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Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de AriasPersonLuis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias was a Spanish journalist and adventurer in the Amazon.
Luis García MezaPersonLuis García Meza was a Bolivian general who seized power in the 'cocaine coup' of 17 July 1980, preventing the inauguration of the elected Hernán Siles Zuazo.
Luis José de OrbegosoPersonLuis José de Orbegoso was a Peruvian general and president of Peru from 1833.
Luis Muñoz MarínPersonLuis Muñoz Marín was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician who founded the Popular Democratic Party and became the island's first elected governor in 1948…
Luis Sánchez CerroPersonLuis Sánchez Cerro was a Peruvian army officer who overthrew Augusto B.
Luis Somoza DebaylePersonLuis Somoza Debayle was president of Nicaragua from 1956 to 1963, succeeding his father, Anastasio Somoza García, after his assassination.
Luis VernetPersonLuis Vernet was a merchant born in Hamburg who settled in Buenos Aires and in 1828 founded a settlement at Port Louis on East Falkland.
Luis Vicente de VelascoPersonLuis Vicente de Velasco was a Spanish naval officer who commanded the defence of the Morro Castle at Havana during the British siege of 1762.
Luitpold, Prince Regent of BavariaPersonLuitpold was prince regent of Bavaria from 1886 until his death in 1912.
LuitpoldingsPeople / groupThe Luitpoldings were a Bavarian noble dynasty that ruled the Duchy of Bavaria in the late ninth and tenth centuries.
Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaPersonLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a Brazilian trade unionist and founder of the Workers' Party who served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 and again from 2023.
Luka BychPersonLuka Bych was a Kuban Cossack politician who led the government of the Kuban People's Republic in 1918–1919.
Lukeni lua NimiPersonLukeni lua Nimi is the traditional founder of the Kingdom of Kongo in the late fourteenth century.
LukiikoInstitutionThe Lukiiko is the council or parliament of the Kingdom of Buganda.- LukonkeshTermLukonkesh (Lukokesha) was the title of the queen mother of the Lunda Empire in central Africa, a female dignitary of high rank at the royal capital, the musumba.
- LulachPersonLulach was king of Scots for a few months in 1057–1058, the stepson of Macbeth and son of Gruoch by her first husband, Gille Coemgáin, mormaer of Moray.
LülinRevolt · 17–25The Lülin, or 'Green Forest', were a rebel movement that arose around 17 CE in the hills of Hubei against Wang Mang's Xin dynasty.- LullubiPeople / groupThe Lullubi were a people of the Zagros Mountains on the eastern edge of Mesopotamia.
LullusPersonLullus was an Anglo-Saxon monk from Wessex who joined Saint Boniface's mission in Germany and succeeded him as bishop, later archbishop, of Mainz.
LumbiniPlaceLumbini is a site in the Rupandehi district of southern Nepal, near the Indian border, revered as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.- Luna VasahiWork / monumentThe Luna Vasahi is a white marble Jain temple dedicated to Neminatha in the Dilwara temple complex at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India.
LunavadaPlaceLunavada is a town in eastern Gujarat, India, near the Mahi river, and the headquarters of Mahisagar district.
LundPlaceLund is a city in Scania, southern Sweden, founded by Danish kings around 990.
Lunda EmpireStateThe Lunda Empire was a Central African state in the south of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and parts of Angola and Zambia, flourishing from the…
LüneburgPlaceLüneburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, south-east of Hamburg.
LunévillePlaceLunéville is a town on the Meurthe in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of north-eastern France.
LunigianaPlaceLunigiana is a historical region of north-western Tuscany and eastern Liguria in Italy, around the valley of the Magra.
Luo FangboPersonLuo Fangbo was a Hakka scholar and migrant from Guangdong who organised Chinese gold miners in West Borneo.
Luo peoplesPeople / groupThe Luo are a group of Nilotic peoples who spread from the region of the southern Sudan into present-day Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the…
Luo River (Henan)PlaceThe Luo River is a tributary of the Yellow River in Henan province, China, flowing about 450 kilometres from the Qinling mountains past Luoyang.
LuoyangPlaceLuoyang is a city in the Yellow River valley of central China and one of China's ancient capitals.
