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NemequenePersonNemequene was zipa, ruler of the southern Muisca realm of Bacatá in the highlands of present-day Colombia, in the early sixteenth century.
Nemesis (1839)Work / monumentNemesis was an iron-hulled paddle steamer built by John Laird at Birkenhead in 1839 for the East India Company, the first ocean-going iron warship.
NemocónPlaceNemocón is a town on the high plateau north of Bogotá in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Nendrum MonasteryPlaceNendrum is an early Christian monastic site on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland, traditionally founded by Saint Mochaoi in the 5th century.
Neo-Assyrian EmpireStateThe Neo-Assyrian Empire was the final and greatest phase of Assyrian power, beginning with a revival after 911 BCE and ending with the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE.- Neo-ConfucianismReligion / ideaNeo-Confucianism is a revived form of Confucian philosophy that incorporated metaphysical ideas in response to Buddhism and Daoism.
- Neo-DestourPeople / groupThe Neo-Destour was a Tunisian nationalist party founded at Ksar Hellal in March 1934 by Habib Bourguiba and other young members who broke with the Destour.
- Neo-Elamite periodReligion / ideaThe Neo-Elamite period is the final phase of Elamite history, from the early first millennium BCE to the sixth century BCE.
Neo-Hittite statesStateThe Neo-Hittite states were city-states in northern Syria and south-eastern Anatolia, such as Carchemish and Malatya, that emerged after the collapse of the Hittite…
Neo-Sumerian EmpireStateThe Neo-Sumerian Empire, also known as the Third Dynasty of Ur, was a Mesopotamian state that emerged around 2112 BCE after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
NeoclassicismReligion / ideaNeoclassicism was the dominant movement in European art and architecture from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, taking the art of ancient Greece and…
NeolithicReligion / ideaThe Neolithic, or New Stone Age, is the period in which human communities adopted farming, the herding of domesticated animals and settled village life while still…
Neopalatial periodTermThe Neopalatial or New Palace period is the high point of Minoan civilisation on Crete, from about 1700 to 1450 BCE, when the palaces of Knossos, Phaistos, Malia and…
NeoplatonismReligion / ideaNeoplatonism is the name modern scholars give to the late form of Platonic philosophy founded by Plotinus in the third century CE.
NeoptolemusPersonNeoptolemus, also called Pyrrhus, was in Greek mythology the son of Achilles, who joined the Trojan War after his father's death and killed King Priam during the sack…
NepalPlaceNepal is a Himalayan country between Tibet and the plains of northern India.
Nepal SambatTermNepal Sambat is a lunar calendar era of Nepal that begins in 879 CE.
Nepalese Civil WarWar · 1996–2006The Nepalese Civil War was an armed conflict from 1996 to 2006 between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), and the Nepali…
Nepali CongressPeople / groupThe Nepali Congress is a social democratic political party in Nepal, formed in 1950 from earlier anti-Rana movements.
Nepherites IPersonNepherites I was the founder of the Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling from about 399 to 393 BCE.- Nepherites IIPersonNepherites II was the last pharaoh of the Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt, son of Hakor.
NeptuneReligion / ideaNeptune was the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, identified with the Greek Poseidon.
Nereid MonumentWork / monumentThe Nereid Monument is a temple-shaped tomb built at Xanthos in Lycia around 390–380 BCE, probably for the dynast Arbinas (Erbbina).
NeretvaPlaceThe Neretva is a river of the western Balkans that flows about 225 kilometres from the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina past Mostar into the Adriatic in southern…- NeriglissarPersonNeriglissar was king of Babylon from 560 to 556 BCE.
NerikPlaceNerik was a Hittite holy city in northern Anatolia, sacred to the storm god of Nerik, usually identified with the mound of Oymaağaç near Vezirköprü.
Nerio I AcciaioliPersonNerio I Acciaioli was a Florentine noble who made himself Duke of Athens.
NerisPlaceThe Neris is a river of Belarus and Lithuania, about 510 kilometres long, known in Belarus as the Viliya.
Nerl (Klyazma)PlaceThe Nerl is a river of central Russia, about 280 km long, that flows through the Suzdal region and joins the Klyazma near Bogolyubovo, east of Vladimir.
NeroPersonNero was Roman emperor from 54 to 68 CE, the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, adopted heir of Claudius.
Nero Claudius DrususPersonNero Claudius Drusus, known as Drusus the Elder, was a Roman general, stepson of the emperor Augustus and younger brother of Tiberius.- Nertobriga (Beturia)PlaceNertobriga was an ancient town of the Celtici in Beturia, near Fregenal de la Sierra in the province of Badajoz, south-western Spain.
