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L'Anse aux MeadowsPlaceL'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada, the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America.
L'EscaladeBattle · 1602L'Escalade was a surprise night attack on Geneva on 11–12 December 1602 by troops of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, who tried to scale the city walls with ladders.
L'Île-RoussePlaceL'Île-Rousse is a port town on the north-west coast of Corsica, in the Balagne region.
L'Isle-sur-la-SorguePlaceL'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a town in Provence, south-eastern France, built on islands in the Sorgue river below the spring of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.
L'OrfeoWork / monumentL'Orfeo is an opera by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, first performed at the Gonzaga court in Mantua in 1607.- La Alcudia (Elche)PlaceLa Alcudia is an archaeological site 2 km south of Elche in south-eastern Spain, the remains of the Iberian town of Ilici and the Roman colony of Colonia Iulia Ilici…
La BrabançonneWork / monumentLa Brabançonne is the national anthem of Belgium, written during the Belgian Revolution of 1830 with words by Jenneval, a French actor in Brussels, and music by…
La CabañaWork / monumentLa Cabaña, the Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, is an 18th-century fortress on the heights overlooking the entrance to Havana harbour in Cuba.
La CeibaPlaceLa Ceiba is a port city on the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras and capital of the department of Atlántida.
La CentinelaPlaceLa Centinela is an archaeological site in the Chincha valley on the south coast of Peru, the capital of the Chincha lordship from around 1000.
La Chaux-de-FondsPlaceLa Chaux-de-Fonds is a town in the Jura mountains of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at about 1,000 metres.
La CosiataRevolt · 1826La Cosiata was a political movement and revolt in Venezuela in 1826, led by José Antonio Páez against the government of Gran Colombia in Bogotá.- La DemajaguaPlaceLa Demajagua was the sugar estate of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes near Manzanillo in eastern Cuba.
- La GaligoWork / monumentLa Galigo, or Sureq Galigo, is the epic cycle of the Bugis of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, composed in Buginese verse and handed down in manuscripts.
La GoulettePlaceLa Goulette is a port town on the narrow channel linking the Lake of Tunis with the Gulf of Tunis, serving as the harbour of Tunis.
La GraufesenquePlaceLa Graufesenque is an archaeological site near Millau in southern France, the remains of the Roman pottery centre of Condatomagus.
La GuairaPlaceLa Guaira is the main port of Venezuela, on the Caribbean coast just north of Caracas, from which it is separated by the coastal mountain range.
La HigueraPlaceLa Higuera is a small village in the Vallegrande Province of the Santa Cruz Department, in the eastern Andean foothills of Bolivia.
La IsabelaPlaceLa Isabela was the first Spanish town in the Americas, founded by Christopher Columbus on the north coast of Hispaniola, in the modern Dominican Republic, during his…
La Libertad RegionPlaceLa Libertad is a region on the northern coast of Peru, extending inland into the Andes, with its capital at Trujillo.- La Línea caseEventLa Línea was a customs fraud network in Guatemala in which officials took bribes from importers in exchange for lower duties, exposed in April 2015 by the International…
- La MaddukellengPersonLa Maddukelleng was a Bugis noble of Wajo in South Sulawesi who spent years in exile in eastern Borneo, where he built up a fleet and following.
La ManchaPlaceLa Mancha is a high plateau region of central Spain, south of Toledo.- La MappanyukkiPersonLa Mappanyukki was a Bugis prince of the royal house of Gowa who became king of Bone when the Dutch restored the kingdom in 1931.
La Marsa ConventionEventThe La Marsa Convention was an agreement signed on 8 June 1883 between France and Ali III ibn al-Husayn, bey of Tunis.
La MassanaPlaceLa Massana is one of the seven parishes of Andorra and the name of its main town, in the north-west of the principality on the Valira del Nord.
La MatanzaRevolt · 1932La Matanza, 'the massacre', was the killing of thousands of peasants, most of them indigenous Pipil, by the Salvadoran army and militias after an uprising in the…- La MazorcaPeople / groupLa Mazorca was the armed wing of the Sociedad Popular Restauradora, a club of supporters of Juan Manuel de Rosas in Buenos Aires.
La MojanaPlaceLa Mojana is a low-lying wetland region of northern Colombia, in the departments of Sucre, Bolívar, Córdoba and Antioquia, where the San Jorge and Cauca rivers approach…
La MosquitiaPlaceLa Mosquitia is a sparsely populated region of rainforest, pine savanna and lagoons in eastern Honduras, the Honduran part of the Mosquito Coast that extends into…- La Mothe-en-BassignyPlaceLa Mothe-en-Bassigny was a fortified town on a hilltop in the Bassigny, on the south-western border of the Duchy of Lorraine, in today's Haute-Marne department.
La Muette de PorticiWork / monumentLa Muette de Portici is a French grand opera by Daniel Auber, first performed in Paris in 1828.- La NavidadPlaceLa Navidad was the first European settlement in the Americas, built on the north coast of Hispaniola by Christopher Columbus at Christmas 1492 from the timbers of the…
La Noche TristeBattle · 1520La Noche Triste, the 'Night of Sorrows', was the night in 1520 when Hernan Cortes and his Spanish forces and allies fled Tenochtitlan under attack by the Aztecs.
