Assiniboine
a river of Canada, which flows through Manitoba and joins the Red river at Winnipeg, about 40 miles above the entrance of the latter into Lake Winnipeg, after a somewhat circuitous course of about 500 miles from the W. and N. W. Steamers ply on it for over 300 miles. The river derives its name from Assiniboine, a branch of the Sioux Indians.
ASSISI (as-sē'sē), a town in Italy, in the province of Umbria, 20 miles N. of Spoleto, the see of a bishop, and famous as the birthplace of St. Francis d'Assisi. The splendid church built over the chapel where the saint received his first impulse to devotion is one of the finest remains of medieval Gothic architecture. Pop. about 20,000.