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5b09b7b7bf6e214afe763114ef5957a4 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War/French-rule-ended-Vietnam-divided | French rule ended, Vietnam divided | French rule ended, Vietnam divided
The Vietnam War had its origins in the broader Indochina wars of the 1940s and ’50s, when nationalist groups such as Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh, inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism, fought the colonial rule first of Japan and then of France. The French Indochina War broke out in 194... |
4975a0f1b78fd81cc19d98901bfb42cd | https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War/The-conflict-deepens | The conflict deepens | The conflict deepens
Buoyed by its new American weapons and encouraged by its aggressive and confident American advisers, the South Vietnamese army took the offensive against the Viet Cong. At the same time, the Diem government undertook an extensive security campaign called the Strategic Hamlet Program. The object of ... |
84781188c87e9fa0d35c78e3dcb2ef0e | https://www.britannica.com/event/Violence-Against-Women-Act | Violence Against Women Act | Violence Against Women Act
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), U.S. federal legislation that expanded the juridical tools to combat violence against women and provide protection to women who had suffered violent abuses. It was initially signed into law in September 1994 by U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton. Besides changing stat... |
b0b30ee5bcb0d8b1a930f30e38db3895 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Virginia-and-Kentucky-Resolutions | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, (1798), in U.S. history, measures passed by the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky as a protest against the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts. The resolutions were written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (then vice president in the admin... |
4e1b0c75a64ead79abcb7c3f3824735a | https://www.britannica.com/event/Virginia-Tech-shooting | Virginia Tech shooting | Virginia Tech shooting
Virginia Tech shooting, school shooting at the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus of Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, that left 33 people dead, including the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
Cho, who was born in South Korea but later moved to the... |
f65370cf28f18ee573a37b1086686251 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Walking-Purchase | Walking Purchase | Walking Purchase
Walking Purchase, (Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century. Colonial authorities claimed to have found a lost treaty, of 1686, ceding a tract o... |
55362a029dda71dfb954a1043b43038e | https://www.britannica.com/event/Wannsee-Conference | Wannsee Conference | Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference, meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” (Endlösung) to the so-called “Jewish question” (Judenfrage). On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring had issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich, SS (Nazi p... |
6ca287734b97245035f62ca1ac21afb1 | https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-Devolution | War of Devolution | War of Devolution
War of Devolution, (1667–68), conflict between France and Spain over possession of the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and Luxembourg).
Devolution was a local custom governing the inheritance of land in certain provinces of the Spanish Netherlands, by which daughters of a first marriage were... |
981e20735e3eb7a54352091bf0dcca7f | https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-Greek-Independence | War of Greek Independence | War of Greek Independence
War of Greek Independence, (1821–32), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of Greece.
The rebellion originated in the activities of the Philikí Etaireía (“Friendly Brotherhood”), a patriotic conspiracy founded ... |
7d8bb89f2c04d6186c51f610107541e5 | https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-Jenkins-Ear | War of Jenkins' Ear | War of Jenkins' Ear
War of Jenkins’ Ear, war between Great Britain and Spain that began in October 1739 and eventually merged into the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48). It was precipitated by an incident that took place in 1738 when Captain Robert Jenkins appeared before a committee of the House of Commons and... |
401001d2180c69fec49e4779ed700a13 | https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Bavarian-Succession | War of the Bavarian Succession | War of the Bavarian Succession
War of the Bavarian Succession, (1778–79), conflict in which Frederick II the Great of Prussia blocked an attempt by Joseph II of Austria to acquire Bavaria.
After losing Silesia to the Prussians in the 1740s (see Austrian Succession, War of the), the Austrian emperor Joseph II and his c... |
4697c51d0d0c128fe59fe36e470eac76 | https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Triple-Alliance | War of the Triple Alliance | War of the Triple Alliance
War of the Triple Alliance, also called Paraguayan War, Spanish Guerra de la Triple Alianza, Portuguese Guerra da Tríplice Aliança, (1864/65–70), the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history, fought between Paraguay and the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
Paraguay had... |
c4e2df7ab49dd16c4c51564da6b01ea0 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Wars-of-Religion | Wars of Religion | Wars of Religion
Wars of Religion, (1562–98) conflicts in France between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The spread of French Calvinism persuaded the French ruler Catherine de Médicis to show more tolerance for the Huguenots, which angered the powerful Roman Catholic Guise family. Its partisans massacred a Huguenot c... |
07c6a7efcbc4042cbd077a7f7c95e466 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Wars-of-the-Roses | Wars of the Roses | Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong government of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named many years afterward from the supposed badges o... |
468dfac1aa5119aa3b82986c8e7b9459 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Wars-of-the-Vendee | Wars of the Vendée | Wars of the Vendée
Wars of the Vendée, (1793–96), counterrevolutionary insurrections in the west of France during the French Revolution. The first and most important occurred in 1793 in the area known as the Vendée, which included large sections of the départements of Loire-Inférieure (Loire-Atlantique), Maine-et-Loir... |
8cf884e5eb4da533978d484f77c3db60 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation in 1943 to the deportations from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp. The revolt began on April 19, 1943, and was crushed four weeks later, on May 16.
