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EğirdirPlaceEğirdir is a town in Isparta province, south-western Turkey, on the southern shore of Lake Eğirdir.- EgnatiaPlaceEgnatia, or Gnathia, was an ancient city on the Adriatic coast of Apulia, southern Italy, between Bari and Brindisi.
Egon SchielePersonEgon Schiele was an Austrian expressionist painter active in Vienna in the early twentieth century, known for his intense figure drawings and portraits.
EgyptPlaceEgypt is a country in north-eastern Africa centred on the Nile valley, one of the oldest centres of civilisation.- Egyptian conquest of KordofanCampaign · 1821The Egyptian conquest of Kordofan in 1821 was part of the expansion of Muhammad Ali's Egypt into Sudan.
- Egyptian hieroglyphsTermEgyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system of ancient Egypt, using pictorial signs for sounds and words.
- EgyptiansPeople / groupThe Egyptians are the people of the Nile valley in north-eastern Africa.
EhengbudaPersonEhengbuda was an Oba of Benin who died in 1606.
Ehime PrefecturePlaceEhime Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the north-west of the island of Shikoku, with its capital at Matsuyama.
Ehrenbreitstein FortressWork / monumentEhrenbreitstein Fortress stands on a rock above the Rhine opposite Koblenz and the mouth of the Moselle, in Germany.
Ehrenfried Walther von TschirnhausPersonEhrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus was a Saxon mathematician, physicist and philosopher who corresponded with Leibniz and Spinoza.- Ehsan Khan KangarluPersonEhsan Khan Kangarlu was a member of the Kangarlu dynasty of the Nakhichevan Khanate and the last of its khans.
Ehsanollah Khan DustdarPersonEhsanollah Khan Dustdar was an Iranian revolutionary who led the radical left wing of the Jangali movement in Gilan.
EichsfeldPlaceThe Eichsfeld is a hilly historical region in central Germany, now divided between Thuringia and Lower Saxony, around the towns of Heiligenstadt and Duderstadt.
EichstättPlaceEichstätt is a town in the Altmühl valley in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Eid al-GhadirTermEid al-Ghadir is a Shia Muslim festival held on 18 Dhu al-Hijja to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad's sermon at Ghadir Khumm in 632, in which Shia Muslims see the…
EidagalePeople / groupThe Eidagale are a Somali clan, a subdivision of the Isaaq, living mainly around Hargeisa and in the west of Somaliland.
EidsivatingInstitutionThe Eidsivating was the law assembly (thing) of the inland Upplands of eastern Norway in the Middle Ages, meeting at Eidsvoll.
EidsvollPlaceEidsvoll is a municipality in Akershus in eastern Norway, on the Vorma river just south of Lake Mjøsa.
EifelPlaceThe Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany, between Aachen, Trier and Koblenz, extending into eastern Belgium.
EifionyddPlaceEifionydd is a historic district in north-west Wales, between Snowdonia and Tremadog Bay at the root of the Llŷn peninsula.
Eight BannersInstitutionThe Eight Banners were the military and administrative organisation created by the Manchu leader Nurhaci around 1601.
Eight Deer Jaguar ClawPersonEight Deer Jaguar Claw was a Mixtec ruler whose life is told in pictorial manuscripts such as the Codex Zouche-Nuttall.- Eight Friends of JinglingPeople / groupThe Eight Friends of Jingling were a group of writers who gathered in the 480s at the residence of Xiao Ziliang, Prince of Jingling, under the Southern Qi dynasty.
Eighteenth Dynasty of EgyptStateThe Eighteenth Dynasty was the ruling house of Egypt that founded the New Kingdom after the expulsion of the Hyksos.
Eighth CrusadeCampaign · 1270The Eighth Crusade was the expedition led by Louis IX of France against Tunis in 1270.
Eike von RepgowPersonEike von Repgow was a Saxon knight and legal expert who compiled the Sachsenspiegel, the most important German law book of the Middle Ages, between about 1220 and 1235.- Eikyō RebellionRevolt · 1438–1439The Eikyō Rebellion was a revolt in 1438 and 1439 by Ashikaga Mochiuji, governor-general of the Kanto at Kamakura, against the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori in Kyoto.
Eildon Hill NorthPlaceEildon Hill North is the northernmost of the three Eildon Hills near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
Eildon HillsPlaceThe Eildon Hills are a group of three volcanic summits above Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
Eilhard LubinusPersonEilhard Lubinus was a German scholar and professor at the University of Rostock who taught poetry, mathematics and theology.
EinbeckPlaceEinbeck is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Leine valley.
EinhardPersonEinhard was a Frankish scholar and courtier at the court of Charlemagne.
EinsatzgruppenPeople / groupThe Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing units of the SS and police that followed the German armies into Poland in 1939 and into the Soviet Union in 1941.
