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RondaPlaceRonda is a town in the mountains of Málaga province in Andalusia, Spain, built on either side of a deep gorge cut by the Guadalevín river.
RondôniaPlaceRondônia is a state in the Amazon region of western Brazil, bordering Bolivia, with its capital at Porto Velho.
Rong peoplePeople / groupThe Rong were peoples of the western and northern borderlands of ancient China whom the Zhou states regarded as outsiders.
RongelapPlaceRongelap is an atoll in the Marshall Islands, east of Bikini.
Ronnie BrunswijkPersonRonnie Brunswijk is a Surinamese Maroon leader and politician, a former soldier and bodyguard of Desi Bouterse who in 1986 founded the Jungle Commando and led it in the…
Roosevelt SkerritPersonRoosevelt Skerrit is a Dominican politician of the Dominica Labour Party who became prime minister in 2004, at 31 one of the youngest heads of government in the world.- RoossenekalPlaceRoossenekal is a small town in Mpumalanga, South Africa, north-east of Middelburg.
Roque DaltonPersonRoque Dalton was a Salvadoran poet, essayist and revolutionary, regarded as one of the most important Latin American poets of his generation.- Roque LópezPersonRoque López was a Filipino revolutionary leader from Panay who served as president of the Federal State of the Visayas, formed in 1898 after Spanish forces at Iloilo…
Roquebrune-Cap-MartinPlaceRoquebrune-Cap-Martin is a commune on the French Riviera between Monaco and Menton, centred on a hilltop village below a medieval castle.
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of TyrconnellPersonRory O'Donnell was the younger brother of Red Hugh O'Donnell and succeeded him as chief of Tír Chonaill.
Rory Óg O'MorePersonRory Óg O'More was an Irish chief of the O'Mores of Laois, whose lands had been confiscated and settled with English colonists in the 1550s as Queen's County.
Ros RiverPlaceThe Ros is a river of central Ukraine, a right-bank tributary of the Dnieper about 350 kilometres long, flowing past Bila Tserkva.
Rosario MurilloPersonRosario Murillo is a Nicaraguan poet and politician, the wife of Daniel Ortega and his closest partner in power.
Rose of LimaPersonRose of Lima was a Peruvian lay member of the Dominican order known for her severe asceticism, prayer and care for the poor and sick of Lima.
Rose RevolutionRevolution · 2003The Rose Revolution was the peaceful change of power in Georgia in November 2003.
Rosenborg CastleWork / monumentRosenborg Castle is a Renaissance castle in Copenhagen built by Christian IV between 1606 and 1624, first as a summer house in his gardens.
Rosetta StoneWork / monumentThe Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite slab inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BCE in the name of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy V, written in Egyptian…
RoskildePlaceRoskilde is a city on Zealand, Denmark, at the head of the Roskilde Fjord.
Rosli DhobiPersonRosli Dhobi was a Sarawak nationalist of the anti-cession movement, which opposed the transfer of Sarawak from the Brooke rajahs to the British crown in 1946.
Ross, ScotlandPlaceRoss is a region of the northern Highlands of Scotland stretching from the Moray Firth to the west coast.
Ross-on-WyePlaceRoss-on-Wye is a market town in Herefordshire, England, on a sandstone cliff above the River Wye.
Rossano di VaglioPlaceRossano di Vaglio is an archaeological site near Vaglio Basilicata, north-east of Potenza in southern Italy.
RostamPersonRostam is the greatest hero of Iranian epic, celebrated above all in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed around 1010.
Rostam FarrokhzadPersonRostam Farrokhzad was a Sasanian Persian general and leading figure at the court in the final years of the Sasanian Empire.
Rostislav I of KievPersonRostislav Mstislavich, a grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, was prince of Smolensk from 1127 and later Grand Prince of Kiev.
Rostislav MikhailovichPersonRostislav Mikhailovich was a Rus prince, son of Michael of Chernigov, who briefly held Halych before losing it to Daniel of Galicia.
Rostom of KartliPersonRostom, born Khosrow Mirza, was king of Kartli in eastern Georgia from 1633 to 1658.
RostovPlaceRostov, also called Rostov Veliky, is a town on Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, and one of the oldest towns of north-eastern Rus', first recorded in 862.
Rotenburg an der WümmePlaceRotenburg an der Wümme is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, between Bremen and Hamburg.
Rothenburg ob der TauberPlaceRothenburg ob der Tauber is a town in Franconia, Bavaria, above the Tauber valley, which grew below a Hohenstaufen castle and was a free imperial city from 1274 until…
Rothschild familyPeople / groupThe Rothschild family is a Jewish banking dynasty founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in the Judengasse of Frankfurt in the late 18th century.
Rotrou III, Count of PerchePersonRotrou III was Count of Perche from about 1100 to 1144 and a leading crusader.
