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Great Illyrian RevoltRevolt · 6–9 CEThe Great Illyrian Revolt was a rising of the peoples of Pannonia and Dalmatia against Roman rule from 6 to 9 CE.- Great KhanInstitutionThe Great Khan was the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, elected by a kurultai of the Genghisid princes.
- Great KingInstitutionGreat King was a royal title used in the ancient Near East for rulers of major powers who recognised each other as equals.
Great LakesPlaceThe Great Lakes are five large freshwater lakes in North America on the border of the United States and Canada.
Great Lakes TwaPeople / groupThe Twa are a Pygmy people of the African Great Lakes, living in Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo and south-western Uganda, where they form a small minority.
Great LavraInstitutionThe Great Lavra is the oldest and largest of the monasteries of Mount Athos in northern Greece, founded in 963 by Athanasios the Athonite with the support of the future…
Great Law of PeaceWork / monumentThe Great Law of Peace is the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.- Great Leap ForwardEventThe Great Leap Forward was a campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 to turn China rapidly into an industrial and communist society.
Great MāheleEventThe Great Māhele was the land division of 1848 in the Kingdom of Hawaii, carried out under King Kamehameha III.
Great Man-Made RiverWork / monumentThe Great Man-Made River is a large pipeline network in Libya, begun in the 1980s, that pumps fossil groundwater from aquifers beneath the Sahara to coastal cities.
Great Maya RevoltRevolt · 1546–1547The Great Maya Revolt was a rising of the Maya of eastern Yucatán, led by the Cupul and joined by Sotuta and other provinces, against Spanish rule.- Great Ming CodeWork / monumentThe Great Ming Code (Da Ming Lü) was the legal code of the Ming Empire, issued under the Hongwu Emperor and finalised in 1397.
Great MoravaPlaceThe Great Morava is the principal river of central Serbia, formed by the meeting of the South and West Morava and flowing north about 185 kilometres to the Danube east…- Great Mosque of al-NuriWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of al-Nuri is a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, built in 1172–1173 by the Zengid ruler Nur al-Din.
Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Mosul)Work / monumentThe Great Mosque of al-Nuri was a mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, built by the Zengid ruler Nur al-Din in 1172.
Great Mosque of DemakWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Demak, in Central Java, Indonesia, is one of the oldest mosques in Java, traditionally said to have been built in the late 15th century by the Wali…
Great Mosque of KairouanWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Kairouan, also called the Mosque of Uqba, is the principal mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, founded by Uqba ibn Nafi around 670.
Great Mosque of KilwaWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Kilwa, on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani off southern Tanzania, is one of the oldest mosques on the East African coast, begun around the 11th century.- Great Mosque of ManisaWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Manisa is a mosque in Manisa, western Turkey, built in 1366–1367 by Ishak Bey, ruler of the Turkmen beylik of Saruhan.
Great Mosque of SevilleWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Seville was built by the Almohad Caliphate in the late twelfth century, when Seville was its main Iberian capital.
Great Mosque of TlemcenWork / monumentThe Great Mosque of Tlemcen is the principal mosque of Tlemcen in north-western Algeria, founded under the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin and rebuilt and enlarged…
Great Northern WarWar · 1700–1721The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was fought between Sweden and a coalition led by Russia.
Great Peace of MontrealTreaty · Peace · 1701The Great Peace of Montreal was a peace treaty signed in August 1701 by the governor of New France, Louis-Hector de Callière, and the representatives of about forty…- Great PeacemakerPersonThe Great Peacemaker, Deganawida, is the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy in Haudenosaunee tradition.
Great Prussian UprisingRevolt · 1260–1274The Great Prussian Uprising was the largest revolt of the Old Prussians against the Teutonic Order, which had conquered them in the mid-13th century.
Great Pyramid of CholulaWork / monumentThe Great Pyramid of Cholula, Tlachihualtepetl, is a huge temple platform in the Puebla valley of Mexico, the largest pyramid in the world by volume.
Great Pyramid of GizaWork / monumentThe Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu around 2560 BCE.- Great Ravensburg Trading CompanyInstitutionThe Great Ravensburg Trading Company was a merchant company formed around 1380 by families of Ravensburg, Konstanz and other Swabian towns, among them the Humpis.
- Great ReductionEventThe Great Reduction was the recovery by the Swedish crown of lands previously granted or sold to the nobility, carried out under Charles XI in the 1680s.
- Great Reforms (Russia)EventThe Great Reforms were the reforms of Tsar Alexander II in the 1860s and 1870s, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
Great RhetraWork / monumentThe Great Rhetra is an early Spartan constitutional text preserved by Plutarch in his Life of Lycurgus, presented as an oracle from Delphi given to the lawgiver Lycurgus.
Great Satraps' RevoltRevolt · c. 372–362 BCEThe Great Satraps' Revolt was a series of uprisings by provincial governors in the western parts of the Achaemenid Empire in c. 372–362 BCE, under Artaxerxes II.
