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San Kuan: in Chinese mythology, the Three Officials: T'ien Kuan, official of heaven who bestows happiness; Ti Kuan, official of earth who grants remission of sins; and Shui Kuan, official of water ...
San Leandro: city, Alameda county, western California, U.S. Lying south of Oakland on San Francisco Bay, it forms part of the East Bay metropolitan strip characterized by suburban developments, commercial trading centres, ...
San Lorenzo: city and port, southeastern Santa Fe province, northeastern Argentina, on the Parana River. The settlement grew up around a monastery, which the Argentine liberator Jose de San Martin used as ...
San Lorenzo: early Renaissance-style church designed by Brunelleschi and constructed in Florence from 1421 to the 1460s, except for the facade, which was left uncompleted. Also by Brunelleschi is the Old Sacristy ...
San Lorenzo: Pacific port city, southern Honduras, situated on the northern shore of the Gulf of Fonseca. The shallow waters of the gulf long precluded development of the port, but construction of ...
San Lucas, Cape: extreme southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. The rocky headland forms the southern extremity of the Sierra de San Lazaro and includes the western shore of San Lucas ...
San Luis: provincia (province), west-central Argentina, separated from Mendoza province (west) by seasonal rivers having headwaters in the Andes. The landscape of San Luis is transitional, incorporating drier sections ...
San Luis: city, capital of San Luis provincia (province), west-central Argentina, on the Chorrillos River, near the southern end of the foothills of the Sierra de San Luis. Founded ...
San Luis: city, northwestern Sonora estado ("state"), Mexico, lies on the Mexico-United States border, south of Yuma, Ariz., and 2.5 miles (4 km) from the Colorado River. The city has grown prosperous ...
San Luis: city, central Santiago de Cuba provincia, eastern Cuba. Lying on the northern slopes of the Sierra Maestra, San Luis is both a rail junction and a commercial and manufacturing centre ...
San Luis Obispo: city, seat (1850) of San Luis Obispo county, western California, U.S. It lies on San Luis Obispo Creek at the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains, 20 miles (30 km) ...
San Luis Potosi: city, capital of San Luis Potosi estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. Situated on the central plateau, it has an elevation of 6,158 feet (1,877 m) above sea level, which gives it ...
San Luis Potosi: inland-plateau estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. It is bounded north by Coahuila; east by Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz; south by Hidalgo, Queretaro, and Guanajuato; and west by Zacatecas. Although the ...
San Marco Basilica: church in Venice that was begun in its original form in 829 (consecrated in 832) as an ecclesiastical structure to house and honour the remains of St. Mark that had ...
San Marcos: city, seat (1848) of Hays county, south-central Texas, U.S. The city lies on the San Marcos River, 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Austin. Franciscan missionaries probably first saw the ...
San Marcos of Lima, Main National University of: coeducational state-financed institution of higher learning situated at Lima, the capital of Peru. The university, the oldest in South America, was founded in 1551 by royal decree and confirmed by ...
San Marino: small republic situated on the slopes of Mount Titano, on the Adriatic side of central Italy between the Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions and surrounded on all sides by the Republic ...
San Marino: residential city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. The affluent city lies southeast of Pasadena. In 1903 the American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington purchased the San Marino Ranch and ...
San Martin: departmento (formed 1906) of northeastern Peru, located in the Rio Huallaga Basin. Named for the liberator Jose de San Martin, it occupies an area of 20,197 sq mi (52,309 sq ...
San Martin del Rey Aurelio: municipio ("municipality"), Asturias provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), northwestern Spain. It lies in the mountains known as the Cordillera Cantabrica, just southeast of Oviedo city. The municipality takes its ...
San Martin, Jose de: Argentine soldier, statesman, and national hero who helped lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in Argentina (1812), Chile (1818), and Peru (1821).
San Mateo: city, San Mateo county, western California, U.S. It lies on the western shore of San Francisco Bay, 16 miles (26 km) south of the city of San Francisco. Sheltered by ...
San Miguel: cabecera (county seat) of General Sarmiento partido (county), Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Arg., northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia. The early settlement of the area ...
