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MostaganemPlaceMostaganem is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of western Algeria, east of Oran.
MostarPlaceMostar is the largest city of Herzegovina, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Neretva river.
MosulPlaceMosul is a city on the Tigris in northern Iraq, opposite the ruins of ancient Nineveh.
Mot (god)Religion / ideaMot is the god of death in the religion of Ugarit and Canaan, whose name means death.
Motagua RiverPlaceThe Motagua is the longest river of Guatemala, flowing about 486 kilometres from the western highlands to the Gulf of Honduras on the Caribbean.
Mothers of the Plaza de MayoPeople / groupThe Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are an Argentine association of mothers of people who disappeared under the military dictatorship.- Moti Singh of PoonchPersonMoti Singh of Poonch was the first raja of Poonch, a hill principality in the western Pir Panjal subordinate to Jammu and Kashmir.
Motobu PeninsulaPlaceThe Motobu Peninsula is a hilly peninsula on the north-western coast of Okinawa Island, Japan.- Motronynskyi MonasteryInstitutionThe Motronynskyi Holy Trinity Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in the Kholodny Yar forest near Chyhyryn in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine.
Mōtsū-jiWork / monumentMōtsū-ji is a Tendai Buddhist temple at Hiraizumi in Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, founded according to tradition in 850 and rebuilt on a grand scale by Fujiwara no…
MotupalliPlaceMotupalli is a coastal village in Andhra Pradesh, India, that was a major seaport of the Kakatiya dynasty and later of the Reddi kingdom.
Motya CharioteerWork / monumentThe Motya Charioteer is a marble statue of a young man in a long, finely pleated tunic, found in 1979 on the island of Motya off western Sicily.- Moulay Ali al-SharifPersonMoulay Ali al-Sharif was a sharif of Tafilalt in south-eastern Morocco who was proclaimed leader there around 1631, as the Saadi Sultanate disintegrated.
Moulay IsmailPersonMoulay Ismail was sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727, the second ruler of the Alaouite dynasty.
MoulinsPlaceMoulins is a town on the Allier river in central France, capital of the Allier department.
Moulouya RiverPlaceThe Moulouya is a river of north-eastern Morocco, about 520 kilometres long, that rises in the Middle Atlas and flows north into the Mediterranean near the Algerian…
Mound KeyPlaceMound Key is an island in Estero Bay on the south-west coast of Florida, built up largely of shell mounds by the Calusa.
Mount AbuPlaceMount Abu is the highest peak of the Aravalli Range, in the south of Rajasthan near the Gujarat border.- Mount AlgidusPlaceMount Algidus (Algidus Mons) is the eastern ridge of the Alban Hills south-east of Rome, crossed by the pass between the Latin plain and the valleys of the interior.
Mount AragatsPlaceMount Aragats is the highest mountain in Armenia, an extinct volcano rising to 4,090 metres north-west of Yerevan.
Mount AraratPlaceMount Ararat is a high volcanic mountain in eastern Anatolia, near the borders of present-day Turkey, Armenia and Iran.
Mount AthosPlaceMount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northern Greece, the easternmost of the three prongs of Chalcidice, and the site of an Orthodox monastic community governed…
Mount BattenPlaceMount Batten is a small peninsula on the eastern side of Plymouth Sound in Devon, England.- Mount BatukaruPlaceMount Batukaru is a volcano in western Bali, Indonesia, and the second-highest peak on the island, at about 2,276 metres.
Mount BischoffPlaceMount Bischoff is a mountain in north-western Tasmania near the town of Waratah.
Mount CameroonPlaceMount Cameroon is an active volcano near the coast of south-western Cameroon and the highest mountain in West and Central Africa.
Mount CarmelPlaceMount Carmel is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel, rising above the city of Haifa and the Mediterranean.
Mount CithaeronPlaceMount Cithaeron is a mountain range in central Greece, about 1,400 metres high, forming the border between Boeotia and Attica.
Mount DamavandPlaceMount Damavand is a dormant volcano in the Alborz range of northern Iran, about 5,610 metres high and the highest peak in Iran.
Mount EbalPlaceMount Ebal is a mountain north of Nablus in the West Bank, facing Mount Gerizim across the valley of ancient Shechem.
Mount ErciyesPlaceMount Erciyes, the ancient Mount Argaeus, is a dormant volcano south of Kayseri in central Anatolia, Turkey, and at 3,917 metres the highest mountain in the region.
Mount EtnaPlaceMount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily and the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps, about 3,300 metres high.
Mount EverestPlaceMount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, rising to about 8,849 metres in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet region of China.
