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- Eulmash-shakin-shumiPersonEulmash-shakin-shumi was king of Babylon from about 1004 to 988 BCE and founder of the short-lived Bazi Dynasty, which followed the Second Sealand Dynasty.
Eulogius of CórdobaPersonEulogius of Córdoba was a Christian priest and writer in Umayyad al-Andalus and the chief chronicler and defender of the Martyrs of Córdoba.- Eumelus of BosporusPersonEumelus was king of the Bosporan Kingdom from about 309 to 304 BCE, a son of Paerisades I.
Eumenes IPersonEumenes I was ruler of Pergamon from 263 to 241 BCE, the nephew and adopted heir of Philetaerus.
Eumenes IIPersonEumenes II was king of Pergamon in the early second century BCE and an ally of Rome.
Eumenes of CardiaPersonEumenes of Cardia was a Greek general and scholar from Cardia in the Thracian Chersonese who served as royal secretary to Philip II and Alexander the Great.- EunonesPersonEunones was king of the Aorsi, a Sarmatian people north of the Caucasus, in the mid-1st century CE.
- Eunostos of SoloiPersonEunostos was the last king of Soloi in Cyprus, ruling at the end of the 4th century BCE as an ally of Ptolemy I.
- EunuchTermA eunuch is a castrated man, and in many courts eunuchs served as palace officials, guards of the royal household and administrators.
EupalinosPersonEupalinos of Megara was a Greek engineer of the sixth century BCE who built the aqueduct tunnel on Samos for the tyrant Polycrates.
EupenPlaceEupen is a town in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, near the German border.- EuphemiusPersonEuphemius was a Byzantine naval commander in Sicily who rebelled against the emperor Michael II in 826 and proclaimed himself emperor.
EuphratesPlaceThe Euphrates is one of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia, flowing from Anatolia through Syria and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.
Euphrosyne of PolotskPersonEuphrosyne of Polotsk was a princess of the Polotsk dynasty who became a nun and founded the Saviour Monastery at Polotsk, where she copied books and kept a school.
EurasiaPlaceEurasia is the combined landmass of Europe and Asia.
EurePlaceThe Eure is a river of northern France, about 228 km long, which rises in the Perche hills and flows north past Chartres to join the Seine above Rouen.
Eureka RebellionRevolt · 1854The Eureka Rebellion was a revolt by gold miners at Ballarat in Victoria in 1854 against the costly miners' licences and the conduct of the authorities.
EuricPersonEuric was king of the Visigoths from 466 to 484, having taken the throne by murdering his brother Theodoric II.
Eurico Gaspar DutraPersonEurico Gaspar Dutra was a Brazilian general who served as Getúlio Vargas's war minister from 1936 to 1945, supporting the Estado Novo dictatorship, and then joined the…
Euridice (Peri)Work / monumentEuridice is an opera by Jacopo Peri to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, first performed on 6 October 1600 at the Pitti Palace in Florence during the celebrations for…
EuripidesPersonEuripides was an Athenian tragic playwright, active from 455 BCE until his death in about 406 BCE.
Euripus StraitPlaceThe Euripus is the narrow strait between the island of Euboea and mainland Greece, only about 40 metres wide at Chalcis.- EurobondTermA Eurobond is an international bond issued in a currency other than that of the country where it is sold, usually underwritten by an international syndicate of banks.
- EurocommunismReligion / ideaEurocommunism was a trend among West European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s, led by the Italian party under Enrico Berlinguer and the Spanish party under…
EuropePlaceEurope is the western part of the Eurasian landmass.- European colonial expansionHistorical factorEuropean colonial expansion describes the growth of European empires overseas from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, through trade, conquest and settlement.
European CommissionInstitutionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union, which proposes legislation, enforces the treaties and manages common policies.
European CommunitiesInstitutionThe European Communities were three organisations founded by Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands: the European Coal and Steel Community…
European Court of AuditorsInstitutionThe European Court of Auditors is the institution that audits the finances of the European Union.
European Economic AreaInstitutionThe European Economic Area is an agreement that came into force in 1994, extending the European Union's single market to member states of the European Free Trade…- European Economic CommunityInstitutionThe European Economic Community was a customs union and common market founded by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and…
European Free Trade AssociationInstitutionThe European Free Trade Association is a free-trade organisation founded in 1960 by seven European states outside the European Economic Community.
European RussiaPlaceEuropean Russia is the western part of Russia, lying in Europe west of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River.
