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kp-eb0721-095904-0999 | YAYNANGHEOM, a town of the Birman empire, situated on the eastern bank of the Irrawuddy river. It carries on a very considerable traffic, and has a manufacture of earthen ware. Five miles east of the town are situated the petroleum wells, which supply the whole kingdom with this oil, which is used in lamps and for all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 28' N 94 35' E | YAYNANGHEOM |
kp-eb0721-095905-0999 | YEAR, in Astronomy and chronology. See Astronomy and Calendar . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-095906-0999 | YEAST, or Yest, a head or scum rising upon beer or ale while working or fermenting in the vat. See Brewing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-095907-0999 | YELCUNDEL, a district of Hindustan, province of Hyderabad, situated between the eighteenth and nineteenth degrees of north latitude, and bounded on the north by the river Godavery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-095908-0999 | YELL, one of the islands of Shetland, lying north-east from the Mainland, and divided from it by an arm of the sea, called Yell Sound. By some it is thought to have been the Thule of the ancients. It is seventeen miles long and from six to eight broad. It is very mountainous, and full of moss; but there are considerabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-095909-0999 | YELLOW, one of the original colours of light. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-095910-0999 | YELLOW River, or Hoangho, a great river of China, which, along with the parallel stream of Yang-tse-kiang, or Blue River, has its sources in the unknown clefts of the Tibetian Mountains, probably the lofty central chain of the Asiatic continent; and after a tortuous course of [7:21:960]great length, estimated at about ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096001-1000 | YELPOORA, a small town of Northern India, province of Canara, situated above the Ghaut Mountains, in the Soonda district. It is inhabited by Christians, Mahommedans, and Hindus. Long. 74. 55. E. Lat. 14. 57. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 57' N 74 55' E | YELPOORA |
kp-eb0721-096002-1000 | YEMEN, a large province of Arabia, comprehending its finest and most fertile portion, situated partly on the Red Sea and partly on the Indian Ocean. It is surrounded by the provinces of Hadramaut, Nedjed, and Hedjaz. It was celebrated by the ancients under the title of Arabia Felix, but modern researches do not by any ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096003-1000 | YEN, a river of China, which falls into the Hoangho, seventeen miles south-east of Yen-tchang. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096004-1000 | YEN-KIANG, a city of China, of the second rank, in Pe-tche-lee. Long. 125. 30. E. Lat. 40. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 30' N 125 30' E | YEN-KIANG |
kp-eb0721-096005-1000 | YEN-NGAN, a city of China, of the first rank, in Chansi, situated in an agreeable plain surrounded by lofty mountains. The territory abounds in fens. Long. 108. 49. E. Lat. 36. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 44' N 108 49' E | YEN-NGAN |
kp-eb0721-096006-1000 | YEN-PING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Fokien. It is situated on the river Min-ho. It is not large, but is considered a stirring commercial city. Long. 117. 54. E. Lat. 26. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 40' N 117 54' E | YEN-PING |
kp-eb0721-096007-1000 | YEN-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in Tchekiang, situated on a river near the sea, so that the tide approaches its walls. It contains beautiful buildings. In its vicinity are mines of copper, and trees which yield a varnish that is much esteemed for lackered work. In Shantung there is another city of this ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 35 44' N 116 36' E | YEN-TCHEOU |
kp-eb0721-096008-1000 | YEOMAN, the first or highest degree among the plebeians of England, next in order to the gentry. The yeomen are properly freeholders, who having land of their own, live on good husbandry.
Υεομαν is also a title of office in the king’s household, of a middle place or rank between an officer and a groom.
