Carlos Slim Helú: …Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, amassed interests in the fields of communications, insurance, construction, energy, mining, retailing, publishing, and finance.

Mitla: …structures—Grupo de las Columnas (Columns Group), Grupo de las Iglesias (Churches Group), Grupo del Arroyo (Arroyo Group), Grupo de los Adobes (Adobe Group), and Grupo del Sur (Southern Group)—of which only the first two had been fully excavated and restored by the early 1980s. Each group has several rectangular…

Mitla: …Grupo de las Iglesias (Churches Group), Grupo del Arroyo (Arroyo Group), Grupo de los Adobes (Adobe Group), and Grupo del Sur (Southern Group)—of which only the first two had been fully excavated and restored by the early 1980s. Each group has several rectangular patios (some connected by long, winding…

Baltasar Garzón: …successfully prosecuted members of the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (Grupos Antiteroristas de Liberación; GAL)—an illegal paramilitary organization that opposed the Basque separatist group ETA—for the murders of a number of suspected ETA members. In 1993 Garzón won a seat in Spain’s Congress of Deputies, where he represented the Spanish Socialist Workers’…

Gruppe 47, informal association of German-speaking writers that was founded in 1947 (hence its name). Gruppe 47 originated with a group of war prisoners in the United States who were concerned with reestablishing the broken traditions of German literature. Feeling that Nazi propaganda had corrupted

Group Portrait with Lady, novel by Heinrich Böll, published in German in 1971 as Gruppenbild mit Dame. The novel, a sweeping portrayal of German life from World War I until the early 1970s, was cited by the Nobel Prize committee when it awarded Böll the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. The

Gruppo 63, avant-garde Italian literary movement of the 1960s. It was composed of Italian intellectuals who shared the desire for a radical break from the conformity present in traditional Italian society. The group was organized at a 1963 meeting in Palermo. Edoardo Sanguineti, Elio Pagliarani,

Grus, constellation in the southern sky at about 22 hours right ascension and 45° south in declination. Its brightest star is Al Na’ir (from the Arabic for “the bright one”), with a magnitude of 1.7. This constellation was invented by Pieter Dircksz Keyser, a navigator who joined the first Dutch

whooping crane, (Grus americana), tallest American bird and one of the world’s rarest. At the beginning of the 21st century fewer than 300 whooping cranes remained in the wild. Most are part of a flock that migrates between Texas and Canada. Almost all the rest are part of a mainly nonmigrating

India: Birds: …birds in India include the Indian crane, commonly known as the sarus (Grus antigone); a large gray bird with crimson legs, the sarus stands as tall as a human. Bustards inhabit India’s grasslands. The great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), now confined to central and western India, is an endangered species…

sandhill crane, (Grus canadensis), Crane species (family Gruidae), 35–43 inches (90–110 cm) long, with a red crown, a bluish or brownish gray body tinged with sandy yellow, and a long, harsh, penetrating call. It is one of the oldest of all existing bird species. It breeds from Alaska to Hudson

Grusi, ethnolinguistic group among the inhabitants of northern Ghana and adjacent areas of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and Togo. The linguistic groups and subgroups of the area are difficult to classify with certitude, but the Grusi languages make up a subbranch of the Gur (Voltaic) branch

Gur languages: …Benin, and Burkina Faso) and Grusi (with a further 20 languages, some to the west and others to the east of the Oti-Volta group). The largest languages in the Oti-Volta group include Moore, the principal language of eastern Burkina Faso; Gurma (600,000); Gurenne (550,000); Dagbani, the principal language of northern…

Amy Coney Barrett: Writing for the court in Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School (2018), she recognized a religious liberty exception to the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and on that ground barred a teacher’s discrimination lawsuit against the school that had employed her. Barrett’s dissenting opinion in Kanter v. Barr (2019) employed…

affirmative action: …constitutionality of affirmative action (Grutter v. Bollinger), though it also ruled that race could not be the preeminent factor in such decisions, striking down the university’s undergraduate admissions policy that awarded points to students on the basis of race (Gratz v. Bollinger). Three years later admissions policies of the…

Luigi Boccherini: Legacy: …the 19th-century composer and cellist Friedrich Grützmacher. Boccherini’s well-known minuet is from his String Quintet in E Major, G 275.

