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Hsia

(Encyclopedia)Hsia shēä [key], semilegendary first dynasty of China, which ruled, according to traditional dates, from c.2205 b.c. to c.1766 b.c. or, according to some modern scholars, from c.1994 b.c. to c.1523 ...

Chungjin

(Encyclopedia)Chungjin: see Chongjin, North Korea. ...

Heijo

(Encyclopedia)Heijo: see Pyongyang, North Korea. ...

Gensan

(Encyclopedia)Gensan: see Wonsan, North Korea.

Keijo

(Encyclopedia)Keijo: see Seoul, South Korea.

Kyongsong

(Encyclopedia)Kyongsong: see Seoul, South Korea.

Kanko

(Encyclopedia)Kanko: see Hamhung, North Korea.

Seishin

(Encyclopedia)Seishin: see Chongjin, North Korea. ...

Shingishu

(Encyclopedia)Shingishu: see Sinuiju, North Korea. ...

Maori

(Encyclopedia)Maori mäˈōrē [key], people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their an...