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Tanjung PalasPlaceTanjung Palas is a town on the Kayan River in Bulungan Regency, North Kalimantan, Indonesia, across the river from Tanjung Selor, the provincial capital.- Tanjung PuraPlaceTanjung Pura is a town on the Batang Serangan River in Langkat, North Sumatra, Indonesia, that served as the royal seat of the Langkat Sultanate.
- TanjungbalaiPlaceTanjungbalai is a port city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, at the meeting of the Asahan and Silau rivers near the Strait of Malacca.
- TankaTermThe tanka was a silver coin introduced as standard currency in the Delhi Sultanate by Iltutmish in the early thirteenth century.
- TannaPlaceTanna is an island in the Tafea province of southern Vanuatu, known for the active volcano Mount Yasur.
Tano RiverPlaceThe Tano is a river of south-western Ghana, rising near Techiman and flowing about 400 kilometres south to the Aby lagoon on the border with Côte d'Ivoire.
Tanoa VisawaqaPersonTanoa Visawaqa was the Vunivalu, or war king, of Bau in Fiji from the late 1820s until his death in 1852.- TanoliPeople / groupThe Tanoli are a tribe of the Hazara hills in north-western Pakistan, whose homeland, Tanawal, lies on the left bank of the Indus.
TansenPersonTansen was an Indian musician and composer, the most celebrated figure of Hindustani classical music.
Tansen, NepalPlaceTansen is a hill town in western Nepal, the headquarters of Palpa District, on a ridge of the Mahabharat range.- TantamaniPersonTantamani was the last king of the Kushite 25th Dynasty to rule Egypt.
- Tantara ny AndrianaWork / monumentThe Tantara ny Andriana eto Madagasikara ('History of the kings of Madagascar') is a collection of Merina oral traditions about the kings and customs of Imerina.
TanufPlaceTanuf is a village in the interior of Oman, at the foot of the Jebel Akhdar near Nizwa.
Tanyus ShahinPersonTanyus Shahin was a Maronite muleteer and blacksmith of Keserwan in Mount Lebanon who led the peasant revolt of 1858 to 1859 against the Khazen sheikhs.
Tanzania People's Defence ForceInstitutionThe Tanzania People's Defence Force is the armed forces of Tanzania, created in 1964 after the mutiny of the Tanganyika Rifles to replace the old colonial-style army…
Tanzania–Zambia RailwayWork / monumentThe Tanzania–Zambia Railway is a railway of about 1,860 kilometres from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia, built between 1970 and 1975 with an interest-free…
TanzimatEventThe Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire from 1839 to 1876.
Tao YuanmingPersonTao Yuanming, also called Tao Qian, was a Chinese poet of the Eastern Jin and early Liu Song periods.- TaoiseachTermThe Taoiseach is the head of government of Ireland, nominated by Dáil Éireann and appointed by the President.
TaoismReligion / ideaTaoism, or Daoism, is a Chinese philosophical and religious tradition centred on the Dao, or Way, and associated with texts such as the Daodejing.
TaolagnaroPlaceTaolagnaro, also known as Fort-Dauphin, is a port town on the south-eastern tip of Madagascar, in the Anosy region.
TaorminaPlaceTaormina is a hilltop town on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, above the bay of Naxos and facing Mount Etna.
Taos, New MexicoPlaceTaos is a town in northern New Mexico beside Taos Pueblo, a multi-storey adobe village inhabited for about a thousand years and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tapa ChermoevPersonTapa Chermoev (1882–1937) was a Chechen landowner, oil industrialist and former officer of the Russian imperial guard.
Tapa, EstoniaPlaceTapa is a small town in Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia, a railway junction on the line from Tallinn to Narva and Tartu.
TaprobanePlaceTaprobane was the ancient Greek and Roman name for Sri Lanka, derived from Tambapanni, the name of the first Sinhalese settlement.
TaputapuateaPlaceTaputapuatea is a marae complex at Opoa on the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia, the most important religious centre of eastern Polynesia in the centuries before…- Taqi al-Din UmarPersonTaqi al-Din Umar (died 1191) was a nephew of Saladin and one of his leading commanders.
- Taqwim al-BuldanWork / monumentTaqwim al-Buldan, 'A Sketch of the Countries', is a geographical work completed in 1321 by Abu al-Fida, the Ayyubid prince of Hama.
Tar RiverPlaceThe Tar River flows south-east across the piedmont and coastal plain of North Carolina; below the town of Washington its estuary is called the Pamlico River, which…
Taraba StatePlaceTaraba State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria, created in 1991 from part of Gongola State, with its capital at Jalingo.