Gruyère, hard cow’s-milk cheese produced in the vicinity of La Gruyère in southern Switzerland and in the Alpine Comté and Savoie regions of eastern France. Gruyère is formed in large wheels of 70 to 80 pounds (32 to 36 kg) with a brownish, wrinkled natural rind. The interior is pale gold with

La Gruyère: …are Bulle, the capital, and Gruyères, the historic capital, site of the medieval castle of the counts. One of the richest dairying districts in Switzerland, La Gruyère is famous for its cattle and its cheese. Wood products and Gruyère cheese are produced at Bulle, and chocolate is made at Broc.…

Mikhail Markovich Borodin was the chief Comintern agent in China in the 1920s, who built the loosely structured Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) of Sun Yat-sen into a highly centralized Leninist-style organization. Borodin joined the Bolshevik party in Russia in 1903. In 1906 he was arrested and

philosophy of physics: The theory of Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber: The second proposed solution to the measurement problem, as noted above, affirms that wave functions are complete representations of physical systems but denies that they are always governed by the linear differential equations of motion. The strategy behind this…

Dalia Grybauskaitė is a former politician who served as president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She was the first woman to hold the post. Known for being tough, Grybauskaitė was sometimes called the country’s “Iron Lady.” Grybauskaitė studied at Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov State University (now Saint

Duane Hanson: …he met the German artist George Grygo, whose work in polyester resin and fibreglass had a great influence on his sculptures. Hanson returned to the United States and settled in Atlanta, where he taught art at Oglethorpe University and began his own experiments with polyester resin and fibreglass. From 1965…

cricket, (family Gryllidae), any of approximately 2,400 species of leaping insects (order Orthoptera) that are worldwide in distribution and known for the musical chirping of the male. Crickets vary in length from 3 to 50 mm (0.12 to 2 inches). They have thin antennae, hind legs modified for

ice bug, (order Grylloblatodea), any of approximately 25 species of rare and primitive insects found in the mountains of Japan, western North America, and eastern Siberia. A pale, wingless creature 15 to 30 mm (0.6 to 1.2 inches) long, it has biting mouthparts, long antennae, and small compound

ice bug, (order Grylloblatodea), any of approximately 25 species of rare and primitive insects found in the mountains of Japan, western North America, and eastern Siberia. A pale, wingless creature 15 to 30 mm (0.6 to 1.2 inches) long, it has biting mouthparts, long antennae, and small compound

mole cricket, (family Gryllotalpidae), any of about 65 species of insects (order Orthoptera) that are sometimes placed in the true cricket family, Gryllidae. The common name is derived from the insect’s molelike appearance and underground habits. The mole cricket has forelegs modified for

Plutarch: The Moralia of Plutarch: …no clear answer), and “Gryllus” (also called “Do Animals Reason?”). “Gryllus” is an entertaining dialogue set on Circe’s island in which a pig, one of Odysseus’s transformed companions, attacks the Stoic argument denying reason to animals and convinces Odysseus of the moral superiority of many animals over humans. The…

animal behaviour: Behavioral genetics: …the calling behaviour that male crickets (Gryllus integer) use to attract females has been measured. In any one population, some males chirp away for many hours each night, others call for just a few hours, and still others almost never call. The heritability of calling duration for one Canadian population…

cricket: …cricket (genus Gryllus) and the house cricket (Acheta, formerly Gryllus, domesticus) of the subfamily Gryllinae are stout-bodied and black or brown and often dig shallow burrows. They may feed on plants, animals, clothes, and each other. The field cricket (also called the black cricket) is common in fields and yards…

John Ceiriog Hughes was a poet and folk musicologist who wrote outstanding Welsh-language lyrics. After working successively as a grocer’s helper, a clerk in Manchester, and a railway official in Wales, Hughes began winning poetry prizes in the 1850s and thereafter published several volumes of

Gryphaea, extinct molluskan genus found as fossils in rocks from the Jurassic Period to the Eocene Epoch (between 199.6 million and 33.9 million years ago). Related to the oysters, Gryphaea is characterized by its distinctively convoluted shape. The left valve, or shell, was much larger and more

