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Aqmola

(Encyclopedia)Aqmola, Kazakhstan: see Nur-Sultan. ...

Astana

(Encyclopedia)Astana, Kazakhstan: see Nur-Sultan. ...

Tselinograd

(Encyclopedia)Tselinograd, Kazakhstan: see Nur-Sultan. ...

Akmola

(Encyclopedia)Akmola and Akmolinsk, Kazakhstan: see Nur-Sultan. ...

Alfonso V, Spanish king of León

(Encyclopedia)Alfonso V (Alfonso the Noble), 994?–1027, Spanish king of León (999–1027). While he was still a minor, the Moorish ruler al-Mansur died, and the Spanish court recovered the city of León. Alfonso...

Ferdinand V, Spanish king of Castile

(Encyclopedia)Ferdinand V, Spanish king of Castile: see Ferdinand II, king of Aragón. ...

Eastern Question

(Encyclopedia)Eastern Question, term designating the problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cent. The Turkish threat to Europe was checked by the H...

Kuraish

(Encyclopedia)Kuraish ko͞orīshˈ [key], ancient Bedouin tribe near Mecca to which Muhammad belonged. At one time camel drivers and caravan guides, they became, after acquiring custody of the Kaaba (5th cent.), on...

Alexander VI, pope

(Encyclopedia)Alexander VI, 1431?–1503, pope (1492–1503), a Spaniard (b. Játiva) named Rodrigo de Borja or, in Italian, Rodrigo Borgia; successor of Innocent VIII. He took Borja as his surname from his mother'...

Beirut

(Encyclopedia)Beirut bāro͞otˈ [key], Arab. Bayrut, Fr. Beyrouth, city (1996 est. pop. 1,200,000), W Lebanon, capital of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Lebanon Mts. Beirut is an important p...