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- MastiaPlaceMastia was an Iberian town in south-eastern Spain, chief town of the Mastieni.
MastiesPersonMasties was a Berber ruler in the Aurès mountains in the late 5th or early 6th century, known only from a Latin inscription found at Arris.
Mastino I della ScalaPersonMastino I della Scala was the founder of Scaliger power in Verona.
Mastino II della ScalaPersonMastino II della Scala was lord of Verona from 1329, nephew of Cangrande I.
Mastoureh ArdalanPersonMastoureh Ardalan was a Kurdish poet and historian from Sanandaj in western Iran.
Al-MasudiPersonAl-Masudi was an Arab historian and geographer from Baghdad, often called the Herodotus of the Arabs.
MasunaPersonMasuna was a Berber king in western Algeria, named in an inscription of 508 at Altava as king of the peoples of the Moors and Romans.
MasuriaPlaceMasuria is a lake district in north-eastern Poland, part of the former East Prussia.
MasyafPlaceMasyaf is a town in western Syria, on the eastern slopes of the coastal mountains west of Hama, dominated by a medieval castle.
Mat (river)PlaceThe Mat is a river in north-central Albania, about 115 kilometres long, flowing west through a mountainous valley to the Adriatic north of Lezhë.- Mat KilauPersonMat Kilau was a Malay warrior and one of the leaders of the Pahang uprising against British rule in 1891–1895, alongside Dato Bahaman.
- Mat SallehPersonMat Salleh, or Datu Muhammad Salleh, was a chief of Bajau and Suluk descent from the Sugut river region of northern Borneo who led a rebellion against the British North…
MatadiPlaceMatadi is the chief seaport of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and capital of Kongo Central province, on the Congo River about 150 kilometres from the Atlantic…
Matadi–Kinshasa RailwayWork / monumentThe Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, built from 1890 to 1898 as the Matadi–Léopoldville railway, links the seaport of Matadi to Kinshasa, bypassing the rapids of the lower…
MatagalpaPlaceMatagalpa is a city in the central highlands of Nicaragua and capital of the department of the same name, at the heart of the country's main coffee-growing region.
Matagorda BayPlaceMatagorda Bay is a large bay on the Gulf coast of Texas, sheltered by Matagorda Island and Matagorda Peninsula.- MatalaPlaceMatala is a village and bay on the south coast of Crete, Greece, west of the Mesara plain.
MatanzasPlaceMatanzas is a port city on the northern coast of Cuba, east of Havana, founded by the Spanish in 1693.
Matanzas InletPlaceMatanzas Inlet is a channel linking the Matanzas River to the Atlantic Ocean, about 23 km south of St Augustine, Florida.
MatawaiPeople / groupThe Matawai are a Maroon people of Suriname, descended from Africans who escaped from the plantations in the eighteenth century and settled along the Saramacca River.
Mataʻafa IosefoPersonMataʻafa Iosefo was a Samoan high chief and claimant to the kingship of Samoa in the late 19th century.- MatchlockTermThe matchlock was an early firearm mechanism in which a slow-burning match was lowered onto the priming powder to fire the gun.
Mateo de Toro ZambranoPersonMateo de Toro Zambrano, Count of La Conquista, was a Chilean-born merchant and soldier who served as interim governor of Chile in 1810.
Mathgamain mac CennétigPersonMathgamain mac Cennétig was king of the Dál Cais and, from about 970, king of Munster, the elder brother of Brian Boru.
Mathilde, Abbess of EssenPersonMathilde was abbess of Essen from 973 until her death in 1011.
MathildenhöhePlaceThe Mathildenhöhe is a hill in Darmstadt, Germany, where Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse established the Darmstadt Artists' Colony in 1899.
MathrafalPlaceMathrafal is a site near Meifod in Montgomeryshire, mid-Wales, traditionally the chief court of the kings and princes of Powys from the 9th century.
MathuraPlaceMathura is a city on the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh, India, revered by Hindus as the birthplace of Krishna.
Mathura Lion CapitalWork / monumentThe Mathura Lion Capital is a sandstone column capital carved with two lions, found at Mathura in northern India and now in the British Museum.
Mathurin-Léonard DuphotPersonMathurin-Léonard Duphot was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars who served under Napoleon in Italy.- Mati'iluPersonMati'ilu was the last independent king of Arpad, the Aramaean state of Bit-Agusi in northern Syria, in the mid-8th century BCE.
- Matigan-i Hazar DatistanWork / monumentThe Matigan i Hazar Datistan, or Book of a Thousand Judgements, is a Middle Persian legal compilation from the late Sasanian period.