Mount FujiPlaceMount Fuji is an active stratovolcano on Honshu and, at 3,776 metres, the highest mountain in Japan.
Mount GerizimPlaceMount Gerizim is a mountain beside Nablus in the West Bank, facing Mount Ebal across the pass where ancient Shechem stood.
Mount HeliconPlaceMount Helicon is a mountain in Boeotia, central Greece, rising to about 1,750 metres between Lake Copais and the Gulf of Corinth.
Mount HermonPlaceMount Hermon is a mountain cluster on the border of Syria and Lebanon, its highest summit reaching about 2,814 metres.
Mount HieiPlaceMount Hiei is a mountain of 848 metres on the border of Kyoto and Shiga prefectures in Japan, overlooking Kyoto and Lake Biwa.
Mount Ida (Crete)PlaceMount Ida, also called Psiloritis, is the highest mountain of Crete, rising to 2,456 metres in the centre of the island.
Mount IthomePlaceMount Ithome is a mountain of about 800 metres in Messenia, in the south-western Peloponnese of Greece.
Mount KailashPlaceMount Kailash is a peak of 6,638 metres in the Transhimalaya of Ngari, western Tibet.
Mount KilimanjaroPlaceMount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in north-eastern Tanzania near the Kenyan border and, at 5,895 metres, the highest mountain in Africa.
Mount LebanonPlaceMount Lebanon is a mountain range running parallel to the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon, and the name of the historic region in its highlands.
Mount LiPlaceMount Li (Lishan) is a mountain near Xi'an in Shaanxi, China, with hot springs at its northern foot.
Mount LuPlaceMount Lu (Lushan) is a mountain range in northern Jiangxi, China, near Jiujiang and Poyang Lake.- Mount LyellPlaceMount Lyell is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Tasmania, near Queenstown.
Mount LykaionPlaceMount Lykaion is a mountain in south-western Arcadia in the Peloponnese, rising to about 1,400 metres.- Mount MahendraparvataPlaceMount Mahendraparvata is a sacred mountain plateau in Cambodia, now known as Phnom Kulen.
- Mount MaoPlaceMount Mao (Maoshan) is a mountain in southern Jiangsu, China, south-east of Nanjing, sacred in Daoism.
Mount MerapiPlaceMount Merapi is an active volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, north of Yogyakarta, and one of the most active in the world.- Mount MithridatesPlaceMount Mithridates is a hill in the centre of Kerch in eastern Crimea, the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Panticapaeum, capital of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Mount Morgan, QueenslandPlaceMount Morgan is a town in central Queensland, Australia, south-west of Rockhampton, which grew around one of the world's richest gold mines.
Mount MughPlaceMount Mugh is a hill in the upper Zeravshan valley of Tajikistan where Divashtich, ruler of Panjikent, made his last stand against the Umayyad Arabs before his capture…
Mount MycalePlaceMount Mycale is a mountain on the west coast of Anatolia, opposite the island of Samos.
Mount NemrutPlaceMount Nemrut is a 2,134-metre mountain in south-eastern Turkey, near Adıyaman, crowned by the tomb sanctuary of Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, built in the 1st century…
Mount OchiPlaceMount Ochi is the highest mountain of southern Euboea in Greece, rising above the town of Karystos.
Mount PaektuPlaceMount Paektu is a volcanic mountain on the border between North Korea and China, at 2,744 metres the highest peak in the Korean peninsula, with the crater lake Heaven…
Mount PagusPlaceMount Pagus, now Kadifekale, is the hill above the harbour of İzmir in western Turkey.
Mount PangaionPlaceMount Pangaion is a mountain range in eastern Macedonia, Greece, between the Strymon river and the plain of Drama.
Mount ParnassusPlaceMount Parnassus is a limestone mountain in central Greece, above the Gulf of Corinth.
Mount PeléePlaceMount Pelée is an active volcano at the northern end of Martinique in the French Antilles.
Mount PenanggunganPlaceMount Penanggungan is a dormant volcano in East Java, Indonesia, rising to about 1,650 metres.- Mount PhilerimosPlaceMount Philerimos is a hill on the north-west coast of Rhodes, Greece, above the site of ancient Ialysos.
Mount PilgrimPlaceMount Pilgrim (Mons Peregrinus) was the castle that Raymond of Saint-Gilles built from 1103 on a hill outside Tripoli in Lebanon while besieging the city.- Mount QiPlaceMount Qi (Qishan) is a mountain in western Shaanxi, China, above the plain of Zhouyuan, the early homeland of the Zhou people.