Einsiedeln AbbeyInstitutionEinsiedeln Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the canton of Schwyz, founded in 934 on the site where the hermit Saint Meinrad had lived.
EisackPlaceThe Eisack, in Italian Isarco, is a river in South Tyrol, northern Italy, flowing about 96 kilometres from the Brenner Pass to join the Adige near Bolzano.
EisenachPlaceEisenach is a town in western Thuringia, Germany, at the edge of the Thuringian Forest, below the Wartburg castle.
Eisenberg, ThuringiaPlaceEisenberg is a small town in the Saale-Holzland district of Thuringia, Germany, between Gera and Jena.
EisenerzPlaceEisenerz is a mining town in Styria, Austria, at the foot of the Erzberg, the 'iron ore mountain'.
EislebenPlaceEisleben, officially Lutherstadt Eisleben, is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, east of the Harz.- EisoPersonEiso is a semi-legendary king of Okinawa, said in Ryukyuan chronicles to have reigned at Urasoe from 1260 to 1299 as founder of the Eiso dynasty.
- Eitel Frederick IV, Count of Hohenzollern-HechingenPersonEitel Frederick IV was the first Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, receiving the ancestral Hohenzollern castle and the town of Hechingen in the 1576 division of the…
Eitel Friedrich II, Count of HohenzollernPersonEitel Friedrich II (1452–1512) was Count of Hohenzollern and a close adviser and commander of Emperor Maximilian I, who made him the first judge of the Imperial Chamber…
EjisuPlaceEjisu is a town in the Ashanti region of present-day Ghana.- EkalingaReligion / ideaEkalinga is a form of the Hindu god Shiva worshipped as the tutelary deity and true sovereign of Mewar, whose rulers governed as his diwan, or minister.
- Ekasarana DharmaReligion / ideaEkasarana Dharma is the Vaishnavite religious movement founded in Assam by Srimanta Sankardev in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Ekaterine DadianiPersonEkaterine Dadiani, born Chavchavadze, was the wife of David Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia, and ruled as regent for their son Niko after her husband's death in 1853.
EkathotsarotPersonEkathotsarot was king of Ayutthaya from 1605 to about 1610, younger brother and successor of Naresuan, with whom he had fought in the wars against Burma.- EkdalaPlaceEkdala was a fortress of the Bengal Sultanate near Pandua, in present-day Malda region of Bengal, protected by rivers and marshes.
Ekiti peoplePeople / groupThe Ekiti are a Yoruba subgroup of south-western Nigeria, living in hilly country now forming Ekiti State.
EkkathatPersonEkkathat was the last king of Ayutthaya, reigning from 1758 to 1767 after his younger brother Uthumphon gave up the throne.
EkofiskPlaceEkofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered by Phillips Petroleum in 1969 and in production from 1971.
Ekoji IPersonEkoji I, also called Venkoji, was the founder of the Maratha Bhonsle dynasty of Thanjavur in southern India.
EkpeInstitutionEkpe, the leopard society, is a graded men's society of the Efik and neighbouring peoples of the Cross River region of Nigeria and Cameroon.
EkpomaPlaceEkpoma is a town in Edo State in southern Nigeria, the headquarters of the Esan West local government area.
EkurWork / monumentThe Ekur, Sumerian for 'mountain house', was the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur in Mesopotamia and the most important religious centre of Sumer.
El AlameinPlaceEl Alamein is a town on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, about 100 kilometres west of Alexandria.
El AltoPlaceEl Alto is a city on the Altiplano of Bolivia, on the plateau rim above La Paz, at an altitude of about 4,150 metres.
El AtteufPlaceEl Atteuf is the oldest of the five fortified towns of the Mzab valley in the Algerian Sahara, founded by Ibadi Berbers around 1012.
El Badi PalaceWork / monumentThe El Badi Palace is a ruined palace in Marrakesh built by the Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur from 1578, after his victory at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir.
El Camino Real (California)Work / monumentEl Camino Real ('the Royal Road') was the route linking the 21 Spanish missions of Alta California, together with its presidios and pueblos, from San Diego to Sonoma.
El Carambolo treasureWork / monumentThe El Carambolo treasure is a hoard of 21 gold objects found in 1958 on the El Carambolo hill at Camas, near Seville, Spain.
El Castillo de HuarmeyPlaceEl Castillo de Huarmey is an archaeological site on the north coast of Peru, in the Áncash region, belonging to the Wari Empire.
El Castillo, Chichén ItzáWork / monumentEl Castillo, also called the Temple of Kukulcán, is a step pyramid at the centre of the Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico, built between about the 9th and…- El ChayalPlaceEl Chayal is an obsidian source in the highlands north-east of Guatemala City.
