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SiebengebirgePlaceThe Siebengebirge ('Seven Mountains') is a range of volcanic hills on the east bank of the Rhine south-east of Bonn, Germany.
Sieg (river)PlaceThe Sieg is a river in western Germany, about 155 km long, rising in the Rothaar Mountains and flowing west through the Siegerland to join the Rhine near Bonn.- Siege capabilityHistorical factorSiege capability refers to the recurring pattern in which an empire's ability to capture fortified cities determined how far it could expand.
- Siege engineTermA siege engine is a device designed to break or bypass fortifications, such as a battering ram, siege tower, catapult or trebuchet.
- Siege of Acre (1189–1191)SiegeThe Siege of Acre (1189–1191) was a long siege of the port city of Acre during the Third Crusade.
- Siege of AkhulgoSiege · 1839The siege of Akhulgo was a Russian siege of Imam Shamil's mountain fortress in Dagestan in the summer of 1839.
Siege of AlamutSiege · 1256The Siege of Alamut was the capture of the mountain fortress of the Nizari Ismailis in northern Iran by Mongol forces under Hulagu in 1256.- Siege of Amida (359)Siege · 359 CEThe Siege of Amida in 359 CE was the capture of the Roman city of Amida, modern Diyarbakir, by the Sasanian king Shapur II.
- Siege of Antioch (256)Siege · 256 CEThe Siege of Antioch in 256 CE was the capture of the great Roman city of Antioch by the Sasanian king Shapur I.
- Siege of Baghdad (1258)Siege · 1258The Siege of Baghdad in 1258 was the capture and sack of the Abbasid capital by the Mongol army of Hulagu.
- Siege of Basra (1775–1776)Siege · 1775–1776The Siege of Basra (1775–1776) was the capture of the Ottoman-held port city of Basra by the forces of the Zand Empire under Karim Khan.
- Siege of Belgrade (1521)Siege · 1521The Siege of Belgrade in 1521 was the capture of the Hungarian fortress city by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Siege of BursaSiege · 1326The Siege of Bursa was the long Ottoman blockade of the Byzantine city of Bursa in north-western Anatolia, which surrendered in 1326 to Orhan, son of Osman I.- Siege of CaizhouSiege · 1233–1234The Siege of Caizhou in 1233 and 1234 was the final campaign against the Jurchen Jin dynasty in China.
Siege of CalviSiege · 1794The Siege of Calvi was fought from June to August 1794, when British forces and Corsican allies besieged the French garrison of Calvi in north-western Corsica.- Siege of Carthage (149–146 BCE)Siege · 146 BCEThe Siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War, in which Roman forces besieged the city of Carthage.
- Siege of DjennéSiege · c. 1473The Siege of Djenné was a long siege of the trading city of Djenné in the inner Niger delta by the Songhai ruler Sunni Ali.
Siege of DorostolonSiege · 971The Siege of Dorostolon took place from April to July 971 at Dorostolon, now Silistra, on the lower Danube.- Siege of Fort NeoherokaSiege · 1713The Siege of Fort Neoheroka was the decisive action of the Tuscarora War in North Carolina.
Siege of FredrikstenSiege · 1718The Siege of Fredriksten was the siege of a Norwegian fortress by Swedish forces in 1718, during King Charles XII's invasion of Norway.- Siege of IsfahanSiege · 1722The Siege of Isfahan was the siege of the Safavid capital by Afghan forces under Mahmud Hotaki in 1722.
- Siege of Jerusalem (1099)Siege · 1099The Siege of Jerusalem in 1099 was the capture of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade, followed by a massacre of many of its inhabitants.
- Siege of Jerusalem (1187)Siege · 1187The Siege of Jerusalem in 1187 was the recapture of Jerusalem by Saladin after his victory over the Crusaders at Hattin.
- Siege of Jerusalem (587 BCE)Siege · 587 BCEThe Siege of Jerusalem in 587 BCE was the capture and destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) king Nebuchadnezzar II.
- Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE)Siege · 597 BCEThe Siege of Jerusalem in 597 BCE was the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Chaldean Empire after the kingdom of Judah rebelled.
Siege of Kawagoe CastleBattle · Siege · 1545–1546The Siege of Kawagoe Castle was a battle of Japan's Sengoku period in which the Later Hojo clan defended Kawagoe Castle in Musashi province against a large coalition of…
Siege of KermanSiege · 1794The Siege of Kerman was the final siege in 1794 in which the Qajar leader Agha Mohammad Khan captured the city of Kerman from Lotf Ali Khan, the last Zand ruler.- Siege of Multan (1818)Siege · 1818The Siege of Multan in 1818 was the capture of the city of Multan from its Afghan governor by the forces of Ranjit Singh.
Siege of Odawara (1590)Siege · 1590The Siege of Odawara of 1590 was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Later Hojo clan, whose refusal to submit was the last obstacle to his unification of Japan.- Siege of OrléansSiege · 1428–1429The Siege of Orléans was the English siege of the city of Orléans on the Loire from October 1428 to May 1429, during the Hundred Years' War.
