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Mamankam festivalEventThe Mamankam was a great festival held every twelve years on the banks of the Bharathappuzha at Thirunavaya in Kerala.- MambariPeople / groupThe Mambari were traders from the Ovimbundu kingdoms of the central highlands of Angola, and people of mixed Portuguese and African descent, who travelled inland to the…
- Mamercus Aemilius MamercinusPersonMamercus Aemilius Mamercinus was a Roman statesman who was appointed dictator three times, in 437, 434 and 426 BCE.
- Mamia III GurieliPersonMamia III Gurieli was Prince of Guria in western Georgia from 1689 until his death in 1714.
- Mamia V GurieliPersonMamia V Gurieli was Prince of Guria in western Georgia from 1797 until his death in 1826.
- Mamikonian dynastyPeople / groupThe Mamikonian family was one of the most powerful noble houses of ancient and early medieval Armenia, holding the hereditary office of commander-in-chief (sparapet)…
- Mamilia gensPeople / groupThe Mamilia gens was a family of Tusculum in Latium that later became part of the Roman nobility.
MamlukInstitutionA mamluk was an enslaved soldier, usually of Turkic or Caucasian origin, bought and trained for military service in Islamic states.- Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)StateThe Mamluk dynasty, also called the Slave Dynasty, was the first ruling line of the Delhi Sultanate, from 1206 to 1290.
Mamluk SultanateStateThe Mamluk Sultanate was a state ruled by mamluk soldier elites in Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517.
Mammad Amin RasulzadePersonMammad Amin Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani politician and writer, leader of the Musavat party and chairman of the national council that proclaimed the Azerbaijan…- MamprusiPeople / groupThe Mamprusi are a people of northern Ghana and northern Togo who speak Mampruli, a Gur language of the Mole-Dagbani group.
- Mampuru IIPersonMampuru II was a claimant to the throne of the Pedi kingdom in present-day Limpopo, South Africa, and the rival of his half-brother Sekhukhune I.
- Man Mandir PalaceWork / monumentThe Man Mandir Palace stands inside Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh, India, and was built by the Tomara king Man Singh Tomar between about 1486 and 1516.
Man Singh IPersonMan Singh I was the Kachhwaha Raja of Amber and one of the leading generals of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
Man Singh II of JaipurPersonMan Singh II was the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur, from 1922 to 1949.
Man Singh TomarPersonMan Singh Tomar was the Tomara ruler of Gwalior from 1486 to 1516 and the most celebrated of his line.- Manabendra ShahPersonManabendra Shah was the last Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal, ruling from 1946 to 1949.
Manabí ProvincePlaceManabí is a province on the central Pacific coast of Ecuador, with Portoviejo as its capital and Manta as its main port.
Manadeva IPersonManadeva I was a king of the Licchavi dynasty of Nepal, the first ruler of the Kathmandu Valley known from dated contemporary inscriptions.
ManadoPlaceManado is the capital of North Sulawesi province in Indonesia, a port at the northern tip of Sulawesi.
ManaguaPlaceManagua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, on the southern shore of Lake Managua.
ManakuPersonManaku was an Indian painter of the Pahari school from Guler in the Himalayan foothills, the elder son of the painter Pandit Seu.
ManamaPlaceManama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, on the north-east coast of Bahrain Island.- Manapa-TarhuntaPersonManapa-Tarhunta was a king of the Seha River Land in western Anatolia in the late 14th and early 13th centuries BCE.
Manas RiverPlaceThe Manas is a transboundary river of the eastern Himalayan foothills that flows from Bhutan south into Assam, India, where it joins the Brahmaputra.- ManasollasaWork / monumentThe Manasollasa is a Sanskrit encyclopaedic work compiled in 1129 under the Western Chalukya king Someshvara III.
Manasseh of JudahPersonManasseh was king of Judah for about half a century in the 7th century BCE, the son of Hezekiah.
Manasses ChronicleWork / monumentThe Manasses Chronicle is a verse world history written by the Byzantine author Constantine Manasses in the twelfth century.- ManavadarPlaceManavadar is a town in Junagadh district of Gujarat, India.
- ManavannaPersonManavanna, also called Manavamma, was a Sri Lankan prince who spent years in exile at the Pallava court of Kanchipuram.
Manaw GododdinPlaceManaw Gododdin was a district of the Brittonic kingdom of the Gododdin around the head of the Firth of Forth in early medieval Scotland.
