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- Treaty of Windsor (1175)Treaty · 1175The Treaty of Windsor (1175) was agreed between Henry II of England and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland, after the Anglo-Norman invasion.
Treaty of Windsor (1386)Treaty · 1386The Treaty of Windsor was signed on 9 May 1386 between Richard II of England and John I of Portugal, renewing the alliance of 1373 after English archers had fought for…- Treaty of WoodstockTreaty · Peace · 1247The Treaty of Woodstock was an agreement of April 1247 between Henry III of England and the brothers Owain and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, made after the death of their uncle…
Treaty of WorcesterTreaty · Peace · 1218The Treaty of Worcester was the agreement of 1218 by which the minority government of Henry III of England recognised the dominance of Llywelyn the Great in Wales.- Treaty of WuchaleTreaty · 1889The Treaty of Wuchale was signed on 2 May 1889 between Menelik II of Ethiopia and Italy.
- Treaty of XantenTreaty · Peace · 1614The Treaty of Xanten was signed on 12 November 1614 to settle the War of the Jülich Succession, which followed the death of the last duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in 1609.
- Treaty of YandaboTreaty · Peace · 1826The Treaty of Yandabo was signed on 24 February 1826 by the British East India Company and the Konbaung kingdom of Burma, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War.
- Treaty of YazhelbitsyTreaty · Peace · 1456The Treaty of Yazhelbitsy was imposed on the Novgorod Republic by Vasily II of Moscow in 1456, after his army defeated the Novgorodians at Staraya Russa.
Treaty of ZadarTreaty · Peace · 1358The Treaty of Zadar was signed on 18 February 1358 between Venice and Louis I of Hungary after a war that Venice had lost.
Treaty of ZamoraTreaty · 1143The Treaty of Zamora was the agreement of October 1143 by which Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognised his cousin Afonso Henriques as King of Portugal.
Treaty of ZborivTreaty · Peace · 1649The Treaty of Zboriv was concluded in August 1649 between the Polish king John II Casimir and the Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, after a Polish army had been…
Treaty of ZuhabTreaty · Peace · 1639The Treaty of Zuhab was the peace agreement of 1639 between the Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire.- Treaty of ZürichTreaty · Peace · 1859The Treaty of Zürich, signed on 10 November 1859 by Austria, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia, ended the Second Italian War of Independence.
Treaty on the Creation of the USSRTreaty · 1922The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, approved on 30 December 1922 by the First All-Union Congress of Soviets, united the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the…- Treaty Principles BillWork / monumentThe Treaty Principles Bill was a bill introduced in the New Zealand Parliament in November 2024 by ACT New Zealand to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in…
TrebbiaPlaceThe Trebbia is a river of northern Italy, about 120 km long, that rises in the Ligurian Apennines and flows north to join the Po near Piacenza.
TrebinjePlaceTrebinje is a town in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Trebišnjica river close to Dubrovnik.
Treblinka extermination campPlaceTreblinka was a Nazi extermination camp north-east of Warsaw in German-occupied Poland, built as part of Operation Reinhard.- TrebuchetTermThe trebuchet is a siege engine that uses a pivoting arm to hurl heavy projectiles, either by human traction or by a heavy counterweight.
TréguierPlaceTréguier is a small town in the Côtes-d'Armor department of northern Brittany, where the Jaudy and Guindy rivers meet.
TrekboersPeople / groupThe Trekboers were semi-nomadic, Dutch-speaking livestock farmers who moved beyond the settled districts of the Cape Colony in the 18th century.
Trelawny TownPlaceTrelawny Town was the principal town of the Leeward Maroons in the Cockpit Country of western Jamaica, renamed after Governor Edward Trelawny, who signed the peace…
Trelleborg (Slagelse)PlaceTrelleborg is a Viking Age ring fortress near Slagelse on Zealand, Denmark, built around 980 under King Harald Bluetooth.
TrempPlaceTremp is a town in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, capital of the Pallars Jussà district on the Noguera Pallaresa.
TrenčínPlaceTrenčín is a city in western Slovakia on the Váh river, overlooked by one of the largest castles in the country.- TrengganaPersonTrenggana was sultan of Demak in Java from about 1521 to 1546, under whom the sultanate reached its greatest extent, conquering much of eastern Java and taking Sunda…
TreniotaPersonTreniota was a Lithuanian duke and nephew of King Mindaugas who led resistance to the Livonian Order in the 1260s and encouraged the uprisings that followed the Battle…
TrentinoPlaceTrentino is a mountainous region of northern Italy in the upper Adige valley, with Trento as its capital, today an autonomous province.
TrentoPlaceTrento is a city on the Adige river in northern Italy and the capital of the province of Trentino.- TrepčaPlaceTrepča is a mining area near Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, worked for lead, zinc and silver.
Tretyakov GalleryInstitutionThe Tretyakov Gallery is an art museum in Moscow holding the world's foremost collection of Russian art.
