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Topic: Capital disambiguation


  
  Capital Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In South Africa, for example, the administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the outcome of the compromise that created the Union of South Africa in 1910.
Traditional capitals may be economically eclipsed by provincial rivals, as occurred with Thebes by Alexandria, Nanjing by Shanghai, or Edinburgh by Glasgow.
Unlike medieval capitals, which were declared wherever a monarch held his or her court, the selection, relocation, founding, or capture of a modern capital city is an emotional affair.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Capital   (1014 words)

  
 CAPITAL (DISAMBIGUATION) FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In geography and politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital) of a country or other political_entity is a city or town that contains the government.
In Marxian_economics, ''capital'' is asset value seeking surplus-value (or value-accretion) within a framework of private_property relations and social relations_of_production which permit the economic exploitation of surplus_labour.
Also, the term "capital" is often confused with the term capitol, which is the term used for certain buildings used to house the legislative body of a certain sovereignty.
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 Heafodburg - Wikipedia
The word capital is derived from the Latin caput meaning "head," and possibly related to Capitolinus, the tallest hill in Ancient Rome and that city's religious and historic center.
Amsterdam is the nominal national capital of The Netherlands even though the Dutch government, head of state and supreme court are all located in The Hague.
And many modern capital cities, such as Abuja and Ottawa, were deliberately fixed outside existing economic areas and have not established themselves as new commercial or industrial hubs since.
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 Capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word capital is derived from the Latin caput meaning "head," and the related term capitol refers to the building where government-business is chiefly conducted.
In such cases, the city housing the administrative capital is usually understood to be the "national capital" among outsiders.
For instance, Santiago is understood to be the capital of Chile even though its Congress is in Valparaiso.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capital   (811 words)

  
 Capital -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The word capital is derived from the (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin caput meaning "head," and the related term " (The government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet) capitol" refers to the building where government-business is chiefly conducted.
And many modern capital cities, such as (Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country) Abuja and (The capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)) Ottawa, were deliberately fixed outside existing economic areas, and may not have established themselves as new commercial or industrial hubs since.
Unlike medieval capitals, which were declared wherever a (Large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with fl and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed) monarch held his or her court, the selection, relocation, founding, or capture of a modern capital city is an emotional affair.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/capital.htm   (537 words)

  
 Madrid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=40_25_N_3_45_W_).
The kingdoms of Castilla, with its capital at Toledo, and Aragón, with its capital at Barcelona, were welded into modern Spain in the person of Carlos I.
Felipe V decided that a European Capital could not stay in such a state, and new palaces (including the Palacio Real de Madrid) were built during his reign.
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 The Capital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For alternative meanings see capital (disambiguation)'' In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of "capital") is the principal city or town associated with its government.
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The full rules of capitalization for English are complicated and have changed over time, generally to capitalize fewer terms; to the modern reader, an 18th century document seems to use initial capitals excessively.
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 Damascus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Damascus was conquered by the Caliph Umar I in AD Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak when it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from AD 661 to AD 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad.
He made it his capital, and following his death, it was acquired by Saladin, the ruler of Egypt, who also made it his capital.
An attempt to create an Arab kingdom under the Emir Faisal was defeated by the French in 1920, who made Damascus the capital of their League of Nations Mandate of Syria.
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Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the outcome of the compromise that created the Union of South Africa in
For instance, Santiago is understood to be the capital of
As the focal point of power for the region or country, the capital naturally attracts the politically motivated and those whose skills are needed for efficient administration of government such as lawyers,
en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Capital   (597 words)

  
 Goa - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The state capital is Panaji (often referred to—in its Anglicised name as — Panjim, or Ponnje in the local Konkani language) on the banks of the
Panjim is the legislative and administrative capital of Goa.
Bombay the judicial capital of the state despite being 600 km north.
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 Bambooweb: Capital
In a monarchy, often a capital is wherever a monarch's court is (which can move from palace to palace).
In South Africa, for example, the administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, while the judicial capital is Bloemfontein.
In the past, often a capital was the place where the various economic forms of capital were concentrated for easier protection.
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 Ambassador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own.
Diplomatic officers heading missions outside the capital, or heads of "interest group" missions between two states which do not have diplomatic relations, are known as consuls.
The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and even vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity to most laws of the host country.
www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ambassador   (507 words)

  
 Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On the top is a capital in the characteristic shape of a scroll, called a volute, at the four corners.
In fact, the oldest known Corinthian capital was found in Bassae, dated at 427 BC.
For instance, the capitals of the Capitol building in Washington, DC is made up partially of wheat stalks.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/co/Column.htm   (427 words)

  
 Capital (disambiguation)
In societies with official religions a capital (religion) is a religious capital.
In orthography, a capital is another term for an uppercase letter or majuscule.
In literature, Capital is the English title of Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/capital__disambiguation_   (253 words)

  
 Brussels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters in the city.
Brussels is first of all a city located in the centre of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Regions are one component of Belgium's complex institutions, the three communities being "the" other component: the Brussels inhabitants must deal with either the Flemish Community or the French (speaking) community for matters such as culture and education.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Brussels   (2073 words)

