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Tobruk, also spelled Ṭubruq, port, northeastern Libya. It was the site of Antipyrgos, an ancient Greek agricultural colony, and thereafter of a Roman fortress guarding the Cyrenaican frontier. The town later became a way station on the coastal caravan route. Because it is Libya’s only natural harbour, Tobruk wa... |
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Toccoa, city, seat (1905) of Stephens county, northeastern Georgia, U.S. It lies on the Dahlonega Upland, northwest of Hartwell Dam and Lake near the South Carolina border, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Athens. Toccoa was laid out in 1873 and is at the edge of Chattahoochee National Forest in a prosperous agr... |
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Toccoa Falls College (formerly Institute) was established in 1907 as an independent Christian school. Toccoa (probably from Cherokee toccoa, “beautiful”) Falls, a cascade 186 feet (57 metres) high on Toccoa Creek, is on the campus. In November 1977 the Kelley Barnes earthen dam on the…
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Todd River, intermittent river in south-central Northern Territory, Australia. It rises in the MacDonnell Ranges and flows southeast for 200 miles (320 km), passing through Heavitree Gap and the town of Alice Springs and across sandhill country, eventually disappearing in the Simpson Desert. Its principal t... |
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…the Niger River as the Togo Mountains in Togo and as the Atakora Mountains in Benin, and they contain isolated peaks near the Togo border. The Volta River cuts through their complex of closely packed folds at Ajena (Volta) Gorge and is harnessed by the great dam at Akosombo 1…
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After the 1961 elections, which established a presidential form of government, Olympio became the first president. He maintained economic cooperation with France. Togo became a member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU, now the African Union) in 1963 and in 1965 subscribed to the renewed Jo... |
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After Eyadéma’s unexpected death in February 2005, his son, Faure Gnassingbé, was hastily installed as president by the military—an action critics characterized as a coup. After weeks of international condemnation, Gnassingbé stepped down and a presidential election was held in April. He w... |
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The military coup d’état of 1967 abolished the constitution of 1963 and dissolved the National Assembly. A new constitution in 1992, since amended, established the president as head of state and a directly elected multiparty National Assembly, members of which serve six-year terms, with a limit o... |
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Tokaj, also spelled Tokay, town, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye (county), northeastern Hungary. Tokaj lies at the confluence of the Bodrog and Tisza rivers. It is known as the home of the golden yellow Tokay wine and has a famous labyrinthine (1 mi [1.5 km]) wine cellar. It is in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine-producing di... |
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As indicated by linguistic affinity, Tokelau was probably settled from Samoa, and the small atolls rapidly became densely settled with nucleated villages. The first European visitor, in 1765, was the British commodore John Byron, who gave Atafu the name Duke of York Island. Nukunonu was sighted and named Duke o... |
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Toki, city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Toki River. During the civil wars of the Momoyama period (1568–1614), refugees (including potters) fleeing from Seto city settled in Toki and Mino cities under the protection of the lords of Toki. Kilns were established there for the production o... |
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Tokoroa, town, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies in the upper Waikato River basin of the Volcanic Plateau.
It was constituted a county town in 1953. Tokoroa is a market and service centre that has grown rapidly since the late 1940s. Lying along the Taupo-Putaruru Highway and a rail line to Auckl... |
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Tokorozawa, city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Seibu Line (railway), in the central part of the Musashino plateau. During the Tokugawa era (1603–1867), Tokorozawa was a rural trade centre and producer of cotton textiles. In 1934 the Yamaguchi Reservoir (Lake Sayama) was constru... |
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The Tokugawa Art Museum preserves the collection of the Tokugawa family. The Atsuta Shrine and the nearby Grand Shrine of Ise are the oldest and most highly esteemed Shintō shrines in Japan. Other institutions include Citizen Hall, Aichi Cultural Centre, Chūnichi Hall, and Misono Theatre. Higashiyam... |
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Tokushima, prefecture (ken) and city, Shikoku, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The prefecture is drained by the Yoshino-gawa (Yoshino River), whose valley is followed by a major railway. Since the Tokugawa era (1603–1867) salt making and the cultivation and processing of indigo and tobacco have been special... |
cc8ac4f6cd64e3de7c76e01de0e87fd7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tokyo | Tokyo | Tokyo
Tokyo, formerly (until 1868) Edo, city and capital of Tokyo to (metropolis) and of Japan. It is located at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is the focus of the vast metropolitan area often called Greater Tokyo, the largest urban and industrial agglomeration in Japan.