NerviónPlaceThe Nervión is a river of the Basque Country in northern Spain, rising on the borders of Álava and Burgos and flowing north to Bilbao.
NesactiumPlaceNesactium was the chief stronghold of the Histri, an Iron Age people of Istria, near the village of Vizače east of Pula in modern Croatia.
NestorPersonNestor is a legendary king of Pylos in Greek mythology, son of Neleus.
Néstor KirchnerPersonNéstor Kirchner was an Argentine Peronist politician, governor of Santa Cruz province, who served as president from 2003 to 2007 after the crisis of 2001.
Nestor LakobaPersonNestor Lakoba was an Abkhaz Bolshevik who led Soviet Abkhazia from 1921 until his death in 1936.
Nestor MakhnoPersonNestor Makhno was a Ukrainian anarchist from Huliaipole who during the Russian Civil War led the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.- NestosPlaceThe Nestos, called the Mesta in Bulgaria, is a river of the Balkans that rises in the Rila mountains of Bulgaria and flows about 230 km south-east between the Rhodope…
- Netherlands New GuineaStateNetherlands New Guinea was the western half of New Guinea, which the Netherlands kept when it transferred sovereignty over the rest of the East Indies to Indonesia in…
Netherlands Trading SocietyInstitutionThe Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij) was a trading and financial company founded in 1824 on the initiative of King William I to revive…
Neu-AugustusburgWork / monumentNeu-Augustusburg is a Baroque palace in Weissenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, begun in 1660 for Duke Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels on the site of an older castle.
NeubrandenburgPlaceNeubrandenburg is a city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, on Lake Tollense.
Neuburg an der DonauPlaceNeuburg an der Donau is a town on the Danube in Bavaria, Germany.
NeuchâtelPlaceNeuchâtel is a city in western Switzerland on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel, capital of the canton of the same name.- NeugablonzPlaceNeugablonz is a district of Kaufbeuren in Bavaria founded after 1945 by German refugees expelled from Gablonz, now Jablonec nad Nisou, in Bohemia.
NeukamerunPlaceNeukamerun was the name of the territories that France ceded to Germany in 1911, after the Agadir Crisis, to enlarge the colony of Kamerun in exchange for German…
NeumPlaceNeum is a small town on the Adriatic coast that forms Bosnia and Herzegovina's only access to the sea, a strip about 9 kilometres wide dividing Croatian territory.- NeumarkPlaceThe Neumark ('New March') was the part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg east of the Oder, acquired by the Ascanian margraves in the 13th century.
Neumarkt in der OberpfalzPlaceNeumarkt in der Oberpfalz is a town in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, south-east of Nuremberg.- Neungsan-riPlaceNeungsan-ri is a site in Buyeo, South Korea, with a group of royal tombs of the Sabi period of Baekje (538–660) and the remains of a temple next to them.
Neuschwanstein CastleWork / monumentNeuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century palace built for King Ludwig II of Bavaria on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen.
Neuse RiverPlaceThe Neuse River flows south-east across the coastal plain of North Carolina into Pamlico Sound.
NeustrelitzPlaceNeustrelitz is a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, founded in 1733 by Duke Adolphus Frederick III as the new residence of the dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
NeuwiedPlaceNeuwied is a town on the right bank of the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, north-west of Koblenz.- Neva RiverPlaceThe Neva is a short but powerful river of north-western Russia, flowing about 74 kilometres from Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland.
NevadaPlaceNevada is a state in the western United States, largely within the arid Great Basin, with its capital at Carson City.
Neville familyPeople / groupThe Nevilles were a powerful English noble family from the north of England, earls of Westmorland and Salisbury.- NevryuyPersonNevryuy was a Mongol commander of the Golden Horde who in 1252 led a punitive expedition into north-eastern Rus' against Grand Prince Andrei Yaroslavich of Vladimir.
New AmsterdamPlaceNew Amsterdam was the Dutch colonial settlement on Manhattan Island, the chief town of the colony of New Netherland.
New AthosPlaceNew Athos (Novy Afon) is a small town on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia, north-west of Sukhumi.
New BernPlaceNew Bern is a town in eastern North Carolina founded in 1710 by Swiss and German settlers under Christoph von Graffenried at the meeting of the Neuse and Trent rivers.
New Book of TangWork / monumentThe New Book of Tang is an official history of the Tang dynasty of China, compiled by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi and completed in 1060.
New BraunfelsPlaceNew Braunfels is a city in central Texas, between San Antonio and Austin, on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers.- New BussaPlaceNew Bussa is a town in Niger State, Nigeria, built in the 1960s to house the people of old Bussa and nearby villages displaced by the reservoir of the Kainji Dam.
