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Altai

**Altay** or **Altai** mey refer tae:

## Places
* Altai Muntains

### In Cheenae
* Altay Prefectur (阿勒泰地区), prefectur in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Cheenae
* Altay Ceety (阿勒泰市), spelt "Aletai", a ceety o Altay Prefectur

### In Mongolie
* Govi-Altai Province, an Aimag (province)
* Altai Ceety, the caipital o the Govi-Altai Aimag
* Several Sums (destricts) o different Aimags:
** Altai, Govi-Altai
** Altai, Bayan-Ölgii
** Altai, Khovd

### In Roushie
*Altai Republic, a federal subject o Roushie
*Altai Krai, a federal subject o Roushie

## Leid & ethnic group
* Altaic leids
* Altay fowk, an ethnic group.
* Altay leid

## Fowk
* Altay Utkan, a Turkis bureaucrat an govrenor
* Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, a Kazakh Turkologist
* Altay Dağdelen, Turkis fitbawer
* Altay Kahraman, Swiss fitbawer
* Altay Özurgancı, Turkis basketbaw player
* Fahrettin Altay, Turkis general.

## Ither uises
* *[[Wu Ming#Altai|Altai]]*, a historical novel bi Wu Ming
* Altay (sheep), a sheep breed
* Altay S.K., a fitbaw club frae İzmir, Turkey
* Altay (tank), a Turkis main battle tank (2012)
* Altai gas pipeline, proposed natural gas pipeline atween Roushie an Cheenae
* Computer Associates Int. Inc. v. Altai Inc., a Unitit States legal case

## See an aw
*Altaysky (disambiguation)
*Alt-A, a type o U.S. mortgage
Ahuachapán Depairtment

**Ahuachapán** is a depairtment o El Salvador in the wast o the kintra. The caipital is Ahuachapán. In the sooth it haes the Apenca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de Apaneca (Apaneca Grand Hill). Its extension is 1,240&nbsp;km² an haes mair nor 360,000 fowk livin in the depairtment.

## Municipalities
# Ahuachapán
# Apaneca
# Atiquizaya
# Concepción de Ataco
# El Refugio
# Guaymango
# Jujutla
# San Francisco Menéndez
# San Lorenzo
# San Pedro Puxtla
# Tacuba
# Turín
Donovan

**Donovan** (born Donovan Philips Leitch, 10 Mey 1946 in Maryhill, Glesga) is a Scots sangster, sangwriter an guitarist.

## References
Long Live Heavy Metal

***Long Live Heavy Metal*** is the fift studio album frae the Canadian hivy metal baund 3 Inches of Blood. It is the seicont 3 Inches of Blood album tae be released throu Century Media Records.

## Track leetin

## Personnel
### 3 Inches Of Blood
* Cam Pipes – vocals
* Justin Hagberg – guitars an vocals
* Shane Clark – guitars
* Byron Stroud - bass
* Ash Pearson - drums

### Additional personnel
* Terry "Sho" Murray - producer
* Kim Thiessen - artworks

## References
Bilal Ag Acherif

**Bilal Ag Acherif** (born 1977, last name alternatively spelled **Cherif**) is the Secretar-General o the Naitional Muivement for the Leeberation o Azawad.

On 26 Juin 2012, he wis woondit in clashes atween MNLA fechters an the Islamist Movement for Aneness an Jihad in Wast Africae, an MNLA ally durin the northren Mali conflict. Accordin tae an MNLA spokesperson, he wis taken tae Burkina Faso for medical care.

## References
Govi-Altai Province

**Govi-Altai** (, *[[Gobi]]-[[Altai Mountains|Altai]]*) is ane o the 21 aimags (provinces) o Mongolie. It is locatit in the wast o the kintra.

## Transportation

The Altai Airport (LTI/ZMAT) haes ane unpavit runwey an is servit bi regular flichts tae Arvaikheer an Ulan Bator.

## Admeenistrative subdivision

The caipital Altai is geographically locatit in the Yesönbulag sum, an no tae be ramfeeselt wi the Altai sum in the sooth o the aimag.

* - includes the caipital o Govi-Altai Aimag, Altai Ceety.

## References
Toronto Argonauts

The **Toronto Argonauts** are a professional Canadian fitbaa team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Argonauts are memmers o the East Division o the Canadian Football League. The team wis foondit in 1873, an is the auldest existin professional sports team in North Americae still uisin its oreeginal name. The Chicago Cubs (1870) an the Atlanta Braves (1871) of Major League Baseball are aulder, but baith teams hae chynged thair name mair nor ance an in the case o the Braves, chynged ceeties.

The Argos hae played thair hame gemmes at the Rogers Centre syne the stadium opened in 1989 an prior tae that, played in Exhibition Stadium frae 1959 tae 1988. Prior tae 1959, the Argonauts played at Varsity Stadium, on the campus o the University of Toronto.

## See an aa
*Toronto Maple Leafs

## References
Carchi Province

**Carchi** is a province in Ecuador. The caipital is Tulcán.

## Economy
The provincial economy is based on industrial, an agricultur productions. Carchi produces fuid, drinks, tobacco, an dairy products. The agricultur sector produces potatoes, maize, etc.

## Cantons
The province is dividit intae 6 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.

## Tourist destinations
* Tulcán Cemetery - topiary gairden cemetery;
* El Ángel ecological reserve, El Ángel - extensive páramo ecoseestem wi diverse biotopes, includin the visually strikin páramos de frailejones - moorland wi a forest o auncient, up tae 10 m taw *Espeletia pycnophylla* plants;
* Arrayanes Forest, San Gabriel - 16 ha lairge forest wi rare trees whose bark is in cinnamon colour;
* Lagunas Verdes on the wey frae Tufiño tae Maldonado. Three lakes o volcanic oreegin wi blue - green watter, rich wi sulphur;
* Gruta de la Paz, San Gabriel - shaw cave wi a shrine o Virgin Mary;
* Laguna del Salado, San Gabriel - a serene lagoon wi translucent watter;
* Tufiño Het Springs, Tulcán;
* "El Voladero" lagoons, El Angel;
* De Paluz Faws, San Gabriel;
* Guanderas Scienteefic Station, Huaca - a biological research station for montane ecosystems.

