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Central India

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Includes a group of feudatory States lying between Rajputana in the N. and Central Provinces in the S.

Cephalonia

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The largest of the Ionian Islands, 30 m. long, the ancient Samos; yields grapes and olive oil.

Ceos

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One of the Cyclades, a small island 13 m. by 8 m., yields fruits; was the birthplace of Simonides and Bacchylides.

A group of small islands off the NW. coast of France, of which the largest are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark; formerly part of the Duchy of Normandy, and now all that remains to Britain of her ...

Chanson De Gestes

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(Songs of Deeds), poems of a narrative kind much in favour in the Middle Ages, relating in a legendary style the history and exploits of some famous hero, such as the "Chanson de Roland," ascribed to ...

Chanzy

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A French general, born at Nouart, Ardennes; served in Algeria; commanded the army of the Loire in 1870-71; distinguished himself by his brilliant retreat from Mans to Laval; was afterwards ...

Chaos

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A name in the ancient cosmogomy for the formless void out of which everything at first sprang into existence, or the wide-spread confusion that prevailed before it shaped itself into order under the ...