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Fulk NerraPersonFulk Nerra, Fulk III, Count of Anjou from 987 to 1040, was one of the most aggressive princes of medieval France.
Fulk, King of JerusalemPersonFulk was Count of Anjou as Fulk V and became King of Jerusalem in 1131 through his marriage to Melisende, heir of Baldwin II.
Fulwar SkipwithPersonFulwar Skipwith was an American diplomat and planter who was elected governor of the short-lived Republic of West Florida in 1810.- FumanPlaceFuman is a town in Gilan province in northern Iran, west of Rasht, at the foot of the Alborz range.
FUNCINPECPeople / groupFUNCINPEC is a Cambodian royalist party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1981 as a resistance movement against the Vietnamese-backed government.
Fundamental Orders of ConnecticutWork / monumentThe Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted in January 1639 by the river towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield.- Fundamental PactWork / monumentThe Fundamental Pact, in Arabic Ahd al-Aman, was a declaration of rights proclaimed by Muhammad II Bey of Tunis on 10 September 1857 under French and British pressure.
- FundusTermA fundus was a Roman landed estate or farm.
- Funj ChronicleWork / monumentThe Funj Chronicle is a history of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar and the early Turco-Egyptian period in the Sudan, compiled in Arabic in the nineteenth century and…
Funj Sultanate of SennarStateThe Funj Sultanate of Sennar was a Muslim state on the Blue Nile in present-day Sudan, founded in the early sixteenth century.- Fur peoplePeople / groupThe Fur are a people of western Sudan whose homeland centres on the Jebel Marra highlands.
- Fur tradeTermThe fur trade was the commerce in animal pelts, highly valued for clothing and as luxury goods.
Furs of ValenciaWork / monumentThe Furs of Valencia were the law code of the Kingdom of Valencia, which James I of Aragon swore as the realm's general law in 1261.
FürstenwaldePlaceFürstenwalde is a town on the Spree in Brandenburg, Germany, east of Berlin.
FürthPlaceFürth is a city in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, adjoining Nuremberg.
Further PomeraniaPlaceFurther Pomerania is the eastern part of historical Pomerania, lying east of the Oder along the southern Baltic coast, with towns such as Stolp (Słupsk), Köslin and…
FusagasugáPlaceFusagasugá is a city in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, south-west of Bogotá on the slopes of the Andes.
FüssenPlaceFüssen is a town on the Lech at the foot of the Alps in Bavaria, Germany.
FustatPlaceFustat was the first Arab capital of Egypt, founded by Amr ibn al-As around 641 during the Rashidun Caliphate's conquest.
Futa ToroPlaceFuta Toro is a region along the middle Senegal river, on the border of present-day Senegal and Mauritania, home of the Fulbe and Toucouleur peoples.
Futuna (Wallis and Futuna)PlaceFutuna is a volcanic island in western Polynesia, part of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, together with the nearby uninhabited island of Alofi.- FuturismReligion / ideaFuturism was an artistic and social movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with his Futurist Manifesto of 1909.
FuvahmulahPlaceFuvahmulah is a single-island atoll in the far south of the Maldives, between Huvadhu and Addu atolls, unusual for its freshwater lakes and the absence of a lagoon.
FuzhouPlaceFuzhou is the capital of Fujian province in south-eastern China, on the Min river near the coast.
Fyodor DostoevskyPersonFyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist of the nineteenth century, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Fyodor FuntikovPersonFyodor Funtikov was a Russian railway worker and Socialist Revolutionary who headed the Transcaspian Provisional Government formed at Ashgabat in July 1918 against…- Fyodor Ivanovich of StarodubPersonFyodor Ivanovich of Starodub was prince of Starodub on the Klyazma, a small appanage of the Vladimir-Suzdal lands.
- Fyodor KoriatovichPersonFyodor Koriatovich was a Lithuanian prince of the Gediminid family who ruled Podolia after his brothers in the late 14th century.
- Fyodor Romanovich of BeloozeroPersonFyodor Romanovich was a prince of Beloozero in northern Rus' in the 14th century.
Fyodor SergeyevPersonFyodor Sergeyev, known as Artyom, was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary who organised workers in the Donbas and spent several years in exile in Australia.
Fyodor the BlackPersonFyodor the Black, Fyodor Rostislavich, was a Rurikid prince of Smolensk who became prince of Yaroslavl by marriage in the 1260s.
Fyodor UshakovPersonFyodor Ushakov was a Russian admiral who never lost a battle, commanding the Black Sea Fleet in victories over the Ottomans at Kerch Strait, Tendra and Kaliakra in…
FyrkatWork / monumentFyrkat is a Viking-age ring fortress near Hobro in northern Jutland, Denmark, built around 980, probably under Harald Bluetooth.- Færeyinga sagaWork / monumentFæreyinga saga is an Icelandic saga written around 1200 that tells the history of the Faroe Islands from their settlement to the early 11th century.