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Čachtice Castle The Čachtice Castle (IPA: ) (Slovak: Čachtický hrad, Hungarian: Csejte vára) is a castle ruin in Slovakia next to the village of Čachtice. It stands on a hill featuring rare plants, and has been declared a national nature reserve for this reason.
Čakovečka televizija Čakovečka televizija, abbreviated ČK TV, is a local commercial television station based in north Croatian town of Čakovec. The station can be seen in Međimurje county and some parts of Varaždin county and Koprivnica-Križevci county.
Čakovec Čakovec [] (Hungarian: Csáktornya, German: Csakathurn or Tschakathurn) is a city located in northern part of Croatia and the second northernmost city of the country. Being located in the central part of the Međimurje County as well as being the largest of its three cities, Čakovec is also the county seat of this northernmost and smallest Croatian county, which is located between the rivers Mura and Drava and well known for its vineyards, agriculture and hunting grounds as well as for being the second most densely populated subnational entity in Croatia as of 2001 census.
Čantavir Čantavir (Serbian: Čantavir or Чантавир, Hungarian: Csantavér) is the largest village with Hungarian ethnic majority in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the municipality of Subotica, North Bačka District.
Čardak, Sremska Kamenica Čardak (Cyrillic: Чардак) is a neighborhood of Sremska Kamenica, Serbia. This neighborhood is located on a hill, with an elevation of 190 m, overlooking Donja Kamenica to the north, Alibegovac to the east and Paragovo and Staroiriški Put to the west.
ÄŚataj ÄŚataj is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava region. This typical agricultural village has less than 1000 inhabitants and is located aside from major roads, roughly between Senec and Trnava.
ÄŚavoglave ÄŚavoglave (English transliteration: Tshavoglave) is a village in Dalmatia, Croatia. The place is widely known by Croats (by name only, it is not a tourist attraction) as a result of the hit 1991 song Bojna - ÄŚavoglave, by Thompson.
Čeladenka Čeladenka is a small river in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, with the source in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, flowing through the village of Čeladná and entering the Ostravice at Frýdlant nad Ostravicí.
Čeněk of Wartenberg Čeněk of Wartenberg (German: Vinzenz von Wartenberg) was a commander of the Royalist Bohemian forces at the start of the Hussite Wars. Up until spring 1420 he was a commander of the Utraquist League, a moderate fraction of the Hussite movement.
Český les Český les is a forest in the Czech Republic, west of the region of Plzeň (Plzeňsky Kraj) and adjascent to Germany. It is a mountainous solid mass, its' highest point being Čerchov with an altitude of 1042m.
České Budějovice České Budějovice (; short form: Budějovice; German: Budweis [also used in English]) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of catholic Diocese of České Budějovice.
Česko hledá SuperStar Česko hledá SuperStar is the Czech version of Idol series (the title literally means Czechia seeks the SuperStar which is based on the German Deutschland sucht den SuperStar rather than the original Pop Idol; it was decided that the word idol would sound suspicious to prospective viewers. The title was than taken over for the Slovak Slovensko hľadá SuperStar).
Československá obchodní banka Československá obchodní banka (ČSOB) is a commercial bank operates on two national markets, Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is the largest bank domiciled in the Czech Republic and in Central Europe, measured by the value of assets.
Čik The Čik or Čiker (Serbian Cyrillic: Чик or Чикер; Hungarian: Csík-ér, Croatian: Čik or Čiker) is a river in northern Serbia. A 95 km-long right tributary to the Tisa river, it flows entirely within the Bačka region of Vojvodina province.
Čimelice Čimelice is a bigger village on the north of Písek District, on the way which connecting South Bohemia with Prague and which is widely known as "D4" or "Strakonická" (named after Strakonice).
Čoka Čoka (Serbian: Čoka or Чока, Hungarian: Csóka) is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 4,720, while Čoka municipality has 13,835 inhabitants.
ÄŚSA Flight OK-NAB ÄŚSA Flight OK-NAB was an Ilyushin Il-18V 4 engine turboprop, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Prague's RuzynÄ› airport to Bratislava's Ivanka airport, both in Czechoslovakia, which crashed while attempting to land at Bratislava on July 28, 1976. All 6 crew members as well as 71 passengers perished.
Čukarica Čukarica (Serbian Cyrillic: Чукарица) is an urban neighborhood and one of the 17 municipalities than constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Čukarica is one of 10 urban municipalities, but itself has a both urban and suburban sections.
