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Vuelta Abajo

(Encyclopedia)Vuelta Abajo vwĕlˌtäbäˈhō [key], district, c.90 mi (140 km) long and c.10 mi (16 km) wide, Pinar del Rio prov., W Cuba, along the southern piedmont of the Órganos Mts. Famous for the fine quali...

Benha

(Encyclopedia)Benha bänˈ– [key], city (1986 pop. 115,701), capital of Qalyubiyah governate, N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. A rail junction and trade center, Benha has cotton-ginning, rug-weaving, and food-pr...

Caesarea Palestinae

(Encyclopedia)Caesarea Palestinae pălĭstīˈnē, sĕzə–, sēzə– [key], city, NW ancient Palestine, c.20 mi (32 km) S of Mt. Carmel. It was taken (104 b.c.) by Alexander Jannaeus, leader of the Maccabees, an...

Bozcaada

(Encyclopedia)Bozcaada tĕnˈədŏs [key], island, 15 sq mi (39 sq km), NW Turkey, in the Aegean Sea. Bozcaada produces wines, figs, and herbs. The strategically located island was a station of the Greek fleet duri...

Bruyn, Cornelis de

(Encyclopedia)Bruyn, Cornelis de broin [key], 1652–c.1726, Dutch portrait painter and traveler. He painted for some years in Italy, where he was known, in Rome, as Adonis. Bruyn is remembered chiefly for the rec...

Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von

(Encyclopedia)Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von fən büˈlō [key], 1755–1816, Prussian general in the Napoleonic Wars. After his victories (1813) over the French at Gross Beeren and at Dennewitz he was c...

Adrogué

(Encyclopedia)Adrogué älmēränˈtā [key], city, Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It was settled in 1873 by families fleeing a yellow fever epidemic in the city of Buenos Aires. It w...

Blanchard, Jean Pierre

(Encyclopedia)Blanchard, Jean Pierre fräNswäˈ [key], 1753–1809, French balloonist. In 1785 he made with Dr. John Jeffries of Boston, Mass., the first crossing by air of the English Channel. His ascents at Phil...

Tacheng

(Encyclopedia)Tacheng cho͞ogo͞ochäkˈ [key], town (1994 est. pop. 56,400), N Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Dzungarian basin, bordering on Kazakhstan. Long a major center for trade with Central ...

Tagalog

(Encyclopedia)Tagalog tägälˈ [key], dominant people of Luzon, the Philippines, and the second largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. They number about 16 million. Most of the population is Christian. ...