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Saint-Malo: seaport, Ille-et-Vilaine departement, Brittany region, northwestern France. It is situated on the English Channel and on the right bank of the estuary of the Rance River. The old walled city stands on a granite ...
Saint-Malo, Gulf of: gulf of the English Channel indenting the north coast of Brittany, France. The Gulf of Saint-Malo extends from the island of Brehat (west) to the peninsula of Cotentin of Normandy (east). It is 60 miles (100 km) wide from east ...
Saint-Maur-des-Fosses: town, Val-de-Marne departement, Paris region, France. The town is a residential southeastern suburb of Paris lying on a loop of the Marne River. The locality received its name from the abbey founded there in the 7th century by Benedictine monks ...
Saint-Maurice River: river in Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is a major tributary of the St. Lawrence River. From its sources in the mountains of south-central Quebec, the river flows to Gouin Reservoir, draining that 500-square-mile (1,300-square-kilometre) body of water ...
Saint-Mihiel: town, Meuse departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France. It lies on the right bank of the Meuse River, 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Verdun. The town grew around a Benedictine abbey, founded in 709. The abbey buildings (17th- and 18th-century) ...
Saint-Nazaire: town and seaport, Loire-Atlantique departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France. It lies on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Nantes. Saint-Nazaire is thought to ...
Saint-Omer: town, Pas-de-Calais departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northeastern France. It lies along the canalized Aa River and is 22 miles (36 km) southwest of the Belgian frontier. The town grew around a monastery and a chapel, ...
Saint-Ouen: city, Seine-Saint-Denis departement, Paris region, a northern industrial suburb of Paris, France. It is bounded to the northwest by the Seine River, along the banks of which are vast docks. Saint-Ouen contains in its ...
Saint-Pierre: town and small port on the Caribbean island of Martinique, French West Indies. Founded in 1635 by French settlers, it was the island's commercial centre until May 8, 1902, when Mount Pelee erupted, killing all but one inhabitant, a prisoner ...
Saint-Pierre: port town on the eastern shore of Saint-Pierre island and capital of the French collectivite of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Settled by European fishermen in the 17th century, the town grew in the 19th century as a service and supply centre ...
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: archipelago about 15 miles (25 km) off the southern coast of the island of Newfoundland, Canada, a collectivite of France since 1985. The area of the main islands is 93 square miles (242 square km), 83 square miles (215 square ...
Saint-Pierre, Charles-Irenee Castel, abbe de: influential French publicist and reformist, one of the first modern European writers to propose an international organization for maintaining peace.
Saint-Porchaire faience: lead-glazed earthenware (inaccurately called faience, or tin-glazed ware) made in the second quarter of the 16th century at Saint-Porchaire in the departement of Deux-Sevres, France. Its uniqueness consisted in its method of decoration, which took the form of impressions stamped ...
Saint-Quentin: city, Aisne departement, Picardie region, northeastern France. The city is situated on the slopes of a hill on the right bank of the Somme River at its junction with the Canal de Saint-Quentin.
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: new town (French ville nouvelle), located in the departement of Yvelines and situated approximately 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Paris. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines was established in 1972 and is one of several new towns developed outside Paris since 1965. The new ...
Saint-Saens, Camille: composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems-the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman-and for his opera Samson et Dalila. Saint-Saens was notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music, and he ...
Saint-Simon, Henri de: French social theorist and one of the chief founders of Christian socialism. In his major work, Nouveau Christianisme (1825), he proclaimed a brotherhood of man that must accompany the scientific organization of industry and society.
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duke de: soldier and writer, known as one of the great memoirists of France. His Memoires are an important historic document of his time.
Sainte Genevieve: city, seat (1812) of Sainte Genevieve county, eastern Missouri, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River, opposite Kellogg, Ill., approximately 60 miles (100 km) south of St. Louis. The first permanent European settlement in Missouri, it was founded by French ...
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre: town, Quebec region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies along the St. Lawrence River near the mouth of the Sainte-Anne. Settled about 1650, the town, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of the city of Quebec, has been a noted ...
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin: French literary historian and critic, noted for applying historical frames of reference to contemporary writing. His studies of French literature from the Renaissance to the 19th century constitute a great compendium of detailed information.
Sainte-Claire Deville, Henri-Etienne: French chemical researcher who invented the first economical process for producing aluminum.
Sainte-Foy: city, Quebec region, southern Quebec province, Canada. Although chiefly a residential suburb of Quebec city, Sainte-Foy has some zoned industrial development in Colbert and Jean Talon parks. Originally named after a village in France, the settlement was called Notre-Dame-de-Foy after ...
Sainte-Therese: city, Laurentides region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies along the Montreal-Laurentian Autoroute. The parish of Sainte-Therese, dating from 1789, and the community were named for Therese de Blainville, daughter of the seignior who made the first land grants for ...
Saintes: town, Charente-Maritime departement, Poitou-Charentes region, western France. It lies along the Charente River, 47 miles (76 km) southeast of La Rochelle. Saintes was the administrative centre of the Charente Inferieure departement (now Charente-Maritime) from 1791 until La Rochelle supplanted it ...
