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Basque Provinces
Language; Encyclopedias
A fertile and mineral district in N. of Spain, embracing the three provinces of Biscaya, Guipuzcoa, and Alava, of which the chief towns are respectively Bilbao, St. Sebastian, and Vittoria; the ...
Basques
Language; Encyclopedias
A people of the Western Pyrenees, partly in France and partly in Spain; distinguished from their neighbours only by their speech, which is non-Aryan; a superstitious people, conservative, irascible, ...
Bassorah
Language; Encyclopedias
A port in Asiatic Turkey, on the Shatt-el-Arab; a place of great commercial importance when Bagdad was the seat of the caliphate; for a time sank into insignificance, but has of late revived.
Basque Roads
Language; Encyclopedias
An anchorage between the Isle of Oléron and the mainland; famous for a naval victory gained in 1809 over a French fleet under Vice-Admiral Allemand.
Bass Rock
Language; Encyclopedias
A steep basaltic rock at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, 350 ft. high, tenanted by solan geese; once used as a prison, specially in Covenanting times.
Bas-relief
Language; Encyclopedias
(Low relief) a term applied to figures very slightly projected from the ground.
Bassano
Language; Encyclopedias
A town in Italy, on the Brenta, 30 m. NW. of Padua; printing the chief industry.
