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- PaniniPersonPanini was an ancient Indian grammarian, probably active in the 5th or 4th century BCE in the north-west of the subcontinent, traditionally associated with Shalatula…
PanioniumPlaceThe Panionium was the common sanctuary of the Ionian League, dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios, on the northern slopes of Mount Mycale in western Anatolia.
Panj RiverPlaceThe Panj is the upper course of the Amu Darya in Central Asia, formed by the junction of the Pamir and Wakhan rivers.
PanjikentPlacePanjikent is a town in north-western Tajikistan on the Zarafshan river, east of Samarkand.
PanlongchengPlacePanlongcheng is an archaeological site of the Erligang period near Wuhan in Hubei, China, close to the Yangtze River.
Panna National ParkPlacePanna National Park is a national park of about 540 square kilometres in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, on the Ken river.
PannaiStatePannai was a port polity on the east coast of Sumatra.
Pannonhalma ArchabbeyPlacePannonhalma Archabbey is a Benedictine monastery on a hill in western Hungary, founded in 996 under Grand Prince Géza and richly endowed by Stephen I.
PannoniaPlacePannonia is a historical region of central Europe west of the Danube, covering parts of present-day Hungary, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia, originally a Roman province.- Pant PratinidhiTermPant Pratinidhi, or Pratinidhi, was a high office of the Maratha state, created by Chhatrapati Rajaram in the 1690s for a viceregent who could act in the king's name…
Pant SachivTermThe Sachiv, or Pant Sachiv, was one of the eight ministers of the Ashta Pradhan council created by Shivaji, responsible for royal correspondence and records.- Pantaleimon ShpylkaPersonPantaleimon Shpylka was a Greek Catholic priest in the Lemko region of the Carpathians.
- PanthReligion / ideaThe Panth is the collective community of Sikhs, regarded as a body bound by shared faith and guided by the Guru.
- PanticapaeumPlacePanticapaeum was an ancient Greek city on the site of modern Kerch in Crimea, founded by colonists from Miletus around 600 BCE.
Panton, Leslie and CompanyPeople / groupPanton, Leslie and Company was a trading firm founded by Scottish Loyalist merchants, among them William Panton and John Leslie, that dominated the deerskin trade with…
Pánuco RiverPlaceThe Pánuco River is a river of eastern Mexico that drains part of the central highlands and reaches the Gulf of Mexico at Tampico.- Paolo ErizzoPersonPaolo Erizzo was the Venetian bailo, or governor, of Negroponte (Chalkis) on Euboea when Mehmed II besieged it by land and sea in 1470.
Paolo GuinigiPersonPaolo Guinigi was lord of Lucca from 1400 to 1430, from the city's leading merchant family.
Paolo Lucio AnafestoPersonPaolo Lucio Anafesto is, according to Venetian tradition, the first Doge of Venice, elected in 697 by the lagoon communities under Byzantine overlordship.
Paolo MalatestaPersonPaolo Malatesta, called il Bello, was a son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini, and served as captain of the people in Florence in 1282.- Paolo MatthiaePersonPaolo Matthiae is an Italian archaeologist who directed the excavations of the University of Rome La Sapienza at Tell Mardikh in Syria from 1964.
Paolo UccelloPersonPaolo Uccello (1397–1475) was a Florentine painter known for his fascination with linear perspective.
Paolo VeronesePersonPaolo Veronese was a painter from Verona who worked mainly in Venice, known for his huge, brightly coloured feasts and allegories.
PapacyInstitutionThe papacy is the office of the Pope, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church.
PapakPersonPapak, or Pabag, was a local ruler in Persis in south-western Iran in the early 3rd century CE and father of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian Empire.
PapeetePlacePapeete is the capital of French Polynesia, on the north-west coast of Tahiti.
PapeihaPersonPapeiha was a Polynesian Christian teacher from Raiatea who worked for the London Missionary Society.- Paper moneyTermPaper money is currency printed on paper rather than minted in metal.
- PapermakingTermPapermaking is the craft of producing paper from plant fibres, invented in China.
PapiamentoTermPapiamento is a creole language spoken on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in the southern Caribbean.
PapinianPersonPapinian was a Roman jurist of the late second and early third centuries CE, regarded as one of the greatest legal minds of the classical period.
Papora peoplePeople / groupThe Papora are an indigenous plains people of the coastal plain around present-day Taichung in west-central Taiwan.- Papua Act 1905Work / monumentThe Papua Act 1905 was a law of the Australian Parliament that accepted British New Guinea from Britain and made it the Territory of Papua, administered by Australia.
