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,ui,| liri.|iiette (art. Mi. -s. iiom\i,|-U-, 

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;m.| . -amphoi. Pop. 

 pan. 



Nagina. To\\n "f India, in the 

 .list., I'nited l'ni\ inces. It 



is sltliatc.1 llfiir tin- middle of the 



list mi tin- ily. from Moiadabad 

 i.. I ).' otton, 



doth, and glass, mul is noted for 

 elniNN ..u\ing. Pop. 19,000. 



Nagoya. City of Japan, in 

 Honshu. It i- in tin- S. of the 

 fertile pl.iin of Mino and O^ari, 



.-111.1 o\\r- its iniportalli-i- to the 



ShoiMin stronghold built in 1610. 

 In- city is Nagoya harbour, 

 on tin- li.ty ot Ise. Silk and cotton, 

 tin. .uls and fabrics are important 

 manufactures, and the city was a 

 )>ineer in the clock industry. At- 

 sutii Jingu is I ho second greatest 

 Shinto shrine in Japan. Almost 

 half -way l-t\veen Tokyo and 

 Osaka, the city has rly. connexion 

 with these centres and those on the 

 W. .-oast. Pop. 435,000. -See Japan. 



Nagpur. Division and dist. of 

 the Central Provinces. India. The 

 division consists of the Nagpur 

 plain, sloping gently S. from the 

 Satpura ranges and drained by the 

 NN'ain^anga and Wardha, to the 

 Prahita and Godavari. The dist. 

 has a rainfall of 46 ins. Only a third 

 of the land under cultivation is 

 devoted to food grains, mainly 

 wheat, most of the remainder being 

 under cotton. Area, div., 22.677 

 sq. m. ; dist., 3,840 sq. m. Pop. 

 div., 3,110,000; dist., 810,000. 



Nagpur. Capital of the Central 

 Provinces, India, formerly the 

 Marat ha capital of the Bonsla 

 rajas. It occupies a central position 

 between the Wardha and Wain- 

 ganga rivers, in close relation to the 

 great cotton-growing area of the 

 Deeean. The importance of the 

 town increased when the direct line 

 from Bombay to Calcutta was 

 made through it. It has several 

 important educational institutions, 

 including the Morris College. Pop. 

 101,000. 



Nagy. Magyar word for great. 

 It appears in numerous Hungarian 

 place names and is the opposite of 

 Kis, little ; e.g. the two parts of 

 Rumania, Nagy and Kis Kun. 



Nagykanizsa. Town of Hun- 

 gary. It is situated to the S.W. of 

 Lake Balaton on the main line rly. 

 from Budapest, 143 m. to the N.E., 

 to Trieste with a branch through 

 Odenburg (Sopron) to Vienna. 

 There are distilleries and tile 

 works. Pop. 26,500. 



Nagykaroly . Town of Rumania 

 formerly in Hungary. The Ru- 

 manian form of the name is Careii 

 Mari. It is 185 m. E.N.E. of 

 Budapest, on the main line to 

 Ruthenia, with a branch rly. 



\:.IM to tin- in. tin towns of 



Li ania. There are aw mills 



anil textile fad, me-, pup. 16,100. 



Nagylrikinda. Town of Yugo- 

 slavia in the Western Banat, 

 fuimiily in Hungary, and now 

 known officially as Kikinda. It is 

 on the main rly. line from Budapest 

 through Ossova to Rumania, with 

 only inilire.-t connexion by branch 

 lines with Belgrade, and a direct 

 route to Pancsova. It is an agri- 

 cultural centre. Pop. 26,800. 



Nagykoros. Town of Hungary 

 in the co. of Pest Pilis-Solt Kiskim. 

 It is 56 m. by rly. S.E. of Budapest 

 on the main line to Szeged, 10 m. 

 N.N.E. of Kecskemdt. Wheat, 

 maize, and melons are grown, and 

 cattle are reared. Pop. 28,600. 



Nagyrocze. Town in the 

 Slovakia division of the Czecho- 

 slovak republic, now known as 

 Velkd Revuca ; formerly in the 

 kingdom of Hungary. It is 26 m. 

 by rly. N.W. of Pelsocz. Pop. 1,900. 



Nagyszeben. Hungarian name 

 of the Transylvanian town now 

 the Rumanian Sibiu (q.v.). 