Lupus I of AquitainePersonLupus was a duke in south-western Gaul in the 670s, recorded as ruling Aquitaine and Gascony on behalf of the Merovingian kings while acting with growing independence.
Lupus of TroyesPersonLupus of Troyes was bishop of Troyes in Gaul from about 427 until his death around 478 and is venerated as a saint.
Lurín RiverPlaceThe Lurín is a river of Peru's central coast that reaches the Pacific south of Lima.
Lúrio RiverPlaceThe Lúrio is a river in northern Mozambique that flows about 600 km east from the Niassa highlands to the Indian Ocean.
LursPeople / groupThe Lurs are an Iranian people of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran, living mainly in Lorestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and neighbouring provinces.
LusakaPlaceLusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, on a plateau in the south-centre of the country.
LusatiaPlaceLusatia is a historical region in Central Europe between the Elbe and the Oder, divided into Upper and Lower Lusatia and today split between Germany and Poland.
LushnjëPlaceLushnjë is a town in central Albania, on the edge of the Myzeqe plain.
LüshunkouPlaceLüshunkou, known to Europeans as Port Arthur, is a port at the tip of the Liaodong peninsula in north-east China.- LusiciPeople / groupThe Lusici were a West Slavic tribe living in what is now Lower Lusatia, in eastern Germany, and gave the region its name.
- Luso-AfricansPeople / groupLuso-Africans were communities of mixed Portuguese and African descent, or Africans of Portuguese culture, who arose on the coasts of West and West-Central Africa from…
LutetiaPlaceLutetia was the Gallo-Roman town on the Seine that grew into Paris, the chief town of the Gallic Parisii.
Luther BibleWork / monumentThe Luther Bible is Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German, from the Hebrew and Greek, with the New Testament published in 1522 and the complete Bible in…- LutheranismReligion / ideaLutheranism is the branch of Protestant Christianity based on the teachings of Martin Luther, who launched the Reformation in 1517.
- LutskPlaceLutsk is a city in north-western Ukraine on the Styr river, capital of Volyn Oblast.
Luwero TrianglePlaceThe Luwero Triangle is an area of central Uganda north of Kampala, centred on the Luweero district of Buganda.
Luxembourg CrisisCrisis · 1867The Luxembourg Crisis of 1867 was a diplomatic confrontation between France and Prussia over the status of Luxembourg.
LuxembourgersPeople / groupLuxembourgers are the people and citizens of Luxembourg, a small nation whose national identity developed after the grand duchy became independent in the nineteenth…
LuxembourgishTermLuxembourgish is a West Germanic language, derived from Moselle Franconian dialects, spoken as a mother tongue by most Luxembourgers.
Luxeuil AbbeyWork / monumentLuxeuil Abbey was a monastery founded by the Irish missionary Columbanus around 590 at Luxeuil, in the foothills of the Vosges in Burgundy.
LuxLeaksEventLuxLeaks was a financial scandal revealed in November 2014 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
LuxorPlaceLuxor is a city on the Nile in Upper Egypt, built on the site of ancient Thebes.
LuzonPlaceLuzon is the largest and most populous island of the Philippines, home to the capital, Manila.- LvivPlaceLviv is the largest city of western Ukraine, founded in the mid-13th century by King Daniel of Galicia and named after his son Leo.
- LwenaPeople / groupThe Lwena, also known as the Luvale, are a people of eastern Angola and north-western Zambia.
Lý Chiêu HoàngPersonLý Chiêu Hoàng was the only reigning empress in Vietnamese history and the last ruler of the Lý dynasty, enthroned as a child in 1224.
Ly Nam DePersonLy Nam De, born Ly Bi, led a rising against the Liang dynasty's rule of Jiaozhou in northern Vietnam.- Ly Phat TuPersonLy Phat Tu was the last ruler of the Early Ly dynasty in northern Vietnam, holding power from 571 to 602.
Lý Thái TổPersonLý Thái Tổ, born Lý Công Uẩn, was the founder of Vietnam's Lý dynasty.
Lý Thường KiệtPersonLý Thường Kiệt was a general and court official of the Lý dynasty of Đại Việt (Vietnam).
Lycaon of ArcadiaPersonLycaon is a mythical king of Arcadia in Greek legend, son of Pelasgus.- Lycée PétionInstitutionThe Lycée Pétion is a secondary school in Port-au-Prince, founded in 1816 under President Alexandre Pétion and named after him.
