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Chahar ProvincePlaceChahar Province was a province of the Republic of China, created in 1928 from a special district north-west of Beijing, with its capital at Kalgan (Zhangjiakou).
Chai RongPersonChai Rong, Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou, was the adopted son of its founder Guo Wei and reigned from 954.- Chain mailTermChain mail is armour made of small interlocking metal rings.
Chait SinghPersonChait Singh was Raja of Benares from 1770 to 1781, son of Balwant Singh.
Chaitanya MahaprabhuPersonChaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Bengali saint and the inspiration of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a devotional movement centred on Krishna and Radha.
ChaiyaPlaceChaiya is a town and district in Surat Thani province in southern Thailand, near the Bay of Bandon.
Chak Tok Ich'aak IPersonChak Tok Ich'aak I was a king of the Maya city of Tikal in the fourth century CE.- ChakhundorjPersonChakhundorj was Tüsheet Khan, ruler of central Khalkha Mongolia, from 1655 to 1699, and the elder brother of Zanabazar.
- Chakla RoshnabadPlaceChakla Roshnabad was a large estate in the plains west of the Tripura hills, in the districts of Comilla, Noakhali and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh.
Chakradhar SinghPersonChakradhar Singh was the Raja of Raigarh, a princely state in what is now Chhattisgarh, India, from 1924.- ChakrayudhaPersonChakrayudha was a king of Kannauj of the Ayudha dynasty around 800, installed by the Pala emperor Dharmapala in place of his rival Indrayudha.
ChaktomukPlaceChaktomuk, 'four faces', called Quatre Bras by the French, is the meeting of waters at Phnom Penh where the Mekong joins the Tonle Sap and divides into the Mekong and…- ChalcaPeople / groupThe Chalca were the Nahuatl-speaking people of Chalco, a confederation of city-states in the south-eastern Valley of Mexico around Lake Chalco.
ChalcidicePlaceChalcidice is a peninsula of northern Greece in Central Macedonia, ending in three prongs: Kassandra, Sithonia and Mount Athos.
ChalcisPlaceChalcis is the chief town of the Greek island of Euboea, on the narrow Euripus strait facing the mainland.
ChalcuchímacPersonChalcuchímac was one of the leading generals of the Inca ruler Atahualpa in the civil war against his brother Huáscar.- Chaldean EmpireStateThe Chaldean Empire, also known as the Neo-Babylonian Empire, was a Mesopotamian state centred on Babylon, founded in 626 BCE by Nabopolassar.
- Chaldean tribesPeople / groupThe Chaldean tribes were Semitic-speaking peoples who settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early first millennium BCE.
ChaldiaPlaceChaldia was a mountainous region of north-eastern Anatolia inland from Trebizond, around present-day Gümüşhane, named after the ancient Chaldoi.- ChaleionPlaceChaleion was an ancient Greek town of Ozolian Locris on the northern shore of the Gulf of Corinth, west of Delphi.
Chalon-sur-SaônePlaceChalon-sur-Saône is a city in Burgundy in eastern France on the river Saône.
Châlons-en-ChampagnePlaceChâlons-en-Champagne, formerly Châlons-sur-Marne, is a city on the Marne in north-eastern France and the prefecture of the Marne department.
Chalukya dynastyStateThe Chalukya dynasty ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and 12th centuries.- Chalukya-Vikrama eraTermThe Chalukya-Vikrama era was a calendar era introduced by the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI to count years from his accession in 1076.
ChâlusPlaceChâlus is a small town in the Haute-Vienne department of the Limousin, central France.
ChalybesPeople / groupThe Chalybes were an ancient people of the southern Black Sea coast of north-eastern Anatolia, between the Halys river and Colchis.- ChamPeople / groupThe Cham are a people of Southeast Asia whose kingdom of Champa occupied the central and southern coast of present-day Vietnam.
- Cham sack of AngkorCampaign · 1177The Cham sack of Angkor occurred in 1177, when forces of the kingdom of Champa captured and plundered the capital of the Khmer Empire.
Chama Cha MapinduziPeople / groupChama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), the Party of the Revolution, is the ruling party of Tanzania, formed on 5 February 1977 by the merger of the mainland's Tanganyika African…- ChamadeviPersonChamadevi was the legendary first ruler of Hariphunchai, the Mon kingdom centred on Lamphun in northern Thailand.
- ChamaviPeople / groupThe Chamavi were a Germanic people living on the lower Rhine, in the area of the modern Dutch region of Hamaland, in the 1st to 4th centuries CE.
Chambal RiverPlaceThe Chambal is a river of central India, rising in the Vindhya Range near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh and flowing north-east through Rajasthan to join the Yamuna.
