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Austin

(Encyclopedia)Austin. 1 City, seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the ...

Nob

(Encyclopedia)Nob, in the Bible, religious center just N of Jerusalem. Saul had its inhabitants massacred.

Cranbrook

(Encyclopedia)Cranbrook, city, SE British Columbia, Canada. It is a lumbering, tourism, and lead-zinc mining center.

Corrientes

(Encyclopedia)Corrientes kôryĕnˈtās [key], city, capital of Corrientes prov., NE Argentina, a port on the ...

Fukui

(Encyclopedia)Fukui fo͝oko͞oˈē, fo͝okˈo͞o-ē [key], city, capital of Fukui prefecture, centr...

Greenbelt

(Encyclopedia)Greenbelt, city (2020 pop. 24,921), Prince Georges co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; chartered 1937. Greenbelt was planned a...

Grasse

(Encyclopedia)Grasse, town, Alpes-Maritime dept., SE France. Probably founded in Roman times, Grasse was a commercial center during the Middle Ages. Destroyed many ti...

Helsingborg

(Encyclopedia)Helsingborg or Hälsingborg both: hĕlsĭngbôrˈyə [key], city, Malmöhus co., S Sweden...

An Najaf

(Encyclopedia)An Najaf än näˈjäf [key], city (2020 pop. 874,000), S central Iraq, on a lake near the Euphrates River. The city, one of Shi'a Islam's holiest, is also called Mashad A...

Halberstadt

(Encyclopedia)Halberstadt hälˈbərshtät [key], city, Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is an industrial center ...
 

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