A brief treat... |
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…Urayasu became the site of Tokyo Disneyland, a theme park duplicating the original Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Tokyo DisneySea, with several ocean-themed “ports,” opened next to the park in 2001. One of the most popular recreational attractions in Japan, the park spurred the growth of nearby hotels ... |
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…helped to found (1887) the Tokyo Fine Arts School and to draft a law for the preservation of temples and shrines and their art treasures.
…the principal founders of the Tokyo Fine Arts School, opened in 1887, and a year later became its head. He and Fenollosa, also teaching there, intentionally ... |
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Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area, Tokyo formerly (until 1868) Edo, metropolitan complex—commonly called Greater Tokyo—along the northern and western shores of Tokyo Bay, on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, central Japan. At its centre is the metropolitan prefecture, or metrop... |
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Toledo, city, on the western coast of Cebu island, central Philippines. It was the site of the country’s largest copper mine until it closed in 1994 after being flooded; operations resumed at the mine in 2008. The ore is extracted by strip or open-cut mining, concentrated, and trucked to the port of Sangi. Ther... |
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Toledo, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile–La Mancha, south-central Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Ávila and Madrid to the north, Cuenca to the east, Ciudad Real to the south, and Cáceres and Badajoz to the west. Most of the province is crossed by the Tag... |
0401a56c082bb40bc090a6631be0349b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tolima | Tolima | Tolima
Tolima, departamento, central Colombia, extending from the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central across the Magdalena River valley to the Cordillera Oriental. Created in 1861, the department ranks first in Colombia in the production of rice and sesame; other crops grown in Tolima include cotton, coffee, corn (m... |
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…near Johannesburg; it was named Tolstoy Farm for the Russian writer and moralist, whom Gandhi admired and corresponded with. Those two settlements were the precursors of the more-famous ashrams (religious retreats; see ashrama) in India, at Sabarmati near Ahmedabad (Ahmadabad) and at Sevagram near Wardha.... |
1286e2efaf43f02534548cf13369ba26 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tolyatti | Tolyatti | Tolyatti
Tolyatti, formerly (until 1964) Stavropol, city, Samara oblast (province), western Russia, on the Volga River. Founded as a fortress in 1738 and known as Stavropol, it was given city status in 1780 and again in 1946. Overshadowed by Samara, it remained unimportant until the beginning in 1950 of the huge V.I. ... |
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Tomakomai, city, southern Hokkaido, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The city was a regional transport and commerce centre in the early 19th century. A pulp and paper industry has operated there since 1910, and chemicals are also produced. Commercial and industrial ports were completed in 1963, to serve as t... |
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…and its northern extension, the Tombador Mountains, run north across Bahia from the borders of Minas Gerais and constitute the line of greatest elevation. The Diamantina reaches its maximum elevation at Almas Peak (6,070 feet [1,850 metres]). From the east and west of this dorsal ridge descend plate... |
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Agriculture is the mainstay of the Tongan economy. Squash, coconuts, bananas, and vanilla beans constitute the main cash crops, and other important crops include yams, taro, cassava, corn (maize), watermelons, pineapples, breadfruit, limes, and tomatoes. All land is essentially owned by the Tongan monarchy, but... |
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… (9,176 feet [2,797 metres]) within Tongariro National Park (designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990). Rainfall, heaviest in the winter months, tends to be more evenly distributed than it is on South Island. North Island has the great majority of the national population and is gaining a... |
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A protective reef surrounds Tongatapu Island; many islands in the Vavaʿu Group lack such protection and are shrinking.
…on the northern coast of Tongatapu Island.