Saintes, Battle of the: (April 12, 1782), in the American Revolution, major British naval victory in the West Indies, ending the French threat to British possessions in that area. Setting out from Martinique on April 8, a French fleet of 35 warships and 150 ...
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer: village of the Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region, southern France. The village lies along the Mediterranean coast. Its name originates in the ancient Provencal tradition that the early Christian figures Mary, sister of the Virgin, and Mary, mother of St. ...
Saintonge: former province of western France, covering most of the present departement of Charente-Maritime. Its chief city was Saintes. Saintonge was originally the territory inhabited by the Santones, a Gallic tribe. Through the Middle Ages, Saintonge shared the political fortunes of ...
saints, communion of: in Christian theology, the fellowship of those united to Jesus Christ in Baptism; the phrase is first found in the 5th-century version of the Apostles' Creed by Nicetas of Remesiana. The original Greek phrase has been translated both as a ...
Saintsbury, George: the most influential English literary historian and critic of the early 20th century. His lively style and wide knowledge helped make his works both popular and authoritative.
Saionji Kimmochi: the longest-surviving member of the oligarchy that governed Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868), which had overthrown the ruling Tokugawa family and formally reestablished the authority of the emperor. As prime minister and elder statesman (genro), he attempted to moderate ...
Saipan: island, part of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. Saipan served as headquarters of the U.S.-administered United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1962 to 1986. The island is hilly (rising ...
Sais: ancient Egyptian city (Sai) in the Nile River delta on the Canopic (Rosetta) Branch of the Nile River, in Al-Gharbiyah muhafazah (governorate). From prehistoric times Sais was the location of the chief shrine of Neith, the goddess ...
Saisset, Bernard: first bishop of Pamiers (in present-day Ariege departement, southern France), an aggressive and outspoken prelate whose activities exacerbated the disputes between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV the Fair of France.
Saisunaga Dynasty: ancient ruling family in the Indian kingdom of Magadha. The Saisunaga line of kings followed the reigns of Bimbasara and Ajatasatru (both contemporaries of the Buddha). The line is generally placed immediately before the Nandas and is dated roughly from ...
Saitama: ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. The eastern portion of the prefecture lies on the Kanto Plain, north of Tokyo metropolis. The land rises toward the west, culminating in the peaks of the Kanto Range along Saitama's western ...
Saitama: capital of Saitama ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. Situated in the southeastern part of the prefecture, the city was created in 2001 through the merger of the former cities of Urawa, Yono, and Omiya. It lies near ...
Saito Makoto, Shishaku: (Viscount) Japanese naval officer and statesman who was prime minister of Japan (1932-34) and twice governor-general of Korea (1919-27, 1929-31).
Saiva-siddhanta: a religio-philosophical system of South India in which Siva is worshiped as the supreme deity. The Saiva-siddhanta system is realistic and dualistic, in contrast to Kashmir Saivism (q.v.), which is idealistic and monistic. The principal literature of the Saiva-siddhantas are ...
Saivism: cult of the Indian god Siva, with Vaisnavism and Saktism, one of the three principal forms of modern Hinduism. Saivism includes such diverse movements as the highly philosophic Saiva-siddhanta, the socially distinctive Lingayat, ascetic orders such as the dasnami sannyasins, ...
saivo: one of the Sami regions of the dead, where the deceased, called saivoolmak, lead happy lives in the saivo world with their families and ancestors; they build tents, hunt, fish, and in every way act as they did on earth. ...
Saka language: Middle Iranian language spoken in Sinkiang, in northwestern China, by the Saka tribes. Two dialectal varieties are distinguished. Khotanese, from the kingdom of Khotan, is richly attested by Buddhist and other texts dating from the 7th to the 10th century. ...
Saka Satrap: either of two dynasties of satraps in northwestern India who ruled with considerable independence on behalf of the Pahlava suzerains. The two families are both known to Indian literature as the Sakas (from the native word for Scythians) and to ...
Sakai: city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay. Many large earthen tomb mounds in the area attest to the city's antiquity. The mausoleum of the emperor Nintoku-1,594 feet (486 m) long and 115 feet (35 m) high-is the ...
Sakai: (pejorative), any of various pagan peoples of the Malay Peninsula, especially the Senoi and Jakun (qq.v.). The term is in the Malay language.
Sakai Hoitsu: Japanese painter and poet of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867).
Sakai Toshihiko: socialist leader and one of the founders of the Japan Communist Party.
Sakaida Family: celebrated family of Japanese potters whose founder, Sakaida Kizaemon (1596-1666), was awarded the name Kakiemon in recognition of his capturing the delicate red colour and texture of the persimmon (kaki) in porcelain. See Kakiemon ware.
Sakaide: city, Kagawa ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan, facing the Inland Sea. The city has been a centre of salt manufacture since the early 17th century. Part of the salt fields were reclaimed for industrial use after World War II, and Sakaide ...
Sakakah: oasis, northwestern Saudi Arabia. It lies on an old caravan route from the Mediterranean Sea coast to the central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Sakakah lies north of the desert an-Nafud and northeast of al-Jawf oasis. The government ...
sakaki: low-spreading, flowering evergreen tree (Cleyera japonica, or ochnacea) used in Shinto to demarcate or decorate sacred spaces. The tree, which grows in warm areas of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China, may reach a height of about 10 m (30 ...