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- Three HuanPeople / groupThe Three Huan were the Jisun, Mengsun and Shusun, three ministerial families of the State of Lu descended from sons of Duke Huan of Lu.
Three Kingdoms of KoreaReligion / ideaThe Three Kingdoms of Korea were Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which competed for control of the Korean peninsula and southern Manchuria from about the first century BCE…- Three Kingdoms periodReligion / ideaThe Three Kingdoms period was the era of Chinese history following the collapse of the Han Dynasty, during which the states of Wei, Shu and Wu contended for supremacy…
Three Principles of the PeopleReligion / ideaThe Three Principles of the People, nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood, form the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen, developed from the early 1900s and…
Three QinsStateThe Three Qins were the kingdoms of Yong, Sai and Di created by Xiang Yu in 206 BCE in Guanzhong, the old heartland of Qin, for the surrendered Qin generals Zhang Han…- ThrimalöPersonThrimalö was the wife of the Tibetan emperor Mangsong Mangtsen and one of the most powerful women of imperial Tibet.
ThrissurPlaceThrissur is a city in central Kerala, India, built around the Vadakkunnathan Temple on a hill at its centre.
Thuan HoaPlaceThuan Hoa was the name of a frontier region of central Vietnam, roughly the modern provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue, formed from Cham territory ceded to Dai…- Thubchen MonasteryWork / monumentThubchen Monastery is a 15th-century Buddhist assembly hall in Lo Manthang, capital of the former Kingdom of Lo in Mustang, Nepal.
Thubten GyatsoPersonThubten Gyatso was the 13th Dalai Lama.
Thuburbo MaiusPlaceThuburbo Maius was a Roman town in northern Tunisia, about 60 kilometres south-west of Carthage.
ThucydidesPersonThucydides was an Athenian general and historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
ThuinPlaceThuin is a town in the province of Hainaut in Belgium, on a rocky spur above the river Sambre.
Thukela RiverPlaceThe Thukela, or Tugela, is the largest river of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Thulare IPersonThulare was king of the Pedi in the north-east of present-day South Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
ThunPlaceThun is a city in the Swiss canton of Bern, where the Aare leaves Lake Thun below the Bernese Oberland.- ThurPlaceThe Thur is a river of north-eastern Switzerland, about 135 kilometres long and a left tributary of the Rhine.
ThurgauPlaceThurgau is a region and canton of north-eastern Switzerland, lying between Lake Constance and the Thur, with its capital at Frauenfeld.
ThuringiaPlaceThuringia is a region and federal state of central Germany, with its capital at Erfurt and other historic towns such as Weimar, Jena and Eisenach.
Thuringian ForestPlaceThe Thuringian Forest is a wooded mountain range in central Germany, running about 150 kilometres from the Werra valley south-east towards the Thuringian Highlands; its…
Thuringian HighlandsPlaceThe Thuringian Highlands are an upland region of slate hills in south-eastern Thuringia, Germany, linking the Thuringian Forest with the Franconian Forest.- ThurisindPersonThurisind was king of the Gepids from about 548 to about 560.
Thutmose IPersonThutmose I was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the early New Kingdom.
Thutmose IIIPersonThutmose III was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt and one of the most successful military rulers in its history.
Thutmose IVPersonThutmose IV was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the fourteenth century BCE.
Thuwaini bin SaidPersonThuwaini bin Said was sultan of Muscat and Oman from 1856 to 1866.- Thuwayni ibn AbdullahPersonThuwayni ibn Abdullah (died 1797) was a sheikh of the Al Saadun, the ruling family of the Muntafiq tribal confederation of southern Iraq.
ThyraPersonThyra was the wife of King Gorm the Old of Denmark and mother of Harald Bluetooth, who lived in the tenth century.
ThyssenInstitutionThyssen was a German steel and industrial company founded in 1871 by August Thyssen at Mülheim in the Ruhr.
TianReligion / ideaTian, 'Heaven', is the supreme power in ancient Chinese religion and political thought.- Tian AnPersonTian An was a grandson of King Jian, the last king of the State of Qi, who fought in the rebellion against the Qin dynasty and followed Xiang Yu to Julu.
- Tian ChangPersonTian Chang, also called Tian Heng or Tian Chengzi, was a minister of the State of Qi from the Tian (or Chen) family.
- Tian DuPersonTian Du was a general of Qi who joined Xiang Yu's campaign against the Qin dynasty and in 206 BCE was made King of Qi, with his capital at Linzi, when Xiang Yu divided…
- Tian GuangPersonTian Guang was the son of Tian Rong and king of Qi during the Chu–Han Contention.
