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  • A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... The term 'book' may also refer to a literary work, or a ...
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  • Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest ...
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  • The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... In 2005, oil and natural gas deposits were found beneath Cambodia ...
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  • Lima is the capital and largest city, as well as the commercial and ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...
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  • , in English generally Zurich, Zurigo [dzu'ɾiːgo] ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 371,767 in 2007; ...
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  • Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples ...
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  • Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...
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  • , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...
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  • ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...
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  • The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad ...
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  • The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle ... Before 1971, they were known as the "Trucial States" after ...
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  • , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...
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  • Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be ...
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  • Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (Latin: ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...
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  • Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...
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  • Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...
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  • The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...
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  • ) is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and one of the principal ... Caracas is located in the north of the country, contained within and ...
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  • linguistic group with populations primarily in eastern and southern Afghanistan ... Pashtuns have rarely been politically united. "Biography Khushal ...
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  • , ['beŋgəɭuːru]), serves as the capital of the Indian state ... During the British Raj, Bangalore developed as a center for colonial ...
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  • , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...
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  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native ... Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ...
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  • North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...
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  • Chennai (Tamil: சென்னை), formerly known as Madras, the ... The British established the city in the seventeenth century, developing ...
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  • , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... its performing arts. It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint ...
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  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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  • The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing ... Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ...
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  • कॅशीर; Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the ... (comprising Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh), the Pakistani administered regions ...
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  • ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...
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  • Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...
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  • Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon ... of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ...
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  • later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in Russia ... The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ...
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  • Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It is the second ... While Madrid possesses modern infrastructure, it has preserved the ...
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  • Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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  • ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque ( Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami ... is a mosque, a former church, and a major cultural and historical ...
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  • Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici]), is the second-largest city in Greece ... It is also known in Greek as " el|η Συμπρωτεύουσα ...
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