TrévouxPlaceTrévoux is a small town on the Saône in the Ain department of eastern France, north of Lyon.- Triangular tradeTermThe triangular trade was the Atlantic commercial system linking Europe, West Africa and the Americas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Tribal HidageWork / monumentThe Tribal Hidage is an Anglo-Saxon list of 35 peoples south of the Humber, giving the number of hides, units of land assessment, attributed to each.- Tribhuwanaraja Mauli WarmadewaPersonTribhuwanaraja Mauli Warmadewa was a king of Malayu, ruling from Dharmasraya in central Sumatra, in the late 13th century.
Tributary systemInstitutionA tributary system is an arrangement in which subordinate rulers or states acknowledge a superior power by sending regular tribute, often in exchange for recognition…- Tribute extractionHistorical factorTribute extraction is the recurring pattern by which empires drew wealth from conquered or subordinate peoples through regular payments in goods, precious metals…
- TributumInstitutionTributum was a direct tax in ancient Rome.
- Tridu SongtsenPersonTridu Songtsen was emperor of Tibet from 676 to 704.
- Trienio AdecoEventThe Trienio Adeco was the three-year period from October 1945 to November 1948 when Venezuela was governed by Democratic Action (AD), whose members were known as adecos.
TrierPlaceTrier is a city in western Germany on the Moselle River, founded by the Romans and one of the oldest cities in Germany.
TriestePlaceTrieste is a port city at the head of the Adriatic in north-eastern Italy.- Trieu Quang PhucPersonTrieu Quang Phuc was a Vietnamese leader who continued Ly Bi's resistance to the Liang dynasty after 546, waging guerrilla war from the Da Trach marshes.
TrikalaPlaceTrikala is a city in western Thessaly in Greece, on the Lithaios river.- Trilochanapala (Shahi dynasty)PersonTrilochanapala was a king of the Hindu Shahi dynasty from about 1010, son of Anandapala.
Trim, County MeathPlaceTrim is a town on the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland.- TrimontiumPlaceTrimontium was a Roman fort at Newstead, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, named after the three peaks of the Eildon Hills.
TrincomaleePlaceTrincomalee is a port city on the north-east coast of Sri Lanka with one of the largest natural deep-water harbours in the world.
Trinh BongPersonTrinh Bong was the last of the Trinh lords who ruled northern Vietnam in the name of the Le emperors.
Trinh KhaiPersonTrinh Khai was the penultimate Trinh lord, ruling northern Vietnam in the name of the Le emperors from 1782 to 1786.
Trinh KiemPersonTrinh Kiem was a Vietnamese general and founder of the power of the Trinh lords.
Trinh TungPersonTrinh Tung was the Trinh lord who ruled northern Vietnam behind the Later Le emperors from 1570 to 1623.
TrinidadPlaceTrinidad is the larger of the two main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, lying just off the Orinoco delta of Venezuela.
Trinidad and Tobago CarnivalEventThe Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual festival held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, centred on Port of Spain.
TrinitariansPeople / groupThe Trinitarians, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives, are a Catholic religious order founded in France in 1198 by John of Matha and approved by Pope…- Trinity Cathedral, PskovWork / monumentThe Trinity Cathedral in Pskov, Russia, is the city's main Orthodox church, standing inside the Krom citadel.
Trinity College DublinInstitutionTrinity College Dublin is the college founded in 1592 by a charter of Elizabeth I on the site of a dissolved monastery in Dublin.- Trinity Lavra of St. SergiusWork / monumentThe Trinity Lavra of St.
Tripartite Convention (1899)Treaty · 1899The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands between Germany and the United States.
Tripartite PactTreaty · 1940The Tripartite Pact was signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by Germany, Italy and Japan, who pledged to assist one another if attacked by a power not yet in the war…
TripartitumWork / monumentThe Tripartitum is the compilation of the customary law of the Kingdom of Hungary made by István Werbőczy and presented to the diet in 1514.
TriphyliaPlaceTriphylia was a region of the western Peloponnese between the rivers Alpheios and Neda, south of Elis, with towns such as Lepreon and Samikon.
Tripitaka KoreanaWork / monumentThe Tripitaka Koreana is a complete Buddhist canon carved on 81,258 wooden printing blocks by the Goryeo court between 1236 and 1251, in the hope of divine protection…
Triple Alliance (1668)Treaty · 1668The Triple Alliance of 1668 was a league of England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden, formed in January 1668 to halt Louis XIV's conquests in the Spanish Netherlands…
Triple Alliance (1882)Treaty · 1882The Triple Alliance was a secret defensive alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, concluded on 20 May 1882 and renewed several times.- Triple EntentePeople / groupThe Triple Entente was the informal alignment of France, Russia and Britain formed in the years before the First World War.
Triple InterventionEventThe Triple Intervention was the diplomatic intervention of Russia, Germany and France on 23 April 1895, six days after the Treaty of Shimonoseki ended the First…- TripoliPlaceTripoli is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Libya and historically a major northern terminus of trans-Saharan caravan routes.