Lyceum (Classical)InstitutionThe Lyceum was a sanctuary and gymnasium of Apollo Lykeios outside the walls of Athens, where Aristotle opened his school in 335 BCE.- LyciansPeople / groupThe Lycians were the people of Lycia in south-western Anatolia, speaking an Indo-European Anatolian language written in their own alphabet.
- LyciarchTermThe Lyciarch was the president of the Lycian League, the federation of the cities of ancient Lycia in south-western Asia Minor.
- Lycomedes of MantineaPersonLycomedes of Mantinea was the leading statesman of the Arcadian League, formed in 370 BCE after Sparta's defeat at Leuctra.
- Lycophron of PheraePersonLycophron of Pherae was the first tyrant of Pherae in Thessaly, seizing power around 406 BCE.
- LycortasPersonLycortas of Megalopolis was a statesman and general of the Achaean League in the early 2nd century BCE and the father of the historian Polybius.
- Lycurgus of SpartaPersonLycurgus was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited by the Spartans with their constitution of two kings, council of elders and assembly, and with the strict system…
- Lycus (Phrygia)PlaceThe Lycus, now the Çürüksu, is a river of south-western Anatolia in Turkey and a tributary of the Maeander.
LydenburgPlaceLydenburg is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa, founded in 1849 by Voortrekkers who left nearby Ohrigstad because of malaria.
LydiaStateLydia was a kingdom in western Anatolia with its capital at Sardis, famous for its wealth and for early coinage.- LydiadasPersonLydiadas was tyrant of Megalopolis in Arcadia in the third century BCE.
- LydiansPeople / groupThe Lydians were the people of the kingdom of Lydia in western Anatolia.
Lygdamis IPersonLygdamis I was a ruler of Halicarnassus in Caria at the end of the 6th century BCE, under the Achaemenid Empire, and the founder of a dynasty of Carian descent.- Lygdamis IIPersonLygdamis II was tyrant of Halicarnassus in Caria in the mid-5th century BCE, a grandson of Artemisia I, ruling under Achaemenid overlordship.
Lygdamis of NaxosPersonLygdamis was tyrant of the island of Naxos in the Cyclades in the mid-6th century BCE.- LygoniaPlaceLygonia was a proprietary province in present-day southern Maine, based on the Plough Patent of 1630, which the English Puritan lawyer Alexander Rigby bought in 1643.
LykhnyPlaceLykhny is a village in the Gudauta district of Abkhazia, near the Black Sea coast.
Lynden PindlingPersonLynden Pindling was a Bahamian politician who led the Progressive Liberal Party to power in 1967, ending the rule of the white merchant elite known as the Bay Street…
LyonPlaceLyon is a city in east-central France at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône.- LyppeiosPersonLyppeios, or Lycceius, was a king of Paeonia in the mid-4th century BCE.
Lys (department)PlaceLys was a department of the French Republic and Empire, formed in 1795 after the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands.
LysanderPersonLysander was a Spartan admiral and statesman who won the Peloponnesian War for Sparta.- Lysanias of ChalcisPersonLysanias was the ruler of the Ituraean principality of Chalcis in the Beqaa valley from about 40 BCE, succeeding his father Ptolemy son of Mennaeus.
- LysimachiaPlaceLysimachia was a Greek city on the isthmus of the Gallipoli peninsula in Thrace, founded by Lysimachus in 309 BCE as his capital.
LysimachusPersonLysimachus was one of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander the Great, who ruled Thrace and later parts of Asia Minor and Macedon.
LysippusPersonLysippus was a Greek sculptor from Sicyon, active in the 4th century BCE and one of the most prolific bronze-workers of antiquity.- Lysis of TarasPersonLysis of Taras was a Pythagorean philosopher of the fifth and early fourth centuries BCE from Taras in southern Italy.
- LyubechPlaceLyubech is a small town on the Dnieper in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine.
Lyuh Woon-hyungPersonLyuh Woon-hyung was a Korean independence activist and moderate leftist politician.
LyøPlaceLyø is a small Danish island south-west of Funen in the South Funen Archipelago.
LøgtingInstitutionThe Løgting is the parliament of the Faroe Islands.