New Castle, DelawarePlaceNew Castle is a town on the Delaware River in the US state of Delaware.- New CataloniaPlaceNew Catalonia is the name for the southern and western parts of Catalonia, around Tortosa, Lleida and Tarragona, conquered from the Muslims in the twelfth century…
- New ChristiansPeople / groupNew Christians was the term used in Spain and Portugal for Jews and Muslims who had converted to Christianity, and their descendants.
New DealEventThe New Deal was the series of programmes, reforms and public works launched by President Franklin D.
New DelhiPlaceNew Delhi is the capital of India, a planned city designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker south of old Delhi.- New Democratic Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)People / groupThe New Democratic Party is a centre-right political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, founded in 1975 by James Mitchell.
New EchotaPlaceNew Echota was the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 until removal in the 1830s, near modern Calhoun in north-west Georgia, United States.- New Economic MechanismTermNew Economic Mechanism is the name of market-oriented reforms in two communist states.
- New Economic Policy (Bolivia)EventThe New Economic Policy was the stabilisation programme introduced in Bolivia by President Víctor Paz Estenssoro through Supreme Decree 21060 of August 1985.
New EnglandPlaceNew England is the north-eastern region of the United States, from Connecticut to Maine.
New FranceStateNew France was the territory colonised by France in North America from the early seventeenth century, centred on the St Lawrence valley.- New GranadaPlaceNew Granada was the Spanish name for the lands of present-day Colombia and Panama, after the New Kingdom of Granada founded in 1538.
New GuineaPlaceNew Guinea is the world's second-largest island, north of Australia, with high mountain ranges and dense rainforest.
New HampshirePlaceNew Hampshire is a state in New England, settled by the English from the 1620s along the Piscataqua river.
New Hampshire GrantsPlaceThe New Hampshire Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by Governor Benning Wentworth in the territory west of the Connecticut River, which New York also…
New Hittite KingdomStateThe New Hittite Kingdom is the term for the imperial phase of Hittite history, from about the fourteenth century BCE until the collapse around 1200 BCE.
New JerseyPlaceNew Jersey is a state of the United States between the Hudson and Delaware rivers.
New JulfaPlaceNew Julfa is the Armenian quarter of Isfahan, founded in 1604–1605 when Shah Abbas I relocated Armenian merchant communities from the Ararat region to his new capital.
New Kingdom of EgyptStateThe New Kingdom of Egypt was the period of Egyptian history from about 1550 BCE to about 1070 BCE, covering the Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties.
New LawsWork / monumentThe New Laws were a set of regulations issued by the Spanish crown in 1542 to govern the treatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas.
New MexicoPlaceNew Mexico is a region of the south-western United States, today a US state.
New Netherland CompanyInstitutionThe New Netherland Company was a Dutch trading company chartered by the States General in 1614 with a monopoly of the fur trade in North America between latitudes 40…
New OrleansPlaceNew Orleans is a port city on the Mississippi River near its mouth, founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
New OyoStateNew Oyo was the reduced successor state of the Oyo Empire, founded further south after the capital Oyo-Ile was abandoned around 1835–1836.
New PhocaeaPlaceNew Phocaea, today Yeni Foça in western Turkey, was a fortified town on the Aegean coast founded by the Genoese Zaccaria family in the late 13th century to protect the…- New Policies (Song)EventThe New Policies were reforms introduced by the chancellor Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty between 1069 and 1076.
New ProvidencePlaceNew Providence is the most populous island of the Bahamas, home of the capital Nassau.- New Roman EmpireReligion / ideaThe New Roman Empire was the propaganda concept used by Fascist Italy to present its colonial expansion as a revival of ancient Roman greatness.
New RossPlaceNew Ross is a town on the River Barrow in County Wexford, in south-east Ireland.- New TestamentWork / monumentThe New Testament is the second part of the Christian Bible, a collection of 27 books in Greek written in the 1st and early 2nd centuries, including the four Gospels…
New WestminsterPlaceNew Westminster is a city on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada.- New YorkPlaceNew York is a major city in the United States and the home of the headquarters of the United Nations.
- New York AccordsTreaty · Peace · 1988The New York Accords were signed at the United Nations on 22 December 1988 by Angola, Cuba and South Africa.
New York and Honduras Rosario Mining CompanyPeople / groupThe New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company was an American company founded in 1880 to work silver mines at San Juancito, north-east of Tegucigalpa.
New ZealandPlaceNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific, colonised by Britain from the nineteenth century.