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Pedro PaternoPersonPedro Paterno was a Filipino lawyer, writer and politician from a wealthy Manila family.- Pedro Ruiz de AzagraPersonPedro Ruiz de Azagra was a Navarrese noble who obtained Albarracín around 1170 from Ibn Mardanish, the ruler of Murcia he had served.
Pedro SantanaPersonPedro Santana was a Dominican rancher and general who led the army in the war of independence from Haiti in 1844 and became the first president of the Dominican Republic.
Pedro TeixeiraPersonPedro Teixeira (c. 1587–1641) was a Portuguese explorer and soldier in Brazil.
Pedubast IPersonPedubast I was a king of Egypt in the late 9th century BCE, usually counted as the founder of the Twenty-third Dynasty.
Peel CommissionInstitutionThe Peel Commission was a British royal commission led by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
PeenePlaceThe Peene is a river in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, north-eastern Germany, about 100 km long.- PegnitzPlaceThe Pegnitz is a river in Franconia, Bavaria, which flows from Franconian Switzerland through Nuremberg, dividing its old town, and joins the Rednitz at Fürth to form…
Pehr Evind SvinhufvudPersonPehr Evind Svinhufvud was a Finnish statesman who led the Senate that declared Finland's independence from Russia on 6 December 1917.
Peire VidalPersonPeire Vidal was a troubadour from Toulouse and one of the most admired Occitan poets of the late twelfth century.
PeisistratusPersonPeisistratus was a tyrant of Athens who seized power three times between about 561 and 546 BCE and ruled until his death in 527 BCE.
PekahPersonPekah was king of Israel from about 740 to 732 BCE, an army officer who seized the throne by killing Pekahiah.
PekahiahPersonPekahiah was king of Israel for about two years around 742–740 BCE, succeeding his father Menahem.
PekanPlacePekan is the royal town of the Malaysian state of Pahang, near the mouth of the Pahang River on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula.
Pelagius of AsturiasPersonPelagius was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias, ruling from about 718 until 737.
PelagoniaPlacePelagonia is a plain and historical region in the south of North Macedonia, around Bitola and Prilep, extending into north-western Greece.
PeleliuPlacePeleliu is a small coral island in southern Palau in the western Pacific.
PeliasPersonIn Greek mythology, Pelias was the king of Iolkos in Thessaly who seized the throne from his half-brother Aeson.
PelješacPlacePelješac is a peninsula in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, joined to the mainland at the narrow isthmus of Ston.
Pellegrino RossiPersonPellegrino Rossi was an Italian-born economist, jurist and politician who taught in Geneva and Paris and served as French ambassador to Rome.
PellestrinaPlacePellestrina is a long, narrow barrier island between the Venetian lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, south of the Lido and north of Chioggia.
PelopidasPersonPelopidas was a Theban general and statesman who led the exiles who freed Thebes from its Spartan garrison in 379 BCE.
PeloponnesePlaceMorea was the name used from the Middle Ages to the 19th century for the Peloponnese, the large peninsula of southern Greece.
Peloponnesian LeagueStateThe Peloponnesian League was an alliance of Greek city-states in the Peloponnese led by Sparta, formed in the sixth century BCE.
Peloponnesian WarWar · 431–404 BCEThe Peloponnesian War was fought from 431 to 404 BCE between Athens and its empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
PeltuinumPlacePeltuinum was an ancient town of the Vestini on a high plateau near Prata d'Ansidonia in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.
PelusiumPlacePelusium was a city at the easternmost mouth of the Nile, near modern Port Said, guarding the route into Egypt from Sinai and Palestine.
Pemayangtse MonasteryWork / monumentPemayangtse Monastery is a Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma school near Pelling in western Sikkim, India, founded in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Pemba IslandPlacePemba Island is an island of the Zanzibar Archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, north of Unguja (Zanzibar Island).
Pemba, MozambiquePlacePemba, called Porto Amélia under Portuguese rule, is a port city on Pemba Bay, one of the largest natural harbours of Africa, and the capital of Cabo Delgado province…
Pembroke CastleWork / monumentPembroke Castle is a medieval castle in Pembroke, south-west Wales, founded by Arnulf de Montgomery in 1093.
Pembroke, PembrokeshirePlacePembroke is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, on a ridge above the Pembroke River.
PembrokeshirePlacePembrokeshire is a county in the south-west corner of Wales, with its administrative centre at Haverfordwest and the cathedral city of St Davids.- PemexInstitutionPemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) is Mexico's state oil company, created in 1938 after President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated the foreign oil companies.
