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- port city and capital of Mozambique. It lies along the north bank of Espirito Santo Estuary of Delagoa Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. Maputo derived its former name from the Portuguese trader who first explored the region in ...
- Maputo River
- river formed by the confluence in southwestern Mozambique of the Great Usutu River (flowing from Swaziland) and the Pongola River (flowing from South Africa). From the confluence it flows about 50 miles (80 km) northeastward to enter Delagoa Bay, 14 ...
- maqam
- (Arabic: "place of residence"), a spiritual stage that periodically marks the long path followed by Muslim mystics (Sufis) leading to the vision of and union with God. The Sufi progresses by means of his own mujahadah (work, or self-mortification) and ...
- maqam
- in Islamic music, a set of pitches and of characteristic melodic elements, or motives, and a traditional pattern of their use, forming a system for the melodic and tonal construction of performances. A maqam can be represented by a seven-tone ...
- maqamah
- (Arabic: "assembly"), Arabic literary genre in which entertaining anecdotes, often about rogues, mountebanks, and beggars, written in an elegant, rhymed prose (saj'), are presented in a dramatic or narrative context most suitable for the display of the author's eloquence, wit, ...
- Maqdisi, al-
- Arab traveler, geographer, and author of a noted work based on personal observations of the populations, manners, and economic life of the various inhabitants of the lands of Islam, Ahson at-taqasim fi ma'rifat al-aqalim (985; "The Best of Classification for ...
- maquiladora
- manufacturing plant that imports and assembles duty-free components for export. The arrangement allows plant owners to take advantage of low-cost labour and to pay duty only on the "value added"-that is, on the value of the finished product minus the ...
- maquis
- a scrubland vegetation of the Mediterranean region, composed primarily of leathery, broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or small trees. Garigue, or garrigue, a poorer version of this vegetation, is found in areas with a thin, rocky soil. Maquis occurs primarily on the ...
- Mar Chiquita, Lake
- saline lake at the southern edge of the Gran Chaco in northeastern Cordoba provincia, north-central Argentina. It is about 45 miles (70 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide with an area of almost 775 square miles (2,000 square ...
- Mar del Plata
- coastal city, southeastern Buenos Aires provincia, east-central Argentina. Juan de Garay, the second founder of Buenos Aires, first explored the coastal area of Mar del Plata in 1581. In 1746 Father Thomas Falkner and Father Jose Cardiel founded the Indian ...
- Mar, John Erskine, 1st Earl of
- Scottish lord who played a major role in deposing Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (reigned 1542-67), and gaining the crown for her infant son James VI (later James I of England); Mar was regent for James in 1571-72.
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