World War.
_Trebizond_ or _Tarobosan_. Ancient: Trapezus. Province of Turkey and
its capital, port on the Black Sea. Has belonged to several different
empires. There was, during the middle ages, an empire of T. connected
with the Byzantine Empire.
_Trent._ Italian: Trento. Italian city, taken from Austria after the
World War.
_Trieste_ or _Triest_. Important Adriatic port, gained by Italy after
the World War.
_Troy._ Ancient city of Asia Minor where, according to the Homeric
legend, the Greeks fought to recover Helen, runaway wife of Menelaus.
The country was called Troas, Troad, or Troja. The city was also known
as Ilium.
_Troyes._ City of Aube Department, France, of historical importance.
_Tunis._ French protectorate of northern Africa (also called Tunisia)
and its capital.
_Turin._ Italian: Torino. Province of Italy and its capital, a leading
silk manufacturing center. Formerly capital of the duchy of Savoy and
the kingdom of Sardinia.
_Turkestan._ Region of central Asia. Politically, it is in Russia,
China, and several minor states.
_Turkey._ Formerly: Turkish or Ottoman Empire. Republic of Asia and
eastern Europe. Much reduced in area and importance by a series of
wars, including the World War of 1914-1918.
_Tuscany._ Former grand duchy of Italy developed out of the city-state
of Florence, now a department or province.
_Tusculum._ Ancient town of Latium where Cato the Censor was born and
Cicero had a villa.
_Tyre._ Ancient seaport of Phoenicia. Modern: Sur.
_Tyrol_ or _Tirol_. Former crownland of Austria, part of which,
including Trent, is now in Italy. T. is in the Alps.
_Ukraine_ or _Little Russia_. One of the Soviet Republics. Also called:
Ukrainia. Officially: Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republics.
_United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland._ The combined kingdoms of
England (including Wales), Scotland, and Ireland. The last, except for
what is called Northern Ireland, has been taken from the United Kingdom.
_United States of America._ Federal republic of North America. An
American (or, in the Latin countries, a North American) is a citizen of
the United States, in ordinary usage.
_Ur of the Chaldees._ Locality in ancient Babylonia from which Abram
(Abraham) is said to have come.
_Ural._ River and mountains dividing European and Asiatic Russia.
_Urbino._ Former duchy of Italy and its capital, now capital of the
department of Pesaro e Urbino. No longer of great importance.
_Uruguay._ River and republic of South America.
_Utica._ Important city of ancient Africa, founded by the Phoenicians.
_Utrecht._ Province of the Netherlands and its capital, an
anciently-founded city.
_Valencia._ Old kingdom, now included in Spain. Province of Spain and
its capital, a Mediterranean port, which was founded in the second
century B. C. The Romans called the city Valentia.
_Valparaiso._ Province of Chile and its capital, a fortified seaport.
_Venetia._ District of northern Italy, the territory belonging to
Venice. Now a province of the kingdom.
_Venezuela._ Republic of northern South America.
_Venice._ Italian: Venezia. City of Italy, near the head of the
Adriatic. Located on eighty little islands. Of great historical
importance.
_Verdun._ City of Meuse Department, France, nearly destroyed in the
World War.
_Verona._ Province of Italy and its capital.
_Versailles._ City of France near Paris, of historic importance.
_Vesuvius._ Volcano of southern Italy.
_Vienna._ German: Wien. Capital of Austria, interesting in many
ways. Founded by the Romans, has long been important politically and
commercially, but has declined somewhat since the World War.
_Vilna._ City of Poland, claimed also by the Lithuanians.
_Volga._ River of Russia.
_Wales._ Principality of Great Britain, which is for most purposes
treated as part of England.
_Warsaw._ Polish: Warszawa. Capital of Poland. Of historical and
present importance.
_Washington._ City of District of Columbia, capital of U. S. Also,
state of U. S., on the Pacific.
_Waterloo._ Town of Brabant, Belgium, where Napoleon was defeated in
1815.
_Weimar._ Capital of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany. Important in
literary history.
_Wessex._ Former kingdom in southern England, of present interest
chiefly because of the writings of Thomas Hardy.
_West Indies._ The group (or groups) of islands between Florida and
Venezuela, including the Bahamas, the Antilles, and the Virgin Islands.
_West Point._ Town in the state of New York where the United States
Military Academy is located.
_White._ Sea of Russia, opening into the Arctic Ocean.
_Wittenberg._ City of Prussian Saxony, Germany, where the Lutheran
Reformation began.
_Wuchang._ City of Hupeh, China.
_Xanthus._ Ancient name of two rivers, one more familiar as the
Scamander, q. v. Ancient city of Lycia, Asia Minor.
_Yangtze._ Most important river of China.
_Yellow._ Sea between China and Korea.
_Yokahoma._ Important treaty port and commercial center of Japan.
_York._ City of Yorkshire, England, ecclesiastical center.
_Yorktown._ Town of Virginia where Cornwallis surrendered, practically
bringing about the end of the Revolutionary War.
_Ypres._ City of West Flanders, Belgium, about which there was much
heavy fighting during the World War.
_Zama_ or _Zama Regia_. Ancient town of northern Africa where Scipio
Africanus defeated Hannibal, B. C. 202, bringing the second Punic War
to an end.
_Zambesi._ River of Africa.
_Zanzibar._ Island on the coast of East Africa a sultanate under
British control, and its capital, a seaport.
_Zela._ City of Pontus, Asia Minor, in ancient times. Here Julius
Caesar defeated Pharnaces, then writing to Rome, “Veni: Vidi: Vici.” (I
came: I saw: I conquered.)
_Zurich._ German: Zürich. Canton of Switzerland and its capital, on the
Lake of Z. the chief commercial and industrial city of the republic.
Transcriber's Notes:
Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.