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Hussein bin Ali, King of HejazPersonHussein bin Ali, a Hashemite, was appointed Sharif and Emir of Mecca by the Ottomans in 1908.
Hussein DeyPersonHussein Dey (c. 1765–1838) was the last dey of the Regency of Algiers, ruling from 1818 to 1830.
Hussein Kamel of EgyptPersonHussein Kamel was a son of Khedive Ismail and uncle of Abbas II.
Hussein of JordanPersonHussein of Jordan (Hussein bin Talal) was King of Jordan from 1952, when his father Talal was deposed, until his death in 1999, assuming his full powers in 1953.
Hussein Shah of JohorPersonHussein Shah was a Malay prince recognised by the British as Sultan of Johor in 1819, when Stamford Raffles needed a ruler to sanction a British post at Singapore.
Hussite WarsWar · 1419–1434The Hussite Wars were fought in Bohemia from 1419 to about 1434 between the followers of the reformer Jan Hus and Catholic rulers led by Emperor Sigismund.
HussitesPeople / groupThe Hussites were followers of the Czech reformer Jan Hus, burned for heresy at Constance in 1415.- Husuni KubwaWork / monumentHusuni Kubwa is the ruin of a large palace on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani in southern Tanzania, built in the early 14th century by Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman of the…
- Hutelutush-InshushinakPersonHutelutush-Inshushinak was a king of Elam in the late 12th century BCE, the last important ruler of the Shutrukid dynasty of the Middle Elamite period.
HutsulsPeople / groupThe Hutsuls are a Ukrainian-speaking highland people of the eastern Carpathians, in south-western Ukraine and northern Romania.
HutteritesPeople / groupThe Hutterites are an Anabaptist Christian community that holds property in common, named after Jakob Hutter, a leader burned for heresy at Innsbruck in 1536.- HutuPeople / groupThe Hutu are the largest population group of Rwanda and Burundi, sharing the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi languages and much of their culture with the Tutsi and Twa.
- Hutu ManifestoWork / monumentThe Hutu Manifesto was a document written in March 1957 by nine Hutu intellectuals, among them Grégoire Kayibanda, and addressed to the Belgian colonial authorities in…
Huvadhu AtollPlaceHuvadhu Atoll is one of the largest atolls in the world, in the south of the Maldives, divided for administration into Gaafu Alif and Gaafu Dhaalu.
HuvishkaPersonHuvishka was a Kushan emperor who succeeded Kanishka and reigned for about three decades in the middle of the 2nd century CE, when the empire stretched from the Amu…
HuyPlaceHuy is a town on the Meuse in the province of Liège, Belgium.- Huỳnh Tấn PhátPersonHuỳnh Tấn Phát was a Vietnamese architect and communist politician who helped found the National Liberation Front.
Hvalsey ChurchWork / monumentHvalsey Church is a ruined stone church of the Norse Eastern Settlement in southern Greenland, near modern Qaqortoq, and the best-preserved Norse building in Greenland.
HvarPlaceHvar is a Croatian island in the central Adriatic.
HwachaTermThe hwacha was a Korean weapons platform, a wooden cart carrying a launch pad, first built in 1409 under the Joseon dynasty; it could fire up to 200 rocket-powered…
HwaeomReligion / ideaHwaeom is the Korean branch of the Huayan school of Buddhism, based on the Avatamsaka Sutra and its teaching of the interdependence of all things.
HwandoPlaceHwando was a mountain fortress capital of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, near modern Ji'an in Jilin province, China, paired with the walled city of Gungnae in the…- Hwang JiniPersonHwang Jini was one of the best-known kisaeng of Korea's Joseon period, who lived during the reign of King Jungjong and was also known by her kisaeng name Myŏngwŏl.
- Hwangnam DaechongPlaceHwangnam Daechong is the largest Silla tomb at Gyeongju, South Korea, a double burial mound of the fifth century about 120 metres long, probably of a king and his queen.
Hwaseong FortressWork / monumentHwaseong Fortress is a walled fortress surrounding the centre of Suwon in South Korea, built from 1794 to 1796 by King Jeongjo near the relocated tomb of his father…
HyakushōPeople / groupThe hyakushō, the peasants, came second in shinōkōshō, the Confucian scheme of four occupations adopted from China: samurai, peasants, craftsmen and merchants.- HyblonPersonHyblon was a king of the Sicels in eastern Sicily in the eighth century BCE.
