Madonna with the Long Neck, oil-on-panel painting by Italian artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), created between 1534 and 1540. The work depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, while a group of youthful figures, typically described as angels, crowd next to her, and a

Hans Memling: …donor’s portrait (as in the Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove). Many devotional diptychs (two-panel paintings) such as this were painted in 15th-century Flanders. They consist of a portrait of the “donor”—or patron—in one panel, reverently gazing at the Madonna and Child in the other. Such paintings were for the donor’s…

Perugino: Mature work: Bernard, the Madonna and Saints, the Pietà, and the fresco of the Crucifixion for the Florentine convent of Sta. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. These works are characterized by ample sculptural figures gracefully posed in simple Renaissance architectural settings, which act as a frame to the images and…

Madonna with the Long Neck, oil-on-panel painting by Italian artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), created between 1534 and 1540. The work depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, while a group of youthful figures, typically described as angels, crowd next to her, and a

Italian literature: The return to order: …his first narrative work (La Madonna dei filosofi [1931; “The Philosophers’ Madonna”]) published in Solaria, while the first part of his masterpiece, La cognizione del dolore (Acquainted with Grief), was serialized between 1938 and 1941 in Letteratura. Novelists such as Alberto Moravia, Corrado Alvaro (Gente in Aspromonte [1930;

Rome: Sant’Agostino: …at the foot of the Madonna del Parto (“Madonna of Childbirth”; c. 1519), sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino.

Locarno: …including the pilgrimage church of Madonna del Sasso (founded 1480, extended 1616). It is a noted health and tourist resort with a warm Mediterranean climate and numerous hotels and other tourist facilities. There are machinery and electrochemical factories. The population is Italian speaking and Roman Catholic. Pop. (2007 est.) 14,682.

Tintoretto: Career: Tintoretto’s works for the Madonna dell’Orto, which occupied him for approximately a decade, also give an idea of the evolution of the idiomatic elements of his art. The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple (c. 1556) was, according to Vasari, “a highly finished work, and the best…

Piero della Francesca: Formative period: The Misericordia Altarpiece shows Piero’s indebtedness to the Florentines Donatello and Masaccio, his fondness for geometric form, and the slowness and deliberation with which he habitually worked—for the Misericordia altarpiece was not completed until 1462.

Fra Angelico: San Domenico period: …apparent in two small altarpieces, Madonna of the Star and The Annunciation.

Andrea Mantegna: Years as court painter in Mantua: In 1495 Francesco ordered the Madonna of the Victory (1496) to commemorate his supposed victory at the Battle of Fornovo. In the last years of his life, Mantegna painted the Parnassus (1497), a picture celebrating the marriage of Isabella d’Este to Francesco Gonzaga in 1490, and Wisdom Overcoming the Vices…

Sangallo family: …the pilgrimage church of the Madonna di San Biago at Montepulciano, a tiny but important cultural centre of Tuscany. An ideal central-plan church (i.e., one symmetrical about a central point) of the High Renaissance, it also is a Greek-cross plan built of travertine and designed with three facades; the west…

Lorenzo Lotto: …the sitter’s character; and the Madonna Enthroned with Four Saints (c. 1540) shows Lotto at the height of his narrative power.

Martin Schongauer: Among these, the Madonna in a Rose Garden (1473), altarpiece of the Church of Saint-Martin in Colmar, ranks first in importance. This work combines monumentality with tenderness, approaching the manner of the great Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden, by whom Schongauer was profoundly influenced. Other paintings by…

lily: Physical description: …elongated tube, as in the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum) and Easter lily (L. longiflorum). Alternatively, the segments may be reflexed (curved back) to form a turban shape, as in the Turk’s cap lily (L. martagon), or they may be less strongly reflexed and form an open cup or bowl shape,…

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Early life: …such works as the monumental Madonna of Carmelo and the Souls of Purgatory (c. 1720). His artistic education, however, was complex and varied: he examined the works of both Venetian and foreign contemporaries and studied older painters as well, as demonstrated by his large production of etchings after 16th-century subjects.…

Correggio: Early life and career: …painting, an altarpiece of the Madonna of St. Francis, was commissioned for San Francesco at Correggio in 1514. The best-known works of his youth are a group of devotional pictures that became increasingly luscious in colour. They include the Nativity, Adoration of the Kings, and Christ Taking Leave of His…

Duccio: Later commissions of Duccio: …enthroned with angels and called The Madonna of the Franciscans because of the three monks kneeling at the foot of the throne. In this work a developed Gothic style appears in the curving outlines, which give an exquisite decorative effect.