European UnionInstitutionThe European Union is a political and economic union of European states, developed from the European communities founded in the 1950s.
EurotasPlaceThe Eurotas is the main river of Laconia in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, flowing past Sparta into the Laconian Gulf.- EurybiadesPersonEurybiades was the Spartan admiral who commanded the allied Greek fleet during Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480 BCE.
- EurycleidesPersonEurycleides of Kephisia was an Athenian statesman who, with his brother Micion, led the city in the later third century BCE.
Eurymedon RiverPlaceThe Eurymedon, now the Köprüçay, is a river of southern Turkey that flows from the Taurus mountains to the Mediterranean through ancient Pamphylia.- Eurypontid dynastyPeople / groupThe Eurypontids were the junior of Sparta's two royal houses, reigning alongside the Agiads.
EurystheusPersonEurystheus is a figure of Greek mythology, king of Tiryns and Mycenae and a descendant of Perseus.
Eusébio de Queirós LawEventThe Eusébio de Queirós Law was a Brazilian law of 1850, named after the minister of justice who sponsored it, which effectively ended the transatlantic slave trade to…- Eustace GrenierPersonEustace Grenier was a knight from northern France who became one of the great barons of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Eustace II, Count of BoulognePersonEustace II was count of Boulogne from about 1049 and one of the leading allies of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, where he appears on the…
Euthydemus IPersonEuthydemus I was a Greco-Bactrian king from Magnesia who overthrew Diodotus II around 225 BCE and founded the Euthydemid dynasty.
Euthymius II of NovgorodPersonEuthymius II was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1429 to 1458 and one of the most powerful figures of the late Novgorod Republic.
Euthymius of TarnovoPersonEuthymius of Tarnovo was the last patriarch of medieval Bulgaria, from 1375 until the Ottoman capture of Tarnovo in 1393.
EutinPlaceEutin is a town among the lakes of Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Eutychius (exarch)PersonEutychius was the last Byzantine exarch of Ravenna, governing from the late 720s.
Eva PerónPersonEva Perón, known as Evita, was an Argentine actress who married Juan Perón in 1945 and became the most powerful woman in Argentine politics as first lady.
Evagoras IPersonEvagoras I was king of Salamis in Cyprus from 411 to 374 BCE.
Évariste NdayishimiyePersonÉvariste Ndayishimiye is a Burundian politician and former general who became president of Burundi in June 2020.- EvelthonPersonEvelthon was king of Salamis in Cyprus in the 6th century BCE.
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of GlendalePersonEvelyn Baring, later 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, was a British colonial administrator and governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959.
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of CromerPersonEvelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, was a British administrator who, as agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907, was the effective ruler of the country under…
Evelyn Wever-CroesPersonEvelyn Wever-Croes is an Aruban lawyer and politician of the People's Electoral Movement who became Prime Minister of Aruba in 2017, the first woman to hold the office.
Everard t'SerclaesPersonEverard t'Serclaes was a Brussels patrician and a hero of the War of the Brabantine Succession.
EvergladesPlaceThe Everglades are a vast subtropical wetland in southern Florida, formed by a slow-moving sheet of water flowing from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.- EvermodPersonEvermod was a Premonstratensian canon and disciple of Saint Norbert who became the first bishop of Ratzeburg in 1154.
Evgeni GegechkoriPersonEvgeni Gegechkori was a Georgian Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat, the regional government set up in Tiflis in November 1917 after the…
Évian AccordsTreaty · Peace · 1962The Évian Accords were the agreements signed in 1962 between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front, ending the Algerian War.
Evliya ÇelebiPersonEvliya Çelebi was an Ottoman traveller and writer from Istanbul who spent some forty years journeying through the Ottoman Empire and neighbouring lands.
Evo MoralesPersonEvo Morales is a Bolivian coca growers' leader of Aymara origin who became the country's first indigenous president in 2006.
ÉvoraPlaceÉvora is a city in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal.
Evpaty KolovratPersonEvpaty Kolovrat is a legendary Ryazan noble whose deeds are told in the Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan by Batu, a work of Old Russian literature.- Evrenos BeyPersonEvrenos Bey was a Turkish frontier commander who, after serving the beylik of Karesi, became one of the leading Ottoman marcher lords in the Balkans.
ÉvreuxPlaceÉvreux is a city in Normandy, northern France, and the capital of the Eure department.- Evripidis BakirtzisPersonEvripidis Bakirtzis was a Greek army officer known as the 'Red Colonel' for his left-wing views.