As part of Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” for ridding Europe of J... |
21e4bceb0703e1cf7fd0e4e7063b5982 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Washington-Conference-1921-1922 | Washington Conference | Washington Conference
Washington Conference, also called Washington Naval Conference, byname of International Conference on Naval Limitation, (1921–22), international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area. Held in Washington, D.C., t... |
496431bd80ac47043b97dc9c5760841e | https://www.britannica.com/event/Watergate-Scandal | Watergate scandal | Watergate scandal
Watergate scandal, interlocking political scandals of the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon that were revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. O... |
8a8e3367f3c8c40e5a892095ad081a4d | https://www.britannica.com/event/West-Memphis-Three | West Memphis Three | West Memphis Three
West Memphis Three, three American men who in 1994, while teenagers, were found guilty of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, allegedly as part of devil worship. The men garnered national attention due to a series of documentaries and books that questioned their convictions as well... |
1def4744bd30a938f4158ed30ae4ef7f | https://www.britannica.com/event/West-Virginia-State-Board-of-Education-v-Barnette | West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 14, 1943, that compelling children in public schools to salute the U.S. flag was an unconstitutional violation of their freedom of speech and religion.
On the heels ... |
d8a538679420512ae3cf377e1127299f | https://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Front-World-War-I | Western Front | Western Front
…cease-fire that occurred along the Western Front during World War I. The pause in fighting was not universally observed, nor had it been sanctioned by commanders on either side, but, along some two-thirds of the 30-mile (48-km) front controlled by the British Expeditionary Force, the guns fell silent for... |
56bcc5d9ef822158b2f334488b5b8a67 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Schism | Western Schism | Western Schism
Western Schism, also called Great Schism or Great Western Schism, in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the period from 1378 to 1417, when there were two, and later three, rival popes, each with his own following, his own Sacred College of Cardinals, and his own administrative offices.
Shortly af... |
c96de11d0e3faa4f6046523573fde5f8 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Whiskey-Rebellion | Whiskey Rebellion | Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion, (1794), in American history, uprising that afforded the new U.S. government its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means within state boundaries, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania to quell an uprising of settlers rebelling against the liquor tax... |
9adaa3814e23a32a93179cc1b2fe06e3 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Womens-March-2017 | Women's March | Women's March
Women’s March, demonstrations held throughout the world on January 21, 2017, to support gender equality, civil rights, and other issues that were expected to face challenges under newly inaugurated U.S. Pres. Donald Trump. The march was initially scheduled to be held only in Washington, D.C., but “siste... |
d8d410ec3b7487fc6c9a1247d7ada444 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-Trade-Center-bombing-of-1993 | World Trade Center bombing of 1993 | World Trade Center bombing of 1993
World Trade Center bombing of 1993, terrorist attack in New York City on February 26, 1993, in which a truck bomb exploded in a basement-level parking garage under the World Trade Center complex. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in what was at that time the dea... |
a74010e71a7668269d6c2f2690b5bb5e | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I | World War I | World War I
World War I, also called First World War or Great War, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies... |
f47597fe02c56ebee854707885843f1b | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Eastern-Front-strategy-1914 | Eastern Front strategy, 1914 | Eastern Front strategy, 1914
Russian Poland, the westernmost part of the Russian Empire, was a thick tongue of land enclosed to the north by East Prussia, to the west by German Poland (Poznania) and by Silesia, and to the south by Austrian Poland (Galicia). It was thus obviously exposed to a two-pronged invasion by the... |
c67a4b6848b7de930c628e8bde8b3115 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Italy-and-the-Italian-front-1915-16 | Italy and the Italian front, 1915–16 | Italy and the Italian front, 1915–16
Great Britain, France, and Russia concluded on April 26, 1915, the secret Treaty of London with Italy, inducing the latter to discard the obligations of the Triple Alliance and to enter the war on the side of the Allies by the promise of territorial aggrandizement at Austria-Hungary... |
a1633a1dc70561c7bdc3e2440d708fd8 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Killed-wounded-and-missing | Killed, wounded, and missing | Killed, wounded, and missing