Andreas Gryphius was a lyric poet and dramatist, one of Germany’s leading writers in the 17th century. Gryphius (the family name Greif was latinized after the fashion of the times) was orphaned early in life, and the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War soon cast a shadow over his unsettled childhood.

griffin, composite mythological creature with a lion’s body (winged or wingless) and a bird’s head, usually that of an eagle. The griffin was a favourite decorative motif in the ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lands. Probably originating in the Levant in the 2nd millennium bce, the griffin

Józef Chłopicki was a general who served with distinction with the armies of Napoleon and was briefly the dictator of Poland after the November Insurrection of 1830. Chłopicki enlisted in the Polish army in 1785 and fought in the campaigns of 1792–94 before and after the Second Partition of Poland.

John III Sobieski: The siege of Vienna: …Sobieski concluded with them the “Eternal” Peace of 1686 (the Grzymułtowski Peace). In this treaty, Kiev, which had been under temporary Russian rule since 1667, was permanently ceded by Poland. But despite all the failures and disappointments he experienced after 1683, Sobieski was able to deliver southeastern Poland from the…

Alpine skiing: …latter including the slalom and giant slalom. The speed events are contested in single runs down long, steep, fast courses featuring few and widely spaced turns. The technical events challenge the skier’s ability to maneuver over courses marked by closely spaced gates through which both skis must pass; winners are…

General Services Administration (GSA), executive agency of the U.S. federal government that manages equipment and property. Established in 1949, the GSA is responsible for purchasing and distributing supplies to government agencies and maintaining supplies of critical materials. It also oversees

Tibet: Plant and animal life: …of the jackal family), and gsa’s (spotted cats that are smaller than leopards). In the high grasslands and dry bush areas there are brown bears, wild and bighorn sheep, mountain antelope, musk deer, wild asses, wild yaks, snakes, scorpions, lizards, and dre-tse (members of the wolf family). Aquatic life includes…

separation and purification: Chromatography: In addition to chromatography, gas-solid distribution is also widely employed for purification, using special adsorbents called molecular sieves. These materials contain pores of approximately the same dimensions as small molecules. This property can be exploited in the separation of molecules having linear structures from those having bulky structures. The…

glycogen storage disease, any of a group of enzymatic deficiencies resulting in altered glycogen metabolism. They are subdivided on the basis of the specific deficiency into 13 types designated O and by successive roman numerals. The clinical manifestations fall into two groups, those associated

von Gierke’s disease, most common of a group of hereditary glycogen-storage diseases. It is inherited as an autosomal-recessive trait. In von Gierke’s disease, the body’s metabolism of glycogen is blocked by the absence of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, which regulates the release of the simple

GSG 9, that exists within Germany’s Federal Police (Bundespolizei). It was formed in the wake of the massacre at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games. After the defeat of the Nazi regime in World War II, the West German government was reorganized. West Germany had an army but no national police force or

Yama, in Tibetan Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities. See

Yamāntaka, in northern Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities. See

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), American manufacturer of calculators, microprocessors, and digital signal processors with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The direct antecedent to the company was founded May 16, 1930, by John Clarence (“Doc”) Karcher and Eugene McDermott to provide

copernicium: In 1996 scientists at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung [GSI]) in Darmstadt, Ger., announced the production of atoms of copernicium from fusing zinc-70 with lead-208. The atoms of copernicium had an atomic weight of 277 and decayed after 0.24 millisecond by emission of an alpha particle…

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), British-based pharmaceutical company with research-and-development centres in the United States, Belgium, and China as well as the United Kingdom. The company’s products include treatments for migraines, heart failure, and cancer, as well as vaccines for hepatitis A,

launch vehicle: India: …1990s India developed the liquid-fueled Geostationary Space Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which used cryogenic fuel in its upper stage. The GSLV was first launched in 2001. A more powerful launch vehicle, the LVM3, was developed in the 2010s, and the Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV) version of the LVM3 is scheduled…

mobile telephone: Development of cellular systems: …European Community announced the digital global system for mobile communications, referred to as GSM, the first such system that would permit any cellular user in one European country to operate in another European country with the same equipment. GSM soon became ubiquitous throughout Europe.

