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Faisalabad

(Encyclopedia)Faisalabad līˈəlpo͝or [key], city, NE Pakistan, in a cotton- and wheat-growing area. It is an ...

Falaise

(Encyclopedia)Falaise fälĕzˈ [key], town (1993 est. pop. 8,387), Calvados dept., N France, in Normandy. Once an important textile center, the town is now an agricultural marketplace and manufactures cheeses and ...

Udagamandalam

(Encyclopedia)Udagamandalam o͞oˈtəkəmŭndˌ [key], town (1991 pop. 81,763), Tamil Nadu state, SW India, in the Nilgiri Hills. At an altitude of c.7,000 ft (2,130 m), the town is the most famous hot-weather reso...

Przemyśl

(Encyclopedia)Przemyśl pshĕˈmĭshəl [key], Ukr. Peremyshl, city (1989 est. pop. 67,000), Podkarpackie prov., extreme SE Poland, on the San River in the Carpathian foothills. It is a trade center and has metalwo...

Jiaxing

(Encyclopedia)Jiaxing käˈshĭngˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 227,600), N Zhejiang prov., SE China, at the junction of the Grand Canal, the Huangpu River, and the Hangzhou-Shanghai RR. An important marketing cent...

Jinsha

(Encyclopedia)Jinsha shäˈsēˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 683,000), S Hubei prov., China, on the Chang River. It is an important trade center for the N Dongting Lake basin and the site of a massive reservoir bui...

Juiz de Fora

(Encyclopedia)Juiz de Fora zhwēzh dĭ fôˈrə [key], city (1996 pop. 423,913), Minas Gerais state, SE Brazil. It is an industrial and commercial city with more than half of the labor force engaged in textile prod...

Bruay-la-Buissière

(Encyclopedia)Bruay-la-Buissière än-ärtwäˈ [key], town, Pas-de-Calais dept., NE France. Once a coal-mining center, ...

Plauen

(Encyclopedia)Plauen plouˈən [key], city (1994 pop. 69,387), Saxony, E central Germany, on the White Elster River and at the northwestern foot of the Erzgebirge. It has been a textile-milling center since the 15t...

medicinal plants

(Encyclopedia)medicinal plants, plants used as natural medicines. This practice has existed since prehistoric times. There are three ways in which plants have been found useful in medicine. First, they may be used ...