Äž Äž, or Äź, is a letter, known as g-breve in English, used in the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Berber, Crimean Tatar and Tatar languages. The unicode code point is U+011E for the capital letter and U+011F for the small letter.
Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev Älmöxämmädev Ğäziz Salix ulı ([] aka Ğäziz ÄlmöxämmädevEnglish spelling: gah-ZEEZ al-mer-ham-MAT-off; Tatar Cyrillic: Әлмөхәммәдев Газиз Салих улы; ; 1895-1938) was a Tatar opera singer (tenor) and composer. People's Singer (1929).
ÄŽumbier ÄŽumbier (2,043 m) is the highest mountain in the Low Tatra range, in central Slovakia. Despite the remains of medieval mines (gold, iron, antimony), the massif is now protected as a part of the Low Tatra National Park.
Ă Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian language and Vietnamese language orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound.
Ľubomír Michalík Ľubomír Michalík born August 13, 1983 is a Slovak footballer currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the FA Premier League. The 23 year old centre half signed for Bolton in January 2007 from FC Senec of Slovakia on a three and a half year contract for an undisclosed transfer fee.
Ľudovít Fulla Ľudovít Fulla (February 27, 1902, Ružomberok – April 21, 1980, Bratislava) was a Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher. He is considered one of the most important figures of Slovakian Creative Art in the 20th century.
Ľudovít Štúr Ľudovít Štúr, known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr, (October 29, 1815 - January 12 1856) was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language, an organizer of the Slovak volunteer campaigns during the 1848 Revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary, a member of the diet of the Kingdom of Hungary, politician, Slovak poet, journalist, publisher, teacher, philosopher and linguist.
Ć Ć is the fifth letter of the Bosnian, Croatian and Polish alphabets, with the same position in the Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian versions of Latinic. It is formed by addition of an acute accent to the standard C letter used in most alphabets based on Latin script.
Ćafa San Ćafa San (Macedonian language: Ќафа Сан) is a small municipality and village situated along the north of Lake Ohrid. It is close to the lakeside town of Struga and it forms the Macedonian side of the northern lake border crossing with Albania, the southern crossing being situated at St.
Ćevapčići Ćevapčići (in Croatia and Serbia) or Ćevapi (in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia) or Ќебапи (in Macedonia) or Кебапи (in Bulgaria) is the name of a popular dish in the Balkans. They are small grilled rolls of minced meat (in Bosnia of beef and lamb; or pork and beef in Serbia and Macedonia).
Ćunski Ćunski is a small village in the central part of the island of Lošinj, Croatia. It is sheltered from the bora (adriatic northern wind) and is located on the southern slope of a hill with a view of the western shores of the Kvarner bay.
Ħamrun Ħamrun (or Il-Ħamrun) is a town in the Inner Harbour Region of Malta, with a population of 9,513 people (Nov 2005). The villagers are traditionally known as Tas-Sikkina literally meaning "of the knife".
Ĵ Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to (voiced postalveolar fricative) or (voiced retroflex fricative) in the IPA.
İğneada İğneada is a small town within the district of Demirköy in Turkey's Kirklareli Province. It lies on the Black Sea Coast and is approximately 5 km south of the Rezovo River which forms the border with Bulgaria.
İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (* 1703; ǂ 1780), Turkish and Sufi philosopherBayman, Henry (2001) The Station of No Station: Open Secrets of the Sufis North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA; and encyclopedist. In 1756 he published his work Marifetname (Book of Gnosis) which was a complilation and commentary on astronomy, mathematics, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and Islamic mysticism.
İbrahim Tatlıses İbrahim Tatlıses (was born 1952), affectionately known as Ibo) is a Turkish singer. In addition to hosting his own television program, The Ibo Show, on different private television stations and appearing in several dozen films, Tatlises has been one of Turkey's most prolific recording artists.
Ä°hsan Emre Vural Emre Vural, born in Ankara, Turkey in 1984, is a Turkish national rower. He started his rowing career at the beginning of his high-school years in Istanbul and competed in the lightweight coxless pair category.
Ä°lhan Berk Ä°lhan Berk (18 November 1918, Manisa) is a contemporary Turkish poet. Ä°lhan Berk was a dominant figure in the Postmodern Generation (postmodern artists are given the name "ikinci yeni" in Turkish which means "The second new generation".
