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After World War I there was a further decline in the birth rate and a continuing spread of contraception, though contraceptive methods had been known and practiced by all sections of society for a considerable time before this. What was important in the interwar years was a development of contraceptiv... |
708aa77a7eb92a6300310a835b63506e | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/James-I-1603-25 | James I (1603–25) | James I (1603–25)
James VI, king of Scotland (1567–1625), was the most experienced monarch to accede to the English throne since William the Conqueror, as well as one of the greatest of all Scottish kings. A model of the philosopher prince, James wrote political treatises such as The Trew Law of a Free Monarchy (1598),... |
d9bbe31600b5ca3cf845f3a488fcc10b | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Local-government | Local government | Local government
Each part of the United Kingdom has a distinct system of local government. (For a full account of local government in each part of the United Kingdom, see the discussions of local government in the articles on England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.) Local governments have very few legislative ... |
76158f5882d7dd261f152f1ea39e7da0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Plant-and-animal-life | Plant and animal life | Plant and animal life
Except for northern Scotland, the highest hills of the north and west, the saturated fens and marshes, and the seacoast fringes, the natural vegetation of the British Isles is deciduous forest dominated by oak. Human occupation has left only scattered woodlands and areas of wild or seminatural veg... |
bebd78d258842c6501479a1686e72503 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Religion | Religion | Religion
The various Christian denominations in the United Kingdom have emerged from schisms that divided the church over the centuries. The greatest of these occurred in England in the 16th century, when Henry VIII rejected the supremacy of the pope. This break with Rome facilitated the adoption of some Protestant ten... |
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Despite the so-called “dismantling of controls” after the end of World War I, government involvement in economic life was to continue, as were increased public expenditure, extensions of social welfare, and a higher degree of administrative rationalization. In the interwar years the level of... |
5a1bf84e66671f580b16691b7387623b | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/The-beginning-of-the-Wars-of-the-Roses | The beginning of the Wars of the Roses | The beginning of the Wars of the Roses
The so-called Wars of the Roses was the struggle between the Yorkist and Lancastrian descendants of Edward III for control of the throne and of local government. The origins of the conflict have been the subject of much debate. It can be seen as brought about as a result of Henry ... |
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With Wolsey and his papal authority gone, Henry turned to the authority of the state to obtain his annulment. The so-called Reformation Parliament that first met in November 1529 was unprecedented; it lasted seven years, enacted 137 statutes (32 of which were of vital importance), and legislated in ... |
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At the beginning of the 17th century, England and Wales contained more than four million people. The population had nearly doubled over the previous century, and it continued to grow for another 50 years. The heaviest concentrations of population were in the southeast and along th... |
8f6f1d3514bf5590c62a3611fd4a9af4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/The-highland-zone | The highland zone | The highland zone
The creation of the highlands was a long process, yet elevations, compared with European equivalents, are low, with the highest summit, Ben Nevis, only 4,406 feet (1,343 metres) above sea level. In addition, the really mountainous areas above 2,000 feet (600 metres) often form elevated plateaus with r... |
70fe6efad2c2a3e85e793dd7d8594d09 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/The-later-Stuarts | The later Stuarts | The later Stuarts
Charles II arrived in London on the 30th birthday of what had already been a remarkably eventful life. He came of age in Europe, a child of diplomatic intrigues, broken promises, and unfulfilled hopes. By necessity he had developed a thick skin and a shrewd political realism. This was displayed in the... |
b099b1da74b62bf4691503c596331685 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/The-Margaret-Thatcher-government-1979-90 | The Margaret Thatcher government (1979–90) | The Margaret Thatcher government (1979–90)
In the subsequent election, in May 1979, the Conservatives under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher were swept into power with the largest electoral swing since 1945, securing a 43-seat majority. After an extremely shaky start to her administration, Thatcher achieved populari... |
1a4645018e30127bbc4ead2480242e01 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/The-Tony-Blair-government-1997-2007 | The Tony Blair government (1997–2007) | The Tony Blair government (1997–2007)
During its years out of power, the Labour Party had undergone a gradual transformation as it attempted to distance itself from the power of the unions on the one hand and the power of the membership on the other, in the guise of the traditional role of the Labour Party Conference. ... |
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United Provinces of Central America, Spanish Provincias Unidas De Centro-américa, (1823–40), union of what are now the states of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.