La Pampa ProvincePlaceLa Pampa is a province of central Argentina, with its capital at Santa Rosa, covering part of the pampas plains and the drier lands to the west.- La Patiware Daeng ParabungPersonLa Patiware Daeng Parabung was the datu, or ruler, of the Bugis kingdom of Luwu in South Sulawesi.
- La Pawawoi Karaeng SigeriPersonLa Pawawoi Karaeng Sigeri was king of Bone in South Sulawesi from 1895 to 1905.
La PazPlaceLa Paz is a city in the Andes of western Bolivia, founded by the Spanish in 1548 and today the seat of Bolivia's government.
La Paz, Baja California SurPlaceLa Paz is a port city on the Gulf of California and the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
La Petite-PierrePlaceLa Petite-Pierre (German Lützelstein) is a small town in the northern Vosges in Alsace, France, dominated by a castle on a sandstone ridge.
La PlataPlaceLa Plata is a city in Argentina, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, founded in 1882 by Governor Dardo Rocha after the city of Buenos Aires was federalised as the…
La ReformaEventLa Reforma was a period of liberal reform in Mexico that began after the Revolution of Ayutla overthrew Antonio López de Santa Anna in 1855.
La RiojaPlaceLa Rioja is a region and autonomous community of northern Spain on the upper Ebro, with its capital at Logroño.
La Rioja (Spain)PlaceLa Rioja is an autonomous community of northern Spain in the upper Ebro valley, with Logroño as its capital.
La RochellePlaceLa Rochelle is a port city on the Atlantic coast of western France, in the old province of Aunis.
La ScalaWork / monumentLa Scala, the Teatro alla Scala, is the principal opera house of Milan.
La Seu d'UrgellPlaceLa Seu d'Urgell is a town on the Segre in the Catalan Pyrenees, just south of Andorra.
La Soufrière (Saint Vincent)PlaceLa Soufrière is an active volcano forming the northern part of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean, the island's highest peak at about 1,234 metres.- La Tadampare Puang ri Ma'galatungPersonLa Tadampare Puang ri Ma'galatung was an Arung Matoa, or elected ruler, of the Bugis kingdom of Wajo in South Sulawesi around the turn of the 16th century.
La Tène cultureTermThe La Tène culture was the late Iron Age culture of Celtic Europe, from about 450 BCE until the Roman conquest.- La TrinitariaPeople / groupLa Trinitaria was a secret society founded in Santo Domingo on 16 July 1838 by Juan Pablo Duarte and his companions to free the eastern part of Hispaniola from Haitian…
La TurbiePlaceLa Turbie is a village in the Alpes-Maritimes, south-eastern France, on a height above Monaco.
La VentaPlaceLa Venta is an archaeological site of the Olmec civilisation in Tabasco, Mexico, on an island in a coastal swamp, which was the pre-eminent Olmec centre from after 900…
La ViolenciaWar · 1948–1958La Violencia was a civil conflict in Colombia between supporters of the Liberal and Conservative parties, usually dated from 1948 to 1958.
LaayounePlaceLaayoune is the largest city of Western Sahara, near the Atlantic coast and the seasonal river Saguia el-Hamra.
Laba RiverPlaceThe Laba is a river of the north-western Caucasus, a left tributary of the Kuban about 210 kilometres long, formed by the Greater and Lesser Laba, which rise on the…- Labashi-MardukPersonLabashi-Marduk was king of Babylon for a few months in 556 BCE, succeeding his father Neriglissar while still young.
LabayuPersonLabayu was ruler of Shechem in the hill country of Canaan in the mid-14th century BCE, known from the Amarna letters.- Labib al-AmiriPersonLabib al-Amiri was a slav freedman of the Amirid household who seized Tortosa after the Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed in civil war in 1009, founding the taifa of…
Labotsibeni MdluliPersonLabotsibeni Mdluli was queen mother of Swaziland, mother of Ngwane V and grandmother of Sobhuza II.
LabourdPlaceLabourd (Basque Lapurdi) is one of the three historic Basque provinces of France, on the Atlantic coast near Bayonne, with Ustaritz as its old seat of assembly.
LabradorPlaceLabrador is the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a sparsely populated region of tundra and forest on the Atlantic coast.
LabyrinthReligion / ideaThe Labyrinth, in Greek mythology, was the maze built by the craftsman Daedalus for King Minos of Crete to hold the Minotaur.
Lacandon MayaPeople / groupThe Lacandon Maya are a Maya people of the rainforest of eastern Chiapas in Mexico, near the Guatemalan border.- Lacantún RiverPlaceThe Lacantún is a river of the Lacandon Forest in eastern Chiapas, Mexico, and a tributary of the Usumacinta.
Lachine massacreEventThe Lachine massacre was a surprise attack by about 1,500 Iroquois warriors on the French settlement of Lachine, on the island of Montreal, on 5 August 1689.