Siege of OsakaSiege · 1614–1615The Siege of Osaka was a series of campaigns in 1614–1615 in which the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu attacked Osaka Castle, held by the Toyotomi family.- Siege of Paris (885–886)SiegeThe Siege of Paris (885–886) was a siege of Paris by a large Viking army.
Siege of PeliumSiege · 335 BCEThe Siege of Pelium was fought in 335 BCE when Alexander the Great attacked the Illyrian king Cleitus at the fortress of Pelion on the western border of Macedon.
Siege of TurinSiege · 1706The Siege of Turin was the French attempt in 1706 to capture the capital of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession.- Siege of Tyre (585–572 BCE)Siege · c. 585 BCEThe Siege of Tyre was a long siege of the Phoenician island city of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Chaldean Empire, begun c. 585 BCE.
- Siege of UrshuSiegeThe Siege of Urshu was a siege by the Hittites of the city of Urshu in northern Syria, recorded in a Hittite text.
- Siege of UxellodunumSiege · 51 BCEThe siege of Uxellodunum in 51 BCE was the last major operation of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
Siege of VicksburgSiege · 1863The Siege of Vicksburg, from May to 4 July 1863, ended with the surrender of the Confederate fortress on the Mississippi River in Mississippi to Union forces under…- Siege of Vienna (1529)Siege · 1529The Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the first Ottoman attempt to capture the Habsburg capital, led by Suleiman the Magnificent.
- Siege of XiangyangSiege · 1267–1273The Siege of Xiangyang was a long siege of the twin cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng on the Han River from 1267 to 1273.
- Siege of YanmenSiege · 615The Siege of Yanmen was the encirclement of Emperor Yang of Sui by the Eastern Turkic ruler Shibi Khagan in 615, at Yanmen commandery in northern Shanxi.
Siege of YorktownSiege · 1781The Siege of Yorktown, in Virginia, was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.- Siege towerTermA siege tower is a mobile wooden tower used to bring attackers to the top of fortification walls.
- Siege warfareTermSiege warfare is the conduct of military operations to capture or defend fortified places, through blockade, assault, mining or bombardment.
- SiegenPlaceSiegen is a university city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Sieg in the Siegerland.
SiegerlandPlaceThe Siegerland is a hilly region around the upper Sieg river in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia, centred on Siegen.
Siegfried of WesterburgPersonSiegfried of Westerburg was archbishop of Cologne from 1275 until his death in 1297.
Siegfried, Count of LuxembourgPersonSiegfried (c. 922–998) was a Lotharingian count regarded as the founder of Luxembourg.
Siem ReapPlaceSiem Reap is a city in north-western Cambodia, capital of Siem Reap Province, near the ruins of Angkor.
SiemensInstitutionSiemens is a German engineering company founded in Berlin in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske as a telegraph manufacturer.
Siemowit II of MasoviaPersonSiemowit II of Masovia was a Polish duke of the Piast dynasty, son of Bolesław II of Masovia.
Siemowit III of MasoviaPersonSiemowit III of Masovia was a Piast duke who reunited most of Masovia in the 1370s after the deaths of his relatives.
Siemowit IV of MasoviaPersonSiemowit IV of Masovia was a Piast duke of Masovia and a candidate for the Polish throne in 1382.- Siemowit VI of MasoviaPersonSiemowit VI of Masovia was a Piast duke who, with his younger brother Władysław II, inherited the lands of Płock, Rawa, Gostynin and other districts of western Masovia…
Sieradz VoivodeshipPlaceThe Sieradz Voivodeship was a province of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, formed after the Duchy of Sieradz was incorporated into the…
Sierra (Ecuador)PlaceThe Sierra is the Andean highland region of Ecuador, formed by two parallel mountain ranges enclosing a series of high basins, with the capital Quito at its northern end.
Sierra de las NavajasPlaceThe Sierra de las Navajas is a range of hills near Pachuca in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, the main source of the distinctive green obsidian of Mesoamerica.
Sierra de SeguraPlaceThe Sierra de Segura is a mountain range in the north-east of Jaén province, Spain, part of the Prebaetic System, where the Segura river rises.- Sierra del NayarPlaceThe Sierra del Nayar is a rugged part of the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican state of Nayarit and neighbouring areas.
Sierra LeonePlaceSierra Leone is a country on the coast of West Africa.- Sierra Leone CompanyInstitutionThe Sierra Leone Company was a British chartered company founded in 1791 by abolitionists to run a settlement for freed Black people on the Sierra Leone peninsula.
Sierra Leone Creole peoplePeople / groupThe Sierra Leone Creoles, or Krio, are descendants of the freed slaves who settled in Freetown from 1787: Black Poor from London, black Nova Scotians, Jamaican Maroons…
Sierra Madre OccidentalPlaceThe Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in north-western Mexico, running about 1,250 km from near the United States border to Jalisco.
