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East Ridge

(Encyclopedia)East Ridge, town (2020 pop. 22,167), Hamilton co., SE Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga, near the Ga. border; inc. 1921. It is chiefly residential. ...

Nelson, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Nelson, city (1991 pop. 8,760), SE British Columbia, on the Kootenay River. It is a transportation and administrative center for a lumbering and farming region. ...

Brand, Sebastian

(Encyclopedia)Brand, Sebastian: see Brant, Sebastian. ...

Brandt, Sebastian

(Encyclopedia)Brandt, Sebastian: see Brant, Sebastian. ...

Vittoria

(Encyclopedia)Vittoria, city (1991 pop. 55,280), SE Sicily, Italy; founded 1607. It is an important center of wine and olive oil production and export. ...

Salween

(Encyclopedia)Salween, river, SE Asia: see Thanlwin. ...

East Sea

(Encyclopedia)East Sea: see Japan, Sea of.

Ferndale

(Encyclopedia)Ferndale, city (2020 pop. 19,190), Oakland co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; inc. as a city 1927. Its manufactures include automobile parts, machinery...

Cotton Belt

(Encyclopedia)Cotton Belt, former agricultural region of the SE United States where cotton was the main cash crop throughout the 19th and much of the 20th cent. Located on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and o...

Garden City, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia)Garden City. 1 City (2020 pop. 10,289), Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry, distribution center, and industrial city on the Savannah River; inc. ...