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GabèsPlaceGabès is a coastal city in south-eastern Tunisia, on the gulf of the same name, built around a large seaside oasis.- Gabinius (king of the Quadi)PersonGabinius was a king of the Quadi, a Germanic people north of the middle Danube, in the 4th century.
Gabo ReformsEventThe Gabo Reforms were a programme of reforms carried out in Korea from 1894 to 1896 by a pro-Japanese government led by Kim Hong-jip, after Japanese troops occupied the…
GaboronePlaceGaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana, in the south-east of the country near the South African border.- Gabrán mac DomangairtPersonGabrán mac Domangairt was a king of Dál Riata in the mid-6th century, said to be a grandson of Fergus Mór.
Gabriel AngoulvantPersonGabriel Angoulvant was a French colonial administrator who governed the Ivory Coast from 1908 to 1916.
Gabriel BethlenPersonGabriel Bethlen was Prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629 and, briefly, elected King of Hungary.- Gabriel CarbilletPersonGabriel Carbillet was a French army officer who governed the Jabal Druze State under the French Mandate from 1923.
- Gabriel de GabrieliPersonGabriel de Gabrieli was a Baroque architect from Roveredo in the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden.
- Gabriel DumontPersonGabriel Dumont was a Métis buffalo hunter and leader who commanded the military forces of Louis Riel's Provisional Government of Saskatchewan in the North-West…
Gabriel García MorenoPersonGabriel García Moreno was twice president of Ecuador, from 1861 to 1865 and from 1869 until his assassination in Quito in 1875.
Gabriel NarutowiczPersonGabriel Narutowicz was a Polish engineer and politician who became the first president of the Second Polish Republic in December 1922.
Gabriela MistralPersonGabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat.
Gabriele D'AnnunzioPersonGabriele D'Annunzio was an Italian poet, novelist and war hero who seized the disputed port of Fiume with nationalist volunteers in September 1919.
Gabrio CasatiPersonGabrio Casati was mayor of Milan who headed the provisional government formed after the Five Days of Milan drove out the Austrians in March 1848.- GabungaTermGabunga was the title of the admiral of the Kingdom of Buganda's fleet of war canoes on Lake Victoria, a hereditary office held by the head of the Lungfish (Mamba) clan.
GadabuursiPeople / groupThe Gadabuursi are a Somali clan of the Dir family, living in the north-west of Somaliland, especially the Awdal region around Borama, and in neighbouring parts of…
Gadadhar SinghaPersonGadadhar Singha was king of the Ahom kingdom of Assam from 1681 to 1696 and founder of the Tungkhungia line of Ahom kings.
GadagPlaceGadag is a city in northern Karnataka, India, which with neighbouring Betageri forms a twin city.
Gadaladeniya ViharaWork / monumentGadaladeniya is a Buddhist temple near Kandy in central Sri Lanka, built in 1344 under King Bhuvanaikabahu IV of Gampola.
GadaraPlaceGadara was a Hellenistic and Roman city of the Decapolis on a ridge above the Yarmouk valley, at modern Umm Qais in northern Jordan.- GadayuddhaWork / monumentThe Gadayuddha ('battle of maces') is a Kannada poem by Ranna, composed around 982, that retells the final duel between Bhima and Duryodhana from the Mahabharata.
Gadsden PurchaseTreaty · 1853–1854The Gadsden Purchase was the sale by Mexico to the United States of about 77,000 square kilometres of land south of the Gila River, in present-day southern Arizona and…- GaekwadsPeople / groupThe Gaekwads were a Maratha dynasty that ruled Baroda in Gujarat.
GaelsPeople / groupThe Gaels are the Gaelic-speaking peoples of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, who share a common origin in early medieval Ireland.- Gaero of BaekjePersonGaero was the twenty-first king of Baekje, reigning from 455 to 475.
GaetaPlaceGaeta is a port town on a fortified promontory of the Tyrrhenian coast of southern Lazio, Italy.
GafsaPlaceGafsa is a city in west-central Tunisia, built around an oasis at the edge of the desert.
Gagik I of ArmeniaPersonGagik I of Armenia was a king of the Bagratid dynasty who ruled Armenia from 989 until about 1020, the period of the kingdom's greatest prosperity.
Gagik I of VaspurakanPersonGagik I of Vaspurakan, of the Artsruni family, was crowned king in 908 by the Sajid emir Yusuf as a rival to Smbat I of Bagratid Armenia.
Gagik II of ArmeniaPersonGagik II of Armenia was the last king of the Bagratid dynasty of Ani, crowned in 1042 as a young man.- Gagik-Abas of KarsPersonGagik-Abas was the last king of Kars, the Armenian Bagratid kingdom of Vanand in north-eastern Anatolia, reigning from 1029 to 1065.