Andrea del Sarto: , the celebrated Madonna of the Harpies), just as his self-portraits in the Uffizi and in the National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh (both c. 1528) can possibly be extended by several others, more or less hidden in his paintings from 1511 onward. A badly damaged pair of…

Madonna with the Long Neck, oil-on-panel painting by Italian artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), created between 1534 and 1540. The work depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, while a group of youthful figures, typically described as angels, crowd next to her, and a

The Virgin of the Rocks, two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci depicting the apocryphal legend in which the Holy Family meets St. John the Baptist as they flee to Egypt from Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents. Based on stylistic evidence, many scholars consider the painting in the Louvre to be the

Giovanni Battista Crespi: …portray; an example is “The Madonna of the Rosary” (c. 1615; Brera, Milan).

Stefan Lochner: ” The exquisite “Madonna of the Rose Bower” was painted soon afterward.

Sassetta: …monumental altarpiece of the “Madonna of the Snow,” painted for Siena Cathedral in 1430–32. From this point on, under Gothic influence, Sassetta’s style assumes an increasingly decorative character, manifest initially in a polyptych in San Domenico at Cortona (probably 1437) and reaching its climax in a cycle of scenes…

Michelangelo: Early life and works: …much more than does the Madonna of the Stairs (c. 1491), a delicate low relief that reflects recent fashions among such Florentine sculptors as Desiderio da Settignano.

Fra Angelico: San Domenico period: …apparent in two small altarpieces, Madonna of the Star and The Annunciation.

Andrea Mantegna: Years as court painter in Mantua: In 1495 Francesco ordered the Madonna of the Victory (1496) to commemorate his supposed victory at the Battle of Fornovo. In the last years of his life, Mantegna painted the Parnassus (1497), a picture celebrating the marriage of Isabella d’Este to Francesco Gonzaga in 1490, and Wisdom Overcoming the Vices…

Duccio: Beginnings: Maria Novella, now called the Madonna Rucellai. From the time of Giorgio Vasari, a minor Florentine Renaissance painter who was the earliest, and probably the most influential, biographer of early Italian artists, this altarpiece, which was the largest yet painted, was considered to be a masterpiece of the Florentine painter…

Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and works: The masterpiece of these is Madonna with Child and Scenes from the Life of Mary, a circular painting now in the Pitti Palace in Florence; it is a clear and realistic mirror of life, transfigured in a most intimate way, and it had a great effect on Renaissance art.

Piero della Francesca: Mature period: …a kneeling donor in an altarpiece from S. Bernardino, Urbino. He, the Madonna and her child, and accompanying saints are placed before the apse (semicircular choir) of a magnificent Albertian church. The painting may have been a memorial to Countess Battista, who died after giving birth to the couple’s ninth…

Western painting: Mannerist painters in Florence and Rome: His highly unconventional “Madonna with SS. John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, Jerome and Stephen” for Santa Maria Nuova (1518; Uffizi) displays an aesthetic anarchy bolder than anything by Pontormo, and by the 1520s he was creating works of savage emotionality (e.g., the Volterra “Deposition,” 1521). In 1523 Rosso…

Il Pisanello: The Madonna with SS. Anthony and George displays a simpler conception. It is dominated by the monumental figures of the two saints and the bust of the Virgin in a mandorla, or almond-shaped aureole.

Jacopo Bassano: …of works, such as the Madonna with SS. Roch and Sebastian and The Adoration of the Magi, characterized by an unearthly pale light, colours, and nervous, attenuated figures in affectedly sophisticated poses.

Andrea Solari: …effects of his well-known “Madonna with the Green Cushion” (Louvre, Paris) also reveal Leonardo’s influence, but its animated composition displays Solari’s own artistic temperament.