İlker Başbuğ General İlker Başbuğ (born 1943) is the current Commander of the Turkish Army since August 30, 2006. In this post he succeeds Mehmet Yaşar Büyükanıt, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces, whom he is the next in line to succeed as well, in 2008, per Turkish military tradition.
Ä°mamoÄźlu Ä°mamoÄźlu is a district of Adana Province of Turkey, a small agricultural community on a small plain in the hills between the cities of Adana and Kozan, 45 km from Adana, 27 km from Kozan. Population in 2000 was 30,300 spread throughout the town and 18 villages.
İmralı İmralı is a small Turkish island located in the south of Sea of Marmara, west of Armutlu-Bozburun peninsula within the Bursa Province. It serves currently as a maximum-security prison island for its only inmate Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of PKK.
Ä°nce Memed tetralogy The Ä°nce Memed tetralogy is a series of four epic novels written by the Turkish novelist YaĹźar Kemal. The novels follow the life and career of Memed, the only son of a poor widow who escapes from his village in the Anatolian highlands and transforms himself into a legendary, Robin Hood-like figure, championing the landless peasants of Anatolia in their struggle against their corrupt and greedy landowners.
Ä°ncirlik Ä°ncirlik (pronounced Injurlik, literally meaning "place of fig orchard") is a town with 15,000 population, in south-eastern Turkey's Adana Province - located approximately 10 km from the city of Adana (population 1.5 million).
İncirliova İncirliova is a district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its name means, literally, "the valley of figs", in reference to the fruit (ficus carica, formerly called Smyrna figs) in whose production the whole region of Aydın excels.
İQTElif İQTElif (in ASCII: IQTElif) stands for İdíl-Ural-Qırım Tatar Elifbası (where elifba is the Tatar word for alphabet). It is the phonetically-and-pragmatically-optimal Latin-based alphabet for Idíl-Ural (Qazan) Tatar, that ensures similar orthography with Crimean Tatar, and other kindred languages.
İsabey Mosque İsabey Mosque () is one of the oldest and most impressive works of architectural art remaining from the Anatolian beyliks. The mosque is situated between the Saint Jean Church and the remains of the Temple of Artemis on the skirts of the Ayasulig Hills at Selçuk, İzmir, formerly Ephesus in Turkey.
İsdemir İsdemir is a Turkish steel producer located in İskenderun, Hatay Province at Mediterranean coast. The name is a contraction of the Turkish language İskenderun Demir ve Çelik Fabrikaları, which means "İskenderun Iron and Steel Works".
İsgandar Hamidov İsgəndər Məcid oğlu Həmidov Daxili İşlər Nazirliyi : DİN-in tarixi (also transliterated as Iskender Majid oglu HamidovHistoric background of the MIA or Iskander Medjid oglu Hamidov) (born April 10, 1948 in Bagli Peya village, Kalbajar rayon) is a former Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan who served in the Popular Front government of 1992-1993.
İske imlâ alphabet İske imlâ (in İQTElif İskí imlâ; ; Tatar language for Old Orthography) is a variant of the Arabic alphabet, used for the Tatar language before 1920 and the Old Tatar language. This alphabet can be referred to as old only to contrast it with Yaña imla.
İske Qazan İske Qazan (literally: Old Kazan), was a Bolgar-Tatar city in the 13-16th centuries, situated on the banks of the Qazansu river in the Qazan artı or Zakazanye region, in what is today the Russian Federation republic of Tatarstan .
İskenderun İskenderun, also Iskenderon (formerly known in the west as Alexandretta, from Greek Ἀλεξανδρέττα; in Arabic الإسكندرون, al-Iskandarūn), is a district and its center in the Turkish province of Hatay. It is a growing city with metropolitan aspects and surpassing the province seat of Antakya in population.
İsmail Beşikçi İsmail Beşikçi is a Turkish scholar currently serving a 100-year jail sentence as of 2003 on propaganda charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish population in Turkey. He is a PEN Honorary Member.
İsmail Enver İsmail Enver (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعيل انور) (November 22, 1881 in Istanbul - August 4, 1922), known to Europeans during his political career as Enver Pasha (Turkish: Enver Paşa) or Enver Bey was a Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution. Due to his contributions for the revolution, he was given the nickname "The Hero of Liberty"(Hürriyet Kahramanı).
