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Liberal Party (UK)People / groupThe Liberal Party was one of the two major parties of the United Kingdom from its formation in 1859, out of the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites, until the First World War.- Liberal Party of AustraliaPeople / groupThe Liberal Party of Australia is the country's main centre-right party, founded in 1944–1945 by Robert Menzies from the United Australia Party and other non-Labor…
Liberal Party of HondurasPeople / groupThe Liberal Party of Honduras is one of the country's two traditional parties, founded in 1891 under Policarpo Bonilla.
Liberal Revolution of 1820Revolution · 1820The Liberal Revolution of 1820 was a constitutionalist uprising in Portugal, beginning in Porto.
Liberal Revolution of 1871Revolution · 1871The Liberal Revolution of 1871 in Guatemala was the revolt led by Miguel García Granados and Justo Rufino Barrios that overthrew the conservative government of Vicente…
Liberal Revolution of 1895Revolution · 1895The Liberal Revolution of 1895 in Ecuador began with a rising in Guayaquil on 5 June 1895 that proclaimed Eloy Alfaro supreme chief.
Liberal WarsWar · 1828–1834The Liberal Wars were a civil war in Portugal from 1828 to 1834 between liberal constitutionalists supporting the young Queen Maria II and absolutists led by her uncle…
Liberating Expedition of PeruCampaign · 1820–1821The Liberating Expedition of Peru was the military campaign led by José de San Martín from Chile against the royalist stronghold of Peru.
Liberation Army of the SouthPeople / groupThe Liberation Army of the South was the revolutionary army of Emiliano Zapata, drawn mainly from the peasants of Morelos, which fought from 1911 for the return of…- Liberation of Ethiopia (1941)Campaign · 1941The liberation of Ethiopia in 1941 was the defeat of Italian occupation forces by British and Commonwealth troops working with Ethiopian patriots during the Second…
- Liberation of ParisBattle · 1944The Liberation of Paris was the freeing of the French capital from German occupation in August 1944.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil EelamPeople / groupThe Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were a Tamil separatist militant organisation in Sri Lanka, founded in 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran to create an independent…
Liberators' civil warWar · 44–42 BCEThe Liberators' civil war was the Roman civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE.
Liberians United for Reconciliation and DemocracyPeople / groupLiberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) was a rebel movement that fought the government of Charles Taylor from 1999, beginning the Second Liberian…- Liberius (praetorian prefect)PersonLiberius was a Roman aristocrat and official who served Odoacer, the Ostrogothic king Theodoric and finally the emperor Justinian.
Liberum vetoInstitutionThe liberum veto was a parliamentary rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth allowing any single deputy of the Sejm to dissolve the session and annul its legislation.- LibnahPlaceLibnah was a town in the Shephelah of Judah, often identified with Tel Burna near Kiryat Gat, although its location is uncertain.
LibournePlaceLibourne is a town in the Gironde department of south-western France, where the Isle meets the Dordogne.
Library of AlexandriaInstitutionThe Library of Alexandria was the great library founded under the Ptolemaic kings in Alexandria in the third century BCE, part of the Mouseion research institution.- Library of NinevehWork / monumentThe Library of Nineveh, also known as the Library of Ashurbanipal, was a collection of thousands of cuneiform tablets assembled by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the…
LibrevillePlaceLibreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, on the north shore of the Gabon estuary.- Libro d'OroWork / monumentThe Libro d'Oro, or Golden Book, was the official register of the patrician families of the Republic of Venice, recording the births and marriages that qualified men to…
LibyaPlaceLibya is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast, comprising the historical regions of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and the Fezzan.
Libya InferiorPlaceLibya Inferior, also called Libya Sicca, was a late Roman province created by Diocletian's division of Cyrenaica around 300 CE.- LibyansPeople / groupLibyans refers to the inhabitants of Libya and, in antiquity, to the indigenous Berber-speaking peoples of North Africa.
Libyco-Berber scriptTermThe Libyco-Berber script is an ancient alphabet of consonants used to write Berber languages across North Africa and the Canary Islands from at least the third century…
LibyssaPlaceLibyssa was an ancient town in Bithynia on the northern shore of the Gulf of Nicomedia, near modern Gebze in Turkey.- LicarioPersonLicario was a knight of Italian descent from Euboea who, after a quarrel with the Lombard lords of the island, entered the service of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII…
LicataPlaceLicata is a town on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the Salso river.- LicchaviStateThe Licchavi were an ancient clan-based polity of north-eastern India, with an old republican tradition.
LichfieldPlaceLichfield is a cathedral city in Staffordshire, England.
Lichfield GospelsWork / monumentThe Lichfield Gospels are an 8th-century illuminated gospel book in the Insular style, kept at Lichfield Cathedral in England.
