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Tigray: historical region, northern Ethiopia. Its western part rises in high-plateau country where elevations generally range between 5,000 and 11,000 feet (1,500 and 3,300 metres). The region is drained by the Tekeze and Gash (Mareb) rivers. To the east lies the ...
Tigray: people of central Eritrea and of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The Tigray speak Tigrinya, a Semitic language related to Ge'ez and to Tigre, the language of a separate people (the Tigre) inhabiting northwestern Eritrea.
Tigre: cabecera (county seat) and partido (county), on the outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires province, on the Rio de la Plata estuary. An early settlement of the partido ...
Tigre: people inhabiting northwestern Eritrea and limited areas of neighbouring Sudan. The Tigre speak Tigre, a Semitic language related to ancient Ge'ez and to modern Tigrinya, the language of the Tigray people.
Tigre language: Semitic language of the Tigre people of northwestern Eritrea and smaller areas of neighbouring Sudan. It is closely related to the ancient Ge'ez language and modern Tigrinya. A few religious texts prepared by mission societies are the only documents in ...
Tigrinya language: Semitic language of the Tigray people of northern Ethiopia and central Eritrea. Written records include religious texts prepared by mission societies and an increasing number of more recently printed textbooks and literary works. The language is closely related to Ge'ez, ...
Tigris-Euphrates river system: great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and Iraq to the head of the ...
Tihamat 'Asir: coastal plain of the Asir region, southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is the central southern section of the great Tihamah (coastal plain), running down the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is situated between the mountains of western Saudi Arabia ...
Tihamit al-Yaman: coastal plain in western Yemen, fronting the Red Sea. A 260-mile (420-kilometre) southern extension of the Arabian Tihamah (coastal plain), it consists of a strip of arid coastal land stretching between Maydi, on the northern border with Saudi Arabia, and ...
Tijaniyah: an especially proselytizing order of Islamic mystics (Sufis) widespread in northern and western Africa and the Sudan. Founded by Ahmad At-Tijani (1737-1815), formerly of the Khalwati order, about 1781 in Fez, Mor., it places great emphasis on good intentions and ...
Tijuana: city, northwestern Baja California Norte estado ("state"), northwestern Mexico. The city lies along the Tecate River near the Pacific Ocean and is 12 miles (19 km) south of San Diego, Calif., U.S. It originated as a ranch settlement on part ...
Tikal: city and ceremonial centre of the ancient Maya civilization. The largest urban centre in the southern Maya lowlands, it stood 19 miles (30 km) north of Lake Peten Itza in what is now the northern part of the region of ...
Tikhomirov, Vasily Dmitrievich: ballet dancer and influential teacher who helped develop the vigorous style and technical virtuosity of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. He trained such dancers as Mikhail Mordkin, Alexandre Volinine, and Yekaterina Geltzer, his first wife and frequent dance partner.
Tikhon, Saint: patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. At first sharply resisting the new Soviet state's antiecclesiastical legislation, he refused to cooperate with a schismatic, state-supported, and politically oriented element of the clergy known as the ...
Tikhonov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich: premier of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1985, a staunch Communist Party member closely associated with the former Soviet president and Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev.
Tikhonov, Nikolay Semyonovich: Soviet poet and prose writer, notable for his heroic war ballads and for his originality and poetic experimentation.
Tikhoretsk: city and administrative centre of Tikhoretsk rayon (sector), Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia. It is a railway junction and grain centre with flour mills and locomotive repair shops. An oil pipeline was opened in 1969 from the northern Caucasus to ...
Tiko: town and port, southwestern Cameroon. It is situated along the Bimbia River at the Gulf of Guinea, 12 miles (19 km) east of Limbe (formerly Victoria). The port's activity has declined in the face of increasing competition from Douala and ...
Tikrit: town, capital of Salah al-Din muhafazah (governorate), north-central Iraq. It lies on the west bank of the Tigris River about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Baghdad. In the 10th century Tikrit had a noted fortress and ...
Tiktaalik roseae: taxonomic name given to an aquatic, fishlike animal that lived about 380-385 million years ago (during the earliest late Devonian Period) and was a very close relative of the direct ancestors of tetrapods (four-legged land vertebrates). The genus name,
tilak: ("mark"), in Hinduism, a mark generally made on the forehead, indicating a man's sectarian affiliation. The marks are made by hand or with a metal stamp, using ash from a sacrificial fire, sandalwood paste, turmeric, cow dung, clay, charcoal, or ...
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar: scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and militant nationalist who helped lay the foundation for India's independence. He founded (1914) and served as president of the Indian Home Rule League and, in 1916, concluded the Lucknow Pact with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, which provided ...
Tilapia: genus of fishes belonging to the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes), represented by numerous, mostly freshwater species native to Africa. Tilapia species are perhaps best known because of their potential as an easily raised and harvested food fish. Their commercial advantages ...
Tilburg: gemeente (commune), Noord-Brabant provincie, southern Netherlands, on the Wilhelmina Canal. A small village until 1860, it grew rapidly into one of the chief industrial centres of the south; woolen textiles are of prime importance. The town hall is the former ...
