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* NAGPUR. 320 NAHTJATLAN STOCK. northeast of Bombay (Map: India. C 4). It occupies au imhealthful site on the banks of the Nag, a sniall stream, and with its extensive suburbs covers an area seven miles in circum- ference. The European quarter is in the Sita- baldi suburb, centred by the fort-crowned Sita- baldi Hill. Here, also, on the north, are the bazaars and the cantonment. Several fine Hindu temples of Mahratlan architecture, handsome gardens, monumental tanks, and the tombs of the Bhonsla Kajas are notable native features. There are manufactures of silk, cotton, and cutlery, and a considerable trade in agricultural produce, salt, and European manufactured goods. ■ Xagjmr became the capital of an independent Mahratta raja in 1740. In 1817 it was the scene of an attack by Kaja A])pa Sahib with 18.000 troops on the" British Residency. The Resident, Mr. Jenkins, who had anticipated trouble, and had nianaped to assemble KijO men under CVjI. Scott, defeated the assailants after eighteen hours' fighting. A second battle a month later resulted in the Raja's submission and subsequent deposition. Population, in 1891, 117.014: in 1001. 127,734. NAGUILIAN, nU'g4-le'an. A town of North- ern Luzon, I'hilippines, in the Province of La Union, situated 11 miles southeast of San Fer- nando (Map: Philippine Islands, E 3). Pop- uhition. 10.4(10. NAGY-BANYA, nod'y'-biin'yo. A town of Northeastern Hungary, situated among the Lapos Mountains, 90 miles east of Debreczin (Map: Hungary. H 3). It has a State college, and its chief industries are gold, silver, and copper mining. Poiuilation, in 1900, 11,109. NAGY-BECSKEREK, bech'kg-rek. A town of Hungary. See Becskerek. NAGY-KAROLY, ka'r.M-y'. The capital of the County of SzatmSr, Hungary, situated 43 miles by rail east-northeast of Debreczin (Map: Hiuigary. H 3). It has a fine church, a jialace of the t'nimts Kflrolyi, a Piarist monastery, and gymnasium. Its chief products are coarse cloth, linen, and leather. Population, in 1900. 1.5.382. NAGY-KIKINDA, ke'ken-do, or Gross Ki- KiN"i).. A town of Hungary, situated 3ti miles by rail west of Temesvar (Map: Hungary, G 4). It has a higher gmnasium and an extensive trade in agricultural products and domestic ani- mals. Population, in 1890, 22,923; in 1900, 28,843. ov<T one-half Serbs. NAGY-KOROS, kf-'resh. A town of Hungary. See K(iR.s. NAGY-SZEBEN, se'ben. A town of Hungary. See llKiiMANNSTAOT. NAGY-SZOMBAT, sftrnTjot. The Hungarian name ol Tyrnau (q.v.). NAGY-VARAD. vii'rod. A town of Hun- gary. Sec (iROSSW.VKDEI.N. NAHANT'. A town in Essex County, ^lass., on a peninsula extending into Massachusetts Bay; reached by stage from Lynn (four miles), and in summer by steamers from Boston (ten miles) (Map: Massachusetts, F 3). It has a public library with 13. .500 volumes. Nnliant has been for years a favorite place of summer resort for Boston business men. and has many handsome seaside residences. Population, in 1890, 880: in 1900, 1182. The site of Nahant is claimed to have been the landfall of the North- men. It was visited in 1014 by Capt. John Smith, and in 1022 was granted to Capt. Robert Ciorges. Until 1853, when it was incorporated as a separate town, Nahant was a part of Lynn. Consult Ilurd, History of Essex County, Massw- chiisitis (Philadelphia, 1888). NAHARRO, ua-iir'ro, Bartolom£ de Torres. A Spanish poet and dramatist, born at La Torre, near Badajoz, toward the end of the fif- teenth century. He lived at Rome and subse- quently at Naples, where he published his col- lected'works under the title Fropaladia (1517), and dedicated them to Ferdinand d"Avalos, the husband of Vitloria Colonna. His plays have action, character, and plot, and are of historic value: Naharro is called the creator of Spanish comedy. He also wrote ballads, sonnets, and epistles. It was some time before his plays became known in Spain, and the first Spanish edition of them did not appear until 1520. But during the following century his works were very popular, although, owing to his manner of describing the clergj-, the later editions were exptirgatcd. NAHR-EL-ASI, niir'el-a'se. A river of Syria. See (JROXTES. NAHUATLAKT (ni-wat'liln) STOCK. An American linguistic grou]) centred about the southern jiart of the central plateau of Mexico, but with isolated tribes farther to the south, almost to the Isthmus of Panama. The Nahuat- lan stock, in the commonly accepted scope of the term, includes the Nahua proper or Aztae (q.v.) in and adjoining the valley of .Mexico (States of Mexico and Puebla), the Tlascaltec (Tlaxcala), the Cuitlateco (Jlichoacan), the Cora, the Huichol (Jalisco), the Acaxec (Sinaloa and Durango), the Alaguilac, the Pipil ((iuate- mala and Salvador), the Niquiran (Nicaragua), and the Segua (Costa Rica), with numcroua subtribes and dialects. Traditional and lin- guistic evidence makes the Nahuatlan emigrants from the north, who acquired most of their culture from contact with the superior Mayan and Tarascan civilizaticm after establishing them- selves in the southern part of the peninsula. As their social condition advanced, the sim))lc primi- tive system of ruling chiefs develojicd in some eases, particularly among the Aztec, into a regular hereditary monarchy. Descent and in- heritance, both of odice and property, were in the male line, but land was held by the clan, and marriage was regulated by gentile laws of kinship. Agriculture was the basis of national existence and was governed by strict laws, while the arts of weaving, pottery, and architecture reached a highdegree of perfection. Gold, silver, and copper were worked, and a bronze alloy has been rciiorted, but the ordinarv' tools and implements were still of stone or obsidian. Religious rites were observed with elaborate and imposing ceremonials, eomlticted by priestly or- ders of both sexes, which controlled also the education of the children. At Tenochtitlan or Mexico, the capital of the Aztec Empire, thou- sands of captives were annually devoled to the bloody rites of human sacrifice and cannibalism in honor of the god of war. Literature was extensively lultivatcd in the form of pictograph records and rituals, which were painted in bril- liant colors upon books of maguey paper or dressed skins, very similar to those in use among 11