers Shannon and Suir. It is bounded by Counties Offaly and Laoighis (north), Kilkenny (east), Waterford and Cork (south), and Li... |
8f3d6711c68f819f6097b9e6759c9a1c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tirah | Tirah | Tirah
Tirah, mountainous tract in west-central Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It lies on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border between the Khyber Pass and Khanki Valley, northwest of Kohat town. It is inhabited mainly by Afrīdī and Ōrakzay Pashtun tribes. Tirah comprises a rugged area of 600–700 square miles (1,550–... |
136e8f7e72ad3aac468cd22fc22e594a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tirana | Tirana | Tirana
Tirana, Albanian Tiranë, city, capital of Albania. It lies 17 miles (27 km) east of the Adriatic Sea coast and along the Ishm River, at the end of a fertile plain.
It was founded in the early 17th century by a Turkish general, Barkinzade Süleyman Paşa, who is said to have built a mosque, a bathhouse, and a bake... |
39ccf9492171ca0bdbe19b313f07f281 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiree | Tiree | Tiree
Tiree, 50 miles (80 km) west of Oban, the most westerly of the Inner Hebrides, has an economy based on crofting (small-scale tenant farming, largely for subsistence), bulb growing, cattle raising, fishing, tourism, and the quarrying of marble. Islay, the most southerly island of the…
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cb8caf82642abeaf1047c9ebcdbf0ee3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tirich-Mir | Tirich Mir | Tirich Mir
Tirich Mir, highest peak (25,230 ft [7,690 m]) in the Hindu Kush mountain system, lying 155 mi (249 km) north of Peshāwar, Pak., in the North-West Frontier Province near Afghanistan. The Upper Tirich Glacier basin is formed by Tirich Mir East, Tirich Mir (the main summit), peaks to the west, and another gr... |
7e84b139f38daa25cb6f6c7f2363dd94 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiryns | Tiryns | Tiryns
Tiryns, prehistoric city in the Argolis, Greece, noted for its architectural remains of the Homeric period. Excavations show the area to have been inhabited from the Neolithic Age. Not later than the beginning of the Early Bronze Age, or Early Helladic Period (c. 3000–c. 2200 bc), a pre-Greek agricultural peop... |
8fec23e1159888ebf80d163aa6c7990d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tisisat-Falls | Tisisat Falls | Tisisat Falls
…Tugela Falls, in South Africa; Tisisat Falls, at the headwaters of the Blue Nile on the Ethiopian Plateau; and Angel Falls, in Venezuela.
…metres) to form the spectacular Tisisat Falls (a section of which has been harnessed for hydroelectric power).
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bb857f904c2b1619af77c29a67a29c77 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tista-River | Tista River | Tista River
Tista River, a tributary of the Jamuna River (Brahmaputra River), flowing through India and Bangladesh. It rises in the Himalayas near Chunthang in Sikkim (India), flows to the south, cutting a deep gorge through the Siwalik Hills east of Darjiling (in West Bengal, India), and turns southeast to run throug... |
cb59a6b097d412779f8ceb2f55d5bddd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tistian-Isthmus | Tistian Isthmus | Tistian Isthmus
…bridge between them, called the Tistian Isthmus. A third volcano associated with the lake is Mombacho, about 4,430 feet (1,350 metres) high, which stands on the western shore. Ometepe Island is the preeminent site in Nicaragua for pre-Columbian examples of statuary, ceramics, and other archaeological r... |
4e74dc02cc995f341d54bd0e55296448 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Titan-astronomy | Titan | Titan
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. It is the only body other than Earth that is known to currently have liquid on its surface. It was discovered telescopically in 1655 by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens—the first planetary s... |
113292e84af5f4e42d900c304fce0835 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Titan-astronomy/The-atmosphere | The atmosphere | The atmosphere
Titan’s atmosphere was first detected spectroscopically in 1944 by the Dutch American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper, who found evidence of the absorption of sunlight by methane. However, studies of the refraction (bending) of radio waves in the atmosphere carried out during Voyager 1’s flyby in 1980 showed... |
f38ee2e553f875efba04d43606880a23 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Titan-astronomy/The-surface | The surface | The surface
Little was known about Titan’s surface before the Cassini-Huygens mission. Because the moon’s haze is partially transparent to near-infrared light, earlier telescopic studies exploiting this property were able to show that the surface is not uniform. Images taken in near-infrared wavelengths by the Hubble S... |
d2a41779a3fed8ffdaf04200aa9cfa92 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Titov-Vrh | Titov Vrh | Titov Vrh
…and Vardar river systems, include Titov Vrh (9,012 feet [2,747 metres]) and Turčin (8,865 feet [2,702 metres]). Between the mountains are several depressions, some containing large lakes; the land there is suitable for arable farming and fruit growing. Pastureland above the tree line supports livestock, espe... |
8ab8f79a9df3a9932d378ee4d4d5a3e8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Titusville-Florida | Titusville | Titusville
Titusville, city, seat (1879) of Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S., about 35 miles (55 km) east of Orlando. The city, on the Intracoastal Waterway, is situated on the west bank of the Indian River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands) and is linked (via a causeway across t... |
16803cb203abf4c3bcd798782a9c9392 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiverton-Rhode-Island | Tiverton | Tiverton
Tiverton, town (township), Newport county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S. It lies along the Sakonnet River and Mount Hope Bay, opposite Portsmouth and Bristol. Originally a part of Plymouth colony and named for Tiverton, Devon, England, it was annexed to Rhode Island in 1746 and was incorporated in 1747. Southwes... |
e57459eeae8efd2c8594149127749723 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tlalnepantla | Tlalnepantla | Tlalnepantla
Tlalnepantla, in full Tlalnepantla de Comonfort, city, northeastern México estado (state), central Mexico. At an elevation of 7,474 feet (2,278 metres) above sea level on the Río Tlalnepantla, it was founded by the Otomi Indians and conquered by the Aztecs; archaeological remains have been found on the si... |
9581e2888de817207ab52be6acd5ff00 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tlaquepaque | Tlaquepaque | Tlaquepaque
Tlaquepaque, city, north-central Jalisco estado (state), west-central Mexico. Formerly known as San Pedro Tlaquepaque, the city lies in the temperate Guadalajara valley, approximately 5,400 feet (1,650 metres) above sea level. A suburb of Guadalajara, the state capital, 7 miles (11 km) southeast, Tlaquepaq... |
0f5789e26d6fce9348328978fb527d1f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tlatilco | Tlatilco | Tlatilco
…Mexico at El Arbolillo, Zacatenco, Tlatilco, and, finally, Ticoman. The same developmental sequence occurred in the Formative period of highland Guatemala, as shown in the excavations at Kaminaljuyú near Guatemala City.
…came the people who inhabited Tlatico, Chupícuaro, and related early sites, which have be... |
d59985b6b1d28179bc31d96e2515c7e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tlaxcala-state-Mexico | Tlaxcala | Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala, estado (state), central Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Puebla to the northeast, east, and south, México to the west, and Hidalgo to the northwest. The capital is the city of Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl).
Tlaxcala is situated on the cool, semiarid Mesa Central at a mean elevation of 7... |
aa811893add8140a3b99d900c442b688 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Toba-Japan | Toba | Toba
…for its Shintō shrines, and Toba, a seaport that guards the southern entrance to Ise Bay (Ise-wan). The bay has many islands and is renowned for its Mikimoto cultured-pearl industry. Pearl Island in Toba Harbour is the site where Mikimoto Kōkichi first succeeded in producing a cultured pearl at the…
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