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Blasket Islands

(Encyclopedia)Blasket Islands, group of rock islets, Co. Kerry, SW Republic of Ireland; a lighthouse is on one of the islets. Most of the inhabitants of the islands were moved to the mainland in 1953. Great Blasket...

Admiralty Islands

(Encyclopedia)Admiralty Islands, group of 40 volcanic islands, c.800 sq mi (2,070 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea. Lorengau, the chief port and administrative center of ...

Bahamas, the

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Bahamas, the bəhäˈməz [key], officially Commonwealth of the Bahamas, independent nation (2020 ...

Dodecanese

(Encyclopedia)Dodecanese dōdĕkˌənēsˈ, –nēz, dōˌdĕk– [key], Gr. Dhodhekánisos, island...

Bagration, Piotr Ivanovich, Prince

(Encyclopedia)Bagration, Piotr Ivanovich, Prince pyôˈtər ēväˈnəvyĭch bägrätēōnˈ [key], 1765–1812, Russian general in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He fought under Field Marshal Suvoro...

Suli

(Encyclopedia)Suli or Souli both: so͞oˈlyē [key], small mountainous district, N Greece, in Epirus. Its inhabitants, the Suliotes, who lived in fortlike villages in the mountains, remained independent during most...

Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, Territory of

(Encyclopedia)Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, Territory of: see Heard Island. ...

Liu-kiu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Liu-kiu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

Lu-chu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Lu-chu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

Loo-choo Islands

(Encyclopedia)Loo-choo Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...