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101Château de Chenonceau — The Château de Chenonceau, situated on the Cher River. The Château de Chenonceau (French: [ʃa.to də ʃə.nɔ̃.so]) is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre et Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was …
102Coyoacán —   Delegación   Fountain depicting the drinking coyotes that gave the town its name at the Jardín Centenario …
103Manor house — This article is about a type of historical building. For other uses, see Manor house (disambiguation). Ightham Mote, a 14th century moated manor house in Kent, England …
104Bala Hisar Fort — is one of the most historic places of Peshawar. The word Bala Hisar is from Persian, meaning, “elevated or high fort”. According to Dr. Hussain Khan, the name was given by the Afghan King Taimur Shah Durrani (1773 1793). The Sikhs who conquered… …
105Niemcza — Niemcza …
106History of Zagreb — Old ZagrebIt is very difficult to decide which period in the city s history should be placed under the heading of Old Zagreb, which was made popular by Gjuro Szabo, an admirer of the Zagreb antiquities and a promoter of their conservation. Zagreb …
107Chapultepec — /cheuh pul teuh pek /; Sp. /chah poohl te pek /, n. a fortress and military school at the outskirts of Mexico City: captured by U.S. forces (1847) in the Mexican War; now a park. * * * Rocky hill, southwest of Mexico City, Mexico. The Aztecs… …
108Portugal — /pawr cheuh geuhl, pohr /; Port. /pawrdd too gahl /, n. a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 9,867,654; 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Cap.: Lisbon. * * * Portugal… …
109Central Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and parts of China and Russia. The term usually denotes only those traditions not influenced by the… …
110Gord (archaeology) — Reconstructed West Slavic fortified settlement (gord) in Groß Raden, Germany …
