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Hartlepool

(Encyclopedia) Hartlepool Hartlepool härtˈlēp&oomacr;l, härtˈəl– [key], borough…

Legaspi

(Encyclopedia) Legaspi or LegazpiLegazpiləgăˈspē, lāgäˈ– [key], city (1990 pop. 121,116), capital of Albay prov., SE Luzon, the Philippines, on Albay Gulf. It is a large seaport and the southern…

Licata

(Encyclopedia) LicataLicatalēkäˈtä [key], city (1991 pop. 41,300), S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea at the mouth of the Salso River. Licata is a seaport, seaside resort, and commercial and…

Elbląg

(Encyclopedia) Elbląg Elbląg ĕlˈblôNk [key] or Elbing Elbląg…

Newry

(Encyclopedia) Newry, town (1991 pop. 19,246), Newry and Mourne dist., SE Northern Ireland, on the Clanrye River and the Newry Canal. It has canal connections with Carlingford Lough, the Bann River,…

Weenix, Jan Baptist

(Encyclopedia) Weenix, Jan BaptistWeenix, Jan Baptistyän bäptĭstˈ vāˈnĭks [key], 1621–63, Dutch painter and engraver. About 1649 he settled in Utrecht, becoming in the same year the master of the…

Weihai

(Encyclopedia) WeihaiWeihaiwāˈhīˈ [key] or WeihaiweiWeihaiwāˈhīˈ [key]Weihaiwei– [key]Weihaiweiwāˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 184,500), NE Shandong prov., China, a seaport on the Bohai. The harbor…

Port Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Port Elizabeth, city, now part and seat of Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality, Eastern Cape prov., SE South Africa, on Algoa Bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean. It is a tourist…

Seleucia

(Encyclopedia) SeleuciaSeleuciasəl&oomacr;ˈshə [key], ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris below modern Baghdad. Founded (c.312 b.c.) by Seleucus I, it soon replaced Babylon as the main…

Odense

(Encyclopedia) OdenseOdenseōˈᵺənsə [key], city (1992 pop. 140,886), capital of Fyn co., S central Denmark, a seaport linked by canal with the Odense Fjord (an arm of the Kattegat). Denmark's third…