Since the 1520s these regions, along with the Mexican state of Chiapas, had composed the cap... |
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United States, officially United States of America, abbreviated U.S. or U.S.A., byname America, country in North America, a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwest... |
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United States Virgin Islands, also called U.S. Virgin Islands, organized unincorporated island territory of the United States, situated at the eastern end of the Greater Antilles, about 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico, in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. The territory is geographically... |
bfc0aedd0b178e1153271d972b584fda | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Cultural-life | Cultural life | Cultural life
The great art historian Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich once wrote that there is really no such thing as “art”; there are only artists. This is a useful reminder to anyone studying, much less setting out to try to define, anything as big and varied as the culture of the United States. For the culture that e... |
470f997b0782ace9107605223ae51dcc | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Eisenhowers-second-term | Eisenhower’s second term | Eisenhower’s second term
Despite suffering a heart attack in 1955 and a case of ileitis that required surgery the next year, Eisenhower stood for reelection in 1956. His opponent was once again Stevenson. Two world crises dominated the campaign. On October 23, Hungarians revolted against communist rule, an uprising tha... |
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Every epoch since the Renaissance has had an art form that seems to become a kind of universal language, one dominant artistic form and language that sweeps the world and becomes the common property of an entire civilization, from one country to another. Italian painting in the 15th century, German music ... |
4c0746a9feb7300f6335d9b311819a53 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-1944-election | The 1944 election | The 1944 election
Roosevelt soundly defeated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York in the 1944 election, but his margin of victory was smaller than it had been previously. His running mate, chosen by leaders who disliked former vice president Henry A. Wallace for his extreme liberalism, was Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri,... |
7dffed0ab462b7f7bf993dabcee1afde | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Donald-Trump-administration | The Donald Trump administration | The Donald Trump administration
Against this backdrop the campaign for the 2016 election unfolded with the primary battles of both parties largely shaped by unlikely insurgent populist candidates—businessman and reality TV star turned Republican Donald Trump and democratic socialist U.S. senator turned Democrat Bernie ... |
6a69183fae606e33b1d4e70704151326 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Ferguson-police-shooting-the-death-of-Freddie-Gray-and-the-Charleston-church-shooting | The Ferguson police shooting, the death of Freddie Gray, and the Charleston church shooting | The Ferguson police shooting, the death of Freddie Gray, and the Charleston church shooting
In the summer of 2014, accounts of unarmed African Americans who had died in the process of arrest by police began to fill the media. In July 2014 a man in New York City died as a result of a choke hold applied an by arresting o... |
5c024814e9b8f489014afa69487093cf | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Great-Depression | The Great Depression | The Great Depression
In October 1929, only months after Hoover took office, the stock market crashed, the average value of 50 leading stocks falling by almost half in two months. Despite occasional rallies, the slide persisted until 1932, when stock averages were barely a fourth of what they had been in 1929. Industria... |
9f25aa568703157137b711a7ca993dad | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Native-American-response | The Native American response | The Native American response
The other major players in this struggle for control of North America were, of course, the American Indians. Modern historians no longer see the encounters between Native Americans and Europeans through the old lens in which “discoverers of a New World” find a “wilderness” inhabited by “sav... |
38af521fccdf8b28cf71b3c9b2f5d291 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Populists | The Populists | The Populists
The collapse of the boom and the falling prices of agricultural products forced many farmers to seek relief through political action. In 1888 and again in 1890 this discontent was expressed through local political groups, commonly known as Farmers’ Alliances, which quickly spread through parts of the West... |
458181c22dbb76373eb67c1a67bf7291 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Progressive-era | The Progressive era | The Progressive era
The inauguration of Pres. William McKinley in 1897 had seemed to mark the end of an era of domestic turmoil and the beginning of a new period of unparalleled tranquility. Prosperity was returning after the devastating panic of 1893. The agrarian uprising led by Bryan in the election of 1896 had been... |
