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San Pablo: city, southwestern Luzon, northern Philippines. Originally the site of a Spanish military and missionary post, it was incorporated in 1940. Seven small crater lakes are within the city, which is almost surrounded by quiescent volcanic cones. The city's industries process ...
San Pedro: main unit of the Port of Los Angeles (the other units are Wilmington and Terminal Island), southern California, U.S. The port is situated on the southeastern slopes of Palos Verdes Peninsula, overlooking Los Angeles Harbor (a section of San Pedro ...
San Pedro: town, central Paraguay. It lies in the lowlands between the Jejui Guazu and Paraguay rivers. San Pedro was founded in 1786 and lies in a well-watered lowland of savanna and forest whose streams drain westward into the Paraguay River. It ...
San Pedro: city, southwestern Coahuila estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. It is located on one of the irrigation canals of the Nazas River, near the swampy Mayran Lagoon. San Pedro lies 3,619 feet (1,103 m) above sea level and is located 35 miles ...
San Pedro de Macoris: city, southeastern Dominican Republic. It is situated at the mouth of the wide estuary of the Macoris River. The chief city of the southeastern region, San Pedro de Macoris has an economy centred on the sugar industry. Its modern port ...
San Pedro Sula: city, northwestern Honduras. It is situated in the Ulua River valley, 37 miles (60 km) inland by highway and railroad from Puerto Cortes, on the Gulf of Honduras. The city, founded in 1536 by the Spanish, has been almost completely ...
San Rafael: city, seat (1893) of Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies on the northwestern shore of San Francisco Bay. The area developed around the Mission San Rafael Arcangel (1817; restored) as a ranch town. Growth was sustained by the arrival ...
San Rafael: city, central Mendoza provincia (province), western Argentina, near the eastern base of the Andes on the Diamante River. It originated around San Rafael Fort, built in 1805 at the frontier then roughly marking the southern limits of ...
San Rafael Mountains: segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), southwestern California, U.S. The range extends southeastward for about 50 miles (80 km) from the Cuyama River to near the Santa Barbara-Ventura county line. Several peaks exceed 6,000 feet (1,800 metres), ...
San Rafael National Park: national park in Aisen region, southern Chile, on the Pacific coast. Established in 1945, it occupies an area of 2,300 sq mi (5,900 sq km). One of its great attractions is Laguna San Rafael (Lake San Rafael), a fjord more ...
San Remo: town, Imperia province, Liguria region, northwestern Italy, the chief resort of that part of the Italian Riviera known as the Riviera dei Fiori, east of Nice, Fr. A year-round health resort since 1861, its repute was greatly increased by the ...
San Remo, Conference of: (April 19-26, 1920), international meeting convened at San Remo, on the Italian Riviera, to decide the future of the former territories of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, one of the defeated Central Powers in World War I; it was attended by ...
San Salvador: capital of El Salvador. It is located on the Ace Chaute River in the Valley of the Hammocks (Valle de las Hamacas) at an elevation of 2,238 feet (682 metres). San Salvador Volcano is 7 miles (11 km) west-northwest. Founded ...
San Salvador: departamento, central El Salvador, extending from near the Pacific coast on the south to the deep Rio Lempa Valley on the north, with an area of 342 sq mi (886 sq km). In the west is the massive San Salvador ...
San Salvador de Jujuy: city, capital of Jujuy provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies between the Xibi-xibi and Grande rivers, overlooking the valley of Jujuy at 4,131 feet (1,259 metres) above sea level. It was founded in 1593 by Francisco de ...
San Salvador Island: one of the islands of The Bahamas in the West Indies. San Salvador is believed by many scholars to be the island of Guanahani, where Christopher Columbus made his first landing in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. (Some ...
San Salvador Island: one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (965 km) west of Ecuador. Its relief is dominated by two volcanoes, the larger rising to 1,700 feet (520 m), that form the mass of the island's ...
San Severo: city and episcopal see, Foggia provincia, Puglia (Apulia) regione, east-central Italy. It lies in the north of the Puglia Tableland, just north of Foggia city. A flourishing market centre in the 12th century, it was owned by a succession of ...
San Simeon: village, San Luis Obispo county, southwestern California, U.S. It lies along the Pacific Ocean overlooking San Simeon Bay. Part of a Mexican land grant of 1840, Rancho Piedras Blancas was purchased by George Hearst, father of publisher William Randolph Hearst, ...
San Stefano, Treaty of: (March 3 [Feb. 19, Old Style], 1878), peace settlement imposed on the Ottoman government by Russia at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78; it provided for a new disposition of the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire that ...
San Vicente: city, south-central El Salvador. It lies along the Accihuapa River at the northeastern foot of San Vicente Volcano (7,155 feet [2,181 m]), in a region of hot springs and geysers. Founded in 1635, on the site of Tehuacan, an ancient ...
