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Uganda
British protectorate, comprising a territory of 243,382 sq km to the N. and W. of Lake Victoria, between Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo, and… -
Ugarit
An ancient city of upper Syria, today Rās Samrah, brought to light by French excavations begun in 1929. Rās Samrah is an artificial mound, about 20 m. high and… -
Ugdulena, Gregorio
Orientalist, b. at Termini Imerese on 30 Apr. 1815, d. at Rome on 7 June 1872. In 1843, being already a priest, U. obtained the chair of Hebrew at the… -
Ugento, Diocese of (UGENTO, DIOCESI DI)
City and diocese in the province of Lecce. It has an area of 350 sq km with a population of 87,000 inhabitants, all Catholics, distributed in 33 parishes… -
Ughelli, Ferdinando
Scholar, b. in Florence on 21 March 1594, d. in Rome on 19 May 1670. Having been set to literary studies, he entered the Congregation of St. Bernard of the… -
Ugolini, Biagio
Hebraist, b. in Venice ca. 1700. His life is almost entirely unknown. He was a converted Jew, who accomplished a very useful work for the knowledge of Jewish… -
Ugolini, Vincenzo
Musician b. in Perugia c. 1570, d. in Rome on 6 May 1638. Having gone to Rome at a very young age, he studied with Nanino. He was choirmaster at St. Mary Major… -
Ugolino di Vieri di Ugolino
Sienese goldsmith, d. between 1380 and 1385; he was trained in the art by his father, together with his brothers Luca and Domenico, themselves also goldsmiths.… -
Ugonio, Pompeo
Priest, born in Rome around the middle of the 16th century, died there on 28 April 1614 and buried in the old sacristy of the Vatican Basilica. He was a pupil… -
Ugro-Finns (UGROFINNICI)
A special linguistic family divided into two branches: the eastern or Ugric and the western or Finnic. To the first belong Hungarian, Vogul and Ostyak; to the… -
Uguccione of Lodi (UGUCCIONE DA LODI)
A man of arms and of letters who lived between the last decades of the 12th century and the first of the 13th, born perhaps at Cremona, into a family from… -
Uguccione of Pisa (UGUCCIONE DA PISA)
Medieval decretist and lexicographer, b. at Pisa in the first half of the 12th century, d. at Ferrara on 30 April 1210. At the Studium of Bologna, where, after…