The Wizard of Oz: Plot summary: …inhabited by strange characters, including munchkins, talking trees, and witches. Dorothy’s house lands in the midst of Oz’s Munchkinland, and she soon realizes it has fallen on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, whose powerful ruby slippers are magically transported onto Dorothy’s own feet. Though the munchkins celebrate…

history of photography: Photojournalism: …picture magazines in Europe, the Münchner Illustrierte Presse and the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, began to print the new style of photographs. Erich Salomon captured revealing candid portraits of politicians and other personalities by sneaking his camera into places and meetings officially closed to photographers. Felix H. Man, encouraged by

Bavarian State Orchestra, German symphony orchestra based in Munich. It originated as the Münchner Kantorei (“Choir of Munich”), an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists gathered by Duke Wilhelm IV’s court composer Ludwig Senfl, beginning in 1523. Under the energetic Orlando di Lasso (1563–94)

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, German symphony orchestra, based in Munich. Founded in 1893 by Franz Kaim, the Kaim Orchestra, as it initially was known, became the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) during Siegmund von Hausegger’s tenure (1920–38) as music director. The municipal government of

Muncie, city, seat of Delaware county, eastern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the White River, 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Muncie is the average American town described in the classic sociological study Middletown, published in 1929 by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd. The name (shortened

Ball State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Muncie, Ind., U.S. The university comprises the colleges of applied sciences and technology, sciences and humanities, fine arts, architecture and planning, communication, information, and media, and business as

family law: Marriage as a transfer of dependence: …reflects the transfer of the mund (Old English: “hand”) to the bridegroom. In some systems the marriage forms may have a “bride purchase” origin, in the sense of compensation to her family (though there are differences of opinion as to the meaning of the customary forms); this was true in…

Munda, any of several more or less distinct tribal groups inhabiting a broad belt in central and eastern India and speaking various Munda languages of the Austroasiatic stock. They numbered approximately 9,000,000 in the late 20th century. In the Chota Nāgpur Plateau in southern Bihār, adjacent

Munda, any of several more or less distinct tribal groups inhabiting a broad belt in central and eastern India and speaking various Munda languages of the Austroasiatic stock. They numbered approximately 9,000,000 in the late 20th century. In the Chota Nāgpur Plateau in southern Bihār, adjacent

Munda languages, any of several Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 9,000,000 people (the Munda) in northern and central India. Some scholars divide the languages into two subfamilies: the North Munda (spoken in the Chota Nāgpur Plateau of Bihār, Bengal, and Orissa) including Korkū, Santhālī,

Battle of Munda, (45 bc), conflict that ended the ancient Roman civil war between the forces of Pompey the Great and those of Julius Caesar. The late Pompey’s sons, Gnaeus and Sextus, had seized Córdoba in Spain, and Caesar came with an army to end the revolt. After a long series of withdrawals,

Paul Otlet: …began referring to as the Mundaneum—in the palace situated in Brussels’s Cinquantenaire Park (Jubilee Park).

Paul Otlet: In 1998 a new Mundaneum Museum and Archive opened in Mons, Belgium, to house Otlet’s personal papers and part of the original Mundaneum collection.

Chad: Languages: …and central Chad, (2) the Mundang-Tuburi-Mbum languages, which are spoken by several hundred thousand people in southwestern Chad, (3) the Chado-Hamitic group, which is related to the Hausa spoken in Nigeria, (4) the Kanembu-Zaghawa languages, spoken in the north, mostly by nomads, (5) the Maba group, spoken in the vicinity…

Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator. The son of a draper, Munday began his career as an apprentice to a printer. In 1578 he was abroad, evidently as a secret agent sent to discover the plans of English Catholic refugees in France and Italy, and under a false

Casimir effect: In 2008 American physicist Jeremy Munday and Italian American physicist Federico Capasso first observed the repulsive Casimir effect between a gold-plated polystyrene sphere and a silica plate immersed in bromobenzene. The attractive Casimir effect can cause parts of nanomachines to stick together, and use of the repulsive Casimir effect…

Peter Handke: My Foot My Tutor) and Der Ritt über den Bodensee (1971; The Ride Across Lake Constance).