Madonna with the Long Neck, oil-on-panel painting by Italian artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), created between 1534 and 1540. The work depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, while a group of youthful figures, typically described as angels, crowd next to her, and a

Stefan Lochner: …this influence is the “Madonna with the Violet” (c. 1443). Van Eyck’s influence is most noticeable in Lochner’s chief work, the great town hall altarpiece much admired by Dürer. In this “Altar of the Patron Saints,” Lochner adds to the idealism of the older painters of the Cologne school…

Mary was the mother of Jesus, venerated in the Christian church since the apostolic age and a favourite subject in Western art, music, and literature. Mary is known from biblical references, which are, however, too sparse to construct a coherent biography. The development of the doctrine of Mary

dik-dik, (genus Madoqua), any of four species of dwarf antelopes (tribe Neotragini, family Bovidae) that are adapted for life in the arid zones of eastern Africa. Three species inhabit the Horn of Africa: Guenther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri), Salt’s dik-dik (M. saltiana), and the silver dik-dik

dik-dik: …inhabit the Horn of Africa: Guenther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri), Salt’s dik-dik (M. saltiana), and the silver dik-dik (M. piacentinii). Kirk’s dik-dik (M. kirkii), the best-known dik-dik, is a common resident of acacia savannas in Kenya and Tanzania. Guenther’s and Kirk’s dik-diks overlap in Kenya. An isolated population of Kirk’s dik-dik,…

dik-dik: Kirk’s dik-dik (M. kirkii), the best-known dik-dik, is a common resident of acacia savannas in Kenya and Tanzania. Guenther’s and Kirk’s dik-diks overlap in Kenya. An isolated population of Kirk’s dik-dik, different enough genetically to be considered a different species, inhabits Namibia.

dik-dik: saltiana), and the silver dik-dik (M. piacentinii). Kirk’s dik-dik (M. kirkii), the best-known dik-dik, is a common resident of acacia savannas in Kenya and Tanzania. Guenther’s and Kirk’s dik-diks overlap in Kenya. An isolated population of Kirk’s dik-dik, different enough genetically to be considered a different species, inhabits…

dik-dik: …Africa: Guenther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri), Salt’s dik-dik (M. saltiana), and the silver dik-dik (M. piacentinii). Kirk’s dik-dik (M. kirkii), the best-known dik-dik, is a common resident of acacia savannas in Kenya and Tanzania. Guenther’s and Kirk’s dik-diks overlap in Kenya. An isolated population of Kirk’s dik-dik, different enough genetically to…

Thomas Madox was an English legal antiquary and historian whose critical studies of medieval English documents establish him as the virtual founder of British administrative history and the precursor of modern English historical scholarship. Madox studied common law (though not called to the bar)

India: Location: The Kekayas, Madras, and Ushinaras, who had settled in the region between Gandhara and the Beas River, were described as descendants of the Anu tribe. The Matsyas occupied an area to the southwest of present-day Delhi. The Kuru-Pancala, still dominant in the Ganges–Yamuna Doab area, were extending…

Chennai, city, capital of Tamil Nadu state, southern India, located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. Known as the “Gateway to South India,” Chennai is a major administrative and cultural centre. Pop. (2011) city, 4,646,732; urban agglom., 8,696,010. Chennai is located on the Coromandel

T. Balasaraswati: …promotion and passage of the Madras Devadasis Prevention of Dedication Act (1947). Devadasis typically lived in matrilineal households, and many of the women were married—or dedicated—to a temple deity, which precluded them from marrying any mortal man whom they took as a partner. This social system did not match that…

Chennai: Cultural life: …institutions in Chennai include the Madras Music Academy, devoted to the encouragement of Karnatak music—the music of Karnataka, the historical region between the southern Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal and the Deccan plateau. The Kalakshetra is a centre of dance and music, and the Rasika Ranjini Sabha, in…

Tamil Nadu: History: …the story of the British-controlled Madras Presidency in relationship to the rise and fall of British power in India. After Indian independence in 1947, the Madras Presidency became Madras state. The state’s Telugu-speaking areas were separated to form part of the new state of Andhra Pradesh in 1953. In 1956…

