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- (from the article "Illyrian Provinces") ...cultural and economic advances but also began to develop a sense of Slav unity and national awareness that matured and manifested itself in the 1830s and 1840s in the powerful literary and political Illyrian movement. impact on Croatian nationalism
- Illyrian Provinces
- stretch of territory along the Dalmatian coast that constituted a part of Napoleon's French Empire from 1809 to 1814. When the French victory of 1809 compelled Austria to cede a portion of its South Slav lands to France, Napoleon combined ...
- Illyricum
- (from the article "Balkans") ...Greece) and on to Thrace. The northwestern part of the peninsula, including Dalmatia along the Adriatic coast as well as Pannonia around the Danube and Sava rivers, became the province of Illyricum. What is now eastern Serbia was incorporated into ...
- ilm al-hadith
- form of investigation established by Muslim traditionists in the 3rd century AH (9th century AD) to determine the validity of accounts (hadiths) of Muhammad's statements, actions, and approbations as reported by various authorities.
- Ilmarinen
- (from the article "sampo") ...a cosmological pillar or some similar support holding up the vault of heaven. In a cycle of songs, referred to by scholars as the sampo-epic, the sampo is forged by the creator-smith Ilmarinen for Louhi, the hag-goddess of the underworld, ...
- Ilmen, Lake
- lake in Novgorod oblast (province), northwestern Russia. Lake Ilmen occupies the centre of the Ilmen Plain, an undulating glacial lowland much of which is drained by rivers flowing into the lake; the lake in turn provides the headwaters of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- ilmenite
- iron-black, heavy, metallic oxide mineral, composed of iron and titanium oxide (FeTiO3), that is used as the major source of titanium. It forms solid-solution series with geikielite and pyrophanite in which magnesium and manganese, respectively, replace iron in the crystal ...
- Ilminsky, Nicholas
- (from the article "Christianity") Virtually the entire outreach of the Russian Orthodox mission extended to the peoples of the vast Russian Empire across Asia. Its outstanding missionaries included the linguist and translator Nicholas Ilminsky (d. 1891) and Ivan Veniaminov (1797-1879), who in 1823 went ...
- ilmiye
- (from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...(kalemiye), institution, organized as the imperial treasury (hazine-i amire), which was in charge of collecting and spending the imperial revenues; and the religious, or cultural (ilmiye), institution, comprising the ulama (Muslims expert in the religious sciences), which was in charge ...
- Ilobasco
- town, north-central El Salvador. It is in a rich agricultural area (cattle, coffee, sugarcane, and indigo) but is known primarily for its clay dolls, a major item for sale to tourists, as well as for other types of pottery made ...
- Ilobu
- town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along a tributary of the Oshun River and on the road from Ogbomosho to Oshogbo. Ilobu is a trade centre for the yams, corn (maize), cassava, oil palms, pumpkins, beans, and okra grown ...
- Ilocano
- third largest cultural-linguistic group in the Philippines. When discovered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they occupied the narrow coastal plain of northwestern Luzon, known as the Ilocos region. The growth of their population later led to much migration ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ilocano language
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") Major Austronesian languages include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of...
Northern Philippine languages
- Ilocos range
- (from the article "Philippines") ...That range and the Cordillera Central merge in north-central Luzon to form the Caraballo Mountains. To the north of the latter, and between the two ranges, is the fertile Cagayan Valley. The narrow Ilocos, or Malayan, range, lying close along ...
- Iloilo City
- chartered city, on the southeastern coast of Panay, Philippines. At the mouth of the Jaro River on the Iloilo Strait and sheltered by the offshore Guimaras Island, it is the commercial centre of Panay and a regional centre for sugar ...
- Iloilo, Ratu Josefa
- (from the article "Fiji") Area: 18,272 sq km (7,055 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 839,000 | Capital: Suva | Chief of state: Presidents Voreque Bainimarama (acting) and, from January 4, Ratu Josefa Iloilo | Head of government: Prime Ministers Jona Senilagakali and, from ...
- Ilois
- (from the article "Dependent States") ...Margaret Beckett, who had taken the case to the court of appeal. Speaking amid triumphant scenes outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Richard Gifford, the solicitor for the islanders (known as Ilois), thanked Lord Justice (Sir Stephen) Sedley and the ...