ChambéryPlaceChambéry is a city in the French Alps, historic capital of Savoy, set between the Bauges and Chartreuse massifs.
ChameriaPlaceChameria is a coastal region of Epirus in north-western Greece and the far south of Albania, lying roughly between the Kalamas river and Butrint.
Chamorro peoplePeople / groupThe Chamorro are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, including Guam, whose ancestors settled the islands about 3,500 years ago.
ChampaPlaceChampa was a group of kingdoms of the Cham people on the central and southern coast of present-day Vietnam, from the early centuries CE until absorbed by Vietnam.- Champa riceTermChampa rice refers to fast-ripening, drought-resistant rice varieties introduced to China from Champa in present-day Vietnam.
- ChampanerPlaceChampaner is a historic city at the foot of Pavagadh hill in Gujarat, India.
ChampawatPlaceChampawat is a town in eastern Uttarakhand, India, in the Kumaon hills near the border with Nepal.
ChampoegPlaceChampoeg was a settlement on the Willamette River in present-day Oregon, United States, where settlers met on 2 May 1843 and voted narrowly to form a provisional…
ChamundaReligion / ideaChamunda is a fierce form of the Hindu mother goddess Devi, one of the seven or eight Matrikas.
Chan ChanPlaceChan Chan was the capital of the Chimú kingdom on the north coast of Peru, near modern Trujillo, and the largest adobe city of the pre-Columbian Americas.
ChanakyaPersonChanakya, also known as Kautilya, was an ancient Indian scholar and statesman traditionally regarded as the chief adviser to Chandragupta Maurya.
ChañarcilloPlaceChañarcillo is a former silver-mining district in the Atacama region of northern Chile, south of Copiapó.
Chand BibiPersonChand Bibi was a princess of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate who also served as regent of the Bijapur Sultanate.
Chand dynastyPeople / groupThe Chand dynasty ruled the hill kingdom of Kumaon, in modern Uttarakhand, India, until the Gorkha conquest of 1790.
Chand SultanPersonChand Sultan was a Gond ruler of the Deogarh kingdom in central India, son of Bakht Buland Shah.
Chanda SahibPersonChanda Sahib was a commander of the Nawab of the Carnatic who seized Madurai and Tiruchirappalli in the 1730s.
ChandannagarPlaceChandannagar, formerly Chandernagore, is a city on the Hooghly River north of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
Chandela dynastyStateThe Chandela dynasty ruled the Bundelkhand region of central India from the ninth to the thirteenth century, first as feudatories of the Gurjara-Pratiharas and from the…- ChandorPlaceChandor is a village in the Salcete area of South Goa, India, which as Chandrapura was an early capital of the Kadambas of Goa from the 10th century, and earlier of…
Chandra Shekhar AzadPersonChandra Shekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary, born at Bhabhra in the princely state of Alirajpur.
Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur RanaPersonChandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1863–1929) was the hereditary Rana prime minister of Nepal from 1901 to 1929.
ChandrabhanuPersonChandrabhanu Sridhamaraja was a king of Tambralinga on the Malay Peninsula in the 13th century, known from an inscription at Chaiya dated 1230.- ChandradevaPersonChandradeva was the founder of the Gahadavala dynasty of northern India, ruling from about 1089 to 1103.
ChandragiriPlaceChandragiri is a town near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, India, with a fort and palace complex on a rocky hill.
Chandragupta IPersonChandragupta I was the ruler who established the Gupta Empire as a major power in northern India around 320 CE.
Chandragupta IIPersonChandragupta II, also called Vikramaditya, was a ruler of the Gupta Empire who reigned from about 375 to 415 CE.
Chandragupta MauryaPersonChandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire, which he established in 321 BCE after overthrowing the Nanda dynasty, traditionally with the help of Chanakya.- Chandrakanta SinghaPersonChandrakanta Singha was a king of the Ahom kingdom of Assam who reigned from 1811 to 1818 and again from 1819 to 1821, in a period of court intrigue and foreign…
ChandrapurPlaceChandrapur, historically Chanda, is a city in eastern Maharashtra, India, near the confluence of the Wardha and Erai rivers.- ChandrasuriyaPersonChandrasuriya is a king of Dhanyawadi in Arakan, western Myanmar, known from Arakanese tradition.
- Chandrayaan-3EventChandrayaan-3 was a lunar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation launched in July 2023.
- Chang JunPersonChang Jun was a Chinese official sent by Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty in 607 as envoy to Chi Tu, the "Red Earth" kingdom of South-East Asia.
Chang'anPlaceChang'an, now Xi'an, is a city in the Wei River valley of northwestern China, the capital of several dynasties including the Han and Tang.- ChangamireInstitutionChangamire was the title of the rulers of the Rozvi Empire on the Zimbabwe plateau, taken from the founder Changamire Dombo.
