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Qinghai

(Encyclopedia)Qinghai or Tsinghai both: chĭngˈhīˈ [key], province (2010 pop. 5,626,722), c.279,000 sq mi (722,797 sq km), W China. Xining is the capital. Qinghai lies in the Tibetan highlands at an average elev...

Barotseland

(Encyclopedia)Barotseland: see Western Province. ...

Cape Colony

(Encyclopedia)Cape Colony: see Cape Province.

Rhenish Prussia

(Encyclopedia)Rhenish Prussia: see Rhine Province. ...

Algarve

(Encyclopedia)Algarve əlgärˈvə [key], historic province, 1,958 sq mi (5,070 sq km), extreme S Portugal, coextensive with Faro dist. The capital is Faro, and other important cities are Silves, Portimão, and Lag...

Hoche, Louis Lazare

(Encyclopedia)Hoche, Louis Lazare läzärˈ ôsh [key], 1768–97, French general in the French Revolutionary Wars. He entered the army at the age of 16 and rose rapidly to lieutenant in the national guard by 1792....

Pannonia

(Encyclopedia)Pannonia pănōˈnēə [key], ancient Roman province, central Europe, southwest of the Danube, including parts of modern Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. Its natives, the warlike Panno...

Burgenland

(Encyclopedia)Burgenland bo͝orˈgənlänt [key], province, 1,530 sq mi (3,963 sq km), E Austria. The capital is ...

Songjiang

(Encyclopedia)Songjiang or Sungkiang both: so͞ongˈjyängˈ [key], former province (c.32,000 sq mi/82,880 sq km), NE China. Mudanjiang was the capital. It was one of nine provinces created in Manchuria by the Chin...

Marsh, Charles Wesley

(Encyclopedia)Marsh, Charles Wesley, 1834–1918, American inventor and editor, b. Ontario. In 1849 his family moved to De Kalb co., Ill. Assisted by his brother William, he designed a hand-binding harvester and ob...