ManbijPlaceManbij is a city in northern Syria, north-east of Aleppo and west of the Euphrates.- Manchu-Han dyarchyReligion / ideaThe Manchu-Han dyarchy was the practice in the Qing Empire of appointing both a Manchu and a Han Chinese official to many senior posts.
ManchukuoStateManchukuo was a puppet state established by the Empire of Japan in Manchuria in 1932, after the Mukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of the region.
ManchuriaPlaceManchuria is a region of north-east China, bordering Korea and Russia.
ManchusPeople / groupThe Manchus are a people of north-east Asia descended from the Jurchens of Manchuria.
Manco CapacPersonManco Capac is the legendary founder of the Inca dynasty and of the city of Cusco.
Manco IncaPersonManco Inca was a son of Huayna Capac whom Francisco Pizarro installed as Inca ruler in 1533.- Mandal CommissionInstitutionThe Mandal Commission was a body set up by the Janata government of India in 1979 under B. P. Mandal to identify the socially and educationally backward classes.
Mandala (political model)Religion / ideaThe mandala political model is a scholarly concept describing states in pre-modern South-East Asia as circles of power radiating from a central ruler.
MandalayPlaceMandalay is the second-largest city of Myanmar, on the east bank of the Irrawaddy in Upper Burma.- MandalgarhPlaceMandalgarh is a hill fort and town in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, on the plateau north-east of Chittor.
Mandarin ChineseTermMandarin Chinese is the largest group of Chinese dialects, spoken across northern and south-western China, and the basis of Standard Chinese, the official language of…
Mandate of HeavenReligion / ideaThe Mandate of Heaven, tianming in Chinese, is the doctrine that Heaven grants the right to rule to a virtuous ruler and withdraws it from a wicked or incompetent one.- Mande peoplesPeople / groupThe Mande peoples are a family of ethnic groups of West Africa who speak Mande languages, among them the Malinke, Bambara, Soninke, Dyula and Mende.
Mandelieu-la-NapoulePlaceMandelieu-la-Napoule is a town on the French Riviera in the Alpes-Maritimes department, just west of Cannes at the mouth of the Siagne.- MandingPlaceManding, or Manden, is the historical heartland of the Mandinka people on the upper Niger, on the border of modern Mali and Guinea, around Kangaba and Niani.
- MandinkaPeople / groupThe Mandinka are a West African people of the Mande group, living mainly in present-day Mali, Guinea, Senegal and the Gambia.
MandlaPlaceMandla is a town on the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh, India, and the headquarters of Mandla district.
MandoniusPersonMandonius was a chief of the Ilergetes, an Iberian people of north-eastern Spain, who led them with his brother Indibilis during the Second Punic War.- Mandor affairEventThe Mandor affair was a series of mass killings carried out by the Japanese occupation forces in West Kalimantan in 1943 and 1944.
MandorePlaceMandore, anciently Mandavyapura, is a historic town a few kilometres north of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India.
MandsaurPlaceMandsaur is a city in the Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh, India.- ManduPlaceMandu is a ruined fortress city on a plateau of the Vindhya range in Madhya Pradesh, India.
- MandubraciusPersonMandubracius was a prince of the Trinovantes in south-eastern Britain whose father had been killed by Cassivellaunus.
Mandume ya NdemufayoPersonMandume ya Ndemufayo was the last independent king of the Kwanyama, an Ovambo people living across the border of southern Angola and northern Namibia, reigning from 1911.
ManduriaPlaceManduria is a town in the province of Taranto in Apulia, southern Italy.- Mandvi, KutchPlaceMandvi is a port town in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, on the Gulf of Kutch at the mouth of the Rukmavati river.
ManendragarhPlaceManendragarh is a town in northern Chhattisgarh, India, near the border with Madhya Pradesh, in the area of the former princely state of Korea, or Koriya.
ManethoPersonManetho was an Egyptian priest of Sebennytos in the Nile Delta who wrote a history of Egypt in Greek, the Aegyptiaca, under the early Ptolemies in the 3rd century BCE.
Manfred, King of SicilyPersonManfred was a son of Emperor Frederick II and king of Sicily from 1258 to 1266.
Manfredo FantiPersonManfredo Fanti was an Italian general of the Risorgimento, born in the Duchy of Modena.
MangaiaPlaceMangaia is the southernmost of the Cook Islands, an ancient volcanic island ringed by a raised coral cliff called the makatea.- MangaleshaPersonMangalesha was king of the Chalukyas of Badami from about 592 to 610, ruling after his brother Kirtivarman I.
