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River DeveronPlaceThe River Deveron is a river in north-east Scotland, flowing about 100 kilometres from the hills of Aberdeenshire past Huntly and Turriff to the North Sea at Banff and…
River Don (Aberdeenshire)PlaceThe River Don is a river in north-east Scotland, flowing about 130 kilometres from the Grampian mountains through Aberdeenshire to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
River DyfiPlaceThe River Dyfi, in English the Dovey, is a river of mid-Wales about 50 kilometres long that rises below Aran Fawddwy and flows south-west past Machynlleth to the sea at…
River Eden, CumbriaPlaceThe River Eden is a river of north-west England that rises in the Pennines and flows north-west through Cumbria, past Appleby and Carlisle, into the Solway Firth.
River FealePlaceThe River Feale rises in the Mullaghareirk Mountains near the borders of Cork and Limerick and flows north-west through north Kerry, past Listowel, to the Shannon…- River Garry (Perthshire)PlaceThe River Garry is a river in Atholl, northern Perthshire, Scotland.
River Great OusePlaceThe River Great Ouse is a river in eastern England, about 230 km long, flowing from Northamptonshire through Bedford, Huntingdon and Ely to the Wash at King's Lynn.- River InnyPlaceThe River Inny is a river in the Irish midlands that flows through Lough Sheelin and Lough Derravaragh and across Counties Westmeath and Longford into Lough Ree on the…
River IrfonPlaceThe River Irfon is a river in mid Wales that rises in the Cambrian Mountains and flows south-east through Llanwrtyd Wells to join the River Wye at Builth Wells.
River LeaPlaceThe River Lea is a river in south-east England, about 68 km long, rising in Bedfordshire and flowing through Hertfordshire to join the Thames in east London.
River LiffeyPlaceThe River Liffey rises in the Wicklow Mountains and flows in a wide loop through Kildare to Dublin Bay, dividing the city of Dublin into north and south.
River MaiguePlaceThe River Maigue is a river in County Limerick, Ireland, flowing north through Croom and Adare to the Shannon estuary.
River MedwayPlaceThe River Medway flows through Kent in south-eastern England to the Thames estuary.
River MerseyPlaceThe River Mersey is a river of north-west England that flows into the Irish Sea through a wide estuary at Liverpool.
River NenePlaceThe River Nene rises in Northamptonshire in the English Midlands and flows north-east through Northampton, Peterborough and Wisbech to the Wash.
River NessPlaceThe River Ness is a river in the Scottish Highlands that flows from Loch Ness through Inverness to the Moray Firth.
River NorePlaceThe River Nore is a river of south-east Ireland, about 140 km long, rising in County Tipperary and flowing through Laois and Kilkenny to join the Barrow above New Ross.
River OykelPlaceThe River Oykel is a river of the northern Scottish Highlands, rising near Ben More Assynt and flowing east to the Kyle of Sutherland and the Dornoch Firth.
River SevernPlaceThe River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, about 354 kilometres long, rising on Plynlimon in mid Wales and flowing through Shropshire and Worcestershire to…
River ShannonPlaceThe River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland, flowing about 360 kilometres from County Cavan south to an estuary on the Atlantic below Limerick.
River TamarPlaceThe River Tamar flows about 98 kilometres south from near the north coast of Cornwall to Plymouth Sound, forming most of the boundary between Cornwall and Devon.
River TayPlaceThe River Tay is the longest river in Scotland, about 190 km long, and the largest in the United Kingdom by volume of water.
River TeesPlaceThe River Tees is a river in northern England, flowing about 137 kilometres east from Cross Fell in the Pennines to the North Sea at Teesside.
River TeifiPlaceThe River Teifi is a river of west Wales, about 120 kilometres long, that rises near the Teifi Pools in the Cambrian Mountains and flows past Tregaron, Lampeter and…
River ThamesPlaceThe River Thames is the longest river wholly in England, flowing about 346 km from the Cotswolds through Oxford and London to the North Sea.
River TrentPlaceThe Trent is the third-longest river in England, nearly 300 kilometres long, flowing from the Staffordshire moorlands through the Midlands to join the Ouse and form the…
River TummelPlaceThe River Tummel is a river of Perthshire, Scotland.
River TweedPlaceThe River Tweed flows about 156 km from the Southern Uplands of Scotland to the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
River TynePlaceThe River Tyne is a river of north-east England, formed by the North and South Tyne near Hexham and flowing past Newcastle and Gateshead into the North Sea.