Tripoli, GreecePlaceTripoli, known in Ottoman times as Tripolitsa, is a city in the central Peloponnese of Greece and the capital of Arcadia.
TripuraPlaceTripura is a small state in north-eastern India, bordered on three sides by Bangladesh, with its capital at Agartala.
Trisong DetsenPersonTrisong Detsen was emperor of Tibet from 755 to about 797, the second of the three great 'religious kings' of the Tibetan Empire.- Tristán de Luna y ArellanoPersonTristán de Luna y Arellano was a Spanish conquistador who in 1559 led a large expedition from New Spain to found a colony on Pensacola Bay in present-day Florida.
Tristan und IsoldeWork / monumentTristan und Isolde is an opera by Richard Wagner, composed between 1857 and 1859 on the medieval legend of the lovers Tristan and Isolde.
Tristão da CunhaPersonTristão da Cunha was a Portuguese navigator and naval commander.- TritaeaPlaceTritaea was an ancient Greek city in the inland hills of western Achaea in the Peloponnese, one of the twelve cities of the Achaean League.
- Tritium MagallumPlaceTritium Magallum was a town of the Berones in the upper Ebro valley, on the site of modern Tricio near Nájera in La Rioja, Spain.
- Triumph of Shapur IWork / monumentThe Triumph of Shapur I refers to rock reliefs carved in Iran to commemorate the victories of the Sasanian king Shapur I over Roman emperors in the third century CE.
TroadPlaceThe Troad is the historical name of the Biga Peninsula in north-western Anatolia, now in Turkey, bounded by the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea.- TrocmiPeople / groupThe Trocmi were one of the three Celtic tribes of Galatia in central Anatolia, with the Tolistobogii and the Tectosages.
Troezen DecreeWork / monumentThe Troezen Decree is a marble inscription found at Troezen in 1959 and published by Michael Jameson in 1960.- TrogenPlaceTrogen is a village in the Swiss half-canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
Troia, ApuliaPlaceTroia is a hill town in northern Apulia, Italy, founded around 1019 by the Byzantine catepan Basil Boioannes as a fortress guarding the frontier against the Lombard…
Trois-RivièresPlaceTrois-Rivières is a city in Quebec, Canada, where the Saint-Maurice river meets the St Lawrence, halfway between Quebec City and Montreal.
Trojan WarWarThe Trojan War was the legendary siege of Troy by the Greeks, told in Homer's Iliad and later poems.
TrondheimPlaceTrondheim is a city in central Norway and the historic centre of the Trøndelag region.
Tróndur í GøtuPersonTróndur í Gøtu was a Faroese chieftain known from the Færeyinga saga, which describes him as a cunning pagan leader based at Gøta on Eysturoy.
TrongsaPlaceTrongsa is a town in central Bhutan built around Trongsa Dzong, a seventeenth-century fortress-monastery that commands the old route between the east and west of the…
Troodos MountainsPlaceThe Troodos Mountains are the largest mountain range of Cyprus, in the west and centre of the island, rising to Mount Olympus at 1,952 metres.
Tropaeum AlpiumWork / monumentThe Tropaeum Alpium, or Trophy of Augustus, is a Roman victory monument built in 7 to 6 BCE at La Turbie, above Monaco, on the road through the Maritime Alps.
TrophoniusReligion / ideaTrophonius was a Greek hero worshipped at Lebadea in Boeotia, where his underground oracle was one of the most famous in Greece.
The TroublesWar · 1968–1998The Troubles were the conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998 between mainly Catholic nationalists and republicans seeking a united Ireland and mainly…
Troupes de la MarinePeople / groupThe Troupes de la Marine were independent companies of infantry under the French Ministry of the Marine, raised to defend France's colonies and naval ports.
TrowulanPlaceTrowulan is an archaeological site in East Java, Indonesia, identified as the location of the capital of the Majapahit Empire.
TroyPlaceTroy, known to the Greeks as Ilion, was an ancient city at Hisarlik in north-western Anatolia, near the entrance to the Dardanelles.
TroyesPlaceTroyes is a city on the Seine in the Champagne region of north-eastern France.
Trpimir IPersonTrpimir I was Duke of Croatia from about 845 to 864 and founder of the Trpimirović dynasty.
Trpimirović dynastyPeople / groupThe Trpimirović dynasty ruled Croatia, first as dukes and from about 925 as kings, from the mid-9th century to the late 11th century.
TrubizhPlaceThe Trubizh is a river in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dnieper about 110 km long.
Truc Lam ZenReligion / ideaTruc Lam Zen is a Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism founded at the end of the 13th century by the retired emperor Tran Nhan Tong, who became a monk on Mount Yen Tu.
Truce of AltmarkTreaty · Peace · 1629The Truce of Altmark was a six-year armistice signed on 26 September 1629 at Altmark (Stary Targ) near Malbork, ending the Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629.