İsmail Gaspıralı İsmail Gaspıralı (Gasprinskiy) (March 8 1851—September 11 1914) was a famous Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and politician. He was one of the first Muslim intellectuals in the Russian Empire, who realised the need for education and cultural reform and modernisation of the Turkic and Islamic communities.
İstiklâl Avenue İstiklal Avenue (Turkish: İstiklal Caddesi) is one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, Turkey, visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends. Located in the historic Beyoğlu district, it is an elegant pedestrian street, approximately three kilometers long, which houses exquisite boutiques, music stores, bookstores, art galleries, cinemas, theaters, libraries, cafés, pubs, night clubs with live music, historical patisseries, chocolateries and restaurants.
İzmir İzmir (Ottoman Turkish: إزمير İzmir, Greek: Σμύρνη Smýrnē, Armenian: Իզմիր, Italian: Smirne, Ladino: Izmir, without the Turkish dotted I) is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after İstanbul. It is located in the Gulf of İzmir, by the Aegean Sea.
Ä°zmir Economic Congress Ä°zmir Economic Congress was held Ä°zmir, Turkey between 17 February - 4 March 1923, shortly after the end of the Turkish War of Independence and during the interval between the two conferences that led to the Lausanne Treaty the same year. The conference was held in order to emphasize the importance for the Turkey of economic development, as the country had been shattered by years of war.
Ä°zmir European Jazz Festival The Ä°zmir European Jazz Festival, (Turkish: Ä°zmir Avrupa Caz Festivali) is a cultural event held in the first half of every March in Ä°zmir, Turkey. It offers a selection of jazz music performances with the participations of renowned artists and music groups from Europe and Turkey.
İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall İzmir Halkapınar Sport Hall (Turkish: İzmir Halkapınar Spor Salonu) is an indoor multi-purpose sport venue located in the Halkapınar neighbourhood of İzmir, Turkey. The hall has a capacity of around 9,200 people.
Ä°zmir International Fair Ä°zmir International Fair is the oldest tradeshow in Turkey, considered the cradle of Turkey's fairs and expositions industry, and is also notable for hosting a series of simultaneous festival activities. The fair and the festival are held in the compound of Ä°zmir's vast inner city park named KĂĽltĂĽrpark in the first days of September, and organized by Ä°ZFAĹž, a depending company of Ä°zmir Metropolitan Municipality.
Ä°zmit Ä°zmit (also known as Kocaeli; ancient Nicomedia) is the capital city of the Kocaeli Province of Turkey. It is located by the Gulf of Ä°zmit, about 100 km east of Ä°stanbul in the northwestern part of Anatolia.
Ä°zmit Bay Bridge The Ä°zmit Bay Bridge is a planned suspension bridge located at the eastern end of the Sea of Marmara, approximately 50 kilometers from Istanbul, Turkey. As of 2005 it will be the second largest suspension bridge in the world (by length of central span), though several proposed bridges, most notably the Strait of Messina Bridge will be longer when completed.
İznik İznik (which derives from the former Greek name Νίκαια, Nicaea) is a city in Turkey which is known primarily as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the first two Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian church.
Ä°znik pottery Ä°znik pottery, named after the town in western Anatolia where it was made, is highly decorated ceramics whose heyday was the late sixteenth century. The largest collection of vessels is in the British Museum and Ä°znik tiles may be seen in quantity in the imperial and religious buildings of Istanbul.
Đakovo Đakovo (sometimes spelled Djakovo) is a town in the region of Slavonia, Croatia, 37 km to the southwest of Osijek and 34 km southeast of Našice; elevation 111 m. It has a population of 20,912, with a total of 30,092 in the municipality (census 2001).
Đặng Hữu Phúc Đặng Hữu Phúc (born 1953) is a Vietnamese pianist and composer best known for his film scores. He won the Best Music prize in 2005 at the 8th Shanghai Film Festival for his work on Ho Quang Minh's film A Far Time Past (Thời xa vắng).
Đổi mới Đổi mới (renovation) is the name given to the economic reforms initiated by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the mid-1980s. As a result of Đổi mới many free-market enterprises were permitted (and, indeed, later encouraged) by the Communist Party of Vietnam; furthermore, the push to collectivize the industrial and agricultural operations of Vietnam, previously the focus of intense efforts by the Communist authorities, was essentially abandoned.
