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(Encyclopedia) Frankfurt an der Oder än dĕr ōˈdər [key], city, Brandenburg, E Germany, a port on the Oder River, at the ...

(Encyclopedia) Pau pō [key], city (1990 pop. 83,928), capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques dept., SW France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a major year-round tourist center, renowned for its spa and winter sports...

(Encyclopedia) Landshut läntsˈho͞ot [key], city (1994 pop. 59,640), Bavaria, SE Germany, on the Isar River. Once the capital of Lower Bavaria, it is now a transportation and industrial center. Manufactures includ...

(Encyclopedia) Autun ōtöNˈ [key], town, Saône-et-Loire dept., E central France, on the Arroux River. It is an industrial center producing metals, machinery, leather, cloth, timber, a...

(Encyclopedia) Odense ōˈᵺənsə [key], city (1992 pop. 140,886), capital of Fyn co., S central Denmark, a seaport linked by canal with the Odense Fjord (an arm of the Kattegat). Denmark's third largest city, it ...

(Encyclopedia) Pachuca de Soto pächo͞oˈkä ᵺā sōˈtō [key], city (1990 pop. 174,013), capital of Hidalgo state, central Mexico, at the head of a ravine surrounded by foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental. P...

(Encyclopedia) Coimbra kōēmˈbrə [key], city, capital of Coimbra dist., W central Portugal, on the Mondego ...

(Encyclopedia) Ica ēˈkä [key], city, capital of Ica region, SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial ...

(Encyclopedia) Craiova kräyŏˈvä [key], city, SW Romania, in Walachia, on the Jiu River, a tributary of the ...

(Encyclopedia) Banjarmasin or Bandjarmasin both: bänˌjərmäˈsĭn [key], city, capital of Kalimantan ...