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( sh ´n mäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 121,976), Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Ishinomaki Bay. It is a commercial and fishing port and a cen...
( spär´tä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 111,706), capital of Isparta prov., W central Turkey. It is a manufacturing center producing cotton, carpets, an...
( sh mb ´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 70,000), Bashkortostan, E European Russia, on the Belaya River. Founded in 1932, Ishimbay developed around the fir...
(l n´ d s) (KEY) , d. 480 B.C., king of Sparta. He succeeded (c.491 B.C.) his half brother, Cleomenes I. When the Persians invaded Greece under Xerx...
( s´ n) (KEY) , capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites an...
( ´s t p) (KEY) , in chemistry and physics, one of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but differing in atomic weight and mass number. Th...