## See an aw
* Provinces o Ecuador
* Cantons o Ecuador

## References

## Freemit airtins

*  Gobierno Provincial del Carchi , offeecial wabsteid
*  !Con el Carchi no se juega!
*  "DEJA VU" OF HISTORY: YOU DON'T MESS WITH CARCHI
Sucumbíos Province

**Sucumbíos** is a province in northeast Ecuador. The caipital an lairgest ceety is Nueva Loja (kent as Lago Agrio an aw). It is the fift lairgest province in the kintra, wi an aurie o 18,009 km². As o 1998, it haes a population o 144,774 inhabitants.

## Geografie
Sucumbíos is bundit on the north bi Colombie, on the sooth bi Napo an Orellana, on the wast bi Carchi an Imbabura, on the soothwast bi Pichincha, an on the east bi Peru. Sucumbíos is the anerlie province in Ecuador that borders twa different kintras.

The province is ane o the sax provinces in the Amazon Region, a natural region o Ecuador.

### Orografie
The wastren aurie o the province belangs tae the Eastren Andes Muntains, whare maist rivers in the province hae their sources. The maist important elevation in the province is the Reventador, an active volcano. The eastren portion o the province is pairt o the Amazon Basin, wi heich temperaturs.

### Hydrography

The main river in the province is the Aguarico River.  It passes close tae Nueva Loja, an empties into the Napo, on the Peruvian border. ither important rivers are the Putumayo, which marks the border wi Colombie, an the Coca an Napo Rivers, in the sooth.

## History
Sucumbíos wis an unsplorit aurie, whare anerlie indigenous fowk livit, till ile wis discovered in its soil. In 1979, efter nine years o foondation, Nueva Loja became the seat o its awn canton, Lago Agrio Canton, in the Napo Province. On 13 Februar 1989, Sucumbíos became the 21st province in the kintra when it separatit frae Napo.

## Economy
The maist important naitural resoorce in the province is ile, the Lago Agrio ile field. Thus, Sucumbíos is ane o the maist important provinces in the kintra, economically.

## Poleetical diveesions
The province is dividit intae seiven cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.

## Places o interest
* Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve
## See an aw
* Provinces o Ecuador
* Cantons o Ecuador

## References
Pallas (baund)

**Pallas** is a Scots progressive rock baund formit in Aiberdeen. Thay wur ane o the baunds at the vanguard o whit wis termed neo-progressive durin progressive rock's seicont-wave revival in the early 1980s. (Ither major acts includit Marillion, IQ, Twelfth Night, Pendragon, Quasar an Solstice.)
Toronto Maple Leafs

The **Toronto Maple Leafs** (offeecially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club) is a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canadae. Thay are memmers o the Northeast Division o the Eastern Conference o the National Hockey League (NHL). The team is ane o the "Original Six" league memmers.

In 1999 thay moved tae the Air Canada Centre, which replacit Maple Leaf Gardens, thair hame syne 1931.

The Leafs last won the Stanley Cup in 1967, the year o Canadae's Centennial.

## See an aa
*Toronto Argonauts
Lucia di Lammermoor

***Lucia di Lammermoor*** is a *dramma tragico* (tragic opera) in three acks bi Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano writ the Italian leid libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novelle *The Bride of Lammermoor*.The plot o Sir Walter Scott's original novel is based on an acqual incident that taen place in 1669 in the Lammermuir Hills area o the Scottish Lallans. The real faimlie involved wis the Dalrymples.

## References
Sochi

**Sochi** () is a ceety in Krasnodar Krai, Roushie, situatit juist north o Roushie's mairch wi the *[[de facto]]* independent republic o Abkhazie, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for  alang the shores o the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the ceety haed a permanent population o 343,334; up frae 328,809 recorded in the 2002 Census, makkin it Roushie's lairgest resort ceety.

Sochi will host the XXII Olympic Winter Gemmes an XI Paralympic Winter Gemmes in 2014, as well as the Roushie Formula&nbsp;1 Grand Prix frae 2014 til at least 2020. It is an aa ane o the host ceeties for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

## Sister ceeties

Sochi haes been twinned wi the followin ceeties:
* **[[Cheltenham]]**, Gloucestershire, Unitit Kinrick (syne 1959)
* **[[Menton]]**, PACA, Fraunce (syne 1966)
* **[[Rimini]]**, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (syne 1977)
* **[[Espoo]]**, Finland (syne 1989)
* **[[Long Beach, Californie|Long Beach]]**, Californie, Unitit States (syne 1990)
* **[[Kerch]]**, Crimea, Ukraine (syne 2005)
* **[[Trabzon]]**, Turkey (syne 1991)
* **[[Pärnu]]**, Estonie (syne 1994)
* **[[Weihai]]**, Shandong, Cheenae (syne 1996)
* **[[Sidon]]**, Lebanon (syne 2005)
* **[[Las Piñas]]**, Metro Manila, Philippines (syne 2005)
* **[[Volos]]**, Greece (syne 2007)
* **[[Baden-Baden]]**, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (syne 2011)
* **[[Netanya]]**, Israel (syne 2012)

## Notes


## References
;Explanatory notes

;Citations

;Soorces
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*Journal of a residence in Circassia during the years 1837, 1838, and 1839 – Bell, James Stanislaus

## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial wabsteid o Sochi 
*Offeecial wabsteid o Sochi 
*Unoffeecial wabsteid o Sochi  
*Secrieru, Stanislav: "The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi: Implications for the Caucasus" in the Caucasus Analytical Digest No.19
*Photos o Sochi
Nawal Al Zoghbi

**Nawal Al Zoghbi** (, born 29 Juin 1971, Byblos, Lebanon) is a Lebanese sangster. Performin in Arabic she haes a solid fan base throughoot the Arab world an extendin intae Iran an North Americae an Europe. Her muisical career haes spanned ower 20 years. Zoghbi believes her success is due tae the true emotion she delivers through her voice. She is quotit as sayin "whether a voice is big or sma, if it lacks emotion it will niver succeed".

## Biografie
Born tae a Maronite Catholic faimily in Byblos, she haulds Canadian citizenship an aw. Al Zoghbi is the auldest born amang three brithers an ane sister. Al Zoghbi began singin at an early age, despite faimilial opposition tae the lifestyle o a muisicker. Members of her faimily chyngit their mynds when they realisit she wis serious in her ambitions. In 1988 she pairticipatit in the Lebanese talent show Studio El Fan. In 1990 she marriet Lebanese muisic manager Elie Deeb an went on tae have three childer wi him. The couple legally separated in 2008. In late 2009 Al Zoghbi wis grantit custody o her three childer.In Mairch 2011, her divorce wis offeecially legalizit.