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Tonghua, Wade-Giles romanization T’ung-hua, city, southwestern Jilin sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated in the valley of the Hun River in the densely forested Changbai Mountains—an area well known from early times for the manufacture of various forest products and for ginseng (a medicinal pre... |
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The longest of these, the Tongpu trunk line, runs from Datong to Fenglingdu, in the southwestern corner of the province. Other trunk lines pass through the province, notably the line from Beijing to Baotou, and additional branchlines connect the main lines with more recently opened industrial and mini... |
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Tonto National Monument, cliff dwellings located in the Tonto Basin of southeastern Arizona, U.S. They lie 110 miles (175 km) east of Phoenix, in Tonto National Forest. Between about ad 1150 and 1400, the Salado people—a farming culture named for the Rio Salado (Salt River), which flows through... |
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Toowoomba, city, southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the Great Dividing Range. The principal inland city in the state, Toowoomba is a rail and road junction, tourist resort, service centre for Darling Downs (a large livestock, grain, and dairying region), and site of the Perseverence Creek Water Supply Sc... |
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Torgau, city, Saxony Land (state), eastern Germany. It is a port on the Elbe River, northeast of Leipzig. First mentioned in 973, Torgau was chartered in 1255–67. After 1456 it was a frequent residence of the electors of Saxony, who built the Hartenfels Castle (1533–44 and 1616–23; now a museum). In 1526 the To... |
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Toronto Zoo, formerly (1974–98) Metro Toronto Zoo, zoological park in West Hill, Ontario, Canada, which ranks as one of the largest zoos in the world. The 287-hectare (710-acre) park was opened in 1974 by the municipality of Toronto and the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. It replaced the overcrowd... |
0a9ad1d5a7f093ee0335a080b2d0d6a1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Torrance-California | Torrance | Torrance
Torrance, city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Located south of central Los Angeles along the Pacific Ocean, it lies in the South Bay area. Once part of Rancho San Pedro, a Spanish land grant of 1822, the city was founded in 1911 by Jared Sidney Torrance and promoted as a planned industrial com... |
569a527efac0d87cc96cfe286343c4c0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Torre-Annunziata | Torre Annunziata | Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata, city, Campania regione (region), southern Italy. It is a southeastern suburb of Naples on the Bay of Naples at the southern foot of Mount Vesuvius. The city was twice destroyed by the eruptions of Vesuvius (ad 79 and 1631). The site is archaeologically notable for the well-preserved ... |
eb83dde17ba40f67c74f076b327cc292 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Torres-Islands | Torres Islands | Torres Islands
Torres Islands, northernmost group of Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Espiritu Santo. They extend for 35 miles (56 km) and comprise Hiu (Hiw), the largest at 10 miles (16 km) long by 2 miles (3 km) wide; Tégua; Linua; Loh; Métoma; and Toga. Hiu rises to the highest ... |
c0d1d92bf1dc0ac4d49c5fd58f495c80 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Torres-Strait | Torres Strait | Torres Strait
Torres Strait, passage between the Coral Sea, on the east, and the Arafura Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. To the north lies New Guinea and to the south Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia). It is about 80 mi (130 km) wide and has many reefs and shoals dangerous to navigation, and its larger i... |
442eabea27d8218b0338340cbb9053ef | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tortola | Tortola | Tortola
Tortola, largest of the British Virgin Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles chain, which separates the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Its name is from the Spanish tórtola (“turtle dove”). It lies about 60 miles (100 km) east of Puerto Rico. Tortola is composed of a long chain of steep hills uninterrupted by... |
bc5b9e28b88296319a0815b3ce79b04e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tortue-Island | Tortue Island | Tortue Island
Tortue Island, French Île de la Tortue, Spanish Isla de la Tortuga, Caribbean island off the northern coast of Haiti opposite Port-de-Paix. European adventurers settled Tortue in 1629, in conjunction with trying to establish a foothold on the neighbouring island of Hispaniola (now comprising Haiti and th... |
1777c56f393bf21914878becede45f14 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Torzhok | Torzhok | Torzhok
Torzhok, city, Tver oblast (region), western Russia, on the Tvertsa River, 37 miles (60 km) west of Tver. The first recorded mention of Torzhok dates from 1139. In the 14th century it became the centre of a small rural district in the Novgorod Feudal Republic, on the trade route between Novgorod and the princi... |
2502d2fd430f67d9ed48099f5595ebfe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tosari | Tosari | Tosari
At Tosari (elevation 5,692 feet [1,735 metres]) in the interior highlands, the highs and lows average 72 °F (22 °C) and 47 °F (8 °C). Java’s soils are very fertile because of periodic enrichment by volcanic ash.