El ChorrilloPlaceEl Chorrillo is a densely populated working-class district of Panama City, next to the old city and the former Canal Zone.
El CidPersonEl Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, was a Castilian nobleman and soldier.
El DjemPlaceEl Djem is a town in eastern Tunisia on the site of the Roman city of Thysdrus, which grew rich on olive oil.
El DoradoReligion / ideaEl Dorado, 'the golden one', was a Spanish legend of a native ruler covered in gold dust, which grew into the myth of a golden city or kingdom in the interior of South…
El EscorialWork / monumentEl Escorial is a vast royal monastery and palace north-west of Madrid, built for Philip II of Spain between 1563 and 1584.
El FasherPlaceEl Fasher is a city in western Sudan that became the capital of the Darfur Sultanate.
El GeneinaPlaceEl Geneina is a city in western Sudan, the capital of West Darfur state, close to the border with Chad.
El GrecoPersonEl Greco, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos at Candia in Venetian Crete, was a painter who trained in the Cretan school of icon painting before working in Venice and Rome.- El Hadj Umar TallPersonEl Hadj Umar Tall was a West African Muslim scholar and military leader of the nineteenth century who founded the Toucouleur state through conquests in the 1850s and…
El JadidaPlaceEl Jadida, formerly Mazagan, is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south-west of Casablanca.
El Mozote massacreEventThe El Mozote massacre was the killing of more than 800 civilians, many of them children, by the Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran army in and around the village of…
El NiñoTermEl Niño is the periodic warming of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific, part of a climate cycle that recurs every few years.
El Oro ProvincePlaceEl Oro is a coastal province in southern Ecuador on the border with Peru, with its capital at Machala.- El Rizk MosqueWork / monumentThe El Rizk Mosque is a mosque in Hasankeyf, in south-eastern Turkey, built in 1409 under the Ayyubid ruler al-Adil Sulayman.
- El Señor PresidenteWork / monumentEl Señor Presidente is a novel by the Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias, written largely in the 1920s and 1930s and published in 1946.
- El SistemaInstitutionEl Sistema is a publicly financed programme of music education in Venezuela, founded in 1975 by the economist and musician José Antonio Abreu.
El TenientePlaceEl Teniente is the largest underground copper mine in the world, in the Andes near Rancagua in central Chile.
El TintalPlaceEl Tintal is a large Preclassic Maya city in the Mirador Basin of northern Guatemala, linked to El Mirador by a causeway.- ElagabalReligion / ideaElagabal was the sun god of Emesa, modern Homs, in Roman Syria, worshipped in the form of a black conical stone in a great temple served by the priestly kings of the…
ElagabalusPersonElagabalus was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, born Varius Avitus Bassianus into the priestly family of Emesa and great-nephew of the empress Julia Domna.
ElamPlaceElam was an ancient region in south-western Iran, centred on Susa and the highlands of Anshan.- Elamite ConfederationStateThe Elamite Confederation refers to the states of ancient Elam in south-western Iran, which endured for more than two thousand years.
- Elamite conquest of Babylon (c. 1158 BCE)Campaign · c. 1158 BCEThe Elamite conquest of Babylon around 1158 BCE was a campaign by Elamite kings, notably Shutruk-Nahhunte and his successors, which brought an end to the Kassite dynasty.
- Elamite languageTermElamite is the extinct language of ancient Elam, written first in its own scripts and later in cuneiform.
- Elamite sack of UrSiege · c. 2004 BCEThe Elamite sack of Ur took place around 2004 BCE, when Elamite forces captured the city of Ur and took its last king, Ibbi-Sin, captive.
- ElamitesPeople / groupThe Elamites were the people of ancient Elam in south-western Iran, who formed the Elamite Confederation.
ElateiaPlaceElateia was the largest city of ancient Phocis in central Greece, in the Cephissus valley, commanding the route from Thessaly into Boeotia.
ElazığPlaceElazığ is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey, on a plain east of the Euphrates.
ElbaPlaceElba is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, facing Piombino.
ElbasanPlaceElbasan is a city in central Albania on the Shkumbin river.
ElbePlaceThe Elbe is a major river of central Europe, about 1,100 km long, rising in the Giant Mountains of the Czech Republic and flowing through Germany to the North Sea below…
Elbe Germanic peoplesPeople / groupThe Elbe Germanic peoples are a group of early Germanic peoples defined by archaeologists and historians in the Elbe basin, broadly matching the Irminones of Roman…
ElberfeldPlaceElberfeld is a former town in the Wupper valley of western Germany, joined with Barmen and neighbouring towns in 1929 to form the city later named Wuppertal.
ElbistanPlaceElbistan is a town in Kahramanmaraş Province, south-eastern Turkey, on a high plain of the eastern Taurus.
ElblągPlaceElbląg is a city in northern Poland near the Vistula Lagoon.