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Namangan: oblasti (province), eastern Uzbekistan, with an area of 3,100 square miles (7,900 square km), in the northern part of the Fergana Valley. It is traversed by the Syr Darya, the ...
Namath, Joe: American collegiate and professional gridiron football quarterback who was one of the best passers in football and a cultural sports icon of the 1960s.
Namatjira, Albert: Australian Aborigine painter noted for his watercolour landscapes of desertlike central Australia.
Nambucca Heads: town and promontory, north-coastal New South Wales, Australia. The name, derived from an Aboriginal term meaning "entrance to the waters," comes from the Nambucca River, which flows 70 miles (115 ...
Nambudiri: the dominant caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Orthodox in the extreme, its members regard themselves as the true repositories of the ancient Vedic religion and of the traditional ...
Namdev: leading poet-saint of the Indian medieval period, who wrote in the Marathi language.
Namdhari: an austere sect within Sikhism, a religion of India. The Namdhari movement was founded by Balak Singh (1797-1862), who did not believe in any religious ritual other than the repetition ...
name: a word or group of words used to refer to an individual entity (real or imaginary). A name singles out the entity by directly pointing to it, not by specifying ...
Namib: a cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometres) along the Atlantic coast from Namibe (formerly Mocamedes) in Angola southward across Namibia to the Olifants River in the Cape ...
Namibe: city and port, southwestern Angola. Founded by Brazilians in the mid-19th century and located on an arid coastal strip from which rises the steep Huila escarpment, Mocamedes was cut off ...
Namibia: country located on the southwestern coast of Africa. It has an area of 318,580 square miles (825,118 square kilometres), nearly all of it empty land. It is bordered by Angola ...
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein: British historian, who was most noted for his work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe.
Namora, Fernando Goncalves: Portuguese writer who wrote neorealist poetry and fiction, much of it inspired by his experience as a doctor in a remote mountainous area of Portugal.
Namp'o: city, southwestern North Korea. It is 30 miles (50 km) southwest of P'yongyang, on the estuary of the Taedong River. Formerly a fishing village, it developed rapidly after it became ...
Nampa: city, Canyon county, southwestern Idaho, U.S. It lies in the centre of the Boise Valley. Founded in 1886 on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad at the junction ...
Namur: city, capital of Namur province, south-central Belgium. It lies at the junction of the Sambre and Meuse (Maas) rivers. A pre-Roman oppidum (fortified town), ...
Namur: province, southern Belgium. It is bounded on the north by Brabant, on the northeast by Liege, on the east by Luxembourg (province), on the ...
Nan: town, northern Thailand, in the Luang Phra Bang (Prabang) Range. Nan lies about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Lampang along the Nan River and is a commercial centre for ...
Nan Mountains: series of mountain ranges in southern China that forms the divide and watershed between Hunan and Kiangsi provinces (sheng) and the Yangtze River basin to the north and Kwangtung province ...
Nan River: river in northern Thailand, rising in the northern portion of the Luang Phra Bang Range on the Laotian border and flowing south for 390 miles (627 km). It receives the ...
Nan-ch'ang: city and provincial capital of Kiangsi sheng (province), China. The city is situated on the right bank of the Kan River just below its confluence with the Chin and some ...
Nan-ch'ung: city in east-central Szechwan sheng (province), China. Nan-ch'ung is situated in the valley of the Chia-ling River, which is a northern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nan-ch'ung lies along the ...
Nan-ga: ("Literati Painting"), style of painting practiced by numerous Japanese painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the most original and creative painters of the middle and late Edo ...
Nan-ning: city in south-central Chuang autonomous ch'u (region) of Kwangsi, China. Nan-ning is the provincial capital. The city is located on the north bank of the Yung River, the chief southern ...
Nan-p'ing: city in north central Fukien sheng (province), China. Nan-p'ing occupies an important position in the communications of northern Fukien. It is situated on the northwest bank of the Min River ...
Nan-t'ou: hsien (county), central Taiwan. It has an area of 1,585 square miles (4,106 square km) and is bordered by the hsien of T'ai-chung (north), Chang-hua and Yun-lin (west), Chia-i and ...
