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Pa Sak RiverPlaceThe Pa Sak is a river of central Thailand, about 513 km long, which rises in Loei province and flows south to join the Chao Phraya at Ayutthaya.
Pa'O peoplePeople / groupThe Pa'O are a Karen-speaking people of the southern Shan State of Myanmar, living mainly around Taunggyi and the hills near Inle Lake, and are one of the country's…
Pablo EscobarPersonPablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who led the Medellín Cartel, which supplied most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States in the 1980s.
Pablo MorilloPersonPablo Morillo was a Spanish general who led the large royalist expedition sent in 1815 to reconquer Venezuela and New Granada.
Pablo NerudaPersonPablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and diplomat, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto.
Pablo PicassoPersonPablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor of the twentieth century, a founder of Cubism.
Pablo Zárate WillkaPersonPablo Zárate Willka was an Aymara leader who raised indigenous forces in support of the Liberals of La Paz during Bolivia's Federal War of 1898–1899.
PacaritamboPlacePacaritambo is a village in Paruro province, Peru, south of Cusco, associated with the Inca origin myth.
PachacamacPlacePachacamac is an archaeological site in the Lurín valley south of Lima, Peru, one of the largest and longest-lived religious centres of the ancient Andes.
PachacutiPersonPachacuti, born Cusi Yupanqui, was the ninth Sapa Inca, ruling from about 1438 to 1471.
PachamamaReligion / ideaPachamama is the earth and fertility goddess of the Andean peoples, revered by Quechua and Aymara communities since before the Inca Empire.
Pachomius the GreatPersonPachomius was an Egyptian Christian monk who founded the first communal monasteries, beginning at Tabennisi in Upper Egypt in the 320s.
PachucaPlacePachuca is the capital of the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico, north-east of Mexico City.
Pacific OceanPlaceThe Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth, between Asia and Australia to the west and the Americas to the east.
Pacific WarWarThe Pacific War was the theatre of the Second World War fought in Asia and the Pacific from 1941 to 1945, chiefly between the Empire of Japan and the Allies led by the…
Pact of Biak-na-BatoTreaty · Peace · 1897The Pact of Biak-na-Bato was a truce agreed in December 1897 between the Spanish governor-general Fernando Primo de Rivera and Emilio Aguinaldo's revolutionaries…- Pact of BrunnenTreaty · 1315The Pact of Brunnen was an alliance concluded on 9 December 1315 at Brunnen, on Lake Lucerne, by Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, weeks after their victory over the…
- Pact of San José de FloresTreaty · Peace · 1859The Pact of San José de Flores, signed on 11 November 1859 after Urquiza's victory at the Battle of Cepeda, ended the separation of the State of Buenos Aires from the…
Pact of SteelTreaty · 22 May 1939The Pact of Steel was a military and political alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, signed in Berlin on 22 May 1939 by the foreign ministers Galeazzo Ciano…- Pact of Union (1921)Treaty · 1921The Pact of Union was an agreement signed at San José, Costa Rica, in January 1921, on the centenary of Central American independence, to recreate a federal union of…
- Pact of ZanjónTreaty · Peace · 1878The Pact of Zanjón was the agreement of 10 February 1878 that ended most of the fighting in the Ten Years' War between Cuban rebels and Spain.
Pacta conventa (Croatia)Work / monumentThe Pacta conventa is a document that claims to record an agreement of about 1102 between King Coloman of Hungary and twelve Croatian noble families, guaranteeing their…
PactolusPlaceThe Pactolus is a small river in western Turkey that flows from Mount Tmolus past the ruins of Sardis into the Gediz, the ancient Hermus.
Pactos de MayoTreaty · Peace · 1902The Pactos de Mayo were a set of agreements signed by Argentina and Chile on 28 May 1902.
Pacts of MayTreaty · Peace · 1902The Pacts of May were agreements signed by Chile and Argentina on 28 May 1902 that ended a period of tension over their long Andean border.- Pactum LothariiWork / monumentThe Pactum Lotharii was an agreement of 23 February 840 between the Frankish emperor Lothair I and the Venetian doge Pietro Tradonico.
Pactum WarmundiTreaty · 1123The Pactum Warmundi was a treaty of alliance concluded in 1123 between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice, named after Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem…- Pactus AlamannorumWork / monumentThe Pactus Alamannorum is the earliest surviving law code of the Alemanni, compiled in Latin in the early 7th century, probably under the Frankish king Chlothar II.
PactyesPersonPactyes was a Lydian whom Cyrus the Great put in charge of the treasury of Lydia after its conquest around 546 BCE.
Padang Roco inscriptionWork / monumentThe Padang Roco inscription is an inscription of 1286 carved on the base of a statue of Amoghapasa found at Padang Roco in Dharmasraya, West Sumatra.- PaderbornPlacePaderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the springs of the Pader.
- PadiPersonPadi was king of the Philistine city of Ekron around 700 BCE and a loyal vassal of Assyria.