904074d895d0868d431070c71406cbd8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Sandy-Hook-Elementary-School-shooting | The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting | The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Gun violence was once again at the centre of the national dialogue after 20 children and 6 adults were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on December 14, 2012. (The shooter also killed himself and his mother that day.) Obama echoed the wide... |
9c43ce15ebbbb8399a4858f33bcba41d | https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Sherman-Antitrust-Act | The Sherman Antitrust Act | The Sherman Antitrust Act
The first of these major measures declared illegal all combinations that restrained trade between states or with foreign nations. This law, known as the Sherman Antitrust Act (taking its name from its author, John Sherman) was passed by Congress early in July. It was the congressional response... |
8049414b878d4a67b7b63843b1ec65db | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Barcelona | University of Barcelona | University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona was founded in 1450. It is one of seven public and private universities in the city. Others include the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1968) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1971). Most courses in the municipality’s schools are taught in Spanish and…
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The University of Basel awarded Burckhardt the degree of Ph.D. in absentia, and after his return from Berlin in 1843 he was quickly authorized to give private lectures. Lecture he did, but for two years he had to earn his living as the editor of the…
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1a5a78115be06845b27e6cf3534a1f1f | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Breslau | University of Breslau | University of Breslau
…was named lecturer at the University of Breslau. He became extraordinary professor there in 1859 and finally became ordinary professor of botany at the university in 1871. In 1866 he founded and in 1872 became the director of the Institute of Plant Physiology at the University of Breslau; this wa... |
470da28983c18ed676fdbeba19aa56ac | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Dhaka | University of Dhaka | University of Dhaka
…larger universities, such as the University of Dhaka (1921), the University of Rajshahi (1953), or the University of Chittagong (1966). Other prominent institutions include Jahangirnagar University (1970) on the outskirts of the capital, the Bangladesh Agricultural University (1961) at Mymensingh, ... |
54d2aa834606e696bfbf04c85c851c0f | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Guam | University of Guam | University of Guam
The University of Guam, which opened in 1952, is a four-year institution that also provides graduate programs at the master’s degree level. Health conditions are relatively advanced. Facilities include public, private, and military hospitals and local clinics. Life expectancies for men and women are ... |
f35688315fcecdf296f2cf72d82ac26d | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Guyana | University of Guyana | University of Guyana
The principal university is the University of Guyana, founded in 1963 and subsequently housed at Turkeyen, in the eastern part of Greater Georgetown. The university also has become politicized, attendance there being contingent upon the completion of a year of national service, usually at camps in ... |
e9a266b7ff5d4bed7c770ded1c847ede | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Newcastle-upon-Tyne | University of Newcastle upon Tyne | University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1937 as King’s College by the merging of Armstrong College and the College of Medicine, both of which were attached to the University of Durham. The links with the school in Durham remained until 1963, when King’s…
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4ebdf728be9e885ee3b6336adb4e9784 | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Nigeria | University of Nigeria | University of Nigeria
…a branch campus of the University of Nigeria, the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, and the Institute of Management and Technology. Enugu state’s central library and several radio stations are also located there. Pop. (2016 est.) urban agglom., 895,000.
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7a6fd3ce3c50c8f6418ee9462259723e | https://www.britannica.com/place/University-of-Tirane | University of Tiranë | University of Tiranë
The University of Tirana (1957) is the country’s major institution of higher education. Tirana also has an agricultural and polytechnic university, along with an impressive network of professional and vocational schools. More than nine-tenths of the population age 15 and older is literate.
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Upper Egypt, Arabic Qiblī Miṣr, also called Al-Ṣaʿīd (“The Upland”), geographic and cultural division of Egypt, generally consisting of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan Hig... |
7515404f3de3c03936747c200126a414 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uppingham | Uppingham | Uppingham
Uppingham, town (parish) in the unitary authority and historic county of Rutland, east-central England.
