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Maria LekapenePersonMaria Lekapene (died c. 963) was a Byzantine princess, granddaughter of the emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, who married Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria in 927.
Maria Luisa, Duchess of LuccaPersonMaria Luisa was a daughter of Charles IV of Spain who married Louis of Parma, made king of Etruria by Napoleon in 1801.
Maria MontessoriPersonMaria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator who developed the Montessori method of teaching.
Maria of MangupPersonMaria of Mangup was a princess of the Orthodox principality of Theodoro in the Crimea who married Stephen the Great of Moldavia in 1472.
Maria TemryukovnaPersonMaria Temryukovna was a Kabardian princess, the daughter of Prince Temryuk of Kabarda, who was baptised and married Ivan IV of Russia in 1561 as his second wife.
Maria TheresaPersonMaria Theresa was the only female ruler of the Habsburg lands, inheriting them in 1740 under the Pragmatic Sanction.- Maria Vladimirovna StaritskayaPersonMaria Vladimirovna Staritskaya was a Russian princess, daughter of Prince Vladimir of Staritsa and a relative of Tsar Ivan IV.
Mariamne IPersonMariamne I was a Hasmonean princess, granddaughter of both Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II, and the second wife of Herod the Great, whose claim to rule she strengthened.
Mariana IslandsPlaceThe Mariana Islands are a chain of fifteen volcanic islands in the western Pacific, including Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Rota.- MariandyniansPeople / groupThe Mariandynians were an Anatolian people of the Black Sea coast between Bithynia and Paphlagonia, around Heraclea Pontica.
Mariano AristaPersonMariano Arista was a Mexican general and politician who was President of Mexico from 1851 to 1853.
Mariano EscobedoPersonMariano Escobedo was a Mexican general of the liberal side in the Reform War and the French intervention.
Mariano GálvezPersonMariano Gálvez was a Guatemalan lawyer and liberal politician, head of state of Guatemala within the Central American Federation from 1831 to 1838.
Mariano Guadalupe VallejoPersonMariano Guadalupe Vallejo was a Californio military commander and landowner, comandante of the northern frontier of Mexican Alta California, where he laid out the town…
Mariano IV of ArboreaPersonMariano IV was judge (ruler) of Arborea in Sardinia from 1347 to 1376.
Mariano MelgarejoPersonMariano Melgarejo was a Bolivian general who seized power in 1864 and ruled as president until 1871.
Mariano Ospina RodríguezPersonMariano Ospina Rodríguez was a Colombian politician, co-founder of the Conservative Party in 1849 and president from 1857 to 1861.
Mariano ParedesPersonMariano Paredes y Arrillaga was a Mexican general and conservative who seized power in a coup in January 1846 and became president.- Marias MassacreEventThe Marias Massacre was an attack by the United States Army on a camp of Piegan Blackfeet on the Marias River in Montana on 23 January 1870.
MaribPlaceMarib is a town in central Yemen on the edge of the Ramlat al-Sabatayn desert, capital of Marib Governorate.- Marib DamWork / monumentThe Marib Dam was an ancient dam across the Wadi Adhanah near Marib in Yemen, built to capture seasonal floods and irrigate two large oases.
MariborPlaceMaribor is the second largest city of Slovenia, on the Drava river in Lower Styria.
Marico RiverPlaceThe Marico River is a river in South Africa's North West province that flows north from the western highveld to join the Crocodile River, the two together forming the…
Marie AntoinettePersonMarie Antoinette (1755–1793) was queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI.
Marie de FrancePersonMarie de France was a poet of the later twelfth century, probably active in England at the court of Henry II, and the earliest known woman poet in French.
Marie Louise, Duchess of ParmaPersonMarie Louise was an Austrian archduchess, daughter of Emperor Francis I, who married Napoleon in 1810 and bore his son, Napoleon II.- Marie of EnghienPersonMarie of Enghien was the heiress of the Lordship of Argos and Nauplia in the Peloponnese, which she inherited from her father Guy of Enghien in the 1370s.
Marie of MontpellierPersonMarie of Montpellier was the heiress of the lordship of Montpellier and Queen of Aragon.
Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)PersonMarie of the Incarnation, born Marie Guyart, was a French Ursuline nun and mystic who arrived at Quebec in 1639 and founded the first school for girls in North America…
Marie, Countess of ChampagnePersonMarie was countess of Champagne by her marriage to Henry the Liberal, and the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of LuxembourgPersonMarie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, reigned from 1912 to 1919, succeeding her father William IV under the succession law he had changed in her favour.
MariehamnPlaceMariehamn is the capital and only town of the Åland Islands, an autonomous Swedish-speaking region of Finland.