Nagyszombat. Town in the 

 Slovakia division of the Czecho- 

 slovak republic, also known as 

 Trnava ; formerly in the kingdom 

 of Hungary. It is situated in the 

 N. of the Little Alfold between the 

 White Carpathians and the river 

 Vag, 30 m. by rly. N.E. of Bratis- 

 lava (Pressburg). Over half the 

 people are Roman Catholic Slovaks. 

 Pop. 15,000. 



Nagyvarad. Town of Rumania, 

 formerly in Hungary. At an 

 earlier date known by the German 

 name Gross wardein, it is also 

 called Oradea Mare. It is almost 

 due E. of Budapest, 160 m. distant 

 by rly., on the main line to Tran- 

 sylvania and the Predeal Pass 

 across the Carpathians. Near by 

 are the Felix and Bishop's baths, 

 warm springs which were known to 

 the Romans. Reputed to have 

 been founded by S. Ladislas in 

 1080, it was sacked by the Tartars 

 in 1241. Pop. 64,200. 



Nahan. Native state and town 

 of India, in the Punjab. It is a 

 mountainous area N. of Ambala 

 dist., the Chor rising to 11,982 ft. 

 There are forests of deodar and 

 sal. The town is situated on the 

 Siwalik Hills, 3,207 ft. alt., and 

 has an iron foundry. Area, 1,198 

 sq. m. Pop. state, 139,000 ; town, 

 6,300. 



Nahe. River of Germany. A 

 left bank tributary of the Rhine, 

 it rises near Selbach in Birkenfeld 

 and joins the main stream at 

 Bingen. Its length is about 60 m., 

 much of its course being between 

 vine-clad hillsides, the picturesque 

 scenery of which attracts large 

 numbers of tourists. 



Nahr el Auja, BATTLE OP THE. 



Fought lietwe.-n the Britinh and 

 the Tnrkh in !><., 1917. After the 

 fall of .1. rii-al.-m, Dec. 9, 1917, the 

 rirnt object of Allenby WM to 

 .-.-.Hie his front fromW. to E., and 

 especially to make safe his position 

 in Jerusalem itself, the Turks being 

 about 4 m. away both N. and E. 

 In Nov. the British had crossed the 

 Nahr el Auja, a river flowing into 

 the Mediterranean, 4 m. N. of 

 Jaffa, after their occupation of 

 the latter, but had been pressed 

 back S. of it by the Turks. 



To protect Jaffa and hold the 

 high road from that town to 

 Jerusalem, Allenby decided to 

 force the Nahr and occupy a 

 stretch of country to the N. The 

 British 52nd division, during the 

 night of Dec. 20-21, 1917, crossed 

 the river in three columns and 

 took the enemy by surprise. One 

 column forded the stream, and the 

 two others charged the heights of 

 Sheikh Muannis and Khurbet 

 Hadrah. Beating down a stiff 

 resistance, they took four villages 

 on the N. bank, and consolidated 

 their position. 



In this battle the Turks lost 

 300 in prisoners alone. While it 

 continued, a British warship co- 

 operated by its fire with the infan- 

 try. Later the British occupied El 

 Jelil and El Haram, 12 m. above 

 Jaffa. (See Jaffa, Capture of ; Pales- 

 tine, Conquest of. 



Nahua. Collective name for 

 American Indian tribes which 

 dominated Anahuac, the Mexican 

 tableland, at the time of the 

 Spanish conquest. Their language 

 was called Nahuatl. They dwelt in 

 scattered pueblos, whose rivalry led 

 to the formation of confederacies, 

 whereof the Aztec finally secured 

 the hegemony. Their descendants, 

 called Mexicano, numbered in 1910 

 516,410, the total indigenous popu- 

 lation in Mexico being 1,929,797. 



Nahuel-Huapi "i; TIGER LAKE. 

 Large lake of Argentina, in the 

 territory of Neuquen, bordering 

 that of Rio Negro. Situated in 

 the Andes, at an alt. of 2,000 ft., 

 it is 75 m. in length and 10 m. in 

 breadth, with an area of 110 sq. m., 

 and contains many islands. It is 

 the source of the river Limay, the 

 boundary of the territories of 

 Neuquen and Rio Negro. 



Nahum. One of the minor 

 prophets. A native of Elkoah, 

 probably in Galilee, he flourished 

 about the 7th cent. B.C. His book 

 consists of predictions of the fall of 

 Nineveh, which took place 606 B.C. 

 The reference to the capture of No- 

 Amon (Thebes) by Ashurbanipal, 

 king of Assyria, further shows that 

 it must have been written later 

 than 666 B.C. 



