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It is one of the country's three most ... [1 Related Articles] Yunca language (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...textiles and in gold, silver, and copper. Pottery types tended to be standardized, with quantity ... Yundum town, western Gambia. Located 18 miles (30 km) southwest of Banjul, it is the site ... Yunfa (from the article "Usman dan Fodio") ...Bawa, the sultan of Gobir, from whom he won important concessions for the local Muslim ... Yung Vilne (from the article "Grade, Chaim") ...for her son. Grade studied at several yeshivas and was part of the pietistic movement ... Yung-ho shih (municipality), T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan, 1 mi (1.6 km) south of Taipei city, ... Yung-lo Temple (from the article "arts, East Asian") One school that flourished under Yuan official patronage was that of Buddhist and Taoist painting; ... Yungang caves series of magnificent Chinese Buddhist cave temples, created in the 5th century CE during the ... [1 Related Articles] Yungas humid, subtropical region in western Bolivia. (Yungas is an Aymara word meaning "Warm Lands.") It ... [1 Related Articles] Yungay, Battle of (from the article "Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation") The Chileans, joined by Peruvians opposed to Santa Cruz, persisted in their fight until, under ... Yunge, Di (from the article "Yiddish literature") American Yiddish poets in New York formed two innovative groups called Di Yunge ("The Young") ... yunluo Chinese gong chime usually consisting of 10 gongs that are suspended in individual compartments on ... [1 Related Articles] Yunnan sheng (province) of China. The fourth largest province of China, it is ... [3 Related Articles] Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau highland region comprising the northern part of Yunnan province and the western part of Guizhou ... [4 Related Articles] Yunus (from the article "Hamid Dynasty") ...by Felekuddin Dundar, whose father, Ilyas, was a frontier ruler under the Seljuqs and who ... Yunus al-Katib (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of Islam. This is the 10th-century Kitab al-Aghani, or "Book of Songs," ... Yunus Emre poet and mystic who exercised a powerful influence on Turkish literature. [3 Related Articles] Yunus, Muhammad Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans ... [4 Related Articles] Yupik indigenous Arctic people traditionally residing in Siberia, Saint Lawrence Island and the Diomede Islands in ... [4 Related Articles] Yupik language (from the article "Yupik language") the western division of the Eskimo languages, spoken in southwestern Alaska and in Siberia.TABLEEskimo-Aleut languages Yurev, Roman (from the article "Romanov Dynasty") ...of Andrey Ivanovich Kobyla (Kambila), a Muscovite boyar who lived during the reign of the ... Yuro, Timi American pop singer (b. Aug. 4, 1940, Chicago, Ill.-d. March 30, 2004, Las Vegas, Nev.), ... Yurok North American Indians who lived in what is now California along the lower Klamath River ... [4 Related Articles] Yurok language (from the article "North American Indian languages") ..."pot," ŋaduŋdu-mal "pot-small." Vowel harmony, a process whereby vowels change to resemble adjacent ones, is ... yurt tentlike Central Asian nomad's dwelling, erected on wooden poles and covered with skin, felt, or ... [11 Related Articles] Yurugu (from the article "dualism") ...elements), or even a dualistic opposition (as two opposed elements that function as principles in ... Yuruk rug floor covering handwoven by nomadic people in various parts of Anatolia. The Balikesir Yuruk rugs ... [1 Related Articles] Yurungkax River (from the article "Hotan") The oasis of Hotan, the largest of these, includes Karakax (Moyu), to the northwest, and ... Yurupary (from the article "South American forest Indian") ...rites take a central position among other important ceremonies such as funerals and fertility rites. ... Yury (from the article "Russia") The struggle began at the death of Vasily I, a son of Dmitry Donskoy, in ... Yury of Moscow (from the article "Tver") ...Moscow for supremacy in northeastern Russia during the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1305 Yaroslav's ... Yuryev, Oleg (from the article "Literature") Perhaps the most important publication of the year in poetry was Oleg Yuryev's Izbrannye stikhi ... Yuscaran town, southeastern Honduras. It lies at the eastern foot of the Montana (ridge) de Monserrat ... Yushchenko, Viktor Ukrainian politician, who became president of Ukraine in 2005. [7 Related Articles] Yushin order (from the article "Korea, South") In December 1971, shortly after his inauguration to a third presidential term, Park declared a ... Yust, Walter American journalist and editor, editor in chief of all publications of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from ... Yusuf (from the article "Arabic literature") ...revelations were received, and its placement in the order of suras. This method of compilation ... Yusuf 'Adil Khan (from the article "Bijapur") ...victory") and was an important community under the Yadava dynasty for more than a century ... Yusuf Ahmed, Abdullahi (from the article "Somalia") ...capital of Somaliland | Head of state and government: Somalia's government under President Abdiqassim Salad ... Yusuf As'ar Yath'ar (from the article "Arabian religion") About AD 523 Yusuf As'ar Yath'ar (nicknamed Dhu Nuwas by the Muslim tradition), a Himyarite ... Yusuf Buluggin I ibn Ziri (from the article "Mu'izz, al-") ...Cairo, the new capital founded by Jawhar just to the north of the old city ... Yusuf I (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of the Alhambra had been occupied by a citadel and possibly by a palace since ... Yusuf ibn Tashufin Almoravid ruler who, during his reign from 1061 to 1106, expanded Almoravid land holdings from ... [9 Related Articles] Yusuf Sayfa (from the article "Fakhr ad-Din II") ...became locked in a seven-year struggle for supremacy, a struggle that was complicated by the ... Yusupov, Feliks (from the article "Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich") Several attempts were made to take the life of Rasputin and save Russia from further ... Yuulngu (from the article "Australian Aboriginal languages") ...between the Pama-Nyungan group, which covers 90 percent of the continent, and the residual non-Pama-Nyungan ... yuvaraja (from the article "Sri Lanka") The king was supported by an inner administrative hierarchy consisting of members of his family ... Yuwen Huaji (from the article "China") ...of the northwest, the Tang had to contend with three principal rival forces: the Sui ... Yuwen Kai (from the article "Sui dynasty") The architecture of the Sui was dominated by the great Yuwen Kai, who in nine ... Yuyuan Garden (from the article "Shanghai") The old Chinese city houses the 16th-century Yuyuan Garden (Garden of the Mandarin Yu), an ... Yuzaki troupe (from the article "Kanze school") school of no theatre (q.v.) known for its emphasis on beauty and elegance. The school ... yuzen-zome (from the article "Miyazaki Yuzen") Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production ... Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city and administrative centre of Sakhalin oblast (province), far eastern Russia. It lies in the ... [1 Related Articles] Yuzhny Island (from the article "Novaya Zemlya") Novaya Zemlya ("New Land") consists of two large islands, Severny (northern) and Yuzhny (southern), aligned ... Yuzu Nembutsu Japanese Buddhist sect that stresses the permeating effect (yuzu) of Yvelines (from the article "Ile-de-France") ...encompassing the north-central departements of Val-d'Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville-de-Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, ... Yverdon (from the article "Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich") From 1800 to 1804 he directed an educational establishment in Burgdorf and from 1805 until ... Yves Saint Laurent (from the article "Fashions") ...In September Bloomsbury published The Beautiful Fall, Alicia Drake's comprehensive account of the 1970s Paris ... Yves-du-Manoir (from the article "Colombes") northwestern industrial suburb of Paris, Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region, France. It is known particularly for ... Ywa (from the article "Telakhon") ...prophet cults among the Karen hill peoples of Myanmar (Burma). In their mythology, the restoration ...

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