1) Flores, island, Indonesia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Flores is heavily wooded, rugged, and mountainous, rising to 7,872 ft (2,399 m). The inhabitants are predominantly Christian; those in the west are chiefly Malayans,...
2) Flores, Juan Jose. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ecuador (1830-34, 1839-45), b. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. A commander under Bolivar in the War of Independence, Flores led (1830) the secession of Ecuador from the...
3) Flores, town, Guatemala. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Peten department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Peten Itza and on the site of the Itza Mayan city of Tayasal. Tayasal was...
4) Flores, island, Azores. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Santa Cruz is its chief town. Cattle raising is the main industry....
5) Rocafuerte, Vicente. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rocafuerte headed (1833) the opposition to Juan Jose Flores. Leader of a revolt at Guayaquil (1834), he was defeated and imprisoned, but was released after he and...
6) Matthew of Westminster. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Matthew of Westminster, name for many years given to the supposed author of an English chronicle in Latin, the Flores historiarum. The chronicle was actually written...
7) Roger of Wendover. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...English chronicler, a monk of St. Albans. As historiographer of St. Albans, he began the Flores historiarum (see Matthew of Westminster), a general chronicle starting...
8) Sumba. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lesser Sundas, in the Indian Ocean, S of Flores across Sumba Strait. The chief town and port is Waingapu. The island is noted for horse breeding. Formerly Sumba was...
9) Sumbawa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lesser Sundas, between the Flores Sea and the Indian Ocean. Bima, with an excellent harbor, is the port for Raba, the chief town. Sumbawa is mountainous, rising to...
10) Sunda Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, comprising the western part of the Malay Archipelago. It includes two main groups: the Greater Sunda Islands, to which belong...
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