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MulavarmanPersonMulavarman was a king of Kutai in eastern Borneo around the late 4th or early 5th century, the grandson of Kudungga.- Mulay HasanPersonMulay Hasan was a Hafsid sultan of Tunis who came to the throne in 1526.
MuldePlaceThe Mulde is a river in eastern Germany, formed by the junction of the Zwickauer Mulde and the Freiberger Mulde in Saxony.- Mulena MukwaeTermThe Mulena Mukwae is the title of the royal princess who rules the southern part of Barotseland from Nalolo, under the Litunga, the Lozi king, who rules from the north.
MulinuʻuPlaceMulinuʻu is a low peninsula on the western side of Apia harbour on Upolu, Samoa.
Mull of KintyrePlaceThe Mull of Kintyre is the south-western tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll, western Scotland.- Mulla IlyasPersonMulla Ilyas, known as Akhund Baba, was a 17th-century Pashtun religious leader of the Yusufzai Painda Khel in the Dir region of north-western Pakistan.
- Mullah Mohammad OmarPersonMullah Mohammad Omar was the founder and supreme leader of the Taliban, which arose among religious students in Kandahar in 1994.
- MulopweInstitutionMulopwe was the title of the sacred king of the Luba Empire.
MultanPlaceMultan is an ancient city in the southern Punjab, in present-day Pakistan.
MultatuliPersonMultatuli was the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker, a Dutch writer who served as a colonial official in the Dutch East Indies.- Multi-ethnic integrationHistorical factorMulti-ethnic integration is the recurring pattern by which empires incorporated diverse peoples into their armies, administrations and elites.
- Multi-Party Negotiating ForumEventThe Multi-Party Negotiating Forum was the body that negotiated the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1993, after the breakdown of CODESA.
- Muluki AinWork / monumentThe Muluki Ain is the national legal code of Nepal issued in 1854 under the Rana prime minister Jang Bahadur Rana.
Mumadona DiasPersonMumadona Dias was a Galician-Portuguese noblewoman who governed the County of Portugal in the mid-10th century after the death of her husband, Count Hermenegildo…
MumbaiPlaceMumbai, formerly Bombay, is the capital of Maharashtra and the largest city of India, built on a group of islands on the west coast.- MumiasPlaceMumias is a town in Kakamega County, western Kenya, near the Nzoia River.
MumuyePeople / groupThe Mumuye are a people of Taraba State in north-eastern Nigeria, speaking an Adamawa language.- Mun of BalhaePersonMun, personal name Dae Heummu, was the third king of Balhae, reigning from 737 to 793.
Munda peoplePeople / groupThe Munda are an Adivasi people of eastern India, living mainly in Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, who speak Mundari, a language of the Austroasiatic family.- al-Mundhir ibn al-HarithPersonal-Mundhir ibn al-Harith was king of the Ghassanids from 569, succeeding his father al-Harith ibn Jabala as the Byzantine Empire's chief Arab ally.
Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'manPersonAl-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man was the most powerful king of the Lakhmids of al-Hira, Arab clients of Sasanian Persia, ruling from about 503 to 554.- Al-Mundhir of CórdobaPersonAl-Mundhir (c. 842–888) was the Umayyad emir of Córdoba from 886 to 888, son of Muhammad I.
MungerPlaceMunger, formerly Monghyr, is a city on the south bank of the Ganges in Bihar, India.- Mungo ParkPersonMungo Park was a Scottish surgeon and explorer who made two journeys into West Africa in search of the course of the Niger.
- Muniadona of CastilePersonMuniadona of Castile (c. 995–1066), also called Mayor, was the daughter of Count Sancho García of Castile and the wife of Sancho III of Navarre.
MunichPlaceMunich is the capital of Bavaria in southern Germany, on the river Isar.
Munich AgreementTreaty · Crisis · 1938The Munich Agreement was concluded on 29–30 September 1938 by Germany, Britain, France and Italy, without Czechoslovakia taking part.
Munich SecessionPeople / groupThe Munich Secession was an association of artists founded in 1892 by painters, among them Franz von Stuck, who broke away from the official Munich Artists' Association…
Munjamyeong of GoguryeoPersonMunjamyeong of Goguryeo, also known as King Munja, ruled Goguryeo from 491 to 519 as the grandson and successor of King Jangsu.- Munjong of GoryeoPersonMunjong of Goryeo was king of Goryeo from 1046 to 1083, a thirty-seven-year reign often seen as the height of the dynasty.
Munmu of SillaPersonMunmu was king of Silla from 661 to 681, son of King Muyeol.- MunuzaPersonMunuza was a Berber governor of the Muslim conquerors of Iberia, based at Gijón in Asturias in the early eighth century.