Lachit BorphukanPersonLachit Borphukan was a general of the Ahom kingdom of Assam.
Lachit DivasTermLachit Divas is an annual day of commemoration held in Assam, India, on 24 November, the birthday of Lachit Borphukan, the Ahom general who defeated the Mughal army at…
Lachlan MacquariePersonLachlan Macquarie was a Scottish army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, after the deposition of William Bligh.
LaconiaPlaceLaconia is a region of the south-eastern Peloponnese in Greece, centred on the Eurotas valley between the Taygetus and Parnon mountains.
Lāčplēsis DayEventLāčplēsis Day is a Latvian day of remembrance held on 11 November for those who fell fighting for the country's independence.
LacquerwareTermLacquerware is objects coated with lacquer made from the sap of the lacquer tree, producing a durable, glossy finish.- LacumazesPersonLacumazes was a young king of the Massylii in Numidia around 206 BCE.
- LacydonPlaceThe Lacydon was the natural harbour around which the Greek colony of Massalia was founded by settlers from Phocaea around 600 BCE.
Lad Khan TempleWork / monumentThe Lad Khan Temple is an early Hindu temple at Aihole in northern Karnataka, India, built under the Chalukyas of Badami, probably in the late seventh or early eighth…- Lade (Trondheim)PlaceLade is an area of Trondheim, Norway, on the Lade peninsula east of the city centre, once a great farm and seat of power.
LadenburgPlaceLadenburg is a small town on the Neckar between Heidelberg and Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Ladislaus I of HungaryPersonLadislaus I was king of Hungary from 1077 to 1095.
Ladislaus IV of HungaryPersonLadislaus IV, called the Cuman after his mother's people, was king of Hungary from 1272 to 1290.- Ladislaus KánPersonLadislaus Kán was voivode of Transylvania from about 1294 until his death in 1315 and one of the great oligarchs of Hungary at the end of the Árpád dynasty.
Ladislaus of NaplesPersonLadislaus of the Anjou-Durazzo house was King of Naples from 1386 until his death in 1414.
Lado EnclavePlaceThe Lado Enclave was a territory on the west bank of the upper White Nile leased by Britain to Leopold II of Belgium in 1894 for his lifetime, giving the Congo Free…- Lady K'ab'al XookPersonLady K'ab'al Xook was the principal wife of Itzamnaaj B'ahlam, the Shield Jaguar king of the Maya city of Yaxchilan, in the late 7th and early 8th centuries.
Lady K'abelPersonLady K'abel was a princess of the Kaan dynasty of Calakmul who married K'inich B'ahlam II, king of Waka' (El Perú) in Guatemala, in the 7th century.
Lady of BazaWork / monumentThe Lady of Baza is an Iberian limestone sculpture of a seated woman on a winged throne, painted in bright colours and dated to the first half of the 4th century BCE.
Lady of CaoPersonThe Lady of Cao is the name given to a Moche woman of high rank whose richly furnished tomb was found in 2006 at Huaca Cao Viejo, part of the El Brujo complex on the…
Lady of ElcheWork / monumentThe Lady of Elche is a limestone bust of a woman wearing elaborate jewellery and large wheel-shaped headdresses, carved by Iberian artists probably in the 4th century…
Lady Six SkyPersonLady Six Sky was a princess of Dos Pilas who arrived at Naranjo in 682 CE and restored its royal dynasty after defeats by Caracol.
Ladysmith, KwaZulu-NatalPlaceLadysmith is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on the Klip River, founded in 1850 and named after Juana María, the Spanish-born wife of the Cape governor Sir Harry…
LaePlaceLae is the second-largest city of Papua New Guinea and capital of Morobe Province, at the mouth of the Markham River on the Huon Gulf.
LagashPlaceLagash was an ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia.
Lagny-sur-MarnePlaceLagny-sur-Marne is a town on the Marne east of Paris, France, which grew around the abbey of Saint-Pierre.
Lago Oil and Transport CompanyInstitutionThe Lago Oil and Transport Company ran a large oil refinery at San Nicolaas in southern Aruba from 1929 to 1985.
LagosPlaceLagos, known in Yoruba as Eko, is a coastal city in south-western Nigeria.
Laguna (province)PlaceLaguna is a province of the Philippines on the island of Luzon, south-east of Manila, lying along the southern shore of the lake Laguna de Bay.
Laguna Copperplate InscriptionWork / monumentThe Laguna Copperplate Inscription is a copper plate found in 1989 near Lumban in Laguna province, the Philippines.
Laguna de BayPlaceLaguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines, lying south-east of Manila on Luzon and draining into Manila Bay through the Pasig River.
Laguna de TérminosPlaceThe Laguna de Términos is a large coastal lagoon in the Mexican state of Campeche, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the island of Carmen.
Laguna, Santa CatarinaPlaceLaguna is a coastal town in southern Santa Catarina, Brazil, founded by Portuguese settlers in the 1670s.
Lahad DatuPlaceLahad Datu is a town on the east coast of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, a centre of the palm-oil industry.