- Hydarnes the ElderPersonHydarnes, also known as Hydarnes the Elder, was a Persian nobleman and one of the seven conspirators who overthrew the Pseudo-Smerdis, a plot led by the Achaemenid…
- HydatiusPersonHydatius was a bishop of Aquae Flaviae, modern Chaves, in the Roman province of Gallaecia.
- Hyde ParkerPersonSir Hyde Parker was a British admiral who commanded the fleet sent in 1801 to break the League of Armed Neutrality.
Hyder AliPersonHyder Ali was a soldier who rose to command the army of the Kingdom of Mysore and from 1761 ruled it in place of the Wodeyar kings.
HyderabadPlaceHyderabad is a city on the Musi River in the Deccan, now the capital of the Indian state of Telangana.
Hyderabad ContingentInstitutionThe Hyderabad Contingent was a military force paid for by the Nizam of Hyderabad but commanded by British officers, raised in the early 19th century to support the…- Hyderabad State CongressPeople / groupThe Hyderabad State Congress was a political party founded in 1938 to campaign for responsible government in Hyderabad State.
Hyderabad, SindhPlaceHyderabad is a city on the Indus in Sindh, Pakistan.
Hydra (island)PlaceHydra is a Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, off the eastern coast of the Peloponnese.
HydroelectricityWork / monumentHydroelectricity is electricity generated from hydropower, the energy of moving water.- HyechoPersonHyecho was a Buddhist monk from Silla who studied in Tang China and in the 720s travelled to India, visiting the holy places of Buddhism and returning through Central…
- Hyegong of SillaPersonHyegong was king of Silla from 765 to 780, coming to the throne as a child.
- HyejaPersonHyeja was a Buddhist monk from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo who came to Japan in 595.
- Hyeonjong of GoryeoPersonHyeonjong of Goryeo was king of Goryeo from 1009 to 1031.
- Hyfaidd ap BleddriPersonHyfaidd ap Bleddri was king of Dyfed in south-west Wales in the later 9th century.
HygelacPersonHygelac is the king of the Geats in the Old English poem Beowulf, the hero's uncle and lord.
HyksosPeople / groupThe Hyksos were a people of West Asian origin who ruled northern Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.- Hymn of KassianiWork / monumentThe Hymn of Kassiani, also called the Troparion of Kassiani, is the most famous work of Kassia, a Byzantine composer, hymnographer and poet, and the only known woman…
- Hymn of the PearlWork / monumentThe Hymn of the Pearl, also called the Hymn of the Soul, the Hymn of the Robe of Glory or the Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle, is a passage of the apocryphal Acts of…
- Hymn to LibertyWork / monumentDionysios Solomos wrote the "Hymn to Liberty", also called the "Hymn to Freedom", on Zakynthos in 1823, inspired by the Greek War of Independence, to honour the Greeks'…
- Hymn to NinkasiWork / monumentNinkasi was the Mesopotamian goddess of beer and brewing, worshipped in many parts of Mesopotamia from the Early Dynastic period on.
- Hymn to the NileWork / monumentThe "Hymn to the Nile", also called the "Hymn to Hapy", was created and sung by the ancient Egyptians about the flooding of the Nile.
Hyōgo PrefecturePlaceHyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of the Kansai region of Japan, reaching from the Inland Sea to the Sea of Japan, with its capital at Kobe.
HypaspistsInstitutionThe hypaspists were an elite infantry corps in the Macedonian army of Philip II and Alexander the Great.- HypatiaPersonHypatia was a Neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician and astronomer in Alexandria, the daughter of the mathematician Theon.
HypocaustWork / monumentA hypocaust is a system of central heating in which hot air and smoke from a furnace circulate beneath a floor raised on stacks of tiles, the pilae, and rise through…- Hypogeum of the VolumniWork / monumentThe Hypogeum of the Volumni is an Etruscan chamber tomb near Perugia, discovered in 1840.
HyrcaniaPlaceHyrcania was a historical region south-east of the Caspian Sea, in the modern Iranian provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran and parts of Turkmenistan.
Hyrcanus IIPersonHyrcanus II was a Hasmonean high priest and ruler of Judaea, the elder son of Alexander Jannaeus and Salome Alexandra.
HyspaosinesPersonHyspaosines was the founder of the kingdom of Characene at the head of the Persian Gulf.
Hyūga ProvincePlaceHyūga Province was an old province on the east coast of Kyushu, Japan, corresponding roughly to modern Miyazaki Prefecture.
Hywel DdaPersonHywel Dda, Hywel the Good, was a Welsh king, grandson of Rhodri the Great.