San Miguel: city, east-central El Salvador, at the foot of San Miguel and Chinameca volcanoes. Founded in 1530 by Spanish settlers near the west bank of the Rio Grande de San Miguel, ...
San Miguel: county, north-central New Mexico, U.S. The northwestern portion of the county lies at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, with Hermit Peak ...
San Miguel de Allende: city, east-central Guanajuato estado ("state"), north-central Mexico. It lies on a small tributary of the Laja River, at 6,135 feet (1,870 m) above sea level and 32 miles (52 km) ...
San Miguel de Tucumn: city, capital of Tucuman provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies along the Sali River, at the foot of the scenic Aconquija Mountains. It was founded in 1565 ...
San Miguel del Padron: city, west-central Cuba. For many years a small commercial and manufacturing centre in a sugar-growing and dairying district, San Miguel del Padron became, with the expansion of Havana city, a ...
San Miniato al Monte: three-aisled basilican church in Florence completed in 1062. It is considered one of the finest examples of the Tuscan Romanesque style of architecture. The black and white marble panels used ...
San Nicols de los Arroyos: city and port, northern Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, on the western bank of the Parana River. It was founded in 1748 as San Nicolas de ...
San Pablo: city, southwestern Luzon, northern Philippines. Originally the site of a Spanish military and missionary post, it was incorporated in 1940. Seven small crater lakes are within the city, which is ...
San Pedro: main unit of the Port of Los Angeles (the other units are Wilmington and Terminal Island), southern California, U.S. The port is situated on the southeastern slopes of Palos Verdes ...
San Pedro: town, central Paraguay. It lies in the lowlands between the Jejui Guazu and Paraguay rivers. San Pedro was founded in 1786 and lies in a well-watered lowland of savanna and ...
San Pedro: city, southwestern Coahuila estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. It is located on one of the irrigation canals of the Nazas River, near the swampy Mayran Lagoon. San Pedro lies 3,619 feet ...
San Pedro de Macors: city, southeastern Dominican Republic. It is situated at the mouth of the wide estuary of the Macoris River. The chief city of the southeastern region, San Pedro de Macoris has ...
San Pedro Sula: city, northwestern Honduras. It is situated in the Ulua River valley, 37 miles (60 km) inland by highway and railroad from Puerto Cortes, on the Gulf of Honduras. The city, ...
San Rafael: city, seat (1893) of Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies on the northwestern shore of San Francisco Bay. The area developed around the Mission San Rafael Arcangel (1817; restored) ...
San Rafael: city, central Mendoza provincia (province), western Argentina, near the eastern base of the Andes on the Diamante River. It originated around San Rafael Fort, built in 1805 ...
San Rafael Mountains: segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), southwestern California, U.S. The range extends southeastward for about 50 miles (80 km) from the Cuyama River to near the Santa ...
San Rafael National Park: national park in Aisen region, southern Chile, on the Pacific coast. Established in 1945, it occupies an area of 2,300 sq mi (5,900 sq km). One of its great attractions ...
San Remo: town, Imperia province, Liguria region, northwestern Italy, the chief resort of that part of the Italian Riviera known as the Riviera dei Fiori, east of Nice, Fr. A year-round health ...
San Remo, Conference of: (April 19-26, 1920), international meeting convened at San Remo, on the Italian Riviera, to decide the future of the former territories of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, one of the defeated ...
San Salvador: capital of El Salvador. It is located on the Ace Chaute River in the Valley of the Hammocks (Valle de las Hamacas) at an elevation of 2,238 feet (682 metres). ...
San Salvador: departamento, central El Salvador, extending from near the Pacific coast on the south to the deep Rio Lempa Valley on the north, with an area of 342 sq mi (886 ...
San Salvador de Jujuy: city, capital of Jujuy provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies between the Xibi-xibi and Grande rivers, overlooking the valley of Jujuy at 4,131 feet (1,259 metres) above ...
San Salvador Island: one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (965 km) west of Ecuador. Its relief is dominated by two volcanoes, the larger rising to 1,700 ...
San Salvador Island: one of the islands of The Bahamas in the West Indies. San Salvador is believed by many scholars to be the island of Guanahani, where Christopher Columbus made his first ...
