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- Twelver Shi'ismReligion / ideaTwelver Shi'ism is the largest branch of Shia Islam, recognising a line of twelve imams, the last of whom is believed to be in occultation.
Twentieth Dynasty of EgyptStateThe Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt was the last royal dynasty of the New Kingdom, ruling in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE.
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of EgyptStateThe Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt was a line of Kushite kings from Nubia who ruled Egypt in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.
Twenty-seventh Dynasty of EgyptStateThe Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt is the name given to the first period of Persian rule over Egypt, beginning with Cambyses II's conquest in 525 BCE.- Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of IndiaWork / monumentThe Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India, enacted in December 1971 under Indira Gandhi, abolished the privy purses paid to the former rulers of the…
Two EwaldsPersonThe two Ewalds, called Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair, were English priests who went as missionaries to the Old Saxons around 695.
Two Towers (Bologna)Work / monumentThe Two Towers, the Asinelli and the Garisenda, are medieval towers in the centre of Bologna, Italy, and the city's best-known landmarks.
TyanaPlaceTyana was an ancient city of southern Cappadocia in central Anatolia, at modern Kemerhisar near Niğde.
TyburnPlaceTyburn was a village west of London, near today's Marble Arch, whose name became a byword for execution.
Tycho BrahePersonTycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer.- Tydings–McDuffie ActWork / monumentThe Tydings–McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, was a United States law of 1934 providing for Philippine independence after a ten-year transition.
Tyendinaga Mohawk TerritoryPlaceTyendinaga Mohawk Territory is a Mohawk reserve on the Bay of Quinte in south-eastern Ontario, Canada.
TylissosPlaceTylissos is an archaeological site and village in north-central Crete, west of Heraklion, with the remains of three large Minoan houses of the sixteenth and fifteenth…
TylosPlaceTylos was the Greek name for Bahrain in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, first recorded by writers drawing on the voyages of Alexander the Great's officers.
TynwaldInstitutionTynwald is the parliament of the Isle of Man, which descends from the Norse assembly, or thing, of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles and claims a continuous existence…- TyphusTermTyphus is a group of bacterial infectious diseases, often spread by lice, that cause fever and can be highly fatal in crowded or wartime conditions.
- TyrePlaceTyre is an ancient Phoenician city on the coast of southern Lebanon, once an island stronghold and a great maritime trading power.
- Tyrian purpleTermTyrian purple is a deep purple dye produced from murex sea snails, named after the Phoenician city of Tyre.
TyrifjordenPlaceTyrifjorden is a large lake in Buskerud, eastern Norway, north-west of Oslo.
TyrolPlaceTyrol is a historical region in the eastern Alps, centred on the valleys of the Inn, Adige and Eisack and the Brenner Pass.
Tyrol CastleWork / monumentTyrol Castle stands above Merano in South Tyrol, Italy, and was built in the early 12th century.
Tyrrhenian SeaPlaceThe Tyrrhenian Sea is the part of the Mediterranean bounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, named from the Greek word for the Etruscans.
TyrtaeusPersonTyrtaeus was a Greek elegiac poet who lived in Sparta in the mid-seventh century BCE, during the Second Messenian War.
TyumenPlaceTyumen is a city in western Siberia, Russia, on the Tura river.
Tz'utujil peoplePeople / groupThe Tz'utujil are a Maya people living around Lake Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala.
TzachasPersonTzachas, called Chaka by the Turks, was a Seljuk Turkish emir who ruled Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia from about 1088.- Tzanetos GrigorakisPersonTzanetos Grigorakis, known as Zanetbey, was bey of the Mani in the southern Peloponnese from 1782 to 1798, under Ottoman overlordship.
- Tzath IPersonTzath I was king of Lazica in western Georgia in the early 6th century.
- TzintzuntzanPlaceTzintzuntzan was the capital of the Purépecha (Tarascan) state on the north-eastern shore of Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, western Mexico.
- TzitzakPersonTzitzak was a Khazar princess, a daughter of the khagan Bihar, who in 732 married the future Byzantine emperor Constantine V and was baptised as Irene.