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Tou-liu, formerly Yün-lin-hsien, town and seat of Yün-lin hsien (county), west-central Taiwan. It is located 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Kao-hsiung city in the middle of the western coastal plain. The town, which developed in the early 17th century, is a marketing centre for rice, sweet potatoes, peanuts (g... |
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Touggourt, chief town of the Wadi RʾHir region, northeastern Algeria. It lies in the Sahara in the Wadi Igharghar valley with sand dunes and chotts (salt lakes) to the north and south and small hills to the west. It is a typical Saharan town of dried mud or clay-stone buildings, winding streets, and dazzling... |
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Tougué, also called Tongué, town, north-central Guinea, western Africa, on the Fouta Djallon plateau. It is a trading centre (rice, millet, oranges, cattle, and goats) among the Fulani (Peul) people in a savanna region. Bauxite deposits have been discovered south of the town. Pop. (latest est.) 21,900.
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Toulouse, city, capital of Haute-Garonne département, Occitanie région, southern France. It is situated at the junction of the Canal Latéral à la Garonne and the Midi Canal, where the Garonne River curves northwest from the Pyrenean foothills.
Founded in ancient times, it was the stronghold of the Volcae Tect... |
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Tours, city, capital of Indre-et-Loire département, Centre région, west-central France, on the Loire River. It is the chief tourist centre for the Loire valley and its historic châteaus.
Early records show that the Turones, a pre-Roman Gallic people, settled on the right bank of the Loire River. The Romans moved... |
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such as Martin Nyrop’s Copenhagen Town Hall (1892–1902), which combined Northern Renaissance features with a crenellated Gothic skyline. Its fine craftsmanship and delicate eclecticism were echoed in the celebrated Town Hall at Stockholm, designed in 1908 by Ragnar Östberg and executed in 1911–23. In Finland,... |
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Towson, unincorporated community, Baltimore county, northern Maryland, U.S. It was named for Ezekiel Towson, who settled the area about 1750, and was made county seat in 1854. It evolved into a northern residential-industrial suburb of Baltimore. It is the seat of Goucher College (1885) and Towson University (1... |
116df1602feb606107327478188365eb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Toyokawa | Toyokawa | Toyokawa
Toyokawa, city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is situated along the lower reaches of the Toyo River. The city developed around the Toyokawa Inari Shrine and served as a post town on the Tōkaidō (Eastern Sea Highway) during the Tokugawa era (1603–1867). The city’s munitions industry, established in... |
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Toyota, formerly (until 1938) Koromo, city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the middle reaches of the Yahagi River. It originated as a castle town, with its commercial quarter serving as a collection and distribution centre for silk cocoons. The head office of the Toyota Motor Company was m... |
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Tozeur, also spelled Tawzar, Latin Thusuros, also called Jarīd, oasis in west-central Tunisia. It is located to the south of Tunisia’s steppe region in the jarīd (palm) country, which displays a colourful landscape marked by numerous chott (or shaṭṭ, salty lake) depressions and palm groves. The town is situated... |
24edc1fabaf2299d3251bcd4f3a44712 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trabzon-Turkey | Trabzon | Trabzon
Trabzon, also called Trebizond, historically Trapezus, city, capital of Trabzon il (province), northeastern Turkey. It lies on a wide bay on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea backed by high ranges of the Pontic Mountains, which separate it from the central Anatolian Plateau. Area province, 1,907 square m... |
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…metres), is on the seasonal Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. A number of other passes exceed 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in elevation. One of the country’s major east-west arteries, Interstate Highway 70, runs through the state, utilizing twin vehicular tunnels under the Continental Di... |
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Its nickname, Traitors’ Gate, derives from the prisoners brought through it to the Tower, which was long used as a state prison. The armouries that now occupy the White Tower, as well as a later 17th-century brick building alongside, house arms and armour from the early Middle…
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The Trans-Altai Gobi is situated between the eastern spurs of the Mongolian Altai and Gobi Altai mountains to the north and east, respectively, and the Bei Mountains to the south. The plain is elevated, sharp, and rugged. Alongside the plains and the isolated group of low,…
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…three parts: the elevated northern Trans-Unguz Karakum; the low-lying Central Karakum; and the southeastern Karakum, through which runs a chain of salt marshes. Along the border of the Trans-Unguz and Central Karakum runs the Unguz chain of saline, isolated, eolian (wind-formed) hollows.