The town is noted for its 16th-century houses and its public (independent secondary) school. It came into being as a market town and is located in what is still a predominantly agricultural area. Uppingham... |
94801a94fc062a5deda14edeaa28f617 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uppsala-county-Sweden | Uppsala | Uppsala
Uppsala, län (county) in east-central Sweden. It lies between Mälaren (lake) on the south and the Gulf of Bothnia on the north. It constitutes most of the western part of the landskap (province) of Uppland. The län’s low, level surface is drained by the Fyris River. Grain and potatoes are grown, and there is s... |
417a6bbe8aee18eef69dfb315643286f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uranus-planet | Uranus | Uranus
Uranus, seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the solar system’s four giant, or Jovian, planets, which also include Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green point of light. It is designated by the symbol ♅.
Uranus is nam... |
41ab10b1715df1c2a7af8fd4076d01a8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Urbana-Illinois | Urbana | Urbana
Urbana, city, seat (1833) of Champaign county, east-central Illinois, U.S. Urbana is contiguous with Champaign (west), about 135 miles (220 km) southwest of Chicago. The two cities are often called Champaign-Urbana. The area was first settled in 1822, and in 1833 the city was founded as the county seat and name... |
65efcdaccbf728d99057c30222e21995 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Urbana-Ohio | Urbana | Urbana
Urbana, city, Champaign county, west-central Ohio, U.S., in a stock-raising and farming area, 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Dayton. Laid out in 1805 by Col. William Ward of Virginia, it became the county seat in the same year and grew after a training camp was established there by Gen. William Hull during the W... |
b188e119d99b796694c2578d6aea8e10 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Urci | Urci | Urci
Urci, ancient settlement in southeastern Roman Hispania mentioned by Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Claudius Ptolemy. The writings of these historians indicate that the city was located in the hinterland of what is now Villaricos, Spain, in the lower basin of the Almanzora River.
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69b0566c4acbc7927579ae5b29705d93 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ureparapara | Uréparapara | Uréparapara
The northernmost islet, Uréparapara, is a volcanic cone that has been breached by the sea, thus creating Lorup Bay in its east coast. Several of the islands have active volcanoes. The islands’ inhabitants, who are mostly Melanesians, cultivate copra and coffee for export. There are airstrips on Mota…
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Urgench, also spelled Urgenč, city, south-central Uzbekistan. The city lies along the Shavat Canal and the Amu Darya (river). Urgench was founded when the inhabitants of the ancient city of Urgench, near present-day Kunya-Urgench, 80 miles (130 km) to the northwest, moved there in the mid-17th century because ... |
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Ursa Major, (Latin: “Greater Bear”) also called the Great Bear, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky, at about 10 hours 40 minutes right ascension and 56° north declination. It was referred to in the Old Testament (Job 9:9; 38:32) and mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (xviii, 487). The Greeks ide... |
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Ursa Minor, (Latin: “Lesser Bear”) also called the Little Bear, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky, at about 15 hours right ascension and 80° north declination, and seven of whose stars outline the Little Dipper. Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris), at the end of the Little Dipper’s handle, marks (... |
9cfdb5203dc423de8eff807fc3ae3053 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uruapan | Uruapan | Uruapan
Uruapan, in full Uruapan del Progreso, city, west-central Michoacán estado (state), west-central Mexico. Founded in 1533, Uruapan (from a Tarascan Indian term meaning “where the flowers abound”) is famous for its Spanish colonial atmosphere and colourful lacquerware and Indian handicrafts. It is a rail terminu... |
ac60948a4e59e47a6d7d335a375ccfa0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uruguay | Uruguay | Uruguay
Uruguay, country located on the southeastern coast of South America. The second smallest country on the continent, Uruguay has long been overshadowed politically and economically by the adjacent republics of Brazil and Argentina, with both of which it has many cultural and historical similarities. “On the map,... |
9c4f1477d137ac4280f064a2aba4ed39 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uruguay/Sports-and-recreation | Sports and recreation | Sports and recreation
Football (soccer) is a national obsession in Uruguay, and the country holds one of the most storied histories in the game. Uruguay first competed at the Olympic Games in 1924 in Paris, where it won the gold medal in football. In 1930 Montevideo’s Centenario stadium hosted the inaugural World Cup, ... |
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Ushuaia, city, capital and port of Tierra del Fuego provincia (province), Argentina, on the Beagle Channel. It lies on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America.