TarabaiPersonTarabai was a Maratha queen, the widow of Chhatrapati Rajaram.- TarafaPersonTarafa ibn al-Abd was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet of the Bakr tribe, active in the mid-6th century, whose ode is one of the Mu'allaqat, the celebrated long poems of…
- Taragarh Fort (Bundi)PlaceTaragarh Fort is a hill fort above the town of Bundi in Rajasthan, India, begun in the mid-14th century by the Hada Chauhan rulers who made Bundi their capital.
TaranathaPersonTaranatha was a Tibetan Buddhist lama and scholar of the Jonang school.
TaranchiPeople / groupThe Taranchi were the Uyghur farmers of the Ili valley in northern Xinjiang, descended from people of the Tarim basin oases moved there by the Dzungars and later the…
TarapacáPlaceTarapacá is a desert region in the far north of Chile, with its capital at Iquique.
TarazPlaceTaraz is a city in southern Kazakhstan on the Talas River, one of the oldest towns of Central Asia.
TarazonaPlaceTarazona is a town in the province of Zaragoza in Aragon, Spain, near the Moncayo massif, known in Roman times as Turiaso.
Tarbagatai MountainsPlaceThe Tarbagatai Mountains are a range on the border between eastern Kazakhstan and the Xinjiang region of China, between the Altai to the north-east and the Dzungarian…
Tarbela DamWork / monumentTarbela Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Indus river in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, completed in 1976 as part of the works that followed the Indus Waters Treaty.
TarbesPlaceTarbes is a city on the Adour in south-western France, the prefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées department.- TarchonPersonTarchon was a legendary Etruscan hero, said in ancient tradition to have founded Tarquinii and other cities of Etruria.
Tarcondimotus IPersonTarcondimotus I (died 31 BCE) was the ruler of a client kingdom in the Amanus mountains of eastern Cilicia, recognised by Pompey in 64 BCE.- Tarcondimotus II PhilopatorPersonTarcondimotus II Philopator was king of the Tarcondimotid realm in eastern Cilicia in the late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE.
- Tardu ShadPersonTardu Shad was a son of Tong Yabghu Qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, installed around 625 as yabghu, or viceroy, of Tokharistan, the former Hephthalite lands of…
Tarentaise ValleyPlaceThe Tarentaise is the valley of the upper Isère in Savoie, south-eastern France, running from below the Little St Bernard Pass down to Albertville.- TarentumPlaceTarentum, Greek Taras, was a Spartan colony founded around 706 BCE on the Gulf of Taranto in southern Italy, on the site of modern Taranto.
TarfayaPlaceTarfaya is a small town on the Atlantic coast of southern Morocco, beside Cape Juby.
Targowica ConfederationRevolt · 1792The Targowica Confederation was an alliance of Polish-Lithuanian magnates formed in 1792 to overturn the reformist Constitution of 3 May 1791.
TarhunaziPersonTarhunazi was the last king of Melid, a Neo-Hittite kingdom at Arslantepe near Malatya in eastern Turkey.- TarhundaraduPersonTarhundaradu was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia in the 14th century BCE.
TarhuntReligion / ideaTarhunt, also called Tarhun, was the storm god of the Hittites and other Anatolian peoples and one of the chief deities of the Hittite pantheon.- TarifaPlaceTarifa is a town at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula in the province of Cádiz, Spain, facing Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Tarik SulaymanPersonTarik Sulayman was a chief of Macabebe in Pampanga, in the Philippines, who led a coalition fleet against the Spanish at Manila in 1571.
Tarikh al-FattashWork / monumentThe Tarikh al-Fattash is an Arabic chronicle of the western Sudan written in Timbuktu, traditionally attributed to Mahmud Kati and completed by a descendant, Ibn…
Tarikh al-HindWork / monumentThe Tarikh al-Hind, also known as Al-Biruni's India, is a study of Indian religion, philosophy, literature, astronomy, geography and customs written in Arabic by the…
Tarikh al-SudanWork / monumentThe Tarikh al-Sudan is a chronicle of West Africa written in Arabic at Timbuktu by Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi and completed around 1655.- Tarikh-i RashidiWork / monumentThe Tarikh-i Rashidi is a Persian history written between 1541 and 1546 in Kashmir by Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat and named after Abd al-Rashid Khan of the Yarkent…
Tarikh-i SistanWork / monumentThe Tarikh-i Sistan is an anonymous Persian chronicle of the province of Sistan in eastern Iran and south-western Afghanistan, written in stages from the 11th to the…
Tarim BasinPlaceThe Tarim Basin is a large desert basin in Central Asia, in present-day Xinjiang, ringed by oasis cities that served as key stations on the Silk Road.
Tarim, YemenPlaceTarim is a town in the Wadi Hadramawt in eastern Yemen, long the religious centre of the valley.
Tariq ibn ZiyadPersonTariq ibn Ziyad was a Berber commander in the service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 CE.
