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PortoviejoPlacePortoviejo is the capital of Manabí province on the coast of Ecuador.
Portsmouth, New HampshirePlacePortsmouth is a port city in New Hampshire, United States, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.
Portsmouth, Rhode IslandPlacePortsmouth is a town on the northern part of Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.
Portuguese conquest of the Banda OrientalWar · 1816–1820The Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental was the war of 1816–1820 in which the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves invaded the territory east of…- Portuguese Constituent CortesInstitutionThe Portuguese Constituent Cortes was the elected assembly that met in Lisbon from January 1821 to November 1822 after the liberal revolution of 1820 in Porto.
Portuguese EmpireStateThe Portuguese Empire was one of the first European overseas empires, beginning with the capture of Ceuta in 1415 and lasting until the late twentieth century.
Portuguese House of BurgundyPeople / groupThe Portuguese House of Burgundy was the first royal dynasty of Portugal, ruling from 1139 to 1383.
Portuguese InquisitionInstitutionThe Portuguese Inquisition was a church tribunal established in Portugal in 1536 under pressure from the Spanish crown.- Portuguese languageTermPortuguese is a Romance language that originated in the western Iberian Peninsula.
Portuguese MalaccaStatePortuguese Malacca was the Portuguese colony at Malacca on the Malay Peninsula, founded when Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city from its sultan in 1511.
Portuguese Restoration WarWar · 1640–1668The Portuguese Restoration War was fought from 1640 to 1668 after Portugal rebelled against Spanish rule and proclaimed John IV of the House of Braganza king, ending…- Portuguese rounding of the Cape of Good HopeEventThe Portuguese rounding of the Cape of Good Hope refers to the voyages that opened a sea route from Europe around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean, first achieved by…
- Portuguese–Mamluk naval warWar · 1505–1517The Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was fought from 1505 to 1517 in the Arabian Sea and western Indian Ocean between Portugal and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, allied with…
Portus ItiusPlacePortus Itius was the harbour in the land of the Morini, in northern Gaul, from which Julius Caesar sailed for his second invasion of Britain in 54 BCE.
PorusPersonPorus was an Indian king who ruled the land between the Jhelum and Chenab rivers in the Punjab.
PoseidonReligion / ideaPoseidon was the Greek god of the sea, earthquakes and horses, brother of Zeus.
PosidoniusPersonPosidonius was a Greek Stoic philosopher, historian and scientist from Apamea in Syria who settled on Rhodes, where he ran a famous school and held public office.- PositivismReligion / ideaPositivism is a philosophy developed by Auguste Comte that holds that society should be organised on the basis of scientific knowledge.
PostumusPersonPostumus was a Roman general who founded the breakaway Gallic Empire.
Potala PalaceWork / monumentThe Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, was the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas and the seat of the Tibetan government.
Pōtatau Te WherowheroPersonPōtatau Te Wherowhero was a leading chief of the Waikato tribes and a noted warrior of the Musket Wars.- PotatoTermThe potato is a starchy tuber native to the Andes of South America, spread worldwide after the Spanish conquest.
PotawatomiPeople / groupThe Potawatomi are an Anishinaabe people of the western Great Lakes, closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, who in the 18th century lived around the southern shores…
PotchefstroomPlacePotchefstroom is a city in North West province, South Africa, on the Mooi River.
PotniaReligion / ideaPotnia, meaning 'Mistress' or 'Lady', is a title of a goddess or goddesses recorded in the Linear B tablets of Mycenaean Greece and Crete, from Knossos, Pylos and other…
Potomac RiverPlaceThe Potomac River flows about 650 kilometres from the Appalachian Mountains to Chesapeake Bay, forming much of the border between Maryland and Virginia.
PotosíPlacePotosí is a city in the Andes of present-day Bolivia, built beside a mountain of rich silver ore.
PotsdamPlacePotsdam is the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, on the Havel just south-west of Berlin.
Potsdam AgreementTreaty · 1945The Potsdam Agreement was signed on 1 August 1945 at the end of the Potsdam Conference between the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Potsdam DeclarationPeace · 1945The Potsdam Declaration was the statement issued on 26 July 1945 by the United States, Britain and China setting out the terms for Japan's surrender in the Second World…- Pound sterlingTermThe pound sterling is the currency of the United Kingdom.
PoundmakerPersonPoundmaker was a Plains Cree chief who accepted Treaty 6 with Canada in 1876 and settled on a reserve near Battleford.- Pouvanaa a OopaPersonPouvanaa a Oopa was a Tahitian nationalist politician and First World War veteran who led the movement for Polynesian rights after 1945.
Powis CastleWork / monumentPowis Castle is a medieval castle near Welshpool in mid Wales, built in the 13th century by the princes of Powys Wenwynwyn as their seat.- Poynings' LawWork / monumentPoynings' Law was an act passed in 1494 by a parliament at Drogheda under Sir Edward Poynings, lord deputy for Henry VII.