Đàn nguyệt The đàn nguyệt (also called nguyệt cầm, đàn kìm, moon lute, or moon guitar) is a two-stringed Vietnamese traditional musical instrument. It is used in both folk and classical music, and remains popular throughout Vietnam (although during the 20th century many Vietnamese musicians increasingly gravitated toward the acoustic and electric guitar).
Đàn sến The đàn sến is a Vietnamese plucked string instrument with two strings and a slender neck with raised frets. It is derived from the Chinese qinqin and is used primarily in the traditional music of southern Vietnam.
Đàn tam thập lục The đàn tam thập lục (also called simply tam thập lục, literally "36" in Vietnamese) is a Vietnamese hammered dulcimer with 36 metal strings. It is used in various genres of traditional music and drama, as well as in modernized traditional music.
Đelekovec Đelekovec is a village in northern Croatia, located north of Koprivnica, near the river Drava. The population of Đelekovec is 1,824, and the municipality also includes the nearby village of Imbriovec with 452 residents (census 2001).
Đerdap The Djerdap National Park (Serbian: Национални парк Ђердап or Nacionalni park Djerdap) stretches along the right bank of the Danube River from the castle of Golubac (Golubački Grad) to the dam near Sip, Serbia. It spreads over 640 square kilometres and the park management office is in the town of Donji Milanovac on the Danube.
Đorđe Jokić Đorđe Jokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Јокић), (born January 20, 1981 in Raska, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football player who, as of 2005 was playing for FC Torpedo Moscow in Russia. Previously he played for OFK Belgrade.
Đorđe Novković Đorđe Novković (Serbian: Ђорђе Новковић; born September 2, 1943 in Šabac, Nedić's Serbia) is a prolific Croatian songwriter of Serbian ethnicity, also known as the father of popular singer Boris Novković.
Đurađ IV Crnojević Đurađ IV Crnojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурађ Црноjeвић), the son to Ivan Crnojević, was the ruler of the Principality of Zeta between 1490 and 1496, the founder of the first printing house, and identified himself as the "Duke of Zeta". He was well known by his great education, knowledge of astronomy, geometry and other sciences
Đurađ V Crnojević Đurađ V Crnojević (Anglicised: George V Tsernoyevich) was the secular prince of Principality of Zeta/Montenegro from 1515-1516. In 1516, Đurađ V retired to Venice, and handed affairs of state over to the Vladika (Prince-Bishop), the local ecclesiastic authority.
Đurđe Ninković Đurđe Ninković (born 1942) was a founder member of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia who joined the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989. From late December the meetings of the Founding Committee and later the Executive Committee of the DS took place in his law offices in Belgrade where the "Pismo o namerama" (Letter of intent), the first party political program of the DS, was drafted.
Đurđevdan Đurđevdan (Serbian: Ђурђевдан) is a Serbian religious holiday, celebrated on April 23 by the Julian calendar (May 6 by Gregorian calendar), which is the feast of Saint George and a very important Slava. He is one of the most important Christian saints in Orthodox churches.
Đurđevi stupovi Đurđevi stupovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурђеви cтупови) (English: The Pillars of Saint George) is a 12th-century Eastern Orthodox monastery located in the vicinity of today's city of Novi Pazar, in the Sandžak region of Serbia. The church was erected by the Grand Prince of Rascia, Stefan Nemanja, back in 1166, on the spot where the Serbian medieval capital of Ras once stood.
Đurđevi Stupovi (Berane) Đurđevi Stupovi (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурђеви Ступови) is a Serb Orthodox monastery near the town of Berane, Montenegro. It should not be confused with the more famous Serb Orthodox monastery of the same name, Đurđevi Stupovi in Serbia.
Đurđevo Đurđevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурђево, Rusyn: Дюрдьов) is a village located in the Žabalj municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
Āraiši lake dwelling site Āraiši lake dwelling site is a popular tourist location with original and reconstructed remnants of Latvian prehistory. It is a unique nationally-important archaeological site: remains of the 9th-10th centuries Latgalian settlement on the island of Āraiši lake.
Āraiteuru In Māori tradition, Āraiteuru is the canoe in which brought the ancestors the Ngāi Tahu people of the South Island. The canoe was conveyed to New Zealand by the north-east wind, carrying the chiefs Kirikiri-ka-tata, Aroarokaehe, Mangaatua, Aoraki, Kakeroa, Te Horokoatu, Ritua, Ngamautaurua, Pokohiwitahi, Puketapu, Te Maro-tiri-a-te-rehu, Hikuroroa, Pahatea, Te Waioteao, and Hapekituaraki.
