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Vic, Spanish Vich, city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The city is situated on the Vic Plain and lies along the Meder River, which is an affluent of the Ter River. Because it was first inhabited by the Ausetanos, an ancient Iberia... |
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Vicenza, Latin Vicetia, city, episcopal see, Veneto region, northern Italy, traversed by the Bacchiglione and Retrone rivers, at the eastern end of the valley between the Monti Lessini and the Monti Berici (which connects Lombardy with Veneto), northwest of Padua. Originally a settlement of the Ligurians or Ve... |
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Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Virreinato de Peru, the second of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its domains in the Americas. Established in 1543, the viceroyalty initially included all of South America under Spanish control except for the coast of what is now Venezuela. It later ... |
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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Spanish Virreinato del Río de la Plata, the final of the four viceroyalties that Spain created during its colonization of Central and South America. Including the territory now comprising Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia, the new viceroyal... |
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Vicksburg, city, seat (1836) of Warren county, western Mississippi, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Yazoo River, 44 miles (71 km) west of Jackson. Frenchmen settled there and built Fort-Saint-Pierre (1719) on the high bluffs, but the settlement was wiped out by Native Americans 10 ... |
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Victoria, city, capital of British Columbia, Canada, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island between the Juan de Fuca and Haro straits, approximately 60 miles (100 km) south-southwest of the province’s largest city, Vancouver. Victoria is the largest urban area on the island. It has the mildest winter... |
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Victoria Island, second largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Divided administratively between the Northwest Territories and the territory of Nunavut, it is separated from the mainland on the south by Dolphin and Union Strait, Coronation Gulf, Dease Strait, and Queen Maud Gulf. It is about... |
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Victoria Nile, river in Uganda that forms the upper section of the Nile River, flowing some 300 miles (480 km). It issues from the northern end of Lake Victoria at Ripon Falls (now submerged), west of Jinja, and flows northwest over the Nalubaale and Kiira dams at Owen Falls, through Lake Kyoga, and past... |
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…Hong Kong Island that include Victoria Peak in the west, which rises to 1,810 feet (552 metres), and Mount Parker in the east, which reaches a height of about 1,742 feet (531 metres).
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Victoria, town and capital of the Republic of Seychelles, located on the northeastern coast of Mahé Island, the largest island in the Seychelles group. Victoria is the only port of the archipelago and the only town of any size in Seychelles. Some one-third of the people of Mahé Island live in Victoria. The po... |
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Victoria, state of southeastern Australia, occupying a mountainous coastal region of the continent. Victoria is separated from New South Wales to the north by the Murray River for a length of about 1,065 miles (1,715 km) and by an additional boundary of some 110 miles (180 km) linking Cape Howe and the neares... |
996376f2e4e4a377218a48872993903c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Victoria-Texas | Victoria | Victoria
Victoria, city, seat (1836) of Victoria county, southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the Guadalupe River, some 85 miles (135 km) northeast of Corpus Christi. Founded in 1824 by Spanish settlers under Martín de León, it was named to honour both Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesus Victoria (Our Lady of Guadalupe... |
62940a6776bd7e931a4f184df06e1582 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vienna | Vienna | Vienna
Vienna, German Wien, Czech Videň, Hungarian Bécs, city and Bundesland (federal state), the capital of Austria. Of the country’s nine states, Vienna is the smallest in area but the largest in population.
Modern Vienna has undergone several historical incarnations. From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city—until ... |
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Vienne, town, Isère département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It lies along the Rhône River where the latter is joined by the Gère River, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Lyon. In ancient times Vienne was the capital of the Celtic tribe known as the Allobroges. It was conquered by the Romans... |
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Vientiane, also spelled Viangchan, largest city and capital of Laos, situated on a plain just northeast of the Mekong River. The city’s central river port location in a country relying heavily on its rivers for transportation and its surrounding hinterland of intensive rice cultivation have made Vientiane th... |
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Vieques Island, Spanish Isla de Vieques, island and municipio (municipality), Puerto Rico. It lies 13 miles (21 km) east of the main island, fronting to the south on the Caribbean Sea and north on Vieques Sound, which connects the Caribbean with the Atlantic Ocean. Composed mostly of volcanic and granit... |
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The northern part of Vietnam is on the edge of the tropical climatic zone. During January, the coldest month of the year, Hanoi has a mean temperature of 63 °F (17 °C), while the annual average temperature is 74 °F (23 °C). Farther south, the average annual temperature in Hue is 77 °F (25 °C) and in Ho Chi Minh... |
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Vieux Fort, town and former capital of St. Lucia island in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It lies 19 miles (30 km) south of the harbour of Castries and is situated near the island’s extreme southeastern tip on fertile, flat ground overlooking Vieux Fort Bay. Named for the 17th-century fort (Old Fort) situated t... |
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Vijayanagar, (Sanskrit: “City of Victory”) great ruined city in southern India and also the name of the empire ruled first from that city and later from Penukonda (in present-day southwestern Andhra Pradesh state) between 1336 and about 1614. The site of the city, on the Tungabhadra River, is now partly oc... |
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Villa María, city, east central Córdoba provincia (province), north-central Argentina. It is located on the Tercero River at the northwestern limits of the Pampas.