Great Sioux ReservationPlaceThe Great Sioux Reservation was the territory reserved for the Lakota and other Sioux by the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868, covering present-day South Dakota west of…
Great Sioux War of 1876War · 1876–1877The Great Sioux War of 1876, also called the Black Hills War, was fought between the United States and the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne after gold was found in the…
Great Slav RisingRevolt · 983The Great Slav Rising was a revolt of the Polabian Slavs, led by the Lutician tribes, against German rule east of the Elbe in 983.
Great St Bernard PassPlaceThe Great St Bernard Pass is an Alpine pass at about 2,470 metres linking the Swiss canton of Valais with the Aosta valley in Italy.
Great Stand on the Ugra RiverCrisis · 1480The Great Stand on the Ugra River was a stand-off in 1480 between the forces of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow and the army of the Great Horde on opposite banks of the…- Great SunTermThe Great Sun was the title of the paramount ruler of the Natchez people of the lower Mississippi valley.
Great Syrian RevoltRevolt · 1925–1927The Great Syrian Revolt was a rising against French Mandate rule in Syria and Lebanon from 1925 to 1927.- Great Temple of YehaWork / monumentThe Great Temple of Yeha is a stone temple at Yeha in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, built around the 7th century BCE.
Great TrekEventThe Great Trek was the migration of Dutch-speaking settlers, the Voortrekkers, from the Cape Colony into the interior of southern Africa from 1835.
Great TroublesWar · 1359–1381The Great Troubles were a period of civil war in the Golden Horde from 1359 to 1381, after the murder of Khan Berdi Beg.
Great Turkish OnslaughtEventThe Great Turkish Onslaught, in Georgian Didi Turkoba, is the name Georgian sources give to the Seljuk Turkish invasions and settlement of Georgia from about 1080.
Great Turkish WarWar · 1683–1699The Great Turkish War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League of the Habsburgs, Poland-Lithuania, Venice and Russia from 1683 to 1699.
Great Wall of ChinaWork / monumentThe Great Wall of China is a system of fortifications built across northern China over many centuries to defend agrarian states against steppe peoples.
Great ZabPlaceThe Great Zab is a river rising in the mountains of south-eastern Turkey and flowing through Iraqi Kurdistan to join the Tigris south of Mosul.
Great ZimbabwePlaceGreat Zimbabwe is a ruined city of monumental dry-stone enclosures on the Zimbabwean plateau in southern Africa, the centre of a major state in the medieval period.- Great Zimbabwe cultureReligion / ideaThe Great Zimbabwe culture refers to the civilisation centred on Great Zimbabwe on the southern African plateau, dated on the site to around 1100 to 1450 CE.
Greater and Lesser TunbsPlaceThe Greater and Lesser Tunbs are two small islands in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.- Greater CaucasusPlaceThe Greater Caucasus is the main range of the Caucasus Mountains, running about 1,200 kilometres from the Black Sea to the Caspian and rising to 5,642 metres at Mount…
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity SphereReligion / ideaThe Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was a concept proclaimed by the Empire of Japan for a bloc of Asian nations under Japanese leadership, free of Western…
Greater Hamburg ActEventThe Greater Hamburg Act was a Nazi German law of 1937 that redrew the boundaries of several northern German states.
Greater HesseStateGreater Hesse was a state created in September 1945 in the American zone of occupied Germany.
Greater KabyliaPlaceGreater Kabylia is the mountainous Berber region of northern Algeria centred on the Djurdjura range, east of Algiers, with Tizi Ouzou as its main town today.
Greater KhinganPlaceThe Greater Khingan is a mountain range in north-eastern China, running about 1,200 km from north to south through Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang and separating the…
Greben CossacksPeople / groupThe Greben Cossacks were a community of Cossacks who settled in the foothills and along the middle Terek River in the North Caucasus from the 16th century.
Grebo peoplePeople / groupThe Grebo are a Kru-speaking people of south-eastern Liberia and neighbouring south-western Côte d'Ivoire, living around Cape Palmas, along the coast and in the Cavalla…
Greco-Bactrian KingdomStateThe Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was a Hellenistic state in Bactria, in present-day Afghanistan and Central Asia, founded when Greek governors broke away from the Seleucid…
Greco-Persian WarsWarThe Greco-Persian Wars were a series of conflicts in the fifth century BCE between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states, including Athens and Sparta.- Greco-Roman worldReligion / ideaThe Greco-Roman world refers to the Mediterranean civilisation shaped by Greek culture and Roman rule in classical antiquity.
Greco-Turkish War (1897)War · 1897The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War, was fought between Greece and the Ottoman Empire over Crete, where Christians had risen against Ottoman…
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)War · 1919–1922The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish nationalist movement after the First World War.
GreecePlaceGreece is a region in south-eastern Europe on the Balkan peninsula and Aegean islands, the home of ancient Greek civilisation.- Greek city-statesPeople / groupThe Greek city-states were independent self-governing communities, known as poleis, such as Athens, Sparta and Thebes, which formed the political framework of ancient…
Greek Civil WarWar · 1946–1949The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the government army, supported by Britain and then the United States, and the communist-led Democratic Army of…- Greek fireTermGreek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, typically projected from siphons on warships, and able to burn on water.
