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Durham, county, England

(Encyclopedia) Durham, officially County Durham, county, 1,015 sq mi (2,629 sq km), NE England, on the North Sea between the Tees and Tyne rivers;…

Évreux

(Encyclopedia) Évreux Évreux āvröˈ [key], town , capital of Eure dept., N France, in Normandy. It is an…

Cambridgeshire

(Encyclopedia) Cambridgeshire, county, 1,313 sq mi (3,402 sq km), E central England. The county seat is Cambridge. The county is divided into five…

Østfold

(Encyclopedia) ØstfoldØstfoldöstˈfôlˌ [key], county (1995 pop. 239,371), 1,614 sq mi (4,180 sq km), SE Norway, between the Oslofjord in the west and the Swedish border in the east. Moss is the…

Glamorgan

(Encyclopedia) GlamorganGlamorgangləmôrˈgən [key] or GlamorganshireGlamorgan–shĭrˌ, –shər [key], former county, S Wales. In 1974, the county of Glamorgan was divided among the nonmetropolitan…

Rasmussen, Lars Løkke

(Encyclopedia) Rasmussen, Lars LøkkeRasmussen, Lars Løkkelärs lökˈə räsˈm&oobreve;sən [key], 1964–, Danish political leader, grad Univ. of Copenhagen (1992). A member of the center-right Liberal…

Wexford, county, Republic of Ireland

(Encyclopedia) WexfordWexfordwĕksˈfərd [key], county (1991 pop. 102,069), 910 sq mi (2,357 sq km), SE Republic of Ireland. The county seat is the port city of Wexford. Most of the land is low and…

Bedford, town, England

(Encyclopedia) Bedford, town and borough, central England, on the Ouse River. It is an important industrial center; diesel engines, pumps, turbines,…

Sussex

(Encyclopedia) Sussex, former county, SE England, since 1888 divided for administrative purposes into East Sussex and West Sussex. Lewes is the county seat of East Sussex; Chichester of West Sussex.…