Nan-t'ou: shih (municipality) and seat of Nan-t'ou hsien (county), west-central Taiwan. It lies 26 miles (42 km) south of T'ai-chung city. Situated in a fertile alluvial plain on a tributary of ...
Nan-t'ung: city, eastern Kiangsu sheng (province), China. Nan-t'ung is situated on the northern shore of the head of the Yangtze River estuary. Northward, it is connected with the Yun-yen and T'ung-yu ...
Nan-yang: city in southwestern Honan sheng (province), China. Nan-yang is situated on the Pai River, which is a tributary of the Han. It was from early times an important centre, commanding ...
Nana: Chiricahua Apache Indian warrior who was one of the leaders in the Apaches' final resistance against white domination.
Nana Sahib: a prominent leader in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Although he did not plan the outbreak, he assumed leadership of the sepoys (British-employed Indian soldiers).
Nanaimo: city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait. Founded as Colvilletown around a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, it developed after 1849 when coalfields were discovered ...
Nanak: Indian spiritual teacher who was the first guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic religious group that combines Hindu and Muslim influences. His teachings, expressed through devotional hymns, many of which ...
Nanao: city, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Noto Peninsula, facing Nanao Bay. During the Tokugawa Era (1603-1867), the castle town served as a naval base for the Maeda daimyo ...
Nancy: city, capital, Meurthe-et-Moselle departement, Lorraine region, eastern France, in what was formerly the province of Lorraine, west of Strasbourg, near the left bank of the Meurthe River.
Nanda Bayin: king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma whose reign (1581-99) ended with the dismemberment of the empire established by his father, Bayinnaung.
Nanda Dynasty: family that ruled Magadha, in northern India, between c. 343 and 321 BC. The Nanda dynasty immediately preceded the dynasty of the Mauryas, and, as with all pre-Maurya dynasties, what ...
Nanded: town, east-central Maharashtra state, western India. It lies on the banks of the Godavari River. Its name is derived from Nanda tat ("Nanda border"), a term that refers to the ...
Nandi: Kalenjin-speaking people who inhabit the western part of the highlands of Kenya. Their dialect of Kalenjin is classified in the Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family; they are distinct ...
Nandi: bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Siva. Some scholars suggest that the bull was originally the zoomorphic form of Siva, but from the Kusana (Kushan) age onward (c. 1st ...
nanduti: (Guarani Indian: "spider web"), type of lace introduced into Paraguay by the Spaniards. It is generally characterized by a spoke-like structure of foundation threads upon which many basic patterns are ...
nang-mchod: in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies, pleasurable sense perceptions presented to honour tranquil deities. The offerings include a mirror (to please the sense of form, or sight); a bell or stringed musical ...
Nanga Parbat: one of the world's tallest mountains, 26,660 feet (8,126 metres) high, situated in the western Himalayas 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Astor, in the Pakistani-administered sector of the Kashmir ...
Nangnang: one of four colonies (Nangnang, Chinbon, Imdun, and Hyonto) established in 108 BC by Emperor Wu Ti of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) of China when he conquered the ...
Nangnim Mountains: mountain range stretching from north to south, west of the Kaema Highlands (q.v.), in central North Korea. The Nangnim Mountains form the watershed between Kwanbuk (the northeastern part of the ...
Naning War: (1831-32), disastrous attempt by the British to exact tribute from the Minangkabau people of the Malay state of Naning, near Malacca. Claiming to have inherited a right formerly held by ...
Nanino, Giovanni Maria: Italian singer, teacher, and composer who was one of the better-known figures in late 16th-century European music.
nankeen: durable, firm-textured cotton cloth originally made in China and now imitated in various countries. The name is derived from Nanjing, the city in which the cloth is said to have ...
Nanking: city, capital of Kiangsu sheng (province) in east-central China. It is a port on the Yangtze River and a major industrial and communications centre. Rich in history, ...
Nanking Massacre: (December 1937-January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanking, China, on Dec. 13, 1937, ...