Mundelein, village, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, it lies 35 miles (55 km) north-northwest of downtown. Before settlement the area was inhabited by Potawatomi Indians. The village was founded in 1835 and was successively known as Mechanics Grove, for the English

Loyola University Chicago, private, coeducational university in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church. Loyola University was founded in 1870 on the near west side of Chicago as St. Ignatius College by members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman

George William Mundelein was a cardinal and archbishop of Chicago, a leading figure in the Americanization of the Roman Catholic church in the United States. Mundelein was educated at seminaries in New York and Pennsylvania; he studied theology in Rome and was ordained there in June 1895. In 1909

Robert A. Mundell was a Canadian-born economist who in 1999 received the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell attended the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1953), the University of Washington (M.A., 1954), the London School of

Robert A. Mundell was a Canadian-born economist who in 1999 received the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell attended the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1953), the University of Washington (M.A., 1954), the London School of

foreign exchange market: …are laid out by the Mundell-Fleming model. The model shows that governments have to choose two of the following three policy aims: (1) domestic monetary autonomy (the ability to control the money supply and set interest rates and thus control growth); (2) exchange rate stability (the ability to reduce uncertainty…

Weser River: Formed near the city of Münden by the union of its two headstreams—the Fulda and the Werra—the Weser flows 273 miles (440 km) northward through northern Germany to the North Sea. The major tributaries of the Weser are the Aller, Lesum, Geeste, Diemel, Ochtum, and Hunte rivers.

Lakhmid dynasty: …in Iranian affairs under King al-Mundhir I (c. 418–462), who raised Bahrām V to the throne of the Sasanian empire, the Lakhmids reached the height of their power in the 6th century, when al-Mundhir III (503–554) raided Byzantine Syria and challenged the pro-Byzantine Arab kingdom of Ghassān. His son ʿAmr…

Ghassanid dynasty: …unorthodoxy brought down his successors, al-Mundhir (reigned 569–582) and Nuʿmān.

Hūdid Dynasty: …murder of the Tujībid king Mundhir II, in 1039, enabled one of his allies, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hūd, known as al-Mustaʿīn, to seize the Tujībid capital of Saragossa and establish a new dynasty. Al-Mustaʿīn, who had been a prominent military figure of the Upper, or Northern, Frontier and governor…

Kindah: …of the Lakhmid king al-Mundhir III. About 529, however, al-Mundhir regained the city and killed al-Ḥārith, together with about 50 other members of the royal family—a devastating blow to Kindah power.

Spain: The independent emirate: …successors Muḥammad I (852–886), al-Mundhir (886–888), and ʿAbd Allāh (888–912) were confronted with a new problem, which threatened to do away with the power of the Umayyads—the muwallads. Having become more and more conscious of their power, they rose in revolt in the north of the peninsula, led by…

bobbin lace, handmade lace important in fashion from the 16th to the early 20th century. Bobbin laces are made by using a “pricking,” a pattern drawn on parchment or card that is attached to a padded support, the pillow or cushion. An even number of threads (from 8 to more than 1,000) are looped

Mondino De’ Luzzi was an Italian physician and anatomist whose Anathomia Mundini (MS. 1316; first printed in 1478) was the first European book written since classical antiquity that was entirely devoted to anatomy and was based on the dissection of human cadavers. It remained a standard text until

Sackler family: Opioid epidemic: …its English-based multinational pharmaceutical company Mundipharma.

Mariza: …more expansive and more personal Mundo (2015) was widely praised, and she continued her fusion of other styles with fado in her equally well-received self-titled 2018 release. On Mariza canta Amália (2020) Mariza covered the songs of Rodrigues.