- Tian HengPersonTian Heng (died 202 BCE) was a member of the royal house of the old state of Qi who, after the fall of Qin, made himself and his relatives kings of Qi and fought both…
- Tian RongPersonTian Rong was a member of the royal Tian clan of Qi who led the revived state of Qi after the fall of the Qin.
Tian ShanPlaceThe Tian Shan, the 'Heavenly Mountains', is a great mountain system of Central Asia stretching about 2,500 km from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan east into Xinjiang.- Tian ShiPersonTian Shi was a member of the royal Tian family of Qi who became king of Qi during the rising against the Qin dynasty.
- Tian YuPersonTian Yu was a Chinese general and frontier official of the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period.
TiananmenWork / monumentTiananmen, the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is the monumental gate at the southern entrance to the Imperial City of Beijing, first built in 1420 under the Ming dynasty and…
TianjinPlaceTianjin is a major port city in northern China, about 120 km south-east of Beijing near the Bohai Sea.- Tianma-Qucun sitePlaceThe Tianma-Qucun site is a large archaeological site in southern Shanxi province, China, between the villages of Tianma and Qucun near Houma.
TianshuiPlaceTianshui is a city in south-eastern Gansu, China, in the valley of the Wei River.- Tiantishan GrottoesWork / monumentThe Tiantishan Grottoes are Buddhist cave temples near Wuwei in Gansu province, north-western China.
TiaretPlaceTiaret is a city on the high plateaus of north-western Algeria.
Tiber RiverPlaceThe Tiber is a river of central Italy that flows through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
TiberiasPlaceTiberias is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.- TiberiusPersonTiberius was the second Roman emperor, ruling from 14 to 37 CE as the stepson and adopted heir of Augustus.
- Tiberius CoruncaniusPersonTiberius Coruncanius was a Roman statesman and the first plebeian pontifex maximus, around 254 BCE.
Tiberius GracchusPersonTiberius Gracchus, in full Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, was a Roman tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE.- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 177 BC)PersonTiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman general and statesman, father of the reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.
Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial CenterPlaceThe Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center is an archaeological site near Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, discovered in 1975 after a hurricane.- TibetPlaceTibet is a high plateau region of Central Asia, north of the Himalayas, with a distinct language and Buddhist culture.
- Tibetan BuddhismReligion / ideaTibetan Buddhism is the form of Buddhism that developed in Tibet, combining Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings with distinctive monastic institutions.
TibetansPeople / groupThe Tibetans are a people native to the Tibetan Plateau, speaking Tibetic languages and traditionally following Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon religion.
Tibeto-Burman languagesTermTibeto-Burman is the name for the large group of Sino-Tibetan languages other than Chinese, spoken from the Himalayas to Myanmar and south-western China.- Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal WarWar · 1679–1684The Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War was fought from 1679 to 1684 between the Ganden Phodrang government of Tibet under the Fifth Dalai Lama and the kingdom of Ladakh.
TibninPlaceTibnin is a town in southern Lebanon, in the hills east of Tyre.
Tibor SzamuelyPersonTibor Szamuely was a Hungarian communist leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, in which he served as a deputy people's commissar for military affairs.
Tiburcio Carías AndinoPersonTiburcio Carías Andino (1876–1969) was a Honduran general and leader of the National Party who was president from 1933 to 1949.- Tichitt cultureReligion / ideaThe Tichitt culture was a prehistoric culture of stone-built settlements in south-eastern Mauritania, centred on the escarpments of Dhar Tichitt and Dhar Walata.
TicinoPlaceTicino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland and its main Italian-speaking region, with Bellinzona as its capital and Lugano and Locarno as its largest towns.
Ticino RiverPlaceThe Ticino is a river that rises in the Swiss Alps, flows through the canton of Ticino and Lake Maggiore, and then runs south through Lombardy to join the Po just below…
Tidung peoplePeople / groupThe Tidung are an Indigenous people of north-eastern Borneo, living mainly in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, and in neighbouring Sabah, Malaysia.
Tieba TraoréPersonTieba Traoré (died 1893) was king of Kénédougou in present-day Mali and Burkina Faso, who turned the loose chiefdom into a strong state and moved its capital to…
TiefuPeople / groupThe Tiefu were a people of the Ordos region of northern China in the 4th and 5th centuries, of mixed Xiongnu and Xianbei descent; the name was used for offspring of…- TielePeople / groupThe Tiele were a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes of the Mongolian steppe and Central Asia recorded in Chinese sources from the 5th to the 7th century, and…
TienenPlaceTienen is a town in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, east of Leuven.- TiengenPlaceTiengen is a historic town on the Wutach river near the Swiss border in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- TiermesPlaceTiermes, Latin Termes, was a Celtiberian town of the Arevaci on a sandstone ridge in the modern province of Soria, Spain.