Founded in 1867, it was nominated but rejected as the site for the national capital in 1871. It is a rail junction and commercial and manufactu... |
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The Villa Trissino was rebuilt to a plan reminiscent of designs of Baldassarre Peruzzi, an important High Renaissance architect. Planned to house a learned academy for Trissino’s pupils, who lived a semimonastic life studying mathematics, music, philosophy, and classical authors, the villa represented Tr... |
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Villach, city, southern Austria, on the Drava (Drau) River at the eastern foot of the Villacher Alps, west of Klagenfurt. It originated as the Roman town of Bilachinium and formed part of the bishopric of Bamberg from 1007 to 1759. An important trade centre in the Middle Ages, it declined after new trade route... |
ce523e86073c70844355b9f0fb7e87ea | https://www.britannica.com/place/Villarrica-Paraguay | Villarrica | Villarrica
Villarrica, town, southern Paraguay. Founded in 1576 on the Paraná River, the settlement was moved in 1682 to its present site at the edge of the westward extension of the Brazilian Highlands, including the Ybytyruzú mountains at 820 ft (250 m) above sea level. Villarrica is a commercial, manufacturing, and... |
f4fd1f88f8e885db6abf5eb618e4c571 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Villeurbanne | Villeurbanne | Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne, city, a suburb of Lyon, Rhône département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France. Villeurbanne forms the eastern part of the metropolitan agglomeration of Lyon. It is located on the right bank of the Rhône River. The first skyscrapers in France were built there in the 1930s.
Ville... |
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Vincennes, city, seat (1790) of Knox county, southwestern Indiana, U.S., on the Wabash River, 51 miles (82 km) north of Evansville. Indiana’s oldest city, Vincennes figured prominently in early American history from the time of its settlement (1702, or possibly earlier) by French traders on the site of an In... |
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Vindija, site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region of Croatia, known for Neanderthal remains found there in the 1970s; Neanderthal DNA has since been successfully isolated from some specimens. The Vindija cave also contains a long, rich sequence of artifacts from the Paleolithic P... |
5b53730502f867c59a33a298e24ef215 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vinita | Vinita | Vinita
Vinita, city, seat (1907) of Craig county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. It lies northeast of Tulsa along the old Osage Trace (later Texas Road), a route used by fur trappers and pioneers in the 1880s. Founded as Downingville in 1871 when the railroads arrived, it was renamed for Vinnie Ream, who sculpted the sta... |
c1bc5f1c1d91af46cebc6c3fb40c72af | https://www.britannica.com/place/Virden-Illinois | Virden | Virden
Virden, city, Macoupin county, west-central Illinois, U.S. Virden lies about 20 miles (30 km) south of Springfield. Laid out in 1852 along the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad, it was named for John Virden, a local innkeeper. A coal-mining town, Virden was the scene of a mine riot on October 12, 1898. Violence ... |
f272f4c6e75e25dff64671d5d1aec33d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Virginia-Beach | Virginia Beach | Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, independent city, southeastern Virginia, U.S., on the Atlantic coast and Chesapeake Bay, adjacent to the cities of Norfolk and Chesapeake in the Hampton Roads region. The city extends 28 miles (45 km) southward from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay to the North Carolina border, covering 302 s... |
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Virginia City, town, seat (1876) of Madison county, southwestern Montana, U.S., on the Ruby River. Founded as Verona (after Varina Davis, wife of the president of the Confederate States of America) in 1863, when gold was discovered in nearby Alder Gulch, it was the first town to be incorporated (1864) in... |
2e8f5d9d6baf0031c6953c464d7466ae | https://www.britannica.com/place/Virginia-Minnesota | Virginia | Virginia
Virginia, city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies in the Mesabi Range, about 60 miles (95 km) northwest of Duluth. Iron ore was discovered in 1890 by Leonidas Merritt at the site of the nearby city of Mountain Iron. Two years later ore was found at the site of Virginia, which was then lai... |
26caec5665aaa21d3f6893c1f51330be | https://www.britannica.com/place/Virginia-state | Virginia | Virginia
Virginia, constituent state of the United States of America, one of the original 13 colonies. It is bordered by Maryland to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the west, and West Virginia to the northwest. The state capital is Richmond.