Padishah KhatunPersonPadishah Khatun was a ruler of the Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty of Kerman, in south-eastern Iran, and a daughter of Qutlugh Terken Khatun.
PadmadurgWork / monumentPadmadurg is a sea fort on a rocky islet off Murud on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India.
PadmasambhavaPersonPadmasambhava was an Indian tantric master who, according to Tibetan tradition, was invited to Tibet by the emperor Trisong Detsen in the eighth century, subdued the…
PadmavatWork / monumentPadmavat is an epic poem in Awadhi by the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi, completed in 1540.
PadminiPersonPadmini, or Padmavati, is a legendary queen of Chittor, wife of King Ratnasimha, said to have committed jauhar with the women of the fort when Alauddin Khalji captured…
Padri WarWar · 1803–1837The Padri War was a conflict in West Sumatra from 1803 to 1837.
PaduaPlacePadua (Padova) is a city in the Veneto, north-eastern Italy.
Paduka BataraPersonPaduka Batara was a ruler of Sulu, in the southern Philippines, who led a large embassy to the Ming court of the Yongle Emperor in 1417.
PaestumPlacePaestum is an ancient city in Campania in southern Italy, founded as the Greek colony of Poseidonia around 600 BCE.
Pagan MinPersonPagan Min was king of Burma from 1846 to 1853, the son of Tharrawaddy.
PagaruyungPlacePagaruyung is a village in the Tanah Datar regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia, the seat of the Minangkabau royal house from the time of Adityawarman in the 14th century.
PagasaePlacePagasae was an ancient port town in Thessaly at the head of the Gulf of Pagasae, near modern Volos in Greece.
Pagasetic GulfPlaceThe Pagasetic Gulf, or Gulf of Volos, is a nearly enclosed inlet of the Aegean Sea in Thessaly, Greece, sheltered by the Pelion peninsula.- PagliaPlaceThe Paglia is a river of central Italy that rises on Monte Amiata in southern Tuscany and flows through Umbria past the foot of Orvieto's tufa cliff to join the Tiber.
Pago PagoPlacePago Pago is the main town and harbour of American Samoa, on one of the finest natural harbours in the South Pacific, on the island of Tutuila.
Pagoda of Fogong TempleWork / monumentThe Pagoda of Fogong Temple, or Sakyamuni Pagoda, at Yingxian in Shanxi, China, was built in 1056 under the Liao dynasty.- PagondasPersonPagondas was a Theban commander and Boeotarch who led the Boeotian army to victory over Athens at the Battle of Delium in 424 BCE.
Pahang RiverPlaceThe Pahang River is the longest river in Peninsular Malaysia, flowing about 460 km from the Titiwangsa Mountains east to the South China Sea near Pekan.- Pahar Singh of FaridkotPersonPahar Singh was the ruler of the Sikh state of Faridkot in the Punjab from 1827 to 1849.
PahlavasPeople / groupPahlavas is the name used in ancient Indian texts, such as the Manusmriti, the epics and the Puranas, for a people from the north-west usually identified with the…
PaidePlacePaide, known in German as Weissenstein, is a town in central Estonia and the centre of Järva County.
PaillonPlaceThe Paillon is a short Alpine river in south-eastern France that flows down from the hills behind Nice into the Mediterranean.
Painted Grey Ware cultureTermThe Painted Grey Ware culture is an Iron Age archaeological culture of the western Ganges plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in northern India, dated to roughly…- Paisius of HilendarPersonPaisius of Hilendar was a Bulgarian monk of the Hilendar Monastery on Mount Athos and a founder of the Bulgarian National Revival.
- PaithanPlacePaithan is a town on the Godavari river in Maharashtra, western India.
Pakhal LakePlacePakhal Lake is a large artificial lake in the Warangal region of Telangana, India, created in 1213 during the reign of the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva.
PakistanPlacePakistan is a country in South Asia, covering the Indus valley and the north-western frontier of the subcontinent.
Paknam incidentBattle · 1893The Paknam incident was a naval clash on 13 July 1893, when two French gunboats forced their way past the Siamese forts at Paknam, at the mouth of the Chao Phraya…
Paku Alam IPersonPaku Alam I, born Prince Natakusuma, was a son of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I of Yogyakarta.
Paku Alam VIIIPersonPaku Alam VIII was the ruler of the Pakualaman principality in Yogyakarta, Java, from 1937 to 1998.
Pakuan PajajaranPlacePakuan Pajajaran was the capital of the Sunda Kingdom in western Java, on the site of modern Bogor.
Pakubuwana IPersonPakubuwana I, earlier Pangeran Puger, was ruler of Mataram from 1704 to 1719.
Pakubuwana IIIPersonPakubuwana III was ruler of Mataram from 1749 and the first susuhunan of Surakarta, installed by the Dutch East India Company.
Pakubuwono IIPersonPakubuwana II was ruler of Mataram from 1726 to 1749.
Pakubuwono IIIPersonPakubuwono III was susuhunan of Surakarta in Central Java from 1749 to 1788, raised to the throne under Dutch East India Company protection during the Third Javanese…- Pal KastriotiPersonPal Kastrioti was an Albanian lord of the late 14th century and the earliest known member of the Kastrioti family.
