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- ChenesPlaceChenes is a region of northern Campeche state in Mexico, and the name of a Maya architectural style of the Late Classic period that developed there.
ChengduPlaceChengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in south-western China, on the fertile Chengdu plain.
ChengzhouPlaceChengzhou, also called Luoyi, was the eastern capital of the Western Zhou dynasty, built near present-day Luoyang in Henan under the direction of the Duke of Zhou after…
ChennaiPlaceChennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on the Coromandel Coast.
Chennakeshava Temple, BelurWork / monumentThe Chennakeshava temple at Belur in Karnataka, India, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, consecrated in 1117 by the Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana.
Chennakeshava Temple, SomanathapuraWork / monumentThe Chennakeshava Temple at Somanathapura, near Mysore, is a Vaishnava temple built in the 13th century by Somanatha, a general of the Hoysala king Narasimha III.
Chenqiao MutinyRevolution · 960 CEThe Chenqiao Mutiny was the coup of 960 CE in which troops of the Later Zhou commander Zhao Kuangyin draped him in the imperial yellow robe and proclaimed him emperor.
CheomseongdaeWork / monumentCheomseongdae is a stone tower at Gyeongju, South Korea, the capital of Silla, traditionally dated to the reign of Queen Seondeok in the seventh century.
CheonghaejinPlaceCheonghaejin was a maritime garrison founded in 828 by Jang Bogo, with royal permission, on Wando island off the south-western tip of Korea.- CheongjuPlaceCheongju is the capital of North Chungcheong province in central South Korea.
CheonmachongPlaceCheonmachong, the 'Heavenly Horse Tomb', is a Silla royal burial mound of the late fifth or early sixth century at Gyeongju, South Korea.
CheontaeReligion / ideaCheontae is the Korean form of the Tiantai school of Buddhism, which centres on the Lotus Sutra.- CheorwonPlaceCheorwon is a county in the central highlands of the Korean peninsula, divided by the Demilitarised Zone between South Korea's Gangwon province and North Korea.
ChepniPeople / groupThe Chepni are a Turkic tribe of the Oghuz family who settled in the Black Sea region of north-eastern Anatolia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Chepstow CastleWork / monumentChepstow Castle stands on a cliff above the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Cher (river)PlaceThe Cher is a river of central France, about 365 km long, a left-bank tributary of the Loire.
Chera dynastyStateThe Chera dynasty was one of the three crowned dynasties of ancient Tamilakam, with the Cholas and Pandyas, ruling the Malabar Coast and the Kongu country of southern…
Chera Perumals of MakotaiStateThe Chera Perumals of Makotai were a dynasty that ruled much of Kerala in south-west India from about 800 to the early 12th century, with their capital at Makotai, or…
Cheraman Perumal NayanarPersonCheraman Perumal Nayanar was a Chera king of Kerala and one of the 63 Nayanars, the Tamil Shaiva poet-saints, probably active in the early 9th century.
CherchellPlaceCherchell is a coastal town in Algeria, west of Algiers.- CherdynPlaceCherdyn is an old town in Perm Krai, Russia, on the Kolva river west of the northern Urals.
- Cherethites and PelethitesPeople / groupThe Cherethites and Pelethites were the royal bodyguard of King David according to the Hebrew Bible, commanded by Benaiah son of Jehoiada.
ChernigovPlaceChernigov, now Chernihiv, is a historic city in northern Ukraine, one of the oldest towns of Kievan Rus.- ChernivtsiPlaceChernivtsi is a city in western Ukraine on the Prut river, the historic capital of Bukovina.
Chernobyl disasterEventThe Chernobyl disaster was the explosion and fire at reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR on 26 April 1986, the worst accident in the…- Chernorizets HrabarPersonChernorizets Hrabar was a Bulgarian monk and writer of the late 9th or early 10th century, associated with the literary circle of Preslav.
- ChernozemTermChernozem, or black earth, is a highly fertile dark soil rich in humus, found across the steppes of Ukraine and southern Russia.
Chernyakhov culturePeople / groupThe Chernyakhov culture is an archaeological culture of the 3rd and 4th centuries CE, spread across present-day Ukraine, Moldova and parts of Romania.
CherokeePeople / groupThe Cherokee are an Iroquoian-speaking Native American people whose homeland lay in the southern Appalachians.
Cherokee PhoenixWork / monumentThe Cherokee Phoenix was the first newspaper published by a Native American nation in the United States, printed at New Echota, Georgia, from 1828 in English and in…
CherrapunjiPlaceCherrapunji, also called Sohra, is a town on the southern edge of the Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, north-east India, overlooking the plains of Bangladesh.- ChersicratesPersonChersicrates was a member of the Bacchiad ruling clan of Corinth who, according to Strabo, led the Corinthian colonists who founded Corcyra on the island of Corfu…
ChersiphronPersonChersiphron of Knossos was a Cretan architect of the sixth century BCE who, with his son Metagenes, designed and began the archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of…- ChertomlykPlaceChertomlyk is a royal Scythian burial mound of the 4th century BCE near Nikopol in southern Ukraine, about 20 metres high.