## Discografie
### Albums
* *[[Wehyati Andak]]* (1992)
* *[[Ayza El Radd]]* (1994)
* *[[Balaee Fi Zamany]]* (1995)
* *Jadid* (Compilation album) (1996)
* *[[Habeit Ya Leil]]* (1997)
* *[[Mandam Aleik]]* (1998)
* *[[Maloum]]* (1999)
* *[[El Layali]]* (2000)
* *[[Tool Omri]]* (2001)
* *[[Elli Tmaneito]]* (2002)
* *[[Eineik Kaddabeen]]* (2004)
* *[[Yama Alou]]* (2006)
* *[[Khalas Sameht]]* (2008)
* *[[Ma'rafsh Leh]]* (2011)

### Muisic videos

## References
Casa Loma

**Casa Loma** (Spainyie for *Hill Hoose*) is a Gothic Revival-style hoose an gairdens in midtoun Toronto, Ontario, Canadae, that is nou a museum an laundmerk. It wis oreeginally a residence for financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. Casa Loma wis constructit ower a three-year period frae 1911–1914. The architect o the mansion wis E. J. Lennox, who wis responsible for the designs o several ither ceety laundmerks.

## References
Nguyen Du

**Nguyen Du** (Bích Câu, 1765 – 1820) wis a Vietnamese writer. He wis the maist famous poet o the Vietnamese Nguyen dynasty for his poem *The Tale o Kieu*. Durin his lifetime, Nguyen Du wis recognised for his warks in the collaborative *Chữ nôm* form.

## References
Derek Shulman

**Derek Shulman** (born **Derek Victor Shulman**, 11 Februar 1947, in the Gorbals, Glesga) is a Breetish muisicker an sanger, multi-instrumentalist, an record executive.  Frae 1970 tae 1980, he wis lead vocalist for the Inglis progressive rock baund Gentle Giant.

## References
Gorbals

**The Gorbals** () is an area on the sooth baunk o the River Clyde in the city o Glesga, Scotland. Bi the late 19t century, it haed become ower-populatit an adversely affectit bi local industrialisation.

## References
El Oro Province

**El Oro** province (, leeterally "Province o Gowd") is the soothmaist o Ecuador's coastal provinces. It wis namit for its historically important gowd production. The day it is ane o the warld's major exporters o bananaes. The caipital is Machala.

## History
El Oro province is historically the major aurie o bananae production in Ecuador.

## Geografie
Tae the north an east the province haes borders wi the  provinces Guayas, Azuay an Loja. Tae the wast an sooth it is limitit bi the Paceefic Ocean an the Peruvian Tumbes Region.

The province is dividit in 14 cantons an featurs a wide range o attractions, sic as the Jambelí Islands, the petrified forest o the Puyango River, an the island o Santa Clara, tae name a few.

## Demografics
Population 1990: 412.572
Population 2007: 525.763

## Economy
El Oro economy is mainly based on export o bananae an shrimp. Ither agricultural products o importance are cacao an coffee.

## Politics
Unicameral govrenment.

## Cantons
The province is dividit intae 14 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.

## See an aw
* Provinces o Ecuador
* Cantons o Ecuador

## References


## Freemit airtins

*  Gobierno Provincial Autonomo de El Oro - wab steid o the El Oro Govrenment
*  Orenses Machala Comunidad Virtual de La Provincia de El Oro - news aboot El Oro
Cañar Province

**Cañar** is a province in Ecuador. The caipital is Azogues. At the time o census 2005 the province haed a population o 221,045.   It contains the 16t-century ruins o Ingapirca, the best-kent Inca settlement in Ecuador an a product o their conquest o the indigenous Cañari.

## Cantons
The province is dividit intae 6 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.

## See an aw
* Ingapirca
* Cañaris
* Sangay Naitional Pairk
* Provinces o Ecuador
* Cantons o Ecuador

## References

## Freemit airtins
*  Gobierno de la Provincia del Cañar , offeecial wabsteid
Aldershot

**Aldershot** is a toun in the Inglis coonty o Hampshire, locatit on heathland aboot  soothwast o Lunnon. The toun is administert bi Rushmoor Burgh Cooncil. The toun haes a population o 33,840, while the Aldershot Urban Area, a loose conurbation (that includes ither touns, sic as Camberley, Farnborough, an Farnham an aw) haes a population o 243,344, makkin it the thirtiet-maistmuckle urban area in the Unitit Kinrick. 

Aldershot is kent for its connection wi the Breetish Airmy. This led tae rapid growt frae a sma chlachan tae a Victorian toun. The day, Aldershot is kent as the "Hame o the Breetish Airmy".

Aldershot is twinned wi Sulechów in Poland, Meudon in Fraunce an Oberursel in Germany.

## References
Al Stewart

**Al Stewart** (born **Alastair Ian Stewart**, 5 September 1945 in Glesga) is a Scots sanger-sangwriter an fowk rock muisicker. 

Stewart is best kent for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat", the title sang frae the platinum album o the same name.

## References
Jackie Stewart

**Sir John Young 'Jackie' Stewart**, OBE (born 11 Juin 1939 in Milton, Wast Dunbartonshire) is a Scots umwhile racin driver. Bynamed the 'Fleein Scot', he competit in Formula Ane atween 1965 an 1973, winnin three Warld Drivers' Championships.

## References
Villa Canales

**Villa Canales** is a municipality in the Guatemala depairtment o Guatemala, situatit 22&nbsp;km sooth o Guatemala Ceety. As o the 2002 census, the ceety haed a population o 77,638, makkin it the aicht lairgest ceety in Guatemala.

## History
Due tae a govrenment decision, Pueblo Viejo Petapa became a municipality on 3 Juin 1912. Efterwairds, its name chyngit tae San Joaquin Villa Canales an later shortened tae Villa Canales.

## Economy

The economy o Villa Canales is based aroond coffee, sugercane, an pineapple. The ceety is the lairgest producer o pineapple in the naition, due tae the nearbi Pacaya Volcano which fertilizes the sile. Due tae rapid growt an development, it haes acome ane o the main municipalities o the depairtment.

