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Daugavpils

(Encyclopedia)Daugavpils douˈgäfpēls [key], Ger. Dünaburg, city, SE Latvia, on the Western Dvina River....

Cottbus

(Encyclopedia)Cottbus or Kottbus both: kôtˈbo͝os [key], city, Brandenburg, E Germany, on the Spree River. It is an ...

Gwynedd

(Encyclopedia)Gwynedd gwĭnˈĕᵺ, gwŭnˈ– [key], county, 984 sq mi (2,548 sq km), NW Wales. Established as a county in 1974 through the union of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, and parts of Denbighshire and Merione...

Georgetown University

(Encyclopedia)Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and it...

Forlì

(Encyclopedia)Forlì fōrlēˈ [key], city, capital of Forlì prov., Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy. It is...

Jaca

(Encyclopedia)Jaca häˈkä [key], town (1990 pop. 10,874), Huesca prov., NE Spain, in Aragón, in the Pyrenees (alt. c.2,700 ft/820 m), near the French border on the Aragón River. A communications center and an e...

Narayanganj

(Encyclopedia)Narayanganj or Narayungunj both: näräˈyəngənj [key], city (1991 pop. 296,000), E central Bangladesh, at the confluence of the Lakhya and Dhaleshwari rivers. It is the river port for Dhaka and Ban...

Nyköping

(Encyclopedia)Nyköping nüˈchöˌpĭng [key], city (1990 pop. 26,380), capital of Södermanland co., SE Sweden, a port on the Baltic Sea. It is a commercial and industrial center, producing flour, textiles, iron ...

Nitra

(Encyclopedia)Nitra nyĭˈträ [key], Ger. Neutra, Hung. Nyitra, city (1991 pop. 89,969), W Slovakia, on the Nitra River, a tributary of the Danube. It is an agricultural market center and has extensive food-proces...

Marx, Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia)Marx, Wilhelm vĭlˈhĕlm [key], 1863–1946, German statesman. A Reichstag member, he was a leading figure of the Catholic Center party and was elected its president in 1921. As chancellor (1923–24...