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Ottawa, city, Canada
(Encyclopedia)Ottawa ŏtˈəwə [key], city (1991 pop. 313,987), capital of Canada, SE Ont., at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau rivers and across the Ottawa from Gatineau, Que. The Rideau Canal separates th...Berdymukhamedov, Kurbanguly
(Encyclopedia)Berdymukhamedov, Kurbanguly kho͞orbängo͞olēˈ bârdāˌmo͞okämĕdˈôf [key], 1957–, Turkmen government official, president of Turkmenistan (2007–). A dentist (grad. Turkmen State Medical I...Australian aborigines
(Encyclopedia)Australian aborigines, indigenous peoples of Australia. The first modern humans in Australia probably came from somewhere in Asia more than 40,000 years ago, most likely sometime between 55,000 and 10...Cook Islands
(Encyclopedia)Cook Islands, island group (2021 est. pop. 17,564), 90 sq mi (234 sq km), S Pacific, SE of Samoa; a self-governing state in free association with New Ze...land tax
(Encyclopedia)land tax, impost levied upon real property. It is sometimes called a real estate tax, especially when assessed against both improved and unimproved land. Probably the earliest direct tax and formerly ...repartimiento
(Encyclopedia)repartimiento rāpärtēmyĕnˈtō [key], in Spanish colonial practice, usually, the distribution of indigenous people for forced labor. In a broader sense it referred to any official distribution of ...Turcomans
(Encyclopedia)Turcomans: see Turkmenistan.Turkomans
(Encyclopedia)Turkomans: see Turkmenistan.Anau
(Encyclopedia)Anau: see Annau, Turkmenistan.Ashkhabad
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