Chertsey AbbeyInstitutionChertsey Abbey was a Benedictine abbey at Chertsey in Surrey, England, founded in 666 by Eorcenwald, later Bishop of London, and endowed by the sub-king Frithuwold.
Cherven TownsPlaceThe Cherven Towns were a group of fortified settlements in the borderland between Poland and Kievan Rus', in the area of present-day south-eastern Poland and western…
Chesapeake BayPlaceChesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, extending about 300 kilometres from the mouth of the Susquehanna River in Maryland to the Atlantic in…
CheshirePlaceCheshire is a county in north-west England, between the Welsh border and the Pennines, with Chester as its historic county town.
ChesterPlaceChester is a city in Cheshire, north-west England, on the River Dee near the Welsh border.
Chester-le-StreetPlaceChester-le-Street is a town in County Durham in north-east England, on the site of a Roman fort.
Chet Ton dynastyPeople / groupThe Chet Ton dynasty, meaning 'seven princes', was the ruling house of Lampang and Chiang Mai, descended from the seven sons of the Lampang leader Chai Kaeo.
ChetniksPeople / groupThe Chetniks were Serbian royalist and nationalist forces in occupied Yugoslavia during the Second World War, led by Draža Mihailović.
ChettiarPeople / groupThe Chettiars are a Tamil mercantile and banking community from south India, the best known being the Nattukottai Chettiars of Chettinad.
Chevalier de ChaumontPersonAlexandre, Chevalier de Chaumont, was a French naval officer and diplomat who led Louis XIV's first embassy to King Narai of Ayutthaya in 1685.- ChewaInstitutionThe chewa were professional military regiments in the Ethiopian Empire.
CheyennePeople / groupThe Cheyenne are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people of the Great Plains, who moved west from the upper Mississippi region and took up a horse-based bison-hunting…
ChełmPlaceChełm is a city in eastern Poland, near the Ukrainian border.
ChełmnoPlaceChełmno, German Kulm, is a town on the Vistula in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland.
Chełmno extermination campPlaceChełmno extermination camp was the first Nazi extermination camp, set up in December 1941 at the village of Chełmno nad Nerem in German-occupied Poland, north-west of…
Chełmno LandPlaceChełmno Land is a historical region of northern Poland on the right bank of the Vistula, around the town of Chełmno (Kulm).
Chełmno lawInstitutionChełmno law, German Kulm law, was the town law granted by the Teutonic Order in its charter of 1233 for the towns of Chełmno and Toruń.
ChełmżaPlaceChełmża, in German Culmsee, is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland, near Toruń.- ChhachhrauliPlaceChhachhrauli is a town in the Yamunanagar district of Haryana, India.
- ChhatrapatiInstitutionChhatrapati was the royal title adopted by Shivaji at his coronation in 1674, meaning lord of the parasol, a symbol of sovereignty.
ChhatrasalPersonChhatrasal was a Bundela Rajput leader who fought the Mughal Empire and founded an independent kingdom in Bundelkhand, with its capital at Panna.
ChhattisgarhPlaceChhattisgarh is a state of central India, formed in November 2000 from the south-eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh, with its capital at Raipur.- Chhattisgarh Feudatory StatesStateThe Chhattisgarh Feudatory States were a group of fourteen small princely states in the upper Mahanadi region of central India, including Kanker, Kawardha, Sakti and…
Chhau danceTermChhau is a tradition of martial and folk dance from eastern India, performed in three main styles, Purulia in West Bengal, Seraikela in Jharkhand and Mayurbhanj in…
Chhindwara districtPlaceChhindwara district is a district of Madhya Pradesh, India, on the Satpura plateau, with its headquarters at the town of Chhindwara.
Chhota UdaipurPlaceChhota Udaipur is a town in eastern Gujarat, India, and the headquarters of Chhota Udaipur district, created in 2013.- Chhoto Sona MosqueWork / monumentThe Chhoto Sona Mosque, the Small Golden Mosque, is a mosque at Shibganj in Chapai Nawabganj district, Bangladesh, on the site of the old city of Gaur.
- Chi Lang PassPlaceChi Lang Pass is a narrow mountain pass in Lang Son province in northern Vietnam, on the main route from China to the Red River delta.
- Chiang Ching-kuoPersonChiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, was premier of the Republic of China from 1972 and president from 1978 until his death in 1988.
- Chiang Kai-shekPersonChiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who headed the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, after Sun Yat-sen.
Chiang RaiPlaceChiang Rai is a city in northern Thailand on the Kok River, founded by King Mangrai of Ngoenyang in 1262.
Chiang SaenPlaceChiang Saen is an ancient town on the Mekong in the far north of Thailand, near the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.
