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Baden, city, Austria

(Encyclopedia)Baden –bī-vēnˈ [key], city, Lower Austria province, E Austria, on the Schwechat River, n...

Richmond, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Richmond, former municipal borough, SE England. See Richmond upon Thames. ...

(Encyclopedia)garden city, an ideal, self-contained community of predetermined area and population surrounded by a greenbelt. As formulated by Sir Ebenezer Howard, the garden city was intended to bring together the...

Priam

(Encyclopedia)Priam prīˈəm [key], in Greek mythology, king of Troy during the Trojan War, son of Laomedon. Priam had several wives and was the father of 50 sons and many daughters. His chief wife, Hecuba, bore h...

Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland

(Encyclopedia)Geneva jənēˈvə [key], Fr. Genève, canton, 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surroun...

Halicarnassus

(Encyclopedia)Halicarnassus hălˌĭkärnăˈsəs [key], ancient city of Caria, SW Asia Minor, on the Ceramic Gulf (now the Gulf of Kos) and on the site of the modern city of Bodrum, Turkey. Halicarnassus was Greek...

Famagusta

(Encyclopedia)Famagusta fämägo͞oˈstä [key], Gr. Ammochostos, city, E Cyprus, on Famagusta Bay. An impo...

Ilion

(Encyclopedia)Ilion: see Troy.

Ilium

(Encyclopedia)Ilium: see Troy.

Huntington, Ellsworth

(Encyclopedia)Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876–1947, American geographer, b. Galesburg, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1897, M.A. Harvard, 1902, Ph.D. Yale, 1909. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897–1901); acc...