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Barnstaple

(Encyclopedia)Barnstaple bärnˈstəpəl [key], town, Devon, SW England, on the Taw River estuary. The river is ...

Tappuah

(Encyclopedia)Tappuah tăpyo͞oˈə [key], in the Bible. 1 Son of Hebron and eponym of Beth-tappuah. 2 Border town of Manasseh, probably c.5 mi (8.1 km) NW of Shiloh. An alternate form is En-tappuah. 3 Unidentified...

Alcalá la Real

(Encyclopedia)Alcalá la Real lä rāälˈ [key], town, Jaén prov., S Spain, in Andalusia. It has well-known mineral springs. The town played an important part in the conquest of Grana...

Aldridge-Brownhills

(Encyclopedia)Aldridge-Brownhills ôlˈdrĭj-brounˈhĭlz [key], town, Walsall metropolitan district, central England. It was created in 1966 through the merger of two former districts....

Alesia

(Encyclopedia)Alesia əlēˈzhə [key], hilltop town of Celtic and Roman Gaul, on the site of Alise-Sainte-Reine, near Dijon. It was held by Vercingetorix and his men (52 b.c.) when Caesar besieged it. Caesar preve...

Ghardaïa

(Encyclopedia)Ghardaïa gärdäyäˈ [key], town, N Algeria. It is the chief town of the Mzab, a stony, barren ...

Hirado

(Encyclopedia)Hirado hēräˈdō [key], town, Nagasaki prefecture, on Hirado island, off NW Kyushu, Japan. ...

Honiara

(Encyclopedia)Honiara hōˌnēärˈə [key], town, capital of the Solomon Islands. Located on Guadalcanal in the SW Pacific, Honiar...

Ivittuut

(Encyclopedia)Ivittuut ēˈvĭgto͞ot [key], town, SW Greenland, on the Arsuk Fjord. The world's largest known cryolite deposit was discovered there in 1806. Mined since 1864, the deposit has been recently exhauste...

Abercrombie, Sir Patrick

(Encyclopedia)Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, 1879–1957, British architect and town planner. Professor of civil design at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1915 to 1935 and of town planning at the Univ. of London after 1935,...