| Title: | Leeds |
| Original Title: | Leeds |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 9 (1765), p. 337 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Timothy Cleary [graduate, University of Leeds] |
| Subject terms: |
Geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Leeds." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Timothy Cleary. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.558>. Trans. of "Leeds," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 9. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Leeds." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Timothy Cleary. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.558 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Leeds," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 9:337 (Paris, 1765). |
Leeds, English town in Yorkshire, with the title of Duchy, which was formerly the residence of the kings of Northumbria during the heptarchy. The town is on the river Aire, 20 miles to the south-west of York, 139 miles to the north-west of London. Long. 15. 58. latit. 53. 43.