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(Encyclopedia) Chan ChanChan Chanchän chän [key], ruins of an ancient city near Trujillo, N Peru. An early example of city planning, with a rectangular grid structure, it was probably begun in the…Gezer
(Encyclopedia) GezerGezergēˈzər [key], ancient city of Canaan, on the coastal plain of Sharon, NW of Jerusalem. Its position guarding the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa has always given it importance,…truck farming
(Encyclopedia) truck farming, horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. It is usually less intensive and diversified than market…Murcia, autonomous community and former kingdom, Spain
(Encyclopedia) MurciaMurciaSpan. m&oomacr;rˈthyä [key], autonomous community and former Moorish kingdom (2011 pop. 1,462,128), 4,368 sq mi (11,314 sq km), SE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea,…Red River, river, China and Vietnam
(Encyclopedia) Red River, Chinese Yuan Chiang, Vietnamese Song Hong, chief river of N Vietnam, 730 mi (1,175 km) long, rising in Yunnan prov., S China, and flowing southeast, in deep, narrow gorges,…Magdalena
(Encyclopedia) MagdalenaMagdalenamägᵺälāˈnä [key], river, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, rising in the Cordillera Central, SW Colombia and flowing N to the Caribbean Sea near Barranquilla. It flows in a…waterfall
(Encyclopedia) waterfall, a sudden unsupported drop in a stream. It is formed when the stream course is interrupted as when a stream passes over a layer of harder rock—often igneous—to an area of…Latium
(Encyclopedia) LatiumLatiumlāˈshēəm [key], Ital. Lazio, region (1990 pop. 5,170,672), 6,642 sq mi (17,203 sq km), central Italy, extending from the Apennines westward to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Rome is…Hadhramaut
(Encyclopedia) Hadhramaut or HadramautHadhramautboth: hädrəmoutˈ, –môtˈ [key], region, S Arabia, on the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, occupying the southeastern part of Yemen. Historically, the…Maritime Territory
(Encyclopedia) Maritime Territory or Primorsky KrayPrimorsky Krayprēmôrˈskē krī [key], administrative division (1992 pop. 2,309,000), c.64,900 sq mi (168,100 sq km), Russian Far East, between China (…Trending
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