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Nueces RiverPlaceThe Nueces River is a river of southern Texas that flows south-east into Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
Nueva Planta decreesWork / monumentThe Nueva Planta decrees were a series of laws issued by Philip V of Spain between 1707 and 1716, during and after the War of the Spanish Succession.
Nuevo LeónPlaceNuevo León is a region of north-eastern Mexico with its capital at Monterrey.
Nugaal ValleyPlaceThe Nugaal Valley is a long valley in northern Somalia running south-east from the Sool region to the Indian Ocean near Eyl.
Nuku of TidorePersonNuku was a prince of Tidore in the Moluccas who led a long revolt against the Dutch East India Company from 1780, after the company had interfered in the Tidorese…
NukusPlaceNukus is the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan in north-western Uzbekistan, on the Amu Darya.
NukuʻalofaPlaceNukuʻalofa is the capital of Tonga, on the north coast of the main island of Tongatapu.
Numa PompiliusPersonNuma Pompilius was, according to Roman tradition, the second king of Rome, a Sabine from Cures chosen after Romulus.
NumantiaPlaceNumantia was a Celtiberian hill town of the Arevaci near modern Soria in northern Spain.- NumidiansPeople / groupThe Numidians were Berber peoples of the North African interior west of Carthage, in present-day Algeria and Tunisia.
- NumitorPersonNumitor is a legendary king of Alba Longa, the grandfather of Romulus and Remus in Roman tradition.
NunavutPlaceNunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada, created on 1 April 1999 from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories under the Nunavut Land Claims…- Nunca MásWork / monumentNunca Más ('Never Again') is the report of Argentina's National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, CONADEP, chaired by the writer Ernesto Sabato and delivered…
Nùng peoplePeople / groupThe Nùng are a Tai-speaking people of north-eastern Vietnam, especially the border provinces of Cao Bằng and Lạng Sơn, closely related to the Tày and to the Zhuang of…- Nunnery QuadrangleWork / monumentThe Nunnery Quadrangle is a group of four long buildings around a courtyard at the Maya city of Uxmal in Yucatán, Mexico, built around 900.
- Nuno Álvares BotelhoPersonNuno Álvares Botelho was a Portuguese naval commander in Asia who briefly shared the government of Portuguese India.
Nuno Álvares PereiraPersonNuno Álvares Pereira was a Portuguese general who served John I as constable of Portugal.
Nuno da CunhaPersonNuno da Cunha was a Portuguese governor of India from 1529 to 1538.
Nuño de GuzmánPersonNuño Beltrán de Guzmán was a Spanish conquistador and colonial official in Mexico.- Nuno MendesPersonNuno Mendes was the last count of the first County of Portugal, descended from Vímara Peres.
Nupe KingdomStateThe Nupe Kingdom was a state in the middle Niger region of present-day central Nigeria, north-east of Yoruba country.- Nur al-DinPersonNur al-Din was a Zengid ruler of Syria, based at Damascus, who unified Muslim Syria and led opposition to the Crusader states.
- Nur al-Din Umar ibn RasulPersonNur al-Din Umar ibn Rasul was a commander of Turkmen origin who founded the Rasulid dynasty of Yemen.
Nur ibn MujahidPersonNur ibn Mujahid was a ruler of the Adal Sultanate from 1550 to 1567, following the death of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim.
Nur MountainsPlaceThe Nur Mountains, the ancient Amanus, are a range in southern Turkey running north-east from the Mediterranean coast near İskenderun and separating Cilicia from…
Nur Muhammad TarakiPersonNur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan writer and founder of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, leading its Khalq faction.- Nurali KhanPersonNurali Khan was khan of the Junior Juz of the Kazakhs from 1748, succeeding his father Abulkhair Khan.
Nurek DamWork / monumentThe Nurek Dam is an earth-fill hydroelectric dam on the Vakhsh river in Tajikistan, about 300 metres high and for decades the tallest dam in the world.
NurembergPlaceNuremberg is a city in Franconia, in southern Germany, which became one of the most important free imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire.
Nuremberg LawsEventThe Nuremberg Laws were two antisemitic laws passed at the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg on 15 September 1935.
NurhaciPersonNurhaci was a Jurchen chieftain who unified the Jurchen clans of Manchuria between 1583 and 1616 and laid the foundations of the Qing Empire.
Nuri al-SaidPersonNuri al-Said was an Iraqi soldier and statesman who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Iraq many times between 1930 and 1958.
Nursultan NazarbayevPersonNursultan Nazarbayev became first secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1989 and led Kazakhstan to independence in December 1991.
Nuruddin ar-RaniriPersonNuruddin ar-Raniri was a Muslim scholar from Ranir in Gujarat who worked at the court of Aceh from 1637 to 1644.- Nurullah BeyPersonNurullah Bey was the last emir of Hakkari, the Kurdish principality in the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia.
NusantaraPlaceNusantara is the planned new capital of Indonesia, under construction since 2022 in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
Nush-i JanPlaceNush-i Jan (Tepe Nush-i Jan) is an archaeological site in western Iran, near Malayer in Hamadan Province, excavated by a British team under David Stronach from 1967.