The site was first settled by Wasti H. Stirling, an English missionary, in 1870. In 1884 an Argentine ... |
f8c9584a9cfeef7bf4e3fe8647b543da | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ussuriysk | Ussuriysk | Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk, also spelled Ussurijsk, city, Primorsky kray (territory), far eastern Russia. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) north of Vladivostok along the Trans-Siberian Railroad at the junction with a line to Harbin in Heilongjiang province, China. Founded as the village of Nikolskoye in 1866, it became a city ... |
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Ustyurt Plateau, Kazak Üstirt, Turkmen Üstyurt, plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya (river) delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazköl; an inlet of the Caspian Sea) in the west. It has an area of about 77... |
8dcb0015a6fb20309a95378945e65ca5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Usumacinta-River | Usumacinta River | Usumacinta River
Usumacinta River, Spanish Río Usumacinta, river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, formed by the junction of the Pasión River, which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala), and the Chixoy River, which descends from the Sierra Madre de Guatemala.
The Usumacinta River flows no... |
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Because the population of Utah is overwhelmingly Mormon, the church has a strong influence on the state’s cultural life and traditions. The church is divided into “stakes” consisting of 6 to 10 local congregations, or “wards,” of about 500 members each. Each stake has a “tabernacle,” or stake centre, with... |
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Utica, city, seat (1798) of Oneida county, central New York, U.S., on the Mohawk River and New York State Canal System, 45 miles (72 km) east of Syracuse. The first settlers were Dutch and Palatinate Germans, and in 1758 the British built Old Fort Schuyler, near the site of an ancient Oneida Indian council stone... |
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Utrecht, gemeente (municipality), central Netherlands. It lies along the Kromme Rijn (Winding, or Crooked, Rhine), Oude (Old) Rijn, and Vecht rivers and the Amsterdam–Rijn Canal. Its original Roman name, Trajectum ad Rhenum (Ford on the Rhine), later became Ultrajectum, and then Utrecht.
The site of successive... |
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Utrecht, provincie, central Netherlands, the country’s smallest, with an area of 514 square miles (1,331 square km). It extends southward from the narrow Lake Eem, which separates Utrecht provincie from the South Flevoland polder of Flevoland provincie. Utrecht provincie lies between the provincies of Noord-Ho... |
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Utsunomiya, city, capital of Tochigi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. The city is situated on the alluvial plain between the Ta River and the Kinu River. A castle town in the 11th century, it later served as a post town on the Nikkō Highway during the Tokugawa era (1603–1867). The city became the prefectura... |
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Uttaradit, town, northern Thailand. It is a provincial capital and a farming market centre on the Nan River and the Bangkok–Chiang Mai railway. The town centre was rebuilt after being destroyed by a fire in 1967. The Pha Then Buddhist shrine is southwest of the town. Uttaradit is in one of Thailand’s foremos... |
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The town of Uummannaq (founded 1763) is on a small island just north of Nuussuaq Peninsula. It has been a hunting and fishing base for centuries and now serves as a municipal centre. Fishing and fish processing contribute to the economy. Nearby is Maarmorilik, a 20th-century mining site,…
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Uzbekistan, officially Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbek Ŭzbekiston or Ŭzbekistan Respublikasi, country in Central Asia. It lies mainly between two major rivers, the Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes River) to the northeast and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) to the southwest, though they only partly form its boun... |
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Uzbeks make up more than four-fifths of the population, followed by Tajiks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Russians, and Karakalpaks. Uzbeks are the least Russified of the Turkic peoples formerly under Soviet rule, and virtually all of them still claim Uzbek as their primary language.
The Uzbeks speak a language belonging to ... |
22f4d10c4cfcbf92b4b9b33700ab58d2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Uzbekistan/The-early-Uzbeks | The early Uzbeks | The early Uzbeks
One great incoming human wave that did substantially change the demography of the region brought the ethnonym Uzbek to the heart of that territory. These Turkic-Mongol tribes came from northwestern Siberia, where they probably adopted the name Uzbek from the admired Muslim ruler of the Golden Horde, Öz... |
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Valdivia, city, Los Ríos región, southern Chile. It lies at the confluence of the Calle Calle and Cruces rivers, where they flow into the Valdivia River, 11 miles (18 km) from the Pacific Ocean.
