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rvices at which he received his title; was some time viceroy in Ireland, where he was very popular (1768-1854). ANGLIA, EAST territory in England occupied in the 6th century by the Angles, corresponding to counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. ANG`LICAN CHURCH, the body of Episcopal churches all over the British Empire and Colonies, as well as America, sprung from the Church of England, though not subject to her jurisdiction, the term _Anglo-Catholic_ being applied to the High Church section. ANGLO-SAXON, the name usually assigned to the early inflected form of the English language. ANGO`LA (2,400), a district on the W. coast of Africa, between the Congo and Benguela, subject to Portugal, the capital of which is St. Paul de Loando. ANGO`RA (20), a city in the centre of Anatolia, in a district noted for its silky, long-haired animals, cats and dogs as well as goats. ANGOSTU`RA, capital of the province of Guayana, in Venezuela, 240 m. up the Orinoco; also a medicinal bark exported thence. ANGOULEME` (31), an old French city on the Charente, 83 m. NE. of Bordeaux, with a fine cathedral, the birthplace of Marguerite de Valois and Balzac. ANGOULEME, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUC D', natural son of Charles IX., gained great reputation as a military commander, left Memoirs of his life (1575-1650). ANGOULEME, DUC D', the eldest son of Charles X., after the Revolution of 1830 gave up his rights to the throne and retired to Goritz (1778-1844). ANGOULEME, DUCHESSE D', daughter of Louis XVI. and wife of the preceding (1778-1851). AN`GRA, the capital of the Azores, on the island of Terceira, a fortified place. AN`GRA PEQUE`NA, a port in SW. Africa, N. of the Orange River, and the nucleus of the territory belonging to Germany. ANG`STROM, a Swedish physicist and professor at Upsala, distinguished for his studies on the solar spectrum; _b_. 1814. ANGUIL`LA (2), or Snake Island, one of the Lesser Antilles, E. of Porto Rico, belonging to Britain. ANGUIER, the name of two famous French sculptors in the 17th century. AN`HALT (293), a duchy of Central Germany, surrounded and split up by Prussian Saxony, and watered by the Elbe and Saale; rich in minerals. ANHALT-DESSAU, LEOPOLD, PRINCE OF, a Prussian field-marshal, served and distinguished himself in the war of the Spanish Succession and in Italy, was wounded at Cassano; defeated Charles XII. at the Isle of Ruegen, and the Saxon
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