Sierra MaestraPlaceThe Sierra Maestra is the highest mountain range of Cuba, in the south-east of the island, rising to Pico Turquino at about 1,970 metres.
Sierra MorenaPlaceThe Sierra Morena is a mountain range in southern Spain separating the central plateau from the Guadalquivir valley.
Sierra Nevada (Spain)PlaceThe Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Granada and Almería, rising to 3,479 metres at Mulhacén, the highest peak of the…
Sierra Nevada de Santa MartaPlaceThe Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range on the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia, rising to over 5,700 metres, among the highest coastal…
SierrePlaceSierre is a town in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, on the Rhône at the boundary between French and German speech.
Siete LeyesWork / monumentThe Siete Leyes were seven constitutional laws adopted in Mexico in 1835–1836 that replaced the federal Constitution of 1824 with a centralist system.
Siete PartidasWork / monumentThe Siete Partidas, or Seven-Part Code, is a law code compiled in Castile under Alfonso X, drawing on Roman and canon law.
SigaPlaceSiga was an ancient city near the mouth of the Tafna river in north-western Algeria, the capital of the Masaesylian king Syphax in the late 3rd century BCE.
Sigebert IPersonSigebert I was the Merovingian king of Austrasia from 561, when the kingdom of his father Chlothar I was divided among his sons, until 575.- Sigebert IIIPersonSigebert III was the Merovingian king of Austrasia, the eastern Frankish kingdom, from 633 or 634 until his death.
- Sigehard of AquileiaPersonSigehard was Patriarch of Aquileia from 1068 to 1077.
- SigeionPlaceSigeion was an ancient Greek town on a headland at the mouth of the Hellespont in the Troad, in north-western Anatolia.
SighnaqPlaceSighnaq, also written Sygnak, is a ruined medieval city on the middle Syr Darya in southern Kazakhstan.- Sigibert the LamePersonSigibert the Lame was king of the Franks of Cologne in the late 5th and early 6th centuries, lamed by a wound received fighting the Alemanni at Zülpich.
Sigismondo Pandolfo MalatestaPersonSigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was lord of Rimini from 1432 and one of the leading condottieri of Renaissance Italy.
Sigismund I the OldPersonSigismund I the Old was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1506 to 1548.
Sigismund II AugustusPersonSigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the last of the Jagiellonian dynasty, who died in 1572.
Sigismund III VasaPersonSigismund III Vasa was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632, and king of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599.
Sigismund of BurgundyPersonSigismund of Burgundy was king of the Burgundians from 516 to 524.
Sigismund, Archduke of AustriaPersonSigismund, Archduke of Austria, ruled Tyrol and Further Austria from 1446 to 1490.
Sigismund, Holy Roman EmperorPersonSigismund of Luxembourg was King of Hungary from 1387, King of the Romans from 1411, King of Bohemia from 1419 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1433.
Siglo XX minePlaceSiglo XX is a large tin mine at Llallagua in the department of Potosí, Bolivia, developed by Simón Patiño in the early twentieth century and nationalised in 1952.
SigmaringenPlaceSigmaringen is a town on the upper Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dominated by a castle on a rock above the river.
Sigmund FreudPersonSigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, working in Vienna from the late nineteenth century.
Sigmundur BrestissonPersonSigmundur Brestisson was a Faroese chieftain and the central hero of the Færeyinga saga.
Signoria of FlorenceInstitutionThe Signoria was the chief executive body of the Republic of Florence, composed of the priors of the guilds and, from 1293, the Gonfaloniere of Justice.
SigtunaPlaceSigtuna is a town on Lake Mälaren north-west of Stockholm, founded around 980 as a royal centre.
Sigurd EysteinssonPersonSigurd Eysteinsson, called the Mighty, was according to the Orkneyinga saga the first Earl of Orkney, in the late 9th century.- Sigurd SyrPersonSigurd Syr was a petty king of Ringerike in eastern Norway in the early eleventh century.
Sigurd the CrusaderPersonSigurd I, known as Sigurd the Crusader (Jorsalfar), was King of Norway from 1103 to 1130.
SihlPlaceThe Sihl is a river in central Switzerland, about 73 kilometres long, which rises in the canton of Schwyz, flows through the Sihlsee reservoir and runs north to join…
SihorPlaceSihor is a town in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India, west of Bhavnagar city.
SijilmasaPlaceSijilmasa was a medieval trading city in the Tafilalt oasis of south-eastern Morocco and a northern terminus of the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Sikandar Adil ShahPersonSikandar Adil Shah was the last sultan of Bijapur, placed on the throne as a small child in 1672.
Sikandar BegumPersonSikandar Begum was the ruler of Bhopal State, first as regent and from 1860 as begum in her own right, the second of the four women who governed Bhopal between 1819 and…
Sikandar LodiPersonSikandar Lodi was a sultan of Delhi of the Lodi dynasty, who ruled in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.- Sikandar ShahPersonSikandar Shah was sultan of Bengal from 1358 to about 1390, son of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah.