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TAGABALOYE. 818 TAGXJS. TAGABALOYE, til'ga-balo'ya. A tribe of eastern ilindanao. See Philippine Islands. TAGABAWA, tjl'ga-ba'va. A mixed people in Davao Province, southern Mindanao. See Philippine Islands. TAGABELrE, ta'gS-ba'le-a. A wild Malay people in southern Mindanao. See Philippine Islands. TAGAL, tag;il'. TAGALA, tftgali"., TAGA- IiOG, or TAGALO, ta-gU'lo. A Malay people of the Philippine Islands, having an alphabet and considerable culture in pre-Spanish times. They inhabit many provinces in middle Luzon, and form with the Ilocano (q.v. ) and Visaya (q.v.) the bulk of the Filipino population. Their language and cultire luive spread among the other tribes. See Philippine Islands; Philip- pine Langvaces. TAGANBOG, thg'an-rog'. A seaport in the Province of the Don Cossacks, Russia, on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, 18 miles north- west of the mouth of the Don (Map: Russia, E 5). The harbor has now become very shallow and the trade of the town is decreasing. The principal export is grain. The total trade in 1890 was about $1,800,000. The manufacturing industries are well developed and the principal products are flour and tobacco. Population, in 1900, 00,(!78. TAGBAjTUA, tag-bil'ni5o-a. A Malay-Negrito people in Palawan Island and the Calamianes Archipelago. See Philippine Islands. TAGHKANIC (ta-ka'nik) MOUNTAINS. See Taconic JIountains. TAGLIACOZZO, tJil'ya-kM'sd. A town in the Province of Aquila, Italy, 24 miles east by north of Tivoli, near which, on August 23, 126.8, Charles of Anjou decisively defeated Conradin of Swabia (q.v.), the last of the Hohenstaufen. TAGLIONI, ta-lyO'ne. An Italian family of ballet-dancers, of wliom Filippo (1777-1871) was the first to attain ]jrorainence. He was born in Milan, became ballet-master, successively, at Stockholm, Cassel. Vienna, and Warsaw, and composed many ballets, of which i^i/lphide is the most notewortliy. His daughter Maria ( 1804- 84), born at Stockholm, was connected succes- sively from 1822 with the opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin, appeared with enor- mous success also on all the other principal stages of Europe, and in 1832 married Count Gilbert de Voisins. After her last appearance in London, 1847, she retired to Italy. Her brother Paul (1808-84), born in Vienna, performed success- fully at Stuttgart, Vienna, and Paris, and in 1829 secured a permanent engagement in Berlin, where he was appointed ballet-director of the Royal Theatre in 1869, As a composer of ballets he earned world-wide reputation, especially with Flick und Flock and Fatitasca. His daughter Maria (1833-91), born in Berlin, made her dgbut (1847) in London, was for some time a great favorite at the Royal Theatre in Berlin, then at San Carlo in Naples, and married Prince Joseph Windischgriitz in 1866. TAGOSATI, or TOGASASTI. A shrub ( Cyti. siis proleferus alhus) of the natural order LeguminosiB. It is a native of the Madeira and the Canary islands, where it is an important fodder plant and from whence it has been in- troduced into southern Australia. It is well adapted to dry soils and climates, but cannot be depended upon where there is danger of frost. TAGUAN (East Indian name), A large Old World flying squirrel {Pteromys petaurista) . See Flying Phalanger. TA'GTJS (Sp. Tajo. Port. Tejo) . The largest river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises in the Sierra de Albarracin on the western boundary of the Spanish Province of Teruel, 88 miles east of Madrid, and flows in a general west-southwest di- rection through Spain and Portugal, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean shorth' after passing the city of Lisbon (Map: Spain, D 2). Its length is 565 miles. In its upper course it traverses the arid plains of New Castile, but at Toledo it plunges through a wild gorge between high granite cliffs. Farther west it again flows through sandy, level country, bordered by oak forests. About 40 miles above Lisbon it divides into two branches, which inclose a low, marshy island, and which reunite in the Bay of Lisbon, an expansion of the river about 18 miles long and 5 miles wide. This bay is deep and slieltered, and forms one of the best harbors in the world. At Lisbon the river again contracts, and enters the ocean through a nar- row and deep channel, which, but for the bar at the mouth, would be accessible for the largest ships. The river is regularly navigated 105 miles to Abrantes, but in Spanish territory navi- gation is impeded by rapids.