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Enfield, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) Enfield, town (2020 pop. 42,141), Hartford co., N Conn., on the Connecticut River at the Mass. line; settled c.1680. The town has varied…

Altona

(Encyclopedia) AltonaAltonaälˈtōnä [key], part of Hamburg, N Germany, a port on the Elbe River. Its manufactures include chemicals, textiles, and tobacco products. There are fisheries, and the…

Belagavi

(Encyclopedia) Belagavi, formerly Belgaum Belgaum bĕlgoumˈ [key], city, Karnataka state, SE…

Cayey

(Encyclopedia) Cayey Cayey kīāˈ [key], town, SE Puerto Rico, in the Sierra de Cayey Mts. It is a sugar…

Aydin

(Encyclopedia) Aydin Aydin īdŭnˈ [key], city, capital of Aydin prov., W Turkey, on the Büyük Menderes River. It is the trade center for a farm region where olives, figs,…

Swindon

(Encyclopedia) Swindon, borough and unitary authority (1991 pop. 127,348), S central England. Swindon was a small village until 1841, when the Great Western RR opened its locomotive and car works…

Culpeper, Thomas Culpeper, 2d Baron

(Encyclopedia) Culpeper, Thomas Culpeper, 2d BaronCulpeper, Thomas Culpeper, 2d Baronkŭlˈpĕpˌər [key], 1635–89, English colonial governor of Virginia. In 1673, with the earl of Arlington, he was…

Harare

(Encyclopedia) HarareHararehəˈrärā [key], formerly Salisbury, city (1992 est. pop. 1,485,615), alt. 4,865 ft (1,483 m), capital of Zimbabwe, NE Zimbabwe. Harare is Zimbabwe's largest city and its…

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

(Encyclopedia) Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), former U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of…

Haskovo

(Encyclopedia) Haskovo Haskovo häsˈkōvōˌ [key] or Khaskovo Haskovo…