The casualties suffered by the participants in World War I dwarfed those of previous wars: some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds and/or disease. The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas. The bayonet... |
700ef0f3eb252c52155d67f089c89fa7 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Other-developments-in-1918 | Other developments in 1918 | Other developments in 1918
Something must now be said about the growth of the national movements, which, under the eventual protection of the Allies, were to result in the foundation of new states or the resurrection of long-defunct ones at the end of the war. There were three such movements: that of the Czechs, with t... |
9617448f75b19bfeb6494def9b6565c6 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/The-First-Battle-of-the-Marne | The First Battle of the Marne | The First Battle of the Marne
Already on September 3, General J.-S. Gallieni, the military governor of Paris, had guessed the significance of the German 1st Army’s swing inward to the Marne east of Paris. On September 4 Joffre, convinced by Gallieni’s arguments, decisively ordered his whole left wing to turn about from... |
2b650b5ac2126d419986b24451b5a127 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/The-last-offensives-and-the-Allies-victory | The last offensives and the Allies’ victory | The last offensives and the Allies’ victory
As the German strength on the Western Front was being steadily increased by the transfer of divisions from the Eastern Front (where they were no longer needed since Russia had withdrawn from the war), the Allies’ main problem was how to withstand an imminent German offensive ... |
edf4e00955ea70bc7ee6e62a62cd5120 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/The-war-in-the-west-1914 | The war in the west, 1914 | The war in the west, 1914
For the smooth working of their plan for the invasion of France, the Germans had preliminarily to reduce the ring fortress of Liège, which commanded the route prescribed for their 1st and 2nd armies and which was the foremost stronghold of the Belgian defenses. German troops crossed the fronti... |
d0e442a36ed5accb7f6a03c560c78c23 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Forces-and-resources-of-the-European-combatants-1939 | Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939 | Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939
In September 1939 the Allies, namely Great Britain, France, and Poland, were together superior in industrial resources, population, and military manpower, but the German Army, or Wehrmacht, because of its armament, training, doctrine, discipline, and fighting spirit... |
e06e8f4c611a1ad2337670a9b2db7868 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/German-occupied-Europe | German-occupied Europe | German-occupied Europe
Hitler’s racist ideology and his brutal conception of power politics caused him to pursue certain aims in those European countries conquered by the Germans in the period 1939–42. Hitler intended that those western and northern European areas in which civil administrations were installed—the Nethe... |
8421136251b1f2adcdc2e3d1d6ece012 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/The-war-in-Europe-1939-41 | The war in Europe, 1939–41 | The war in Europe, 1939–41
The German conquest of Poland in September 1939 was the first demonstration in war of the new theory of high-speed armoured warfare that had been adopted by the Germans when their rearmament began. Poland was a country all too well suited for such a demonstration. Its frontiers were immensely... |
6272d2f0b6e49c6f704d3889f3be3248 | https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Yalta | Yalta | Yalta
Roosevelt’s last meeting with Stalin and Churchill took place at Yalta, in Crimea, February 4–11, 1945. The conference is chiefly remembered for its treatment of the Polish problem: the western Allied leaders, abandoning their support of the Polish government in London, agreed that the Lublin committee—already re... |
e921654b2b41704d3a3072e7fa6f10cc | https://www.britannica.com/event/Zimmermann-Telegram | Zimmermann Telegram | Zimmermann Telegram
Zimmermann Telegram, also called Zimmermann Note, coded telegram sent January 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico. The note revealed a plan to renew unrestricted submarine warfare and to form an alliance with Mexico and Japan if the United States... |
c52392a9bad8ef6df89245b1a9c2cfad | https://articles.historynet.com/white-death-and-the-winter-war-how-a-tiny-army-defeated-the-ussr.htm | White Death and the Winter War: How a Tiny Army Defeated the USSR | White Death and the Winter War: How a Tiny Army Defeated the USSR
When attempting to summarize the 1939 conflict between the Soviet Union and its small Nordic neighbor, Finland, the old proverb stating that “big things come in small packages” seems to serve exceptionally well. How else can you explain a diminutive army... |
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Aa, the name of many small European rivers. The word is derived from the Old High German aha, cognate to the Latin aqua (“water”).
