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City (pop., 1997 est.: 420,000), central Colombia. It is located on the E slopes of the Andean Cordillera Central. Founded in 1550 on the site of an Indian village, it was moved to its present location because of Indian attacks. It was the republic's capital briefly in 1854. Its location on a road linking the cities of Armenia and Bogotá has made it a busy commercial center. It is the seat of Tolima Univ.


abacus
Calculating instrument that uses beads that slide along a series of wires or rods set in a frame to represent the decimal places. Probably of Babylonian origin, it is the ancestor of the modern digital calculator. Used by merchants in the Middle Ages throughout Europe and the Arabic world, it was gradually replaced by arithmetic based on Hindu-Arabic numerals. Though rarely used in Europe past the 18th cent., it is still used in the Middle East, China, and Japan.


Baku
City (pop., 1995 est.: 1,740,000), capital of Azerbaijan. Located on the W shore of the Caspian Sea at the sea's best harbor, Baku has long been inhabited. By the 11th cent. AD, it was in the possession of the Shirvan shahs, who made it their capital in the 12th cent. In 1723 Peter the Great took Baku, but returned it to Persia in 1735; Russia captured the town finally in 1806. It was the capital of the Bolshevik government in 1917, and became the capital of the new Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in 1920. The basis of Baku's economy is petroleum.


Bangui
City (pop., 1994: 524,000), capital of the Central African Republic. A major port on the Ubangi River, it is connected by an extended 1,100-mi (1,800-km) river and rail transport system with the Congolese cities of Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville. Chiefly a commercial and administrative center, Bangui is also the site of a university and research institutes.


Batu
Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Golden Horde. In 1235 Batu was elected commander in chief of the W part of the Mongol empire and given responsibility for the invasion of Europe. His troops burned and sacked Kiev in 1240, and by the end of 1241 he had conquered Russia, Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Danube valley. Only the death of Ö gö dei prevented him from invading Western Europe. Batu established the state of the Golden Horde in S Russia, which was ruled by his successors for the next 200 years.


Ibadan
City (pop., 1996 est.: 1,432,000), SW Nigeria. Situated northeast of Lagos, it is the nation's second largest city. The modern city grew from a camp set up by the armies of the Ife, Ijebu, and Oyo peoples in 1829; it was taken by the British in 1893. An important commercial center, it contains six parks, incl. Agodi Garden. It is the seat of the Univ. of Ibadan.


Imagism
Movement in U.S. and English poetry characterized by the use of concrete language and figures of speech, modern subject matter, metrical freedom, and ...

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