Papua New GuineaPlacePapua New Guinea is a country occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands in the south-western Pacific, with its capital at Port Moresby.- PapyrusTermPapyrus is a writing material made from the pith of the papyrus plant, which grew abundantly in the Nile valley and delta.
Paquisha WarWar · 1981The Paquisha War was a brief armed conflict between Ecuador and Peru in January and February 1981 in the Cordillera del Cóndor, in a border area left undemarcated by…
Paracas CandelabraWork / monumentThe Paracas Candelabra is a large geoglyph cut into a sandy hillside on the north side of the Paracas peninsula in Peru, facing Pisco Bay.
Paracel IslandsPlaceThe Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the northern South China Sea, east of Vietnam and south of Hainan.
Paradiso (Dante)Work / monumentParadiso is the third and final part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, completed shortly before his death in 1321.
ParaetoniumPlaceParaetonium was an ancient port on the Mediterranean coast west of Alexandria, on the site of modern Marsa Matruh in Egypt.
ParaguayPlaceParaguay is a landlocked country in central South America.
Paraguayan WarWar · 1864–1870The Paraguayan War, fought from 1864 to 1870, was a conflict between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.- ParahuPersonParahu was a ruler of the Land of Punt shown in the reliefs of Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari, which record an Egyptian expedition to Punt around 1470 BCE.
ParaíbaPlaceParaíba is a state in north-eastern Brazil on the Atlantic coast, between Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco, with its capital at João Pessoa.
Paraíba ValleyPlaceThe Paraíba Valley is a region in south-eastern Brazil, along the Paraíba do Sul River between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Parakrama SamudraWork / monumentThe Parakrama Samudra is a large reservoir beside Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, built by King Parakramabahu I in the 12th century by joining several older tanks behind a…
Parakramabahu IPersonParakramabahu I was king of Sri Lanka from 1153 to 1186, ruling from Polonnaruwa.
Parakramabahu IIPersonParakramabahu II was king of Dambadeniya in Sri Lanka from 1236 to 1270, the most celebrated ruler of that dynasty.- Parakramabahu IIIPersonParakramabahu III was a king of Sri Lanka who reigned from 1287 to 1293, ruling from Polonnaruwa.
- Parakramabahu VIPersonParakramabahu VI was the last Sinhalese king to unify all of Sri Lanka.
- ParamardiPersonParamardi was the last powerful king of the Chandela dynasty, ruling Bundelkhand from about 1165 to 1203.
ParamariboPlaceParamaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname, on the Suriname River near the Atlantic coast.- Parameshvaravarman IPersonParameshvaravarman I was king of the Pallava dynasty from about 670 to 695.
- Parameshvaravarman IIPersonParameshvaravarman II was the last king of the main line of the Pallava dynasty, reigning from about 728 to 731.
ParameswaraPersonParameswara was a Malay ruler who founded the Malacca Sultanate around 1400.
Paraná RiverPlaceThe Paraná is the second-longest river of South America, flowing about 4,880 kilometres from south-central Brazil along the borders of Paraguay and through Argentina to…
Paraná, Entre RíosPlaceParaná is a city in eastern Argentina, the capital of Entre Ríos Province, on the east bank of the Paraná river opposite Santa Fe.
ParandaPlaceParanda is a town in Dharashiv (Osmanabad) district of Maharashtra, India, known for its large fort.
ParanjothiPersonParanjothi was a general of the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I who led the army that captured and sacked the Chalukya capital Vatapi in 642.
Parantaka IPersonParantaka I was a king of the Chola dynasty who ruled from 907 to 955.
PararatonWork / monumentThe Pararaton, or Book of Kings, is a Javanese chronicle in Kawi prose telling the history of the kingdoms of Singhasari and Majapahit, beginning with the founder Ken…- Paras RamPersonParas Ram was a member of the Umat Parmar ruling house of Rajgarh in Malwa, central India, who founded the state of Narsinghgarh in 1681.
Parashurameshvara TempleWork / monumentThe Parashurameshvara Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, generally dated to the 7th century.
ParchamPeople / groupParcham ('Banner') was one of the two factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, led by Babrak Karmal.- Pareatges of AndorraTreaty · Peace · 1278–1288The Pareatges of Andorra were agreements signed in 1278 and 1288 by the Bishop of Urgell, Pere d'Urtx, and the Count of Foix, Roger-Bernard III, after years of conflict…
Parex BankInstitutionParex Bank was a Latvian commercial bank founded in Riga in 1992 that grew into the country's second-largest bank, with many deposits from non-resident customers.
PargaPlaceParga is a coastal town in Epirus in north-western Greece, on the Ionian Sea opposite Paxos.