Jorge de Lima: …Parnassian poets, but the volume O Mundo do Menino Impossível (1925; “The World of the Impossible Child”) signals his break with European tradition and his adherence to the Modernist movement in Latin-American literature. He became an active collaborator with Gilberto Freyre and others in the northeastern regionalist movement and produced…

Ciro Alegría: …es ancho y ajeno (1941; Broad and Alien Is the World ). It depicts in epic manner the struggles of an Indian tribe to survive in the Peruvian highlands against the greed of land-hungry white men. A collection of short fiction (Duelo de caballeros [1963; “Gentlemen’s Duel”]) and Novelas completas…

Emir Rodríguez Monegal: …Rodríguez Monegal was editor of Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language literary journal published in Paris that brought international attention to the writers who made up what came to be known as the “boom of the Latin American novel”: Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, and others. He…

Alfredo Bryce Echenique: …Un mundo para Julius (1970; A World for Julius), was acclaimed by critics and the public alike and won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1972. Among his best-known novels were Tantas veces Pedro (1977; “So Many Times Pedro”), La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (1981; “The Exaggerated Life of…

House Un-American Activities Committee: Karl Mundt that sought to proscribe many activities of the Communist Party though not to outlaw it altogether; the bill was passed by the House but failed in the Senate. Claiming that the need for legislation “to control Communist activities” was unquestionable, the bill asserted…

Oceanic art and architecture: The Sepik River regions: …people, especially the Biwat (Mundugumor), carved slit gongs, shields, masks, and various types of figure sculpture. Masks, like those of the Kambot, were usually hemispheric. Small figures used as flute stops had grossly enlarged heads that projected forward; they were often carved in conjunction with parrots and other creatures.…

Mundurukú, South American Indian people of the Amazon tropical forest. The Mundurukú speak a language of the Tupian group. They inhabit the southwestern part of the state of Pará and the southeastern corner of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Formerly, they were an aggressive, warlike tribe that

Mundurukú, South American Indian people of the Amazon tropical forest. The Mundurukú speak a language of the Tupian group. They inhabit the southwestern part of the state of Pará and the southeastern corner of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Formerly, they were an aggressive, warlike tribe that

Joseph Hall: ” Mundus Alter et Idem (c. 1605; “The World Different and the Same”), an original and entertaining Latin satire that influenced Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), dates from this period, as does Heaven upon Earth (1606), a book of moral philosophy. Hall later became domestic chaplain…

Amerigo Vespucci: Vespucci’s voyages: …under the titles of “Quattuor Americi navigationes” and “Mundus Novus,” or “Epistola Alberici de Novo Mundo.” The second series consists of three private letters addressed to the Medici. In the first series of documents, four voyages by Vespucci are mentioned; in the second, only two. Until the 1930s the…

Earth sciences: The rise of subterranean water: …philosopher Athanasius Kircher, in his Mundus subterraneus (1664; “Subterranean World”), suggested that the tides pump seawater through hidden channels to points of outlet at springs. To explain the rise of subterranean water beneath mountains, the chemist Robert Plot appealed to the pressure of air, which forces water up the insides…

Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator. The son of a draper, Munday began his career as an apprentice to a printer. In 1578 he was abroad, evidently as a secret agent sent to discover the plans of English Catholic refugees in France and Italy, and under a false

John Mundy was an organist and composer of choral and keyboard music. The son of the composer William Mundy, he was an organist at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. He received a bachelor of music degree at the University of Oxford in 1586 and the doctorate in 1624. Of his music, a few apparently

William Mundy was an English composer of polyphonic sacred music and father of the organist and composer John Mundy. Little is known of William Mundy’s early life other than that he was the son of Thomas Mundy, a sexton at St. Mary-at-Hill in London. William Mundy was head chorister of Westminster

Ahmed Dede Müneccimbaşı was an Ottoman astrologer, writer, and historian. After 15 years with the Mawlawī dervishes, Müneccimbaşı took up astronomy and astrology and in 1665 became the müneccimbaşi (court astrologer, hence his name) for Sultan Mehmed IV. Falling out of favour with the court in