Nusrat al-Din Abu BakrPersonNusrat al-Din Abu Bakr was atabeg of Azerbaijan from 1191 to 1210, a member of the Eldiguzid dynasty.- Nusrat KhanPersonNusrat Khan was a general and minister of Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi.
- NutmegTermNutmeg is a spice obtained from the seed of a tree native to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of present-day Indonesia.
NuukPlaceNuuk is the capital of Greenland, on the south-west coast at the mouth of a large fjord system.- Nuwa MbagutaPersonNuwa Mbaguta was the enganzi, or chief minister, of Ankole in the early colonial period.
- NuwakotPlaceNuwakot is a historic hill town north-west of Kathmandu, commanding the route between the Kathmandu Valley and Tibet.
- NuziPlaceNuzi was an ancient Hurrian town near modern Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
- NyabelaPersonNyabela was king of the Ndzundza Ndebele in present-day Mpumalanga, South Africa.
- NyabingiReligion / ideaNyabingi is a spirit cult of the borderlands of Rwanda and south-western Uganda, centred on a female spirit associated in tradition with a queen of the kingdom of Ndorwa.
Nyai Roro KidulReligion / ideaNyai Roro Kidul, or Ratu Kidul, is the spirit queen of the Southern Ocean in Javanese belief, associated with the Indian Ocean off Java's south coast.- NyakunembirePersonNyakunembire was a dissident claimant within the Mutapa state in the late seventeenth century.
- Nyamazana DlaminiPersonNyamazana Dlamini was a Swati queen and military leader who led one of the groups that crossed the Zimbabwean plateau during the Mfecane.
- Nyambo KapararidzePersonNyambo Kapararidze was a ruler of the Mutapa kingdom in present-day Zimbabwe who came to the throne around 1623 and resisted growing Portuguese influence.
- Nyamutukura Kyebambe IIIPersonNyamutukura Kyebambe III was omukama of Bunyoro in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- NyanekaPeople / groupThe Nyaneka are a Bantu-speaking people of south-western Angola, living mainly in Huíla province.
- Nyangire revoltRevolt · 1907The Nyangire revolt was a protest movement in Bunyoro in 1907 against the Ganda chiefs that the British had appointed over Nyoro districts.
NyangwePlaceNyangwe is a town on the Lualaba River in Maniema in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Nyanja peoplePeople / groupThe Nyanja are a Bantu-speaking people living around Lake Malawi and the Shire valley in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, closely related to the Chewa.- NyantioInstitutionThe nyantio were the warrior aristocracy of the Kaabu Empire in the Senegambian region.
Nyanza, RwandaPlaceNyanza is a town in the Southern Province of Rwanda that became the permanent royal capital under Yuhi V Musinga around 1899.- Nyasaland African CongressPeople / groupThe Nyasaland African Congress was the first nationwide African political organisation in the British protectorate of Nyasaland, founded in 1944.
Nyatapola TempleWork / monumentNyatapola is a five-storeyed pagoda temple in Taumadhi Square, Bhaktapur, in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.- Nyatsimba MutotaPersonNyatsimba Mutota was the founder of the Mutapa Empire in the fifteenth century.
NyauPeople / groupNyau is a secret society of the Chewa people of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique, whose initiated men perform masked dances at funerals, initiations and memorial rites.- Nyaungyan MinPersonNyaungyan Min was a son of Bayinnaung who rebuilt royal power in Upper Burma after the First Toungoo Empire collapsed in 1599.
- NyayaReligion / ideaNyaya is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, concerned above all with logic, the means of valid knowledge and the theory of argument.
NyenskansPlaceNyenskans was a Swedish fortress built in 1611 at the confluence of the Okhta and Neva rivers, on the site of present-day Saint Petersburg.- Nyiginya dynastyPeople / groupThe Nyiginya dynasty was the royal line of the Kingdom of Rwanda, whose kings bore the title mwami.
- NyikangPersonNyikang is the legendary founder and culture hero of the Shilluk people of South Sudan.
- Nymphaeum (Crimea)PlaceNymphaeum was an ancient Greek city on the Crimean shore of the Kerch Strait, south of Panticapaeum, founded in the sixth century BCE.
- NymphaionPlaceNymphaion was a town in western Asia Minor, east of Smyrna, now Kemalpaşa near İzmir in Turkey.
Nymphenburg PalaceWork / monumentNymphenburg Palace is a Baroque palace in western Munich, begun in 1664 as a summer residence for Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife Henriette Adelaide of Savoy after…- NysaPlaceNysa (German: Neisse) is a town in the Opole Voivodeship of southern Poland, on the Nysa Kłodzka river.
- Nyungu ya MawePersonNyungu ya Mawe was a Nyamwezi warlord of the 19th century in what is now western Tanzania.
- NzakaraPeople / groupThe Nzakara are a people of the south-east of the Central African Republic, living along the Mbomou River around Bangassou.
Nzinga a NkuwuPersonNzinga a Nkuwu was a king, or manikongo, of the Kingdom of Kongo in the late fifteenth century.