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Gensan

(Encyclopedia)Gensan: see Wonsan, North Korea.

Okhrida

(Encyclopedia)Okhrida: see Ohrid, North Macedonia. ...

Heijo

(Encyclopedia)Heijo: see Pyongyang, North Korea. ...

Kanko

(Encyclopedia)Kanko: see Hamhung, North Korea.

Skoplje

(Encyclopedia)Skoplje: see Skopje, North Macedonia. ...

Bitolj

(Encyclopedia)Bitolj: see Bitola, North Macedonia. ...

lost tribes

(Encyclopedia)lost tribes, 10 Israelite tribes that, according to the Bible, were transported to Assyria by Tiglathpileser III or Shalmaneser after the conquest of Israel in 722 b.c. Numerous conjectures have been ...

larkspur, in botany

(Encyclopedia)larkspur, any north temperate, Old World annual of the genus Consolida of the buttercup family. Consolida species were formerly classified in the genus Delphinium, which includes similar annual, bienn...

Asheville

(Encyclopedia)Asheville ăshˈvəl, –vĭl [key], city (2020 pop. 94,589), seat of Buncombe co., W N.C., on the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and on a plateau in the Blue Ridge Mts...

Barents Sea

(Encyclopedia)Barents Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west. Its waters are warmed b...

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