- MunychiaPlaceMunychia is a steep hill in Piraeus, the port of Athens, with a harbour of the same name below it.
- MunyigumbaPersonMunyigumba was a chief of the Hehe who in the mid-19th century united many small chiefdoms of the southern highlands of present-day Tanzania by conquest and alliance…
- MunzaPersonMunza was a king of the Mangbetu in the Uele region of north-eastern Congo.
- MunzoPlaceMunzo was the site of the royal court established by Kalala Ilunga, the founder of the Luba Empire.
MuqaddimahWork / monumentThe Muqaddimah is the introduction to the universal history of Ibn Khaldun, completed in its first form in 1377.- Muqan QaghanPersonMuqan Qaghan was ruler of the Gokturk Empire from 553 to 572.
- MuqarnasTermMuqarnas is a form of architectural ornament in Islamic architecture consisting of tiers of small niches, creating a honeycomb or stalactite effect in vaults and domes.
- Muqattam HillPlaceThe Muqattam Hill is a range of hills on the eastern edge of Cairo.
- Muqrin ibn ZamilPersonMuqrin ibn Zamil was a ruler of the Jabrid dynasty of eastern Arabia, which held al-Ahsa and the islands of Bahrain.
- MuqtiInstitutionA muqti was a holder of an iqta, a revenue assignment granted to military officers in medieval Islamic states.
- MurPlaceThe Mur (Mura) is a river about 450 kilometres long in central Europe.
- Murad Beg of KunduzPersonMurad Beg was the Qataghan Uzbek chief who built a powerful state from Kunduz in northern Afghanistan in the early 19th century.
Murad GirayPersonMurad Giray was khan of Crimea from 1678 to 1683.
Murad IPersonMurad I was the Ottoman sultan from 1362 to 1389 who made the Ottoman state a major power in the Balkans and Anatolia.
Murad IIPersonMurad II was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1451, with a brief abdication in 1444 to 1446.
Muradid dynastyPeople / groupThe Muradid dynasty ruled Tunisia as hereditary beys under Ottoman suzerainty from 1613 to 1702.
MuranoPlaceMurano is a group of islands in the Venetian lagoon, about 1.5 kilometres north of Venice.- Murashu archiveWork / monumentThe Murashu archive is a collection of about 730 cuneiform tablets of a Babylonian family business, the house of Murashu, found at Nippur in 1893.
Murata SeifūPersonMurata Seifū (1783–1855) was a samurai official of the Chōshū domain who led its Tenpō-era reforms from 1838.
Muravsky TrailPlaceThe Muravsky Trail was the main route used by Crimean Tatar raiders from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century to strike north into Muscovy.
Murchison FallsPlaceMurchison Falls is a waterfall on the Victoria Nile in north-western Uganda, where the river forces its way through a gap only a few metres wide before flowing into…
MurciaPlaceMurcia is a city in south-eastern Spain that formed part of al-Andalus during the medieval Islamic period.
Mureș (river)PlaceThe Mureș, Maros in Hungarian, is a river of Romania and Hungary about 760 kilometres long.
Muri AbbeyInstitutionMuri Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery at Muri in the Swiss canton of Aargau, founded in 1027 by Ita of Lorraine and Count Radbot as the family monastery of the…
MuriaPeople / groupThe Muria are a Gondi-speaking Adivasi people of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India.- MuridunPeople / groupThe Muridun, 'disciples', were the followers of the Sufi teacher Ibn Qasi in the Algarve in south-western al-Andalus.
- Muriq ShpataPersonMuriq Shpata was an Albanian ruler of the Despotate of Arta in north-western Greece, succeeding Gjin Bua Shpata in 1399.
MuromPlaceMurom is a city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, on the left bank of the Oka.
MuromaPeople / groupThe Muroma were a Finnic people of the middle Oka basin, mentioned in the Primary Chronicle among the peoples paying tribute to the Rus'.- Murong BaoPersonMurong Bao was the second emperor of the Xianbei state of Later Yan and son of its founder Murong Chui.
- Murong ChaoPersonMurong Chao was the second and last emperor of Southern Yan, ruling Shandong from 405 to 410.
- Murong ChongPersonMurong Chong was a prince of the deposed Former Yan house who led the Xianbei rising against Former Qin after the Battle of Fei River.
Murong ChuiPersonMurong Chui was a Xianbei prince of the Former Yan who won fame as a general but fled to the Former Qin in 369 to escape court intrigue.