- Matignon Accords (1988)Treaty · Peace · 1988The Matignon Accords were signed in June 1988 at the Hôtel Matignon in Paris by the French government of Michel Rocard, the Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou…
Matilda I, Countess of BoulognePersonMatilda I, Countess of Boulogne, held the county in her own right from 1125 and, as wife of Stephen of Blois, was queen of England from 1135.
Matilda of England, Duchess of SaxonyPersonMatilda of England was the eldest daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Matilda of FlandersPersonMatilda of Flanders was the daughter of Baldwin V, count of Flanders, and the wife of William the Conqueror, whom she married around 1051.
Matilda of HainautPersonMatilda of Hainaut was princess of Achaea from 1313 to 1318, the daughter of Isabella of Villehardouin and Florent of Hainaut and the last of the Villehardouin line.
Matilda of RingelheimPersonMatilda of Ringelheim was the wife of Henry the Fowler, king of East Francia, and mother of Emperor Otto I.
Matilda of TuscanyPersonMatilda of Canossa was margravine of Tuscany and ruler of wide lands in northern Italy, including Modena, Reggio, Mantua and Ferrara.
Matins of BrugesRevolt · 18 May 1302The Matins of Bruges was the uprising in Bruges before dawn on 18 May 1302 in which Flemish townsmen led by Pieter de Coninck and Jan Breydel massacred the French…- MatopePersonMatope was an early ruler of the Mutapa Empire, successor of its founder Mutota, in the fifteenth century.
Matopos HillsPlaceThe Matopos Hills, or Matobo Hills, are a granite landscape south of Bulawayo in present-day Zimbabwe.- Matrilineal descentReligion / ideaMatrilineal descent is a system in which kinship, inheritance and succession are traced through the mother's line.
Matsu IslandsPlaceThe Matsu Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Fujian in mainland China, governed by the Republic of China (Taiwan) as Lienchiang County.
Matsuda MichiyukiPersonMatsuda Michiyuki was a Japanese official of the Meiji government who carried out the annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom, an event known as the Ryukyu Disposition.
Matsudaira HarusatoPersonMatsudaira Harusato was the seventh lord of the Matsue domain in Izumo, better known by his tea name Fumai.
Matsudaira KatamoriPersonMatsudaira Katamori was the last lord of the Aizu domain.- Matsudaira NaomasaPersonMatsudaira Naomasa was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu and son of Yuki Hideyasu.
Matsudaira SadaakiPersonMatsudaira Sadaaki was the last lord of the Kuwana domain.
Matsudaira TadanaoPersonMatsudaira Tadanao was the second lord of the Fukui domain in Echizen, a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu and son of Yuki Hideyasu.- Matsudaira YorishigePersonMatsudaira Yorishige was the first lord of the Takamatsu domain in Sanuki, a son of Tokugawa Yorifusa of Mito and elder brother of Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
- Matsudaira YoritakaPersonMatsudaira Yoritaka was a lord of the Takamatsu domain in Sanuki in the mid-18th century.
Matsudaira YoshinagaPersonMatsudaira Yoshinaga, known as Shungaku, was lord of the Fukui domain and a leading reformer of the late Edo period.
MatsuePlaceMatsue is a city in western Japan and the capital of Shimane Prefecture, between Lake Shinji and Lake Nakaumi.
Matsumae CastleWork / monumentMatsumae Castle, also called Fukuyama Castle, stands in the town of Matsumae in southern Hokkaido, Japan.- Matsumae YoshihiroPersonMatsumae Yoshihiro was a Japanese lord of the Kakizaki family, which controlled southern Hokkaido, then called Ezo.
Matsunaga HisahidePersonMatsunaga Hisahide was a Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period who rose in the service of Miyoshi Nagayoshi to become one of the most powerful men in the Kinai.
Matsuo BashoPersonMatsuo Basho was a Japanese poet of the seventeenth century, regarded as the greatest master of haiku.
Matsya UnionStateThe Matsya Union was a short-lived state of the Indian Union formed on 18 March 1948 by merging the princely states of Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karauli in eastern…- MattamayuraPeople / groupThe Mattamayura order was a Shaiva Siddhanta monastic lineage of medieval central India, named after its first monastic centre.
MattathiasPersonMattathias was a Jewish priest of Modein who, according to the First Book of Maccabees, began the revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in 167 BCE by killing a…
Mattavilasa PrahasanaWork / monumentMattavilasa Prahasana, 'The Farce of Drunken Sport', is a one-act Sanskrit comedy written in the early seventh century by the Pallava king Mahendravarman I.
Matteo I ViscontiPersonMatteo I Visconti was lord of Milan and the real founder of the Visconti state.
Matteo Maria BoiardoPersonMatteo Maria Boiardo was an Italian poet and courtier at Ferrara under Duke Ercole I d'Este.- Matter of BritainWork / monumentThe Matter of Britain is the body of medieval legend about the early history of Britain, above all King Arthur and his knights, Merlin and the Holy Grail.