Selena: Early life and performing with Los Dinos: …by the albums Alpha and Muñequito de Trapo (“Rag Doll”) two years later. In 1986, when Quintanilla was 15 years old, she won female entertainer of the year at the Tejano Music Awards, and her songs with Los Dinos began soaring on Latin music charts.

sports: Rome: Indeed, the munera, which pitted man against man, and the venationes, which set men against animals, became popular even in the Greek-speaking Eastern Empire, which historians once thought immune from the lust for blood. The greater frequency of chariot races can be explained in part by the…

John Ruskin: Cultural criticism of John Ruskin: Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris (1862 and 1872 as books, though published in magazines in 1860 and 1862–63) are attacks on the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Neither book makes any significant technical contribution to the study of economics (though Ruskin thought otherwise); both…

mung bean, (Vigna radiata), legume plant of the pea family (Fabaceae), grown for its edible seeds and young sprouts. The mung bean is likely native to the Indian subcontinent and is widely cultivated in Asia for use in a variety of sweet and savory dishes, particularly in India, China, Korea, and

Munger, city, Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies on the Ganges (Ganga) River, just north of Jamalpur. Munger is said to have been founded by the Guptas (4th century ce) and contains a fort that houses the tomb of the Muslim saint Shah Mushk Nafā (died 1497). In 1763 Mīr Qasīm, nawab of

Sally Mann is an American photographer whose powerful images of childhood, sexuality, and death are often deemed controversial. Mann was introduced to photography by her father, Robert Munger, a physician who photographed her nude as a girl. In 1969, as a teenager, she took up photography in

Möngke was a grandson of Genghis Khan and heir to the great Mongol empire. Elected great khan in 1251, he was the last man who held this title to base his capital at Karakorum, in central Mongolia. Under his rule the city achieved an unprecedented splendour, and the Mongol Empire continued to

Mungo, paleoanthropological site in New South Wales, southeastern Australia, known for ancient human remains discovered there in 1968 and 1974. The Mungo remains consist of two relatively complete fossil skeletons of Homo sapiens; hearths and artifacts were also found at the site. At Mungo is the

Lake Mungo: …the skeleton, referred to as Mungo Lady, had been burnt before burial, making them the world’s oldest evidence of cremation and ceremonial burial. In 1974 Bowler discovered the complete skeleton of a man, known as Mungo Man. Carbon-14 dating indicated that these remains were approximately 40,000 years old, meaning that…

Lake Mungo: …of a man, known as Mungo Man. Carbon-14 dating indicated that these remains were approximately 40,000 years old, meaning that Mungo Lady and Mungo Man were the oldest human remains found in Australia to that date.

Lake Mungo: …Australia, located in and around Mungo National Park. Lake Mungo is one of 17 dried Pleistocene Epoch (about 2.6 million to 11,700 years go) lake beds in the Willandra Lakes region, which was designated a World Heritage site in 1981.

Saint Kentigern ; feast day January 14) was an abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him except from late, dubious hagiographies. According to

mongoose: Classification: Genus Mungos (banded mongooses)2 African species.Genus Atilax (marsh mongoose)1 African species.Genus Cynictis (yellow mongoose)1 species of southern Africa.Genus Dologale

mongoose: Natural history: …but others, such as the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), dwarf mongooses (genus Helogale), and meerkats, live in large groups. Litters usually consist of two to four young.

Zimbabwe: Cultural life: …those of the much younger Charles Mungoshi explore the clash of Shona and Western cultures in both the Shona and English languages. Folk traditions have survived in dance and pottery. The revival of sculpture has drawn on tribal religion and totems to produce some remarkable works, particularly those of Takawira…

mongoose: Natural history: The Malagasy narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata) exhibits the same behaviour but lies on its side and uses all four feet to toss the egg.

