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Cecina (river)PlaceThe Cecina is a river of western Tuscany, Italy, about 80 km long, rising in the Colline Metallifere and flowing west to the Tyrrhenian Sea at the town of Cecina.
CeddPersonCedd was a Northumbrian monk trained at Lindisfarne who led a mission to the Middle Angles in 653 and then reconverted the East Saxons as their bishop.- Ceded MilePlaceThe Ceded Mile was a strip of land about one mile deep along the north bank of the Gambia River, opposite Bathurst (Banjul), ceded by the king of Niumi to Britain in…
- Cedula of PopulationWork / monumentThe Cédula de Población was a royal decree issued by Charles III of Spain in 1783 to encourage the settlement of Trinidad.
Cefalù CathedralWork / monumentCefalù Cathedral is a Norman cathedral in the town of Cefalù on the north coast of Sicily, founded by Roger II in 1131.
CelenderisPlaceCelenderis was an ancient port city on the coast of Rough Cilicia in southern Anatolia, at modern Aydıncık in Mersin Province, Turkey.
CeljePlaceCelje is the third-largest city of Slovenia, on the Savinja River.
Cell theoryReligion / ideaCell theory is the scientific theory that living organisms are made up of cells, that the cell is their basic unit, and that all cells come from pre-existing cells; it…
CellePlaceCelle is a town on the Aller in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath.
CeltiberiaPlaceCeltiberia was the region of the eastern Meseta of central Spain inhabited by the Celtiberians, around the upper Douro and Tagus and the southern tributaries of the…- CeltillusPersonCeltillus was a leading noble of the Arverni in Gaul in the early 1st century BCE and the father of Vercingetorix.
CeltsPeople / groupThe Celts were the Iron Age peoples of Europe who spoke Celtic languages, spread from Iberia and the British Isles to the Danube and Anatolia.
CemenelumPlaceCemenelum was a Roman town on the hill of Cimiez above Nice, in south-eastern France, the capital of the province of Alpes Maritimae.
Cen ChunxuanPersonCen Chunxuan was a late Qing official who served as governor-general of Sichuan and of Liangguang.- Cen PengPersonCen Peng was a general of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han dynasty, counted among the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai.
Cen YuyingPersonCen Yuying was a Qing dynasty official from Guangxi who rose to prominence suppressing the Panthay Rebellion of the Hui Muslims in Yunnan.
CenadPlaceCenad is a village in Timiș county, western Romania, on the Mureș river near the Hungarian border.
Cenél ComgaillPeople / groupThe Cenél Comgaill were a kindred of Dál Riata in Cowal, in Argyll, named after Comgall, son of Domangart, a sixth-century king.- Cenél ConaillPeople / groupThe Cenél Conaill were a kindred of the northern Uí Néill descended from Conall Gulban, a son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and based in Tír Chonaill, modern County…
- Cenél nEógainPeople / groupThe Cenél nEógain were a dynasty of the northern Uí Néill in Ireland, claiming descent from Eógan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Cenepa WarWar · 1995The Cenepa War was a short conflict between Ecuador and Peru fought in January and February 1995 over outposts in the upper Cenepa valley, in an undemarcated stretch of…- CensorateInstitutionThe Censorate was a Chinese government agency responsible for monitoring the conduct of officials and reporting misconduct to the emperor.
- CensoriusPersonCensorius was a Roman count (comes) of the 5th century, sent as an envoy to the Suebi in Hispania in the 430s.
CensusTermA census is an official count of a population, often recording households, property and obligations.- CentcellesWork / monumentCentcelles is a Roman villa near Constantí, close to Tarragona in Catalonia, whose 4th-century domed hall preserves one of the oldest surviving Christian dome mosaics…
Centennial Park, SydneyPlaceCentennial Park is a large public park in eastern Sydney, opened in 1888 to mark the centenary of the British colony of New South Wales.
Central AfricaPlaceCentral Africa is the region of the African continent centred on the Congo basin, including present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola…
Central African RepublicPlaceThe Central African Republic is a landlocked country in central Africa, formerly the French colony of Ubangi-Shari.
Central AmericaPlaceCentral America is the narrow land bridge between Mexico and South America, today divided among Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and…- Central American Civil WarWar · 1826–1829The Central American Civil War was fought from 1826 to 1829 within the Federal Republic of Central America between conservatives, led by President Manuel José Arce, and…
Central American UniversityInstitutionThe José Simeón Cañas Central American University is a Jesuit university in San Salvador founded in 1965.
Central AsiaPlaceCentral Asia is the vast inland region between the Caspian Sea and western China, including the steppes and the oasis cities of Transoxiana such as Samarkand and Bukhara.
