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standard of living

(Encyclopedia)standard of living, level of consumption that an individual, group, or nation has achieved. The evaluation of a standard of living is relative, depending upon the judgment of the observer as to what c...

Adapazari

(Encyclopedia)Adapazari ädäˌpäzärˈə [key], city, capital of Adapazari prov., NW Turkey, on the Sakarya River. It is the trade center for an agricultural region producing tobacco,...

Akhisar

(Encyclopedia)Akhisar äkˌhəsärˈ [key], city, W Turkey. It is in a region where tobacco, cotton, and grapes are grown. The city is noted for its rugs. It is the biblical Thyatira. ...

Huainan

(Encyclopedia)Huainan hwī-nän [key], city (1994 est. pop. 769,200), N central Anhui prov., China. Established after 1949 as the center of China's chief coal-mining region, it is the site of a major colliery. Chem...

Győngyős

(Encyclopedia)Győngyős dyönˈdyösh [key], city (1991 est. pop. 36,259), N Hungary, at the foot of the Mátra Mts. It is the commercial center of a wine-producing and tobacco-growing region. Lead and zinc are mi...

Tilly, Charles

(Encyclopedia)Tilly, Charles, 1929–2008, American sociologist, b. Lombard, Ill. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Tilly taught at the Univ. of Michigan, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia, among other...

waters, territorial

(Encyclopedia)waters, territorial, all waters within the jurisdiction, recognized in international law, of a country. Certain waters by their situation are controlled by one nation; these include wholly enclosed in...

Lee, Richard

(Encyclopedia)Lee, Richard, 1613?–1664, American colonist, founder of the Lee family of Virginia. A member of the Coton branch of the Lees of Shropshire, England, he immigrated (c.1642) to Virginia, settling firs...

Villarrica city, Paraguay

(Encyclopedia)Villarrica vēˌyärēˈkä [key], city (1992 pop. 27,818), capital of Guairá dept., SE Paraguay. It is a commercial center and shipping point in a region that produces cattle, tobacco, maté, cotton...

Fianarantsoa

(Encyclopedia)Fianarantsoa fyänäräntso͞oˈə, –tsōˈə [key], town, S central Madagascar, in...