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Silk Road

(Encyclopedia) Silk Road, ancient overland trade route linking Asia and Europe, consisting of a network of caravan routes running from China across central Asia to the shores of the Mediterranean. Its starting point...

frontier

(Encyclopedia) frontier, in U.S. history, the border area of settlement of Europeans and their descendants; it was vital in the conquest of the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The importance of the westwa...

Louis the Pious

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Pious: see Louis I, emperor of the West. ...

Charles the Great

(Encyclopedia) Charles the Great, Frankish king, emperor of the West: see Charlemagne. ...

panhandle

(Encyclopedia) panhandle, in geography, a strip of land projecting from the main body of an area and shaped like the handle of a pan, such as the panhandles of West Virginia, Texas, and Alaska. ...

Charles the Bald

(Encyclopedia) Charles the Bald, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West. ...

Charles the Fat

(Encyclopedia) Charles the Fat, French king: see Charles III, emperor of the West. ...

Main

(Encyclopedia) Main mīn [key], river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, formed near Kulmbach, E central Germany, by the confluence of the Roter Main and the Weisser Main, both of which rise in the Fichtelgebirge. It then win...
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