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM), Algeria-based Islamic militant group, active in North Africa and the Sahel region. The organization was founded as the GSPC in 1998 by a former member of the Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé; GIA), an Islamic militant group that participated in

psychogalvanic reflex (PGR), a change in the electrical properties of the body (probably of the skin) following noxious stimulation, stimulation that produces emotional reaction, and, to some extent, stimulation that attracts the subject’s attention and leads to an aroused alertness. The response

Guzhangian Stage: …Commission on Stratigraphy established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of this unit in the carbonate rock beds of the Huaqiao Formation in the Wuling Mountains of Hunan, China. The GSSP marks the first appearance of the trilobite Lejopyge laevigata in the fossil record. The Guzhangian…

India: Monetary and tax reforms: …tax regime known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented. The new tax system replaced a number of taxes levied throughout the country by various jurisdictions and unified them under one system and thus eliminated the problem of cascading tax. Its implementation caused temporary confusion among businesses, but…

Canada: The administration of Brian Mulroney, 1984–93: …a highly unpopular (and visible) tax on goods and services (GST). In December 1992 Canada signed the multilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Mexico.

Gstaad, Alpine village and resort, Bern canton, west-central Switzerland, lying in the valley of the Saane River. Situated on the northwest side of the Bernese Alps, the village is a summer resort (with golf and tennis tournaments) and is also a fashionable winter-sports centre. Winter events in

Google Workspace, free computer application service offered by the American search engine company Google Inc. Some consider it a kind of freeware. What do you think? Explore the ProCon debate In 2006, in what many in the industry considered the opening salvo in a war with Microsoft Corporation,

gsung-’bum, the collected writings of a Tibetan or Mongolian lama. These series of works represent an indigenous contribution to Buddhist thought, as distinguished from the numerous texts originating in India and collected in the canonical Bka’-’gyur and the supplementary Bstan-’gyur. The writings

bullet ant: …said to feel like a gunshot—hence the insect’s common name—and it is considered to be the most painful of all insect stings. In Venezuela the bullet ant is known as the “24-hour ant,” in reference to the length of time a person may feel pain from a sting.

Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), the largest optical telescope in the world, with a mirror that has a diameter of 10.4 metres (34.1 feet). It is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (2,326 metres [7,631 feet]) in the Canary Islands of Spain. The mirror consists of 36

graphics processing unit: …being referred to was a geometry transformation engine (GTE). Though the technology was still used to perform calculations, it was less powerful than a modern GPU. Many components of the GTE were integrated into the GPU when the technology came out. The 3-D add-in card (which some consider the first…

GTE Corporation, U.S. holding company for several U.S. and international telephone companies. It also manufactures electronic consumer and industrial equipment. It is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. General Telephone was founded in 1926 as Associated Telephone Utilities by Sigurd Odegard, a

automobile: American compact cars: …line, as typified by the Pontiac GTO.

gtor-ma, sacrificial cakes used in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies as offerings to deities. The unbaked cakes are prepared by kneading parched barley flour and butter into the shapes of cones, decorated with pats of butter. The cakes form part of the phyi-mchod, or eight offerings of external worship,

guanine: Guanosine triphosphate (GTP) is used by the body to form the guanylic acid units in ribonucleic acids (RNA’s).

Gtsang dynasty, Chinese royal dynasty (c. 1565–1642) whose rule was centred in the province of Gtsang, or gTsang. The Gtsang was the last secular native ruling house in Tibet. After overthrowing the previous Rin-spung rulers of the country in about 1565, the Gtsang kings allied themselves with the

Gtsang dynasty, Chinese royal dynasty (c. 1565–1642) whose rule was centred in the province of Gtsang, or gTsang. The Gtsang was the last secular native ruling house in Tibet. After overthrowing the previous Rin-spung rulers of the country in about 1565, the Gtsang kings allied themselves with the

Srong-brtsan-sgam-po: …the capital, the Tsuglagkhang, or Gtsug-lag-khang (Jokhang), Temple, which remains Tibetan Buddhism’s most sacred place.

