Look up Western or western in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Western may refer to: Western, Nebraska, a village in the US Western, New York, a town...
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The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Western Europe, Northern America, and Australasia;...
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Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition...
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Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.[text–source integrity?][citation...
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The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California...
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Country music (redirect from Country and western)
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest...
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Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...
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Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range...
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The Western Cape (Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]; Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country...
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Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western...
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covering the history of Western fashion—the story of the changing fashions in clothing in countries under influence of the Western world—from the 5th century...
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made-for-TV movie Westerns were introduced. Western (genre) Westerns on television List of Contemporary Westerns TV Westerns, listings for 200 Western shows...
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Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Approximately 30%...
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The former Western State of Nigeria was formed in 1967 when the Western Region was subdivided into the states of Lagos and Western State. Its capital...
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The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches 1,600 km (990 mi) along the western coast of the Indian peninsula. Covering...
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Best Western International, Inc. owns the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it licenses to over 4,700 hotels worldwide. The franchise, with its...
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The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West, is the region comprising...
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The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style...
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The Western Open was a professional golf tournament in the United States, for most of its history an event on the PGA Tour. The tournament's founding...
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Classical music (redirect from Western classical music)
of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical...
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Vredenburg (redirect from Vredenburg, Western Cape)
Vredenburg (Afrikaans: ['frɪədənbœrχ]) is a town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vrede" is Afrikaans for peace. It is the...
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The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th...
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Samoa (redirect from Western Samoa)
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is a Polynesian island country consisting...
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Western law comprises the legal traditions of Western culture, with roots in Roman law and canon law. As Western culture shares a Graeco-Roman Classical...
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The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York...
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In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered...
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Roman emperor (redirect from Western Roman Emperor)
(senate, consuls, and magistrates) were preserved even after the end of the Western Empire. Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, moved the capital...
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Devanagari numerals (redirect from Western Nagari numerals)
Indian languages. They are used to write decimal numbers, instead of the Western Arabic numerals. The word śūnya for zero was calqued into Arabic as صفر...
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The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, is an informal, collective term for countries that were officially allied with the United States...
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up Lahnda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Western Punjabi may refer to: Lahnda, also known as "Western Punjabi", a linguistically defined group of Punjabi...
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