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nabobs. The people are, in the main, Mohammedans. Arcot was taken by [[../Clive, Robert, Lord|Clive]] in 1751, in the wars with the French, and finally became a British city in 1801. Population, 12,000.
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Areop′agus (ā-rē-ŏp′ a-gŭs), the hill of Ares or [[../Mars (mythology)|Mars]] in ancient Athens, near the Acropolis. It was the seat of the court called by the same name, which was the most famous court in Greece. It dates back to the earliest days of Athens, and plays an important part in its history. At first it was a criminal court, but Solon gave it so much power that it reached everything in the state. Pericles took away most of its power; but its fame lived on, even as late as the era of the [[../Theodosius I, The Great|Emperor Theodosius]]. Its members were the men who had been archons, or highest officers, in Athens, and they served for life. Here Paul made his address to the Athenians, as given in Acts.
Arequipa (ä′ rā́-kē′ pȧ). A department in the South American republic of Peru. It lies in the southern part of the republic, between Lake Titicaca and the [[../Pacific Ocean|Pacific]]. Its area is 21,947 square miles, with a population of 229,007. Its capital is the city of Arequipa which lies in a fertile valley near the [[../Volcanoes|volcano]] of Misti (sometimes called Arequipa), which rises to a height of 20,260 feet. Notable buildings are the cathedral, public library, hospital, astronomical and meteorological observatories. The meteorological station is 16,280 feet above sea level, the highest in the world. Its exports include (besides minerals) [[../Cotton|cotton]], [[../Coffee|coffee]], [[../Hides|hides]], [[../Rice|rice]], cocaine, [[../Wool|wool]] and [[../Sugar|sugar]]. The province, being on the Andean range, is mountainous. A railway connects it with Mollendo, its port on the Pacific, while a line connects it eastward with Puno on Lake Titicaca. Population, 35,000.
Argentine Republic is, next to [[../Brazil, The United States of|Brazil]], the largest of the political divisions of South America, and with Chile on the west occupies the southern part of the continent. It has an area of 1,135,840 square miles, a little more than one seventh of the area of the continent and one third that of Brazil. It extends from the 27th to the 57th parallel of latitude, a distance as great as from Hudson Bay to the southern limit of Florida. The northern half has an average width of about eight hundred miles and the southern part narrows to about two hundred miles. It could be divided into twenty-two states each the size of New York. Its population is 6,489,023.
Surface. In the northern part of Argentine is the basin of the [[../Paraná|Parana River]]. Here are large tracts of prairie or [[../Pampas|pampas]], producing [[../Wheat|wheat]] and pasturage, with rich cultivated districts near the Parana and [[../Paraguay (river)|Paraguay]] Rivers and sugar lands and timber tracts further north. In the central section are the great pampas or plains, extending from the mountain range on the west to the [[../Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] on the east. The soil is very rich, from three to six feet in depth, and here are the great wheat fields and cattle ranges for which the republic is famous. In the southern section are wide sandy plains, once the bed of an ocean which extended to the Andes. South of the [[../Magellan|Strait of Magellan]] is the island of Terra del Fuego, a part of which belongs to Argentine. The republic may be characterized as a country of vast plains, yet in its western border rises the great Andean mountain range, which here shows its loftiest peaks, including Aconcagua 22,860 feet, the highest mountain in America; Mercedario 22,315 feet; Tupangato 20,280 feet; San Juan 20,020 feet.
Rivers. The [[../Plata, Rio de la|Plata River]], on which Buenos Ayres, the capital of the republic, is situated, receives the waters of 10,000 miles of waterways, the second largest river system in the world, and discharges into the Atlantic Ocean a volume of water nearly double that discharged by the [[../Mississippi (river)|Mississippi]] into the [[../Mexico, Gulf of|Gulf of Mexico]]. The Plata is formed by the junction of the Parana and [[../Uruguay (river)|Uruguay]] Rivers. It is 200