Uṣṇīṣavijayā, popular Buddhist goddess in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia. Her name in Sanskrit means “victorious goddess of the uṣṇīṣa,” the last-named object being the protuberance on the top of the Buddha’s skull. She wears an image of the Buddha Vairocana in her headdress and is described as

gu, type of Chinese vessel, it was a tall wine beaker with a trumpet-shaped top, a restricted centre section, and a slightly flared base; the whole silhouette was unusually taut and graceful. Decoration found on the gu includes snakes, cicadas, the taotie, or monster mask, and the gui, or

African art: Fon: …example is the sculpture of Gu, the god of iron and war, made from sheets of metal. The thrones of Fon kings are similar in form to Asante stools but are much taller and are preserved as the focus of reverence for ancestral kings. Small figures cast in brass, often…

gu, any of several sizes and shapes of Chinese drum, with a body that is usually made of wood and a head that is usually made of animal skin. Two-headed gu may be barrel-shaped, cylindrical, or hourglass-shaped. Single-headed gu, such as the bangu, may be in the shape of a deep or shallow basin.

Korean performing arts: Chosŏn and modern periods: Gu gug (literally “old plays”) became popular about the middle of the 19th century. They were dramatic songs, danced to gestures and simple group movements. Troupes played throughout the countryside and in the National Theatre, built in Seoul by the government in 1902. Until the…

Chinese painting: Landscape painting: …hunting scenes, the southerners, notably Gu Hongzhong and Zhou Wenju, depicted the voluptuous, sensual court life under Li Houzhu. A remarkable copy of an original work by Gu Hongzhong depicts the scandalous revelries of the minister Han Xizai. Zhou Wenju was famous for his pictures of court ladies and musical…

Xie He: The “Six Principles” introduce Xie’s Gu Huapin Lu (“Classified Record of Painters of Former Times”), which rates 27 painters in three classes of descending merit, each with three subdivisions. The “Six Principles” have inevitably acquired new and even different meanings through the ages, but generally they may be paraphrased as…

kunqu: It was created by Gu Jian, a musician of Kunshan (near Suzhou), who combined the music of the region with an improvement on the music of nanxi (“southern drama”).

Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai: Gu’s father was Gu Jingsheng, a former general and CCP bureaucrat. Both Bo Yibo and Gu Jingsheng fell from favor during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), and because of their family connections, Bo Xilai spent five years in reeducation classes and physical labor and Gu Kailai worked in a…

Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai: Both Bo and Gu came from prominent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) families and thus were part of the generation of “princelings” who had succeeded their parents as China’s elite. Bo’s father was Bo Yibo, one of the “Eight Immortals” who oversaw China’s reform and modernization efforts in the…

Gu Kaizhi was one of the earliest many-faceted artists in China, he probably set new standards for figure painting. Gu Kaizhi was an eccentric courtier who is most famous as a painter of portraits and figure subjects and as a poet. Gu Kaizhi’s art is known today from both written records and

Donglin: The party was founded by Gu Xiancheng, a government official forced out of office because of his outspoken criticism of those in power. In 1604 he established the Donglin (“Eastern Forest”) Academy at Wuxi in southeast China as a centre for private learning and philosophic discussion. Many of the group…

Gu Yanwu was one of the most famous of the Ming dynasty loyalists, whose rationalist critiques of the useless book learning and metaphysical speculations of neo-Confucian philosophy (which had been the underpinning of the Chinese empire for almost 1,000 years) started a new trend in scholarship

Cape Coast, town in the center of the seaboard of Ghana. It lies on a low promontory jutting into the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean about 75 miles (120 km) southwest of the Ghanaian capital of Accra. In the 15th century the Portuguese established a post on the site, and in the 16th century

guacamole, a spread or dip made of avocados. Traditionally, guacamole is made with peeled and mashed ripe avocados and salt. Lime juice, cilantro, onion, and hot green peppers, such as serranos and jalapeños, are the most common inclusions. Some recipes call for tomatoes. While it originated in