Požega, CroatiaPlacePožega is a town in the Slavonia region of eastern Croatia, in a fertile valley ringed by hills.
PoznańPlacePoznań is a city in west-central Poland on the Warta river, the historical capital of Greater Poland.
PozzuoliPlacePozzuoli is a city on the Bay of Naples in Campania, Italy.- Pra RiverPlaceThe Pra is a river in southern Ghana flowing into the Gulf of Guinea.
PrabhakaravardhanaPersonPrabhakaravardhana was a king of the Pushyabhuti dynasty of Thanesar in northern India in the late 6th century, and the father of Rajyavardhana and Harsha.
Prabhashankar PattaniPersonSir Prabhashankar Pattani was an Indian administrator who served as diwan, or chief minister, of Bhavnagar State in Kathiawar, and as a member of the Council of India…- PrabhavatiguptaPersonPrabhavatigupta was a Gupta princess, daughter of Emperor Chandragupta II, who married the Vakataka king Rudrasena II.
Prabowo SubiantoPersonPrabowo Subianto is an Indonesian politician and former general who became president in October 2024.- Prabu Geusan UlunPersonPrabu Geusan Ulun was a ruler of Sumedang Larang in the Priangan highlands of western Java in the late 16th century.
- Prabu Geusan Ulun MuseumInstitutionThe Prabu Geusan Ulun Museum is a museum in the former regents' palace of Sumedang in West Java, Indonesia, named after the 16th-century ruler of Sumedang Larang.
- Prabu SiliwangiPersonPrabu Siliwangi is the legendary ideal king of Pajajaran, the Sunda Kingdom of western Java, and the central royal figure of Sundanese oral tradition and the bardic…
PrabutyPlacePrabuty, in German Riesenburg, is a small town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland.- PradyotaPersonChanda Pradyota, also called Mahasena, was king of Avanti, ruling from Ujjain in the time of the Buddha.
- Pradyota dynastyPeople / groupThe Pradyota dynasty ruled the kingdom of Avanti, centred on Ujjain in western India, in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
Pradyumna ShahPersonPradyumna Shah was the last king of independent Garhwal in the Himalayas before the Gorkha conquest.
PraefectusInstitutionA praefectus, or prefect, was a Roman official appointed to a command or administrative post.
PraguePlacePrague is the capital of the Czech Republic and historically of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Prague CastlePlacePrague Castle is a vast castle complex above the Vltava in Prague, founded in the late 9th century by the Přemyslid duke Bořivoj.- Prague Slav CongressEventThe Prague Slav Congress met in June 1848, during the revolutions in the Austrian Empire, bringing together delegates of the Slav peoples of the monarchy and some from…
Prague SpringEventThe Prague Spring was the period of reform in Czechoslovakia that began when Alexander Dubček became party leader in January 1968.
PraiaPlacePraia is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, on the south coast of Santiago island.- Praja MandalReligion / ideaThe Praja Mandals were popular movements in the princely states of British India from the 1920s to the 1940s, linked to the Indian National Congress through the All…
PrajadhipokPersonPrajadhipok, King Rama VII of Siam, reigned from 1925 to 1935.
PrajnaparamitaWork / monumentThe Prajnaparamita, or Perfection of Wisdom, sutras are a group of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures on the emptiness of all phenomena and the wisdom of the bodhisattva, the…
PrakritTermPrakrit is the name for the vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages of ancient India, related to Sanskrit but simpler in sound and grammar.
Prasat ThongPersonPrasat Thong was king of Ayutthaya from 1629 to 1656 and founder of the Prasat Thong dynasty.
PrasenajitPersonPrasenajit, known in Pali as Pasenadi, was king of Kosala in northern India in the time of the Buddha, ruling from Shravasti.- PrasutagusPersonPrasutagus was king of the Iceni of East Anglia, who ruled as a client of Rome after the conquest of 43.
- Pratap Chandra Bhanj DeoPersonPratap Chandra Bhanj Deo was the last ruling Maharaja of Mayurbhanj, a princely state in Odisha, from 1928 to 1949.
Pratap MallaPersonPratap Malla was king of Kantipur (Kathmandu) from 1641 to 1674, the most celebrated ruler of the Malla kingdoms of the Kathmandu valley.
Pratap Singh of IdarPersonSir Pratap Singh was a Rathore prince of Jodhpur, long its chief minister and regent, who became Maharaja of Idar from 1902 to 1911.
Pratap Singh of Jammu and KashmirPersonPratap Singh was the Dogra Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir from 1885 to 1925.
Pratap Singh of SataraPersonPratap Singh was a descendant of Shivaji and nominal Chhatrapati of the Marathas under the Peshwas.
