a Malagasy people living in the western third of Madagascar. The Sakalava live in a sparsely populated area of vast plains, grasslands, and rolling foothills.
noted imperial loyalist whose effort to forge the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance (1866) between those two large feudal domains, or hans, was critical in setting the stage for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
city, Yamagata ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan, on the Mogami River. A prosperous commercial and fishing port during the Muromachi period (1338-1573), it later developed as a seaport for the shipment of rice along the Sea of Japan coast. The ...
village in the Southeastern Taurus Mountains some 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Gaziantep, south-central Turkey. Archaeologists first took note of Sakcagoz as the site of a Late Hittite slab relief depicting a royal lion hunt. John Garstang, a British ...
brief peasant rebellion in the agricultural area of central Luzon, Philippines, on the night of May 2-3, 1935. Though quickly crushed, the revolt of the Sakdals (or Sakdalistas) warned of Filipino peasant frustration with the oppressive land tenancy situation.
Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice. Sake is light in colour, is noncarbonated, has a sweet flavour, and contains up to 18 percent alcohol.
missionary who established the first British mission in the Cameroons and who was, in the opinion of David Livingstone, the most important English missionary in West Africa. Saker founded the city of Victoria, Cameroon, and translated the Bible into Douala, ...
one of the major peoples of eastern Siberia, numbering some 380,000 in the late 20th century. In the 17th century they inhabited a limited area on the middle Lena River, but in modern times they have expanded throughout Sakha republic ...
republic in far northeastern Russia, in northeastern Siberia. The republic occupies the basins of the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean-the Lena, Yana, Indigirka, and Kolyma-and includes the New Siberian Islands between the Laptev and East Siberian seas. Sakha ...
member of the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic language family, spoken in northeastern Siberia (Sakha republic), in northeastern Russia. Because its speakers have been geographically isolated from other Turkic languages for centuries, Sakha has developed deviant features; it demonstrates closest ...
oblast (province), extreme eastern Russia, composed of Sakhalin Island and the chain of the Kuril Islands. The present oblast was formed in 1947 after southern Sakhalin and the Kurils were acquired from Japan. The economy is dominated by fishing, lumbering, ...
island at the far eastern end of Russia. It is located between the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. With the Kuril Islands, it forms Sakhalin oblast (province).
Soviet nuclear physicist, an outspoken advocate of human rights, civil liberties, and reform in the Soviet Union as well as for rapprochement with noncommunist nations. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Scottish writer and journalist whose stories depict the Edwardian social scene with a flippant wit and power of fantastic invention used both to satirize social pretension, unkindness, and stupidity and to create an atmosphere of horror.
city, north-central Azerbaijan. It is situated on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Range. Saki, one of the oldest cities in Azerbaijan, was a trading centre on the road to Dagestan. In the 18th and 19th centuries it served ...
any of seven species of arboreal South American monkeys having long nonprehensile furred tails. The "true" sakis of the genus Pithecia are approximately 30-50 cm (12-20 inches) long, not including the bushy, tapering tail of 25-55 cm. ...
mechanical device used to raise water from wells or pits. A sakia consists of buckets fastened to a vertical wheel or to a rope belt about the wheel, which is itself attached by a shaft to a horizontal wheel turned ...
outer liturgical vestment worn by bishops of the Eastern Orthodox church. It is a short, close-fitting tunic with half sleeves, buttoned or tied with ribbons on the sides, and usually heavily embroidered. Small bells on the sleeves or sides imitate ...
German medical doctor and research scientist who in 1991, together with German physicist Erwin Neher, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research into basic cell function and for their development of the patch-clamp technique-a laboratory method widely ...
inlet of the Atlantic Ocean extending approximately 14 miles (23 km) north to Mount Hope Bay, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. Although called a river, the Sakonnet is actually a saltwater strait that separates Rhode (Aquidneck) Island from the mainland to ...
early and influential proponent of Westernization in Japan whose slogan Toyo no dotoku, seiyo no geijutsu ("Eastern ethics, Western techniques") became the basis of the Japanese modernization effort in the late 19th century. Sakuma's ideas, especially as they became known ...
northeasternmost island of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 miles (640 km) off the coast of western Africa. It has an area of 83 square miles (216 square km) and rises to an elevation of 1,332 feet (406 ...
city and port, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, at the east end of Lake Saint-Francois (St. Francis), which is a widening of the river. The settlement was built ...
any of a wide variety of dishes that fall into the following principal categories: green salads; vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads. Most salads are traditionally served cold, ...