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Transcaucasia, Russian Zakavkazye, small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: Georgia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the east, and Armenia, situated largely on a high mountainous plateau south of Georgia and west of Azerbaijan. Togeth... |
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The greater part of Caucasia originated in the vast structural downwarp in the Earth’s crust known as the Alpine geosyncline, dating from the late Oligocene Epoch (about 28 to 23 million years ago), and the region thus reflects some of the same structural characteristics as the younger mountains of Europe.
Stru... |
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…the upfolded structures of the Transjordanian highlands and the central range of Palestine, causing the fractures that allowed the Dead Sea graben to drop. At that time the Dead Sea was probably about the size that it is today. During the Pleistocene Epoch (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago), it rose... |
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…trekkers in the Transvaal and Transorangia regions, respectively. In Transvaal several warring little polities were established, and factional strife ended only in the 1860s. In Transorangia the trekkers established the Orange Free State, which, under the double threat posed by the Sotho and the proximity... |
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…Danube and Tisza rivers, and Transtisza (Tiszántúl), the region east of the Tisza. Kiskunság consists primarily of a mosaic of small landscape elements—sand dunes, loess plains, and floodplains. Kecskemét is the market centre for the region, which is also noted for its isolated farmsteads, known as tanyák. ... |
009336b67fdd9df6b658fc0415bf24be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Transvaal | Transvaal | Transvaal
Transvaal, former province of South Africa. It occupied the northeastern part of the country. The Limpopo River marked its border with Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, while the Vaal River marked its boundary with Orange Free State province to the south. It was bounded by Mozambique and Swaziland to the e... |
1f5f3ad301ad3bb73473325f37cd04f7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Transylvania | Transylvania | Transylvania
Transylvania, Romanian Transilvania, Hungarian Erdély, German Siebenbürgen, historic eastern European region, now in Romania. After forming part of Hungary in the 11th–16th centuries, it was an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire (16th–17th century) and then once again became part of Hungary... |
20a2066871a597cd0e3538f4356257fd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trapani | Trapani | Trapani
Trapani, Latin Drepanum, city, northwestern Sicily, Italy. It is situated on a promontory overlooked by the town of Erice (Monte San Giuliano), west of Palermo. The ancient Drepana, it was the port for the Elymian settlement of Eryx until it was captured and made a naval base by the Carthaginians in 260 bc. It... |
66728dfc17fbe63446f8f081bbd02e61 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Traralgon | Traralgon | Traralgon
Traralgon, city, Victoria, Australia. It lies in the Latrobe (La Trobe) Valley, West Gippsland, southeast of Melbourne. First settled in the 1840s, its name is Aboriginal for “crane feeding on frogs.” It became a borough in 1961 and a city in 1964. It serves a dairying, sheep-raising, and fruit-farming distr... |
4c00fd13cb0ba381f22d216eb3752b4a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Traun | Traun | Traun
Traun, town, north-central Austria. It lies along the Traun River, just south of Linz. First mentioned in 612, it became the seat of the countship of Traun, which became Abensperg-Traun in the late 16th century. Traditionally an agricultural community with fishing, milling, and brewing enterprises, Traun now man... |
21eee1ade4094b091446318ac80d8102 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Traverse-City | Traverse City | Traverse City
Traverse City, city, seat (1851) of Grand Traverse county, northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located at the southern end of Grand Traverse Bay (West Arm), an embayment of Lake Michigan. Settled in 1847 and named for the bay, it developed from a timber town into one of the nation’s chie... |
1fa78925d0a51719893f4833caa5b146 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Treason-House | Treason House | Treason House
The Treason (Joshua Hett Smith) House (now demolished) was where General Benedict Arnold and Major John André met (September 21, 1780) to arrange for the betrayal of West Point to the British; the site at West Haverstraw is now occupied by Helen Hayes (orthopedic) Hospital.
