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(Encyclopedia) StolbergStolbergshtôlˈbĕrkhˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 58,028), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany; chartered 1856. It is a center of the German brass industry, which was started (c.1600)…Puteaux
(Encyclopedia) PuteauxPuteauxpütōˈ [key], suburb W of Paris (1990 pop. 42,917), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River. An important industrial center, Puteaux is the birthplace…Nagaoka
(Encyclopedia) NagaokaNagaokanägäˈôkä [key], city (1990 pop. 185,938), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. An industrial center, it has oil refineries, chemical and food processing plants,…Georgiyevsk
(Encyclopedia) GeorgiyevskGeorgiyevskgēôrˈgēĭfsk [key], city (1989 pop. 63,000), SE European Russia, in the northern foothills of the Caucasus. It is an agricultural center with some industry. It was…Great Grimsby
(Encyclopedia) Great Grimsby or Grimsby, city, North East Lincolnshire, E central England, at the mouth of the Humber River. It is one of the…Gladbeck
(Encyclopedia) Gladbeck Gladbeck glätˈbĕk [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, an industrial…Jedburgh
(Encyclopedia) JedburghJedburghjĕdˈbərə [key], town (1991 pop. 4,053), Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the Jed River. The manufacture of rayon is the main industry. Jedburgh also has tannery,…M'Bour
(Encyclopedia) M'BourM'Bourəmb&oomacr;rˈ [key], town, W Senegal, on the Atlantic Ocean. Ilmenite, rutile, and yirconium are extracted from the titanium ore mined nearby. M'Bour also processes and…Milwaukie
(Encyclopedia) Milwaukie, city (1990 pop. 18,692), Clackamas and Multnomah counties, NW Oreg., on the Willamette River; inc. 1903. The city is a distribution center for farms and orchards of the…Mercedes
(Encyclopedia) MercedesMercedesmĕrsāˈᵺēs [key], city (1996 pop. 39,139), capital of Soriano dept., SW Uruguay, a port on the Río Negro. An agricultural and livestock center, the city has a shipyard…Trending
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