Hinduism: The Rigveda: …for later generations were the munis, who apparently were trained in various magic arts and believed to be capable of supernatural feats, such as levitation. They were particularly associated with the god Rudra, a deity connected with mountains and storms and more feared than loved. Rudra developed into the Hindu…

Ātmārāmjī , important Jain reformer and revivalist monk. He was born a Hindu but as a child came under the influence of Sthānakavāsī Jain monks and was initiated as a Sthānakavāsī monk in 1854. He was renowned for his prodigious memory and intellectual skills. He pursued an independent study of

Paul Muni was an American stage, film, and television actor acclaimed for his portrayals of noted historical figures. Weisenfreund was born to a family of Polish Jewish actors, and he began appearing onstage with his parents while still a young child. After the family’s immigration to the United

munia, any of several small finchlike Asian birds of the mannikin and waxbill groups (family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes). The black-headed munia, or chestnut mannikin (Lonchura malacca, including atricapilla and ferruginosa), is a pest in rice fields from India to Java and the Philippines; as

Tony Kushner: …screenplays to Steven Spielberg’s films Munich (2005; cowritten with Eric Roth), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022; cowritten with Spielberg), all of which earned Kushner Academy Award nominations. He also wrote the script for Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story (2021). In addition, Kushner authored the children’s book Brundibar (2003;

Munich, city, capital of Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It is Bavaria’s largest city and the third largest city in Germany (after Berlin and Hamburg). Munich, by far the largest city in southern Germany, lies about 30 miles (50 km) north of the edge of the Alps and along the Isar River,

Munich 1972 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Munich that took place August 26–September 11, 1972. The Munich Games were the 17th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. Tragedy struck the 1972 Olympics in Munich when eight Palestinian terrorists from the militant group Black September

Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at

Munich air disaster, airplane crash that occurred on February 6, 1958, after a British European Airways plane slid off the runway during takeoff from Munich, West Germany. The plane had been chartered by the Manchester United football (soccer) club, and 8 players were killed along with 15 other

airport: Drainage: …order to prevent groundwater pollution, Munich Airport was designed to accommodate existing flows of surface water across the entire site and was also provided with extensive arrangements for the recycling of deicing chemicals.

Munich Botanical Garden, botanical garden founded in 1914 by the German botanist Karl von Goebel in Munich. The garden’s vast array of greenhouses, completed in 1958, includes 17 for display and 8 for service functions. The palm house is particularly notable. Other significant greenhouse

Franz Xaver von Baader: …at the new University of Munich. There, with other Roman Catholics who had formed the “Munich circle,” he founded the journal Eos (Greek: “dawn”). Baader’s mystical philosophy, often expressed through obscure aphorisms and symbols, sought to correlate the realm of reason with the realms of authority and revelation. Economically and…

Munich massacre, terrorist attack on Israeli Olympic team members at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich orchestrated by affiliates of the Palestinian militant group Black September. The Munich Games marked the first return of the Olympics to a German city since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Adolf Hitler’s

Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, German symphony orchestra, based in Munich. Founded in 1893 by Franz Kaim, the Kaim Orchestra, as it initially was known, became the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) during Siegmund von Hausegger’s tenure (1920–38) as music director. The municipal government of

Beer Hall Putsch, abortive attempt by Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic on November 8–9, 1923. The regime of the Weimar Republic was challenged from both right and left in Germany throughout the early 1920s, and there was widespread

University of Munich, autonomous coeducational institution of higher learning supported by the state of Bavaria in Germany. It was founded in 1472 at Ingolstadt by the duke of Bavaria, who modeled it after the University of Vienna. During the Protestant Reformation, Johann Eck made the university a

Sir Pherozeshah Mehta: …and later drew up the Municipal Act of 1872, for which he was called the “father of municipal government in Bombay.” He became a commissioner himself in 1873 and served as chairman in 1884–85 and in 1905. A member of the Bombay Legislative Council from 1886, he was elected to…

Chicago: Transportation: …the 1920s the city established Municipal Airport on the Southwest Side, which quickly developed into one of the country’s busiest air hubs. However, by the end of the 1950s, the advent of jet airliners and their requirement of longer runways threatened to make landlocked Municipal obsolete. After long debate, the…

bank: The origins of central banking: In Barcelona the Taula de Canvi (Municipal Bank of Deposit) was established in 1401 for the safekeeping of city and private deposits, but it was also expected to help fund Barcelona’s government (particularly the financing of military expenses), which it did by receiving tax payments and issuing bonds—first…

Suppose you’d like to help improve things in your local community. Maybe you want to help stimulate your town’s economic development. Or maybe you have something more specific in mind, like funding school programs, fixing roads, or improving community facilities like public libraries and parks.

