Known as Turan to Iranians, western Turkestan has also been known historically as Sogdiana, Ma wara ' u ' n-nahr ( by its Arab conquerors ), and Transoxiana by Western travellers.

The Iranians gathered around the Shatt al-Arab ( Known as Arvand Rud in Iran ) waterway, surrounding the city and, thus, beginning the second siege.

Known as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

Known as " Île Royale " to the French, the island also saw active settlement by France.

Known as the bards caste, they and other upper castes had privileges that they inherited by birth.

Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed " Lynchian ", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design.

Known as an Argive grip, it placed the handle at the edge of the shield, and was supported by a leather fastening ( for the forearm ) at the centre.

Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of " sex, drugs and rock ' n roll ," Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide, apparently caused by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, only strengthened his controversial status.

Known as the Hackett Medical College for Women ( 夏葛女子醫學院 ), this College was located in Guangzhou, China, and was enabled by a large donation from Mr. Edward A. K.

Known in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue ( 突厥 tú jué ), the Göktürks under the leadership of Bumin / Tuman Khan / Khaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons established the first known Turkic state around 552 in the general area of territory that had earlier been occupied by the Xiongnu, and expanded rapidly to rule wide territories in Central Asia.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

The stepping disks are an outgrowth and improvement of the transfer booth technology used by humans and other Known Space races.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.

Known as the Bardia Mural, it was created by English artist, Private John Frederick Brill.

* In Larry Niven's harsh Known Space stories ( 1964-) Mars is a backwater bypassed by humans in their rush to the mineral wealth of the Asteroid Belt.

Known initially by the code name " EP " ( for " Electronic Paper "), it was introduced in 1982 as a competitor for VisiCalc.

Known by their nicknames " Dizzy " and the " Grand Old Man ", their colourful, sometimes bitter, personal and political rivalry over the issues of their time – Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism, expansion of the franchise, labour reform, and Irish Home Rule – spanned almost twenty years until Disraeli's death in 1881.

Known in medieval times as Thorney Island, the site may have been first-used for a royal residence by Cnut the Great during his reign from 1016 to 1035.

In his book PiHKAL ( Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved ), Shulgin describes synthesis of the final intermediate of 2C-T-19 but did not bioassay the compound.

In ancient times, Sri Lanka was known by a variety of names: Known in India as Lanka or Sinhala, ancient Greek geographers called it Taprobane and Arabs referred to it as ( the origin of the word " serendipity ").

e. g. Known word pronunciations or legal word sequences, which can compensate for errors or uncertainties at lower level ;

Known as word problems, they are used in mathematics education to teach students to connect real-world situations to the abstract language of mathematics.

Known in Europe as Mandarins, after the Portuguese word for ' councillor ', this variety of bureaucrats passed a set of complicated examinations and were posted throughout the empire.

Known more by its chorus ' this is the 51st state of the USA ' than its actual title, it was released as a single in 1986 but banned by BBC Radio 1 because of its use of the word piss in the lyric ' past the piss-stinking shopping centers in the new side of town '.

Known as the Isaiah Wall, it was rededicated in 1975 and had the name " Isaiah " added under the final word.

As the ARTS and SCIENCES, properly so called, are far from comprehending every necessary subject of inquiry, a considerable proportion of the work is allotted to HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY, in all their branches ; so that the Compiler flatters himself, that it will be found upon consultation, that there is not a word in the English Language ; a technical term in any Art or Science, an event of any importance in the history of mankind ; a city, town, kingdom, republic, or empire, in the Known World ; an opinion in Religion ; an article in Mythology ; a system of Philosophy ; or a great or learned character in the annals of Biography, that is not mentioned or described in the Encyclopaedia Perthesis.

Known as a " verbivore ", a word he coined in the early 1980s, Lederer's interests include uncovering word origins, pointing out common grammatical errors and fallacies, and exploring palindromes, anagrams, and other forms of recreational wordplay.

Known as Powhite Parkway ( first word officially pronounced, similar to Powhatan ), the state highway runs from SR 652 near Midlothian north to Interstate 195 ( I-195 ) in Richmond.

** Known words ( in vocabulary ): assigning the most frequent tag associated to a form of the word

Known in Germany as Zwetschge ( German word for damson ) due to similar pronunciation to his first name, Misimović previously played for Bayern Munich before joining Bochum at the start of the 2004 – 05 season and then moving on to Nuremberg in July 2007.

Known as a top-down formation scenario, this theory is quite simple yet no longer widely accepted because observations of the early universe strongly suggest that objects grow from bottom-up ( i. e. smaller objects merging to form larger ones ).

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

In particular, it is possible that he copied descriptions of the crocodile, hippopotamus and phoenix from Hecataeus's ' Circumnavigation of the Known World ' ( Periegesis / Periodos ges ), even mis-representing the source as ' Heliopolitans ' ( Histories 2. 73 ).

Known officially as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer built with IBM financing and with assistance from IBM personnel, under the direction of Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken.

Known officially as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, and then as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1976 to 1991, Albania spent much of this time under the regime of Enver Hoxha, who severely restricted citizens ' freedom and contact with the outside world.

Known to have been used for 124 launches from 1958 to 1975, reaching up to 1158 kilometers altitude.

Known objects in the Kuiper belt, derived from data from the Minor Planet Center.

** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )

The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.

Most life in Known Space shares similar biochemistries, since they evolved from the Thrintun practice of seeding barren worlds with food yeast which they used to feed their slaves.

Known as the Donation of Pepin, no actual document has been preserved, but later 8th-century sources quote from it.

Known collectively as the Revolutionary Settlement, these acts transformed the constitution, shifting the balance of power from the Sovereign to Parliament.

Known for penning concept suites and songs inspired by literature, music fan opinions of his writing have varied greatly, running the gamut from cerebral and insightful to pretentious and preachy.