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Nicolas GrunitzkyPersonNicolas Grunitzky was a Togolese politician who led parties favouring close ties with France in French Togoland and became prime minister of the autonomous republic in…
Nicolás MaduroPersonNicolás Maduro is a Venezuelan politician, a former bus driver and trade unionist who served as foreign minister under Hugo Chávez and succeeded him as president in 2013.
Nicolas Perrenot de GranvellePersonNicolas Perrenot de Granvelle was a lawyer from Franche-Comté who rose to become one of the chief ministers of the Emperor Charles V, serving as his keeper of the seals…- Nicolas RémyPersonNicolas Rémy was a magistrate and procurator-general of the Duchy of Lorraine and one of the most notorious witch-hunters of early modern Europe.
Nicolas RolinPersonNicolas Rolin was chancellor of the Burgundian state under Philip the Good from 1422 until shortly before his death in 1462.
Nicolás SalmerónPersonNicolás Salmerón (1838–1908) was a Spanish philosopher and republican politician who served as president of the executive power of the First Spanish Republic from July…
Nicolaus CopernicusPersonNicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer born in Toruń in Royal Prussia who proposed that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.- Nicolaus von JeroschinPersonNicolaus von Jeroschin was a priest of the Teutonic Order and a Middle High German poet in Prussia.
Nicomedes I of BithyniaPersonNicomedes I was king of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia from about 278 to 255 BCE.
Nicomedes IVPersonNicomedes IV Philopator was the last king of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia.
NicomediaPlaceNicomedia was an ancient city at the head of the Gulf of Izmit in north-western Anatolia, founded in 264 BCE by Nicomedes I as the capital of Bithynia.
Nicopolis (Epirus)PlaceNicopolis was a city in Epirus, on the peninsula north of modern Preveza in western Greece, founded by Octavian (Augustus) to commemorate his victory over Antony and…- Nicopolis (Lesser Armenia)PlaceNicopolis was a city in Lesser Armenia, in modern north-eastern Turkey, founded by Pompey on the site of his victory over Mithridates VI of Pontus in 66 BCE and settled…
NicosiaPlaceNicosia is the capital of Cyprus, in the centre of the island on the Pedieos river.
Nidaros CathedralPlaceNidaros Cathedral in Trondheim is the national sanctuary of Norway, built between about 1070 and 1300 over the grave of Saint Olaf.- NiddaPlaceNidda is a small town in the Wetterau district of Hesse, Germany, on the river of the same name.
NidwaldenPlaceNidwalden is a canton of central Switzerland south of Lake Lucerne, with its capital at Stans; together with Obwalden it formed the old canton of Unterwalden.- NieblaPlaceNiebla is a town on the Río Tinto in the province of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain.
Niels BohrPersonNiels Bohr was a Danish physicist who proposed the Bohr model of the atom in 1913, applying quantum ideas to the structure of electrons.
Niels JuelPersonNiels Juel was a Danish-Norwegian admiral, born in Christiania, who led the navy of Denmark-Norway in the Scanian War of 1675–1679.
NiemodlinPlaceNiemodlin (German: Falkenberg) is a small town in the Opole Voivodeship of south-western Poland, west of Opole.
Nienburg (Weser)PlaceNienburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Weser between Bremen and Minden.
Nieuwe WaterwegWork / monumentThe Nieuwe Waterweg is a ship canal in the Netherlands, opened in 1872, that links Rotterdam to the North Sea at Hook of Holland.
NiğdePlaceNiğde is a city in central Anatolia, Turkey, the capital of Niğde Province, lying between the volcanic landscape of Cappadocia and the Taurus Mountains.- Niger bendPlaceThe Niger bend is the great northward curve of the Niger River in present-day Mali, where the river reaches the edge of the Sahara near Timbuktu and Gao.
Niger DeltaPlaceThe Niger Delta is the wide coastal delta of the Niger River in southern Nigeria, a region of creeks, mangroves and fertile soils.
Niger RiverPlaceThe Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, flowing in a great arc from the Guinea highlands through the Sahel to the Atlantic in Nigeria.
NigeriaPlaceNigeria is a country in West Africa, created as a British colony in the early twentieth century and independent since 1960.
Nigg StoneWork / monumentThe Nigg Stone is a Pictish cross-slab of around 800 CE, kept in the old parish church of Nigg in Easter Ross, Scotland.
Night of the Long KnivesEventThe Night of the Long Knives was the purge carried out by Hitler between 30 June and 2 July 1934.- Nihal ChandPersonNihal Chand was an Indian painter who worked at the court of Kishangarh in Rajasthan in the 18th century, chiefly under Raja Sawant Singh.
- Nihil NoviWork / monumentNihil Novi was a constitutional act adopted in Poland in 1505, whose name means nothing new.
