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LEFT ENTBE DOURO E MINHO 33 EFEE ENTRE DOURO E MINHO (en'tre d5'r6 a men'yo), CT MINHO, a province of Portugal, in the extreme N. W. of the country, bounded on the N. by the Minho river, and on the S. by the Douro river. It has been called the Paradise of Portu- gal. The climate is agreeable and healthy. The chief productions are v^ine, oil, flax, maize, w^heat, barley, oats, and vegetables. Wine is shipped largely at Oporto, the capital. Along the coast are numerous fisheries, at which great num- bers find employment. The province of Minho consists of three districts, Braga, Vianna, and Oporto. Pop. about 1,300,000. ENTRE RIOS (en'tra re'os) ("be- tween rivers"), a province of the Argen- tine Republic, between the Parana and the Uruguay rivers. Estimated area, 29,021 square miles: pop. about 430,000. The country is chiefly pastoral, but an increasing proportion is being put under cultivation, about 300,000 acres being now devoted to maize and wheat. The province is fertile, and well watered, be- ing subject, in the S., to annual floods; nevertheless, the climate is very healthy. Lime and gypsum are worked. The prov- ince has about 500 miles of railway. The capital is Parana. ENVER PASHA, a Turkish soldier and politician. He was the chief and most influential leader in the Committee of Union and Progress, and with its ad- vent into power through the revolution which overthrew Abdul Hamid, he began to take a prominent part in the political life of the Turkish nation. Immediately after the success of the Young Turk party he was sent to Berlin as the mili- tary attache of the Turkish Embassy, and it is believed that it was through him personally that the understanding between Turkey and Germany was de- veloped which led the Turks to throw their lot in with the Central Empires during the World War shortly after hos- tilities began. Enver Pasha was the most able assistant of General Liman von Sanders in the reorganization of the Turkish Army. After the collapse of the Turkish Government, in 1918, he fled to Germany. In January, 1920, he was reported to be back in Asiatic Turkey, where he raised the flag of revolt against the Government established by the Allies in Constantinople. Believing that he had the moral support of the whole Moham- medan world, especially in India, he de- manded a revision of that clause of the Paris Treaty which proposed the partition of Turkey, his followers being known as the Nationalists. See Turkey. EOCENE (e'o-sen), in geology, a term applied to the lower division of the Tertiary strata. The Eocene beds are arranged in two groups, termed the Lower and Upper Eocene; the strata formerly called Upper Eocene being now known as Oligocene. They consist of marls, limestones, clays, and sandstones, and are found in the Isle of Wight and in the S. E. of England, and N. W. of France, in central Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, and the Atlantic coast of North America. ENVER PASHA EOLUS (e'o-lus), in Roman mythology, god of the winds. EPAMINONDAS, an ancient Greek hero, who, for a time, raised his country, Thebes, to the summit of power and pros- perity. He was born about 418 B. C. He led in the struggle during which Spartan supremacy in Greece was destroyed, and the supremacy of Thebes temporarily se- cured. Four times he successfully in- vaded the Peloponnesus, at the head of the Thebans, but after his death Thebes soon sank to her former secondary condi- tion. He was distinguished for the friendship subsisting between him and Pelopidas, with whom he served in the Spartan campaign 385 B. c. His virtues have been praised by both Xenophon and Plutarch. He was killed at the battle of Mantineia 362 B. C. EP^E (e-pa'), CHARLES MICHEL. ABB^ DE L'. instructor of the deaf and dumb; born in Versailles, France. Nov. 25, 1712. Taking orders, he became a preacher and canon at Troyes, but later