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Massah

(Encyclopedia)Massah mĕrˈĭbə [key], or Massah and Meribah, in the Bible, symbolic name of the place, near Horeb, where Moses brought forth water from the rock. A similar event and an equally symbolic name conce...

Malvasia

(Encyclopedia)Malvasia môˌnĕmväsēˈä [key], village, S Greece, in the Peloponnesus, on a rocky island joined to the mainland by a mole. In the Middle Ages it was a fortress and an important commercial port, e...

Marzuq

(Encyclopedia)Marzuq mo͝orˈ– [key], town (1984 pop. 42,294), SW Libya. With Sabha, it is one of the chief settlements of the Fazzan municipality. Marzuq developed around a fort built c.1310 (now in ruins). The ...

Lindesnes

(Encyclopedia)Lindesnes nāz [key], cape, in Vest-Agder co., southernmost point of the Norwegian mainland, projecting into the North Sea at the entrance to the Skagerrak. Norway's first lighthouse (1655) is there. ...

Kerulen

(Encyclopedia)Kerulen hĕrˈəlĕn [key], river, 785 mi (1,263 km) long, E Republic of Mongolia, rising in the Kentei Mts., NE of Ulaanbaatar, and flowing S, then E to Kulun Lake, Heilongjiang prov., NE China. A ro...

Arias Montanus, Benedictus

(Encyclopedia)Arias Montanus, Benedictus bānēˈtō äˈryäs mōntäˈnō [key], 1527–98, Spanish Benedictine monk, editor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. He attended the Council of Trent (1562). ...

Kidron

(Encyclopedia)Kidron sēˈdrən [key], in the Bible, brook or field, the present-day Qidron (West Bank), E of Jerusalem between the city and the Mount of Olives. See also Jehoshaphat. ...

Archite

(Encyclopedia)Archite ärˈkī [key], in the Bible, clan that owned Ataroth between Bethel and Beth-horon, on the boundary between Ephraim and Benjamin. Hushai, David's friend, was a member of the clan. ...

Pomponius Mela

(Encyclopedia)Pomponius Mela mēˈlə [key], fl. c.a.d. 50, Roman geographer, b. Spain. His De situ orbis, a description of the then known world, was published in Latin in 1471 and translated into English by Arthur...

Byrhtnoth

(Encyclopedia)Byrhtnoth brīkhtˈnōth [key], d. 991, alderman of the East Saxons. Leader of the English forces in the battle of Maldon, he was killed in the battle and was buried at Ely. ...