Although founded in 1552 and a strategically significant outpost during the colonial era, Valdivia did not flourish... |
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Valence, town, capital of Drôme département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. Valence lies on the left bank of the Rhône River and is connected by road to Lyon and Grenoble.
Built on a succession of terraces bordering the Rhône, the town is dominated by the ancient cathedral of Saint-Apollinai... |
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Valenciennes, town, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, on the Escaut (Scheldt) River. The origin of the name is obscure. Some believe that it stems from one of the three Roman emperors called Valentinian. Others attribute it to a corruption of val des cygnes (“valley of the swans”)... |
134ec846f27d3f44ada03164875a151d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vallejo | Vallejo | Vallejo
Vallejo, city, Solano county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Pablo Bay at the mouth of the Napa River, just north of Berkeley and Oakland. In 1850 military officer Mariano Guadeloupe Vallejo offered land for the new state capital of California. Although his offer was accepted and the new town of Va... |
b7624a6884fe4fb32dfb9b7ef39733f1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Valley-of-the-Queens | Valley of the Queens | Valley of the Queens
Valley of the Queens, also called Valley of the Tombs of the Queens, Arabic Wādī al-Bībān al-Harīm, or Wādī al-Harīm, gorge in the hills along the western bank of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of ancient Thebes and served as the burial site of the queens and some royal children of the... |
088ef0c65eb9ca6d013bfce69c4ef04f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Valparaiso-Chile | Valparaíso | Valparaíso
Valparaíso, city, capital of Valparaíso región, central Chile. It lies on the south side of a broad, open bay of the Pacific Ocean, 84 miles (140 km) northwest of the national capital of Santiago. The city stands on the slopes of a semicircular spur of the coastal mountain range that ends in the rocky penin... |
b0e142b0bafc8a0d1668e812ec460f99 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Valparaiso-Indiana | Valparaiso | Valparaiso
Valparaiso, city, seat of Porter county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies just east-southeast of Gary. Laid out in 1836 as the county seat, it was first called Portersville but was renamed the following year for Valparaíso, Chile. It was originally a point on the old Sauk Trail, which was a thoroughfare f... |
7422dca4056fd69869cc845ae838a7f1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Van | Van | Van
Van, city, eastern Turkey, situated on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city lies at an elevation of about 5,750 feet (1,750 metres) in an oasis at the foot of a hill crowned by an ancient ruined citadel.
A ruined stone building near the foot of the rocky spur bears cuneiform inscriptions dating from the 8th and... |
41f9763db7de22b103b11b9ea371d522 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vancouver | Vancouver | Vancouver
Vancouver, city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the major urban centre of western Canada and the focus of one of the country’s most populous metropolitan regions. Vancouver lies between Burrard Inlet (an arm of the Strait of Georgia) to the north and the Fraser River delta to the south, opposit... |
bb670d02d4ce4e670667b761d937d197 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vardar-River | Vardar River | Vardar River
Vardar River, German Wardar, Greek Axiós, major river in North Macedonia and in Greece. It rises in the Šar Mountains, flows north-northeast past Gostivar and Tetovo (in the Gostivar-Tetovo depression), and then turns sharply to flow southeast past Skopje and Titov Veles into Greece, where it enters the G... |
7e09bbd64b8c8fa62570436f43c48679 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Varmland | Värmland | Värmland
Värmland, län (county) of west-central Sweden, extending north from Vänern (lake) and northwest to the Norwegian frontier. It takes in most of the traditional landskap (province) of Värmland. Much of its area forms a plateau, reaching a height of 2,267 feet (691 metres) at Brånberget in the north. The well-fo... |
5b410f3433cc36cffcca3fa4923f6b4e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Varna-Bulgaria | Varna | Varna
Varna, also spelled Warna, seaport and third largest city in Bulgaria. Lying on the north shore of Varna Bay on the Black Sea coast, the city is sheltered by the Dobrudzhansko plateau, which rises to more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) above sea level. A narrow canal (1907) links Varna Lake—a drowned valley into w... |
a400db702c8a4a8bb0905cfc42666795 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vastergotland | Västergötland | Västergötland
Västergötland, landskap (province), southwestern Sweden. It is composed largely of the administrative län (county) of Västra Götaland and of portions of Halland and Örebro counties. Lying between Lakes Vättern and Vänern, it is bounded by the traditional provinces of Värmland on the north, Närke on the e... |
4c0e0d14d22d5f3faf166cefcfd70d2c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vastra-Gotaland | Västra Götaland | Västra Götaland
Västra Götaland, län (county), southwestern Sweden. It was created in 1998 by the amalgamation of the counties of Älvsborg, Göteborg och Bohus, and Skaraborg. The capital is Gothenburg, Sweden’s major port and second largest city.