Gahadavala dynastyPeople / groupThe Gahadavala dynasty ruled a kingdom in the middle Ganges plain of northern India, centred on Varanasi and Kannauj, from the late eleventh century until the end of…- Gaia (Numidian king)PersonGaia, also called Gala, was king of the Massylii, the eastern Numidian people of North Africa, in the late third century BCE and the father of Masinissa.
GaildorfPlaceGaildorf is a small town on the Kocher river in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Gaius (jurist)PersonGaius was a Roman jurist of the second century CE, best known for his Institutes, an elementary textbook of Roman law.
- Gaius Antonius HybridaPersonGaius Antonius Hybrida was a Roman politician, uncle of Mark Antony, who was consul with Cicero in 63 BCE.
Gaius Cassius LonginusPersonGaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator and general, one of the leaders of the conspiracy that assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 BCE.- Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BCE)PersonGaius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman politician and general who served as consul in 177 BCE.
Gaius Cornelius GallusPersonGaius Cornelius Gallus was a Roman poet and soldier who became the first prefect of Egypt after its annexation in 30 BCE.
Gaius GracchusPersonGaius Gracchus was a Roman tribune of the plebs in 123 and 122 BCE who continued the reforms of his brother Tiberius.- Gaius Hostilius MancinusPersonGaius Hostilius Mancinus was a Roman consul of 137 BCE who commanded against Numantia in the Numantine War.
- Gaius Julius LacerPersonGaius Julius Lacer was a Roman architect of the early 2nd century CE, known as the builder of the Alcántara Bridge over the Tagus in Lusitania, completed under Trajan…
- Gaius Julius SohaemusPersonGaius Julius Sohaemus was the last king of Emesa in Syria, ruling from 54 CE as a client of Rome.
- Gaius LaeliusPersonGaius Laelius was a Roman general and statesman, the close friend and lieutenant of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War.
Gaius MaecenasPersonGaius Maecenas was a Roman statesman and friend of Augustus, descended from an Etruscan noble family of Arretium.
Gaius MariusPersonGaius Marius was a Roman general and politician who held the consulship seven times.- Gaius Marius the YoungerPersonGaius Marius the Younger was a Roman politician, the son, probably by adoption, of the general Gaius Marius.
Gaius Papius MutilusPersonGaius Papius Mutilus was a Samnite general and one of the two consuls of the rebel Italian confederation in the Social War of 91–87 BCE.- Gaius Petronius (prefect of Egypt)PersonGaius Petronius was Roman prefect of Egypt in the 20s BCE.
- Gaius Poppaeus SabinusPersonGaius Poppaeus Sabinus was a Roman senator, consul in 9 CE, who governed Moesia for about twenty-four years under Augustus and Tiberius, also holding Macedonia and…
- Gaius Porcius Cato (consul 114 BCE)PersonGaius Porcius Cato was a Roman politician, a grandson of Cato the Elder, who was consul in 114 BCE.
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (tribune 50 BCE)PersonGaius Scribonius Curio was a Roman politician who, as tribune of the plebs in 50 BCE, defended Julius Caesar's interests in the Senate in the months before the civil war.
- Gaius Sempronius TuditanusPersonGaius Sempronius Tuditanus was a Roman politician and writer who served as consul in 129 BCE.
Gaius Sextius CalvinusPersonGaius Sextius Calvinus was a Roman consul of 124 BCE who campaigned against the Salyes of southern Gaul at the request of Massalia.
Gaius Suetonius PaulinusPersonGaius Suetonius Paulinus was a Roman general and governor of Britain from about 58 to 61 CE.- Gaius Valerius CaburusPersonGaius Valerius Caburus was a noble of the Gallic Helvii who received Roman citizenship from the governor Gaius Valerius Flaccus, taking his patron's names.
- Gaius Valerius DonnotaurusPersonGaius Valerius Donnotaurus was the leading man of the Helvii, a Gallic people allied to Rome, in 52 BCE.
- Gaius Valerius FlaccusPersonGaius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman politician, consul in 93 BCE, who governed provinces in Spain and Gaul for an unusually long period in the 90s and 80s BCE.
- Gaius Valerius TriariusPersonGaius Valerius Triarius was a Roman legate under Lucullus in the Third Mithridatic War.
Gajah MadaPersonGajah Mada was the chief minister of the Majapahit Empire in the fourteenth century.
Gajapati dynastyStateThe Gajapati dynasty, or Suryavamsi Gajapatis, ruled Odisha in eastern India from 1434, when Kapilendra Deva seized power from the Eastern Gangas, until about 1541.
GajayanaPersonGajayana was a king of Kanjuruhan in East Java in the mid-8th century, known from the Dinoyo inscription of 760.- Gajpat SinghPersonGajpat Singh was a Phulkian Sikh chief who seized Jind and surrounding territory around 1763 after the fall of Mughal Sirhind, founding the Jind State.
