CENTO
Central Treaty Organization

The cento originated in the 3rd or 4th century.

The percent sign evolved by gradual contraction of the phrase per cento.

"Things look good for the building, especially as it stands now," Mr. Cento said.

Nowadays, Cento 73 is sealed off and the building is ready for demolition.

In 2011 he came first in the Cento Open.

He was born at Cento, a village near Bologna.

Manufactured in Cento, Italy, at 13,000 units per year.

There are who claim it is possible to recall this number, but then they just recite a senseless cento"

She soon accepted a role in Rigoletto being performed in Cento.

He debuted as director in 1959 with the comedy film La cento chilometri.

But is it clear that the cento was one of melodies as well as of texts?

What is meant by cento?

CENTO was unwilling to get deeply involved in either dispute.

He was born in Cento.

Writing a cento may be a kind of extension of the act of reading, a way to prolong the pleasure.

"We are getting inquiries from nontraditional downtown tenants," Mr. Cento said.

She also wrote a Homeric cento with verses taken from Homer that followed a similar scheme.

The "cento" was contracted to two circles separated by a horizontal line from which the modern "%" is derived.

He was born in Cento, Ferrara, and came from a notable family of musicians.

In Latin the word cento means "patchwork," and the verse form resembles a quilt of discrete lines stitched together to make a whole.

The cento as contemporary poets practice it is a specialized form of the collage: an anthology poem from diverse sources.

Born in Cento, but mostly active in Bologna.

In 1982 he was made an honorary citizen of Cento, Guercino's birthplace.

Fernando Cento (26 Oct 1953 - 1958 )

The symbol for percent (%) evolved from a symbol abbreviating the Italian per cento.

Both nations were part of Cold War alliance called the Central Treaty Organization.

August 19 - The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) is established.

Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)

In 1955, Iraq adopted the Baghdad Pact (also known as the Central Treaty Organization, or CENTO).

Pakistan, Iran and Turkey joined the United States-sponsored Central Treaty Organization defence treaty which extended along the Soviet Union's southern perimeter.

The defection of Iraq from the Baghdad Pact in 1959 led to its re-establishment as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).

For two years he oversaw the joint military maneuvers around oil fields in the Mideast for the now defunct Central Treaty Organization, CENTO.

Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), a former mutual-defense alliance of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Great Britain.

He helped develop a National Stratigraphic Code for Pakistan, leading to stratigraphic correlations among Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey, all members of the Central Treaty Organization.

Following that assignment, he served as the United States Military Representative to the Permanent Military Deputies Group, Central Treaty Organization located in Ankara, Turkey.

Nevertheless, Iran had resisted Pakistani pressure to activate the Baghdad Pact and draw in the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) into the conflict.

He then became Director of the Combined Military Planning Staff at the Central Treaty Organisation in 1959 and General Officer Commanding 1 British Corps in 1960.

The Vulcans provided a bomber force for the Central Treaty Organisation, one of the three great anti-Communist mutual defence pacts signed in the early days of the Cold War.

In August 1955 CENTO (Central Treaty Organization), a mutual security-pact between Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and Britain was established.

Central Treaty Organization (or CENTO) initiated by John Foster Dulles, members were Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Turkey, U.S. aid.

During the Cold War, in England and the U.S., it refers to the Four Middle Eastern members of the Central Treaty Organization: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.

At Ankara, the United States agreed to defend the remaining members of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) in case of attack, signing bilateral defense agreements with Iran, Turkey and Pakistan.

Both states were members of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), a military coalition of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, created in 1955 and dissolved in 1979.

While maintaining a prominent role for Pakistan within the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the Central Treaty Organization, Bhutto began asserting a foreign policy course for Pakistan that was independent of U.S. influence.

Pakistan joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and Central Treaty Organization alliance in the 1950's, not to advance American strategic objectives against what was seen as a monolithic Chinese-Soviet Communist threat, but to deal with India.

Pakistan was included not only because East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was geographically close to Southeast Asia, but possibly because Pakistan was a member of the pro-Western Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) alliance.

The Baghdad Pact, which had been kicked out of Baghdad after Iraq withdrew from the alliance, changed its name to the CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization, with the United Kingdom, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran.

He studied Medicine at the University of Tehran, but left his studies before receiving his MD degree to accept a diplomatic post in Turkey, as the Economic Secretary of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).

Both countries, valued as important states in their regions, joined the U.S.-led Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) aimed to bolster military and strategic cooperation and counter the spread of communism and Soviet influence in the region.

This treaty was followed in 1955 by the Baghdad Pact, later renamed the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), uniting the "northern tier" countries of the Middle East-Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan-in a defense organization.