Szczytno Ortelsburg
SZCZYTNO [ German: Ortelsburg] (Poland) City of Olsztyn province, in the N, 27 mi SE of Olsz- tyn. Formerly part of East Prussia
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Tangier Tangiers Tingis
TANGIER [Tangiers] [ ancient: Tingis; Arabic: Tanjah; French: Tanger; Spanish: Tánger] (Morocco) City, port, and capital of Tangier province, on a
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Tebourba Tunisia
TÉBOURBA ( Tunisia) Town and battle site in N Tunisia, 32 mi W of Tunis. During World War II the British
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Tegucigalpa Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras) City and capital of Honduras and of Francisco Morazán department, in the mountains of S central Honduras, 120 mi
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Teos Turkey
TEOS (Turkey) Ancient city of Asia Minor , on the S coast of the Yzmir Peninsula, two mi W of Seferihisar, in
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Thurii Thuria Thurium
THURII [Thuria, Thurium] (Italy) Ancient city of Magna Graecia, near the site of Syb- aris, in Lucania, on the Gulf of Taranto,
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Tirah Pakistan
TIRAH (Pakistan) Mountainous region in Northwest Frontier Prov- ince , WSW of the Khyber Pass and Peshawar, on the Afghan border, Pakistan. Inhabited
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Trobriand Islands
TROBRIAND ISLANDS (Papua New Guinea) New Guinea Island group off SE New Guinea, in the Solomon Sea. There are 22 islands,
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Umuahia Nigeria
UMUAHIA (Nigeria) Former province in Imo State. Its capital, of the same name, is 26 mi NNE of Aba. Thirty-three miles
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Vaxj O Vexio Wexi
VÄXJ Ö [Vexio, Wexiö] (Sweden) Town in Kronoberg county, 60 mi WNW of Kal- mar, on Lake Växjö. Founded, according to tradi- tion,
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Vendee France
VENDÉE (France) Department of W France, in Poitou, on the Bay of Biscay with its capital at La Roche-sur-Yon. Cre- ated
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Venetia Veneto Venezia Euganea
VENETIA [ Italian: Veneto, Venezia Euganea] (Italy) Region of NE Italy, bordering on the Gulf of Venice on the E, Austria on
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Veragua Panama
VERAGUA (Panama) Region in the W part of the Isthmus of Panama. It was discovered and named by Christopher Columbus in
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Verdun Verdun Sur Meuse Verodunum
VERDUN [Verdun-sur-Meuse] [ ancient: Verodunum] (France) City in Meuse department, Lorraine, 40 mi W of Metz. A prosperous center in Roman times,
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Vermont United States
VERMONT (United States) The farthest NW of the New England states, it lies between New Hampshire on the E and New
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Vexin France
VEXIN (France) Ancient district in the N between the Seine and Oise Rivers. The region was divided in a.d. 911 between
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Vezelay France
VÉZELAY (France) Village in the Yonne department, 10 mi WSW of Avallon. It is the site of a famous Benedictine abbey
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Vidin Bdin Bononia Dunonia
VIDIN [Bdin] [ ancient: Bononia, Dunonia] (Bulgaria) City, port, and capital of Vidin province, on the Dan- ube River, 65 mi NW of
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Vienne France
VIENNE (France) Department of W central France, in Poitou; its capi- tal is Poitiers. Strategically situated on the SW approaches to Paris,
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Vigevano Italy
VIGEVANO (Italy) Town in Pavia province, Lombardy region, on the Ticino River, 18 mi NW of Pavia. An old silk-manu- facturing town,
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Vigo Spain
VIGO (Spain) City and port on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, in Pontevedra province, Galicia, 100 mi N of Oporto.
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Villarrobledo Spain
VILLARROBLEDO (Spain) City in Albacete province, 42 mi WNW of Albacete. Founded in the 13th century, it was the site of
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Villers-Cotterets
VILLERS-COTTERÊTS (France) Town in the Aisne department, 14 mi SW of Sois- sons. A nearby forest was the scene of the opening
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Vincennes United States
VINCENNES (United States) City in SW Indiana, on the Wabash River, 57 mi S of Terre Haute. The oldest town in
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Vinland Vineland Wineland
VINLAND [Vineland; Wineland] (Canada; United States) Coastal area of North America; its exact location is believed by experts to be somewhere
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Vinnitsa Ukraine
VINNITSA (Ukraine) City on the Southern Bug River, 130 mi SW of Kiev, in the Ukraine. Founded in the 14th century,
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Virginia City
VIRGINIA CITY (United States) Village in W Nevada, 16 mi SSE of Reno. The dis- covery of the Comstock Lode, a gold
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Viseu Vizeu
VISEU [Vizeu] (Portugal) Town and capital of Viseu district and Beira Alta province, 41 mi NE of Coimbra. Founded by the
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Vistula River Weichsel Polish
VISTULA RIVER [ German: Weichsel; Polish: Wisla; Russian: Visla] (Poland) River rising on the N slope of the Carpathian Mts, it flows
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Vitry-Le-Francois
VITRY-LE-FRANÇOIS (France) Town in the Marne department, on the Marne River, 20 mi SE of Chlons. It was built in 1545
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