Pemmican WarWar · 1812–1821The Pemmican War was a conflict between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company's Red River Colony in present-day Manitoba.- Peña AmayaPlacePeña Amaya is a flat-topped mountain in the north of the province of Burgos, Spain, the site of an ancient hill fort of the Cantabri.
Penal transportationTermPenal transportation was the punishment of sending convicted criminals to a distant colony.- Peñalba de VillastarPlacePeñalba de Villastar is a sandstone cliff near Villastar in the province of Teruel, Spain, bearing Celtiberian and Latin inscriptions carved around the first century…
PenangPlacePenang is an island and state on the north-west coast of the Malay Peninsula, developed by the British as a port from 1786.
PenataranWork / monumentPenataran is the largest Hindu temple complex of East Java, near Blitar on the slopes of Mount Kelud in Indonesia.- PenatekaPeople / groupThe Penateka, or Honey Eaters, were the southernmost division of the Comanche, living on the Edwards Plateau of central Texas.
Penda of MerciaPersonPenda was the pagan king of Mercia who made it the strongest kingdom of the English Midlands in the mid-7th century.
PenedèsPlaceThe Penedès is a historic region of Catalonia between Barcelona and Tarragona, divided into the comarques of Alt Penedès, Baix Penedès and Garraf.
Peng DehuaiPersonPeng Dehuai was a Chinese Communist general who commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers in the Korean War from 1950 and later served as minister of defence.
PenghuPlacePenghu, also called the Pescadores, is an archipelago of about 90 small islands in the Taiwan Strait.
Peninsular WarWar · 1808The Peninsular War was the conflict fought in Spain and Portugal against Napoleonic France, beginning in 1808.
Penkovka culturePeople / groupThe Penkovka culture is an early Slavic archaeological culture of the 6th and 7th centuries, found in the forest-steppe of Ukraine and Moldova, between the Dniester and…
PenmachnoPlacePenmachno is a village in the Machno valley in Conwy county, north Wales.- Penmon PrioryPlacePenmon Priory is a religious site at the eastern tip of Anglesey, traditionally founded in the sixth century by Saint Seiriol.
Penn MuseumInstitutionThe Penn Museum, formally the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is a museum and research institution in Philadelphia founded in 1887.
Pennal LetterWork / monumentThe Pennal Letter was written by Owain Glyndŵr at Pennal on 31 March 1406 to Charles VI of France.
Penne, AbruzzoPlacePenne is a hill town in the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy, between the Gran Sasso and the Adriatic.
Pennine AlpsPlaceThe Pennine Alps are a range of the western Alps along the border between Switzerland and Italy, between the Great St Bernard Pass and the Simplon Pass.
PenninesPlaceThe Pennines are a range of hills and moors running north and south through northern England, from the Peak District to the Tyne Gap near the Scottish border, and often…
PennsylvaniaPlacePennsylvania is a state in the north-eastern United States.- Pennsylvania DutchPeople / groupThe Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of German-speaking immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many from the…
PenobscotPeople / groupThe Penobscot are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people of the Penobscot river valley in Maine, members of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
Peñón of AlgiersPlaceThe Peñón of Algiers was a small rocky islet facing the port of Algiers on which Spain built a fortress around 1510 to dominate the city.- PenrithPlacePenrith is a market town in Cumbria, north-west England, near the confluence of the rivers Eamont and Lowther.
PensacolaPlacePensacola is a port city on Pensacola Bay in north-western Florida.- Pentapolis (Cyrenaica)PlaceThe Pentapolis was the group of five leading Greek cities of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya: Cyrene, its port Apollonia, Taucheira, Barca or its successor Ptolemais, and…
- Pentapolis (Italy)PlaceThe Pentapolis was a group of five cities on the Adriatic coast of Italy, Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia and Ancona, governed by the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.
- PentathlusPersonPentathlus was a Greek leader from Cnidus who, according to Diodorus and Pausanias, led settlers from Cnidus and Rhodes to found a colony near Lilybaeum in western…
PenthièvrePlacePenthièvre is a historic region of northern Brittany, France, around Lamballe and the bay of Saint-Brieuc.
PentriPeople / groupThe Pentri were the largest and most powerful of the four Samnite peoples of ancient Italy, living in the mountains of modern Molise around their chief town, Bovianum.
PenukondaPlacePenukonda is a town in Andhra Pradesh, India, below a hill fortress.
PenycloddiauPlacePenycloddiau is an Iron Age hillfort in the Clwydian Range of north-east Wales, one of the largest in the country, enclosing about 21 hectares within its ramparts.