Υεομεν of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096009-1000 | YEOVIL, a borough-town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Stone, 121 miles from London. It stands on the river Yeo or Ivel, which joins the Parret, and runs to the Bristol Channel. It is a well-built town, and was once famed for its woollen manufactures; but these have been superseded by the making of gloves,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096010-1000 | YEOWAH, a town of the Birman empire, on the west bank of the Irrawuddy river. Long. 94.30. E. Lat. 20. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 55' N 94 30' E | YEOWAH |
kp-eb0721-096011-1000 | YERNAGOODUM, a town of Hindustan, province of the Northern Circars, in the vicinity of which are fine forests of timber, which might be conveyed to the sea down the streams of the Wurda and Godavery. Long. 81. 39. E. Lat. 16. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 58' N 81 39' E | YERNAGOODUM |
kp-eb0721-096012-1000 | YETHOLM, a parish on the confines of England, in the county of Roxburgh, containing two villages of the same name. One of these, Town Yetholm, is the place where the largest colony of Gipsys in Scotland is to be found. The strolling habits and vagabond life which they lead are too well known to require any description ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096101-1001 | YEZD, a city of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, on the frontier of Seistan. It is situated in a sandy desert, contiguous to a range of lofty mountains. Being a great commercial emporium between Hindustan, Bokhara, and Persia, it is a place of considerable trade, is large and flourishing, and the bazaar is suppose... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 30' N 55 30' E | YEZD |
kp-eb0721-096102-1001 | YEZDIKHAST, a town of Persia, in the southern part of the province of Irak. It is the first which occurs in the high road to Ispahan, after passing the frontier of Laristan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096103-1001 | YGUISAN, a small island among the Philippines, near the north coast of Panay. Long. 122.32. E. Lat. 11.35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 35' N 122 32' E | YGUISAN |
kp-eb0721-096104-1001 | YNCA. See Inca. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096105-1001 | YN-YUEI, a city of China, of the second rank, in Yunan. Long. 98. 24. E. Lat. 25. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 58' N 98 24' E | YN-YUEI |
kp-eb0721-096106-1001 | YOKE, in Agriculture, a frame of wood fitted over the necks of the oxen, by which they are coupled together, and harnessed to the plough.
Yore of Land is the space which a yoke of oxen, that is, two oxen, may plough in one day. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096107-1001 | YONG-NING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Yunan, on the borders of Tibet, situated near a fine lake. The neighbouring country abounds in cows having those long tails with which the great men of China are accustomed to adorn themselves. 1095 miles south-west of Peking. Long. 100.24. E. Lat. 27. 50. N. Of the sam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 50' N 100 24' E | YONG-NING |
kp-eb0721-096108-1001 | YONG-NGAO, a small island near the coast of China, in Quangtong, twenty miles south-south-east of Macao. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096109-1001 | YONG-PE, a city of China, of the first rank, in Yunan, in a mountainous district, yet fertile, and watered by a fine lake. Long. 100. 34. E. Lat. 26. 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 42' N 100 34' E | YONG-PE |
kp-eb0721-096110-1001 | YONG-PING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Pe-tche-lee, on a river which runs into the Gulf of Leao-tong. It is environed by the sea, by rivers, and by mountains covered for the most part with fine trees. From the sea it is supplied with great plenty of all the necessaries of life. Not far from the city stands a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 55' N 118 34' E | YONG-PING |
kp-eb0721-096111-1001 | YONG-TCHANG, a city of China, of the first rank, in Yunan. It is large and populous, and is built in the midst of high mountains, in the neighbourhood of a savage people. The country produces gold, honey, wax, amber, and a vast quantity of fine silk. 270 miles south-west of Peking. Long. 99. 0. E. Lat. 25. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 6' N 99 0' E | YONG-TCHANG |
kp-eb0721-096112-1001 | YONG-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in Hoo-quang, forming the most southerly city of the province. It is situated on a fine river, amid verdant and well-cultivated mountains, particularly abounding in bamboos. 882 miles south-west of Peking. Long. 111.15. E. Lat. 26. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 10' N 111 15' E | YONG-TCHEOU |
