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Laval
Laval: name of an ancient mining place in the Gard, France (Pleiades 148108, copper, lead, silver, 30 BC-AD 640), the Laval-Pradel coal and zinc mines, and archaeological sites at Laval, Mayenne, and Laval, Quebec.
Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec: city occupying all of Île Jésus (246 km²) north of Montreal, also administrative region 13; about 459,000 residents; created 6 August 1965 by merging 14 municipalities; named for Bishop François de Laval.
Lavasa (लवासा)
Lavasa (लवासा) is India's first privately built planned hill city, near Pune in the Western Ghats, developed by Lavasa Corporation Ltd on the Portofino model; planned for 240,000 residents, it was partially built, faced environmental violations, and entered insolvency.
Lavatris
Lavatris (Lavatrae), Roman fort at Bowes, County Durham, England, on the Catterick–Carlisle road guarding the Stainmore Pass; occupied from Agricola to the late 4th century, with vicus, bathhouse, and Bowes Castle within its walls.
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces (Lavaux, vignoble en terrasses): UNESCO World Heritage terraced vineyard on Lake Geneva's north shore, Vaud, Switzerland, inscribed 2007 under criteria iii, iv, v; 30 km of chasselas vines, 10,000 terraces, 450 km of walls dating to the 11th century.
Låvebrua Island
Låvebrua Island is a 95-metre-high islet 1.3 km east of South Point, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands; named by Norwegian whalers after 1905, also called Islote Chaco (Argentina) and Islote Lautaro (Chile).
Laverna Dorsa
Laverna Dorsa is a 1,100-km-wide dorsum (ridge system) on Venus at 50 S, 132 E, named for the Roman goddess of darkness and income; IAU-approved in 1997.
Laveyron
Laveyron (Drôme, 26240) is a French Rhône-side commune with a 1st-century AD Inrap-excavated Roman wine establishment, a SAICA Paper France mill, no listed monuments, and a 2017 PLU.
Lavinia Nature Reserve
Lavinia Nature Reserve is a 7,034-hectare protected wetland on the north-east coast of King Island, Tasmania, made a Ramsar site in 1982 and known for the endangered orange-bellied parrot.
Lavinia Planitia
Lavinia Planitia, Venus lowland basin near 45S 345E, over 2,000 km across, marked by ridge and fracture deformation belts, tessera boundaries, and basaltic lava flows like Mylitta Fluctus.
Lavinium Dorsum
Lavinium Dorsum is a 96.35 km ridge (dorsum) on asteroid 4 Vesta at 27.15°N, 109.15°E, IAU-approved November 21, 2012 and named for the Roman city of Lavinium, famed for its Aeneas traditions and cults of Vesta.
Lavnin
Lavnin, also known as Tel Lavnin, is a multi-period archaeological tell in the Adullam region of the Judean Shephelah, Israel, occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
Lavoisier (lunar crater)
Lavoisier, lunar crater, 71.01 km wide at 38.17°N 81.25°W on the Moon, named for Antoine Lavoisier; a floor-fractured crater with pyroclastic deposits and satellite craters C, E, F, H.
Lavoisier Island
Lavoisier Island, also called Isla Mitre (Argentina) or Isla Serrano (Chile), is an 18-mile-long island in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica, first charted by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition and renamed in 1960 for chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
Lavoye
Lavoye (Meuse, France), Argonne commune; Roman samian pottery production center (La Verine workshop, c. 130–3rd century) and 367-grave Merovingian necropolis (480–680) excavated by Dr. Meunier, published by Joffroy 1974; tomb of the "chef" (grave 319).
Lawazantiya
Lawazantiya was a Bronze Age cult city in Kizzuwatna, in south-eastern Anatolia's Cilician plain, second religious center after Kummanni and birthplace of the Hittite queen Puduhepa.
Lawn jockey
Lawn jockey: a small cast-iron hitching-post statue of a figure in racing silks holding a ring, also called the Faithful Groomsman. The black version is a racist caricature; Jocko Graves and Underground Railroad signaling legends lack primary-source evidence.
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas: college city between Kansas City and Topeka, founded 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society as a free-state stronghold; site of the 1856 Sack of Lawrence and Quantrill's 1863 raid; home of the University of Kansas.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence, Massachusetts: planned Essex County mill city on the Merrimack River, 25 miles north of Boston; founded 1845 by the Essex Company, site of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, population 89,143 (2020), largely Latino immigrant city.
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia, county seat of Gwinnett County, incorporated December 15, 1821 and named for Captain James Lawrence. Oldest city in Gwinnett, second oldest in metro Atlanta; about 30,600 residents (2020), home to Georgia Gwinnett College.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Lawton, Oklahoma: county seat of Comanche County, founded August 6, 1901 in the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache land lottery and named for Major General Henry Ware Lawton; about 90,500 residents, anchored by Fort Sill.
Lawu
Lawu (Gunung Lawu, Lawoe), 3,265 m stratovolcano on the Central Java–East Java border, Indonesia; no confirmed eruptions (1885 and 1752 events discredited), fumarolic south flank, sacred mountain with Sukuh temple, excluded from geothermal work areas.
Layer Pyramid
The Layer Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid of Khaba, is an unfinished Third Dynasty step pyramid at Zawyet el-Aryan, Egypt, never used for a burial.
Laysan
Laysan (Kauō) is a 4.1 km² low coral sand island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands' Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with a hypersaline lake, huge albatross colonies, endangered Laysan ducks and finches, and a history of guano mining and rabbit-driven extinctions reversed after 1923.
Layyah District
Layyah District (ضلع لیہ) is a district in southern Punjab, Pakistan, part of Dera Ghazi Khan Division. It was created in 1982 from Layyah Tehsil of Muzaffargarh District.
Lazarevskoye
Lazarevskoye (Лазаревское) is a Sochi microdistrict and center of Lazarevsky District, Krasnodar Krai, at the Psezuapse river mouth; founded 1839 as Fort Lazarev, village from 1869, in Sochi since 1961.
Lazio
Lazio, historically Latium, is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, located in the center of the peninsula. Its capital is Rome, the national capital, where most of its 5.7 million residents live.
LDLC Arena
LDLC Arena: 16,000-seat indoor arena in Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), opened 23 November 2023 at OL Vallée; hosts ASVEL EuroLeague basketball, concerts, ATP 250 tennis, and 2030 Olympics ice hockey plans.
Le Barrou
Le Barrou is the oldest quarter of Sète in southern France, on the étang de Thau, with a 1st-century Roman villa noted for mosaics and wine production.
Le Carrozze-Gravetta
Le Carrozze-Gravetta, archaeological site at Lavello, Potenza, Basilicata: a Daunian sanctuary of the 4th century BCE on the Gravetta hill with tufa naiskos, Doric columns, and 37,000-liter cisterns, plus Canosan-type chamber tombs in the Carrozze valley.