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111Wallonia — Wal·lo·ni·a (wä lōʹnē ə) A French speaking region of southern Belgium. It was granted limited autonomy in 1980. * * * ▪ region, Belgium French Wallonie , formally Walloon Region , French Région Wallonne region that constitutes the… …
112Balkans — [bôl′kənz] countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, & the European part of Turkey) & Romania: also …
113Flanders — /flan deuhrz/, n. a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the… …
114United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
115Brussels-Capital Region — ▪ region, Belgium French Région de Bruxelles Capitale , Flemish Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Gewest region, north central Belgium. The region is coextensive with Greater Brussels, a metropolitan area that contains the capital city of… …
116Fischhof, Adolf — ▪ Austrian political theorist born Dec. 8, 1816, Alt Ofen, Hung., Austrian Empire died March 23, 1893, Emmersdorf, Austria Austrian political theorist, one of the principal leaders of the Viennese revolution of 1848. As a young… …
117Hussarek von Heinlein, Max Hussarek, Baron — ▪ prime minister of Austria (Freiherr) born May 3, 1865, Pressburg, Slovakia [now Bratislava, Slovakia] died March 6, 1935, Vienna, Austria Austrian statesman, jurist, and academic who served as prime minister of Austria during the last… …
118Schäffle, Albert — ▪ German economist and sociologist born Feb. 24, 1831, Nürtingen, Württemberg died Dec. 25, 1903, Stuttgart economist and sociologist who served briefly as Austrian minister of commerce and agriculture (1871); he was responsible for a major …
119Thun und Hohenstein, Leo, Count von — ▪ Austrian statesman born April 7, 1811, Tetschen, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Děčín, Czech Republic] died December 17, 1888, Vienna, Austria Hungary pro Czech Austrian statesman and administrator who improved the educational… …
120Tocqueville, Alexis de — ▪ French historian and political writer Introduction born July 29, 1805, Paris, France died April 16, 1859, Cannes political scientist (political science), historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835–40), a… …