Mumbai: Government: …vested in the fully autonomous Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM). Its legislative body is elected on adult franchise every four years and functions through its various standing committees. The chief executive, who is appointed every three years by the state government, is the municipal commissioner. The mayor is annually…

local government: Powers: …great statutes such as the Municipal Corporations Act (1835) and the Local Government Acts of 1933 and 1972. The permissive powers offer remarkably wide opportunities for initiative. Where local authorities petition Parliament for private acts, they may obtain the opportunity to pioneer, if they prove desirability and financial capacity, and…

local government, authority to determine and execute measures within a restricted area inside and smaller than a whole state. Some degree of local government characterizes every country in the world, although the degree is extremely significant. The variant, local self-government, is important for

international law: International law and municipal law: In principle, international law operates only at the international level and not within domestic legal systems—a perspective consistent with positivism, which recognizes international law and municipal law as distinct and independent systems. Conversely, advocates of natural law maintain that municipal and international law…

Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, municipal museum established in 1874. It is known for its collection of modern and contemporary art and design, primarily dating after 1870. The museum features notable collections of canvases by Vincent van Gogh, artists of the De Stijl movement, and European and

Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein: Achievements as minister and prime minister.: Stein’s Municipal Ordinance (Städteordnung) of Nov. 19, 1808, was of lasting importance. It introduced self-government for the urban communes, created the distinction between the salaried executive officials (mayor and magistrate) and the town councils, and so enabled the towns to deal with their local affairs largely…

refuse, nonhazardous solid waste that requires collection and transport to a processing or disposal site. Refuse includes garbage and rubbish. Garbage is mostly decomposable food waste or yard waste that is highly putrescible, while rubbish is mostly dry material such as glass, paper, cloth, or

refuse, nonhazardous solid waste that requires collection and transport to a processing or disposal site. Refuse includes garbage and rubbish. Garbage is mostly decomposable food waste or yard waste that is highly putrescible, while rubbish is mostly dry material such as glass, paper, cloth, or

Johannesburg: Apartheid’s demise: …the new ANC government, the Municipal Structures Act was passed into law in 1998, further integrating and regulating local government in Johannesburg and throughout the country. Crime, chronically a problem in Johannesburg, became particularly acute in the 1990s and early 2000s, as violence drove businesses from the city centre into…

University of Akron, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Akron, Ohio, U.S. While the university is known for its research in polymer engineering and science, it also offers a curriculum of liberal arts, business, and education courses, including master’s degree programs.

Wichita State University, public coeducational institution of higher learning in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. The university comprises the W. Frank Barton School of Business, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and Colleges of Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Health

municipality, in the United States, urban unit of local government. A municipality is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been established to provide general local government for a specific population concentration in a defined area. A municipality may be

Fort Walton Beach, city, Okaloosa county, northwestern Florida, U.S. It lies at the western end of Choctawhatchee Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico), on Santa Rosa Sound (separated from the gulf by Santa Rosa Island), about 40 miles (65 km) east of Pensacola. The fort was established during the

municipium, in antiquity, a community incorporated into the Roman state after the dissolution of the Latin League. Initially, inhabitants of such municipalities were considered Roman citizens without voting rights. As the Italian provinces were incorporated into the Roman state, residents of the

municipio, in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, a local civil administrative subdivision recognized by the national government. It may comprise one village or community, as is usual in Guatemala, or it may comprise a number of separate communities, as is usual in Mexico. A municipio of