ChiapasPlaceChiapas is a state in southern Mexico, bordering Guatemala.
Chiaramonte familyPeople / groupThe Chiaramonte were a Sicilian baronial family, counts of Modica, who became one of the most powerful houses of the island under the Aragonese kings of Sicily in the…
ChiavennaPlaceChiavenna is a town in Lombardy, northern Italy, where the routes over the Splügen and Maloja passes from Switzerland meet.
Chibinda IlungaPersonChibinda Ilunga is a legendary Luba prince and hunter traditionally credited with marrying into the Lunda royal line, in the person of the female ruler Lueji.
Chicago BoysPeople / groupThe Chicago Boys were Chilean economists trained at the University of Chicago, many through an exchange programme with the Catholic University of Chile begun in the…
Chicama ValleyPlaceThe Chicama Valley is a river valley on the desert north coast of Peru, just north of Trujillo.
ChichesterPlaceChichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, southern England.- ChichimecaPeople / groupChichimeca was a Nahuatl name for the nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of northern Mexico, and also for migrants from the north who settled in central Mexico.
Chichimeca WarWar · c. 1550–1590The Chichimeca War was a long conflict between Spanish colonists and the nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of northern Mexico known collectively as Chichimecas.- Chickamauga CherokeePeople / groupThe Chickamauga Cherokee were a band of Cherokee who, under the war leader Dragging Canoe, refused to accept land cessions to colonists and moved in 1777 to the…
Chickasaw WarsWar · 1721–1763The Chickasaw Wars were fought in the eighteenth century between the Chickasaw, allied with the British, and the French of Louisiana with their Choctaw allies in the…
ChidambaramPlaceChidambaram is a temple town in Tamil Nadu, India, near the Coromandel coast.- ChidiaongaPersonChidiaonga was a leader of the Maseko Ngoni in the nineteenth century.
- Chief JosephPersonChief Joseph was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce people of the Pacific Northwest.
Chief PleasInstitutionThe Chief Pleas is the parliament of Sark in the Channel Islands.
ChietiPlaceChieti is a city in Abruzzo, central Italy, on a hill above the Pescara river near the Adriatic.- ChigilsPeople / groupThe Chigils were a Turkic tribe of Central Asia, recorded by Muslim geographers from the 10th century around Lake Issyk-Kul and the upper Chu valley.
- ChiguPlaceChigu, the 'Red Valley City', was the royal seat of the Wusun, a nomadic people of the Ili and Issyk-Kul region, as recorded in the Han dynasty histories.
ChihalganiInstitutionThe Chihalgani, or Council of Forty, was a group of powerful Turkic slave nobles in the Delhi Sultanate during the thirteenth century, associated with Sultan Iltutmish.
Chihuahua (city)PlaceChihuahua is a city in northern Mexico, capital of the state of the same name.
Chikka Devaraja WodeyarPersonChikka Devaraja Wodeyar was king of Mysore from 1673 to 1704.
Chikka Vira RajendraPersonChikka Vira Rajendra was the last raja of Coorg (Kodagu), in south-western India, reigning from 1820 to 1834.
Chikugo ProvincePlaceChikugo Province was an old province of Japan in northern Kyushu, corresponding to the southern part of modern Fukuoka Prefecture.- ChikundaPeople / groupThe Chikunda were slave soldiers and hunters of the Zambezi valley in Mozambique, originally the armed retainers of the Portuguese prazo estates.
Chikuzen ProvincePlaceChikuzen Province was an old province of Japan in northern Kyushu, covering the north-western part of modern Fukuoka Prefecture.
ChilaraiPersonChilarai, born Shukladhwaj, was the younger brother and general of the Koch king Nara Narayan in the 16th century.- Child sacrificeReligion / ideaChild sacrifice refers to the ritual killing of children as offerings to deities.
Childebert IPersonChildebert I was a Merovingian king of the Franks who ruled from Paris from 511 to 558.
Childeric IPersonChilderic I was a king of the Salian Franks, traditionally the son of Merovech, who ruled from Tournai until his death around 481.
Chilean Civil CodeWork / monumentThe Chilean Civil Code, drafted by Andrés Bello and promulgated in December 1855, came into force in 1857.
Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830War · 1829–1830The Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830 was fought between the liberals, known as pipiolos, and the conservatives, known as pelucones, after disputed elections in 1829.
Chilean War of IndependenceWar · 1810–1826The Chilean War of Independence was the struggle of Chilean patriots against Spanish royalist rule, from the first national junta of 1810 to the capture of Chiloé in…
ChilehausWork / monumentThe Chilehaus is a ten-storey office building in Hamburg's Kontorhaus District, built in 1922–1924 to designs by Fritz Höger for the shipowner Henry Sloman, who had…- Chileshe ChepelaPersonChileshe Chepela was Chitimukulu, the paramount chief of the Bemba of north-eastern Zambia, in the first half of the 19th century.