## See an aw
*Leet o places in Guatemala
*Guatemala Ceety

## References
Order o the Breetish Empire

The **Most Excellent Order of the British Empire** is an order o chivalry established on 4 Juin 1917 bi King George V.

## References
Amatitlán

**Amatitlán** is a toun in the Guatemala depairtment o Guatemala. The main industrie o the toun durin colonial times wis the preparation o cochineal. Nouadays, it haes the lairgest duty-free zone in Guatemala, an a lot o maquila (garment assembly) factories, employin thoosans o fowk, mainly weemen.

The toun lees bi the side o Loch Amatitlán an it is a popular place for the middle class frae Guatemala Ceety tae visit on weekends. Typical Guatemalan candy is uisually bocht bi visitors.

## References
Chinautla

**Chinautla** is a municipality in the Guatemala depairtment o Guatemala. Accordin tae the 2002 census, it haed a population o 77,071, makkin it the nint-lairgest ceety in the kintra an the seivent lairgest in the Guatemala Depairtment.

## See an aw
*Leet o places in Guatemala
*Guatemala Ceety

## References
Tunnock's

**Thomas Tunnock Limited**, commonly kent as **Tunnock's**, is a faimily-ained bakery o cakes an biscuits in Uddingston, Glesga, Scotland.
Armavir, Roushie

**Armavir** () is a ceety in Krasnodar Krai, Roushie, locatit on the left bank o the Kuban River. Population:    144,000 (1969). Armavir wis umwhile the seicont-lairgest industrial centre o Krasnodar Krai, efter Krasnodar.

## History
It wis foondit in 1839 bi Cherkesogai Armenies  as **Armyansky aul** (). It happened due tae the strengthenin o Islamic radicalism in muntain auries oreeginally inhabitit bi the Cherkesogai, which motivatit Christian Armenies tae leave those settlements. It wis renamit in 1848 in honour o the auncient caipital o Armenie an wis grantit toun status on 18 Januar 1914. Durin the Roushie Ceevil War o 1918–1920, a nummer o brutal battles teuk place near the ceety. The Taman airmy's militar campaign endit in Armavir in 1918. The Soviet authority wis established in Armavir in Mairch 1920. Durin Warld War II, the ceety wis occupee'd bi the German Airmy. It wis leeberatit bi the Red Airmy in Januar 1943.

## Geografie
### Climate
Armavir haes a humid subtropical climate.





## Admeenistrative an municipal status
Admeenistratively, alang wi eleiven rural localities, it is incorporatit as the **[[Ceety o federal subject significance|Ceety]] o Armavir**—an admeenistrative unit wi the status equal tae that o the destricts. Municipally, the Ceety o Armavir is incorporatit as **Armavir Urban Okrug**.

## Militar
Armavir Radar Station is on the steid o Baronovsky Airfield,  soothwast o the toun.

## Sister ceety
* Armavir, Armenie

## References
### Notes

### Sources
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## Freemit airtins
*Offeecial wabsteid o Armavir 
*Unoffeecial wabsteid o Armavir
Sobradinho, Federal Destrict

**Sobradinho** is an admeenistrative region o the Federal Destrict, Brazil.

The aurie is 287.60&nbsp;km² an it is locatit 22.1&nbsp;km northeast o Brasília. The population wis 85,491 in 2010.

## History
Sobradinho began wi a ranch o that name belangin tae the toun o Formosa, Goiás. Accordin tae popular history the name came frae the existence o an auld cross built lang afore 1850 alang the banks o a stream near the ranch. On ane o the airms o the cross wur twa little bird nests o a bird cried joão de barro, ane on top o the ither, formin a little twa-storey hoose—a sobradinho in Portuguese.  This phenomenon attractit the attention o passersbi who teuk it as a reference point wi the name Cross o Sobradinho or Sobradinho o the Cross. As time went bi the local stream wis cried Sobradinho Stream.

Acause o the need tae hoose the migrant faimilies frae the northeast, Goiás, Bahia an ither states, Sobradinho wis creatit alang the auld heich-gate that linkit the ceety o Planaltina, Goiás an the Federal Caipital being built (1959). The day that auld heich-gate is a fower-lane motorwa an residents o Sobradinho can be in Brasília in a few minutes time.

## See an aw
*Brasília
*Federal Destrict
*Leet o admeenistrative regions o the Federal Destrict (Brazil)

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Page o the Regional Admeenistration o Sobradinho 
* Page o the Govrenment o the Federal Destrict
Sobradihno

**Sobradinho** mey refer tae:
* Sobradinho Airport, Brazilian airport
* Sobradinho, Federal Destrict, admeenistrative region o the Federal Destrict, Brazil
* Sobradinho, Bahia, municipality in the state o Bahia, Brazil
* Sobradinho Dam, Brazilian hydroelectric dam
* Sobradinho Reservoir, Brazilian reservoir
* Sobradinho Esporte Clube, fitbaa club o the Federal Destrict, Brazil
Lago Sul

**Lago Sul** is an admeenistrative region o the Federal District, Brazil. 

It is considered a suburb o Brasília. Lago Sul is a neebourheid o upper an upper middle class.

## See an aw
*Leet o admeenistrative regions o the Federal Destrict (Brazil)

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial govrenment steid
Douma Destrict

**Douma** ( **) is a Sirie destrict (mantiqah) admeenistratively belangin tae Rif Dimashq Govrenorate, locatit tae the north o the caipital Damascus. At the 2004 Census it haed a population o 433,719. Its admeenistrative centre is the ceety o Douma.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Markaz Douma is dividit intae seiven sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 offeecial census):
*Douma nahiyah (ناحية دوما): population 181,934.
*Harasta nahiyah (ناحية حرستا): population 88,816.
*Sabe' Biyar nahiyah (ناحية السبع بيار): population 395.
*Dumeir nahiyah (ناحية الضمير): population 26,192.
*Nashabiyeh nahiyah (ناحية النشابية): population 76,814.
*Ghazlaniyeh nahiyah (ناحية الغزلانية): population 36,715.
*Harran al-Awamid nahiyah (ناحية حران العواميد): population 22,853. 