Among the streams of this nature are: a river in northern France flowing through St. Orner and Gravelines and a river of Switzerland, in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, which carries... |
b46eda3f551115e8380c235a20d930ea | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aalst | Aalst | Aalst
Aalst, French Alost, municipality, Flanders Region, north-central Belgium, on the Dender River, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Brussels. The town hall (begun in the middle of the 12th century), with its 52-bell carillon, is the oldest in Belgium, and its archives include 12th-century manuscripts. Ravaged by fire ... |
41d5de3ce4159a14d32b60d80772aede | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abasto | Abasto | Abasto
Abasto and Once are quintessential working-class neighbourhoods; both are located west of Avenida 9 de Julio. Carlos Gardel, one of Argentina’s renowned tango singers, lived in Abasto. Once is famous for its Art Deco buildings. To the north of Once lies Belgrano, home to a…
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1309088d5b0b224e596997ac1b6c78e3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abbeville-Louisiana | Abbeville | Abbeville
Abbeville, city, seat (1854) of Vermilion parish, southern Louisiana, U.S., on the Vermilion River, 20 miles (32 km) south-southwest of Lafayette. It was founded in 1843 by a Capuchin missionary, Père Antoine Desire Mégret, who patterned it on a French Provençal village. First called La Chapelle and settled ... |
61b0931309d0461a61e74f862220de18 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abbeville-South-Carolina | Abbeville | Abbeville
Abbeville, city, seat of Abbeville county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. French Huguenots in 1764 settled the site, which was named for Abbeville, France, by John de la Howe. The city is regarded by some as the “Cradle and the Grave of the Confederacy”; it was there that a secessionist meeting was held (... |
17cea72ae787f48ece0fb7aae8d4fc04 | https://www.britannica.com/place/abbey-of-the-Trinity | Abbey of the Trinity | Abbey of the Trinity
The abbey of the Trinity, which was destroyed by lightning, was rebuilt between the 12th and 13th centuries and was restored in the 15th and 18th centuries. It is an impressive building with a lantern tower 275 feet (84 metres) high. There is also a distillery…
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2ba1a5fcaab0a495f4139ac2d3fa1187 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdare-Range | Aberdare Range | Aberdare Range
Aberdare Range, mountain range, forming a section of the eastern rim of the Great Rift Valley in west-central Kenya, northeast of Naivasha and Gilgil and just south of the Equator. The range has an average elevation of 11,000 feet (3,350 metres) and culminates in Oldoinyo Lesatima (13,120 feet [3,999 me... |
62b6add4e73b782a442d1d445b63e639 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdeen-Maryland | Aberdeen | Aberdeen
Aberdeen, city, Harford county, northeastern Maryland, U.S., near Chesapeake Bay, 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Baltimore. Settled about 1800, it was named for the city in Scotland. Aberdeen is the principal trading centre for the nearby 113-square-mile (293-square-km) Aberdeen Proving Ground (established 191... |
185982ab6b1dcf7f9e31e829181dadf0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdeen-South-Dakota | Aberdeen | Aberdeen
Aberdeen, city, seat (1880) of Brown county, northeastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies in the James River valley about 160 miles (260 km) northeast of Pierre. Established in 1881 as a junction of several railroads, it was named for Aberdeen in Scotland by Alexander Mitchell, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee,... |
ecf1eb385e828daf9a4908a7ec8f68fa | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdeen-Washington | Aberdeen | Aberdeen
Aberdeen, city, Grays Harbor county, western Washington, U.S., on the Pacific estuaries of the Chehalis, Wishkah, and Hoquiam rivers (which together form Grays Harbor). With Hoquiam and Cosmopolis, Aberdeen forms a tri-city area. Captain Robert Gray navigated the inlet in the ship Columbia on May 7, 1792, and... |
af8c2eb39e6ca59343aa2f227eea1f64 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire, also called Aberdeen, council area and historic county of eastern Scotland. It projects shoulderlike eastward into the North Sea and encompasses coastal lowlands in the north and east and part of the Grampian Mountains in the west. The council area and the historic county occupy somewhat d... |
9d01fa7dd96e03dd1a26dcd70670f9ad | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abia | Abia | Abia
Abia, state, east-central Nigeria. Abia was administratively created in 1991 from the eastern half of former Imo state. It is bordered by the states of Enugu and Ebonyi to the north, Akwa Ibom to the east and southeast, Rivers to the south and southwest, and Imo and Anambra to the west. Abia includes areas of oil... |
9e43ee1e8d2ef4acd11720c9fad8d8ba | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abidjan | Abidjan | Abidjan
Abidjan, chief port, de facto capital, and largest city of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies along the Ébrié Lagoon, which is separated from the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic by the Vridi Plage sandbar. A village in 1898, it became a town in 1903. Abidjan was a rail terminus from 1904 but had to depend on... |