- Greek languageTermThe Greek language is an Indo-European language with a written history stretching back over three thousand years.
Greek People's Liberation ArmyPeople / groupThe Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) was the military wing of EAM and the largest Greek resistance force during the Axis occupation.
Greek War of IndependenceWar · Revolt · 1830The Greek War of Independence was a revolt by Greeks against Ottoman rule in the 1820s, which ended with international recognition of an independent Greek state in 1830.- GreeksPeople / groupThe Greeks are a people of the eastern Mediterranean whose language and culture spread widely through colonisation, trade and conquest.
Green Corn CeremonyTermThe Green Corn Ceremony is the most important annual festival of the Muscogee (Creek), Seminole and other peoples of the south-eastern woodlands of North America.- Green GangPeople / groupThe Green Gang was a Chinese secret society that grew out of the boatmen's brotherhoods of the Grand Canal and became the dominant criminal organisation of early…
Green MarchEventThe Green March was a mass demonstration organised by King Hassan II of Morocco in November 1975, in which about 350,000 unarmed Moroccans crossed into Spanish Sahara…
Green Mountain BoysPeople / groupThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia formed around 1770 by settlers holding land grants from New Hampshire in what is now Vermont, to resist New York's claims to the…
Green RevolutionEventThe Green Revolution was the spread of high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice, together with chemical fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation, across much of the…- Green SaharaReligion / ideaThe Green Sahara refers to a humid phase in which much of the present Sahara Desert was covered by grassland, lakes and rivers, ending several thousand years ago.
- Green Sprouts LawInstitutionThe Green Sprouts Law (qingmiao fa) was a measure of the New Policies introduced by the Song reformer Wang Anshi in the eleventh century.
Green Standard ArmyInstitutionThe Green Standard Army was the body of mainly Han Chinese troops maintained by the Qing Empire alongside the Manchu-led Eight Banners.
Green VaultInstitutionThe Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) in Dresden is the treasury museum of the Saxon electors, created by Augustus the Strong between 1723 and 1730 in rooms of Dresden Castle.
Greeneville, TennesseePlaceGreeneville is a town in north-eastern Tennessee, founded in 1783 and named after the Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene.
GreenlandPlaceGreenland is the world's largest island, lying between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
GreenpeacePeople / groupGreenpeace is an international environmental organisation that grew out of a 1971 protest voyage from Vancouver against American nuclear tests in Alaska.- Greenville, LiberiaPlaceGreenville is a port town on the coast of south-eastern Liberia and the capital of Sinoe County, at the mouth of the Sinoe river.
- Grégoire KayibandaPersonGrégoire Kayibanda was the first President of Rwanda, from 1962 to 1973.
Gregor MendelPersonGregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar and scientist from Austrian Silesia who became abbot of St Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia.
Gregorio LuperónPersonGregorio Luperón was a Dominican general and statesman, one of the leaders of the War of Restoration that ended Spanish rule in 1865.- Gregory ChioniadesPersonGregory Chioniades was a Byzantine astronomer who travelled around 1295–1300 from Trebizond to Tabriz to study astronomy at the court of the Mongol Ilkhans.
Gregory of ToursPersonGregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman bishop of Tours from 573 and the author of the Histories, often called the History of the Franks.
Gregory the IlluminatorPersonGregory the Illuminator was the founder and first head of the Armenian Church.- Gregory the PatricianPersonGregory the Patrician was the Byzantine exarch of Africa and a relative of the Heraclian dynasty.
Gregory TsamblakPersonGregory Tsamblak was a Bulgarian churchman and writer of the Tarnovo literary school.- GreifenseePlaceGreifensee is a small town and lake in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, east of the city of Zürich.
GreifswaldPlaceGreifswald is a university town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, near the Baltic coast.
GreizPlaceGreiz is a town in eastern Thuringia, Germany, on the White Elster in the Vogtland.
GremiPlaceGremi is a 16th-century architectural complex in Kakheti, eastern Georgia, the remains of the royal town built by King Levan of Kakheti.
GrenadinesPlaceThe Grenadines are a chain of about 600 small islands and islets in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, between Saint Vincent and Grenada.
GrenoblePlaceGrenoble is a city in south-eastern France, at the meeting of the Isère and Drac rivers among the Alps.
GrenzerTermGrenzer were the soldier-settlers of the Habsburg Military Frontier, the border zone against the Ottoman Empire in Croatia, Slavonia, Hungary and later Transylvania.
GresikPlaceGresik is a port town on the north coast of East Java, Indonesia, just north-west of Surabaya.
GrésivaudanPlaceThe Grésivaudan is the wide valley of the Isère upstream from Grenoble, in south-eastern France, running north-east between the Belledonne and Chartreuse mountains…