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Marzuq

(Encyclopedia)Marzuq mo͝orˈ– [key], town (1984 pop. 42,294), SW Libya. With Sabha, it is one of the chief settlements of the Fazzan municipality. Marzuq developed around a fort built c.1310 (now in ruins). The ...

Lindesnes

(Encyclopedia)Lindesnes nāz [key], cape, in Vest-Agder co., southernmost point of the Norwegian mainland, projecting into the North Sea at the entrance to the Skagerrak. Norway's first lighthouse (1655) is there. ...

Arias Montanus, Benedictus

(Encyclopedia)Arias Montanus, Benedictus bānēˈtō äˈryäs mōntäˈnō [key], 1527–98, Spanish Benedictine monk, editor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. He attended the Council of Trent (1562). ...

Archite

(Encyclopedia)Archite ärˈkī [key], in the Bible, clan that owned Ataroth between Bethel and Beth-horon, on the boundary between Ephraim and Benjamin. Hushai, David's friend, was a member of the clan. ...

Kidron

(Encyclopedia)Kidron sēˈdrən [key], in the Bible, brook or field, the present-day Qidron (West Bank), E of Jerusalem between the city and the Mount of Olives. See also Jehoshaphat. ...

Pashto

(Encyclopedia)Pashto –to͞o [key], or Afghan, language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ...

Bekabad

(Encyclopedia)Bekabad byĕgōvätˈ [key], city, Tashkent region, E Uzbekistan, on the Syr Darya River. It is ...

Typhon

(Encyclopedia)Typhon tīfēˈəs [key], in Greek mythology, fierce and monstrous son of Gaea. He was the father of Echidna—a monster half woman and half dragon—and of Cerberus, Hydra, the Sphinx, and the Chimer...

Xiangtan

(Encyclopedia)Xiangtan shyängˈtänˈ, syängˈ– [key], city (1994 est. pop. 490,100), E central Hunan prov., China, on the Xiang River. Formerly an agricultural distribution center, it is now industrialized. Pr...

Beni Suef

(Encyclopedia)Beni Suef bäˈnē [key], city (1986 pop. 152,476), capital of Beni Suef governorate, N central Egypt, on the Nile River. Situated in an intensely cultivated farming region, Beni Suef has cotton mills...