d19dcfaf5d5853ccf29a31b9523c45ca | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abilene-Texas | Abilene | Abilene
Abilene, city, seat (1883) of Taylor county (and partly in Jones county), west-central Texas, U.S. It lies on low, rolling plains 153 miles (246 km) west of Fort Worth. Founded in 1881 as the new railhead (built by the Texas and Pacific Railway) for the overland Texas cattle drives, it took not only the busine... |
3a36f05c6ed703053d4d87f5455c5beb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abkhazia | Abkhazia | Abkhazia
Abkhazia, also spelled Abkhaziya, autonomous republic in northwestern Georgia that formally declared independence in 1999. Only a few countries—most notably Russia, which maintains a military presence in Abkhazia—recognize its independence. Bordering the eastern shores of the Black Sea, Abkhazia consists of a... |
0328f764df8f97bed3989d2de9719401 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abqaiq | Abqaiq | Abqaiq
Abqaiq, Arabic Buqayq, town, eastern Saudi Arabia, about 25 miles (40 km) west of the Persian Gulf. It is situated in the southern end of the Abqaiq oil field, one of the largest and most productive in the kingdom. Abqaiq grew rapidly following the discovery of the oil field in 1940. By 1950 the town was the so... |
2217cf2f5f1b971266c4477200c0e9e9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu-Musa | Abū Mūsā | Abū Mūsā
…to the Sharjah island of Abū Mūsā, in the open gulf northwest of Sharjah town, and landed troops there. A subsequent agreement between Iran and Sharjah promised that both flags would fly over the island, settled the question of possible future oil discoveries in the area (where Sharjah had granted…
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2b6a80dcecacaac368fd1177452c6c3c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu-Nuwas-Street | Abū Nuwās Street | Abū Nuwās Street
Parallel to Saʿdūn, Abū Nuwās Street on the riverfront was once the city’s showpiece and—as befits a thoroughfare named for a poet known for his libidinous verse—its entertainment centre. During the 1990s the street lost much of its old glamour, and its cafes, restaurants, and luxury hotels either…
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3fcdd10cf74a0db16f2db5caeb691ebf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu-Simbel | Abu Simbel | Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel, site of two temples built by the Egyptian king Ramses II (reigned 1279–13 bce), now located in Aswān muḥāfaẓah (governorate), southern Egypt. In ancient times the area was at the southern frontier of pharaonic Egypt, facing Nubia. The four colossal statues of Ramses in front of the main temple a... |
d3736a22eb0abd08de3d4d5496dea96b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Abuja-national-capital-Nigeria | Abuja | Abuja
Abuja, city, capital of Nigeria. It lies in the central part of Nigeria, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT; created 1976). The city is approximately 300 miles (480 km) northeast of Lagos, the former capital (until 1991). During the 1980s the new capital city was built and developed on the grass-covered Chuku... |
99e485d5af5aa681163110650d0e646e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Academia-Sinica | Academia Sinica | Academia Sinica
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s leading scientific research and development body, is located in Shanghai. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), practical applications of scientific work in agriculture and industry were encouraged. Since the late 1970s, extensive research investments have been m... |
824c687917321aceeca6f1da70822349 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Academy-of-Design | Academy of Design | Academy of Design
…instruction, the Accademia del Disegno (“Academy of Design”), was established in 1563 in Florence by the grand duke Cosimo I de’ Medici at the instigation of the painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari. The two nominal heads of the institution were Cosimo himself and Michelangelo. In contrast to the... |
aef7d5f50b2d5e8b19362bab506cc651 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acadia-National-Park | Acadia National Park | Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park, national park on the Atlantic coast of Maine, U.S., astride Frenchman Bay. It has an area of 65 square miles (168 square km) and was originally established as Sieur de Monts National Monument (1916), named for Pierre du Guast, sieur (lord) de Monts. It became the first nation... |
f7d1dbe07fd5866eb6cd432a4450897e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Acapulco | Acapulco | Acapulco
Acapulco, in full Acapulco de Juárez, city and port, Guerrero estado (state), southwestern Mexico. Situated on a deep, semicircular bay, Acapulco is a resort with the best harbour on the Pacific coast of Mexico and one of the finest natural anchorages in the world. The town lies on a narrow strip of land betw... |
485c0e0e943750d0326b6dd31a455ee8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Accra | Accra | Accra
Accra, capital and largest city of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). The city lies partly on a cliff, 25 to 40 feet (8 to 12 metres) high, and spreads northward over the undulating Accra plains. The area’s susceptibility to faulting is the cause of occasional earthquakes.