River UskPlaceThe River Usk rises on the Black Mountain in Wales and flows about 125 kilometres east and south past Brecon, Abergavenny and Usk to the Severn estuary at Newport.
River VyrnwyPlaceThe River Vyrnwy (Afon Efyrnwy) is a river of mid Wales that flows east from the Berwyn area through Montgomeryshire to join the Severn near the English border.
River WellandPlaceThe River Welland rises in Northamptonshire in the English Midlands and flows north-east past Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding to the Wash.
River WithamPlaceThe River Witham is a river of Lincolnshire in eastern England, flowing about 130 km from near Grantham through Lincoln to The Wash at Boston.
River WyePlaceThe River Wye rises on Plynlimon in mid Wales and flows about 215 kilometres through Rhayader, Builth Wells and Hereford to join the Severn estuary near Chepstow.- Rivonia TrialEventThe Rivonia Trial was held in Pretoria in 1963–1964 against leaders of the African National Congress and its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, after a police raid on their…
RiyadhPlaceRiyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia, in the Najd region of central Arabia.
Riyadh AgreementTreaty · Peace · 2019The Riyadh Agreement was signed on 5 November 2019 between the internationally recognised Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council under Saudi mediation…
Rizal (province)PlaceRizal is a province of the Philippines on Luzon, immediately east of Manila, named after the national hero José Rizal.- Roads and communication networksHistorical factorRoads and communication networks refers to the recurring pattern in which empires built routes, relay stations and postal systems to move armies, officials, information…
Roald AmundsenPersonRoald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer.
Roanoke RiverPlaceThe Roanoke River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and flows south-east into North Carolina, where it reaches Albemarle Sound.
RoatánPlaceRoatán is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea.
Robben IslandPlaceRobben Island is a small island in Table Bay off Cape Town, South Africa.
Robert BaldwinPersonRobert Baldwin was a lawyer and Reform politician of Upper Canada and Canada West, the leading advocate of responsible government.- Robert BarclayPersonRobert Barclay was a Scottish Quaker theologian whose Apology for the True Christian Divinity became the classic statement of Quaker belief.
Robert BlakePersonRobert Blake was an English admiral who commanded the navy of the Commonwealth.- Robert BondPersonSir Robert Bond was Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1900 to 1909.
Robert BoschPersonRobert Bosch was a German engineer and industrialist from Württemberg.
Robert Bosch GmbHInstitutionRobert Bosch GmbH is a German engineering company founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886 as a workshop for precision mechanics and electrical engineering.- Robert BradshawPersonRobert Bradshaw was a trade unionist and politician from Saint Kitts who led the Labour Party that dominated the islands' politics from the 1950s.
Robert ClivePersonRobert Clive was an officer of the East India Company whose victories in the Carnatic wars checked French power in southern India.- Robert CodringtonPersonRobert Codrington was a British colonial administrator who served as administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia for the British South Africa Company from 1898 to 1907…
- Robert CoryndonPersonRobert Coryndon was a British colonial administrator who began as secretary to Cecil Rhodes.
Robert CurthosePersonRobert Curthose was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and duke of Normandy from 1087.- Robert de SabléPersonRobert de Sablé was a French nobleman from Anjou and Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 until his death in 1193.
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of LeicesterPersonRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an English courtier and favourite of Elizabeth I.
Robert E. LeePersonRobert E.
Robert F. StocktonPersonRobert F.- Robert FitzhamonPersonRobert Fitzhamon was a Norman baron who conquered the Welsh kingdom of Morgannwg around 1093, overthrowing its king Iestyn ap Gwrgant.
Robert Greville, 2nd Baron BrookePersonRobert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, was an English Puritan nobleman and Parliamentarian.
Robert GuiscardPersonRobert Guiscard was a Norman adventurer of the Hauteville family who became Duke of Apulia and Calabria in 1059.- Robert H. Dyson Jr.PersonRobert H.
Robert Henry ClarencePersonRobert Henry Clarence was the last hereditary chief of the Mosquito Reserve on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
Robert HenrysonPersonRobert Henryson was a Scottish poet of the later fifteenth century, probably a schoolmaster at Dunfermline, and one of the makars writing in Scots.- Robert Hodgson (superintendent)PersonRobert Hodgson was a British officer sent from Jamaica to the Mosquito Coast in 1740, during the War of Jenkins' Ear, to win the Miskito as allies against Spain.
Robert I, Count of FlandersPersonRobert the Frisian was count of Flanders from 1071 to 1093.