## References
Qatana Destrict

**Qatana Destrict** (, *qaTanā*) is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Sirie. At the 2004 offeecical census, the destrict haed a population o 207,245. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o Qatana.

The destrict is locatit juist tae the east o Munt Hermon.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Qatana is dividit intae three sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 offeecial census):
*Qatana nahiyah (ناحية قطنا): population 146,344.
*Beit Jinn nahiyah (ناحية بيت جن): population 15,668.
*Sa'sa' nahiyah (ناحية سعسع): population 45,233.

## References
Qudsaya

**Qudsaya** () is a Sirie toun in Rif Dimashq Govrenorate an the admeenistrative centre o Qudsaya Destrict. The toun is locatit on the wastren slope o Munt Qasioun, 7 km wast o Damascus. At the 2004 Census it haed a population o 33,571 fowk. Adjacent tae the toun is the modren suburb o Dahiyat Qudsaya.

## References
Qudsaya Destrict

**Qudsaya Destrict** () is a Sirie destrict (mantiqah) admeenistratively belangin tae Rif Dimashq Govrenorate. Locatit on the wastren slope o Munt Qasioun tae the wast o Damascus. At the 2004 Census it haed a population o 105,974 fowk. The toun o Qudsaya is the admeenistrative centre o the destrict.

Till 2009, Qudsaya wis a sub-destrict athin Markaz Rif Dimashq Destrict. In Februar 2009, the destrict o Qudsaya wis formit includin the umwhile sub-destrict o Qudsaya wi twa mair sub-destricts frae the Zabadani Destrict.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Qudsaya is dividit intae three sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 official census):
*Qudsaya nahiyah (ناحية قدسيا): population 64,412.
*Ayn al-Fijeh nahiyah (ناحية عين الفيجة): population 19,584.
*Al-Dimas nahiyah (ناحية الديماس): population 21,978.

## References
Zabadani Destrict

**Zabadani Destrict** or *az-Zabadan* () is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Syrie. At the 2004 official census, the destrict haed a population o 63,780. The centre o the destrict is the city o Zabadani.

Till Februar 2009, the sub-destricts o Ayn al-Fijeh an Al-Dimas wur pairt o the Zabadani destrict afore bein incorporatit tae form the newly established destrict o Qudsaya.

The toun-resort o Bloudan whilk is locatit in the Zabadani destrict, is amang the maist likit tourist destinations amang locals an foreigners.

## Divisions
The destrict o Zabadani is dealt intae three sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 official census):
*Zabadani nahiyah (ناحية الزبداني): population 40,613.
*Madaya nahiyah (ناحية مضايا): population 13,692.
*Sirghaya nahiyah (ناحية سرغايا): population 9,475.

## References
Al-Qutayfah Destrict

**Al-Qutayfah Destrict** () is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Sirie. At the 2004 offeecical census, the destrict haed a population o 119,283. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o Al-Qutayfah.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Al-Qutayfah is dividit intae fower sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 official census):
*Al-Qutayfah nahiyah (ناحية القطيفة‎): population 44,820.
*Jairoud nahiyah (ناحية جيرود): population 31,821.
*Ma'loula nahiyah (ناحية معلولا‎): population 12,192.
*Al-Ruhaibah nahiyah (ناحية الرحيبة): population 30,450.

## References
Darayya Destrict

**Darayya Destrict** () is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Sirie. At the 2004 offeecical census, the destrict haed a population o 260,961. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o Darayya.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Darayya is dividit intae three sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 offeecial census):
*Darayya nahiyah (ناحية داريا): population 131,501.
*Sahnaya nahiyah (ناحية صحنايا): population 44,512.
*Al-Hajar al-Aswad nahiyah (ناحية الحجر الأسود): population 84,948.

## References
An-Nabk Destrict

**An-Nabk Destrict** () is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Sirie. At the 2004 offeecical census, the destrict haed a population o 80,001. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o An-Nabk.

The aurie o the district is kent as Qalamoun, Qalamun, Qalamūn, Kalamon an Kalamoun an aw.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Al-Nabk is dividit intae three sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 offeecial census):
*An-Nabk nahiyah (ناحية النبك): population 50,747.
*Dair Atiah nahiyah (ناحية دير عطية): population 15,006.
*Qarah nahiyah (ناحية قارة): population 14,248.

## References
An-Nabk

**An Nabk** or **Al-Nabk** () is a Sirie ceety admeenistratively belangin tae the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate an the caipital o the Qalamoun. Locatit 81 kilometers (50 mi) north o Damascus an sooth o Homs. It haes an altitude o 1255 meters. It haes a population o 90,000 as o 2014 , makkin it the 35t lairgest ceety per geographical entity in Sirie. The Monastery o Saunt Moses the Abyssinie (Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi) is locatit alang the Anti-Lebanon Muntains near Nabk an dates back tae at least the 6t century.

## History
Al-Nabk haes been mentioned bi Arab geographers frae the 12t tae 13t centuries CE. Ibn Jubayr recordit that it wis a veelage north o Damascus "wi hintle runnin watter an broad arable fields." Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote in 1225 that "is a fine veelage wi excellent proveesions... There is here a curious spring which runs cauld in the simmer, an wi clear, excellent water. They say its source is at Yabrud." 

## Landmarks
Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi, the monastery o Monastery o Saunt Moses the Abyssinie, sits abuin the toun tae the wast.

## References

## Bibliography

*

## Freemit airtins
*Al Nabk.net 
*Al Nabk.com
*4nabk.com
Yabrud Destrict

**Yabrud Destrict** () is a destrict (mantiqah) o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in Sirie. At the 2004 offeecical census, the destrict haed a population o 48,370. The centre o the destrict is the ceety o Yabrud.

## Diveesions
The destrict o Yabrud is dividit intae twa sub-destricts or Nāḥiyas (population accordin tae 2004 offeecial census):
*Yabrud nahiyah (ناحية يبرود): population 39,604.
*Assal al-Ward nahiyah (ناحية عسال الورد): population 8,766.

## References
Qarah, Sirie

**Qarah** or ** Karah** (Arabic:** قارة**) is a Sirie toun in the Qalamoun Destrict o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate. It is locatit atween the Qalamoun Muntains an the Eastren Lebanon muntains range,  north o the caipital Damascus on the road tae the ceety o Homs.