When the Port... |
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Aceh, also spelled Acheh, Achin, or Atjeh, in full Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam or English State of Aceh, Abode of Peace, autonomous daerah istimewa (special district) of Indonesia, with the status of propinsi (or provinsi; province), forming the northern extremity of the island of Sumatra. Aceh is surrounded by wate... |
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Acoma, Indian pueblo, Valencia county, west-central New Mexico, U.S. The pueblo lies 55 miles (89 km) west-southwest of Albuquerque and is known as the “Sky City.” Its inhabitants live in terraced dwellings made of stone and adobe atop a precipitous sandstone butte 357 feet (109 metres) high. They have always en... |
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Acre, westernmost estado (state) of Brazil. Acre covers the southwesternmost part of Brazil’s Hiléia (Hylea), the forest zone of the Amazon River basin. Bounded north by Amazonas state, it has western and southern frontiers with Peru and southeastern with Bolivia. The capital is Rio Branco on the Rio Acre in the ... |
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Adal, historic Islāmic state of eastern Africa, in the Danakil-Somali region southwest of the Gulf of Aden, with its capital at Harer (now in Ethiopia). Its rivalry with Christian Ethiopia began in the 14th century with minor border raids and skirmishes. In the 16th century, Adal rose briefly to international imp... |
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Adams, town (township), Berkshire county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies at the foot of Mount Greylock (3,491 feet [1,064 metres]), on the Hoosic River, 15 miles (24 km) north of Pittsfield. The town of North Adams is 5 miles north. Founded by Quakers in 1766, it was known as East Hoosuck until 1778, w... |
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Adélie Coast, also called Adélie Land, part of the coast of Wilkes Land in eastern Antarctica, extending from Clarie Coast (west) to George V Coast (east). The region is an ice-covered plateau rising from the Indian Ocean and occupying an area of about 150,000 square miles (390,000 square km). It was disc... |
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Adiabene, petty kingdom that was a vassal state of the Parthian empire (247 bc–ad 224) in northern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Its capital was Arba-ilu (Arbela; modern Irbīl). In the 1st century ad its royal family embraced Judaism; the queen mother Helena (d. ad 50), famous for her generosity to the Jews and the... |
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Adige River, Italian Fiume Adige, Latin Athesis, German Etsch, longest stream of Italy after the Po River. The Adige rises in the north from two Alpine mountain lakes below Resia Pass and flows rapidly through the Venosta Valley south and east past Merano and Bolzano. Having received the waters of the Isar... |
0323e18b3ea95ed3ba9342e777e86850 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Adur | Adur | Adur
Adur, district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, southeastern England.
It is named for the River Adur, which cuts through the chalk ridge of the South Downs via a large water gap before entering the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea (the administrative centre). The district is sma... |
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Aegean Islands, Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, particularly the Cyclades, Sporades, and Dodecanese groups. The Cyclades consist of about 30 islands. The Dodecanese, or Southern Sporades, include Kálimnos, Kárpathos, Cos, Léros, Pátmos, Rhodes, and Sími. The Sporades, or Northern Sporades, include Skyr... |
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Aegean Sea, Greek Aigaíon Pélagos, Turkish Ege Deniz, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek peninsula on the west and Asia Minor on the east. About 380 miles (612 km) long and 186 miles (299 km) wide, it has a total area of some 83,000 square miles (215,000 square km). The Aegean is con... |
33418e2d1ef51d7778be777cf4eb96b7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aelia-Capitolina | Aelia Capitolina | Aelia Capitolina
Aelia Capitolina, city founded in ad 135 by the Romans on the ruins of Jerusalem, which their forces, under Titus, had destroyed in ad 70. The name was given, after the Second Jewish Revolt (132–135), in honour of the emperor Hadrian (whose nomen, or clan name, was Aelius) as well as the deities of t... |
cc30f589d866a11aebbeb31635ccaa82 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aetolia | Aetolia | Aetolia
Aetolia, also spelled Aitolia, district of ancient Greece, located directly north of the Gulf of Corinth and bounded by Epirus (north), Locris (east), and Acarnania (west). In modern Greece, Aetolia is linked with Acarnania in the department of Aitolía kai Akarnanía. Aetolia, particularly its cities Pleuron an... |
04e55127ca2e85d8120b0be9a8d21b79 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan | Afghanistan | Afghanistan
Afghanistan, landlocked multiethnic country located in the heart of south-central Asia. Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East, Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders, and for millennia great armies have attempted to subdue... |
79020cdeadc035f17f33c46dc619a553 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Afghanistan/Drainage | Drainage | Drainage
Practically the entire drainage system of Afghanistan is enclosed within the country. Only the rivers in the east, which drain an area of 32,000 square miles (83,000 square km), reach the sea. The Kābul River, the major eastern stream, flows into the Indus River in Pakistan, which empties into the Arabian Sea ... |
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Vegetation is sparse in the southern part of the country, particularly toward the west, where dry regions and sandy deserts predominate. Trees are rare, and only in the rainy season of early spring is the soil covered with flowering grasses and herbs. The plant cover becomes denser toward the nort... |
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Islamic armies defeated the Sāsānids in 642 at the Battle of Nahāvand (near modern Hamadān, Iran) and advanced into the Afghan area, but they were unable to hold the territory; cities submitted, only to rise in revolt, and the hastily converted returned to their old beliefs once the armies ha... |
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The physiography of Africa is essentially a reflection of the geologic history and geology that is described in the previous section. The continent, composed largely of a vast rigid block of ancient rocks, has geologically young mountains at its extremities in the highlands of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest ... |
683c3590aaca1fd778bb1e680698e6c6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Africville | Africville | Africville
Africville, African-Canadian village formerly located just north of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in the mid-18th century, Africville became a prosperous seaside community, but the City of Halifax demolished it in the 1960s in what many said was an act of racism after decades of neglect and the plac... |
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…building of a dam (Afsluitdijk; completed 1932) separating the IJsselmeer from both the Waddenzee (the northern part of the former Zuiderzee) and the North Sea.
…km) long, known as the Afsluitdijk (“Enclosing Dam”), was built across the Zuiderzee, separating it into the outer Waddenzee (open to the North S... |
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AG Cologne Zoological Garden, German Aktiengesellschaft Zoologischer Garten Köln, one of the major zoological gardens in Germany. Opened in 1860, the zoo occupies 20 hectares (49 acres) along the Rhine River in Cologne. About 6,000 specimens of 650 species are exhibited on its attractively... |
a5cfcf5158413910245857bb3d824899 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agadir-Morocco | Agadir | Agadir
Agadir, city, Atlantic port, southwestern Morocco. The city lies 6 miles (10 km) north of the mouth of the Sous valley. Possibly the site of the ancient Roman Portus Risadir, the city was occupied by the Portuguese from 1505 to 1541, when it fell to the Saʿdī sultanate.
After the Moroccan Crisis of 1911, when t... |
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Aggtelek Caves, also called Baradla-Domica Caverns, limestone cave system on the Hungarian-Slovakian border, about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Miskolc, Hungary, and 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Košice, Slovakia. It is the largest stalactite cave system in Europe, and its stalactite and stalagmite for... |
3cf7181610c7ce967c4c7996e524a930 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agra | Agra | Agra
Agra, city, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies in the Indo-Gangetic Plain on the Yamuna (Jumna) River about 125 miles (200 km) southeast of Delhi.