kp-eb0721-096113-1001 | YONNE, a department in the north-east of France, formed out of Auxerois in the ancient Burgundy, and Sennois, a part of ancient Champagne. It extends in north latitude from 47° 22' to 48° 37', and in east longitude from 2° 47' to 4° 19'. It is bounded on the north by the departments of Seine-Marne and Aube, on the east... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096114-1001 | YON-NIM-KIEN Hotun, a town of Chinese Tartary, on the eastern coast of the Yellow Sea, 263 miles east of Peking. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096115-1001 | YOOL or Yowl Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Pacific Ocean, so called by Captain Forest in 1774. They were called, in 1788, Tattee Islands by Mr Meers. They are situated off the north coast of Wagiou, about the 31st degree of E. long., and are surrounded by coral reefs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096116-1001 | YORK, an English county, by far the largest in the kingdom. In extent it more than equals the two next largest counties, viz. Devonshire and Lincoln. According to the parliamentary returns of 1831, the whole surface is 5836 square statute miles, or 3,730,040 acres, or nearly one-ninth part of the southern division of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096701-1007 | YO-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in Hooquang, situated on the great river Yang-tse-kiang, where it connects with the large lake of Tong-ting. It is one of the most populous and trading cities in the empire. The neighbourhood is fertile, and abounds in fruit. Long. 112. 35. E. Lat. 29. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 23' N 112 35' E | YO-TCHEOU |
kp-eb0721-096702-1007 | YOUGANE, a river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk. It rises in the district of Narym, and after passing through a lake of the same name, falls into the Obi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096703-1007 | YOUGHAL, a town in the county of Cork, is situated about 140 statute miles from Dublin, and lies on the shore of a harbour of the same name, into which, at spring-tides, vessels of 400 or 500 tons burthen can enter. It is of great antiquity, and was formerly a place of strength. The old walls in great part remain, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-096704-1007 | YOUNG, Edward, born at Upham in Hampshire, in June 1681, was the son of Dr Edward Young, who afterwards became dean of Salisbury. The son was educated on the foundation at Winchester, but he did not succeed to a fellowship at New College, Oxford. In 1703, he was invited by the warden of that college, a friend of his fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097301-1013 | YOUNG NICK’S HEAD, a cape on the east coast of New Zealand, so called from the boy Nicholas Young, on board the Endeavour, who discovered it in 1769. It forms the south-west point of Poverty Bay. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097302-1013 | YOWRY, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the north coast of New Guinea. Long. 130. 45. E. Lat. 0. 15. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097303-1013 | YPRES, a circle of the province of West Flanders, in the Netherlands, extending over 330 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and those into forty-six communes, with 96,800 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands on the liver Yperle, by which it has a communication with the sea at Nieuport... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097304-1013 | YU, two rivers of China; one rises in Honan, twelve miles north of Pi-yang, and joins the Hoai, twenty miles east-south-east of Sin-tsal. The other rises about twenty-six miles west from Ngan-fou, in Kiang-see, and runs into the Kan-kiang, seven miles north-north-east of Lin-kiang. It is also the name of several cities... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097305-1013 | YUCATAN. See Mexico Since that article was written, the state of Yucatan has separated itself from the Mexican confederation, and having declared itself independent, has established a constitution on the most liberal principles, religious, political, and commercial. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097306-1013 | YUEN, a city of China, of the second rank, in Hoo-quang. Long. 109. E. Lat. 27. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 23' N 109 E | YUEN |
kp-eb0721-097307-1013 | YUEN-KIANG, a city of China, of the first rank, in Yunan, on the Hoti river, in a mountainous but fertile country, abounding with silk. Long. 101. 44. E. Lat. 23. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097308-1013 | YUEN-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in Kiang-see, on the borders of an agreeable little lake. Alum and vitriol are produced in the neighbourhood. Long. 114. E. Lat. 27.50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097309-1013 | YUEN-YANG, a city of China, of the first rank, in Hoo-quang, on the river Han, and on a plain encompassed by mountains, where tin is found. It is 517 miles south-southwest of Peking. Long. 110. 29. E. Lat. 32. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097310-1013 | YUNAN, a province of China, situated on its south-western frontier, bounded on the north by Sechuen and Tibet, on the east by Quang-see and Koei-tchoo, on the south by Laos, and on the west by Ava and Pegu. It is about 300 miles in length by 250 in breadth, and though mountainous, it is one of the most fertile and opul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097311-1013 | YUN-HING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Honan, watered by a river called Yuho. The country within its district is large, and is watered by several rivers, which render the soil very fruitful. Long. 113. 52. E. Lat. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 N 113 52' E | YUN-HING |