Pál PrónayPersonPál Prónay was a Hungarian army officer who commanded one of the paramilitary detachments of the White Terror after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.- Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of RhodesWork / monumentThe Palace of the Grand Master is a medieval fortress-palace in the old town of Rhodes, Greece, built by the Knights Hospitaller in the 14th century on the site of an…
- Palace of the Shaki KhansWork / monumentThe Palace of the Shaki Khans is a summer residence of the khans of Shaki, in northern Azerbaijan, completed in the late 18th century.
Palace of the ShirvanshahsWork / monumentThe Palace of the Shirvanshahs is a fifteenth-century palace complex in the old city of Baku, Azerbaijan, built when the Shirvanshahs moved their capital there from…- Palace of VouniWork / monumentThe Palace of Vouni stands on a hilltop above the north-west coast of Cyprus, near ancient Soloi.
Palace of WestminsterWork / monumentThe Palace of Westminster in London is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and before it of the Parliaments of England and Great Britain.- PalaepaphosPlacePalaepaphos, Old Paphos, was an ancient city in south-west Cyprus, at modern Kouklia.
PalaikastroPlacePalaikastro is a village in eastern Crete and the site of a large Minoan town excavated since 1902.
Palaiologos dynastyStateThe Palaiologos dynasty was the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, from 1261 until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.- Palais Thurn und Taxis (Frankfurt)Work / monumentThe Palais Thurn und Taxis is a Baroque palace in Frankfurt am Main built in 1731–1739 for the princes of Thurn und Taxis, hereditary postmasters of the Holy Roman…
PalakusPersonPalacus was a king of the Scythians in the Crimea in the late 2nd century BCE, a son of Scilurus.- Palamede GattilusioPersonPalamede Gattilusio was a Genoese lord of Ainos (Enez) in Thrace, from the Gattilusio family that ruled Lesbos and other northern Aegean lands under Byzantine suzerainty.
PalananPlacePalanan is a remote municipality on the Pacific coast of Isabela province in north-eastern Luzon, Philippines, cut off from the interior by the Sierra Madre mountains.- PalanciaPlaceThe Palancia is a river of eastern Spain that rises in the Sierra de El Toro and flows south-east to the Mediterranean near Sagunto, north of Valencia.
Palapa oathEventThe Palapa oath (Sumpah Palapa) is the vow attributed by the Javanese chronicle Pararaton to Gajah Mada, chief minister of Majapahit, on his appointment around 1336.
PalapyePlacePalapye is a town in central Botswana, between Gaborone and Francistown.
Palar RiverPlaceThe Palar is a river of southern India that rises in Karnataka, crosses a corner of Andhra Pradesh and flows east through northern Tamil Nadu, past Vellore and near…
Palatinate (region)PlaceThe Palatinate (Pfalz) is a historical region of south-western Germany on the middle Rhine.- Palatinate-KleeburgStatePalatinate-Kleeburg was a cadet line of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken branch of the Wittelsbachs, named after Kleeburg (Cleebourg) in northern Alsace.
Palatinate-NeuburgStatePalatinate-Neuburg was a Wittelsbach principality of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1505 after the Landshut War of Succession and centred on Neuburg an der Donau.
Palatine Chapel, AachenWork / monumentThe Palatine Chapel at Aachen is the octagonal chapel that Charlemagne built for his palace around 800, modelled on Byzantine churches such as San Vitale in Ravenna.
Palatine Chapel, PalermoWork / monumentThe Palatine Chapel, or Cappella Palatina, is the royal chapel of the Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily, built for King Roger II from 1132 and consecrated in 1140.
PalauPlacePalau is an island country in the western Pacific, at the western end of the Caroline Islands, made up of about 340 islands.- PalaungPeople / groupThe Palaung, who call themselves Ta'ang, are a Mon-Khmer-speaking people of the northern Shan hills of Myanmar and neighbouring parts of China.
PalawanPlacePalawan is a long island in the western Philippines between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea, now a province.- PalayakkararTermThe Palayakkarar, known in English as Poligars and in Kannada as Palegars, were military chiefs of south India who held territories called palayams under the…
Palazzina di caccia of StupinigiWork / monumentThe Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi is a royal hunting lodge south-west of Turin, designed by Filippo Juvarra for King Victor Amadeus II and begun in 1729.
Palazzo dei Papi (Viterbo)Work / monumentThe Palazzo dei Papi in Viterbo was built from 1255 to 1266 as a residence for the popes, who often lived in the city in the 13th century.- Palazzo dei Priori, PerugiaWork / monumentThe Palazzo dei Priori is the town hall of Perugia, begun in 1293 and enlarged into the 15th century, facing the Fontana Maggiore.
Palazzo dei Priori, VolterraWork / monumentThe Palazzo dei Priori is the town hall of Volterra in Tuscany, built from 1208 to 1257 and considered the oldest surviving town hall in Tuscany.