MangalorePlaceMangalore (Mangaluru) is a port city on the coast of Karnataka, south-western India, at the mouth of the Netravati and Gurupura rivers.- ManganjaPeople / groupThe Manganja, or Mang'anja, are a Chewa-related people of the Shire valley and highlands of southern Malawi.
MangarevaPlaceMangareva is the largest of the Gambier Islands in the far south-east of French Polynesia.- Manghit dynastyPeople / groupThe Manghits were an Uzbek tribe whose chiefs ruled Bukhara from the mid-18th century until 1920.
ManghudPeople / groupThe Manghud, or Mangit, were a Mongol tribe that became Turkic-speaking in the Golden Horde.
Mangkunegara IPersonMangkunegara I, born Raden Mas Said and known as Pangeran Sambernyawa, was a Javanese prince of the house of Mataram who fought the Dutch East India Company and the…
Mangkunegara IVPersonMangkunegara IV was prince of the Mangkunegaran principality in Surakarta, Java, from 1853 to 1881.
Mangkunegara VIIPersonMangkunegara VII was prince of the Mangkunegaran principality in Surakarta from 1916 to 1944.
Mangoky RiverPlaceThe Mangoky is a river in south-western Madagascar, one of the longest on the island at over 500 kilometres.
MangraiPersonMangrai was the founder of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na.- MangraisatWork / monumentThe Mangraisat is a law code of Lan Na attributed to Mangrai, founder of Chiang Mai, though it survives only in later manuscripts and how much dates from his reign is…
ManhattanPlaceManhattan is an island at the mouth of the Hudson River and the central borough of New York City.
Manhattan ProjectEventThe Manhattan Project was the programme led by the United States, with British and Canadian participation, that developed the first atomic bombs during the Second World…- ManiPersonMani was a Persian prophet of the third century CE and founder of Manichaeism.
- ManiakhPersonManiakh was a Sogdian merchant and diplomat in the service of the Turkic Khaganate.
Manica, MozambiquePlaceManica, formerly Macequece, is a town in western Mozambique near the border with Zimbabwe.
ManichaeismReligion / ideaManichaeism was a religion founded by the prophet Mani in the third century CE, teaching a dualism of light and darkness.
Manie MaritzPersonManie Maritz was a Boer general who led the Maritz Rebellion of 1914.
Manifestis probatumWork / monumentManifestis probatum is the papal bull issued by Pope Alexander III on 23 May 1179 that recognised Afonso I (Afonso Henriques) as king of Portugal and the kingdom as a…- Manifesto of the Algerian PeopleWork / monumentThe Manifesto of the Algerian People was a declaration drawn up by Ferhat Abbas and presented to the French authorities in February 1943, after the Allied landings in…
- ManigramamPeople / groupThe Manigramam was a merchant guild of medieval South India, recorded in inscriptions from the eighth century onwards.
ManikongoInstitutionManikongo was the title of the king of the Kingdom of Kongo.
Manikya dynastyPeople / groupThe Manikya dynasty ruled the kingdom of Tripura in north-eastern India from about the early 15th century until 1949, one of the longest-lasting royal lines of South…
Manikya Lal VarmaPersonManikya Lal Varma was an Indian independence activist from Mewar and a leader of the praja mandal movement in the princely states of Rajputana.
ManilaPlaceManila is the capital of the Philippines, on Manila Bay in Luzon.
Manila galleonInstitutionThe Manila galleon was the Spanish trade route across the Pacific between Manila and Acapulco, in operation from 1565 to 1815.- ManillaTermA manilla was a horseshoe-shaped bracelet of copper or brass used as currency in West Africa.
ManiotsPeople / groupThe Maniots are the people of the Mani peninsula in the southern Peloponnese of Greece.- Manipular legionReligion / ideaThe manipular legion was the organisation of the Roman army of the middle Republic, in which the legion was divided into small, flexible units called maniples.
ManisaPlaceManisa is a city in western Turkey, at the foot of Mount Sipylus above the Gediz plain, north-east of Izmir.
ManishtushuPersonManishtushu was a king of the Akkadian Empire in the twenty-third century BCE, a son of Sargon of Akkad.
ManitobaPlaceManitoba is a province of central Canada, with Winnipeg as its capital.
Manitoba ActEventThe Manitoba Act, passed by the Parliament of Canada in May 1870, created the province of Manitoba from part of Rupert's Land after the Red River Resistance.- ManiumPersonManium was a ruler of Magan, the copper land of south-eastern Arabia, known only from inscriptions of Naram-Sin of Akkad, who reigned in the 23rd century BCE.
- Manius Acilius GlabrioPersonManius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman politician and general, consul in 191 BCE.