=Vellore=, Madras. 13N. 79E. Said to have been f. by Bommi Reddi, c. 1274; besieged by Mahrattas, 1676; taken by Daud Khan, 1708; Safdar Ali murdered here by Murtaza Ali, 1742; occupied by British, 1760; by Hyder Ali, 1780. =Vijayanagar= ('city of victory'), Madras. 15N. 76E. F. in 1336; contains celebrated ruins, and is famous as res. of Sayana, the Vedic commentator. =Vladivostok=, Asiatic Russia. 43N. 132E. Occupied by Russians, 1860; free port, 1873; capital of Littoral, 1888. (See Fraser's 'Real Siberia,' Little's 'Far East.') =Wady Hammanah=, Syria. 34N. 36E. Gorge near which Lamartine lived. =Wa-fang-kou=, Manchuria. 40N. 122E. Russians under General Stackelberg conquered by Japanese, 1904. =Wakayama=, Japan. 34N. 135E. Contains castle of princes of Kishu, f. 1850, and near by is temple of Kumudera, said to be f. 770. =Wandewash=, Madras. 12N. 80E. Lally-Tollendal defeated by Sir Eyre Coote 1760. =Wei-hai-wei=, China. 37N. 122E. Great Chinese arsenal established, 1883; seized by Japanese, 1895; leased to British, 1898. (See Diosy's 'New Far East.') =Wi-ju=, Korea. 40N. 125E. Here Manchus entered Korea, 1627; Japanese entered Manchuria, 1894, 1904. (See McKenzie's 'From Tokyo to Tiflis.') =Wu-chang=, China. 30N. 114E. Captured by Taiping rebels, 1853. =Yakutsk=, Eastern Siberia. 62N. 130E. F. by Cossacks, 1632. =Yalu=, Korea. 40N. 125E. Japanese under Admiral Ito defeated Chinese fleet at mouth of Yalu, 1894; passage forced by Japanese during Russo-Japanese War, 1904. (See McKenzie's 'From Tokyo to Tiflis.') =Yamaguchi=, Japan. 34N. 131E. Mission established by St. Francis Xavier, 1550. =Yanbo=, Arabia. 24N. 38E. Landing-place for Egyptian pilgrims. (See Burton's 'Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah,' Burckhardt's 'Travels in Arabia.') =Yarkand=, Chinese Turkestan. 38N. 78E. Annexed to Chinese Empire, 1757; captured by Dungans, 1864; recaptured by Chinese, 1877. (See 'Travels of Marco Polo.') =Yokasuka=, Japan. 35N. 140E. Will Adams, the English pilot, landed here, 1600; tomb in vicinity of town. =Yokohama=, Japan. 35N. 140E. Became residential treaty port, 1858; totally destroyed by fire, 1866. (See Lafcadio Hearn's 'Out of the East' and 'Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,' Kipling's 'From Sea to Sea.') =Zebulon=, Palestine. 33N. 35E. Mentioned several times in the Bible; visited by Lamartine, 1832. =Zileh=, Asia Minor. 40N. 36E. Formerly celebrated for worship of Anaitis. Here Julius Cæsar defeated Pharnaces, and uttered famous words, 'Veni, vidi, vici.' (See Suetonius' 'De Vita Cæsarum,' I. 37.) INDEX INDEX LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS B. Bay C. Cape G. Gulf Is. Island L. Lake Mt. Mountain Pk. Peak Pen. Peninsula Pt. Point R. River Str. Strait Vol. Volcano _Those places marked with an asterisk (*) appear also in the Gazetteer_