Tilbury: port in Thurrock unitary authority, historic county of Essex, England. It lies along the north bank of the River Thames, opposite Gravesend, 26 miles (42 km) downstream of London Bridge. It is famous for its docks; constructed in1884-86, they have ...
Tilden, Bill: American tennis player who dominated the game for more than a decade, winning seven U.S. championships, three Wimbledons, and two professional titles. His overpowering play and temperamental personality made him one of the most colourful sports figures of the 1920s.
Tilden, Samuel J: lawyer, governor of New York, and Democratic presidential candidate in the disputed election of 1876.
Tilden-Hayes affair: disputed U.S. presidential election of 1876, resolved by a special Electoral Commission (q.v.).
Tildy, Zoltan: non-Communist statesman who was president of Hungary for a short time after World War II and a member of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolutionary government.
tile: thin, flat slab or block used structurally or decoratively in building. Traditionally, tiles have been made of glazed or unglazed fired clay, but modern tiles are also made of plastic, glass, asphalt, or asbestos cement. Acoustical tiles are manufactured from ...
tilefish: any of two dozen species of elongated marine fishes in the family Branchiostegidae (order Perciformes), with representatives occurring in tropical and warm temperate seas. The family Malacanthidae is used synonymously for Branchiostegidae by some taxonomists.
Tiliaceae: linden or basswood family, consisting of about 35 genera of mostly shrubs and trees, widely distributed. The following genera are notable for ornamental species: Tilia, including the linden (q.v.) trees; Sparmannia, including the indoor linden, or African hemp, a shrubby ...
till: in geology, unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice and showing no stratification. Till is sometimes called boulder clay because it is composed of clay, boulders of intermediate sizes, or a mixture of these. The rock fragments are usually angular ...
till-less agriculture: cultivation technique in which the soil is disturbed only along the slit or in the hole into which the seeds are planted; reserved detritus from previous crops covers and protects the seedbed. The practice is one of several primitive farming ...
tillage: in agriculture, the preparation of soil for planting and the cultivation of soil after planting. See cultivator; harrow; plow.
Tillamook: city, seat (1873) of Tillamook county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Trask River, at the head of Tillamook Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1851, the settlement was known successively as Lincoln and Hoquarton before being named ...
Tillandsia: the most widely distributed genus of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae), containing about 500 species of tropical American plants. They are mainly perennial herbs that are epiphytic (supported by other plants and having aerial roots exposed to the humid atmosphere).
Tillemont, Sebastien Le Nain de: French ecclesiastical historian who was one of the earliest scholars to provide a rigorous appraisal of preceding historical writing. His works were objective and among the first of modern historical works to include a critical discussion of the principal sources ...
Tiller, Terence: English playwright, translator, and poet whose best verse is noted for its highly wrought form and intense emotional content.
Tillett, Benjamin: English trade union leader who directed successful dock strikes in 1889 and 1911. Tillett was also an alderman of the London County Council (1892-98) and a Labour member of Parliament (for North Salford, Lancashire, in 1917-24 and in 1929-31).
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard: Canadian politician, an early advocate of the confederation of British North America. He introduced the National Policy, a program of trade protection that became the basis of Canadian fiscal policy.
Tilley, Vesta: original name Matilda Alice Powles, married name Lady De Frece English singing comedienne who was the outstanding male impersonator in music-hall history.
Tillich, Paul: German-born U.S. theologian and philosopher whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture. Some of his books, notably The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), reached a ...
tillite: sedimentary rock that consists of consolidated masses of unweathered blocks (large, angular, detached rock bodies) and glacial till (unsorted and unstratified rock material deposited by glacial ice) in a rock flour (matrix or paste of unweathered rock). The matrix, which ...
Tillman, Benjamin R: outspoken U.S. populist politician who championed agrarian reform and white supremacy. Tillman served as governor of South Carolina (1890-94) and was a member of the U.S. Senate (1895-1918).
Tilly, Johann Tserclaes, Graf von: (count of) outstanding Bavarian general who was the principal commander of the Catholic League in Germany during the Thirty Years' War.
Tilsit, Treaties of: (July 7 [June 25, Old Style] and July 9 [June 27], 1807), agreements that France signed with Russia and with Prussia (respectively) at Tilsit, northern Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia), after Napoleon's victories over the Prussians at Jena and at Auerstadt ...
tilt-top table: table, the top of which is hinged to a central pedestal in such a way that it can be turned from a horizontal to a vertical position and, thereby, when not in use, take up less space. Originally the idea ...
Timaeus: Greek historian whose writings shaped the tradition of western Mediterranean history.
Timan Ridge: ridge of high land situated in northeastern European Russia, oriented in a roughly north-south direction and stretching for about 470 miles (750 km) from the Barents Sea to the source of the Vychegda River. The ridge was formed by an ...
timar: in the Ottoman Empire, grant of lands or revenues by the sultan to an individual in compensation for his services, essentially similar to the iqta' of the Islamic empire of the Caliphate. See also spahi.