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Kerman

(Encyclopedia) KermanKermankĕrmänˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 311,643), capital of Kerman prov., E central Iran. It is noted for making and exporting carpets. Cotton textiles and goats-wool shawls are…

Berezina

(Encyclopedia) BerezinaBerezinabyĕrāzēnäˈ [key], river, c.380 mi (610 km) long, rising in Belarus. It flows generally S past Borisov and Bobruysk into the Dnieper River. It is navigable for most of…

Camp Borden

(Encyclopedia) Camp Borden, large military training establishment, S Ont., Canada, NW of Toronto. It covers an area of 20,000 acres (8,094 hectares) and also includes an armored-vehicle range at…

Dhlakama, Afonso Marceta Macacho

(Encyclopedia) Dhlakama, Afonso Marceta Macacho, 1953–2018, Mozambican rebel leader and opposition figure. Conscripted into the Portuguese colonial army, he soon deserted and fought briefly with the…

Malplaquet, battle of

(Encyclopedia) Malplaquet, battle ofMalplaquet, battle ofmälpläkāˈ [key], a major engagement in the War of the Spanish Succession (see Spanish Succession, War of the). On Sept. 11, 1709, the combined…

Neuilly, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia) Neuilly, Treaty ofNeuilly, Treaty ofnöyēˈ [key], 1919, peace treaty concluded between the Allies and Bulgaria after World War I. It was signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Bulgaria…

Buchenwald

(Encyclopedia) BuchenwaldBuchenwaldb&oomacr;ˈkhənvältˌ [key], village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp…

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

(Encyclopedia) Cumberland Presbyterian Church, branch of the Presbyterian Church in the United States founded in 1810. In 1906 many of its congregations were united with the main body of the church.…

Bonus Marchers

(Encyclopedia) Bonus Marchers, in U.S. history, more than 20,000 veterans, most of them unemployed and in desperate financial straits, who, in the spring of 1932, spontaneously made their way to…

Aleut

(Encyclopedia) AleutAleutəl&oomacr;tˈ, ălˈē&oomacr;tˌ [key], native inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands and W Alaska. Like the Eskimo, the Aleuts are racially similar to Siberian peoples.…