Murong DePersonMurong De was a Xianbei prince, younger brother of Murong Chui of Later Yan, and founder of Southern Yan.- Murong HuangPersonMurong Huang was the Xianbei leader who founded the Former Yan, declaring himself King of Yan in 337.
- Murong HuiPersonMurong Hui was chief of the Murong Xianbei in western Liaoning from 285 to 333.
- Murong JunPersonMurong Jun was the ruler of Former Yan from 348 to 360 and son of Murong Huang.
- Murong KePersonMurong Ke was a prince and general of the Former Yan, son of Murong Huang.
- Murong NuoheboPersonMurong Nuohebo was the last ruler of Tuyuhun, the Xianbei kingdom around Qinghai Lake, reigning as a vassal of the Tang dynasty and married to a Tang princess.
- Murong WeiPersonMurong Wei was the last emperor of Former Yan, succeeding his father Murong Jun as a child in 360.
- Murong XiPersonMurong Xi was the last emperor of Later Yan, ruling from Longcheng in Liaoning from 401 to 407.
- Murong XianbeiPeople / groupThe Murong Xianbei were a branch of the Xianbei nomads who settled in western Liaoning in the 3rd century and adopted farming and Chinese-style government.
- Murong YongPersonMurong Yong was the last ruler of Western Yan, a Xianbei state of the Sixteen Kingdoms period in China.
Murray MacLehosePersonMurray MacLehose was a British diplomat who served as governor of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1982, the longest tenure of any governor.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of ThomondPersonMurrough O'Brien was the last Gaelic king of Thomond in western Ireland.
Murshid Quli KhanPersonMurshid Quli Khan was a Mughal official appointed diwan (revenue minister) of Bengal by Aurangzeb.
MurshidabadPlaceMurshidabad is a city on the Bhagirathi river in West Bengal, India.- Mursili IPersonMursili I was an early king of the Hittites, remembered for his long-distance raid down the Euphrates around 1595 BCE.
- Mursili IIPersonMursili II was King of the Hittites from about 1321 to 1295 BCE, a son of Suppiluliuma I.
Murska SobotaPlaceMurska Sobota is the main town of Prekmurje, the region beyond the Mura river in north-eastern Slovenia, which belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1919.- Murtaza Nizam Shah IPersonMurtaza Nizam Shah I was sultan of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan from 1565 to 1588.
- Murud-JanjiraWork / monumentMurud-Janjira is an island fortress off the town of Murud on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India.
- MurutPeople / groupThe Murut are an Indigenous people of the interior of northern Borneo, mainly in south-western Sabah in Malaysia and neighbouring parts of Sarawak, Kalimantan and Brunei.
- Muryeong of BaekjePersonMuryeong was king of Baekje from 501 to 523 and restored the kingdom's strength after its retreat to Ungjin.
MurzuqPlaceMurzuq is an oasis town in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya.
MuşPlaceMuş, also spelled Mush, is a city in eastern Turkey, capital of Muş Province, on a fertile plain west of Lake Van.- Mus'ab ibn al-ZubayrPersonMus'ab ibn al-Zubayr was a brother of the caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and his governor of Iraq during the Second Fitna.
Musa DaghPlaceMusa Dagh is a mountain on the Mediterranean coast of Hatay province, Turkey, south-west of Antakya.
Musa ibn MusaPersonMusa ibn Musa was the most powerful member of the Banu Qasi, a family of Muwallad lords in the upper Ebro valley.- Musa ibn NusayrPersonMusa ibn Nusayr was the Umayyad governor of Ifriqiya who completed the conquest of North Africa.
- Musa KhanPersonMusa Khan was a leader of the Baro-Bhuyans, the confederacy of landholders in eastern Bengal who resisted Mughal expansion.
- Musa MoloPersonMusa Molo was the ruler of Fuladu, the Fula kingdom of the upper Casamance founded by his father Alfa Molo after the fall of Kaabu.
MusavatPeople / groupMusavat, meaning 'Equality', is an Azerbaijani political party founded in Baku in 1911, which led the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1918–1920 under Mammad Amin…
MusaylimaPersonMusaylima was a seventh-century Arabian leader of the Banu Hanifa who claimed prophethood and led one of the main challenges to Medinan authority after the death of…
MuscatPlaceMuscat is a port city on the coast of Oman, commanding sea routes between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
MuscogeePeople / groupThe Muscogee, or Creek, are a Native American people of the south-eastern United States, whose towns in present-day Alabama and Georgia formed a powerful confederacy in…- Muscovite–Lithuanian War (1500–1503)War · 1500–1503The Muscovite–Lithuanian War of 1500–1503 was fought between Ivan III of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Alexander Jagiellon, after border princes changed…