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Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland: see Kirkcudbrightshire. ...

Kincardine, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kincardine, former county, Scotland: see Kincardineshire. ...

Kasai, former province, Congo

(Encyclopedia)Kasai käsīˈ [key], former province, c.124,000 sq mi (321,160 sq km), S central Congo (Kinshasa). Luluabourg (present Kananga) was the capital. Between the Kasai and the Sankuru rivers the Kuba king...

Lanark, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Lanark, former county, Scotland: see Lanarkshire. ...

Banff, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Banff, former county, Scotland: see Banffshire. ...

Beira, former province, Portugal

(Encyclopedia)Beira bāˈrə [key], region and former province, N central Portugal, S of the Douro River. The old capital was Coimbra. The province extended to the Atlantic coast between the Douro and the Mondego a...

Brunswick, former state, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Brunswick brounˈshfīk [key], former state, central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony, Hanover, and Westphalia. The region of Braunschweig is situated on the North German...

Berry, former province, France

(Encyclopedia)Berry bĕrēˈ [key], former province, central France. Bourges, the capital, and Châteauroux are the chief towns. Cattle are raised on the Champagne Berrichonne, a semiarid plateau that covers most o...

Selkirk, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Selkirk, former county, Scotland: see Selkirkshire. ...

Cameroons, former German colony

(Encyclopedia)Cameroons, Fr. Cameroun, Ger. Kamerun, former German colony, W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea and extending N to Lake Chad. Germany's penetration of the area began in 1884 and by 1902 its possession wa...