- Ilopango Volcano
- (from the article "Ilopango, Lake") ...In 1880 the water level rose, a natural channel (Rio Jiboa) was formed on the eastern side, and the resultant drainage left a volcanic island in the centre of the lake. The island, known as Ilopango Volcano, is 150 ft ...
- Ilopango, Lake
- lake, south central El Salvador, on the borders of San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlan departments. Occupying the crater of an extinct volcano, at an altitude of 1,450 ft (442 m), it has an area of 40 sq mi (100 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ilorin
- city, traditional emirate, and capital of Kwara State, western Nigeria, on the Awun River, a minor tributary of the Niger. Founded in the late 18th century by Yoruba people, it became the capital of a kingdom that was a vassal ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ilos
- in Greek mythology, the founder of Ilion (Troy). Ilos (or Zacynthus, a Cretan name) has been identified either as the brother of Erichthonius or as the son of Tros and grandson of Erichthonius. According to legend, the king of Phrygia ...
- iltizam
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...Amin al-'Alim, Husayn Muruwwah, and 'Umar al-Fakhuri. This push toward a literature of "commitment" (iltizam) became a constant of Arabic literary criticism; Al-Adab, one of the most prominent literary journals founded in the...
- iltizam
- in the Ottoman Empire, taxation system carried out by farming of public revenue. The state auctioned taxation rights to the highest bidder (multazim, plural multezim or multazims), who then collected the state taxes and made payments in fixed installments, keeping ... [3 Related Articles]
- Iltutmish
- also called Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, Iltutmish also spelled Altamsh third and greatest Delhi sultan of the so-called Slave dynasty. [4 Related Articles]
- Ilulissat
- town on the west coast of Greenland, near the mouth of Jakobshavn Fjord on Qeqertarsuup (Disko) Bay. The Greenlandic name of the town means "icebergs." The town's first permanent houses were built by Danes in 1741 on the site of ...
- Ilumquh
- (from the article "Arabian religion") ...who was worshiped throughout South Arabia, each kingdom had its own national god, of whom the nation called itself the "progeny" (wld). In Saba' the national god was Almaqah (or Ilmuqah), a protector of artificial irrigation, lord of the temple ...
- Ilushuma
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...cannot be synchronized precisely with the kings of southern Mesopotamia before Shamshi-Adad I (c. 1813-c. 1781 BC). For instance, it has not yet been established just when Ilushuma's excursion toward the southeast, recorded in an inscription, actually took place. Ilushuma ...
- Ilves, Toomas Hendrik
- (from the article "Estonia") Area: 45,227 sq km (17,462 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 1,338,000 | Capital: Tallinn | Chief of state: President Toomas Hendrik Ilves | Head of government: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip | BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007Estonia
- Ilya Muromets
- (from the article "military aircraft") ...to appreciate the value of bombing attacks on enemy targets. Its big three-engined, twin-tailboom Capronis were among the finest bombers of World War I (see photograph). Even larger were the Russian Ilya Muromets bombers of the tsar's Squadron of Flying ...
- Ilya Of Murom
- a hero of the oldest known Old Russian byliny, traditional heroic folk chants. He is presented as the principal bogatyr (knight-errant) at the 10th-century court of Saint Vladimir I of Kiev, although with characteristic epic vagueness he often participates in ...
- Ilyushin Il-12
- (from the article "flight, history of") ...by signing a license agreement to build the Douglas DC-3, equipped with Soviet engines. Although numerous examples continued to serve in the postwar years, they were eventually succeeded by the Ilyushin Il-12, a trim unpressurized twin-engine transport that also featured ...
- Ilyushin Il-14
- (from the article "flight, history of") ...serve in the postwar years, they were eventually succeeded by the Ilyushin Il-12, a trim unpressurized twin-engine transport that also featured retractable tricycle landing gear. A larger model, the Il-14, went into operation during the 1950s. Considered slow and technologically ...
- Ilyushin Il-2
- single-seat assault bomber that was a mainstay of the Soviet air force during World War II. The Il-2 is generally considered the finest ground-attack aircraft produced by any nation during World War II. It was designed by Sergey Ilyushin beginning ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ilyushin Il-76
- -76, Soviet military transport aircraft, first flown in 1971 and first produced in 1975. It was designed by the Ilyushin design bureau under G.V. Novozhilov. The Il-76 was a heavy transport plane, capable of handling a payload of more than ...
