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(Encyclopedia) Ouachita wôˈshĭtôˌ [key], river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising in the Ouachita Mts., W Ark. It flows east, southeast, and south through a cotton-producing region of S Arkansas and NE Louisiana a...

(Encyclopedia) Mansurah, Al äl mänso͞orˈä [key], city (1986 pop. 317,508), N Egypt, a port in the Nile River delta. It is an agricultural market and industrial center. Manufactures include ginned cotton, cotton...

(Encyclopedia) Mönchengladbach münˈ– [key], city (1994 pop. 265,312), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It is the twin city of adjacent Rheydt and is a major center of the German cotton textile industry. Tex...

(Encyclopedia) brocade brōkādˈ [key], fabric, originally silk, generally reputed to have been developed to a high state of perfection in the 16th and 17th cent. in France, Italy, and Spain. In China the weaving o...

(Encyclopedia) Resistencia rāsēstānˈsyä [key], city (1991 pop. 291,083), capital of Chaco prov., NE Argentina. It is the nucleus of an area of frontier settlements extending into the sparsely inhabited northwes...

(Encyclopedia) Diyarbakir dēyärˈbäkŭrˌ [key], anc. Amida, city, capital of Diyarbakir prov., SE Turkey...

(Encyclopedia) Dushanbe do͞oshănˈbə, –shänˈ– [key], city, capital of Tajikistan, W Tajikis...

(Encyclopedia) damask dămˈəsk [key] [from Damascus], fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by the weaving; e.g., the ground may be in twill weave, and the contrasting des...

(Encyclopedia) Cairo kāˈrō, kâˈrō [key], city (2020 pop. 1,878), seat of Alexander co., extreme S Ill., on a ...

(Encyclopedia) Cali käˈlē [key], city, capital of Valle del Cauca dept., W Colombia, on the Cali River. I...