Tierra de CamposPlaceThe Tierra de Campos is a flat, largely treeless region of the northern Meseta in Castile and León, Spain, spreading across the provinces of Palencia, Valladolid, León…
Tierra del FuegoPlaceTierra del Fuego is an archipelago at the southern tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan.
Tigernán Ua RuaircPersonTigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172) was king of Breifne for nearly fifty years and one of the most powerful Irish rulers of the 12th century.
Tiglath-Pileser IPersonTiglath-Pileser I was king of Assyria from about 1114 to 1076 BCE.
Tiglath-pileser IIIPersonTiglath-pileser III was king of Assyria from 745 to 727 BCE and the architect of the Neo-Assyrian imperial system.
Tigranes the GreatPersonTigranes the Great, or Tigranes II, was king of Armenia in the first century BCE, who briefly made Armenia the leading power of the Near East.
TigranocertaPlaceTigranocerta was a city founded in the early 1st century BCE by Tigranes the Great as the new capital of his Armenian empire, in the upper Tigris region of present-day…
Tigray People's Liberation FrontPeople / groupThe Tigray People's Liberation Front is a political party and former guerrilla movement founded in 1975 in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
Tigrinya languageTermTigrinya is a Semitic language of the Horn of Africa, spoken in the highlands of Eritrea and in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
TigrisPlaceThe Tigris is one of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia, flowing from eastern Anatolia south-east through Iraq to join the Euphrates near the Persian Gulf.
TiguriniPeople / groupThe Tigurini were one of the four cantons (pagi) of the Helvetii, a Celtic people of the Swiss plateau.
TihamaPlaceTihamah is the hot coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, stretching from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
TihosucoPlaceTihosuco is a town in Quintana Roo, Mexico, in the east of the Yucatán peninsula, which was a colonial parish centre on the frontier of Spanish settlement.- TijaniyyaReligion / ideaThe Tijaniyya is a Sufi order founded by the Algerian scholar Ahmad al-Tijani in the late 18th century and centred on Fez in Morocco.
TijikjaPlaceTijikja is a town in central Mauritania, capital of the Tagant region, built around a palm oasis.- TikamgarhPlaceTikamgarh is a town in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Tikar peoplePeople / groupThe Tikar are a people of the Tikar plain in central Cameroon.
Til BarsipPlaceTil Barsip, at Tell Ahmar on the Euphrates in northern Syria, was an ancient city that became the capital of the Aramaean state of Bit-Adini.- Tilari massacreRevolt · 1930The Tilari massacre took place on 30 May 1930 at Tilari, in the Rawain area of Tehri Garhwal State in the Himalaya, when the state's troops fired on villagers gathered…
TilaurakotPlaceTilaurakot is an archaeological site in Kapilvastu district of southern Nepal, near Lumbini.- Till-AbnuPersonTill-Abnu was a king of Apum in northern Mesopotamia around 1750 BCE, ruling from Shehna, modern Tell Leilan.
Tillya TepePlaceTillya Tepe is an archaeological site in Jowzjan province, northern Afghanistan, where Viktor Sarianidi excavated six rich graves in 1978–1979.
TilokaratPersonTilokarat was king of Lan Na, in what is now northern Thailand, from 1441 to 1487, and its most powerful ruler.- Timaeus of TauromeniumPersonTimaeus of Tauromenium was a Greek historian from Sicily, the son of the city's founder Andromachus.
- TimarInstitutionThe timar was a grant of revenue from land in the Ottoman Empire given to a cavalryman, or sipahi, in return for military service.
- TimberTermTimber is wood used for construction, shipbuilding and fuel, and was a strategic resource for many pre-modern states.
- TimboPlaceTimbo is a town in the Futa Jallon highlands of central Guinea.
TimbuktuPlaceTimbuktu is a city near the Niger River in present-day Mali, at the southern edge of the Sahara.
Time of TroublesEventThe Time of Troubles was a period of political crisis, famine, civil war and foreign intervention in Russia between the end of the Rurik dynasty in 1598 and the…
TimgadPlaceTimgad, the Roman Thamugadi, is a ruined city in north-eastern Algeria, founded by Trajan around 100 CE as a colony for veterans of the Third Augustan Legion.