Gaki SherochoPersonGaki Sherocho was the last king of Kaffa, in south-western Ethiopia.
Gal ViharaWork / monumentThe Gal Vihara is a rock temple at Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, made under King Parakramabahu I in the 12th century.
Galápagos IslandsPlaceThe Galápagos Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km west of the coast of Ecuador, which annexed them in 1832.- GalataPlaceGalata, known in the Middle Ages also as Pera, is a quarter of Istanbul on the north side of the Golden Horn.
- Galata TowerWork / monumentThe Galata Tower is a medieval stone tower in the Galata quarter of Istanbul.
GalațiPlaceGalați is a city and port on the lower Danube in eastern Romania, in the historical region of Moldavia.
GalawdewosPersonGalawdewos was emperor of Ethiopia in the mid-sixteenth century, the son of Dawit II.
GalaxidiPlaceGalaxidi is a small port town in Phocis, central Greece, on the northern shore of the Gulf of Corinth.
GalbaPersonGalba was a Roman senator who, as governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, was proclaimed emperor by his troops in 68 CE during the revolt against Nero.- Galba (king of the Suessiones)PersonGalba was king of the Suessiones, a Belgic people of northern Gaul, in the time of Julius Caesar.
Galbert of BrugesPersonGalbert of Bruges was a cleric and notary in the service of the counts of Flanders.- Galdan Boshugtu KhanPersonGaldan Boshugtu Khan was ruler of the Dzungar Khanate from 1671 to 1697.
Galdan TserenPersonGaldan Tseren was ruler of the Dzungar Khanate from 1727 to 1745, the son and successor of Tsewang Rabtan.
Galeazzo CianoPersonGaleazzo Ciano was an Italian Fascist politician, Benito Mussolini's son-in-law and foreign minister from 1936 to 1943.
Galeazzo II ViscontiPersonGaleazzo II Visconti was co-ruler of the Lordship of Milan from 1354 with his brother Bernabò, governing its western half.- Galeazzo MalatestaPersonGaleazzo Malatesta, nicknamed 'the Inept', was lord of Pesaro from 1429 to 1445.
Galeazzo Maria SforzaPersonGaleazzo Maria Sforza was Duke of Milan from 1466 to 1476, eldest son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti.
GalenPersonGalen was a Greek physician of the second century CE whose writings dominated medicine for centuries.
GaleriusPersonGalerius was a Roman emperor of the Tetrarchy, made Caesar under Diocletian in 293 and senior emperor in the east from 305 to 311.
GaleshewePersonGaleshewe was a chief of the Batlhaping in the northern Cape, South Africa, who resisted colonial expansion.
Galich, Kostroma OblastPlaceGalich is a small town on the shore of Lake Galich in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, first mentioned in the 12th century.- GaliciaPlaceGalicia is a historical region in east-central Europe, now divided between Poland and Ukraine.
Galician-PortugueseTermGalician-Portuguese was the Romance language of medieval Galicia and northern Portugal, from which modern Galician and Portuguese developed.
GaliciansPeople / groupThe Galicians are the people of Galicia, in north-western Spain, whose language, Galician, is closely related to Portuguese.
Galilean moonsTermThe Galilean moons are the four largest moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, discovered by Galileo Galilei with his telescope in January 1610.
GalileePlaceGalilee is a region in the north of present-day Israel.
Galileo GalileiPersonGalileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician whose telescopic discoveries of 1609–1610, including the moons of Jupiter and the phases of…
GallePlaceGalle is a port city on the south-western coast of Sri Lanka.
Galle FortWork / monumentGalle Fort is a fortified old town on the south-west coast of Sri Lanka.- GalleonTermA galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used from the sixteenth century for war and long-distance trade.
- GalleyTermA galley is a warship propelled mainly by oars, dominant in Mediterranean warfare for centuries.
Gallia AquitaniaPlaceGallia Aquitania was a province of the Roman Empire in south-western Gaul, organised under Augustus.
Gallia BelgicaPlaceGallia Belgica was a Roman province in north-eastern Gaul, organised under Augustus from the lands of the Belgae conquered by Julius Caesar.
Gallia LugdunensisPlaceGallia Lugdunensis was a Roman province of Gaul organised under Augustus, named after its capital Lugdunum (Lyon).
Gallia NarbonensisPlaceGallia Narbonensis was the Roman province of southern Gaul between the Alps and the Pyrenees, formed after Roman campaigns against the Allobroges and Arverni around 121…
Gallic EmpireStateThe Gallic Empire was a breakaway state in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, including Gaul, Britain and for a time Spain, from 260 to 274 CE.