## History
It wis the soothmaist toun in the Jund Hims militar destrict o Greater Sirie durin the Umayyad Caliphate. Abu'l-Fida describit it in his Geografie o 1321 as *a lairge veelage hauf wey atween Damascus an Homs.  It is a waystation for the caravans.  Maist o its inhabitants are Christians. It lees 1½ mairches frae Homs an 2 mairches frae Damascus.*

Syne the fowerteent century Qarah haes been eclipsed bi An-Nabk its neehbour tae the sooth.

## Notes

## Freemit airtins

*"Photograph of Qarah street" Flickr.com
* MSN Map
Dahiyat Qudsaya

**Dahiyat Qudsaya** (; **Qudsaya Modren Residential Suburb**) is a modren suburb adjacent tae the toun o Qudsaya an juist north o the Mezzeh destrict o Damascus in Sirie. The toun is admeenistratively pairt o the Qudsaya Destrict o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate in soothren Sirie. Nearbi localities include al-Hamah tae the north, an the affluent suburbs o al-Sabburah an Yaafur tae the wast. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, Dahiyat Qudsaya haed a population o 9,500 in the 2004 census.

## References
Al-Hamah

**Al-Hamah** (, *al-hāmah*; spelt **al-Hameh** an aw) is a sma veelage in Sirie wast o Damascus on the Barada river. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics, al-Hamah haed a population o 10,045 in the 2004 census. The toun wis the target o repeatit raids an attacks bi the Israeli militar, especially prior tae the destruction o an early PLO trainin camp locatit on the toun's ootskirts. Ane o the mair notable attacks occurred durin the 1973 Arab-Israeli War; whare Israeli fechter jets attackit a pouer plant that wis in the middle o the toun, destroyin it completely an killin 87 fowk.

## References
Nicolás Suárez Province

**Nicolás Suárez** is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie Pando depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's northwastren pairts. Its name honors Nicolás Suárez Callaú (1861-1940) who awned major pairts o the day's *Pando* an *[[Beni Depairtment|Beni]]* Depairtments in the times o the caoutchouc-boom.

## Location
*Nicolás Suárez* Province is locatit atween 10° 39' an 11° 27' sooth an atween 67° 33' an 69° 34' wast. It extends ower a length of 370&nbsp;km frae northeast tae soothwast, an up tae 100&nbsp;km frae north tae sooth.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Brazil in the north, Peru in the wast, Manuripi Province in the sooth, an Abuná Province in the east.

## Population
The population o Nicolás Suárez Province haes increased bi amaist 200 % ower the recent twa decades:
*1992: 18,447 inhabitants (census) 
*2001: 29,536 inhabitants (census) 
*2005: 39,577 inhabitants (est.)
*2010: 51,377 inhabitants (est.)
 
42.4 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. *(1992)*

84.7 % o the population speak Spaingie, 4.9 % speak Quechua, an 3.1 % speak Aymara *(1992)*.

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 78.1 %. *(1992)*

51.9 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 33.0 % hae nae sanitar facilities. *(1992)*

83.9 % o the population are Catholics, 13.8 % are Protestants. *(1992)*

## Diveesion
The province comprises fower municipalities:
*Bella Flor Municipality - 2,305 inhabitants *(2001)*
*Bolpebra Municipality - 1,194 inhabitants 
*Cobija Municipality - 22,324 inhabitants 
*Porvenir Municipality - 3,713 inhabitants

## See an aw
* Porvenir Massacre

## References


## Freemit airtins
*General map o province 
*Detailed map o province touns an rivers 
*Population data (Spaingie) 
*Social data (Spaingie)
Nicolás Suárez Callaú

**Nicolás Suárez Callaú** (*1851 Portachuelo, †1940 Cachuela Esperanza) set up a multinaitional rubber empire in Sooth Americae at the beginnin o the 20t century.

Attractit bi the rubber boom, Nicolas Suárez wi has sax brithers crossed the Andes at the end o the 19t century an foondit *Cachuela Esperanza* at the rapids o Río Beni as a heidquairter for the rubber export.

Durin the heyday o the rubber buim, his empire haed branches at Acre, Manaus, Belém, an Lunnon, an Suárez awned 80,000 square kilometres o land in the Bolivie Beni an Pando depairtments, 50,000 heids o cattle an 6 steamboats.

## Freemit airtins
*Bolivian Chronicle 1876-1888 (German)
Abuná Province

**Abuná** is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie depairtment o Pando an is situatit in the depairtment's northren central pairts. It haes its name frae Río Abuná, the border river tae neebourin Brazil.

## Location
*Aroma* province is locatit atween 9° 53' an 11° 06' sooth an atween 66° 27' an 67° 42' wast. It extends ower 120–250&nbsp;km frae north tae sooth, an 350&nbsp;km frae wast tae east.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Brazil in the north, Nicolás Suárez Province in the northwast an wast, Manuripi Province in the sooth, an Federico Román Province in the east.

## Population
The population o Abuná Province haes increased bi 40 % ower the recent twa decades:
*1992: 2,652 inhabitants (census) 
*2001: 2,996 inhabitants (census) 
*2005: 3,475 inhabitants (est.)
*2010: 3,729 inhabitants (est.)

45.4 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. *(1992)*

52.3 % o the population speak Spaingie, 2.8 % speak Aymara, 2.0 % Quechua, an 52.8 speak ither indigenous leids. *(1992)*

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 47.4 %. *(1992)*

87.6 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 83.6 % hae nae sanitar facilities. *(1992)*

83.5 % o the population are Catholics, 15.4 % are Protestants. *(1992)*

## Diveesion
The province comprises twa municipios:
*Santa Rosa del Abuná Municipality - 3,090&nbsp;km² - 2,097 inhabitants (*2001*)
*Ingavi Municipality - 4,378&nbsp;km² - 899 inhabitants (*2001*)

## References


## Freemit airtins
*General map o province 
*Detailed map o province touns an rivers 
*Population data (Spaingie) 
*Social data (Spaingie)
Federico Román Province

**Federico Román** (or: *General Federico Román*) is ane o the five provinces o the Bolivie depairtment o Pando an is situatit in the depairtment's northeastren pairts. Its name honours General Federico Román.

## Location
*Aroma* province is locatit atween 09° 41' an 10° 51' sooth an atween 65° 17' an 66° 39' wast. It extends ower 150&nbsp;km frae north tae sooth, an 200&nbsp;km frae wast tae East.

