Search results for "City-state" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia

Page title matches

  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ...
    41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
  • Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...
    18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
  • Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and one of the oldest cities in North America ...
    26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
  • Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...
    21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
  • Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...
    18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...
    44 KB (6,686 words) - 18:44, 9 February 2023
  • Mexico, which is shared with a smaller city-state called Tlatelolco. ... that time, the city had again become a city-state, having power that extended ...
    184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
  • New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city ...
    37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
  • Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses 318 square miles (824 sq km) in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte ...
    47 KB (6,950 words) - 08:27, 28 February 2023
  • Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali had been a heavily ...
    15 KB (2,417 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
  • The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...
    16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
  • Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches ...
    28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
  • New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...
    8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
  • The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and ...
    19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
  • The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)," constitutes the section ...
    16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
  • The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar ...
    15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023

Page text matches

  • New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...
    8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
  • the Mexica were tributaries of the Tepanec city-state of Azcapotzalco. ==Achievements== Huitzilíhuitl, a skilled politician, continued the policies ...
    6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
  • Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam, had been the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty between ...
    10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
  • Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...
    12 KB (1,834 words) - 21:20, 22 October 2022
  • Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1873 – January 26, 1945) was an American politician who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri ...
    8 KB (1,233 words) - 22:46, 30 April 2023
  • The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan at West Thirty ...
    7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
  • The city of Thiruvananthapuram has been the center of cultural activities of Kerala (India) from the time it served as capital of Travancore ...
    11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
  • William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878) was an American politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the ...
    9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
  • Shinshi, a semi-legendary ancient city that, according to the history books such as Samguk Yusa, Gyuwon Sahwa, Shindan Minsa, and Hwandan-gogi ...
    10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
  • Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to the ...
    12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
  • The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...
    12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
  • Jodhpur (जोधपुर), is the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat of a princely state ...
    14 KB (2,045 words) - 13:44, 1 August 2022
  • The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York ...
    16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
  • (Ewuare the Great) came to power and turned the city-state into an empire. Around 1470, he named the new state Edo. ==Golden Age== ...
    12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
  • The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street ...
    11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
  • Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...
    13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
  • Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...
    7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Category:Biography Lowell, Josephine Shaw Josephine Shaw Lowell (December 16, 1843 ...
    10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
  • Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...
    16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
  • Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...
    21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)