ĆŠ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a hook. It is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in some African languages such as Hausa and Fula to represent a voiced dental or alveolar implosive.
ĆŹ , or , is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet. Both glyphs of the majuscule and minuscule forms of this letter are based on the rotated form of a minuscule e; a similar letter with identical minuscule is used in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule , based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E.
Ć® The letter (minuscule: ), called T with retroflex hook, is a letter of the Latin alphabet based on the letter t. It is used to represent a voiceless retroflex plosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and is used some alphabets of African languages.
Ƶ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from Z with the addition of a stroke. It was used in the Jaŋalif (as a part of Uniform Turkic Alphabet) alphabet for Tatar in the first half of the 20th century to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative (IPA: ).
Ɓ (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from B with the addition of a hook. It is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in some African languages, such as Fula and Hausa, to represent a voiced bilabial implosive.
ǂHõã language ǂHõã or ǂHoan, more accurately ǂQhôã, is an unclassified Khoisan language of Botswana. It was once placed in the Tuu family because it has bilabial clicks and other phonological similarities, but no further evidence for that classification was ever produced.
Ǩ (K with a caron) is a letter used in the Romany alphabet and in the Skolt Sami language. The Unicode codepoints for this letter are U+01E8 ("") for the capital letter, and U+01E9 ("") for the lowercase letter.
Райското пръскало Heaven Spray (Bulgarian: Райското пръскало) is, the highest waterfall on Balkan peninsula 124,5 meters. It is located underneath Botev Peak, close to the geographic centre of the country, and is part of the Central Balkan National Park.
Ę® (turned h with fishhook) is a symbol from extensions to IPA for apical dental rounded syllabic alveolar fricative. That is, it is the "z" sound in English pronounced with rounded lips, and treated as a vowel in a syllable.
ʻIolani Barracks Iolani Barracks, or Halekoa (house of warriors) in Hawaiian, was built in 1870, designed by the architect, Theodore Heuok, under the direction of King David Kalākaua. Located directly adjacent to Iolani Palace in downtown Honolulu, it was the headquarters of the royal guards to the reigning monarch.
Α+β protein fold An α+β protein fold is a class of structural domains in which the secondary structure is composed of α-helices and β-strands that occur separately along the backbone. The β-strands are therefore mostly antiparallel.
Π backbonding π backbonding, also called π backdonation, is a concept from chemistry, in which electrons move from an atomic orbital on one atom to a π* anti-bonding orbital on another atom or ligand. It is especially common in the organometallic chemistry of transition metals with multi-atomic ligands such as carbon monoxide, ethylene or the nitrosonium cation.
Îś-recursive function In mathematical logic and computer science, the ÎĽ-recursive functions are a class of partial functions from natural numbers to natural numbers which are "computable" in an intuitive sense. In fact, in computability theory it is shown that the ÎĽ-recursive functions are precisely the functions that can be computed by Turing machines.
Μ-velOSity μ-velOSity (pronounced Micro-Velocity) is a royalty-free small-footprint real-time microkernel from Green Hills Software made for resource-constrained devices. It is the smallest of Green Hills Software’s family of royalty-free operating systems.
ÎśC++ ÎĽC++, also called uC++, is a programming language, an extension of C++ designed for concurrent programming. Among other features, it adds coroutines, tasks, and monitors, and extends existing language constructs to integrate with them.
ÎśTAS ÎĽTAS stands for Micro Total chemical Analysis System, and refers to a microfluidic device which can perform highly efficient, simultaneous analysis of a large number of biologically important molecules for genomic, proteomic and metabolic studies.
ΜTorrent µTorrent (also known as uTorrent or microTorrent) is a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows written in C++, and translated into 39 different languages. The program is a single 173 KiB compressed executable (as of version 1.
ΛProlog λProlog, also written lambda Prolog, is a logic programming language featuring polymorphic typing, modular programming, and higher-order programming. These extensions to Prolog are derived from the higher-order hereditary Harrop formulas used to justificatify the foundations of λProlog.
Δ18O In geochemistry, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography δ18O is the ratio of stable isotopes 18O:16O. It is commonly used as a measure of the temperature of precipitation, as a measure of groundwater/mineral interactions, as an indicator of processes that show isotopic fractionation, like methanogenesis.

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