EvrytaniaPlaceEvrytania is a mountainous regional unit of central Greece in the southern Pindus range, with its capital at Karpenisi.
Ewe peoplePeople / groupThe Ewe are a West African people of south-eastern Ghana, southern Togo and parts of Benin, speaking the Ewe language of the Gbe group.- EwedoPersonEwedo was an Oba of Benin who ruled c. 1260–1274.
- Eweka IPersonEweka I is the legendary first Oba of Benin, traditionally installed around 1180 CE after the Ogiso dynasty lost legitimacy.
Eweka IIPersonEweka II was Oba of Benin from 1914 to 1933, the son of Ovonramwen, who had been exiled after the British conquest of 1897.
EwuakpePersonEwuakpe was an Oba of Benin whose reign, c. 1700–1712, saw a civil war that brought the Benin Empire close to collapse.
Ewuare IIPersonEwuare II is the Oba of Benin, crowned in 2016 in succession to his father Erediauwa.
Ewuare the GreatPersonEwuare the Great was an Oba of Benin (r. 1440–1473) who transformed the kingdom into an empire.
Exarchate of RavennaStateThe Exarchate of Ravenna was the Byzantine administration of Italy, headed by an exarch with civil and military authority, created in the late sixth century to defend…
Exchequer of NormandyInstitutionThe Exchequer of Normandy was the financial and judicial court of the duchy of Normandy, sitting at Caen under the Anglo-Norman kings.- Execution of the Mongol envoys (1218)Crisis · 1218The execution of the Mongol envoys in 1218 followed the massacre of a Mongol-sponsored trade caravan at Otrar.
ExeterPlaceExeter is a cathedral city on the River Exe and the county town of Devon in south-west England.
Exeter, New HampshirePlaceExeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States.- ExmesPlaceExmes is a village in the Orne department of Normandy, north-western France.
- ExobourgoPlaceExobourgo is a granite hill about 640 metres high in the centre of the island of Tinos in the Cyclades, Greece.
Expedition of the ThousandCampaign · 1860The Expedition of the Thousand was the campaign led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, in which about a thousand volunteers in red shirts sailed from near Genoa and landed…- Expo '92EventExpo '92 was a world's fair held in Seville, Spain, from 20 April to 12 October 1992, marking the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage to the Americas.
Expo 58EventExpo 58 was the world's fair held in Brussels from April to October 1958, the first major international exposition after the Second World War.- ExpressionismReligion / ideaExpressionism was a modernist movement in art, literature and music in the early twentieth century that sought to express emotional experience rather than physical…
- Expulsion of the DéisiWork / monumentThe Expulsion of the Déisi is an Old Irish tale, surviving in versions from the 8th century onwards, about the origins of the Déisi.
- Expulsion of the Jews from SpainEventThe expulsion of the Jews from Spain was ordered by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, forcing Jews to convert or leave.
- Expulsion of the Salzburg ProtestantsEventThe expulsion of the Salzburg Protestants was the forced emigration of some 20,000 Lutherans from the Archbishopric of Salzburg, ordered by Archbishop Leopold Anton von…
- ExtraterritorialityReligion / ideaExtraterritoriality is the exemption of foreigners from the jurisdiction of local courts, so that they are tried under their own country's law.
ExtremaduraPlaceExtremadura is a region of western Spain bordering Portugal.
ExxonMobilInstitutionExxonMobil is an American oil and gas company formed in 1999 by the merger of Exxon and Mobil, both descended from John D.- Eyes and Ears of the KingInstitutionThe 'Eyes and Ears of the King' were officials of the Achaemenid Empire who, according to Greek sources, acted as royal inspectors and informants.
- Eyre CootePersonSir Eyre Coote was an Irish-born British army officer who served in India.
EzanaPersonEzana was a king of Aksum who reigned c. 325–340 CE.
Ezana StoneWork / monumentThe Ezana Stone is an inscribed stela at Aksum recording the deeds of King Ezana in the fourth century CE.- Eze NriTermEze Nri was the title of the priest-king of Nri, an Igbo sacred kingdom in south-eastern Nigeria.
Ezequiel ZamoraPersonEzequiel Zamora was a Venezuelan soldier and Liberal leader in the Federal War of 1859–1863.
EzhimalaPlaceEzhimala is a coastal hill in the Kannur district of northern Kerala, India, rising from the shore of the Arabian Sea.
Ezion-GeberPlaceEzion-Geber was a port on the Gulf of Aqaba, at the northern tip of the Red Sea, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.