Vi... |
c07e8a7a6b56467c2b71b5365e7b0267 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Virunga-National-Park | Virunga National Park | Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park, formerly Albert National Park, park in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa). Created in 1925, it has an area of some 3,050 square miles (7,900 square km) and contains a vast diversity of habitats.
The park’s southern tip rests on the northern shore of La... |
3163374d96ddd0167a4a7f1e85ee81e4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Visakhapatnam | Visakhapatnam | Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam, also spelled Vishakhapatnam, also called Vizag, city and port, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies on a small embayment of the Bay of Bengal, about 380 miles (610 km) northeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. Visakhapatnam is a major commercial and administrative cen... |
e7d83bdb6965716487010f4662ada6a5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vitoria-da-Conquista | Vitória da Conquista | Vitória da Conquista
Vitória da Conquista, city, south-central Bahia estado (state), northeastern Brazil. It is situated in the Batalha Mountains at 3,040 feet (928 metres) above sea level.
Elevated to city status in 1891 and formerly called Conquista, the city is the trade and transportation centre for an extensive l... |
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Vladikavkaz, also called (1931–44, 1954–90) Ordzhonikidze, or (1944–54) Dzaudzhikau, city and capital of North Ossetia republic, southwestern Russia. It lies along the Terek River and on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. Founded in 1784, Vladikavkaz was designed as the key fortress to hold the... |
3339c8fd8b04917281b4c9581cf3ecf5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vladimir-Russia | Vladimir | Vladimir
Vladimir, city and administrative centre of Vladimir oblast (region), western Russia, situated on the Klyazma River. Vladimir was founded in 1108 by Vladimir II Monomakh, grand prince of Kiev. The community became the centre of a princedom, deriving importance from trade along the Klyazma. In 1157 Prince Andr... |
102c4ebbd6ec4dcff3a3f2917fef1d78 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vltava-River | Vltava River | Vltava River
Vltava River, German Moldau, river, the longest in the Czech Republic, flowing 270 miles (435 km). Its drainage basin is 10,847 square miles (28,093 square km). The river rises in southwestern Bohemia from two headstreams in the Bohemian Forest, the Teplá Vltava and the Studená Vltava. It flows first sout... |
10ff7e686be557ecae2819ce2f30b31f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vojna-Krajina | Vojna Krajina | Vojna Krajina
(The South Slav translation, Vojna Krajina, was used 300 years later in the name given to the areas of Croatia that local Serb majorities attempted to disconnect from Croatia following its secession from Yugoslavia.) Also dating from the time of the great migration of 1691 was the gradual conversion…
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Volcano Pico de Orizaba, Spanish Volcán Pico de Orizaba, also called Citlaltépetl Volcano, volcano on the border of Veracruz and Puebla states, south-central Mexico. Its name is derived from the Nahuatl for “Star Mountain.”
The volcano rises on the southern edge of the Mexican Plateau, about 60... |
0c34d85b0f8c0fdadd3325794486e650 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Volga-River/Climate | Climate | Climate
The climate of the Volga basin changes significantly from north to south. From its source to the Kama confluence, it lies within a temperate climatic zone characterized by a cold, snowy winter and a warm, rather humid summer. From the Kama to below the Volga Hills, hot, dry summers and cold winters with little ... |
4a3ebabad86cece109ac891f577b88a4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Volozhin | Volozhin | Volozhin
…great yeshiva (Talmudic academy) at Volozhin (now Valozhyn, Belarus), which trained several generations of scholars, rabbis, and leaders. Elijah’s writings were published posthumously and include commentaries and numerous annotations on the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, and other works.
