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African buffalo

(Encyclopedia)African buffalo: see cape buffalo. ...

São Tiago

(Encyclopedia)São Tiago: see Cape Verde.

East India Company, Dutch

(Encyclopedia)East India Company, Dutch, 1602–1798, chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade and assure close relations between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia. The c...

Gibraltar, Strait of

(Encyclopedia)Gibraltar, Strait of jĭbrôlˈtər [key], Lat. Fretum Herculeum or Fretum Gaditanum, passage, c.36 mi (58 km) long, connecting the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, between southernmost Spain and north...

Makah

(Encyclopedia)Makah mäkôˈ [key], Native North Americans who in the early 19th cent. inhabited Cape Flattery, NW Wash. According to Lewis and Clark they then numbered some 2,000. The Makah are the southernmost of...

Beresford, William Carr Beresford, Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Beresford, William Carr Beresford, Viscount, 1768–1854, British general. He served with distinction in Egypt (1801–3) and participated (1806) in the capture of Cape Colony (later Cape Province, So...

Tordesillas, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia)Tordesillas, Treaty of tōrˌᵺāsēˈlyäs [key], 1494, agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world into two zones of influence. In principle ...

Gjuhëzës

(Encyclopedia)Gjuhëzës, cape: see Ceraunian Mountains, Albania. ...

Nordkapp

(Encyclopedia)Nordkapp, promontory: see North Cape, Norway. ...

Naze, the

(Encyclopedia)Naze, the, cape: see Lindesnes, Norway. ...