- Ilyushin, Sergey Vladimirovich
- Soviet aircraft designer who created the famous Il-2 Stormovik armoured attack aircraft used by the Soviet air force during World War II. After the war he designed civil aircraft: the Il-12 twin-engined passenger aircraft (1946), the Il-18 Moskva four-engined turboprop ...
- IM channel
- (from the article "nervous system") The IM channel is opened by depolarization but is deactivated only by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. This property may serve to regulate the sensitivity of neurons to synaptic input.
- Im Kwon-taek
- In May 2002 South Korean motion-picture director Im Kwon-taek won the best director award at the Cannes International Film Festival for Chihwaseon (2002), a masterly depiction of the life of legendary 19th-century Korean artist Jang Seung-up. Despite having made nearly ...
- Imabari
- city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan, facing the Kurushima Strait on the Inland Sea. Imabari, founded as a castle town, was the first port in Shikoku to be opened to foreign trade. In 1922 the Takamatsu-Matsuyama Line (railway) was opened ...
- iMac
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Apple, which had become a relatively small competitor in the market for personal computers, introduced an unusual new iMac in which the computer processor and other components fit within a compartment behind a flat-panel monitor. To maintain its lead in ...
- Imad ad-Dawlah
- also called 'ali Ibn Buyeh one of the founders of the Buyid dynasty of Iran. 'Ali and his brothers Ahmad and Hasan were followers of Mardaviz ebn Zeyar of northern Iran. In 934 'Ali revolted against local Zeyarid rulers and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Imae, Toshiaki
- (from the article "Baseball") ...game four they edged the Tigers 3-2 as South Korean slugger Lee Seung Yeop blasted a two-run home run and added a run-scoring double, while the Tigers' rally fell short. Marines third baseman Toshiaki Imae was named the series Most ...
- Imagawa family
- (from the article "Japan") ...by advancing into the plains of Mikawa. But when they were attacked and defeated by the powerful Oda family from the west, Ieyasu's father, Hirotada, was killed. Ieyasu had earlier been sent to the Imagawa family as a hostage to ...
- image
- (from the article "human behaviour") ...the face of another person is mediated by a schema, for example. Young children already display a remarkable ability to generate and store schemata. Another type of early cognitive unit is the image; this is a mental picture, or the ...
- image controller
- (from the article "information processing") ...array of binary digits, each representing the brightness of a pixel. The resulting stream of bits is enhanced and compressed (to as little as 10 percent of the original volume) by a device called an image controller and is stored ...
- image intensifier
- (from the article "warning system") Newer in character are the image intensifiers used for nighttime detection. These devices receive the moonlight or starlight reflected from targets on a sensitive screen, amplify the image electronically, and present it at much higher light level on a small ...
- image orthicon
- (from the article "television") ...K. Zworykin (the Iconoscope) in 1924 and by Philo T. Farnsworth (the Image Dissector) in 1927. These early inventions were soon succeeded by a series of improved tubes such as the Orthicon, the Image Orthicon, and the Vidicon. The operation ...
- image processing
- (from the article "information processing") The content analysis of images is accomplished by two primary methods: image processing and pattern recognition. Image processing is a set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Pattern recognition is an information-reduction process: the assignment of ...
- image scanner
- (from the article "logistics") The second way that logistics activities are linked is by communications. In recent years, improved communications have taken the place of inventory. Some chain stores have scanners at checkout counters where a customer buys merchandise. These scanners are linked directly ...
- image slicer
- (from the article "Bowen, I.S.") ...director of the Mount Wilson Observatory and served as director of the Hale Observatories, which comprise Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories, from 1948 until 1964. In 1938 Bowen invented the image slicer, a device that improves the efficiency of the ...
- Imagerie d'Epinal
- (from the article "comic strip") Imagerie d'Epinal, based in Epinal and other French towns, developed a distinct form of comic strip. Throughout the 19th century the common people and particularly children in rural areas of France, The Netherlands, and Germany had subsisted on Imagerie d'Epinal, ...
- imagery
- (from the article "intelligence") This is information gleaned from analyzing all types of imagery, including photography as well as infrared and ultraviolet imagery. The examination of imagery, called imagery interpretation, is the process of locating, recognizing, identifying, and describing objects, activities, and terrain that ...
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