…establishing a yeshiva (180... |
99d21146ca6aa282b177bd96b8fb2193 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vostok-Station | Vostok Station | Vostok Station
…lowest recorded temperature, measured at Vostok Station (Russia) on July 21, 1983, on the high inland ice sheet to −76 °F (−60 °C) near sea level. Temperatures vary greatly from place to place, but direct measurements in most places are generally available only for summertime. Only at fixed stations ope... |
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…the Gothic Revival was the Votive Church (1856–79) in Vienna by Heinrich von Ferstel. Indeed, Vienna was the centre of the most active and intriguing adaptations of Gothic. Friedrich Schmidt, who had worked under Zwirner at Cologne, was the leading revivalist. He built no fewer than eight churches in Vie... |
30008544ab63092c6ac5a611f5b1a22d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Vught | Vught | Vught
Vught, also called Herzonenbusch, small German Nazi concentration camp in the town of Vught, 2 miles (3 km) south of the city of Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Neth. Set up in early 1943, it was essentially a transit camp for Dutch Jews, who were worked in slave-labour projects and then shipped east to the exterm... |
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The northeastern part of the central city had by the late 19th century developed into an industrial appendage, but by the end of the 20th century most of its industry had been replaced by office and apartment buildings and retail establishments. One of…
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Wadi Al-Ḥamḍ, an intermittent river drawing water from the Medina Basin on the inner side of the escarpment, breaks through the mountains to reach the Red Sea. Another pass leads to Mecca and Al-Ṭāʾif in the highlands. The mountains become higher again in Asir, where…
…long extension is made by Wadi Al-Ḥam... |
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The valley of the Wadi Sirhān is the main physical feature of the area; it formerly served as an important caravan route from the Mediterranean to the central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Qurayyāt is sparsely populated. Al-Nabk is its capital. Pop. (2004 prelim.) 100,436.
The Wadi Al-S... |
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…this coast the stream of Wadi Ḥajr, perhaps the only truly perennial river in Arabia, flows about 60 miles to the sea.
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Wahiawa, Hawaiian Wahiawā, city, Honolulu county, central Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Lying 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Honolulu, it is situated on the 1,000-foot- (300-metre-) high Leilehua Plateau between the two forks of the Kaukonahua Stream. The area was once used as a training ground for Oahu warriors, a... |
792cc96f9a437a0efb0cbe695701d342 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Waihopai-River | Waihopai River | Waihopai River
…the South Island along the Waihopai River, near its confluence with the New River estuary. A service centre for the region’s agricultural industries, the city is situated on a plain that stretches to the north, east, and west; to the south, the estuary leads into Foveaux Strait, which separates the…
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ccbfe5c04fb53d9532711568bbb413b4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Waikiki | Waikiki | Waikiki
Waikiki, Hawaiian Waikīkī, resort district, southeastern Honolulu (city), Hawaii, U.S. On the southern coast of Oahu island, Waikiki (Hawaiian: “Spurting Water”) is situated on Mamala Bay between the Ala Wai Canal (north and west) and Diamond Head crater (southeast). In the 19th century Waikiki was a favourite... |
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Waimea, also called Kamuela, village, Hawaii county, north-central Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on the Mauna Kea–Kohala Saddle (2,669 feet [814 metres]), northeast of Kailua-Kona. In the 1790s the English navigator George Vancouver presented a gift of five cattle to King Kamehameha I. The king pla... |
4cceb94adf0ad6e79e029c79fd8a7337 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Waimea-Kauai-island | Waimea | Waimea
Waimea, town, Kauai county, southwestern Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waimea, whose name means “Reddish Water,” is situated on Waimea Bay at the mouth of the Waimea River. The valleys of the Waimea River and its tributary, the Makaweli River, were once heavily populated, and the town was an early centre of native... |
dca5a798b3e8e3ff0d53c177e8377f8b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Waipio-Valley | Waipio Valley | Waipio Valley
Waipio Valley, Hawaiian Waipi‘o, also called Valley of the Kings, valley in the Kohala Mountains, northern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. Enveloped on three sides by 2,500-foot- (750-metre-) high cliffs ribboned with spectacular waterfalls (including Hiilawe Falls, which drops more than 1,000 feet [300 metr... |
6090ea3143b45935420c1f4c56764ad0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Wales | Wales | Wales
Wales, constituent unit of the United Kingdom that forms a westward extension of the island of Great Britain. The capital and main commercial and financial centre is Cardiff.