Robert II de la MarckPersonRobert II de la Marck was lord of Sedan and duke of Bouillon, known as the Great Boar of the Ardennes.- Robert II of CapuaPersonRobert II was the last independent Norman Prince of Capua, of the Drengot family, ruling from 1127.
Robert II of FrancePersonRobert II, called the Pious, was king of France from 996 to 1031, the son of Hugh Capet, with whom he was crowned in 987.
Robert II, Count of ArtoisPersonRobert II was count of Artois from his birth in 1250, the son of Robert I, who had been killed at al-Mansurah.
Robert III of ArtoisPersonRobert III of Artois was a French noble, grandson of Robert II, Count of Artois, who spent decades claiming the county against his aunt Mahaut.
Robert KocharyanPersonRobert Kocharyan is an Armenian politician who led the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and then served as president of Armenia from 1998 to 2008.
Robert LeyPersonRobert Ley was a Nazi politician who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945, after the trade unions were dissolved, and was the party's Reich organisation…
Robert Louis StevensonPersonRobert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Robert MenziesPersonSir Robert Menzies was Australia's longest-serving prime minister, in office from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966.- Robert MoffatPersonRobert Moffat was a Scottish missionary of the London Missionary Society who worked in southern Africa from 1817 to 1870.
Robert MugabePersonRobert Mugabe was a Zimbabwean nationalist who led the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in the guerrilla war against white minority rule in Rhodesia.
Robert MuldoonPersonRobert Muldoon was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984 and also his own finance minister.- Robert of BellêmePersonRobert of Bellême was an Anglo-Norman magnate, son of Roger de Montgomery, with great estates in Normandy and England.
Robert of MolesmePersonRobert of Molesme was a French monk who founded the abbey of Molesme in 1075 and then, seeking a stricter life, the New Monastery of Cîteaux in 1098.
Robert of RhuddlanPersonRobert of Rhuddlan was a Norman knight, cousin and lieutenant of Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester.- Robert of ThourottePersonRobert of Thourotte was prince-bishop of Liège from 1240 to 1246, after serving as bishop of Langres.
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of WarwickPersonRobert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, was an English Puritan nobleman and colonial investor, a leading backer of the Providence Island Company, which settled Santa Catalina…
Robert SchumanPersonRobert Schuman was a French Christian Democratic politician who served as prime minister and foreign minister under the Fourth Republic.- Robert SemplePersonRobert Semple was an American-born merchant and travel writer who became governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in 1815.
Robert SherleyPersonRobert Sherley was an English adventurer who, with his brother Anthony, travelled to the court of the Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I at the end of the sixteenth century.
Robert SurcoufPersonRobert Surcouf was a French privateer and slave trader from Saint-Malo who operated in the Indian Ocean from Île de France, now Mauritius.
Robert the BrucePersonRobert the Bruce was King of Scotland as Robert I from 1306 to 1329.
Robert the StrongPersonRobert the Strong was a Frankish count and margrave of Neustria under King Charles the Bald, charged with defending the lands between the Seine and the Loire against…- Robert Townsend FarquharPersonSir Robert Townsend Farquhar was the first British governor of Mauritius, which Britain took from France in 1810.
Robert VenablesPersonRobert Venables was an English soldier who commanded the land forces of Oliver Cromwell's Western Design, with Admiral William Penn leading the fleet.
Robert Wagner (Gauleiter)PersonRobert Wagner was the Nazi leader of Baden, who took control of the state government in March 1933 and served as its Reich governor.
Robert WalpolePersonSir Robert Walpole was a British Whig statesman who, as First Lord of the Treasury from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain.
Robert William WilcoxPersonRobert William Wilcox was a Native Hawaiian soldier and politician who led armed risings in 1889 against the Bayonet Constitution and in January 1895 against the…
Robert, Count of ClermontPersonRobert of Clermont was the sixth son of King Louis IX of France and held the county of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.
Robert, King of NaplesPersonRobert the Wise was Angevin king of Naples from 1309 to 1343.
RobertiansPeople / groupThe Robertians were a Frankish noble family named after Robert the Strong, who defended the lands between the Seine and Loire against the Vikings in the 860s.- Roberto D'AubuissonPersonRoberto D'Aubuisson was a Salvadoran army major and intelligence officer who founded the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) in 1981.
Roberto de NobiliPersonRoberto de Nobili was an Italian Jesuit missionary who worked at Madurai from 1606.
Roberto DuránPersonRoberto Durán is a Panamanian boxer, nicknamed Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone), widely regarded as one of the greatest lightweights of all time.