Rötteln CastleWork / monumentRötteln Castle is a large castle ruin above Lörrach in south-western Baden-Württemberg.
RotterdamPlaceRotterdam is the second-largest city of the Netherlands, on the Nieuwe Maas in the delta of the Rhine and Meuse.
RouenPlaceRouen is a city on the Seine in northern France, historic capital of Normandy.
Round City of BaghdadWork / monumentThe Round City of Baghdad, officially named Madinat al-Salam or the City of Peace, was the circular walled capital founded in 762 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur on the…- Round Table Conferences (India)EventThe Round Table Conferences were three meetings held in London between 1930 and 1932 to discuss constitutional reform in British India.
- Rouran KhaganateStateThe Rouran Khaganate was a nomadic confederation that dominated the Mongolian steppe from the late fourth to the mid-sixth century CE.
RourkelaPlaceRourkela is an industrial city in Sundargarh district in northern Odisha, India.
RoussillonPlaceRoussillon is a historical region of southern France on the Mediterranean, at the eastern end of the Pyrenees, corresponding mainly to the department of…
Rova of AntananarivoWork / monumentThe Rova of Antananarivo is the royal palace complex of the Merina kingdom on the highest hill of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Rowlatt ActWork / monumentThe Rowlatt Act was a law passed by the Imperial Legislative Council of British India in March 1919, extending wartime emergency powers.
RoxanaPersonRoxana was a Bactrian noblewoman, daughter of Oxyartes, whom Alexander the Great married in 327 BCE.
Roxburgh CastlePlaceRoxburgh Castle was a royal castle in the Scottish Borders, on a ridge between the Tweed and the Teviot near Kelso, beside the medieval royal burgh of Roxburgh.
Roy WelenskyPersonRoy Welensky was a white Northern Rhodesian politician, born in Salisbury, who rose from railway worker and trade union leader to become prime minister of the…
Royal Air ForceInstitutionThe Royal Air Force is the air force of the United Kingdom, founded on 1 April 1918 as the world's first independent air service.- Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927Work / monumentThe Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 was an act of the UK Parliament that changed the formal name of the state to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and…
Royal and Pontifical University of MexicoInstitutionThe Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico was founded by a decree of Charles V in 1551 and opened in Mexico City in 1553, one of the first universities in the…- Royal Botanical Expedition to New GranadaEventThe Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada was a Spanish scientific enterprise directed by the priest and naturalist José Celestino Mutis from 1783 until his death…
Royal Commentaries of the IncasWork / monumentThe Comentarios Reales de los Incas is a history of the Inca Empire by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman, published in…
Royal Greenland Trading DepartmentInstitutionThe Royal Greenland Trading Department (Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) was a Danish state enterprise founded in 1776 that held a monopoly on trade with Greenland.
Royal Hungarian HonvédInstitutionThe Royal Hungarian Honvéd was the territorial army of the Kingdom of Hungary within Austria-Hungary, created in 1868 after the Compromise of 1867, with Hungarian as…
Royal HungaryStateRoyal Hungary was the part of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburg kings after the Battle of Mohács in 1526, consisting of the northern and western…- Royal Malay RegimentInstitutionThe Royal Malay Regiment is the main infantry regiment of the Malaysian Army, founded by the British in 1933 as the Malay Regiment.
Royal MarinesInstitutionThe Royal Marines are the amphibious infantry of the British Royal Navy, whose origins go back to a regiment raised for sea service in 1664.
Royal NavyInstitutionThe Royal Navy is the naval service of Britain, which developed from the English navy into the most powerful fleet in the world between the eighteenth and early…- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesInstitutionThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is the national learned society of the Netherlands, based in Amsterdam.
Royal Netherlands East Indies ArmyInstitutionThe Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) was the colonial army of the Dutch East Indies, formed in 1830 and separate from the army of the Netherlands.- Royal Newfoundland RegimentInstitutionThe Royal Newfoundland Regiment is an infantry regiment, now part of the Canadian Army reserve, raised as the Newfoundland Regiment in 1914 for the First World War.
Royal Niger CompanyInstitutionThe Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that held a commercial monopoly and administrative powers over territories along the lower Niger in the 1880s…
Royal Palace of CasertaPlaceThe Royal Palace of Caserta, north of Naples, was begun in 1752 for Charles of Bourbon to designs by Luigi Vanvitelli.
Royal Palaces of AbomeyPlaceThe Royal Palaces of Abomey are the complex of earthen palaces built by the kings of Dahomey at Abomey, in present-day Benin, from the 17th to the 19th century.
Royal Proclamation of 1763EventThe Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by George III after Britain gained France's North American territories in the Treaty of Paris.
Royal RoadWork / monumentThe Royal Road was an ancient highway of the Achaemenid Empire running about 2,700 kilometres from Susa to Sardis, with relay stations along its length.- Royal Titles Act 1876Work / monumentThe Royal Titles Act 1876 was a law of the British Parliament that allowed Queen Victoria to take the title Empress of India.