Muslim sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and the most famous of Muslim heroes. In wars against the Christian Crusaders, he achieved great success with the capture of Jerusalem (Oct. 2, 1187), ending its ...
evaporite deposit that occurs in the region of the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas, U.S., and is a major world source for potassium salts. In the Delaware Basin it reaches a maximum thickness of about 2,400 feet (720 metres).
river in northeastern Buenos Aires province, Argentina. It rises at Lake El Chanar, which lies at an elevation of 130 feet (40 m) above sea level on the border of Santa Fe province. The river flows through the Pampas, generally ...
river in northeastern Mexico. It rises in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila state and flows generally east-northeastward for some 175 miles (280 km) into the lake created by the Venustiano Carranza Dam at Don Martin. Leaving the reservoir, the ...
judet (county), northwestern Romania. The Western Carpathian Mountains of Romania, including the Ses Mountains, rise above settlement areas in the valleys. The county is drained northwestward by the Somes River and its tributaries. Zalau (q.v.) is the county capital. Metal ...
town, southern Oman, on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The town is located in the only part of the Arabian Peninsula touched by the Indian Ocean monsoon and thus is verdant during the summer. Salalah is the historic centre ...
Pakistani nuclear physicist who was the corecipient with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism.
city, central Guatemala. It lies between the Chuacus Mountains and the Minas Mountains on the Salama River, a tributary of the Chixoy, at 3,084 feet (940 m) above sea level. Salama is a commercial and manufacturing centre for its agricultural ...
city, capital of Salamanca provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-Leon, western Spain. The city lies at an elevation of 2,552 feet (778 m) above sea level on the north bank of the Tormes River; it is one ...
provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-Leon, western Spain. Salamanca is bounded by Portugal (west) and the provinces of Zamora and Valladolid (north), Avila (east), and Caceres (south); its northwestern boundary with Portugal is marked by the Duero ...
state institution of higher learning at Salamanca, Spain. It was founded in 1218 under Alfonso IX, but its real beginnings date from 1254, when, under Alfonso X, grandson of the founder, three chairs in canon law and one each in ...
any member of a group of about 400 species of amphibians that have tails and that constitute the order Caudata. The order comprises 10 families, among which are newts and salamanders proper (family Salamandridae) as well as hellbenders, mud puppies, ...
island and town, nomos (department) of Attiki, Greece. The island lies in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, west of the city of Piraeus. The town (the present combined municipality of Salamis-Naustathmos) is a port on the west coast ...
principal city of ancient Cyprus, located on the east coast of the island, north of modern Famagusta. According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by the archer Teucer, who came from the island of Salamis, ...
(480 BC), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus. By 480 the Persian king Xerxes ...
French military officer who sought to prevent Algeria from gaining independence from France. In 1961-62 he led an organization of right-wing extremists, the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete (OAS; Secret Army Organization), in a campaign of terror against the government of ...
the daily ritual prayer enjoined upon all Muslims as one of the five Pillars of Islam (arkan al-Islam). There is disagreement among Islamic scholars as to whether some passages about prayer in the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an, are actually ...
kotamadya (municipality), Jawa Tengah provinsi ("province"), Java, Indonesia. The city lies 35 miles (56 km) north-northeast of Yogyakarta, at the foot of Mount Merbabu. At an elevation of 1,916 feet (584 m), it is a well laid out city ...
city, Bashkortostan, western Russia, on the Belaya (White) River. It was founded in 1948 as a major oil centre of the Volga-Urals oil field, and the city has a large refinery and petrochemical industry. Technical glass and machinery for the ...
city, northern Dominican Republic. It lies in the fertile Cibao Valley between the mountain chains of the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Septentrional. Salcedo serves as a commercial centre for the agricultural hinterland, which yields principally cacao, coffee, and corn ...