Nihon ShokiWork / monumentThe Nihon Shoki, or Chronicles of Japan, completed in 720, is the second-oldest book of Japanese history after the Kojiki.- NiigataPlaceNiigata is a port city on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, at the mouth of the Shinano River, and the capital of Niigata Prefecture.
Niigata PrefecturePlaceNiigata Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, formed after the Meiji Restoration from the old province of Echigo and the island of…- NijPlaceNij is a large village in the Qabala district of northern Azerbaijan and the main centre of the Udi people.
NijmegenPlaceNijmegen is a city in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, on the Waal, and claims to be the oldest city in the country.- Nikephoros BlemmydesPersonNikephoros Blemmydes was a Byzantine monk, scholar and teacher in the Empire of Nicaea.
Nikephoros IPersonNikephoros I was a Byzantine emperor of the early ninth century.
Nikephoros II OrsiniPersonNikephoros II Orsini was the last Orsini ruler of the Despotate of Epirus, reigning from 1335 to 1340 and again from 1356 to 1359.
Nikephoros II PhokasPersonNikephoros II Phokas was a Byzantine general and emperor from 963 to 969.
Nikephoros III BotaneiatesPersonNikephoros III Botaneiates was Byzantine emperor from 1078 to 1081.- Nikephoros Phokas the ElderPersonNikephoros Phokas the Elder was a Byzantine general of the late 9th century and the grandfather of the emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.
Niketas ChalkoutzesPersonNiketas Chalkoutzes was a Byzantine military commander of the 10th century.
Niketas ChoniatesPersonNiketas Choniates was a Byzantine official and historian.
Nikita KhrushchevPersonNikita Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to 1964, as first secretary of the Communist Party and, from 1958, also premier.
Niklaus von FlüePersonNiklaus von Flüe was a Swiss farmer, soldier and magistrate of Obwalden who left his family in 1467 to live as a hermit in the Ranft gorge.
NiklotPersonNiklot was prince of the Obotrites, a West Slavic people on the Baltic coast of what is now Mecklenburg.
Nikol PashinyanPersonNikol Pashinyan is an Armenian journalist and politician who led the peaceful protests of 2018, the Velvet Revolution, which brought him to power as prime minister.
Nikola AltomanovićPersonNikola Altomanović was a Serbian magnate who built the largest lordship in western Serbia as the empire of Stefan Dušan broke up.
Nikola I of MontenegroPersonNikola I Petrović-Njegoš ruled Montenegro as prince from 1860 and as king from 1910.
Nikola KarevPersonNikola Karev was a Macedonian revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.
Nikola PašićPersonNikola Pašić was a Serbian statesman and a founder of the People's Radical Party who served many times as prime minister of Serbia and of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats…
Nikola PetkovPersonNikola Petkov was a Bulgarian politician, leader of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and of the opposition to communist rule after the Second World War.
Nikolai AvksentievPersonNikolai Avksentiev was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary politician who served as interior minister in the Provisional Government in 1917.
Nikolai BobrikovPersonNikolai Bobrikov was a Russian general who served as Governor-General of Finland from 1898.
Nikolai BukharinPersonNikolai Bukharin was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, editor of Pravda and a leading member of the Politburo in the 1920s.
Nikolai YevdokimovPersonCount Nikolai Yevdokimov was a Russian general who rose from the ranks to command in the North Caucasus.
Nikolai YudenichPersonNikolai Yudenich was a Russian general who won notable victories against the Ottomans in the Caucasus during the First World War, including the capture of Erzurum in…- Nikolaos PlatonPersonNikolaos Platon was a Greek archaeologist who excavated the Minoan palace of Zakros in eastern Crete from 1961, finding one of the few palaces never looted, with its…
Nikolaus FedermannPersonNikolaus Federmann was a German adventurer in the service of the Welser bank of Augsburg, which held the colony of Klein-Venedig in Venezuela.
Nikolaus Ludwig von ZinzendorfPersonCount Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was a German Pietist nobleman who in 1722 allowed Protestant refugees from Moravia to settle on his estate in Upper Lusatia, where…
Nikolay ChkheidzePersonNikolay Chkheidze was a Georgian Menshevik leader who chaired the Petrograd Soviet in 1917.
Nikortsminda CathedralWork / monumentNikortsminda Cathedral is an Orthodox church in the Racha region of north-western Georgia, built in 1010–1014 under King Bagrat III, the first ruler of a united…
Nikos KazantzakisPersonNikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher from Crete.
NiksarPlaceNiksar is a town in Tokat Province, northern Turkey, on the Kelkit river.
NikšićPlaceNikšić is the second-largest city of Montenegro, on a karst plain in the west of the country.- NilambarPersonNilambar was the last king of the Khen dynasty of Kamata, ruling from Kamatapur near modern Cooch Behar in the late 15th century.
