[Angoulême`] (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.
[Angoulême, Charles de Valois, Duc d'], natural son of Charles IX., gained great reputation as a military commander, left Memoirs of his life (1575-1650).
[Angoulême, 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).
[Angoulême, 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.