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It has been traditionally an important centre on the routes westward from K'un-
ming to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and northern Burma; it also has routes
leading south into the wild southwest region of Yunnan. Hsiakuan was first
known to ...
It has been traditionally an important centre on the routes westward from K'un-
ming to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and northern Burma; it also has routes
leading south into the wild southwest region of Yunnan. Hsiakuan was first
known to ...
Page 271
He also wrote a moving elegy when his former love died in childbirth. Ibn Ezra
wrote, in Arabic, an important treatise on the poetic art, Kitdb al-Muhddarah wa al
-Mudhfikarah (“Conversations and Recollections"; translated into Hebrew as
Shirat ...
He also wrote a moving elegy when his former love died in childbirth. Ibn Ezra
wrote, in Arabic, an important treatise on the poetic art, Kitdb al-Muhddarah wa al
-Mudhfikarah (“Conversations and Recollections"; translated into Hebrew as
Shirat ...
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(administrative region), Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, on the Bolshaya
Kamenka River. Krasnodon, known as Sorokino until 1935, was incorporated in
1938. It is important for the mining of bituminous coal. During World War II the city
...
(administrative region), Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, on the Bolshaya
Kamenka River. Krasnodon, known as Sorokino until 1935, was incorporated in
1938. It is important for the mining of bituminous coal. During World War II the city
...
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| Title | The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 24 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| Edition | 15 |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1974 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 24 Nov 2010 |
| ISBN | 0852292902, 9780852292907 |
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