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2758032ed4cb6181b962105b5835b263 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Treasure-Island-California | Treasure Island | Treasure Island
… and Yerba Buena and man-made Treasure Island, created for a world’s fair in 1939 and later turned into a naval base (1941–93). Alcatraz (Spanish: “Pelican”) was from 1934 to 1963 the most notorious maximum-security, “escape-proof” prison in the United States. In 1969, after the decaying cell blocks ha... |
3fb25c290ddf5ef96b7008e4d178ad54 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trebon | Třeboň | Třeboň
Třeboň, German Wittingau, town, southern Czech Republic, on the main road to Vienna. It lies in the basin of the Lužnice River, which is floored with heavy impermeable clays upon which a good deal of peat has formed. The area has many artificial lakes, and, since the Middle Ages, a freshwater fishing economy ha... |
11103a54f9f29acf1d77f3e175a8c3dd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Treichville | Treichville | Treichville
Treichville, located behind the fishing village of Anoumabo, owes its importance to the boom in colonial trade that followed World War I. It remained a very small town until 1934, when the seat of colonial government was moved to Abidjan from Bingerville. Urban growth was…
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9ad21f8443a62f14fb7a5c9c6b3d00b4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Treinta-y-Tres | Treinta y Tres | Treinta y Tres
Treinta y Tres, city, east-central Uruguay, near the Olimar Grande River. It is the commercial and manufacturing centre for an agricultural and pastoral hinterland. Cattle and sheep are raised widely; wheat, corn (maize), oats, and linseed are the chief crops. Treinta y Tres lies on the Pan-American Hig... |
5fd6e40bc545f54fd4a0c0ac61ec0b1a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trelleborg | Trelleborg | Trelleborg
Trelleborg, town and port, Skåne län (county), southern Sweden, on the Baltic Sea. During the Middle Ages it was an important herring-fishing and commercial centre, but it declined after the herring left the area in the 15th century. After being plundered during war (1563–70) between Denmark and Sweden and ... |
4c3b03dd6d0a39424a2c8773dcf277ea | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trent-University | Trent University | Trent University
…city is the site of Trent University (founded 1963) and of Fleming College. Inc. 1905. Pop. (2011) 78,698; (2016) 81,032.
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1d2adbc516316807be0d088536609d8d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trento-province-Italy | Trento | Trento
… (provinces) of Bolzano-Bozen (north) and Trento (south). Historically, the region includes the area of the medieval ecclesiastical principalities of Trento (Trent) and Bressanone (Brixen), which were later contested between the counts of Tirol and Venice. Passing to Italy after World War I, the area was known ... |
bc8882b3d8cd9fa22b070022ff5f8f61 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trenton-Battle-Monument | Trenton Battle Monument | Trenton Battle Monument
Other features are the Trenton Battle Monument, a 155-foot (47-metre) granite shaft marking the spot where the colonial artillery opened fire on Trenton, and McKonkey Ferry Museum, in a building that supposedly sheltered Washington and some of his men after the historic crossing.
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cd9f70ee4e3b0d7cea44b88c4461025f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trenton-Michigan | Trenton | Trenton
Trenton, city, southwestern suburb of Detroit, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Detroit River, opposite Grosse Ile. The site of the Battle of Monguagon during the War of 1812, it was settled by Maj. Abram Caleb Truax in 1816. It was laid out as Truaxton in 1834 and was called Truago ... |
7e529d25e68f3ada479a3d910dcc836c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trenton-New-Jersey | Trenton | Trenton
Trenton, city and capital of New Jersey, U.S., seat (1837) of Mercer county, and industrial metropolis at the head of navigation on the Delaware River. It lies 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of New York City.