Nanking porcelain: Chinese blue-and-white porcelain made for export during the Qing dynasty (especially in the reign of Kangxi, 1661-1722) at Jingdezhen. It was shipped to Europe in great quantity from the port ...
Nanni Di Banco: Florentine sculptor whose works exemplify the stylistic transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance that occurred in Italy in the early 15th century.
nanotechnology: the manipulation and manufacture of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms. The "nanoscale" is typically measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre ...
Nansen bottle: ocean-water sampler devised late in the 19th century by the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen and subsequently modified by various workers. The standard Nansen bottle has a capacity of 1.25 litres ...
Nansen International Office for Refugees: international office opened by the League of Nations in 1931 to complete the work of Fridtjof Nansen, who had been the League of Nations' high commissioner for refugees from 1921 ...
Nansen, Fridtjof: Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14). For his relief ...
Nanshe: in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian city goddess of Nina (modern Surghul, Iraq) in the southeastern part of the Lagash region of Mesopotamia. According to tradition, Nanshe's father Enki (Akkadian: Ea) organized ...
Nantahala River: river rising in the Nantahala Mountains southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, U.S., near the border between Georgia and North Carolina. It flows 40 miles (64 km) north through Nantahala National ...
Nanterre: city, capital of the Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region. Located on the east bank of a loop of the meandering Seine River, and separated from Paris by the suburbs of Puteaux ...
Nantes: city, capital of Loire-Atlantique departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France. Nantes is situated at the head of the estuary of the Loire River, where it is joined by ...
Nantes, Edict of: law promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on April 13, 1598, by Henry IV of France. It granted a large measure of religious liberty to his Protestant subjects, the Huguenots. The ...
Nantes, University of: autonomous, state-financed coeducational institution of higher learning at Nantes, in western France. Founded in 1970 under the 1968 law reforming French higher education, the university replaced the former University of ...
Nanteuil, Robert: the outstanding French portrait engraver of his age, whose achievement resulted in the elevation of engraving from a humble craft to a fine art. He became known by his crayon ...
Nantgarw porcelain: an English granular, soft-paste porcelain, pure white in colour, containing bone ash. It was made at a factory founded in 1813 by William Billingsley at Nantgarw, Glamorgan, Wales. Translucent and ...
Nanthasen, Chao: ruler (1781-95?) of the Lao principality of Vientiane who conquered the rival Lao state of Luang Prabang in 1791.
Nanticoke: city, Luzerne county, northeast-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Susquehanna River, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Wilkes-Barre. In the early 18th century white settlers were attracted to the site ...
Nanticoke: a confederacy of Algonkian-speaking Indians who lived along the eastern shore of what are now Maryland and southern Delaware; their name means Tidewater People. They were related to the Delaware ...
Nantucket: island in the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S., across Nantucket Sound. It is separated from Martha's Vineyard (15 miles [24 km] west) ...
Nantwich: town ("parish"), Crewe and Nantwich borough, administrative and historic county of Cheshire, England, in the Weaver valley. The town dates from Roman times, when its salt deposits were important. Today ...
nanxi: one of the first fully developed forms of Chinese drama.
Nanzhao: Tai kingdom that arose in the 8th century in what is now western Yunnan province in southern China, a region to which the Tai peoples trace their origin. Many fragmented ...
Naoroji, Dadabhai: Indian nationalist and critic of British economic policy in India.
nap: gambling card game played throughout northern Europe under various names and guises. It reached England in the 1880s. Its title may commemorate the deposed Napoleon III.
Napa: city, seat (1850) of Napa county, west-central California, U.S. The area was originally inhabited by Wappo Indians, who called the southern part of the valley Napa ("Land of Plenty"). In ...
napalm: the aluminum salt or soap of a mixture of naphthenic and aliphatic carboxylic acids (organic acids of which the molecular structures contain rings and chains, respectively, of carbon atoms), used ...
Napata: the capital in about 750-590 BC of the ancient kingdom of Cush (Kush), situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile, near Kuraymah in the northern part of what ...