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- town, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia. It lies on the left bank of the Don River, 4 miles (7 km) east of the Sea of Azov. The Greek colony of Tanais, the first known major city in the region, was founded there in the 6th century BC. It changed hands ... [4 Related Articles]
- Azov Upland
- hilly region, southeastern Ukraine. Part of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield, the Azov Upland is an area of denuded mountains, extending from the Dnieper River for 100 miles (160 km) to the Donets Ridge and sloping gently down southeastward to the Sea of Azov. The highest point is Mount Mohyla-Belmak (1,063 ...
- Azov, Sea of
- inland sea situated off the southern shores of Ukraine and Russia. It forms a northern extension of the Black Sea, to which it is linked on the south by the Kerch Strait. The Sea of Azov is about 210 miles (340 km) long and 85 miles (135 km) wide and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Azraqis
- (from the article "Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, al-") ...al-Zubayr, who appointed him governor of the eastern province of Khorasan. Before he could assume his responsibilities, however, he was forced to undertake several campaigns against the Azraqis, a fanatical Muslim sect that made war on all who would not join them. He eventually pursued them into Persia and was ...
- Azrou
- (from the article "Ifrane") ...craters are equipped with alpine ski runs. It is also the home of Al-Akhawayn University (1995), Morocco's first private institution of higher education modeled on the American university system. Azrou, 11 miles (17 km) southwest of Ifrane at an elevation of about 3,950 feet (1,204 metres), is an old Amazigh ...
- AZT
- drug used to delay development of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in patients infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). AZT belongs to a group of drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). In 1987 AZT became the first of these drugs to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aztec
- Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztec are so called from Aztlan ("White Land"), an allusion to their origins, probably in northern Mexico. They were also called the Tenochca, from an eponymous ancestor, ... [35 Related Articles]
- Aztec calendar
- dating system based on the Mayan calendar and used in the Valley of Mexico before the destruction of the Aztec empire. Like the Mayan calendar, the Aztec calendar consisted of a ritual cycle of 260 days and a 365-day civil cycle. The ritual cycle, or tonalpohualli, contained ... [5 Related Articles]
- Aztec Empire
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") Human skeletons found at an archaeological site called Tecuaque, near Mexico City, provided grisly confirmation of Aztec practices of human sacrifice. The site was a flourishing Aztec community of 5,000 Zultepec Indians at the time of the Spanish conquest, and conquistador Hernan Cortes gave it the name Tecuaque, which means ...
- Aztec religion
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Perhaps the most highly elaborated aspect of Aztec culture was the religious system. The Aztec derived much of their religious ideology from the earlier cultures of Meso-America or from their contemporaries. This was particularly true during the final phase of their history, when their foreign contacts broadened. Indeed, much confusion ...
- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- archaeological site in northwestern New Mexico, U.S., on the Animas River, just north of the city of Aztec. The national monument was established in 1923 and has an area of 0.5 square mile (1.3 square km). The site, mistakenly called Aztec by early white settlers, actually contains the excavated ruins ...
- Aztec Stadium
- (from the article "stadium") ...to accommodate in excess of 100,000 people include Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Melbourne (100,000); Tsentraly (Lenin) Stadium, in Moscow (103,000); Odsal Stadium, in Bradford, England (102,500); Aztec Stadium, in Mexico City (115,000); the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California, U.S. (104,091); and Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. (107,501). These ...
- Azteca
- (from the article "Rosales") ...in density and mechanical properties and is used in making boxes, plywood, and particleboard stock. A symbiotic relationship exists between species of Cecropia and ants of the genus Azteca. The ants establish colonies within the hollow trunks and stems of the Cecropia plants. The ants consume glycogen (an energy source ...
- Azteco-Tanoan languages
- a major grouping (phylum or superstock) of American Indian languages that includes the large Uto-Aztecan language family and the small Kiowa-Tanoan language family of New Mexico and Oklahoma. The Uto-Aztecan languages are widely spoken in Mexico, northern Guatemala, and, by fewer numbers, in California, the Great Basin, and Arizona. The ... [2 Related Articles]
- Azua
- city, southwestern Dominican Republic. Founded in 1504 on the Caribbean coast, the original town was destroyed by an earthquake; the town was reestablished 3 miles (5 km) inland at its present site at the foot of the Ocoa Mountains. It is one of the leading cities in the region, trading ... [1 Related Articles]
- Azuchi
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") In any case, Nobunaga's rise is the referent event for the start of the period. He selected Azuchi, a town on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa, a few miles to the east of Kyoto, as the site of his new government. It was there that a purportedly magnificent castle ...