kp-eb0721-097312-1013 | YUN-LEAN-HO, a canal of China, formed of the river Pey-ho, or rather the river itself made navigable from Hiam-ho to Tien-tsin, in the province of Pe-tche-lee, for the purpose of conveying corn towards Tong-tcheou and Peking. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097313-1013 | YUNSHAN, the territory lying between the eastern limits of the Birman empire and China, of which very little is known, even to the Birmans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097314-1013 | YUNTAI, an island near the coast of China, in the Eastern Seas, thirty miles in circumference, about two miles and a half from the continent Long. 119. 19. E. Lat. 34. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 35' N 119 19' E | YUNTAI |
kp-eb0721-097401-1014 | Z, the twenty-fifth and last letter, and the nineteenth consonant, of our alphabet; the sound of which is formed by a motion of the tongue from the palate down-wards and upwards to it again, with a shutting and opening of the teeth at the same time. This letter has been reputed a double consonant, having the sound ds; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097402-1014 | ZAARA, Zahara, or the Desert. See Sahara. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097403-1014 | ZAB, a river of Kurdistan, which rises in the mountainous country to the east of the Tigris. It falls into the Al-tun Su, or Golden Water, about 150 miles north of Bagdad, on the road to Mosul, and the united streams afterwards reach the Tigris. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097404-1014 | ZABULON, one of the twelve tribes of Israel; bounded on the north by the tribes of Asher and Naphthali; on the east by the Sea of Galilee; on the south by the tribe of Issachar or the brook Cison, which ran between both; on the west by the Mediterranean; so that it touched two seas, or was bimarous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097405-1014 | ZAFRA, a small town of Asiatic Turkey, in the government of Marasch, fifteen miles west of Tarsus. There is another town of the same name in the government of Trebisond, fifty miles north-west of Trebisond. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097406-1014 | ZAIRE, a river of Southern Africa, likewise called Congo. See Congo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097407-1014 | ZALEUCUS, a famous legislator of the Locrians, and the disciple of Pythagoras, flourished 500 years b. c. He made a law, by which he punished adulterers with the loss of both their eyes; and his son offending, was not absolved from this punishment; yet, to shew the father as well as the just lawgiver, he put out his ow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097408-1014 | ZAMA, an ancient town of Chamane, a district of Cappadocia, of unknown situation. Another Zama, of Mesopotamia, on the Saocoras, to the south of Nisibis. A third, of Numidia, distant five days’ journey to the west of Carthage. It was the other royal residence of the kings of Numidia, hence called Zama Regia. It stood i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097409-1014 | ZANGUEBAR, a region of Africa, lying on the eastern coast, between three degrees of north latitude, and eighteen south. It includes several petty kingdoms, in which the Portuguese have various settlements. The inhabitants, except those converted by the Portuguese, are all Mahommedans or idolaters; and the latter much t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097410-1014 | ZANTE. See Ιονιαν Islands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097411-1014 | ZAPATA, a kind of feast or ceremony held in Italy in the courts of certain princes, on St Nicholas’s day. People hide presents in the shoes or slippers of those to whom they would do honour, in such a manner as may surprise them on the morrow when they come to dress. This is done in imitation of the practice of St Nich... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097412-1014 | ZARAGOZA, a city of Spain, in the corregimiento of that name, and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Aragon, It was built by the Roman colonists, and bore the name of Caesar Augusta. It is about 175 miles from Madrid, and the same distance from Valencia. It stands on the right bank of the Ebro, over which are two br... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-097501-1015 | ZEALAND, NEW.