The province is situatit in the Amazon lawlands o Bolivie an borders Abuná Province in the wast, Manuripi Province in the soothwast, Beni Depairtment in the sootheast, an Brazil in the east an north.

The border tae Beni Depairtment in the sooth forms Río Beni, tae neebourin Brazil Río Madeira in the east an Río Abuná in the north.

## Population
The population o Federico Román Province haes increased bi mair nor 100 % ower the recent twa decades:
*1992: 1,516 inhabitants (census) 
*2001: 2,242 inhabitants (census) 
*2005: 2,912 inhabitants (est.)
*2010: 3,600 inhabitants (est.) 
 
39.6 % o the population are younger than 15 year auld. *(1992)*

87.9 % o the population speak Spaingie, 3.1 % speak Quechua, 1.2 % Aymara, an 26.5 speak foreign leids (mainly  Portuguese, due tae the nearness tae Brazil) . *(1992)*

The leeteracy rate o the province's population is 72.6 %. *(1992)*

83.1 % o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 59.1 % hae nae sanitar facilities. *(1992)*

83.1 % o the population are Catholics, 15.2 % are Protestants. *(1992)*

## Diveesion
The province comprises three municipios:
*Nueva Esperanza Municipality - 970 Einw. *(2005)*
*Santos Mercado Municipality - 771 Einw. *(2005)*
*Villa Nueva Municipality - 1,171 Einw. *(2005)*

## References


## Freemit airtins
*General map o province 
*Detailed map o province touns an rivers 
*Population data (Spaingie) 
*Social data (Spaingie)
Arani Municipality

**Arani Municipality** is the first municipal section o the Arani Province in the Cochabamba Depairtment, Bolivie. Its seat is Arani. At the time o census 2001 the municipality haed 11,542 inhabitants.  

It is bordered tae the north bi the Tiraque Province, tae the east bi the Vacas Municipality, tae the sooth bi the Mizque Province an tae the wast bi the Punata Province.

## Subdiveesion
The municipality consists o the follaein three cantons:

## Population
The fowk are predominantly indigenous citizens o Quechua descent. 

## Festivities
Ivery year on 24 August the population o Arani celebrates ane o its maist important Catholic festivities, Virgen La Bella, dedicatit tae the Virgin Mary, whose image is veneratit wi hintle devotion bi the residents an fowk frae abroad.

File:Virgen María La Bella.JPG|Virgen María La Bella
File:Santuario de la Virgen La Bella 2.JPG|San Bartolomé kirk in Arani which keeps the shrine o the Virgen La Bella

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Arani Municipality: Population data and map
Arani, Bolivie

**Arani** (frae Quechua: *jarani* or *jallmani*) is the caipital o Arani Province an Arani Municipality locatit in Cochabamba Depairtment in the centre o Bolivie at an altitude o 9,400&nbsp;ft (2,865 m). At the time o census 2001 it haed 3,512 indwallers.

Arani is weel kent fur its breid owin tae the traditional uise o mony kynds o flour fur makkin the breid. Breid is selt in various *tiendas* alang the main streets leadin tae the *plaza principal,* an alang the major heich-gate that leads Arani tae the city o Cochabamba. Thare is a breid festival haudit ilka yeir tae celebrate Arani's breid. In 2008, the average price o ane servin o breid wis 1 boliviano. Ither specialty breids that includit toppins o jalapeños an cheese wur 1.50 bolivianos.

Durin the months o November throu aerlie December, the rainy saison sets in an hivy rainfaw is expectit. Owin tae Arani's geographical location set in the valleys, the winds o Arani whiles cause the hivy rainfaws tae be difficult tae navigate throu.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Arani Municipality: Population data and map 
* MSN Map
Edmundo Novillo Aguilar

**Edmundo Novillo Aguilar** (born 28 Januar 1963 in Totora, Narciso Campero Province, Cochabamba) is a Bolivie lawyer, politeecian, an Govrenor o Cochabamba. His poleetical career includes servin on the Depairtmental Cooncil, as Mayor o Totora, an as a Deputy in the Bolivie Chamber o Deputies. He wis preses o the Chamber for fower years frae 2006 tae 2009. He is affiliatit wi the Muivement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), an wis the first MAS-IPSP member tae serve as Preses o the Chamber o Deputies.

Novillo wan the 2010 gubernatorial election in Cochabamba wi 61.9% o the vote.

## References
Project Gutenberg

**Project Gutenberg** (**PG**) is a volunteer effort tae digitise an airchive cultural wirks, tae "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". It wis foondit in 1971 bi Michael S. Hart an is the auldest digital library.

## References
Le Havre

**Le Havre** () is a ceety in the Seine-Maritime depairtment o the Upper Normandy region in Fraunce. It is situatit in north-wastren Fraunce, on the richt bank o the mooth o the river Seine on the Inglis Channel. Le Havre is the maist populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total population o the greater Le Havre conurbation is smawer than that o Rouen. It is the seicont lairgest subprefectur in Fraunce (efter Reims). Its port is the seicont busiest in Fraunce (efter that o Marseille). Syne 1974 it haes been the see o the diocese o Le Havre.

## Twin touns
Le Havre is twinned, or haes a sister ceety relationship wi:
*  Dalian, Cheenae
*  Pointe-Noire, Republic o the Congo
*  Saunt Petersburg, Roushie, syne 1965
*  Magdeburg, Germany
*  Southampton, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1973
*  Tampa, Unitit States
*  Bergen, Norawa
*  Aydın, Turkey

## Notes
Culloden (film)

***Culloden*** is a 1964 docudrama written an directit bi Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle o Culloden that resultit in the Breetish Airmy's destruction o the Jacobite uprisin.
Hammarland

**Hammarland** is a municipality o Åland, an autonomous territory o Finland.

The municipality haes a population o 
() an covers an aurie o  o
which 
is watter. The population densitie is
.

The municipality is unilingually Swadish.  o its population haes Swadish as their native leid, making Hammarland ane o the municipalities wi the heichest percentage o Swadish-speakers in Finland, an possibly in the warld.

