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(Encyclopedia) Middle Congo: see Congo, Republic of the. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hadad āˈdăd [key], ancient weather god of Semitic origin, worshiped in Babylonia and Assyria. Important throughout the Middle East, he was worshiped under many names. As god of the storm, he was, a...

(Encyclopedia) Middle Temple: see Inns of Court; Temple, the. ...

(Encyclopedia) East Riding of Yorkshire, district and unitary authority, NE England. The district extends from the Yorkshire Wolds (N) to the River Humber (S) and from...

(Encyclopedia) Middle Ages, period in Western European history that followed the disintegration of the West Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th cent. and lasted into the 15th cent., i.e., into the period of the Renaissa...

(Encyclopedia) East Lothian lōˈᵺēən [key], council area (1993 est. pop. 85,640), 262 sq mi (677 sq km), and former county, SE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, the county of East Lothian became...

(Encyclopedia) East London, city, now part and seat of Buffalo City metropolitan municipality, Eastern Cape prov., SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. East London grew around a British military post founded in 184...

(Encyclopedia) East Friesland frēzˈlənd [key], Ger. Ostfriesland, region and former duchy, c.1,100 sq mi (2,850 sq km), Lower Saxony, NW Germany, on the North Sea. It includes the East Frisian Islands and is sepa...

(Encyclopedia) East Moline mōlēnˈ [key], city (2020 pop. 20,393), Rock Island co., NW Ill., a suburb of M...

(Encyclopedia) East Anglia ăngˈglēə [key], kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, comprising the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was settled in the late 5th cent. by so-called Angles from northern Germany an...