Gulf of Guacanayabo, inlet of the Caribbean Sea, southeastern Cuba. The gulf stretches in a broad horseshoe shape from the southern coast of Camagüey province approximately 70 mi (110 km) to the southwestern shore of Granma province, north of Cabo (cape) Cruz. It is shallow and dotted with coral

oilbird, (Steatornis caripensis), nocturnal bird of South America that lives in caves and feeds on fruit, mainly the nuts of oil palms. The oilbird is an aberrant member of the order Caprimulgiformes; it comprises the family Steatornithidae. About 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, with fanlike tail

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian filmmaker known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018), Bones and All (2022), and Challengers (2024). Guadagnino is openly gay and often explores queer themes in his films. Guadagnino was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, to a Sicilian father and an Algerian

Guadalajara, city, capital of Guadalajara provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile–La Mancha, central Spain. It is situated on the Henares River northeast of Madrid. The city, the ancient Arriaca, is Iberian in origin and was for a time held by the Romans,

Guadalajara, city, capital of Jalisco estado (state), west-central Mexico. It lies roughly in the centre of the state, in the Atemajac Valley near the Río Grande de Santiago, at an elevation of about 5,100 feet (1,550 metres). Its climate is dry and mild except for the rainy season, which extends

Guadalajara, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile–La Mancha, central Spain, occupying part of the uptilted northeastern edge of the Meseta Central (plateau). In the north are highlands that reach their greatest elevations in Cerro de San Felipe (7,214

Sinaloa cartel: Origins: …can be traced to the Guadalajara cartel, which was one of Mexico’s largest crime organizations in the early 1980s. However, after the cartel was involved in the 1985 torture and murder of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, U.S. and Mexican forces cracked down on the syndicate, and by the end…

North America: Water resources: Columbia, Colorado, Rio Grande, and Guadalajara rise in snowy or rainy mountains and supply enough water, especially where their waters are trapped by dams, to serve the basins through which they flow. Lesser rivers, however, often cease flowing and are intermittent or ephemeral. Groundwater supply in areas with artesian wells…

University of Guadalajara, coeducational state-supported autonomous institution of higher learning at Guadalajara, Mex., founded in 1792 and restructured in 1925. Dissident students and professors from the university formed a private Autonomous University of Guadalajara (1935), which continues to

University of Guadalajara, coeducational state-supported autonomous institution of higher learning at Guadalajara, Mex., founded in 1792 and restructured in 1925. Dissident students and professors from the university formed a private Autonomous University of Guadalajara (1935), which continues to

Anthony Quinn: … (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), and Back to Bataan (1945). His first lead role came in 1947 in Black Gold. That year Quinn went to New York City and made his Broadway debut in The Gentleman from Athens. He followed that with touring as Stanley Kowalski in…

Guadalcanal Island, largest island of the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island has an area of 2,047 square miles (5,302 square km) and is of volcanic origin. It has a mountainous spine (Kavo Range) that culminates in Mount Popomanaseu (7,644 feet [2,330 metres]), the

Battle of Guadalcanal, (August 1942–February 1943), series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. Along with the naval Battle of Midway (June 3–6, 1942), the fighting on

Pelayo: …by the Moors at the Battle of Guadalete near Medina Sidonia and reached his native Asturias, where he led a revolt of Asturians and Visigothic refugees against the Moorish governor Munuza. He was captured and sent to Córdoba as a hostage but escaped (717) and again assumed leadership of the…

Guadalquivir River, major watercourse of southern Spain. Rising in the mountains of Jaén province, it flows in a generally westward direction for 408 miles (657 km), emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, on the Gulf of Cádiz. It drains an area of 22,318 square miles (57,803

Guadalquivir River, major watercourse of southern Spain. Rising in the mountains of Jaén province, it flows in a generally westward direction for 408 miles (657 km), emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, on the Gulf of Cádiz. It drains an area of 22,318 square miles (57,803

Guadalupe, city, central Nuevo León estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It lies 672 feet (205 metres) above sea level on the Santa Catarina River, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Monterrey, the state capital. Guadalupe is primarily an agricultural centre. Corn (maize) is the principal crop in the

Guadalupe, county, central New Mexico, U.S., an arid plains area dotted with hills and red mesas and marked by a few arroyos. The county lies mostly in the Pecos River valley, rising in the east to a High Plains region. The Pecos makes an irregular curve through the county from northwest to south,