LichtensteigPlaceLichtensteig is a small town in the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland, on the Thur in the Toggenburg valley.
Lichtenstein, SaxonyPlaceLichtenstein is a small town in western Saxony, Germany, north-east of Zwickau.
LiciniusPersonLicinius was Roman emperor from 308 to 324.
LidicePlaceLidice is a village near Kladno in the Czech Republic, destroyed by the Nazis on 10 June 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Lido di VeneziaPlaceThe Lido di Venezia is a long, narrow barrier island separating the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic Sea.
Lidzbark WarmińskiPlaceLidzbark Warmiński (German Heilsberg) is a town in north-eastern Poland.
LiébanaPlaceLiébana is a mountain district in the south-west of Cantabria, northern Spain, enclosed by the Picos de Europa, with Potes as its main town.- Liebfrauenmünster, IngolstadtWork / monumentThe Liebfrauenmünster, or Church of Our Lady, is the largest church in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
Liechtenstein CastleWork / monumentLiechtenstein Castle stands near Maria Enzersdorf, south of Vienna, in Lower Austria.
Liège RevolutionRevolution · 1789–1791The Liège Revolution began in August 1789, when citizens drove out Prince-Bishop Hoensbroeck, installed new magistrates and later proclaimed a republic.- Liège WarsWar · 1465–1468The Liège Wars were a series of conflicts between the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Burgundian dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, whose relative Louis de…
- LiejiaomiPersonLiejiaomi was a ruler (kunmo) of the Wusun in the 2nd century BCE.
LielupePlaceThe Lielupe is a river of central Latvia, formed near Bauska by the meeting of the Mūša and Mēmele, which rise in Lithuania.
LiepājaPlaceLiepāja, German Libau, is a port city on the Baltic coast of western Latvia.
Lier, BelgiumPlaceLier is a city in the province of Antwerp, Belgium, where the Grote and Kleine Nete rivers meet.
LietuvininkaiPeople / groupThe Lietuvininkai, or Prussian Lithuanians, were Lithuanian-speaking Lutherans of Lithuania Minor, the north-eastern part of East Prussia.- Lifan YuanInstitutionThe Lifan Yuan, or Court of Colonial Affairs, was the Qing government office that managed relations with Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang and other Inner Asian dependencies.
LifauPlaceLifau is a place on the north coast of Timor, in the Oecusse exclave of East Timor, where the Portuguese established their first settlement on the island.- Life of AntonyWork / monumentThe Life of Antony is a biography of the Egyptian hermit Anthony the Great, written in Greek by Athanasius of Alexandria soon after Anthony's death in 356.
- Life of ColumbaWork / monumentThe Life of Columba is a Latin life of Saint Columba, founder of the monastery of Iona, written by Adomnán, the ninth abbot of Iona, around 700.
- The Life of Jesus, Critically ExaminedWork / monumentThe Life of Jesus, Critically Examined is a work by the German theologian David Friedrich Strauss, published in 1835–1836.
Life of LycurgusWork / monumentThe Life of Lycurgus is a biography of the legendary Spartan lawgiver by the Greek writer Plutarch, part of his Parallel Lives, where it is paired with the life of the…- Life of MethodiusWork / monumentThe Life of Methodius is an Old Church Slavonic biography of Saint Methodius, apostle of the Slavs, written in Moravia soon after his death in 885, probably by one of…
- Life of Saint SeverinusWork / monumentThe Life of Saint Severinus is a biography of the monk Severinus of Noricum written by his disciple Eugippius in 511.
- Lig MyirhyaPersonLig Myirhya was the last king of Zhangzhung, the kingdom of western Tibet centred on the region of Mount Kailash.
Ligdan KhanPersonLigdan Khan was the last great khan of the Northern Yuan, ruling the Chahar Mongols from 1604.
Lighthouse of AlexandriaWork / monumentThe Lighthouse of Alexandria, or Pharos, was a tower built on the island of Pharos at Alexandria in Egypt under the first Ptolemaic kings and completed around 280 BCE.
LiguriaPlaceLiguria is a region of north-western Italy along the Gulf of Genoa, between the Maritime Alps, the Apennines and the sea, with its capital at Genoa.
Ligurian RepublicStateThe Ligurian Republic was a French client state that replaced the aristocratic Republic of Genoa in 1797, after Napoleon Bonaparte pressed the old regime to give way to…
LihulaPlaceLihula is a small town in western Estonia, in Lääne County.- Lijia systemInstitutionThe lijia system was a household registration and local administration system of the Ming Empire.
- LijiashanPlaceLijiashan is an archaeological cemetery near Jiangchuan in central Yunnan, China, belonging to the Dian culture.