Royal Yugoslav ArmyInstitutionThe Royal Yugoslav Army was the army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Yugoslavia, from 1918 to 1945.
Rozafa CastlePlaceRozafa Castle is a fortress on a rocky hill above Shkodër in northern Albania, near the meeting of the Buna and Drin rivers and Lake Shkodër.
Rozvi EmpireStateThe Rozvi Empire was a state on the Zimbabwean plateau that emerged in the late seventeenth century under the Changamire dynasty, after breaking away from and…- RTL GroupInstitutionRTL Group is a Luxembourg-based media company and one of Europe's largest broadcasters.
- Ruaidrí Mac Duinn SléibePersonRuaidrí Mac Duinn Sléibe was the last powerful king of Ulaid, the over-kingdom of eastern Ulster, and head of the Dál Fiatach.
Ruaidri Ua ConchobairPersonRuaidri Ua Conchobair was king of Connacht and the last high king of Ireland, recognised from 1166.- Rubattino shipping companyWork / monumentThe Rubattino shipping company was a Genoese steamship company that purchased land at Assab Bay on the Red Sea coast in 1869.
- RubberTermRubber is an elastic material produced from the latex of certain tropical trees, which became an important industrial commodity in the late nineteenth and early…
Rubén BladesPersonRubén Blades is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor and politician, one of the leading figures of salsa music.
Rubén DaríoPersonRubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat, the founder and leading figure of modernismo in Spanish-language literature.- Ruben I, Prince of ArmeniaPersonRuben I was an Armenian lord who around 1080 established himself in the Taurus mountains of Cilicia as Byzantine power in the region collapsed.
Ruben Um NyobePersonRuben Um Nyobe was a Cameroonian nationalist and secretary-general of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, founded in 1948.
Rubenid dynastyPeople / groupThe Rubenid dynasty was an Armenian ruling family named after its founder Ruben I, who established a lordship in the Taurus mountains of Cilicia around 1080.
RudakiPersonRudaki was a Persian poet at the Samanid court of Bukhara, often called the father of Persian poetry.
RudamunPersonRudamun was the last king of the Theban line known as the Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt, reigning briefly in the 8th century BCE.
Rudbar of AlamutPlaceRudbar was a mountain district of northern Iran in the valley of the Shahrud and its tributary the Alamut river, in the highlands of Daylam.
Rudd ConcessionTreaty · 1888The Rudd Concession was a document signed in October 1888 by the Ndebele king Lobengula, granting exclusive mining rights in his lands to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by…
Rüdesheim am RheinPlaceRüdesheim am Rhein is a wine town in Hesse, Germany, on the Rhine at the start of the Rhine Gorge, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site.- RudiaePlaceRudiae was a Messapian town in the Salento peninsula of southern Italy, near present-day Lecce.
- RudnikPlaceRudnik is a mountain in central Serbia, south of Belgrade, whose name means 'mine'.
Rudolf BrunPersonRudolf Brun was the first burgomaster of Zürich.
Rudolf DieselPersonRudolf Diesel was a German engineer who invented the diesel engine, a compression-ignition engine far more efficient than the steam engines of his day.
Rudolf Duala Manga BellPersonRudolf Duala Manga Bell was king of the Bell people of Douala in German Kamerun.
Rudolf I of BurgundyPersonRudolf I, of the Welf family, was the first king of Upper Burgundy.
Rudolf I of GermanyPersonRudolf I of Germany, a Swabian count of the Habsburg family, was elected King of the Romans in 1273, ending the Great Interregnum after the fall of the Hohenstaufen.
Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-WittenbergPersonRudolf I was duke of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1298 to 1356.- Rudolf II of BurgundyPersonRudolf II was king of Upper Burgundy from 912 to 937.
Rudolf II, Holy Roman EmperorPersonRudolf II was a Habsburg ruler, King of Hungary from 1572, King of Bohemia from 1575 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1576 to 1612.
Rudolf III of BurgundyPersonRudolf III was the last king of the Kingdom of Burgundy, also called Arles, reigning from 993 to 1032.
Rudolf IV, Duke of AustriaPersonRudolf IV, called the Founder, was Habsburg duke of Austria from 1358 to 1365.- Rudolf SlánskýPersonRudolf Slánský was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1951 and a leader of the 1948 takeover.
Rudolf StüssiPersonRudolf Stüssi was burgomaster of Zürich who led the city into alliance with the Habsburgs during the Old Zürich War.
Rudolph of FrancePersonRudolph was duke of Burgundy from 921 and king of West Francia from 923 until his death in 936, the son of Richard the Justiciar.
RudolstadtPlaceRudolstadt is a town on the Saale in Thuringia, residence of the counts and later princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1599 until 1918.