There was an early reference to an “Agravana” in the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, and Ptolemy is said to have called the site “Agra.” The city ... |
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Agri Decumates, in antiquity, the Black Forest and adjoining areas of what is now southwestern Germany between the Rhine, Danube, and Main rivers. The name may imply earlier occupation by a tribe with 10 cantons. The Romans under the Flavian emperors began annexing the area in ad 74 to secure better co... |
6eea3c0f2f7e48e656c729bfa9e77b11 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agri-Turkey | Ağrı | Ağrı
Ağrı, formerly Karaköse, city, in the highlands of eastern Turkey. It lies 5,380 feet (1,640 metres) above sea level in the valley of the Murat River, a tributary of the Euphrates River.
The city is a centre for trade in livestock and livestock products and is a transit station on the main highway from Turkey to ... |
14a679dd9f6cba5b97cb1a1807821409 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Agrigento | Agrigento | Agrigento
Agrigento, formerly (until 1927) Girgenti, Greek Acragas or Akragas, Latin Agrigentum, city, near the southern coast of Sicily, Italy. It lies on a plateau encircled by low cliffs overlooking the junction of the Drago (ancient Hypsas) and San Biagio (Acragas) rivers and is dominated from the north by a ridge... |
6a4e48832a80a4d2221abdf9d2d65941 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ahvaz | Ahvāz | Ahvāz
Ahvāz, Arabic Ahwāz, city, capital of Khūzestān province, southwestern Iran. Ahvāz is situated on both banks of the Kārūn River where it crosses a low range of sandstone hills. The town has been identified with Achaemenid Tareiana, a river crossing on the royal road connecting Susa, Persepolis, and Pasargadae. A... |
380603d44e066d36256c04429ff85aa1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ailsa-Craig-island-Scotland | Ailsa Craig | Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig, granite islet, South Ayrshire council area, Scotland, at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde and 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of South Ayrshire, to which it belongs. It is nicknamed “Paddy’s Milestone” for its location halfway between Glasgow and Belfast (Northern Ireland). The name Ailsa Craig ... |
e4eed2648acaaf85ac338dd5ff482ed0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aisen | Aisén | Aisén
Aisén, also spelled Aysén, in full Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, región, southern Chile, bounded on the east by Argentina and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Aisén includes the Chonos Archipelago, the Taitao Peninsula, and the mainland between the Palena River in the north and O’Higgins Lake in th... |
3e1e560834a16f423ba412011546b139 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Aisne | Aisne | Aisne
of Oise, Somme, and Aisne. In 2016 Picardy was joined with the région of Nord–Pas-de-Calais to form the new administrative entity of Hauts-de-France.
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68e84773f6741a1096e67a28c41f2c7c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ajaccio | Ajaccio | Ajaccio
Ajaccio, town and capital of Corse-du-Sud département, Corsica région, France. It is a Mediterranean port on the west coast of the island of Corsica. Napoleon’s birthplace, Maison Bonaparte, is now a museum, as is part of the town hall.
The original settlement of Ajax was founded by the Romans 2 miles (3 km) n... |
de789914fb8c57c369494891c9e2050c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ajo | Ajo | Ajo
Ajo, town, Pima county, southwestern Arizona, U.S. Spaniards mined in the area in the 1750s, and the Ajo Copper Company (1854) was the first incorporated mining concern in the Arizona Territory. Copper and silver were the most valuable minerals mined in the area. The mines remained dormant from roughly 1860 until ... |
7361810bb1b467c0803cba569e7549f7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Akademgorodok | Akademgorodok | Akademgorodok
Akademgorodok, (Russian: “Academic Town”) scientific research city located near Novosibirsk at the northeast corner of the Novosibirsk Reservoir, south-central Russia. Akademgorodok is home to numerous research institutes and is the seat of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is, ... |
63debb6f8d0393c61387dff5ec528996 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Akhdar-Mountains | Akhḍar Mountains | Akhḍar Mountains
Akhḍar Mountains, Arabic Al-jabal Al-akhḍar, also spelled Gebel El-achdar, mountain range of northeastern Libya that extends along the Mediterranean coast for about 100 miles (160 km) in an east-northeasterly direction between the towns of al-Marj and Darnah. Rising sharply in two steps, the first rea... |
3f10f6bda0fbc622818d1133b20a2fb7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Akron-Ohio | Akron | Akron
Akron, city, seat (1842) of Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Cuyahoga River, about 40 miles (64 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. Akron is the centre of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge, and Stow and several villages. At 1,081 feet (329 metres) abo... |
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