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Kamyanets-Podilskyy

(Encyclopedia)Kamyanets-Podilskyy kəmyänˈyĭts-pôdyĭlˈskyē [key], Rus. Kamenets-Podolski, city (1989 pop. 102,000), Khmelnytskyy region, Ukraine. It is a rail terminus and has industries that produce foodstu...

Podgorica

(Encyclopedia)Podgorica pōdˈgōrētsä [key], city (2011 pop. 185,937), capital and largest city of Montenegro, SE Montenegro, at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers. A commercial center, it has indu...

Todos os Santos Bay

(Encyclopedia)Todos os Santos Bay tôˈᵺo͝ozo͝o sänˈto͝os [key] [Port.,=all-saints bay], inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, 25 mi (40 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, E Bahia, Brazil. It receives the Paraguaçu Ri...

Blida

(Encyclopedia)Blida blēˈdä [key], town, N Algeria, at the foot of the Mitidja Atlas Mts. The name also a...

Bloomfield

(Encyclopedia)Bloomfield. 1 Town (2020 pop. 21,535), Hartford co., N Conn., a suburb of Hartford, in a tobacco and dairy region; settled c.1642, inc. 1835. ...

Yverdon-les-Bains

(Encyclopedia)Yverdon-les-Bains ēvĕrdôNˈ-lā-bĕNˈ [key], Ger. Iferten, town (1990 pop. 22,758), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the south end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. It is an old spa with Roman ruins. Machi...

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

(Encyclopedia)Santa Cruz de Tenerife dā tānārēˈfā [key], city (1990 pop. 222,892), capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife prov., Spain, a port on Tenerife island in the Canary Islands. Vegetables, tobacco, and ban...

Stara Zagora

(Encyclopedia)Stara Zagora stäˈrä zäˈgôrä [key], city (1993 pop. 150,926), central Bulgaria. It is a railway center and the market for a fertile farm area. The city's diverse industries produce textiles, che...

Riom

(Encyclopedia)Riom rēôNˈ [key], town (1990 pop. 19,302), Puy-de-Dôme dept., S central France, in Auvergne. It has distilleries, tobacco plants, and factories making pharmaceuticals. Of Gallic origin, the Roman ...

Dixon, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Dixon, Thomas, 1864–1946, American novelist, b. Shelby, N.C., grad. Wake Forest College. A militant Southerner, he is best known for his novel The Clansman (1905), on which D. W. Griffith's movie Th...