Famed for its strikingly rugged landscape, the small nation of Wales—which comprises six distinctive regions—was one of Celtic Europ... |
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There are indications of a Romano-British Christian church in southeastern Wales, but Christian influence may also have penetrated much deeper into Wales in the Roman period. Inscribed stones, though themselves belonging to the 5th or 6th century, carry terms such as sacerdos (probably meaning bishop... |
8398dacefde8a9e9ff4b777ca17b2399 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Wales/Government-and-society | Government and society | Government and society
Because Wales is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom, foreign relations and many domestic matters for Wales are determined in London by the British government and Parliament’s House of Commons, which includes many Welsh members. Thus, the British prime minister is the head of state and chief... |
0a6e7737f9b2e529f33e2d4cb1084a1f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Wallingford-Connecticut | Wallingford | Wallingford
Wallingford, urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, in 1638 for 12 cloth coats. It was set off from New Haven and opened to white settlers in 1667. Ori... |
74afbfc831ccc783adcf6e2d2dc5f6ba | https://www.britannica.com/place/Wallsend | Wallsend | Wallsend
Wallsend, town, North Tyneside metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, northeastern England.
The Romans built Segedunum there to defend the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, a defensive structure protecting England from raids from the north. Modern Wallsend ... |
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Walsenburg, city, seat (1874) of Huerfano county, southern Colorado, U.S., on the Cucharas River, east of the Sangre de Cristo Range and south of Pueblo, at an elevation of 6,187 feet (1,886 metres). Formed in 1873 from a small Spanish village (La Plaza de los Leones), it was named for Fred Walsen, who orga... |
c9e65267e259ca7c48a6fe85fdf605bc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Walvis-Bay | Walvis Bay | Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay, Afrikaans Walvisbaai, town and anchorage in west-central Namibia, lying along the Atlantic Ocean. It constituted an exclave of South Africa until 1992.
A mid-19th-century rush for guano deposits on a number of adjacent islands was followed by British annexation of the bay and the adjacent hinter... |
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Warner Robins, city, Houston county, central Georgia, U.S., 10 miles (16 km) south of Macon. It originated as the small railside village of Wellston, which rapidly developed after the establishment in 1941 of Robins Air Force Base, once the home of the 14th Air Force “Flying Tigers” and now headquarters ... |
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Warren, city, seat (1800) of Warren county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Allegheny River near the mouth of the Conewango Creek, 21 miles (34 km) south of Jamestown, New York. Laid out in 1795, it was named for General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. A lumber boom in the mi... |
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Warrington, urban area (from 2011 built-up area) and unitary authority, geographic county of Cheshire, northwestern England. It lies along the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal between Liverpool and Manchester. The historic core of Warrington and the rest of the unitary authority north of the River... |
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Warsaw, Polish Warszawa, city, capital of Poland. Located in the east-central part of the country, Warsaw is also the capital of Mazowieckie województwo (province).
Warsaw is notable among Europe’s capital cities not for its size, its age, or its beauty but for its indestructibility. It is a phoenix that has ri... |
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The Warsaw ghetto was the foremost example.
When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of German-occupied Poland’s 400 ghettos, in the fall of 1940, the Jews—then 30 percent of Warsaw’s population—were forced into 2.4 percent of the city’s area. The ghetto’s population reached a density of more ... |
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Warwickshire, administrative and historic county of central England, in the Midlands region. As an administrative and geographic unit, the county dates from the 10th century, with the historic county town (seat) of Warwick lying roughly at its centre.
