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Arrian

(Encyclopedia)Arrian (Flavius Arrianus) ârˈēən [key], fl. 2d cent. a.d., Greek historian, philosopher, and general, b. Nicomedia in Bithynia. He was governor of Cappadocia under Emperor Hadrian and in a.d. 134 ...

Eumenes

(Encyclopedia)Eumenes yo͞oˈmĭnēz [key], c.361–316 b.c., secretary to Philip II of Macedon and to Alexander the Great. A Thracian Greek, he was capable, diplomatic, and eloquent and proved himself able as a ge...

Famagusta

(Encyclopedia)Famagusta fämägo͞oˈstä [key], Gr. Ammochostos, city, E Cyprus, on Famagusta Bay. An impo...

Amman

(Encyclopedia)Amman ämänˈ [key], city (1997 est. pop. 1,415,000), capital of Jordan, N central Jordan, on the Jabbok (Wadi Zerka) River. Jordan's largest city and industrial and commercial heart, it is also a tr...

Charles III, king of Spain, and of Naples and Sicily

(Encyclopedia)Charles III, 1716–88, king of Spain (1759–88) and of Naples and Sicily (1735–59), son of Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese. Recognized as duke of Parma and Piacenza in 1731, he relinquished the duc...

Delisle, Guillaume

(Encyclopedia)Delisle, Guillaume gēyōmˈ dəlēlˈ [key], 1675–1726, French geographer and cartographer. His most important work is a world map (1700), as accurate as the data available at that time permitted a...

Perdiccas

(Encyclopedia)Perdiccas pərdĭkˈəs [key], d. 321 b.c., Macedonian general under Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander (323) he ruled as regent from Babylon. He strove in vain to hold the empire toget...

Rosetta

(Encyclopedia)Rosetta räshēdˈ [key], city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of moder...

Khandwa

(Encyclopedia)Khandwa kŭndˈvə [key], city (1991 pop. 145,133), Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Khandwa is a district administrative center and a market for cotton, timber, and grain. There are cotton gins, ...

Philadelphia, ancient cities

(Encyclopedia)Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. b.c. by...