San'a': city and capital of Yemen. It is situated at the western foot of Mount Nuqum, at an elevation of more than 7,200 feet (2,200 metres) above sea level, in the western part of the country. San'a' has for many centuries ...
San, Saya: leader of the anti-British rebellion of 1930-32 in Burma (Myanmar).
San-ch'ung: shih (municipality), T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan. It lies west of Taipei city, in the northern part of the western coastal plain. Situated on the western bank of the Tan-shui River, the city developed as a major commercial centre for ...
san-hsien: any of a group of long-necked, fretless Chinese lutes having three strings, a square resonator with snakeskin front and back, and a curved-back pegbox with three lateral, or side, tuning pegs. The instrument, a chordophone usually played with a broad ...
San-lun: school of Chinese Buddhism derived from the Indian Madhyamika school. See Madhyamika.
San-men Gorge: gorge enclosing the Huang Ho (Yellow River) at a site in western Honan sheng (province), China. The gorge is the site of a great dam and hydroelectric installation on which work was begun in the 1950s.
San-ming: city in west-central Fukien sheng (province), China. San-ming lies along the Sha River, a southern tributary of the Min River, the valley of which provides the chief southwest-to-northeast route through central Fukien. Westward and southwestward routes fan out into the ...
San-Pedro: port town, southwestern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It is situated about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Sassandra, on the Gulf of Guinea. Until the mid-1960s, San-Pedro was a tiny fishing village of fewer than 100 inhabitants, but, following the ...
Sana'i: Persian poet, author of the first great mystical poem in the Persian language, whose verse had great influence on Persian and Muslim literature.
Sanaga River: stream in central Cameroon. Its most important headstreams-the Lom and the Djerem-meet to form the Sanaga about 56 miles (90 km) north-northwest of Bertoua. The river then flows about 325 miles (525 km) southwest across the central plateau past Nanga-Eboko, ...
Sanandaj: city, northwestern Iran, at an elevation of 4,990 feet (1,521 m). It was called Sisar, meaning "thirty heads," in the itineraries of Ibn Khurdazib and Qudameh. The population is mostly Kurds and a few Armenians. During the Iran-Iraq War, the ...
Sanatescu, Constantin: Romanian military officer and statesman who was prime minister of Romania's first liberation government following an antifascist coup of Aug. 23, 1944.
Sanatruces: king of Parthia from 76/75 to 70/69 BC, who restored unity to his kingdom.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin: American journalist, biographer, and charity worker.
Sancerre: town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France, on a hilltop overlooking the Loire River, about 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Bourges. It is at the centre of a small but renowned white-wine district; the slopes below the town are ...
Sanches, Francisco: physician and philosopher who espoused a "constructive skepticism" that rejected mathematical truths as unreal and Aristotle's theory of knowledge as false.
Sanchez Coello, Alonso: painter who was one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting. The favourite portrait painter of King Philip II, he introduced into Spanish portraiture a specifically Spanish character that endured until Velazquez came to the court ...
Sanchez Cotan, Juan: painter who is considered one of the pioneers of Baroque realism in Spain. A profoundly religious man, he is best known for his still lifes, which in their visual harmony and illusion of depth convey a feeling of humility and ...
Sanchez, Sonia: American poet, playwright, and educator who was noted for her black activism.
Sanchi: historic site, west-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just west of the Betwa River. On a flat-topped sandstone hill, rising 300 feet (90 m) above the surrounding country, stands the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments in India. Most noteworthy is ...
Sanchi sculpture: early Indian sculpture that embellished the 1st-century-BC gateways of the Buddhist relic mound called the Great Stupa (stupa No. 1) at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, which is one of the most magnificent monuments of its time. The region of Sanchi, however, ...
Sancho I: second king of Portugal (1185-1211), son of Afonso I.
Sancho I: king of the Spanish state of Leon from 956, a younger son of Ramiro II.
Sancho I Garces: king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 905. He expanded his kingdom south of the Ebro River and maintained its independence in spite of the sack of his capital in 924 by the Umayyad caliph 'Abd ar-Rahman III of Cordoba.
Sancho II: king of Castile from 1065 to 1072, the eldest son of Ferdinand I.
Sancho II: fourth king of Portugal, son of Afonso II and of Urraca, who was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Sancho II Garces: king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 970, Count of Aragon, and a son of Garcia I (or II). He was defeated by the Moors in 973 and 981 when allied with Castile and Leon. He then submitted to the caliphate, one ...
Sancho III: king of Castile from 1157 to 1158, the elder son of the Spanish emperor Alfonso VII.
Sancho III Garces: king of Pamplona (Navarre) from about 1000 to 1035, the son of Garcia II (or III).
Sancho IV: king of Castile and Leon from 1284 to 1295, second son of Alfonso X. Though ambitious and ruthless, he was also an able politician and a cultivated man.