Covering a smaller and somewhat different area than th... |
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Wasatch Range, segment of the south-central Rocky Mountains, extending southward for about 250 miles (400 km), from the bend of the Bear River in southeastern Idaho, U.S., to beyond Mount Nebo, near Nephi in north-central Utah. It lies east of the Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake City and includes the Bear ... |
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Baseball is the national pastime, and it has been traditional for the president to initiate the Washington season by “throwing out the first pitch” since William Howard Taft did so in 1910 (other presidents had been asked, but Taft, a sports fan, was the first to accept and follow through). Major ... |
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Washington, constituent state of the United States of America. Lying at the northwestern corner of the 48 conterminous states, it is bounded by the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north, the U.S. states of Idaho to the east and Oregon to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The capital... |
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Waterloo, city, seat (1855) of Black Hawk county, northeastern Iowa, U.S., along both sides of the Cedar River, adjacent to Cedar Falls on the west. The site was first settled in 1845 as Prairie Rapids, and the name Waterloo was adopted in 1851. The town grew as a railroad division point and a regional trade ... |
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Watertown, city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. One of the four earliest Massachusetts Bay settlements, it was founded by a group led by Sir Richard Saltonstall and was incorporated as a town in 1630; it was the first inland farming town. Its name ma... |
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Watertown, city, seat (1805) of Jefferson county, northern New York, U.S. It lies at the falls (112 feet [34 metres]) of the Black River, 10 miles (16 km) east of Lake Ontario and 72 miles (116 km) north of Syracuse. The area was first organized as the township of Watertown in 1801. Lumber, paper, and potash... |
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Watervliet, city, Albany county, eastern New York, U.S., on the west bank of the Hudson River (bridged), opposite Troy. Originally part of a land tract bought by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a diamond merchant of Amsterdam, from the Mohawk Indians in 1630, it was incorporated (1836) as the Village of West Troy, ... |
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Watts, southwestern district of Los Angeles, California, U.S. The district, originally called Mud Town, was renamed in 1900 for C.H. Watts, a Pasadena realtor who owned a ranch there. It was annexed to Los Angeles in 1926. The Watts district gained widespread notoriety on August 11–16, 1965, as the scene of raci... |
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Waukesha, city, seat (1846) of Waukesha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It is situated on the Fox River, about 15 miles (25 km) west of Milwaukee. The site was settled by Morris D. Cutler in 1834 near a Potawatomi Indian village and called Prairieville. In 1846 it was renamed Waukesha (Potawatomi: “By th... |
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Wayne, township (town), Passaic county, northern New Jersey, U.S., 6 miles (10 km) west of Paterson, New Jersey. The site, first settled in 1695, was originally part of New Barbadoes township in Essex county, which was later incorporated into Bergen county. During the American Revolution the Theunis Dey Mansion ... |
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Wealden, district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, southeastern England. Hailsham, in the south-central part of the district, is the administrative centre.
The district takes its name from The Weald, a region of forested ridges that lies between the chalk hills of the North and... |
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Webster City, city, seat (1856) of Hamilton county, central Iowa, U.S., on the Boone River, 17 miles (27 km) east of Fort Dodge. It was settled in 1850 by Wilson Brewer and was known as Newcastle until 1856, when it became the county seat and was renamed Webster City, possibly for Webster county (from whi... |
53a7b528b1473e726645319de6df89a9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Webster-Massachusetts | Webster | Webster
Webster, town (township), Worcester county, south-central Massachusetts, U.S., on the French River, 18 miles (29 km) south of Worcester city. Within the town limits is Lake Chaubunagungamaug (now also called Lake Webster), 3 miles (5 km) long and the focus of a recreational area. The lake’s full name, Chargogg... |
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Weehawken, township, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 5 miles (8 km) north of Jersey City and opposite New York City on the Hudson River. An industrial port and railroad centre, it is the western portal of the Lincoln Tunnel. It was settled by the Dutch about 1647 when Maryn Adriadsen rec... |
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Wei, one of the many warring states into which China was divided during the Dong (Eastern) Zhou period (770–256 bce). The state was located in what is now Shanxi province, in north-central China. Wei was originally a vassal kingdom that was annexed by the neighbouring state of Jin in 661 bce. The latter kingdom wa... |
1df8ec23b7dd10e3dfe196cdfa96719f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Wellesley | Wellesley | Wellesley
Wellesley, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., just west of Boston. Originally part of Dedham, it became the Western Precinct of Needham when that town was set off in 1711. Incorporated as a separate town in 1881, it was named for the estate of Samuel Welles, who had settled the sit... |
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Welwyn Garden City, also called Welwyn, new town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area) in Welwyn Hatfield district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeast-central England. It is located on the northern periphery of London.