Tarja HalonenPersonTarja Halonen (born 1943) is a Finnish Social Democratic politician who served as president of Finland from 2000 to 2012, the first woman to hold the office.
TarkasnawaPersonTarkasnawa was a king of Mira, a western Anatolian vassal kingdom of the Hittites, in the late 13th century BCE.
TarkiPlaceTarki is a historic Kumyk settlement on the Caspian coast of Dagestan, now a district of the city of Makhachkala.
TarkwaPlaceTarkwa is a mining town in the Western Region of Ghana, in the former territory of Wassa.
Tarlac CityPlaceTarlac City is the capital of Tarlac province in central Luzon, Philippines.- TarmashirinPersonTarmashirin was a khan of the Chagatai Empire who died in 1334.
- TarnobrzegPlaceTarnobrzeg is a town in south-eastern Poland on the Vistula, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship.
Tarnovo ConstitutionWork / monumentThe Tarnovo Constitution was the first constitution of the Principality of Bulgaria, adopted by a constituent assembly at Veliko Tarnovo on 16 April 1879.
Tarnowskie GóryPlaceTarnowskie Góry is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland, which grew up as a mining settlement after silver-bearing lead ore was found there at the end…
TaromPlaceTarom is a mountainous district of Zanjan province in north-western Iran, in the valley of the Qezel Ozan river.
TaromaiPersonTaromai was the last king of Nanzan, the southern of the three kingdoms that divided Okinawa Island in the 14th and early 15th centuries.- Tarquinius PriscusPersonLucius Tarquinius Priscus was, according to Roman tradition, the fifth king of Rome, reigning from 616 to 579 BCE.
Tarquinius SuperbusPersonLucius Tarquinius Superbus, Tarquin the Proud, was by tradition the seventh and last king of Rome.
TarracoPlaceTarraco was a Roman city on the coast of north-eastern Spain, the predecessor of modern Tarragona.
Tarrafal campPlaceThe Tarrafal camp was a prison camp on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde, opened in 1936 by Portugal's Estado Novo for political prisoners.
TarragonaPlaceTarragona is a port city in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain, capital of the province of the same name.- TarsusPlaceTarsus is a city in southern Turkey, in the Cilician plain on the Berdan (ancient Cydnus) river near the Mediterranean.
TartuPlaceTartu is the second-largest city of Estonia, on the Emajõgi river.
TartusPlaceTartus is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, facing the island of Arwad.- TarusbawaPersonTarusbawa is remembered in later Sundanese tradition as the founder of the Sunda Kingdom of western Java.
Tarut IslandPlaceTarut Island lies in the Persian Gulf off Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
TasciovanusPersonTasciovanus was a king of the Catuvellauni in south-east Britain in the late 1st century BCE, known from his abundant coinage.
TasgetiusPersonTasgetius was a nobleman of the Carnutes whom Julius Caesar made king of his people, restoring the position his ancestors had held, as a reward for his services in the…- Tashfin ibn AliPersonTashfin ibn Ali was emir of the Almoravid Empire from 1143 to 1145, son of Ali ibn Yusuf.
TashkentPlaceTashkent is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, in an oasis watered by the Chirchiq river.
Tashkent DeclarationTreaty · Peace · 1966The Tashkent Declaration was the peace agreement signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan at…
Tashkent SovietInstitutionThe Tashkent Soviet was the council of workers' and soldiers' deputies in Tashkent, dominated by Russian railway workers and soldiers, which seized power in Russian…
Tasker H. BlissPersonTasker H.- Tasmola cultureReligion / ideaThe Tasmola culture is an early Iron Age archaeological culture of central and northern Kazakhstan, dated to about the eighth to fourth centuries BCE.
Taspar QaghanPersonTaspar Qaghan was ruler of the First Turkic Khaganate from 572 to 581, a son of the founder Bumin and successor of his brother Muqan.
Tassili n'AjjerPlaceTassili n'Ajjer is a sandstone plateau in south-eastern Algeria, near the Libyan border, in the central Sahara.- Tassilo I of BavariaPersonTassilo I was duke of Bavaria from about 591 to about 610, installed by the Frankish king Childebert II.
Tassilo III of BavariaPersonTassilo III of Bavaria was the last Agilolfing duke of Bavaria, ruling from 748 under Frankish overlordship.- Tata SteelInstitutionTata Steel, founded in 1907 as the Tata Iron and Steel Company, is an Indian steel maker and one of the oldest industrial companies of the subcontinent.
- Tata-tongaPersonTata-tonga was a Uyghur official who served as keeper of the seal to Tayang Khan of the Naimans in the early 13th century.
Tatar ASSRStateThe Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, created in May 1920 with Kazan as its…
TatarsPeople / groupTatars is a name applied to various Turkic-speaking peoples of the Eurasian steppe, including the Crimean Tatars who raided and fought along the borders of eastern…