San Severo: city and episcopal see, Foggia provincia, Puglia (Apulia) regione, east-central Italy. It lies in the north of the Puglia Tableland, just north of Foggia city. A flourishing market centre in ...
San Simeon: village, San Luis Obispo county, southwestern California, U.S. It lies along the Pacific Ocean overlooking San Simeon Bay. Part of a Mexican land grant of 1840, Rancho Piedras Blancas was ...
San Stefano, Treaty of: (March 3 [Feb. 19, Old Style], 1878), peace settlement imposed on the Ottoman government by Russia at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78; it provided for a new ...
San Vicente: city, south-central El Salvador. It lies along the Accihuapa River at the northeastern foot of San Vicente Volcano (7,155 feet [2,181 m]), in a region of hot springs and geysers. ...
San'a': city and capital of Yemen. It is situated at the western foot of Mount Nuqum, at an elevation of more than 7,200 feet (2,200 metres) above sea level, in the ...
San, Saya: leader of the anti-British rebellion of 1930-32 in Burma (Myanmar).
San-ch'ung: shih (municipality), T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan. It lies west of Taipei city, in the northern part of the western coastal plain. Situated on the western bank of the Tan-shui ...
san-hsien: any of a group of long-necked, fretless Chinese lutes having three strings, a square resonator with snakeskin front and back, and a curved-back pegbox with three lateral, or side, tuning ...
San-lun: school of Chinese Buddhism derived from the Indian Madhyamika school. See Madhyamika.
San-men Gorge: gorge enclosing the Huang Ho (Yellow River) at a site in western Honan sheng (province), China. The gorge is the site of a great dam and hydroelectric installation on which ...
San-ming: city in west-central Fukien sheng (province), China. San-ming lies along the Sha River, a southern tributary of the Min River, the valley of which provides the chief southwest-to-northeast route through ...
San-Pedro: port town, southwestern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It is situated about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Sassandra, on the Gulf of Guinea. Until the mid-1960s, San-Pedro was a tiny ...
Sana'i: Persian poet, author of the first great mystical poem in the Persian language, whose verse had great influence on Persian and Muslim literature.
Sanaga River: stream in central Cameroon. Its most important headstreams-the Lom and the Djerem-meet to form the Sanaga about 56 miles (90 km) north-northwest of Bertoua. The river then flows about 325 ...
Sanandaj: city, northwestern Iran, at an elevation of 4,990 feet (1,521 m). It was called Sisar, meaning "thirty heads," in the itineraries of Ibn Khurdazib and Qudameh. The population is mostly ...
Sanatescu, Constantin: Romanian military officer and statesman who was prime minister of Romania's first liberation government following an antifascist coup of Aug. 23, 1944.
Sanatruces: king of Parthia from 76/75 to 70/69 BC, who restored unity to his kingdom.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin: American journalist, biographer, and charity worker.
Sancerre: town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France, on a hilltop overlooking the Loire River, about 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Bourges. It is at the centre of a small ...
Sanches, Francisco: physician and philosopher who espoused a "constructive skepticism" that rejected mathematical truths as unreal and Aristotle's theory of knowledge as false.
Sanchez Coello, Alonso: painter who was one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting. The favourite portrait painter of King Philip II, he introduced into Spanish portraiture a specifically ...
Sanchez Cotan, Juan: painter who is considered one of the pioneers of Baroque realism in Spain. A profoundly religious man, he is best known for his still lifes, which in their visual harmony ...
Sanchez, Sonia: American poet, playwright, and educator who was noted for her black activism.
Sanchi: historic site, west-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just west of the Betwa River. On a flat-topped sandstone hill, rising 300 feet (90 m) above the surrounding country, stands the ...
Sanchi sculpture: early Indian sculpture that embellished the 1st-century-BC gateways of the Buddhist relic mound called the Great Stupa (stupa No. 1) at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, which is one of the most ...
Sancho I: second king of Portugal (1185-1211), son of Afonso I.
Sancho I: king of the Spanish state of Leon from 956, a younger son of Ramiro II.
Sancho I Garces: king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 905. He expanded his kingdom south of the Ebro River and maintained its independence in spite of the sack of his capital in 924 by ...
Sancho II: king of Castile from 1065 to 1072, the eldest son of Ferdinand I.