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Places Aacchen-Flanders

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town in western germany, probable birthplace of charlemagne and his northern capital, a place of great learning; sit of the signing of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748, which ended the war of the austrian succession   show
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town on the egyptian mediterranean coast, site of two major engagements of WW2; at the first (july 1942) general auchinlek checked an italian-german advance under rommel toward cairo; general montgomery led a successful allied counteroffensive   show
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town in the punjab, India, home of the sacred Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple; site of a massacre 1919 of Indian nationalists by the British army under general dyer, in which 393 Indians were killed and 1200 wounded   show
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former region of france, part of the english crown lands 1154-1204 roughly corresponding with but slightly larger than the modern region of Maine-et-Loire   show
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city in bavaria, a great financial and commercial center in the 15th and 16th centuries; home of the Fugger banking famiy; site of the temporary truce gained in the 16th century wars of religion by the peace of __ and of the german defensive alliance   show
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town in south czechoslovakia, site of Napoleon's great victory over Russia and Austria at the so called battle of the three emperors   show
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ancient ramparted city of southeast france, on the rhone, the papal residence during the Babylonian Captivity and home to antipopes during the Great Schism   show
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name for the southeast peninsula of europe, comprising Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, most of Yugoslavia, southeastern Romania and, under the Ottomans, Turkey-in Europe; continual source of national and international tensions in the 50 years before ww1   show
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town in Israeli-occupied west bank, previously part of Jordan; considered to be the birthplace of Jesus and one of the great centers of religious pilgrimage   show
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river rising in Wyoming and flowing into Montana, at the mouth of which a federal trading post was est. in 1807; site, at the junction of___ and the Little___, of the battle between sioux Indians and federal forces led by general custer   show
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village in Bavaria, just outside which anglo-austrian forces under the duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated (1704) a franco-bavarian army in the war of the spanish succession;___ palace in in woodstock, oxfordshire   show
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provinces of present-day yugoslavia, where peasant rebellion against ottoman rule in 1875 led to the russo-turkish war and the administration by the Austro-hungarian empireunder turkish sovereignty; annexed by AustriaHungary in 1908; site of a. of franzfe   show
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city in Massachusetts, on the northeast coast, founded in 1630 as the center of the puritan massachusetts bay company; site of __tea party and Bunker Hill   show
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inlet on the east coast of Australia, just south of sydney, claimed for Great Britain by captain James Cook in 1770; not the site of the first british penal colony, which was Port Jackson, Sydney   show
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small stream in northeast Virginia, site of two Civil War battles, the first being the opening engagement of the war, in which stonewall jackson resisted the union advance and the second also being a confederate victory; also called Manassas   show
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city in west bengal, india founded c. 1690 by the british east india company; in 1856 captured by the nawab of Bengal, who killed most of the Company's garrison by imprisoning it in a small airless chamber known ast the black hole   show
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presidential retreat in maryland, where in 1978 jimmy carter met menachem Begin of israel and anwar al-sadat of Egypt and achieved an historic agreement for the return of sinai to egypt and future talks on palestinian autonomy   show
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city in kent, england the spiritual center of english christianity since st.augustine founded an abbey there (597) and became the first archbishop of___; thomas beckett murdered in the cathedral in 1170   show
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in prince edward island, canada, site of the conference in 1864 between british and colonial officials that led to canadian confederation (1867)   show
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town in massachusetts, site of the first battle of the american war of independence; colonial militia fired the opening shots across the___ river at british soldiers arriving to seize the colonial arsenal   show
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stretch of ocean in the southwest pacific, where on may 4-8, 1942, in the first of a series of aircraft-carrier engagements, the u.s. successfully blocked Japan's intended advance toward australia   show
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syrian city, reputed to be the oldest permanent settlement in the world; on the road to___ saint paul was converted to christianity; he later escaped by being lowered outside the walls in a basket   show
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baltic port at the mouth of the vistula, prussian from 1793 to 1919, polish since 1945; made a free city under league of nations administration by the treaty of versailles and connected by a short corridor to poland; solidarity movement began here   show
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small caribbean island off french guiana, site of an infamous french penal colony, chiefly for political prisoners; its most famous inmate was Alfred Dreyfus   show
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french north sea port, site of the epic naval evacuation (may 26-June 4, 1940) of 300,000 alled troops cut off from a land retreat by german divisions; more than 850 boats took part   show
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region of northwest Europe, chiefly in Belgium, but extending into the netherlands and france enriched in the middle ages by the cloth industry; a major battle ground in WW1;battle in WW2 lasted from the german invasion of the low countries for three week   show
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