Märket, the wastmaist point o Finland, is an exclave o Hammarland.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Municipal o Hammarland – The offeecial wabsteid o Hammarland]
National Trust for Scotland

**The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty**, forby kent as the **National Trust for Scotland** () descrieves itsel as *the conservation charity that protects an promotes Scotland's naitural an cultural heritage fur present an future generations tae enjoy.*

## References
Margaret Waters

**Margaret Waters** wis an Inglis murderess hanged bi executioner William Calcraft on 11 October 1870 at Horsemonger Lane Gaol (kent as Surrey County Gaol an aw) in Lunnon.

Waters wis born in 1835 an livit in Brixton. She wis kent for baby-fermin, that is, takkin in ither weemen's childer for money; a practice aften resultin in infanticide.

Waters druggit an starvit the infants in her care an is believit tae hae killed at least 19 childer. Chairgit wi five coonts of wilful murther as well as neglect an conspiracy, Waters wis convictit o murtherin an infant namit John Walter Cowen.  Her sister, Sarah Ellis, wis convictit in the same case for obtainin money unner false pretences an sentencit tae aichteen months o hard labour.

## References

*Horsemonger Lane Gaol
Dag Hammarskjöld

**Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld** () (29 Julie 1905 – 18 September 1961) wis a Swadish diplomat, economist, an author. His wis Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions frae 1953 until his daith in 1961, an posthumously won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

**Muhammad Ali Jinnah** ( , born **Mahomedali Jinnahbhai**; 25 December 1876 in Karachi&nbsp;– 11 September 1948 in Karachi) wis a lawer, politeecian an statesman, an the foonder o Pakistan. Jinnah is revered in Pakistan as *Quaid-i-Azam* ( "Great Leader") an *Baba-i-Qaum* ( "Father o the Nation"). His birthday is a national haliday thair. Jinnah servit as leader o the Aw-Indie Muslim League frae 1913 tae Pakistan's unthirldom on 14 August 1947, an as Pakistan's first Govrenor-General frae unthirldom til his daith on 11 September 1948.
Kurt Waldheim

**Kurt Josef Waldheim** (; 21 December 1918 – 14 Juin 2007) wis an Austrian diplomat an politeecian. Waldheim wis the fowert Secretar-General o the Unitit Nations frae 1972 tae 1981, an the nint Preses o Austrick, frae 1986 tae 1992. While he wis runnin for Preses in Austrick in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the *[[Wehrmacht]]* durin Warld War II raised internaitional controversy.
Veracruz, Veracruz

**Veracruz**, offeecially kent as **Heroica Veracruz**, is a major port ceety an municipality on the Guwf o Mexico in the Mexican state o Veracruz. The ceety is locatit in the central pairt o the state. Locatit  alang Federal Heich-gate 140 frae the state caipital Xalapa, it is the state's maist muckle ceety. The ceety's population is greater than the municipality's population, syne pairt o the ceety extends intae neebourin Boca del Río Municipality. At the 2010 census, the ceety haed 554,830 inhabitants, 428,323 in Veracruz Municipality an 126,507 in Boca del Río Municipality. Veracruz is Mexico’s auldest, lairgest, an historically maist significant port syne European colonization.

## Sister ceeties

## Consulates
*Belgium
*Cuba
*Finland
*Germany
*Guatemala
*Honduras
*Italy
*Netherlands
*El Salvador
*Swisserland

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Veracruz Ceety govrenment  
* Museum o Veracruz  
* Offeecial link
Fower Seembols (Cheenese constellation)

The **Fower Seembols** () are fower meethological creaturs in the Cheenese constellations. They are the Azur Draigon () o the east, the Vermilion Bird () o the sooth, the White Teeger () o the wast, an the Black Tortoise () o the north.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*28 Cheenese Constellations
Veracruz (disambiguation)

**[[Veracruz]]** is a state in Mexico. **Veracruz** or **Vera Cruz** (literally "True Cross") mey refer tae an aw:

## Fowk
*Philip Vera Cruz, Filipino American labour leader
*Vera Cruz, a transsexual character in Pedro Almodóvar's 2011 Spaingie-leid film The Skin I Live In

## Places
** Brazil:**
*Vera Cruz, Bahia
*Vera Cruz, Rio Grande do Sul
*Vera Cruz, São Paulo
*Vera Cruz do Oeste, Paraná

** East Timor:** 
*Vera Cruz, East Timor, a subdestrict o Dili Destrict

** Honduras:**
*Veracruz, Copán

**Mexico:** 
*Veracruz, Durango, ceety in the state o Durango
*Veracruz, Veracruz, lairgest ceety in the state o Veracruz (umwhile spelt "Vera Cruz")

**Portugal:** 
*Vera Cruz, Aveiro

**Spain:**
*Veracruz, Huesca

**Unitit States:** 
*Vera Cruz, Indiana
*Vera Cruz, Missouri
*Vera Cruz, Ohio
*Vera Cruz, Pennsylvanie

## Ither
*CD Veracruz, Mexican fitbaa club
*VeraCruz (computer virus), alternative name for the extinct Ping-Pong virus
*''Vera Cruz'' (film), 1954 motion pictur starrin Gary Cooper an Burt Lancaster
*"Veracruz" (song), frae Warren Zevon's 1978 album *[[Excitable Boy]]*
*Veracruz Canyon, deep-sea canyon in the Guwf o Mexico.
*Hyundai Veracruz,  mid-size crossover sport-utility vehicle
*Vera Cruz Futebol Clube, Brazilian fitbaa club
*Classic Veracruz cultur (c. 100 to 1000 CE), a cultural aurie o the present-day Mexican state o Veracruz

## See an aw
*Siege o Veracruz (1847)
*U.S. occupation o Veracruz (1914)
Scotland Forever!

***Scotland Forever!*** is an 1881 pentin bi Lady Butler depictin the stairt o the cavalry charge o the Royal Scots Greys who chargit alongside the Inglis hivy cavalry at the Battle o Waterloo in 1815 durin the Napoleonic wars. In actuality, it appears that the Scots Greys never stairtit the charge at a gallop, due tae the broken grund, an insteid advancit at a quick walk. The pentin is hoosed the nou at the Leeds Art Gallery, havin been ane o its airliest acquisitions, a gift frae Colonel Thomas Walter Harding (1843–1927).

The pentin wis aa an inspiration for the depiction o the same charge in the film *[[Waterloo (1970 film)|Waterloo]]*.

## References