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Ídhra

(Encyclopedia)Ídhra hīˈdrə [key], island, 21 sq mi (54 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, off the Argolís peninsula of the Peloponnesus. It is mostly barren and rocky. Ídhra town is the center of populatio...

Viña del Mar

(Encyclopedia)Viña del Mar vēˈnyä dĕl mär [key] [Span.,=vineyard by the sea], city (1990 est. pop. 281,100), central Chile. Practically a suburb of Valparaiso, Viña del Mar is one of the most famous and popu...

Tata

(Encyclopedia)Tata täˈtä [key], Parsi family of Indian industrialists, centered at Mumbai. The Tata enterprises, which encompass vast holdings in iron and steel, motor vehicles, power utilities, financial servic...

Daegu

(Encyclopedia)Daegu or Taegu dīˈgo͞oˈ [key], Jap. Taiku, city, S South Korea, on the Sincheon and Geum ...

Quezaltenango

(Encyclopedia)Quezaltenango kāsältānängˈgō [key], city (1994 est. pop. 90,801), SW Guatemala. The city is the metropolis of the western highlands (it is 7,500 ft/2,286 m above sea level) and the second city o...

Fukui

(Encyclopedia)Fukui fo͝oko͞oˈē, fo͝okˈo͞o-ē [key], city, capital of Fukui prefecture, centr...

Jacquard, Joseph Marie

(Encyclopedia)Jacquard, Joseph Marie zhôzĕfˈ märēˈ zhäkärˈ [key], 1752–1834, French inventor, whose loom is of the greatest importance in modern mechanical figure weaving. After several years of experime...

Annecy

(Encyclopedia)Annecy änsēˈ [key], town, capital of Haute-Savoie dept., SE France, in Savoy in the N Alps, on beautiful Lake Annecy. A popular tourist resort, it also has printing pla...

Kaduna

(Encyclopedia)Kaduna käˌdo͞onäˈ [key], town (1991 est. pop. 302,000), N Nigeria. A commercial and industrial center of N Nigeria, Kaduna has cotton-textile, beverage, and furniture factories. It is a rail and ...

Khambat

(Encyclopedia)Khambat kămbāˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 76,724), Gujarat state, W India, on the Mahi River estuary. Khambat is a trading center whose industries include textile weaving, carpet-making, petroleum, and...