Pratap Singh PrabhakarPersonPratap Singh Prabhakar was a Naruka Kachhwaha chief who broke away from Jaipur in the 1770s and founded the state of Alwar in north-eastern Rajasthan.- Pratap SinghaPersonPratap Singha, or Susenghphaa, was king of the Ahom kingdom of Assam from 1603 to 1641.
- Prataparudra (Kakatiya dynasty)PersonPrataparudra was the last ruler of the Kakatiya dynasty, reigning from Warangal from 1289 to 1323 as the grandson and successor of Rudramadevi.
Prataparudra DevaPersonPrataparudra Deva was the last great ruler of the Gajapati Kingdom of Odisha.
PratapgadPlacePratapgad is a hill fort in the Satara district of Maharashtra, western India, built in 1656 on the orders of Shivaji to guard the passes of the Western Ghats.- Pratapsinh GaekwadPersonPratapsinh Gaekwad was the last ruling Maharaja of Baroda, succeeding his grandfather Sayajirao Gaekwad III in 1939.
- PratinasPersonPratinas of Phlius was a Greek dramatist and lyric poet active in Athens around 500 BCE, when he competed against Aeschylus.
Prato CathedralWork / monumentPrato Cathedral, dedicated to Santo Stefano, grew from the parish church around which the town developed and was enlarged from the 12th to the 15th century.
PrättigauPlaceThe Prättigau is an Alpine valley of the Landquart river in the canton of Graubünden, eastern Switzerland.- Pravahana JaivaliPersonPravahana Jaivali was a king of Panchala who appears in the Chandogya and Brihadaranyaka Upanishads.
PravarapuraPlacePravarapura was a capital of the main branch of the Vakataka dynasty in central India, founded by King Pravarasena II in the 5th century.- Pravarasena IPersonPravarasena I was the son of Vindhyashakti and the second ruler of the Vakataka dynasty of the Deccan.
Pravarasena IIPersonPravarasena II was a 5th-century king of the main branch of the Vakataka dynasty in the Deccan, son of Rudrasena II and the Gupta princess Prabhavatigupta.
PraviaPlacePravia is a town in western Asturias, near the mouth of the Nalón.- Pravir Chandra Bhanj DeoPersonPravir Chandra Bhanj Deo was the last ruling Maharaja of Bastar, installed as a child in 1936.
Práxedes Mateo SagastaPersonPráxedes Mateo Sagasta was a Spanish politician and leader of the Liberal Party during the Bourbon Restoration.
PraxitelesPersonPraxiteles was an Athenian sculptor of the 4th century BCE, one of the most admired artists of ancient Greece.
PrayagrajPlacePrayagraj, called Allahabad from the time of Akbar until 2018, is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna, a sacred bathing place for…- PrazeroInstitutionA prazero was the holder of a prazo, a Portuguese crown land grant in the Zambezi valley, often a powerful estate lord with private armed forces.
- PrazoInstitutionA prazo was a large estate in the Zambezi valley granted by the Portuguese crown, typically on lease for several generations.
- Pre-Columbian eraReligion / ideaThe pre-Columbian era refers to the history of the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and subsequent European colonisation.
PrefectInstitutionA prefect is an official placed in charge of an administrative unit or service.
Prefect of EgyptTermThe prefect of Egypt (praefectus Aegypti) was the governor of the Roman province of Egypt from its annexation in 30 BCE.
PregolyaPlaceThe Pregolya is a river in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, formed by the junction of the Instruch and the Angrapa and flowing about 123 km west to the Vistula Lagoon.
PrekmurjePlacePrekmurje is the north-easternmost region of Slovenia, lying beyond the Mura river on the borders of Austria, Hungary and Croatia, with its centre at Murska Sobota.- Preliminary Peace ConventionTreaty · Peace · 1828The Preliminary Peace Convention was the agreement signed in Rio de Janeiro on 27 August 1828 by the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata…
- Premier LeagueInstitutionThe Premier League is the top division of English men's football, founded in 1992 when the leading clubs broke away from the Football League.
Prempeh IPersonPrempeh I was the Asantehene, or ruler of the Ashanti Empire, at the end of the nineteenth century.- Prempeh IIPersonPrempeh II was Asantehene from 1931 to 1970, succeeding his uncle Prempeh I.
Přemyslid dynastyPeople / groupThe Přemyslid dynasty ruled Bohemia from the late 9th century until 1306, first as dukes and from 1198 as hereditary kings.- Presbyterian Church of WalesInstitutionThe Presbyterian Church of Wales, long known as the Calvinistic Methodist Church, grew out of the Welsh Methodist revival of the 18th century led by Howell Harris and…
Presian IPersonPresian I was ruler (khan) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 836 to 852.