LikaPlaceLika is a mountainous region of central Croatia, between the Velebit range and the Bosnian border, with Gospić as its main town.
LillePlaceLille is a city in northern France near the Belgian border, historically the chief town of Walloon Flanders.
LillebonnePlaceLillebonne is a town in Normandy, France, in the Pays de Caux near the Seine estuary.
Lillie LangtryPersonLillie Langtry was a Jersey-born actress and society beauty, the daughter of the dean of Jersey, known as the Jersey Lily.
LīloaPersonLīloa was ruler (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaiʻi in the late 15th century, ruling from Waipiʻo Valley.
Lim (river)PlaceThe Lim is a river of the western Balkans, about 220 km long, which rises near Plav in Montenegro and flows north through Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the…
LimaPlaceLima is the capital and largest city of Peru, on the central coast in the Rímac valley.
LimagnePlaceThe Limagne is a fertile plain in the Auvergne in central France, a rift valley drained by the Allier river between the volcanic Chaîne des Puys and the Forez mountains.
LimassolPlaceLimassol is a port city on the southern coast of Cyprus and the island's second-largest city.
LimbangPlaceLimbang is a town and division in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, lying along the Limbang River between the two parts of Brunei.
LimbažiPlaceLimbaži, German Lemsal, is a town in the Vidzeme region of northern Latvia, north-east of Riga.- Limbin ConfederacyPeople / groupThe Limbin Confederacy was an alliance of Shan princes formed in the mid-1880s to oppose King Thibaw of Burma and to put a rival prince, the Limbin Prince, on the throne.
LimbourgPlaceLimbourg is a small town in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, on a rocky spur above the Vesdre.- Limbu peoplePeople / groupThe Limbu, who call themselves Yakthung, are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking people of eastern Nepal and neighbouring Sikkim and Darjeeling.
LimerickPlaceLimerick is a city in the south-west of Ireland, on the River Shannon, and gives its name to County Limerick.- Limes GermanicusPlaceThe Limes Germanicus was the fortified frontier of the Roman Empire along the Rhine and Danube and the land between them.
- Limes Museum AalenInstitutionThe Limes Museum in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, is a museum of the Roman frontier in Germany, opened in 1964 on the site of the largest cavalry fort on the Raetian Limes.
Limes SorabicusPlaceThe Limes Sorabicus was the eastern frontier zone of the Carolingian Empire facing the Slavic Sorbs, running roughly along the Saale and the Elbe in present-day central…
Limes TripolitanusWork / monumentThe Limes Tripolitanus was a Roman frontier zone of forts and fortified farms in Tripolitania, in present-day Libya, developed from about 75 CE.- LimigantesPeople / groupThe Limigantes were a subject people of the Sarmatians on the middle Danube in the fourth century CE, ruled by a dominant group the Romans called the Argaragantes.
LimmatPlaceThe Limmat is a river in northern Switzerland that flows out of Lake Zürich through the city of Zürich and runs north-west for about 35 kilometres to join the Aare.
LimmuInstitutionThe limmu was an Assyrian official whose name was used to identify each year, so that every year was named after its holder.
LimogesPlaceLimoges is a city on the Vienne river in west-central France and the historic capital of the Limousin.- LimpopoPlaceThe Limpopo is a major river of southern Africa, flowing through South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
LimulungaPlaceLimulunga is the high-water capital of the Litunga, the king of the Lozi, on the edge of the Barotse floodplain near Mongu in western Zambia.
LimyraPlaceLimyra was a city of eastern Lycia, near modern Finike on the south coast of Turkey.- Lin XiangruPersonLin Xiangru was a minister of the State of Zhao in the 3rd century BCE.
- LinaresPlaceLinares is a town in the province of Jaén in Andalusia, southern Spain, near the ruins of the ancient Iberian city of Castulo.
Lincoln, EnglandPlaceLincoln is a cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, on the River Witham.
LincolnshirePlaceLincolnshire is a large county in the East Midlands of England, stretching from the Humber estuary to the Wash.
LindenhofPlaceThe Lindenhof is a hill and public square in the old town of Zürich, above the left bank of the Limmat.
Linderhof PalaceWork / monumentLinderhof Palace is a small rococo-style palace near Ettal in the Bavarian Alps, built for King Ludwig II of Bavaria between 1869 and 1878.
LindisfarnePlaceLindisfarne, or Holy Island, is a tidal island off the coast of Northumberland in north-east England.
Lindisfarne GospelsWork / monumentThe Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript of the four Gospels made at the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria around 700–715, traditionally by Bishop…
Lindum ColoniaPlaceLindum Colonia was the Roman town at Lincoln in eastern England.
Linear ATermLinear A is the undeciphered script used by the Minoans of Crete for administration and religious inscriptions from about 1800 to 1450 BCE.