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Northern Crown

(Encyclopedia)Northern Crown: see Corona Borealis. ...

Northern Dvina

(Encyclopedia)Northern Dvina, river: see Dvina (Northern Dvina). ...

Northern Expedition

(Encyclopedia)Northern Expedition, in modern Chinese history, the military campaign by which the Kuomintang party overthrew the warlord-backed Beijing government and established a new government at Nanjing. At the ...

Northern Ireland

(Encyclopedia)Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. ...

Northern Land

(Encyclopedia)Northern Land: see Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. ...

northern lights

(Encyclopedia)northern lights: see aurora borealis. ...

Northern Rhodesia

(Encyclopedia)Northern Rhodesia: see Zambia.

Maritime Territory

(Encyclopedia)Maritime Territory or Primorsky Kray prēmôrˈskē krī [key], administrative division (1992 pop. 2,309,000), c.64,900 sq mi (168,100 sq km), Russian Far East, between China (Manchuria or the Northea...

Krasnodar Territory

(Encyclopedia)Krasnodar Territory, administrative division (1995 pop. 5,004,200), 32,317 sq mi (83,701 sq km), SE European Russia, extending E from the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea into the Kuban steppe and stradd...

Krasnoyarsk Territory

(Encyclopedia)Krasnoyarsk Territory, administrative division (1989 pop. 3,595,000), c.928,000 sq mi (2,403,520 sq km), central Siberian Russia, extending from the Sayan Mts. and the Minusinsk basin in the south acr...