The original settlement (1679) by Mahl... |
03a0d7eddf851643047c3a51f005a974 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trenton-Ontario | Trenton | Trenton
Trenton, former city, Hastings county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, since 1998 incorporated into the city of Quinte West. It is a port of entry on the Bay of Quinte, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, and lies at the mouth of the Trent River and at the southern end of the Trent Canal system. First settled... |
2e9c665bbfe4250df7df8c74d4177983 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tres-Lagoas | Três Lagoas | Três Lagoas
Três Lagoas, city, east-central Mato Grosso do Sul estado (state), south-central Brazil, at the confluence of the Sucuriú and Paraná rivers, at 1,030 feet (313 metres) above sea level. The city is a hub of economic activity, serving as a cattle-shipping and meat-packing centre. Três Lagoas, which is on a r... |
9f00640b6e1f3c7b2c092b2a3a69d39d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tribhuvan-University | Tribhuvan University | Tribhuvan University
…was established in 1918, and Tribhuvan University in Kāthmāndu, with faculties of arts, sciences, commerce, and education, was chartered in 1959. The University Senate has sole legal responsibility for higher education and the authority to grant academic recognition to colleges but is largely depe... |
dca24b0401eaddf08708113466e3c6b8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trier-Germany | Trier | Trier
Trier, French Trèves, Latin Augusta Treverorum, city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies on the right bank of the Moselle (Mosel) River, surrounded by the foothills of the Eifel, Hunsrück, and Mosel mountains, just east of the border with Luxembourg. A shrine of the Treveri, a Germa... |
2ad61a0f9b13af74de35b79872c5bbf5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trieste-Italy | Trieste | Trieste
Trieste, ancient (Latin) Tergeste, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian Trst, German Triest, city and capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia regione and of Trieste provincia, northeastern Italy, located on the Gulf of Trieste at the northeastern corner of the Adriatic Sea 90 miles (145 km) east of Venice. It was under Roman c... |
14e843aa9b1d3bb18eaa70d55911680c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trincomalee | Trincomalee | Trincomalee
Trincomalee, ancient Gokanna, town and port, Sri Lanka, on the island’s northeastern coast. It is situated on a peninsula in Trincomalee Bay—formerly called Koddiyar (meaning “Fort by the River”) Bay—one of the world’s finest natural harbours.
Trincomalee was in early times a major settlement of Indo-Aryan... |
a92dd684e03c93278b6b206535bd8abb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trincomalee-Bay | Trincomalee Bay | Trincomalee Bay
…situated on a peninsula in Trincomalee Bay—formerly called Koddiyar (meaning “Fort by the River”) Bay—one of the world’s finest natural harbours.
