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Denikin
Russian general. A professional in the imperial Russian army, he was a lieutenant-general in World War I. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he and L. Kornilov were arrested for conspiring to overthrow the provisional government. They fled south to the Don River region and assumed command of the anti-Bolshevik ("White") forces in the Russian Civil War. In 1919 Denikin launched a major offensive toward Moscow, but his forces were defeated by the Red Army at Orel. Forced to retreat, he turned over his command to P. Wrangel (1920), then fled Russia and later settled in France (1925-45).


Ifni
Region, SW Morocco. Located on the Atlantic Coast, it has an area of 580 sq mi (1500 sq km). It was first settled in 1476 by Diego Garcí a de Herrera, lord of the Canaries, as a Spanish fishing, slaving, and trading locality. Abandoned in 1524 because of disease and Moorish hostility, it was reclaimed following a Spanish-Moroccan treaty in 1860. Effective Spanish reoccupation began in 1934, and it became part of Spanish W. Africa in 1946. Ifni was ceded to Morocco in 1969.


ink
Fluid or paste of various colors (usually black or dark blue) used for writing and printing, composed of a pigment or dye in a liquid "vehicle." Early inks used lampblack (a form of carbon) or colored juices, extracts, or suspensions. Modern writing inks usually contain ferrous sulfate (see iron) with a small amount of an acid; on paper, they darken and bond, becoming permanent. Colored and washable inks usually contain soluble synthetic dyes. Printing inks, with a base of quick-drying solvent, are formulated for various requirements (incl. color, opacity, fade resistance, pliability, and odorlessness) for uses in offset, letterpress, screen, ink-jet, laser, and other printing.


Ionia
Ancient region, W coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Aegean Sea. It consisted of a coastal strip that extended from the mouth of the Hermus River to the Halicarnassus Peninsula, a distance of 100 mi (160 km). In the 8th cent. BC there were 12 major Greek cities in the region, incl. Phocaea, Erythrae, Colophon, and Miletus on the mainland, and the islands Chios and Samos. It was very prosperous, and until 500 BC Ionic philosophy and architecture and the Ionic dialect were highly influential in Greece. In the mid-6th cent. BC, it fell to Lydia and then to the Persians. After a brief period of independence beginning 334 BC, it became part of the Seleucid kingdom. In 133 BC it passed to the Romans and became part of the Roman province of Asia. It was devastated during the Turkish conquest of Asia Minor.


Ionians
Ancient Greek inhabitants of Ionia, from the collapse of Mycenaean civilization. Ionian cities colonized S Italy and opened up the Black Sea from c.700 BC. Their contributions to Greek culture included the epics of Homer and the earliest elegiac and iambic poetry. They began the study ...

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