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Izuka

(Encyclopedia)Izuka ēˈzo͝okä [key], city, Fukuoka prefecture, N Kyushu, Japan, on the Onga River. Forme...

Karabük

(Encyclopedia)Karabük käräˈbük [key], city (1990 pop. 104,869), N Turkey. It was built in the 1930s as the seat of the iron and steel industry of Turkey. Nearby are the Zonguldak coal fields. ...

Pittston

(Encyclopedia)Pittston, industrial city (1990 pop. 9,389), Luzerne co., NE Pa., on the Susquehanna; settled c.1770 by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut, inc. as a city 1894. It is a mining center for surface a...

Weirton

(Encyclopedia)Weirton, city (1990 pop. 22,124), Brooke and Hancock counties, NW W.Va., in the industrial Northern Panhandle, on the Ohio River; settled 1790s, inc. 1947. Its industries include coal mining and the m...

Rhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Rhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount rŏnˈdə [key], 1856–1918, British industrialist and public official. He entered his father's coal business in S Wales and eventually developed one of the...

Enugu

(Encyclopedia)Enugu ĕno͞oˈgo͞o [key], city, SE Nigeria. It is a diversified industrial center and a road ...

Mieres

(Encyclopedia)Mieres mēāˈrĕs [key], city (1990 pop. 57,627), Oviedo prov., N Spain, in Asturias, on the Lena River. It is an important mining center for coal, sulfur, and cinnabar and has iron and steel plants....

Asansol

(Encyclopedia)Asansol əsənsōlˈ [key], city, West Bengal state, NE India. It is an industrial center in the Damodar valley coal-mining area, with rail and road connections to major c...

Saint Helens

(Encyclopedia)Saint Helens, metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 114,397), NW England, in the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area. It is a major center of glass manufacture in England. The city also has iron and brass f...

Collinsville

(Encyclopedia)Collinsville, city (2020 pop. 24,366), Madison co., SW Ill.; settled 1817, inc. 1872. Once a coal-mining center, the city now has food-products and clot...