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0d3342868ca27e7e36f24359a2f6caf5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinidad-and-Tobago/History | History | History
When Christopher Columbus reached Trinidad in 1498 on his third voyage, the island was inhabited by Arawakan-speaking tribal groups originally from the Orinoco River delta region and a smaller number of Cariban speakers. In the 16th century many of these Trinidadian Indians were captured by Spanish slave trader... |
29a7b51d12e176710336d166c44c8e09 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinidad-and-Tobago/People | People | People
The original inhabitants of Trinidad migrated from the Orinoco River delta region of northeastern South America and probably spoke an Arawakan language. It seems likely that by the time the Spanish established a presence there in the 16th century, there was also a population of Cariban speakers, mostly on the no... |
2143053db6c66de32eb6528168aa51f6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinidad-Colorado | Trinidad | Trinidad
Trinidad, city, seat (1866) of Las Animas county, south-central Colorado, U.S., situated on the Purgatoire River in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at an elevation of 6,025 feet (1,836 metres), south of Pueblo. Near the foot of Raton Pass (12 miles [19 km] south on the Colorado–New Mexico bord... |
62fe0c087a08c05ad98112a647dfb38f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinidad-Uruguay | Trinidad | Trinidad
Trinidad, also called Porongos, city, south-central Uruguay. It lies in the Porongos Hills, a northern outlier of the Grande Inferior Range. The city is the area’s principal trade and manufacturing centre. Wheat, corn (maize), linseed, oats, and fruit grown in the hinterland are processed in Trinidad. Dairyin... |
2f0904dac939763eedff52d4f59aa6b7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinity-College-University-of-Cambridge-England | Trinity College | Trinity College
…the group had been at Trinity or King’s College, Cambridge, with Leslie Stephen’s son Thoby, who had introduced them to his sisters Vanessa and Virginia. Most of them had been “Apostles”; i.e., members of the “society,” a select, semisecret university club for the discussion of serious questions, found... |
dd6a8a2a88b5e83ec51417660a58c097 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trinity-St-Sergius-monastery | Trinity–St. Sergius monastery | Trinity–St. Sergius monastery
…foremost religious centre by the Trinity–St. Sergius monastery, which was founded in the mid-14th century by St. Sergius of Radonezh (in what is now the city of Sergiyev Posad). Sergius, as well as the metropolitans St. Peter (1308–26) and St. Alexius (1354–78), supported the rising power... |
fa632918a1b3c1719c99f2610a5f646a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Triphylia | Triphylia | Triphylia
…of the Alpheus River; and Triphylia, a hilly area stretching south from the Alpheus to the northern border of Messenia. Comparatively high rainfall produced good pasture and arable land in low-lying areas, and the region became noted for its horses, cattle, and flax.
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57688ad138901f14a9248cbda0c3eb1d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tripoli | Tripoli | Tripoli
Tripoli, Arabic Ṭarābulus, in full Ṭarābulus al-Gharb (“The Western Tripoli”), capital city of Libya. Situated in northwestern Libya along the Mediterranean coast, it is the country’s largest city and chief seaport.
The city was known as Oea in ancient times and was one of the original cities (along with Sabra... |
6f04dbbc56c16fa29bb8b6efa406021e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tripoli-Lebanon | Tripoli | Tripoli
Tripoli, Latin Tripolis, Arabic Ṭarābulus, in full Ṭarābulus Ash-shām, (“The Eastern Tripoli”), city and port, northwestern Lebanon. It lies on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Abū ʿAlī River, 40 miles (65 km) north-northeast of Beirut.
Founded after 700 bc, it became in the Persian period (300 bc) ... |
fa615fa0c2c7d2ebae820cc5dbd0ded4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tripura-Hills | Tripura Hills | Tripura Hills
Tripura Hills, hills in eastern Tripura state, northeastern India. The Tripura Hills, by way of the Mizo Hills of Mizoram state on the east, form a low western extension of the Purvachal, a strategically located highland region fronting the border with Myanmar (Burma). The region belongs to the Assam-Bur... |
88ed00944887f689dca110c707047978 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Tristan-da-Cunha-island | Tristan da Cunha | Tristan da Cunha
Five of them—Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible, Nightingale, Middle, and Stoltenhoff—are located within 25 miles (40 km) of one another, and the sixth, Gough, lies about 200 miles (320 km) south-southeast of the group. The territory is located approximately 1,300 miles (2,100 km) to the south of St.…
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3b79f6920e56a3df6e9071ee2a55153a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Triton-astronomy/Evolution | Evolution | Evolution
Triton is similar in size, density, and surface composition to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is thought to be a captured object that perhaps originally formed, like Pluto, as an independent icy planetesimal in the outer solar system. At some point in Neptune’s early history, Triton’s orbit around the Sun may hav... |
c6aa101e8a918f763475e710c11f894b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Trnava | Trnava | Trnava
Trnava, German Tyrnau, Hungarian Nagyszombat, town, southwestern Slovakia, on the Trnava River and the main Bratislava-Žilina railway.
Founded in the 7th century, Trnava received civic privileges in 1238. Its position north of the limit of Ottoman conquest in the 16th century was important to both Hungarian and... |
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