Västra Götaland is bordered on the west by Norway, the Skagerrak, and th... |
7cfccacc3f787d8193a6486d325c7c8b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vasylkiv | Vasylkiv | Vasylkiv
Vasylkiv, Russian Vasilkov, city, northern Ukraine, on the Stuhna River, a tributary of the Dnieper River. The city, which was founded in 988 and fortified in the 11th century, was destroyed in 1240 by the Mongols. It eventually recovered and was incorporated as a city in 1796. In 1825, troops stationed there... |
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Vatican City, in full State of the Vatican City, Italian Stato della Città del Vaticano, ecclesiastical state, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River. Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. Its medieval and Rena... |
b7eb8485f0f2fa409373afc50e07d23f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vendee | Vendée | Vendée
Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, and Loire-Atlantique. Pays de la Loire is bounded by the régions of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to the northwest, Normandy to the north, Centre to the east, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the south. The Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic Ocean lies to the west. The capital is…
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cc08c8f6e0c957f753dfd482e0d11987 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Venezuela | Venezuela | Venezuela
Venezuela, country located at the northern end of South America. It occupies a roughly triangular area that is larger than the combined areas of France and Germany. Venezuela is bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Colombia to the sout... |
957b5b1efbd01f2664a906668a0178a7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Venezuela/The-Andinos | The Andinos | The Andinos
The course of Venezuelan history changed markedly at the turn of the 20th century. In 1899 General Cipriano Castro, a caudillo from the Andean state of Táchira, descended on Caracas with his provincial army and seized the presidency. As a result, five successive military strongmen from Táchira, known as And... |
77161157d12717c08a67f05f070ff7d5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Venice/Churches | Churches | Churches
San Marco Basilica was the focus of public religious life, but the scores of other Venetian churches are an essential element of the city’s landscape. Their campaniles, rarely perpendicular, punctuate the skyline; their ornate facades grace the squares, from the delicate Gothic of Madonna dell’Orto (c. 1350, r... |
dd8523fadcb348b6dc0e131e4d7ed610 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ventura | Ventura | Ventura
Ventura, formally San Buenaventura, city, seat (1873) of Ventura county, southern California, U.S. It lies on the Pacific coast overlooking the Santa Barbara Channel. It is the site of the San Buenaventura Mission, the ninth and last mission founded (1782) by Junípero Serra, which was restored as a historic si... |
1c107199e853a608bcd601df1facf8b9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Venus-planet/Surface-composition | Surface composition | Surface composition
A number of the Soviet landers carried instruments to analyze the chemical composition of the surface materials of Venus. Because only the relative proportions of a few elements were measured, no definitive information exists concerning the rock types or minerals present. Two techniques were used to... |
7bd50bfcbd7cd0c7d9612dfa9a98899b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Veracruz-Mexico | Veracruz | Veracruz
Veracruz, in full Veracruz Llave, city and port on the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz estado (state), east-central Mexico.