University of Madras, state-controlled institution of higher learning located in Madras, India. One of three affiliating universities founded by the British in 1857, Madras has developed as a teaching and research institution since the 1920s. By the mid-1970s the university comprised 11

madrasah, institution of higher education in the Islamic sciences (ʿulūm; singular, ʿilm). In Arabic-speaking countries, the word in modern times refers to any institution of education, especially primary or secondary education. The early madrasahs developed out of occasional lectures delivered at

Chennai, city, capital of Tamil Nadu state, southern India, located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. Known as the “Gateway to South India,” Chennai is a major administrative and cultural centre. Pop. (2011) city, 4,646,732; urban agglom., 8,696,010. Chennai is located on the Coromandel

madrasah, institution of higher education in the Islamic sciences (ʿulūm; singular, ʿilm). In Arabic-speaking countries, the word in modern times refers to any institution of education, especially primary or secondary education. The early madrasahs developed out of occasional lectures delivered at

Neoclassical art: Other countries: …principal Neoclassicist in Spain was José de Madrazo y Agudo.

Madre de Dios River, headwater tributary of the Amazon in southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. It flows from the Cordillera de Carabaya, easternmost range of the Andes, in Peru, and meanders generally eastward past Puerto Maldonado to the Bolivian border. There it turns northeastward and

Dominican Republic: Education: The Madre e Maestra Pontifical Catholic University (1962) is based in Santiago but also has a campus in the capital.

Emilia, condesa de Pardo Bazán: …Ulloa, 1886) and its sequel, La madre naturaleza (1887; “Mother Nature”)—studies of physical and moral ruin among the Galician squirearchy, set against a beautiful natural background and a moral background of corrupting power. Insolación (“Sunstroke”) and Morriña (“The Blues”; both 1889) are excellent psychological studies. Her husband separated from her…

Grazia Deledda: title, The Mother), the tragedy of a mother who realizes her dream of her son’s becoming a priest only to see him yield to the temptations of the flesh. In these and others of her more than 40 novels, Deledda often used Sardinia’s landscape as a…

Laguna Madre, narrow, shallow lagoon along the shore of southern Texas, U.S., and northeastern Mexico, sheltered from the Gulf of Mexico by barrier islands, of which Padre Island (a national seashore) in Texas is the most notable. The lagoon is divided into two sections by the broad delta of the

cnidarian: Size range and diversity of structure: …hydroids, hydrocorals, and soft and hard corals, however, proliferate asexually into colonies, which can attain much greater size and longevity than their component polyps. Certain tropical sea anemones (class Anthozoa) may be a metre in diameter, and some temperate ones are nearly that tall. Anthozoans are long-lived, both individually and…

circulatory system: Echinodermata: …porous, button-shaped plate, called the madreporite, which is united via a duct (the stone canal) with a circular canal (ring canal) that circumvents the mouth. Long canals radiate from the water ring into each arm. Lateral canals branch alternately from the radial canals, each terminating in a muscular sac (or…

Penélope Cruz: …performance in Madres paralelas (2021; Parallel Mothers), a drama by Almodóvar that centres on a relationship between two single mothers while also exploring the lasting influence of Spain’s civil war and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Also in 2021 she starred with Antonio Banderas in Competencia oficial (Official Competition), a…

Madrid, comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of central Spain, coextensive with the provincia (province) of the same name. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of Castile-León to the north and west and Castile–La Mancha to the east and south. The autonomous community of Madrid was

Madrid, city, capital of Spain and of Madrid provincia (province). Spain’s arts and financial centre, the city proper and province form a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) in central Spain. Madrid’s status as the national capital reflects the centralizing policy of the 16th-century Spanish

Madrid Codex, together with the Paris, Dresden, and Grolier codices, a richly illustrated glyphic text of the pre-Conquest Mayan period and one of few known survivors of the mass book-burnings by the Spanish clergy during the 16th century. The variant name Tro-Cortesianus is a result of the early

broadcasting: International conferences: It was followed by the Madrid Conference of 1932, which codified the rules and established the official international frequency list. This agreement stabilized the situation until World War II, after which the European scene was substantially changed, and a conference in Copenhagen in 1948 reallocated frequencies in the European Broadcasting…

Miguel de la Madrid was the president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Miguel de la Madrid received a degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 1957 and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1965. He worked for the National

Antarctica: The Madrid Protocol: …Madrid in October 1991, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (also known as the Madrid Protocol). It entered into force in 1998 and designated Antarctica “as a natural reserve, devoted to peace and science.”