NilePlaceThe Nile is the longest river in Africa, flowing north through Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean.
Nile cataractsPlaceThe Nile cataracts are a series of shallow, rocky stretches of rapids on the Nile between Aswan and Khartoum, traditionally numbered from the first in the north to the…
Nile DeltaPlaceThe Nile Delta is the broad, fertile region of northern Egypt where the Nile divides into branches before reaching the Mediterranean.
Nile ValleyPlaceThe Nile Valley is the narrow strip of fertile land along the River Nile through Sudan and Egypt, watered by its annual flood.
Nimba RangePlaceThe Nimba Range is a chain of mountains on the borders of Liberia, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, rising to 1,752 metres at Mount Nimba.- NimbalkarPeople / groupThe Nimbalkars are a Maratha family who ruled the jagir and later princely state of Phaltan in the Satara region of Maharashtra.
NîmesPlaceNîmes is a city in the Gard department of southern France.
Nimlot of HermopolisPersonNimlot, also read Namart, was a king of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt in the later 8th century BCE, during the break-up of Egypt's Third Intermediate Period.
NimrudPlaceNimrud, ancient Kalhu, was a city on the Tigris in northern Mesopotamia that served as a royal capital of the Neo-Assyrian period.- NinPlaceNin is a small town on a lagoon islet in northern Dalmatia, Croatia, near Zadar.
Nine SongsWork / monumentThe Nine Songs (Jiu Ge) are a group of eleven poems in the Chu Ci anthology, traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan but probably based on religious songs of the State of…
Nine Years' WarWar · 1688–1697The Nine Years' War was fought from 1688 to 1697 between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance led by William III of England and the Dutch Republic, with the Holy…
Nine Years' War (Ireland)War · Revolt · 1593–1603The Nine Years' War was a rebellion of Gaelic Irish lords against English rule, fought from 1593 to 1603.- Nine-rank systemInstitutionThe nine-rank system was a method of selecting officials introduced in 220 under Cao Pi, the first emperor of Cao Wei.
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionWork / monumentThe Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in August 1920, prohibits the federal government and the states from denying citizens the right to…
- Ninety-five ThesesWork / monumentThe Ninety-five Theses are a list of propositions for academic debate written by Martin Luther in 1517, challenging the sale of indulgences and the power of the papacy…
NinevehPlaceNineveh was an ancient city on the Tigris opposite modern Mosul, and the last great capital of the Assyrian Empire.
Ning'anPlaceNing'an is a city in the south-east of Heilongjiang province, China, on the Mudan River.
NingboPlaceNingbo, known in the Song period as Mingzhou, is a port city in Zhejiang province on China's east coast.
NingirsuReligion / ideaNingirsu was a Sumerian warrior god, the patron of the city of Girsu and of the state of Lagash, associated with thunderstorms, floods and the fertility of the fields.
Ningthouja dynastyPeople / groupThe Ningthouja dynasty, of the Mangang clan of the Meitei, ruled Manipur from the founding traditionally dated to 33 CE until the kingdom merged with India in 1949.
Ninh Bình ProvincePlaceNinh Bình is a province in northern Vietnam, on the southern edge of the Red River delta, with its capital at the city of Ninh Bình.- NinhursagReligion / ideaNinhursag was a Sumerian mother goddess associated with birth, fertility and the mountains.
NinisinaReligion / ideaNinisina was the Mesopotamian goddess of healing and the patron deity of the city of Isin, 'Lady of Isin'.
NinjaTermNinja, or shinobi, were warriors of pre-modern Japan who specialised in espionage, scouting, infiltration and surprise attacks, especially in the Sengoku period of the…- NinlilReligion / ideaNinlil was a Sumerian goddess, the wife of Enlil and mother of the moon god Nanna.
Nino ViscontiPersonNino Visconti was the last judge of Gallura in Sardinia and a leading figure in Pisan politics.
Ninomiya SontokuPersonNinomiya Sontoku was a Japanese agrarian reformer and moral philosopher from Sagami Province.- Ninurta-kudurri-usur (governor of Suhu)PersonNinurta-kudurri-usur was governor of Suhu and Mari on the middle Euphrates in the 8th century BCE, son and successor of Shamash-resha-usur.
- Ninurta-kudurri-usur IPersonNinurta-kudurri-usur I was king of Babylon for about three years in the late 10th century BCE, the second ruler of the Bazi Dynasty after Eulmash-shakin-shumi.
Nioro du SahelPlaceNioro du Sahel is a town in the Kayes Region of western Mali, close to the border with Mauritania.
NippurPlaceNippur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, the religious centre of Sumer and home of the temple of the god Enlil.