Mariel boatliftEventThe Mariel boatlift was the mass emigration of about 125,000 Cubans from the port of Mariel to Florida between April and October 1980.
Marienberg FortressWork / monumentThe Marienberg Fortress stands on a hill above the Main opposite the old town of Würzburg in Bavaria.- Marienkirche, GelnhausenWork / monumentThe Marienkirche in Gelnhausen, Hesse, is a late Romanesque and early Gothic church built mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries.
- Marienkirche, ReutlingenWork / monumentThe Marienkirche in Reutlingen is a Gothic church built between about 1247 and 1343, the city's main church and a symbol of its time as a free imperial city.
Marienstatt AbbeyWork / monumentMarienstatt Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the Westerwald near Hachenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Marikana massacreEventThe Marikana massacre took place on 16 August 2012 near the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in North West Province, South Africa, when police opened fire on striking…- MarikudoPersonMarikudo is the Ati chief of Panay in the Maragtas legend of the Visayas in the Philippines.
MarimekkoPeople / groupMarimekko is a Finnish textile, clothing and design company founded in Helsinki in 1951 by Armi and Viljo Ratia.- Marin DržićPersonMarin Držić was a Renaissance playwright and poet from the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), regarded as the greatest Croatian writer of comedies.
Marinid dynastyStateThe Marinid dynasty was a Berber dynasty that ruled Morocco from the mid-thirteenth to the fifteenth century.
Marino FalieroPersonMarino Faliero was Doge of Venice from 1354 to 1355.
Marino Sanudo TorselloPersonMarino Sanudo Torsello was a Venetian statesman and geographer who travelled widely in the eastern Mediterranean.
Marinus of TyrePersonMarinus of Tyre was a Greek geographer and mapmaker of the Roman period, active around 100 CE.
Mario LagoPersonMario Lago was an Italian diplomat and governor of the Italian Islands of the Aegean, the Dodecanese, from 1922 to 1936.- Mário SoaresPersonMário Soares was a Portuguese politician who founded the Socialist Party in exile in 1973 and helped steer Portugal to democracy after the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
Mario Vargas LlosaPersonMario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist and essayist, a leading figure of the Latin American literary boom, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
Marion Mahony GriffinPersonMarion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and artist, among the first women licensed as architects in the United States and an early member of Frank Lloyd…
MaritsaPlaceThe Maritsa, called Evros in Greek, Meriç in Turkish and Hebrus in antiquity, is the longest river lying wholly in the Balkans, about 480 kilometres long.
Maritz RebellionRevolt · 1914–1915The Maritz Rebellion was a rising of Afrikaners in 1914–1915 against the Union government's decision to invade German South West Africa on Britain's side in the First…
Marius (emperor)PersonMarius was a Roman usurper who ruled the breakaway Gallic Empire briefly in 269, after the murder of Postumus by his troops.
Al-MarjPlaceAl-Marj is a town in Cyrenaica, north-eastern Libya, on a fertile upland plain inland from the Mediterranean coast.
Mark AntonyPersonMark Antony was a Roman general and politician, an ally of Julius Caesar and later a member of the Second Triumvirate.
Mark CarneyPersonMark Carney is a Canadian economist and politician who was governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.
Mark RuttePersonMark Rutte is a Dutch politician who led the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024, the…
Mark Sittich von Hohenems AltempsPersonMark Sittich von Hohenems (1533–1595), known in Italy as Marco Sittico Altemps, was a cardinal and a nephew of Pope Pius IV, who raised him to the cardinalate in 1561.
Mark the EvangelistPersonMark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark and, by Christian tradition, founder of the church of Alexandria.
Mark TwainPersonMark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.- MarkaPlaceMarka, also spelled Merca, is a port town on the Benadir coast of southern Somalia, south-west of Mogadishu.
- Market reforms of Alauddin KhaljiEventThe market reforms of Alauddin Khalji were measures introduced by the sultan of Delhi in the early fourteenth century to control prices and supplies in the capital.
- MarkgräflerlandPlaceThe Markgräflerland is a region in the far south-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, between Freiburg and Basel and the Rhine and the Black Forest.
MärklinInstitutionMärklin is a German toy company founded in 1859 by Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin in Göppingen, Württemberg, at first making tin accessories for dolls' houses.- MarkloPlaceMarklo was the meeting place of the general assembly of the pagan Saxons, said to have been held each year on the Weser in northern Germany.
Marko's MonasteryInstitutionMarko's Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery of Saint Demetrius in the village of Markova Sušica near Skopje, North Macedonia.
Markos BotsarisPersonMarkos Botsaris (c. 1788–1823) was a Souliote leader and hero of the Greek War of Independence.
Markus Sittikus von HohenemsPersonMarkus Sittikus von Hohenems was prince-archbishop of Salzburg from 1612 to 1619.