- Azuchi-Momoyama period
- (1574-1600), in Japanese history, age of political unification under the daimyo Oda Nobunaga and his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who finally brought all provinces under the control of the central government. In contrast to the restraint of the preceding Muromachi, or Ashikaga, period (1338-1573), it was an age of magnificence and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Azuela, Mariano
- Mexican writer whose 20 novels chronicle almost every aspect of the Mexican Revolution. [1 Related Articles]
- Azuero Peninsula
- physical region in southwestern Panama, protruding south into the Pacific Ocean between the Gulf of Panama to the east and the Gulf of Montijo to the west. It measures 60 miles (100 km) from east to west and 55 miles (90 km) from north to south. It attains a maximum ... [1 Related Articles]
- Azul, Mount
- (from the article "Ecuador") ...consist of 19 rugged islands and scores of islets and rocks situated about 600 miles (900 km) west of the mainland. The largest island, Isabela (Albemarle), rises to 5,541 feet (1,689 metres) at Mount Azul, the archipelago's highest point. The second largest island is Santa Cruz.elevation
- azulejo
- (from Arabic az-zulayj, "little stone"), Spanish and later principally Portuguese tiles produced from the 14th century onward. At first the term was used to denote only North African mosaics, but it became the accepted word for an entirely decorated tile about 5 to 6 inches (13 to 15 centimetres) square. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Azulejo Museum
- (from the article "Lisbon") The city has many other museums, including those dedicated to modern, antique, sacred, decorative, and folk arts. Two specialized, rather unusual museums are the Azulejo Museum and the National Museum of Coaches. The former, located in the convent of Madre de Deus, boasts a large and varied collection of the ...
- azulene
- (from the article "chemical compound") ...spectra normally coalesce to produce a continuous absorption spectrum, with some of the strongest individual absorption peaks appearing as sharp spikes. For example, the UV-visible spectrum of azulene, a molecule that contains five conjugated pi bonds, shows a strong absorbance in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which correlates ...
- azurite
- basic copper carbonate [Cu3(OH)2(CO3)2]. It is ordinarily found with malachite in the oxidized zone of copper lodes. Notable deposits are Tsumeb, Namibia; Chessy, Fr.; and Bisbee, Ariz., U.S. Azurite was used as a blue pigment in ancient Eastern wall painting and, from the 15th to the middle of the 17th ...
- Azusa Street revival
- (from the article "Pentecostalism") Wider national and international expansion, however, resulted from the Azusa Street revival that began in 1906 at the Apostolic Faith Gospel Mission at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Its leader, William Seymour, a one-eyed Holiness church pastor and former member of the African Methodist Episcopal church, had been exposed ...
- azygous system
- (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...from the back and from the walls of the chest and abdomen drains into veins lying alongside the vertebral bodies (the weight-bearing portions of the vertebrae). These veins form what is termed the azygous system, which serves as a connecting link between the superior and inferior vena cava. The terminal ...
- azygous vein
- (from the article "vena cava") ...been collected from the head and neck and the arms; they also drain blood from much of the upper half of the body, including the upper part of the spine and the upper chest wall. A large vein, the azygos, which receives oxygen-poor blood from the chest wall and the ...
- Azzaro, Loris
- (from the article "Fashions") Another standout was French vintage evening wear produced in Paris by the late Tunisian-born designer Loris Azzaro; during the 1970s he dressed actresses Marisa Berenson, Liza Minnelli, and Raquel Welch in long, sinuous jersey and satin gowns frequently embellished at the neckline with sequins or crystals. At the 76th Academy ...
- Azzi-Hayasa
- (from the article "Mursilis II") ...western kingdom of Arzawa, one of the main threats to the Hittite realm. Chronic trouble with the Kaska in the north necessitated almost annual pacification operations (10 in all), and the region of Azzi-Hayasa (east of the Kaska) also had to be reconquered by Mursilis in a number of campaigns. ...
- Azzolino, Decio
- (from the article "Christina") ...Vasa, who had abdicated the throne of Poland; but her failure seemed to please her since this meant that she could return to her beloved Rome. There she had formed a strong friendship with Cardinal Decio Azzolino, a clever, charming, prudent man, leader of a group of cardinals active in ...
- Azzone Dei Porci
- a leader of the Bolognese school of jurists and one of the few to write systematic summaries (summae) rather than textual glosses of Roman law as codified under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (6th century AD). His Summa codicis and Apparatus ...
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