Central bankReligion / ideaA central bank is a public institution that manages a state's currency, money supply and banking system.
Central Bank of EcuadorInstitutionThe Central Bank of Ecuador was founded in 1927 on the advice of the American economist Edwin Kemmerer, after the Julian Revolution of 1925 had ended the dominance of…
Central EuropePlaceCentral Europe is the region between Western and Eastern Europe, broadly including Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, Poland and Hungary.- Central GreecePlaceCentral Greece, in Greek Sterea Ellada, is the historical and geographical region of mainland Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth and south of Thessaly and Epirus…
Central India AgencyInstitutionThe Central India Agency was the British political agency that supervised the princely states of central India, including Indore, Gwalior, Bhopal and many small…
Central Intelligence AgencyInstitutionThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the foreign intelligence service of the United States, created by the National Security Act of 1947.
Central JavaPlaceCentral Java is a province of Indonesia in the middle of the island of Java, with its capital at Semarang.
Central Plain (China)PlaceThe Central Plain, Zhongyuan in Chinese, is the region of the middle and lower Yellow River, roughly modern Henan and neighbouring areas.
Central PowersPeople / groupThe Central Powers were the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria that fought against the Allies in the First World War.- Central ProvincesStateThe Central Provinces was a province of British India formed in 1861 from the Nagpur and Saugor and Nerbudda territories, with its capital at Nagpur.
Central RadaInstitutionThe Central Rada was the Ukrainian revolutionary council formed in Kyiv in March 1917 under the historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky.- Central SecretariatInstitutionThe Zhongshu Sheng, or Secretariat, was one of the central organs of government in imperial China.
- Central SudanPlaceThe central Sudan is the part of the Sahel and savanna belt of West and Central Africa between the Niger bend and Lake Chad, in the historical sense of the Bilad…
- Central Valley (Costa Rica)PlaceThe Central Valley is a highland basin in the middle of Costa Rica, containing the cities of San José, Cartago, Heredia and Alajuela.
Centre Party (Finland)People / groupThe Centre Party is a Finnish political party founded in 1906 as the Agrarian League to represent small farmers and rural areas.- Centurione II ZaccariaPersonCenturione II Zaccaria was the last Prince of Achaea, a member of a Genoese family that held the barony of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.
- Cenwalh of WessexPersonCenwalh was king of Wessex from about 642 to 672.
CeolfrithPersonCeolfrith (c. 642–716) was abbot of the twin monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow from 688 and the teacher of Bede.
Ceolred of MerciaPersonCeolred was king of Mercia from 709 to 716, the son of Æthelred.
Ceolwulf II of MerciaPersonCeolwulf II was king of Mercia from 874 to about 879, installed by the Great Heathen Army after Burgred fled.
Cephissus (Boeotia)PlaceThe Cephissus is a river of central Greece that rises near Mount Parnassus in Phocis and flows east through Phocis and Boeotia.- CerasusPlaceCerasus was an ancient Greek city on the southern Black Sea coast of Anatolia, founded as a colony of Sinope; its site is usually placed at or near modern Giresun in…
- Cerball mac DúnlaingePersonCerball mac Dúnlainge was king of Osraige in Ireland from about 842 until his death in 888.
CercamonPersonCercamon was one of the earliest troubadours, active in Aquitaine and Gascony around 1135–1145.
CerdanyaPlaceCerdanya is a high Pyrenean valley of the upper Segre, divided between Catalonia in Spain and the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
CerdicPersonCerdic is named by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the founder of the kingdom of Wessex.
Ceredig ap CuneddaPersonCeredig ap Cunedda is the legendary founder of the early Welsh kingdom of Ceredigion, which tradition says was named after him.- CeresReligion / ideaCeres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops and fertility, closely identified with the Greek Demeter.
- Ceretic GuleticPersonCeretic Guletic was a 5th-century British king of Alt Clut, the fortress on Dumbarton Rock, and an early ruler of what became the kingdom of Strathclyde.
- Ceretic of ElmetPersonCeretic was the last known king of Elmet, a British kingdom in what is now West Yorkshire, England.
CERNInstitutionCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an intergovernmental particle physics laboratory founded in 1954 on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.- Cerro Azul (Peru)PlaceCerro Azul is a coastal headland and archaeological site in the lower Cañete valley of Peru, south of Lima.
Cerro BaúlPlaceCerro Baúl is a flat-topped mountain in the Moquegua valley of southern Peru, on whose summit the Wari Empire built a fortified colony around 600 CE.- Cerro de Hojas-JaboncilloPlaceCerro de Hojas-Jaboncillo is an archaeological complex on hills between Portoviejo and Montecristi in Manabí province, Ecuador.