MatterhornPlaceThe Matterhorn is a pyramid-shaped mountain of the Alps, 4,478 metres high, on the border between Switzerland and Italy above Zermatt.- Matthäus AlberPersonMatthäus Alber was a Lutheran reformer known as the Luther of Swabia.
Matthäus SchinerPersonMatthäus Schiner was a Swiss cardinal and statesman, bishop of Sion from 1499.
Matthew Baillie BegbiePersonMatthew Baillie Begbie was an English-born lawyer who became the first judge of the colony of British Columbia in 1858.
Matthew C. PerryPersonMatthew C.
Matthew III CsákPersonMatthew III Csák was a Hungarian magnate who built a vast domain in the north-west of the kingdom, largely in present-day Slovakia, as royal power collapsed around 1300.- Matthew OrsiniPersonMatthew Orsini was the founder of the Orsini county palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea.
Matthias CorvinusPersonMatthias Corvinus, son of John Hunyadi, was elected king of Hungary in 1458.
Matthias von JagowPersonMatthias von Jagow was the last Catholic Bishop of Brandenburg, from 1526 to 1544.
Matthias, Holy Roman EmperorPersonMatthias was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 to 1619 and King of Hungary and Bohemia, a son of Emperor Maximilian II.
MattiumPlaceMattium was the chief settlement of the Chatti, a Germanic people of what is now northern Hesse.
Matvei PlatovPersonMatvei Platov was a Cossack general who served as ataman of the Don Cossack Host from 1801 until his death.
Mátyás RákosiPersonMátyás Rákosi was the leader of the Hungarian communists who dominated Hungary after the Second World War.
Mau Mau rebellionRevolt · 1952–1960The Mau Mau rebellion was an armed uprising in colonial Kenya, mainly among the Kikuyu, against British rule and European settlement on African land.- Mau movementReligion / ideaThe Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan self-government.
MaubeugePlaceMaubeuge is a town on the Sambre in the Nord department of northern France, formerly part of the County of Hainaut.
MauesPersonMaues was the first major Indo-Scythian king in India, ruling in the early 1st century BCE.
MauiPlaceMaui is the second-largest island of Hawaii, formed by two volcanoes joined by an isthmus, with the summit of Haleakalā in the east.- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Arabic Persian Research InstituteInstitutionThe Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Arabic Persian Research Institute is a manuscript library and research centre at Tonk in Rajasthan, India, established by the state…
Maulana HasanuddinPersonMaulana Hasanuddin was the first ruler of the Banten Sultanate in western Java.- Maulana YusufPersonMaulana Yusuf was the second Sultan of Banten in western Java, ruling from 1570 to 1580.
Maule RiverPlaceThe Maule is a river of central Chile that flows from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean at Constitución.- Maumoon Abdul GayoomPersonMaumoon Abdul Gayoom was president of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008, the longest-serving leader in the country's history.
- MaunPlaceMaun is a town in north-western Botswana, on the Thamalakane river at the south-eastern edge of the Okavango Delta.
MaupitiPlaceMaupiti is the westernmost high island of the Leeward Society Islands in French Polynesia, a small volcanic island surrounded by a lagoon and low coral islets, about 40…
MaurenPlaceMauren is a municipality in the Unterland of Liechtenstein, near the Austrian border.
Mauretania SitifensisPlaceMauretania Sitifensis was a Roman province in north-eastern Algeria, created under Diocletian around 300 CE by dividing off the eastern part of Mauretania Caesariensis.
MauriPeople / groupThe Mauri were the ancient Berber people of north-western Africa, in what is now northern Morocco and western Algeria, from whom the names Mauretania and Moors derive.- Maurice (emperor)PersonMaurice was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 582 until 602.
Maurice BishopPersonMaurice Bishop was a Grenadian lawyer and leader of the New Jewel Movement, which overthrew Eric Gairy on 13 March 1979.
Maurice Bishop International AirportWork / monumentMaurice Bishop International Airport, formerly Point Salines International Airport, is the main airport of Grenada, at the south-western tip of the island.
Maurice DunandPersonMaurice Dunand was a French archaeologist who directed the excavations at Byblos in Lebanon for about half a century from 1925.
Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of LanstephanPersonMaurice FitzGerald was a Cambro-Norman lord, son of Gerald of Windsor and the Welsh princess Nest, who came to Ireland in 1169 as one of the first leaders of the…- Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of DesmondPersonMaurice FitzThomas FitzGerald was an Anglo-Norman magnate in Munster, created Earl of Desmond in 1329 with palatine rights over Kerry.
- Maurice FrydmanPersonMaurice Frydman was a Polish-born engineer and spiritual writer who settled in India in the 1930s, where he became a follower of Gandhi and of Ramana Maharshi and took…