PenyengatPlacePenyengat is a small island off Tanjung Pinang in the Riau Islands of Indonesia.- People Power RevolutionRevolution · 1986The People Power Revolution was a peaceful popular uprising in the Philippines on 22–25 February 1986 that ended the rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
People's Action PartyInstitutionThe People's Action Party is a political party in Singapore, founded in 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew and others, at first in alliance with left-wing trade unionists.
People's Army of VietnamInstitutionThe People's Army of Vietnam is the armed force of Vietnam, founded in December 1944 as a small propaganda unit under Vo Nguyen Giap.
People's commissarTermA people's commissar was a minister of the Soviet government between 1917 and 1946, a member of the Council of People's Commissars in charge of a branch of…
People's Consultative AssemblyInstitutionThe People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) is the highest legislative body of Indonesia.- People's Council of LatviaInstitutionThe People's Council of Latvia was the provisional parliament formed by Latvian political parties in Riga, which proclaimed the independence of Latvia on 18 November…
- People's Court (Bulgaria)InstitutionThe People's Court was a special tribunal set up in Bulgaria after the communist-led Fatherland Front took power in September 1944.
People's Court (Germany)InstitutionThe People's Court was a special court set up in Nazi Germany in 1934 to try treason and other political offences outside the ordinary justice system.- People's Defence ForcePeople / groupThe People's Defence Force is the armed wing of Myanmar's National Unity Government, formed in May 2021 after the military coup.
People's Democratic Party of AfghanistanPeople / groupThe People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was a Marxist-Leninist party founded in Kabul in 1965 by Nur Muhammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and others.
People's Electoral Movement (Aruba)People / groupThe People's Electoral Movement, in Papiamento Movimiento Electoral di Pueblo or MEP, is a political party in Aruba founded by Betico Croes in 1971.
People's Front for Democracy and JusticePeople / groupThe People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the ruling and only legal party of Eritrea, formed in February 1994 from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, which…
People's Liberation ArmyInstitutionThe People's Liberation Army is the armed force of the Chinese Communist Party, tracing its origin to the Nanchang uprising of 1927.
People's Movement for the Liberation of AngolaPeople / groupThe People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is an Angolan political party founded in the 1950s, which fought Portuguese rule from 1961 under Agostinho Neto.
People's National CongressPeople / groupThe People's National Congress is a political party in Guyana founded in 1957 by Forbes Burnham after he split from the People's Progressive Party.- People's National MovementPeople / groupThe People's National Movement is a political party of Trinidad and Tobago founded by the historian Eric Williams in 1956.
People's National PartyPeople / groupThe People's National Party is one of Jamaica's two main political parties, founded in 1938 by Norman Manley amid labour unrest.- People's Party (Dalmatia)People / groupThe People's Party was a political party in the Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia, founded in the 1860s, that sought Dalmatia's union with Croatia-Slavonia and the use of…
People's Progressive Party (Guyana)People / groupThe People's Progressive Party is a political party of Guyana founded in 1950 by Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan and Forbes Burnham.
People's Progressive Party (The Gambia)People / groupThe People's Progressive Party was a political party of The Gambia, founded in 1959 and led by Dawda Jawara.- People's Radical PartyPeople / groupThe People's Radical Party was a Serbian political party founded in 1881 by Nikola Pašić and others, with a strong base among the peasantry.
- People's Rally for ProgressPeople / groupThe People's Rally for Progress is the ruling party of Djibouti, founded in 1979 by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon.
People's Republic of ChinaStateThe People's Republic of China is the state founded by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.
People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)InstitutionThe People's Revolutionary Government was the socialist government of Grenada formed after the New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew Eric Gairy on 13 March…
People's SecretariatInstitutionThe People's Secretariat was the government of the Bolshevik-led Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, formed in Kharkiv in December 1917 as a rival to the Central…- People's SeimasInstitutionThe People's Seimas was the parliament of Lithuania elected on 14–15 July 1940 under Soviet occupation, in a vote with a single list of Communist-approved candidates.
People's United PartyPeople / groupThe People's United Party is a political party of Belize, founded in 1950 in protest at a currency devaluation in British Honduras.
People's Volunteer ArmyInstitutionThe People's Volunteer Army was the force of the People's Republic of China that fought in the Korean War.
PeoriaPeople / groupThe Peoria were one of the main peoples of the Illinois Confederation, living along the Illinois river, where the city of Peoria bears their name.- Pepi IPersonPepi I Meryre was a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt whose long reign was one of the most active of the Old Kingdom.
Pepi IIPersonPepi II was a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, credited by tradition with one of the longest reigns in history, of up to 90 years.
Pepin I of AquitainePersonPepin I of Aquitaine was a son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and king of Aquitaine from 817 until his death in 838.