It was founded in 1920 by Sir Ebenezer Howard as a... |
0baafba063df92307de74f866034939f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Welwyn-Hatfield | Welwyn Hatfield | Welwyn Hatfield
Welwyn Hatfield, district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, directly north of the metropolitan county of Greater London. Welwyn Garden City is the district seat.
Welwyn Hatfield district is an area of rolling open countryside within the Thames basin, and its so... |
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West Bengal, state of India, located in the eastern part of the country. It is bounded to the north by the state of Sikkim and the country of Bhutan, to the northeast by the state of Assam, to the east by the country of Bangladesh, to the south by the Bay of Bengal, to the southwest by the state of Odisha,... |
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West Berlin, the western half of the German city of Berlin (q.v.), which until the reunification of the German state in 1990 was treated as a city and Land (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), though it was not constitutionally part of that nation.
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West Bridgewater, town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Boston. The area was deeded by Massasoit, a Wampanoag Indian chief and sachem (intertribal leader) of all Wampanoags, to six people in trust for 56 proprietors of Duxbury plantation for t... |
4be006c17f4ffc50aa0d971cb634e9c1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Covina | West Covina | West Covina
West Covina, city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It lies at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Valley and is about 20 miles (30 km) east of the city centre of Los Angeles. Settled in 1905, it began as an agricultural community surrounded by citrus and walnut groves. After World War II it ex... |
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West Des Moines, city and suburb of Des Moines (which lies immediately to the east), Polk county, central Iowa, U.S. The area was settled in the 1840s and became an important rail junction in the 1850s called Valley Junction. James Cunningham Jordan, the town’s first settler, operated a station on the ... |
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West End, in London, loosely defined area in the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. Because many of its neighbourhoods and retail districts are among the more affluent of the metropolis, the West End is considered the fashionable end of London. For centuries it has been known for its royal pa... |
0ce02b27aa07391db8a404bafb4df3b5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Germany | West Germany | West Germany
West Germany, from 1949 to 1990, a republic consisting of the western two-thirds of what is now Germany. West Germany was created in 1949 when the United States, Great Britain, and France consolidated those zones, or portions, of Germany that they had occupied at the end of World War II. When West and Eas... |
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West Indies, Spanish Indias Occidentales, French Indes Occidentales, Dutch West-Indië, crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north. From the peninsula of Flo... |
6afee71a46d8492bc9e3df3aa406b326 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Indies-island-group-Atlantic-Ocean/Colonialism | Colonialism | Colonialism
England was the most successful of the northwestern European predators on the Spanish possessions. In 1623 the English occupied part of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts), and in 1625 they occupied Barbados. By 1655, when Jamaica was captured from a small Spanish garrison, English colonies had been established... |
01574553114cd8dafac1b11ab9b3656e | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Java | West Java | West Java
West Java, Indonesian Jawa Barat, propinsi (or provinsi; province), western Java, Indonesia. It is bounded by the province of Central Java (Jawa Tengah) to the east, the Indian Ocean to the south, the province of Banten to the west, the special capital district of Jakarta to the northwest, and the Java Sea t... |
c807c1fdfed36ac10299f2ec3070e129 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Lafayette | West Lafayette | West Lafayette
West Lafayette, city, Tippecanoe county, west-central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the Wabash River (bridged) opposite Lafayette. A town was platted on the west bank of the Wabash in 1836, but it failed to attract settlers because it was located in an area prone to flooding. A second settlement was found... |
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West Lancashire, district, administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England, north of the city of Liverpool. Ormskirk, in the southwest, is the district’s administrative centre.
West Lancashire is separated from the Irish Sea by the narrow coastal strip of Sefton except in the nor... |
e700ab041d3d272b21924d7627456392 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Lothian-council-area-Scotland | West Lothian | West Lothian
West Lothian, council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland, on the southern shore of the River Forth estuary and the Firth of Forth just west of Edinburgh. The council area and historic county occupy somewhat different areas. The historic county borders the Forth from Bo’ness to the mouth of th... |
3e2a45a1249eff25c2a9d7cfd4d48f59 | https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Nusa-Tenggara | West Nusa Tenggara | West Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesian Nusa Tenggara Barat, propinsi (or provinsi; province) of Indonesia, comprising the western Lesser Sunda Islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Moyo, and Sangeang. Nusa Tenggara is Indonesian for “southeast islands.” The province fronts the Flores Sea to the northeast, the Sape St... |
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