Biography Category
Ivan Asen ( ´vän ä´s n) (KEY) , d. 1241, czar of Bulgaria (1218–41). On the death (1207) of his father, Kaloyan, founder of the second Bulgarian...
( s´tr ) (KEY) , Croatian Istra, mountainous peninsula c.1,500 sq mi (3,900 sq km), in Slovenia and Croatia, projecting into the N Adriatic between ...
( t´ , t ´ ) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Gittite follower of David. He stood by David in Absalom’s revolt. 2 Benjamite, one of David’s mighty men....
( s´n ) (KEY) or Esna ( s´–) (KEY) , town (1986 pop. 43,055), central Egypt, on the Nile River. It is the center for an agricultural area that is...
( ts k ´-sh m´ä) (KEY) , sacred island, 12 sq mi (31 sq km), in the Inland Sea, Japan, SW of Hiroshima. It is the site of an ancient Shinto shrine,...
( smä l´ z) (KEY) , Muslim Shiite sect that holds Ismail, the son of Jafar as-Sadiq, as its imam. On the death of the sixth imam of the Shiites, Jaf...