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Gowrie, Carse of

(Encyclopedia)Gowrie, Carse of kärs, kĕrs, gouˈrē [key], alluvial lowland, c.15 mi (24 km) long, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland, along the northern shore of the Firth of Tay, between Perth and Dundee. A fa...

Graham of Claverhouse

(Encyclopedia)Graham of Claverhouse: see Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount. ...

Glasgow, University of

(Encyclopedia)Glasgow, University of, at Glasgow, Scotland; founded 1451. Its charter provided for studies in theology, canon and civil law, arts, and “any other lawful faculty.” Today it has faculties of arts,...

Godfrey of Bouillon

(Encyclopedia)Godfrey of Bouillon bo͞oyôNˈ [key], c.1058–1100, Crusader, duke of Lower Lorraine. He fought for Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV against Pope Gregory VII and against Rudolf of Swabia and was rewarded...

Godfrey of Strasbourg

(Encyclopedia)Godfrey of Strasbourg: see Gottfried von Strassburg. ...

Godfrey of Viterbo

(Encyclopedia)Godfrey of Viterbo vētĕrˈbō [key], 12th cent., German or Italian priest. He was long attached to the courts of Holy Roman emperors Conrad III, Frederick I, and Henry VI in Italy. His Gesta Frideri...

Group of Eight

(Encyclopedia)Group of Eight: see under Group of Seven. ...

Group of Seven

(Encyclopedia)Group of Seven (G7), international organization officially established in 1985 to facilitate economic and commercial cooperation among the world's largest industrial nations, including efforts to aid ...

Group of Twenty

(Encyclopedia)Group of Twenty (G20): see under Group of Seven. ...

Andrusov, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia)Andrusov, Treaty of ănˈdro͝osŏfˌ, Rus. əndro͞oˈsəf [key], 1667, signed by Poland and Russia at the village of Andrusov, Russia (present-day Androsovo). It ended the war of Czar Alexis of Russ...