The city is built on a hot, low, and barren sandy beach along the Gulf of Mexico only about 50 feet (15 metres) above sea level. Hernán Cortés founded La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz (“The Rich T... |
d37b8f5ced788fb17783fd32b7ff5b53 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Veracruz-state-Mexico | Veracruz | Veracruz
Veracruz, in full Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, formerly (1863–2003) in full Veracruz-Llave, estado (state), east-central Mexico. Veracruz is bounded by the state of Tamaulipas to the north, by the Gulf of Mexico to the east, and by the states of Tabasco and Chiapas to the southeast, Oaxaca to the southwes... |
43b53847f2ffdfa363b160517651692d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vercors-Plateau | Vercors Plateau | Vercors Plateau
In France the Vercors Plateau is pavement karst featuring many deep caves, including the Berger Shaft—one of the deepest in Europe. The Hölloch Cave, the world’s third longest at 133 kilometres, is found in the Swiss Alps. Individual limestone massifs capped with karst plateaus and abounding with deep…
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8108448d7ba7047b5474ed748e9d15e8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Verde-River | Verde River | Verde River
… rise to the northeast; the Verde River flows to the west of the mountains, entering the Salt River east of Phoenix.
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e900dd636d1cc9d574838e420a96fe98 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Verkhoyansk | Verkhoyansk | Verkhoyansk
Verkhoyansk, also spelled Verchoiansk or Verchojansk, town, Sakha (Yakutiya), far northeastern Russia, on the Yana River near its confluence with the Sartang. Founded as a fort in 1638 and today a minor centre of tin and gold mining, Verkhoyansk is noted chiefly for its exceptionally low winter temperature... |
be030864be43e60568d57277036c19ad | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vermillion | Vermillion | Vermillion
Vermillion, city, seat (1862) of Clay county, southeastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies near the confluence of the Vermillion and Missouri rivers, just north of the Nebraska border and about 15 miles (25 km) west of the Iowa border. Fort Vermillion, a trading post, was built on the site in 1835, and a permane... |
225163e86c488790a39153cb95b02d5f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vermio-Mountains | Vérmio Mountains | Vérmio Mountains
Vérmio Mountains, also spelled Vérmion, mountain range, Imathía nomós (department), west-central Macedonia (Modern Greek: Makedonía), Greece. The range rises west of the broad plain of Kambania, which extends southward to the Gulf of Salonika. The mountains reach a height of 6,732 feet (2,052 m) west ... |
8917480e4da3eccd4b93666dba2d9deb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vernal | Vernal | Vernal
Vernal, city, seat (1880) of Uintah county, northeastern Utah, U.S. The city lies along Ashley Creek, a small tributary of Green River, and is located 180 miles (290 km) east-southeast of Salt Lake City, at an elevation of 5,322 feet (1,622 metres) in an area of geologic and fossil interest. Settled in 1878 as ... |
3f9377e31f515aaac914bfb3cddc543e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Veroia | Véroia | Véroia
Véroia, historically Beroea, dímos (municipality) and commercial centre of Greek Macedonia (Modern Greek: Makedonía), Central Macedonia (Kendrikí Makedonía) periféreia (region), northern Greece. It lies on a plateau at the western edge of the Thessaloníki (Salonika) plain, at the eastern foot of the Vérmio (als... |
84fe5ab26ae4e21f86373f69e9072895 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Versailles-France | Versailles | Versailles
Versailles, town and capital of Yvelines département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, 14 miles (22 km) southwest of Paris. The town developed around the 17th-century Palace of Versailles, built by Louis XIV, the principal residence of the kings of France and the seat of the government for more t... |
d4fd375c45d126fdae01462d1bee1c5a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vesta-asteroid | Vesta | Vesta
Vesta, second largest—and the brightest—asteroid of the asteroid belt and the fourth such object to be discovered, by the German astronomer and physician Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807. It is named for the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth (the Greek Hestia).
Vesta revolves around the Sun once in 3.63 years ... |
15b3e27f55f6fed71cc382b24787c265 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vesteralen | Vesterålen | Vesterålen
Vesterålen, island group, in the Norwegian Sea, northern Norway. Forming the northern end of the Lofoten-Vesterålen archipelago, the Vesterålen include, from east to west, Hinn Island (largest Norwegian island but for Spitsbergen), And Island, and Lang Island; important smaller islands are Gryt and Hadsel, ... |
648f97cd99e92dccbd145cbd3a1b0788 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Via-Toledo | Via Toledo | Via Toledo
From Piazza Trieste e Trento, the teeming thoroughfare of Via Toledo—named for the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro di Toledo, who laid it out in 1536—passes north into the dense centre of Naples. Its innumerable shops interspersed with grand churches, Via Toledo is banked…
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