Marmaduke GrovePersonMarmaduke Grove was a Chilean air force officer and socialist politician.
Marmara EreğlisiPlaceMarmara Ereğlisi is a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara in Tekirdağ Province, European Turkey.
MarmaricaPlaceMarmarica is the ancient name for the coastal plateau and desert between the Nile Delta and Cyrenaica, in modern north-western Egypt and eastern Libya.
MarnePlaceThe Marne is a river of north-eastern France, about 500 km long, that rises on the Langres plateau and flows through Champagne to join the Seine just south-east of Paris.- MaroboduusPersonMaroboduus was a king of the Marcomanni who built the first large Germanic kingdom known by name.
MaronitesPeople / groupThe Maronites are Eastern Catholic Christians of the Syriac tradition, named after the 5th-century monk Saint Maron and centred on Mount Lebanon.
MaroonsPeople / groupMaroons were Africans and their descendants in the Americas who escaped slavery and formed independent communities, usually in forests, swamps or mountains beyond…- Maroserana dynastyStateThe Maroserana were a royal dynasty of south-western Madagascar that rose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Marquesas IslandsPlaceThe Marquesas Islands are a group of rugged volcanic islands in the north-east of French Polynesia, among the earliest settled in eastern Polynesia and a likely source…
Marquis de BussyPersonCharles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, was a French commander in India under Joseph François Dupleix.
Marquis de TracyPersonAlexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, was a French soldier sent by Louis XIV as lieutenant general for France's American colonies.- Marquis Lie of ZhaoPersonMarquis Lie of Zhao, personal name Zhao Ji, was ruler of the Zhao clan territory when King Weilie of Zhou formally recognised Zhao, Wei and Han as states in 403 BCE.
Marquis of PombalPersonThe Marquis of Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, was chief minister of Portugal under King Joseph I from 1750 to 1777.
Marquis Wen of WeiPersonMarquis Wen of Wei was the founding ruler of the state of Wei, recognised as a state by the Zhou king in 403 BCE after the partition of Jin.
Marquis Yi of ZengPersonMarquis Yi of Zeng was a ruler of the small Zhou state of Zeng, identified with Sui, in present-day Hubei.- Marquis Zhao of CaiPersonMarquis Zhao of Cai was a ruler of the Zhou state of Cai during the Spring and Autumn period.
Marquisate of BodonitsaStateThe Marquisate of Bodonitsa was a small crusader state in central Greece, created after the Fourth Crusade to guard the pass of Thermopylae.
Marrah MountainsPlaceThe Marrah Mountains, or Jebel Marra, are a volcanic massif in Darfur, in western Sudan.
MarrakeshPlaceMarrakesh is a city in Morocco founded by the Almoravids around 1070 as the capital of the Almoravid Empire.
MarruviumPlaceMarruvium was the chief town of the Marsi, on the eastern shore of the Fucine Lake in central Italy, at modern San Benedetto dei Marsi.
Mars (mythology)Religion / ideaMars was the Roman god of war and, in early times, also a guardian of farmland, second in importance only to Jupiter in the state religion.
Mars Orbiter MissionEventThe Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan, was India's first interplanetary mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in November 2013.- MarsalPlaceMarsal is a village in the Seille valley in Lorraine, north-eastern France.
- MarsalaPlaceMarsala is a port town at the western tip of Sicily.
Marshall IslandsPlaceThe Marshall Islands are two chains of coral atolls in the central Pacific, the Ratak and Ralik chains, home to Marshallese navigators for some two thousand years.
Marshall McLuhanPersonMarshall McLuhan was a Canadian literary scholar and theorist of communication at the University of Toronto.- Marshall PlanEventThe Marshall Plan, officially the European Recovery Program, was an American programme of aid to Western Europe after the Second World War, proposed by Secretary of…
Marsilio FicinoPersonMarsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was a Florentine philosopher and priest, the leading Neoplatonist of the Renaissance.
Marsilius of PaduaPersonMarsilius of Padua was an Italian political thinker whose treatise Defensor pacis (1324) argued that political authority comes from the people and that the Church…- Mart LaarPersonMart Laar is an Estonian historian and politician who was prime minister from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002.
Marta (river)PlaceThe Marta is a river of northern Lazio, Italy, flowing about 50 km from Lake Bolsena, its only outlet, to the Tyrrhenian Sea south of Tarquinia.- Martabat TujuhWork / monumentThe Martabat Tujuh, 'seven grades', was the constitution of the Sultanate of Buton, adopted under Sultan La Elangi in the early 17th century.
- Martand SinghPersonMartand Singh was the last ruling maharaja of Rewa in central India, succeeding his father in 1946.