Mount SinaiPlaceMount Sinai is a mountain of about 2,285 metres in the south of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, traditionally identified as the biblical mountain where Moses received the…
Mount TaiPlaceMount Tai is a mountain in Shandong, eastern China, rising to about 1,530 metres, the most revered of China's five sacred peaks.
Mount TamboraPlaceMount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia.
Mount TaygetusPlaceMount Taygetus is a mountain range in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, rising to about 2,400 metres and separating Laconia from Messenia.
Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicStateThe Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR in the North Caucasus, created in January 1921 with its capital at…
The Mountain WreathWork / monumentThe Mountain Wreath is a verse drama by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, prince-bishop of Montenegro, published in Vienna in 1847.
Mountainous Republic of the Northern CaucasusStateThe Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was a state formed by the mountain peoples of the North Caucasus, including Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis and…- Mounted archerTermA mounted archer is a cavalry soldier who shoots arrows from horseback.
The MounthPlaceThe Mounth is the range of hills forming the eastern end of the Grampian Mountains in Scotland, running from the Cairngorms towards the coast near Stonehaven.
Mountstuart ElphinstonePersonMountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish administrator of the East India Company.- Mouride brotherhoodPeople / groupThe Mouride brotherhood is a Sufi order founded in Senegal in 1883 by Amadou Bamba, with its holy city at Touba.
MouseionInstitutionThe Mouseion was a research institution founded in Alexandria under the early Ptolemaic kings, dedicated to the Muses.
Moussa ag AmastanPersonMoussa ag Amastan was amenokal, or paramount chief, of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg of the central Sahara from 1905 until his death in 1920.
Moutier-Grandval AbbeyInstitutionMoutier-Grandval Abbey was a monastery founded around 640 at Moutier in the Jura mountains of modern Switzerland.- Movable typeTermMovable type is a printing system using individual, reusable characters that can be arranged to form texts.
Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)People / groupThe Movement for Socialism (MAS) is a Bolivian left-wing party that grew out of the coca growers' unions of the Chapare and was led by Evo Morales.
Movilla AbbeyInstitutionMovilla Abbey was a monastery at Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland, founded around 540 by Saint Finnian of Movilla.- Movses KaghankatvatsiPersonMovses Kaghankatvatsi is the name traditionally given to the author of the History of the Country of Albania, the main narrative source for Caucasian Albania.
MoynaqPlaceMoynaq is a town in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, that was once a fishing port on the southern shore of the Aral Sea.
MozabitesPeople / groupThe Mozabites are a Berber people of the Mzab valley in the Algerian Sahara, followers of the Ibadi branch of Islam.
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah QajarPersonMozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was shah of Iran from 1896 to 1907, succeeding his assassinated father Naser al-Din Shah.
MozambiquePlaceMozambique is a country on the coast of south-eastern Africa.
Mozambique IslandPlaceMozambique Island is a small coral island off the northern coast of Mozambique, once a Swahili trading town ruled by a sheikh.
MozarabsPeople / groupThe Mozarabs were Christians who lived under Muslim rule in al-Andalus, adopting Arabic language and culture while keeping their faith.- MozdokPlaceMozdok is a town in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, on the Terek River.
MozhayskPlaceMozhaysk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, on the upper Moskva river about 110 km west of Moscow.
MpandePersonMpande kaSenzangakhona was king of the Zulu from 1840 to 1872, a half-brother of Shaka and Dingane.- MpangazithaPersonMpangazitha was a chief of the Hlubi, a Nguni people living near the upper Mzinyathi river in what is now KwaZulu-Natal.
- Mpanzu a KitimaPersonMpanzu a Kitima was a Kongolese prince who contested the succession to King João I of Kongo in 1509 against his half-brother Afonso.
- MpembaPlaceMpemba was one of the principal provinces of the Kingdom of Kongo in west-central Africa, lying in the heart of the kingdom south of the capital, Mbanza Kongo.
- MphephuPersonMphephu was a king of the Venda in the Soutpansberg, successor of Makhado from 1895.
MpondoPeople / groupThe Mpondo are a Xhosa-speaking Nguni people of the north-eastern Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the region historically called Pondoland, between the Mthatha and…
MpondomisePeople / groupThe Mpondomise are a Xhosa-speaking southern Nguni people of the Eastern Cape in South Africa, living around Tsolo and Qumbu.- MpongwePeople / groupThe Mpongwe are a Myene-speaking people of the Gabon estuary in western Gabon.
- Mpu BharadaPersonMpu Bharada was a Buddhist sage of 11th-century Java remembered in the Nagarakretagama and later Javanese tradition.