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 AN GORA — ANNAPOLIS 451 ggregat of 3384 vessels of 1,123,289 tons. There is a railway gallons of beer, and the distilleries (1897) 763,000 from Loanda to Ambaca ; including this line, and others building, the province possesses 200 miles of railway. There are 670 miles of gallons of pure alcohol. In 1897 the mines produced telegraphs. The native population consists of Bushmen, Jagas 1,219,704 tons of lignite, valued at £169,500; 208,664 or laccas (Bangala), and Bantus. The province is divided into tons of coal, valued at £42,350; and 44,712 tons of five districts—Congo, Loanda, Benguela, Mossamedes, and Lunda. chloride of potassium, valued at £339,100. The popuThe province, the capital of which is Loanda (or Luanda), is administered by a governor-general. It forms a bishopric of the lation was 232,592 in 1880, 271,963 in 1890, and 316,085 in 1900, of whom 155,185 were males and ecclesiastical province of Lisbon. See E. de Vasconcellos. As Colonias Portuguesas. Lisbon, 160,900 females. All the population, except (1895) 8639 Roman Catholics and 1611 Jews, were members of the 1896-97. (e. ue y.) Angora, (1) a Turkish vilayet in north-central Asia Reformed church. In the period 1891-98 inclusive, 101 Minor, which includes most of the ancient Galatia. It is persons on an average emigrated every year. In the year an agricultural country, depending for its prosperity on its 1900-1901 the revenue and expenditure balanced at grain and the mohair obtained from the Angora goats— £1,384,823. The public debt amounted in 1899 to average annual clip 3,300,000 ft>. The only important £9375, and the state contribution to the empire in 1900 industry is carpet - weaving at Kir-shehr and Kaisarieh. to £127,710. There are mines of silver, copper, lignite, and salt, and Ani, an Armenian city of importance in the Middle many hot springs, including some of great repute medi- Ages, now in Russian territory, situated between the Arpa cinally. Average annual exports, 1896-98, <£920,762 ; im- Chai, Harpasus, and a deep ravine. In the 9th century it ports, <£411,836. Population, 900,000 (Moslems, 765,000 ; became the capital of the Bagratid kings of Armenia, and Christians, 135,000). (2) The chief town of the vilhyet, when yielded to the Byzantine emperor, 1046, it was a classical Ancyra, Turkish Enguri, situated on the left bank populous city. Soon afterwards it was taken by the Seljuk of the Enguri Su, a tributary of the Sakarla, on the slopes Turks, and its ruin was completed by the Mongols in the of a rocky hill which rises 500 feet above the plain, and is 13th century. Its remains are of great interest, especially crowned by the ruins of the old citadel. those of its churches, which throw much light on the Church Christianity was probably introduced at an early date, but there architecture of Armenia. is no evidence that the Ancyran church was founded by St Paul, Aniches, an industrial town of France, department or that he ever visited North Galatia. The town was captured by the Persians, the Arabs, the Seljuk Turks, and the Crusaders before of Nord, in the arrondissement of Douai, 12 miles S. by it passed to the Osmanli Turks. In 1832 it was taken by the E. of Lille, on railway from Cambrai to Valenciennes. It Egyptians. Angora is connected with Constantinople by railway, and exports mohair, grain, and yellow berries. Mohair cloth is has rich coal mines and is the seat of one of the most manufactured, and the town is noted for its honey and fruit. From important glass-works in France. Population (1881), 1639 to 1768 there was an agency of the Levant Company at 4967; (1891) 6296; (1896) 6437, (comm.) 6924. Angora, and there is now a British consul. Population, 30,000 (Moslems, 18,000 ; Christians, chiefly Roman Catholic Armenians, Animal Heat. See Physiology. 11,500 ; Jews, 500). (c. W. W.) Anjer, formerly a seaport town on the strait of Angostura.. See Ciudad Bolivar. Sunda, Java, 60 miles W. of Batavia. It was destroyed Angouleme, chief town of the department of by the inundation caused by the eruption of Krakatao in Charente, France, 277 miles S.S.W. of Paris, on the rail- August 1883. The telegraph cable between Java and way from Paris to Bordeaux. Seven suburbs surround the Sumatra terminates at Anjer Kidoel, or New Anjer, 3 town—Honmeau, Saint Ausonne, St Martin, St Cybard, la miles south of the old site. Bussatte, les Beziers, and St Roch. In addition to other Anklam, a town of Prussia, province Pomerania, industries it has manufactures of boots and shoes and gloves, wire drawing and rolling mills, and copper founding. near the mouth of the river Peene, 53 miles N.W. from Great commerce is carried on in wine, brandy, and paper, Stettin by the railway to Stralsund. The church of St. and the “ pierres d’Angouleme ” quarried in the neigh- Mary (12th century) has a new tower 335 ft. high. There bourhood. Population (1881), 25,750; (1891), 28,515; is here a military school. The industries consist of ironfoundries and factories for sugar and soap. Population (1896), 30,616; (1901), 37,650. (1885), 12,786; (1895), 13,560; (1900), 14,602. AnguiHa, or Snake, a small island now included Ankober. See Abyssinia. in the Presidency of St Kitts-Nevis in the British colony of the Leeward Islands. The destruction of trees by Annabergf, a town of Germany, Saxony, 6 miles charcoal-burners has resulted in the almost complete de- from the frontier of Bohemia, 18| miles S. by E. of forestation of the island. Nearly all the land is in the Chemnitz by rail. It has an industrial female school, hands of peasant proprietors, who cultivate sweet potatoes, besides schools for lace, agriculture, commerce, and music. peas, beans, corn, &c., and rear sheep and goats. Salt is The mining industry has greatly declined. Population still exported. The population in 1891 amounted to 3699 (1890), 14,960; (1900), 15,957. (123 white, 757 coloured, 2819 negroes). Arm am. See Tongking, Cochin-China, and Anhalt, a duchy of Germany, situated on the Elbe Indo-China. and Saale, and almost surrounded by the Prussian province Annan, a royal and parliamentary burgh (Dumfries of Saxony. Agriculture supports some 71,170 of the and port of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, standing on the population, i.e., 24 per cent, of the whole. The principal group), east bank of the river Annan, 93^ miles S.S.E. of Glasgow crops grown are beetroot (for sugar) and potatoes; then by rail. A harbour trust was constituted in 1897, and come hay, rye, barley, wheat, oats, and tobacco. In 1897 the harbour accommodation has been improved. The town there were in the duchy 18,515 horses, 67,100 cattle, hall has been rebuilt. Among the industries are sandstone 90,815 pigs, and 91,815 sheep. In 1895, out of a total quarrying, cotton manufacture, distilling, boat-building, of 32,280 farms, no less than 22,192, or 68'7 per cent., and nursery gardening. Large marine engineering works were less than 24 acres in area, 7530 between 2^ and 25 have been established in the vicinity. Population of acres, 2393 between 25 and 250 acres, and only 165 town in 1891, 4860; in 1901, 5804. more than 250 acres. In 1898-99 the sugar refineries Annapolis, a city and seaport of Maryland, U.S.A., produced 83,718 tons of sugar, the breweries 10,472,000 a

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