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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.


Andalusia
Autonomous community (pop., 1996 est.: 7,235,000) and historic region, S Spain. It occupies an area of 33,694 sq mi (87,267 sq km); the capital is Seville. It is traversed by mountain ranges, incl. the Sierra Morena and Sierra Nevada; its main river is the Guadalquivir. It has a long history of inhabitation: by the Phoenicians (at what is now C\u00e1 diz, c.1100 BC), the Carthaginians (480 BC), and the Romans. The Arabic name Al-Andalus was originally applied by the Moors to the whole Iberian Peninsula. When the Umayyad dynasty established its court at C\u00f3 rdoba, this area became the peninsula's intellectual and political center. It returned to Spanish rule in 1492, and remained a province until divided in 1833 into the eight modern provinces. A mining and agricultural region, its beaches along the Costa del Sol attract a growing tourist trade.

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