Madrid train bombings of 2004, coordinated near-simultaneous attacks targeting commuter trains in Madrid on the morning of March 11, 2004. Beginning at 7:37 am and continuing for several minutes, 10 bombs exploded on four trains in and around Atocha Station in the city’s centre, leaving 191 dead

Dos de Mayo Uprising, also called the Battle of Madridan engagement of the Peninsular War that occurred on May 2, 1808. The French commanders in Spain were highly experienced and successful soldiers, but they completely misjudged the inflammatory nature of Spanish political, religious, and social

Carlos María de los Dolores de Borbón y Austria-este, duke de Madrid was the fourth Carlist, or Bourbon traditionalist, pretender to the Spanish throne (as Charles VII). His military incompetence and lack of leadership led to the final decline of the Carlist cause. Don Carlos was the great-grandson

Kim Campbell: …served as secretary-general for the Club of Madrid, a group she helped found, which includes former heads of government and attempts to enhance democracy throughout the world. She was active in various nongovernmental organizations, including the International Crisis Group and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political…

Madrid, comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of central Spain, coextensive with the provincia (province) of the same name. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of Castile-León to the north and west and Castile–La Mancha to the east and south. The autonomous community of Madrid was

Miguel de la Madrid was the president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Miguel de la Madrid received a degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 1957 and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1965. He worked for the National

Retiro Park, the main park of Madrid, Spain. Originally called the Parque del Buen Retiro, or “Pleasant Retreat Park,” it now covers approximately 350 acres (142 hectares). It was planned in the 1550s and redesigned on the instructions of Gaspar de Guzmán, conde-duque de Olivares (chief minister to

John III: By the Treaty of Madrid (1529), Portugal secured the Moluccas, or Spice Islands (now part of Indonesia), while recognizing Spain’s claim to the Philippines; this complemented the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided sovereignty over the New World between the peninsular powers. In 1533 John promoted Portuguese settlement…

Treaty of Madrid, (Jan. 14, 1526), treaty between the Habsburg emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) and his prisoner Francis I, king of France, who had been captured during the Battle of Pavia in February 1525 and held prisoner until the conclusion of the treaty. In the treaty, which was never

Complutense University of Madrid, institution of higher learning founded in 1508 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Complutense means “native to Complutum,” the ancient Roman settlement at the site of Alcalá de Henares. The university moved in 1836 to Madrid, where it became known as Central University.

Complutense University of Madrid, institution of higher learning founded in 1508 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Complutense means “native to Complutum,” the ancient Roman settlement at the site of Alcalá de Henares. The university moved in 1836 to Madrid, where it became known as Central University.

madrigal, form of vocal chamber music that originated in northern Italy during the 14th century, declined and all but disappeared in the 15th, flourished anew in the 16th, and ultimately achieved international status in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The origin of the term madrigal is

madrigal comedy, Italian musical genre of the late 16th century, a cycle of vocal pieces in the style of the madrigal and lighter Italian secular forms that are connected by a vague plot or common theme. Madrigal comedies were sung in concerts and social gatherings, not staged; in his L’Amfiparnaso

Hans Leo Hassler: His Madrigali (1596), though avoiding the harmonic experiments of such 16th-century madrigalists as Luca Marenzio, are considered to be among the finest of their time. His instrumental compositions and his church music—Protestant and Roman Catholic—were widely imitated. His German songs owe much to the homophonic dance…

Claudio Monteverdi: Three decades in Venice: …Monteverdi’s theories, as its title, Madrigals of War and Love, denotes.