Cerro del VillarPlaceCerro del Villar is an archaeological site at the mouth of the Guadalhorce river near Málaga in southern Spain, once an island in the river's estuary.
Cerro RicoPlaceCerro Rico ('rich hill') is a mountain above the city of Potosí in present-day Bolivia whose silver deposits were discovered by the Spanish in 1545.- CersobleptesPersonCersobleptes was a son of Cotys I and the most powerful of the three kings among whom the Odrysian Kingdom was divided in 360 BCE, ruling its eastern part.
Certosa di PaviaWork / monumentThe Certosa di Pavia is a Carthusian monastery north of Pavia in Lombardy, founded in 1396 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti as a family mausoleum.- Certosa SitulaWork / monumentThe Certosa Situla is a bronze bucket of about 500 BCE found in the 19th century in a grave of the Certosa cemetery of Etruscan Felsina, now Bologna.
CerveraPlaceCervera is a town in the province of Lleida in Catalonia, Spain.
CervionePlaceCervione is a hill village in the Castagniccia region of north-eastern Corsica, above the eastern coastal plain.
César MilsteinPersonCésar Milstein was an Argentine biochemist who worked mainly at Cambridge in England.
César VallejoPersonCésar Vallejo was a Peruvian poet, regarded as one of the great innovators of twentieth-century poetry in any language.
Cesare BeccariaPersonCesare Beccaria (1738–1794) was an Italian jurist, philosopher and economist of the Milanese Enlightenment.
Cesare BorgiaPersonCesare Borgia was the son of Pope Alexander VI.
Cesare d'Este, Duke of ModenaPersonCesare d'Este was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1597.
Cesare Maria De VecchiPersonCesare Maria De Vecchi was an Italian Fascist leader, one of the quadrumvirs of the March on Rome in 1922.
CesenaPlaceCesena is a city in Romagna, northern Italy, on the Savio river near the Adriatic.
CēsisPlaceCēsis (German: Wenden) is a town in Vidzeme, northern Latvia.
Český KrumlovPlaceČeský Krumlov, in German Krumau, is a town in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, set in tight bends of the Vltava.- Cestius GallusPersonGaius Cestius Gallus was the Roman governor of Syria from about 63 to 67 CE.
CetinaPlaceThe Cetina is a river of Dalmatia in southern Croatia, flowing about 100 kilometres from the Dinaric mountains to the Adriatic at Omiš.
CetinjePlaceCetinje is a town in a high karst basin of southern Montenegro and the country's old royal capital.
Cetinje OctoechosWork / monumentThe Cetinje Octoechos, or Oktoih, is a book of Orthodox liturgical hymns printed in 1494 by the monk Makarije at the press of Đurađ Crnojević in Cetinje.
CetshwayoPersonCetshwayo kaMpande was king of the Zulu from 1872 to 1879.
CeutaPlaceCeuta is a port city on the North African coast opposite Gibraltar.
CévennesPlaceThe Cévennes are a mountain range on the south-eastern edge of the Massif Central in France.
CeylonPlaceCeylon is the former name of Sri Lanka, an island south of India famous for cinnamon.- Ceylon Independence Act 1947Work / monumentThe Ceylon Independence Act 1947 was an act of the British Parliament that granted independence to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, as a dominion within the Commonwealth.
CFA francTermThe CFA franc is the name of two currencies used in West and Central Africa, created by France in December 1945 for its African colonies.- Ch'ol peoplePeople / groupThe Ch'ol are a Maya people whose language belongs to the Cholan branch of the Mayan family; today most live in northern Chiapas, Mexico.
ChaacReligion / ideaChaac is the Maya god of rain, lightning and storms, often shown with a long curling nose and an axe that strikes the clouds to bring rain.
ChaambaPeople / groupThe Chaamba are an Arabic-speaking nomadic tribal confederation of the northern Algerian Sahara, centred on the region of Ouargla, Metlili and El Golea.- ChabriasPersonChabrias was an Athenian general of the 4th century BCE and a skilled commander of mercenaries and fleets.
- Chach NamaWork / monumentThe Chach Nama is a Persian chronicle of the Arab conquest of Sindh, translated by Ali Kufi around 1226 from what it claims was an earlier Arabic work.
Chaco CanyonPlaceChaco Canyon is a canyon cut by the Chaco Wash in north-western New Mexico, which between 900 and 1150 was a major centre of the Ancestral Puebloans.
Chaco WarWar · 1932–1935The Chaco War was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay from 1932 to 1935 over the northern Gran Chaco, a region believed to hold oil.
ChadPlaceChad is a landlocked country in north-central Africa named after Lake Chad.