Ιν the article Australasia (vol. iv. p. 215) we have already given a general description of New Zealand, sufficiently comprehensive for the degree of importance which then belonged to the subject. But within the last two years the New Zealand group has been made the theatre of so extraordinary a movement... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098301-1023 | ZEALOTS, an ancient sect of the Jews, so called from their pretended zeal for God’s law and the honour of religion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098302-1023 | ZEBID, a city of Arabia, once the capital of Yemen; but its port having fallen into a state of decay, the principal city of the province is now Mocha. The old mosques and minarets still give to the place a magnificent appearance from a distance, and it is still distinguished by an academy, much resorted to by the youth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098303-1023 | ZEBU, one of the Philippine Islands, situated about the 123d and 124th degrees of east longitude. It is 108 miles in length by 24 in breadth. It is remarkable as the place where Magellan fell in a skirmish with the natives in 1521. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098304-1023 | ZEITZ, a city of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Saxony and government of Merseburg. It stands on a height above the river Alster, over which is a stone bridge. It is surrounded with walls, has three good market-places, a palace in which is a library of 12,000 volumes, four churche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098401-1024 | ZELEH, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the government of Sivas, twenty-one miles west-south-west of Tocat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098402-1024 | ZELENIN, a small island in the Frozen Ocean, near the south-west coast of Nova Zembla. Long. 5G. 24. E. Lat. 70. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098403-1024 | ZELENOIKOLOK, as fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of the Caucasus, on the Oural. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098404-1024 | ZELEZENSKAIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Kolivan, on the eastern side of the Irtysch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098405-1024 | ZELLE, a city of the kingdom of Hanover, in the province of Lüneburg, in Germany. It stands on the river Aller, at the point where the Fuse falls into that stream. It is surrounded with walls and ditches, is the seat of the supreme courts of law, and of the Lutheran superintendent general. It has a gymnasium, and sever... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 37' 3" N 9 57' 4" E | ZELLE |
kp-eb0721-098406-1024 | ZEMANIAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad and district of Benares, situated a short distance from Ghazipore, on the Ganges. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098407-1024 | ZEMBLA, Nova, a large island in the Arctic Ocean, belonging to Russia, lying between 55° and 77° E. long, and 70° and 78° N. lat. It is about 700 miles in length, with an average breadth of seventy-five miles. No part of this dreary region has any permanent inhabitants, but some districts on the west and south coasts a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098408-1024 | ZEMINDAR, in its original meaning, signifies a great landholder of Bengal; but it is now more strictly applicable to those who have their title constituted or confirmed by a patent or charter from government, by which they hold their lands or zemindaries upon certain conditions. It appears from history, that in times p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098409-1024 | ZEMPLIN, a circle of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Theiss. It is bounded on the north by Gallicia; on the east by Unghvar and Garasch; on the west by Borsod, Abouigvar, and Saroch; and on the south by Szabolts. It extends over 2244 square miles, and contains twenty-four market-towns and 428 villages, with 27,1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098410-1024 | ZEND, or Zendavesta, a book ascribed to Zoroaster, and containing his pretended revelations, which the ancient Magians and modern Parsees, called also Gaurs, observe and reverence in the same manner as the Christians do the Bible and the Mahommedans the Koran, making it the sole rule both of their faith and manners. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098501-1025 | ZENDEROOD, a river of Persia, which rises in a mountain to the east of Ispahan, and passes through that city, where three handsome bridges are built across it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098502-1025 | ZENGHI, a river of Armenia, which falls into the Aras, ten miles south of Erivan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098503-1025 | ZENITH, in Astronomy, the vertical point, or a point in the heavens directly over our heads. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098504-1025 | ZENO Eleates, an eminent Grecian philosopher, was born at Elea about 504 years before Christ. He was a zealous friend of civil liberty, and is celebrated for his courageous and successful opposition to tyrants; but the inconsistency of the stories related by different writers concerning him in a great measure destroys ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098601-1026 | ZEPHYRUS, one of the Pagan deities, was represented as the son of Aurora, and the lover of the nymph Chloris according to the Greeks, or of Flora according to the Romans; and as presiding over the growth of fruits and flowers. He is described as giving a refreshing coolness to the air by his soft and agreeable breath, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098602-1026 | ZERBST, a city, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the duchy of Anhalt Dessau, in Germany. It stands on tire river Ruthe, is surrounded with walls, and is the seat of a superintendent of the superior court of law. It contains two Lutheran, and one reformed church, two hospitals, a gymnasium, 1600 houses, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098603-1026 | ZEST, the woody thick skin quartering the kernel of a walnut; prescribed by some physicians, when dried and taken with white wine, as a remedy against the gravel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098604-1026 | ZETLAND, or Shetland Islands. The appellation of Zetland, given to this northern cluster of islands, is a corruption of their ancient name. In the oldest northern chronicles, as the Orkneyinga Saga, their denomination is Hialtland, the Land of the Hilt, either from some fancied resemblance in the form of the whole grou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098801-1028 | ZEUGMA, a figure in Grammar, by which an adjective or verb that agrees with a nearer word, is also, by way of supplement, referred to another more remote. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098802-1028 | ZEUXIS, a celebrated painter, flourished about 400 years before the Christian era. He was born at Heraclea; but as there have been many cities of that name, it cannot be certainly determined which of them had the honour of his birth. Some learned men however conjecture that it was the Heraclea near Crotona in Italy. He... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098803-1028 | ZIEGENHAM, a province of the principality of Hesse-Cassel, in Germany, formerly a sovereign state, which came under the Hessian family in 1540. It is bounded on the north and the north-east by Lower Hesse, on the south-east by Hersfeld, on the south by Great Hesse, on the south-west by Fritzlar, and on the west by Uppe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098804-1028 | ZINC, a metallic substance, formerly considered as one of the brittle metals; or, according to the distinction of the older chemists, a semi-metal, or an imperfect metal, because it was found to be destitute of some of the properties of other metals which were considered as perfect. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098805-1028 | ZINZENDQRF, NIcholas Lewis, Count of, the noted founder of the German religious sect called Moravians or Herrnhutters, or, as they pretend, the restorer of that society, was born in the year 1700. From his own narrative it appears, that when he came of age in 1721, his thoughts were wholly bent on gathering together a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098806-1028 | ZION, or Sion, a very famous mountain, standing on the north side of the city of Jerusalem (Psalm xlviii. 2), containing the upper city, built by King David, where stood the royal palace (Josephus. Psalm xlviii. 2). A part of Zion, situated at its extremity, was called Millo, of or in the city of David (2 Chron. xxxii.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098901-1029 | ZISKA, John, a famous general of the forces of the Hussites, was born in Bohemia about the year 1380. His proper name was Trocznow; but he entered very young into the army, and after distinguishing himself on several occasions, lost an eye in a battle, whence he was called Ziska, or One-eyed. At length the reformation,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098902-1029 | ZITTAU, a city of the kingdom of Saxony, in the province of Lausitz. It stands on the river Mandau, near to where that stream falls into the Neisse. It is on an elevated spot, 763 feet above the level of the sea, is surrounded with double walls, contains eight churches, a hospital, an orphan-house, 1140 houses, and in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098903-1029 | ZLOCZOW, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, bounded on the north and north-east by Russia, on the south-east by Tarnapol, on the south by Brezazari, and on the west by Lemberg. It extends over 2024 square miles, comprehends six cities, nineteen market-towns, and 319 villages, with 208,950 inhabitants. It is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 49' 45" N 24 47' 40" E | ZLOCZOW |
kp-eb0721-098904-1029 | ZNAYM, a circle of the Austrian province of Moravia, extending over 1320 square miles, comprehending eight cities, thirty-six market-towns, and 369 villages, with 137,980 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, on the river Taya. It is surrounded with walls, has an ancient fortress, and contains 512 hous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 51' 15" N 15 57' 46" E | ZNAYM |
kp-eb0721-098905-1029 | ZODIAC, a broad circle, whose middle is the ecliptic, and its extremes two circles parallel thereto, at such a distance from it as to bound or comprehend the excursions of the sun and planets. See Astronomy. It is a curious enough fact, that the solar division of the Indian zodiac is the same in substance with that of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-098906-1029 | ZOMBAR, or Sombor, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Lower Danube. It stands on the navigable canal Francis, and contains a Catholic, a Greek, and a Lutheran church, with a free school of some celebrity. It numbers 2961 houses, with 15,106 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 8' 32" N 21 9' 48" E | ZOMBAR |
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