  
 WARSAW FACTS AND INFORMATION
Due to its central location between the Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth's capitals of Vilna and Cracow, Warsaw became the capital of Poland in 1596, when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital from Cracow.
Warsaw remained the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, when it was annexed by the Kingdom_of_Prussia to become the capital of the province of New_East_Prussia.
In the course of the Polish-Bolshevik_War of 1920, the huge Battle of Warsaw was fought on the Eastern outskirts of the city in which the capital of Poland was successfully defended and the Red_Army defeated.
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 Tarawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tarawa is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, previously the capital of the former British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
South Tarawa, the southern part of the atoll but Betio, is now the capital island of the Republic of Kiribati.
Teinainano Urban Council (or TUC), from Bairiki to Bonriki, known in English as South Tarawa, the capital of the republic;
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tarawa   (351 words)

  
 The man wrote to his brother from the city about their father in his native language.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We also connect the technical task of disambiguation with well-known linguistic notion of subcategorization frames, and show that the data obtained in disambiguation of a large corpus can be used in semi-automatic compilation of a kind of a combinatory dictionary.
By disambiguation we mean assigning to the variants the weights according to the probability for the given variant to represent the correct structure of the phrase.
For disambiguation of  a large enough corpus, as well as for initial training of the model, these two procedures can be used iteratively.
www.gelbukh.com /REDII/REDII-99/Publications/PacificSDW.htm   (3999 words)

  
 The capital - Alliance Capital Management, LP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Group.
Capital Hilton is among Washington, DC hotels near the White House and within reach of the Washington Monument, United States Capitol, Lincoln Memorial,
Alliance Capital Management, LP Provides a wide selection of municipal bond funds and US and global equity and bond funds.
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 national capital territory|National Capital Territory Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For instance, Santiago, ChileSantiago is understood to be the capital of Chile even though its National Congress of ChileCongress is in ValparaísoValparaiso.
Traditional capitals may be economically eclipsed by provincial rivals, as occurred with Thebes, EgyptThebes by Alexandria, Nanjing by Shanghai, or Edinburgh by Glasgow.
* Ruined and almost uninhabited Athens was made capital of newly independent Greece with the romantic notion of reviving the glory of the ancients;
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 Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The following pages are disambiguation pages linked here in order to avoid being shown in the list of orphaned articles.
Most of these links should point elsewhere - to properly disambiguated pages - and so the automatically generated page is a useful aid in finding those links so that they can be changed.
N: Napoleon (disambiguation) - Nauplius - NCS - NEA - Nemesis - Neptune - Netscape - New World Symphony - NF - NFL - NFS - Nicephorus - Nicholas I - Nicholas Ridley - Nike - Nine-eleven - Nirvana (disambiguation) - NLA - NLP - No More Mr.
www.freetemplate.ws /wi/wikipedia:links-to-disambiguating-pages.html   (1121 words)

  
 Barcelona (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
FC Barcelona is a football (soccer) club based in the Catalan capital
Barcelona, A song and an album written by Freddie Mercury of Queen and performed by him and opera star Montserrat Caballé.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Barcelona_(disambiguation)   (254 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Built on the site of a Moorish fort called Magerit, Philip II of Spain chose it to replace Valladolid as the capital in 1561.
(The capital returned to Valladolid during 1600-1606.) Due to this status, it grew into a flourishing city.
Madrid is the capital not only of the country but also of the province and autonomía of Madrid.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/m/ma/madrid.html   (200 words)

  
 Capital - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This page is about capital cities; for other uses of the word "capital" see capital (disambiguation) and capital (economics)
The capital or "political capital" of a country or other political entity is the city or town that contains the seat of government.
Lists of capitals: by name, by country, by continent and country
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 Articles - Xanadu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The capital consisted of the square-shaped "Outer City", "Inner City" and the palace, where Kublai Khan stayed in summer.
The Mongolian Khans made very few changes to their country, imbibing much of the Confucianist and Taoist philosophies, and remodelling their government on the native dynasties they had defeated.
However, they opened up the empire to westerners, allowing travellers like Venetian explorer Marco Polo in 1275 to report the wonders of the Eastern capital to their fellow Europeans.
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 La Paz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department.
In 1825, after the decisive victory of the republicans at Ayacucho over the Spanish army in the course of the South American Wars of Independence, the city's full name was changed to La Paz de Ayacucho (meaning The Peace of Ayacucho).
This change reflected the shift of the Bolivian economy away from the largely exhausted silver mines of Potosí to the exploitation of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the distribution of economic and political power among various national elites.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/La-Paz.htm   (371 words)

  
 Madrid Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W.
After the death of Franco, emerging democratic parties (including those of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeeded by Juan Carlos I--in order to secure stablity and democracy--which led Spain to its current position as constitutional monarchy.
Known simply as la Autónoma in Madrid, its main site is the Cantoblanco Campus, situated 15 kilometers to the north of the capital (M-607) and close to the municipal areas of Madrid, namely Alcobendas, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Tres Cantos and Colmenar Viejo.
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 Barcelona - encyclopedia article about Barcelona. Free access, no registration needed. What does Barcelona mean? What ...
Its capital is Barcelona, which is also the capital of Catalonia.
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25'N, 3°45'W. As of 2003 census, population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,092,759.
Population of the whole urban area was estimated in 2003 at 5,603,285 inhabitants.
www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/380BLS/380Unit5/Lesson5Europe1900_files/Barcelona.htm   (3632 words)

  
 Toledo Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
:''For other meanings: see Toledo (disambiguation)'' of Toledo cathedral]] Toledo is a city located in central Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha.
As of 1991, Toledo, Spain has a population of 63,561.
Toledo served as the capital city of Visigothic Spain, beginning with Leovigild, and was the capital until the Moors conquered Iberia in the 8th century.
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