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Shreveport
(Encyclopedia)Shreveport shrēvˈpôrt [key], city (1990 pop. 198,525), seat of Caddo parish, NW La., on the Red River near the Tex. and Ark. lines; inc. 1839. The third largest city in the state, it is a regional ...Liège, city, Belgium
(Encyclopedia)Liège, Du. Luik, Ger. Lüttich, city (1991 pop. 194,596), capital of Liège prov., E Belgium, at the confluence of the Meuse and Ourthe rivers, near the Dutch and German borders. Greater Liège inclu...Düren
(Encyclopedia)Düren dürˈən [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rur ...De Pere
(Encyclopedia)De Pere dĭ pēr [key], city (2020 pop. 25,410), Brown co., E central Wis., on the Fox River;...Douala
(Encyclopedia)Douala do͞o-äˈlə [key], city, Cameroon, on the Wuori River estuary. Cameroon's largest city ...Darmstadt
(Encyclopedia)Darmstadt därmˈshtät [key], city, Hesse, central Germany. It is a commercial, industrial, and ...Daugavpils
(Encyclopedia)Daugavpils douˈgäfpēls [key], Ger. Dünaburg, city, SE Latvia, on the Western Dvina River....Cottbus
(Encyclopedia)Cottbus or Kottbus both: kôtˈbo͝os [key], city, Brandenburg, E Germany, on the Spree River. It is an ...Gwynedd
(Encyclopedia)Gwynedd gwĭnˈĕᵺ, gwŭnˈ– [key], county, 984 sq mi (2,548 sq km), NW Wales. Established as a county in 1974 through the union of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, and parts of Denbighshire and Merione...Georgetown University
(Encyclopedia)Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and it...Browse by Subject
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