Pargalı Ibrahim PashaPersonPargalı Ibrahim Pasha was the boyhood friend and grand vizier of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523.- PariharPeople / groupThe Parihars are a Rajput clan of northern and central India who claim descent from the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty, which ruled much of northern India from the 8th to…
ParihasporaPlaceParihaspora was a city founded in the 8th century by Lalitaditya Muktapida, king of Kashmir, on a plateau near modern Srinagar.
ParikshitPersonParikshit was a Kuru king of the late Vedic period, praised in a hymn of the Atharvaveda for the peace and prosperity of his realm.- Parikshit NarayanPersonParikshit Narayan was the last independent king of Koch Hajo, the eastern Koch kingdom in western Assam.
- ParionPlaceParion was an ancient Greek city on the Asian shore of the Hellespont, near the village of Kemer in Çanakkale province of Turkey.
ParisPlaceParis is the capital of France and has long been one of Europe's principal political and cultural centres.- Paris Convention of 1858Treaty · 1858The Paris Convention of 1858 was an agreement of the great powers, signed on 19 August 1858, that reorganised the Danubian Principalities after the Crimean War.
Paris LodronPersonParis Lodron was prince-archbishop of Salzburg from 1619 to 1653.
Paris Peace AccordsTreaty · Peace · 1973The Paris Peace Accords were signed on 27 January 1973 by the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government…- Paris Peace AgreementsTreaty · Peace · 1991The Paris Peace Agreements were signed on 23 October 1991 by Cambodia's Supreme National Council, representing the rival factions, and eighteen other states to end the…
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)Peace · 1919–1920The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the victorious Allied powers after the First World War, opened in January 1919 and dominated by Britain, France, the…- Paris Peace Treaties (1947)Treaty · Peace · 1947The Paris Peace Treaties were signed on 10 February 1947 between the Allied powers and the former Axis allies Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland.
Parlement of ParisInstitutionThe Parlement of Paris was the highest court of justice of the Kingdom of France, developed from the king's court in the thirteenth century and housed in the royal…- Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949Work / monumentThe Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 are two acts of the UK Parliament that limit the power of the House of Lords.
Parliament of ÅlandInstitutionThe Parliament of Åland, the Lagting, is the legislature of the self-governing Åland Islands of Finland.
Parliament of FinlandInstitutionThe Parliament of Finland, or Eduskunta, is the country's single-chamber legislature of 200 members.- Parliament of FriuliInstitutionThe Parliament of Friuli was the representative assembly of the Patria del Friuli, the state of the patriarchs of Aquileia, documented from the 13th century.
- Parliament of Great BritainInstitutionThe Parliament of Great Britain was the legislature of the Kingdom of Great Britain, formed in 1707 by the union of the parliaments of England and Scotland and meeting…
- Parliament of IrelandInstitutionThe Parliament of Ireland was the legislature of the Lordship and then the Kingdom of Ireland, meeting from the late 13th century.
Parliament of MechelenInstitutionThe Parliament of Mechelen was the supreme court established by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, at Mechelen in 1473 for his Low Countries lands.
Parliament of QuillínTreaty · Peace · 1641The Parliament of Quillín was a peace meeting held in January 1641 between the Spanish governor of Chile, the Marquis of Baides, and Mapuche leaders.- Parliament of RavennikaEventThe Parliament of Ravennika was an assembly held in May 1209 at Ravennika, in central Greece, by the Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders.
Parliament of ScotlandInstitutionThe Parliament of Scotland was the national legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the thirteenth century until 1707.- Parliament of Southern IrelandInstitutionThe Parliament of Southern Ireland was the home-rule legislature created for the 26 counties of Southern Ireland by the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Parliamentary Republic (Chile)EventThe Parliamentary Republic was the period of Chilean history from the civil war of 1891 to the Constitution of 1925, during which Congress dominated weak presidents and…- Parmar RajputsPeople / groupThe Parmar, or Panwar, are a Rajput clan who trace their descent from the medieval Paramara dynasty of Malwa.
- ParmehutuPeople / groupParmehutu (Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement) was a Rwandan political party founded by Grégoire Kayibanda in 1959 from his earlier Hutu social movement.
ParmenidesPersonParmenides of Elea was a Greek philosopher of the early 5th century BCE from the colony of Elea in southern Italy.
ParmigianinoPersonParmigianino, born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola in Parma, was a painter and printmaker of the Mannerist style.- ParniPeople / groupThe Parni were a nomadic Iranian tribe of the steppe east of the Caspian Sea, part of the Dahae confederation.
ParnonPlaceParnon is a mountain range in the eastern Peloponnese of Greece, running from Arcadia south-east through Laconia and rising to about 1,935 metres.
ParopamisadaePlaceParopamisadae was an ancient province in the Hindu Kush region of present-day Afghanistan, around the area of modern Kabul.