Orlando Gibbons: His Madrigals and Motetts of 5 Parts was published in 1612. This collection contains deeply felt and very personal settings of texts that are, for the most part, of a moral or philosophical nature. It shows Gibbons’s mastery of the polyphonic idiom of his day and…

Claudio Monteverdi: Three decades in Venice: …Monteverdi’s theories, as its title, Madrigals of War and Love, denotes.

Andorra: Geography: …the Perafita, flow into the Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley, which occupies about one-tenth of Andorra’s land area and is characterized by glacial landscapes, steep valleys, and open pastures. The valley was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004.

arbutus: Major species: Variously known as madrona, Pacific madrona, laurelwood, and Oregon laurel, A. menziesii occurs in western North America from British Columbia to California. It grows about 23 metres (75 feet) tall. The dark oblong glossy leaves are 5–15 cm (2–6 inches) long and are coloured grayish green beneath. The…

arbutus, (genus Arbutus), genus of about 11 species of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or trees of the heath family (Ericaceae). The plants are native to southern Europe and western North America, and several species are cultivated as ornamentals. Arbutus species are characterized by white or pink

Antonin Scalia: Judicial style of Antonin Scalia: In a dissenting opinion in Madsen v. Women’s Health Center (1994), in which the court ruled (6–3) that “buffer zones” around abortion clinics did not violate the free-speech rights of abortion opponents, he asserted that the court’s ruling “departs so far from the established course of our jurisprudence that in…

Black horror: Notable Black horror films: …a graduate student (played by Virginia Madsen) investigating what she thinks is an urban legend about a hook-handed man; as she learns, Candyman really does appear before, and slaughter, anyone who says his name five times while looking into a mirror. The film addresses economic and housing inequality and lynching,…

madtom, any of several North American catfishes of the genus Noturus, of the family Ictaluridae. They are sometimes classified in two genera, Noturus and Schilbeodes. Generally about 5–7.5 cm (2–3 inches) long, madtoms are the smallest ictalurids and are characterized by a long adipose fin that in

Jordan Peele: …the sketch comedy TV show MADtv. Peele, a master of impersonation, remained on the show through 2008. He later reunited with his MADtv castmate to create and star in the Comedy Central series Key and Peele (2012–15). The show won a large and ardent following. It earned a Peabody Award…

Icelandic literature: The 19th century: …and Lass) and the incomplete Maður og kona (1876; “Man and Woman”), distinguished in prose style, narrative skill, wit, and perceptive observation of peasant and small-town life.

Madurai, city, south-central Tamil Nadu state, southern India. It is located on the Vaigai River, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Dindigul. Madurai is the third most populous, and probably the oldest, city in the state. The ancient history of the region is associated with the Pandya kings, and

Madura, island, Jawa Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia, off the northeastern coast of Java and separated from the city of Surabaya by a narrow, shallow channel. The island, which covers an area of 2,042 square miles (5,290 square km), has an undulating surface rising to 700 feet (210 metres) in

Madurai, city, south-central Tamil Nadu state, southern India. It is located on the Vaigai River, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Dindigul. Madurai is the third most populous, and probably the oldest, city in the state. The ancient history of the region is associated with the Pandya kings, and

Madurese, native population of the arid and infertile island of Madura, Indonesia. Today the majority of the Madurese population lives not on Madura but on the northeastern coast of the adjacent island of Java. They also live in large numbers on the nearby Kangean Islands as well as in western and

Madurese language, an Austronesian language of the Indonesian subfamily, spoken on Madura Island, some smaller offshore islands, and the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Dialects include Eastern, or Sumenep, and Western, including Bangkalan and Pamekasan. Sumenep is the standard dialect for

Honduras: The 21st century: Ricardo Maduro Joest of the National Party won the 2001 presidential elections. During his time in office, Honduras received debt relief and ratified the implementation of the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA–DR) with the United States. Manuel Zelaya of the Liberal Party took…

Nicolás Maduro is a Venezuelan leader who won the special election held in April 2013 to choose a replacement to serve out the remainder of the term of Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chávez, who had died in March. After serving as vice president (October 2012–March 2013), Maduro, a former labor leader,