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Hispaniola

(Encyclopedia)Hispaniola ĕspänyōˈlä [key], second largest island of the West Indies, 29,530 sq mi (76,483 sq km), between Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti occupies the western third of the island and the Dominican ...

Erzgebirge

(Encyclopedia)Erzgebirge ĕrtsˈgəbĭrˌgə [key] [Ger.,=ore mountains], Czech Krušné Hory, mountain range, along the Czech–German border, extending c.95 mi (150 km) from the Fichtelgebirge in the southwest to...

Inönü, Ismet

(Encyclopedia)Inönü, Ismet ĭsmĕtˈ ēnönüˈ [key], 1884–1973, Turkish statesman and soldier, president of Turkey (1938–50). He served in the Balkan Wars and World War I and became (1920) chief of staff to...

Dong, Pham Van

(Encyclopedia)Dong, Pham Van fäm vän dông [key], 1906–2000, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam (1954–76) and of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–87). Scion of a prominent M...

La Vega

(Encyclopedia)La Vega lä vāˈgä [key], city (1993 pop. 73,387), central Dominican Republic, on the Camú River. La Vega is the commercial and processing center of a rich agricultural region. A religious sanctuar...

Mezen

(Encyclopedia)Mezen myĕˈzĭnyə [key], river, c.565 mi (910 km) long, rising in the Timan Hills, Komi Republic, NE European Russia, and flowing NW into the Mezen Bay of the White Sea. Its lower course is navigabl...

Mariánské Láznĕ

(Encyclopedia)Mariánské Láznĕ märˈyänskā läzˈnyĕ [key], Ger. Marienbad, town (1991 pop. 15,382), W central Czech Republic, in Bohemia. It is a world-famous spa, with many curative mineral springs and bat...

Kladno

(Encyclopedia)Kladno klädˈnô [key], city (1991 pop. 71,753), NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia. An industrial center of the Kladno coal-mining region, it has large iron and steel plants, and manufactures machinery a...

Cres

(Encyclopedia)Cres tsərĕsˈ [key], Ital. Cherso, island, 158 sq mi (409 sq km), in the Adriatic Sea, W Croatia. Formerly in Austria-Hungary, it passed to Italy in 1918 and to Yugoslavia (of which Croatia was then...

Cheboksary

(Encyclopedia)Cheboksary chĕbəksäˈrē [key], city (1989 pop. 420,000), capital of Chuvash Republic, NW European Russia, a port on the Volga River. Both a heavy industrial and an agricultural region, it is the s...