Changamire DomboPersonChangamire Dombo was the founder of the Rozvi Empire on the Zimbabwe plateau in the late seventeenth century.- Changchub GyaltsenPersonChangchub Gyaltsen was the myriarch of Phagmodru who overthrew the Mongol-backed Sakya regime in central Tibet in the 1350s.
ChangchunPlaceChangchun is the capital of Jilin province in north-east China.
Changnyeong CountyPlaceChangnyeong is a county in South Gyeongsang province, South Korea, on the east bank of the Nakdong river.
ChangshaPlaceChangsha is the capital of Hunan province in south-central China, on the Xiang River.
Changu Narayan TemplePlaceThe Changu Narayan Temple is a Hindu temple of Vishnu on a hilltop near Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.- ChangziPlaceChangzi is a county in south-eastern Shanxi, China, now part of the city of Changzhi.
Channel IslandsPlaceThe Channel Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Normandy, comprising the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, the latter including Alderney and Sark.
ChanthaburiPlaceChanthaburi is a city in south-eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border, long known for its gem trade and fruit orchards.
ChanyuInstitutionChanyu was the title of the supreme ruler of the Xiongnu Empire, roughly equivalent to emperor.
Chanyuan TreatyTreaty · Peace · 1005The Chanyuan Treaty was a peace agreement concluded in 1005 between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan Liao dynasty.- Chao (currency)TermChao was the paper currency issued by the Yuan Dynasty in China.
- Chao Mahaphrom SurathadaPersonChao Mahaphrom Surathada was the last ruling prince of Nan in northern Thailand, succeeding in 1918.
- Chao Mom Kham LePersonChao Mom Kham Le, known in Chinese as Dao Shixun, was the last hereditary ruler (chao phaendin) of the Tai Lue kingdom of Sipsong Panna in southern Yunnan.
- Chao Nakhon NuPersonChao Nakhon Nu was the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Siam who declared himself an independent ruler after the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese in 1767.
- Chao Phra FangPersonChao Phra Fang was a militant Buddhist monk from Fang who set up a regime at Sawangkhaburi in northern Siam after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767.
Chao Phraya RiverPlaceThe Chao Phraya is the main river of central Thailand, formed at Nakhon Sawan by the meeting of the Ping and the Nan and flowing south past Ayutthaya and Bangkok into…
ChaoniaPlaceChaonia was the north-western region of ancient Epirus, on the Ionian coast in present-day southern Albania, home of the Chaonians, one of the three main Epirote peoples.
ChaoniansPeople / groupThe Chaonians were one of the three main tribal groups of ancient Epirus, with the Molossians and Thesprotians, living in the north-west of the region along the Ionian…
Chaoyang, LiaoningPlaceChaoyang is a city in western Liaoning province in north-eastern China.- ChaparPersonChapar was a Mongol khan of the house of Ögedei and son of Kaidu, whom he succeeded as head of the Ögedeid khanate in Central Asia in the early 1300s.
Chapare ProvincePlaceChapare is a province of the Cochabamba Department of Bolivia, in the humid tropical lowlands at the foot of the Andes.
Chapel of the Holy ShroudWork / monumentThe Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a baroque chapel in Turin, between the cathedral and the royal palace, built to house the Shroud of Turin.- Chapultepec CastleWork / monumentChapultepec Castle stands on a hill in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.
Chapultepec Peace AccordsTreaty · Peace · 1992The Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed in Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City on 16 January 1992 by the government of El Salvador and the FMLN, after negotiations…
Char Bouba warWar · 1673–1677The Char Bouba war was a conflict in south-western Mauritania between the Berber Zawaya scholarly tribes, led by the reforming imam Nasir al-Din, and Hassani Arab…
CharaideoPlaceCharaideo is a site in eastern Assam, India, founded by Sukaphaa around 1253 as the first capital of the Ahom kingdom.- ChararicPersonChararic was a Frankish king of the late 5th and early 6th centuries who ruled a small kingdom in northern Gaul.
Charax SpasinouPlaceCharax Spasinou was an ancient port city at the head of the Persian Gulf, near modern Basra in southern Iraq.- CharcoalTermCharcoal is a fuel produced by heating wood in the absence of air, and was essential for smelting iron in the pre-industrial world.
CharentePlaceThe Charente is a river of western France, about 380 kilometres long, which rises in the Limousin and flows past Angoulême, Cognac and Saintes to the Atlantic near…
Charente-MaritimePlaceCharente-Maritime is a department of western France on the Atlantic coast, in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, with its prefecture at La Rochelle.
Chares of AthensPersonChares was an Athenian general who held command many times in the mid-fourth century BCE.
Chares of LindosPersonChares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor from Rhodes, a pupil of Lysippus.