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Upper SilesiaPlaceUpper Silesia is the south-eastern part of Silesia, on the upper Oder, today mostly in Poland with a part in the Czech Republic.
Upper SwabiaPlaceUpper Swabia is the region of south-western Germany between the Danube, the Iller and Lake Constance, in modern Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.- Upper ValaisPlaceThe Upper Valais is the German-speaking eastern part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland, along the upper Rhône from the Rhône Glacier to around Leuk.
Upper VoltaPlaceUpper Volta was a French colony in West Africa created in 1919 from parts of Upper Senegal and Niger, centred on the Mossi kingdoms.
UpplandPlaceUppland is a historical province of eastern Sweden, north of Stockholm, around Lake Mälaren and Uppsala.- Upplands (Norway)PlaceThe Upplands (Opplandene) were the inland districts of eastern Norway, including Hadeland, Ringerike, Hedmark, Toten and Gudbrandsdal.
UppsalaPlaceUppsala is a city in eastern Sweden, north of Stockholm.
Uppsala UniversityInstitutionUppsala University was founded in 1477 by Archbishop Jakob Ulvsson with a papal bull of Sixtus IV and the support of the regent Sten Sture the Elder, making it the…
Uprising of Asen and PeterRevolt · 1185–1187The Uprising of Asen and Peter was the revolt of the Bulgarians and Vlachs of the Balkan Mountains against Byzantine rule, begun in 1185 by the brothers Theodore-Peter…
UpstalsboomPlaceThe Upstalsboom is a burial mound near Aurich in East Frisia, Germany, which served in the Middle Ages as the meeting place of delegates of the Frisian Seven Sealands.
UqairPlaceUqair is a historic port on the Gulf coast of eastern Saudi Arabia, in the al-Ahsa region.
Uqair ProtocolTreaty · 1922The Uqair Protocol of 1922 set the borders between the Sultanate of Nejd under Ibn Saud and the British-protected Kuwait and mandated Iraq.
Uqaylid dynastyStateThe Uqaylid dynasty was an Arab Shia dynasty of the Banu Uqayl that ruled Mosul and much of northern Iraq and the Jazira from about 990 to 1096.
Uqba ibn NafiPersonUqba ibn Nafi was an Arab general of the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphates who led the conquest of North Africa.
UrPlaceUr was an ancient Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, near the former course of the Euphrates in present-day Iraq.
Ur-NammuPersonUr-Nammu was the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Neo-Sumerian Empire, who established his rule around 2112 BCE after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
Ur-NanshePersonUr-Nanshe was the founder of the First Dynasty of Lagash in Sumer around 2500 BCE.- Ur-ZababaPersonUr-Zababa was a king of the Sumerian city of Kish in the late third millennium BCE.
- UraiyurPlaceUraiyur was the inland capital of the early Chola kings in the Sangam age, now a district of the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India.
Ural MountainsPlaceThe Ural Mountains are a north–south mountain range in Russia, traditionally regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Ural RiverPlaceThe Ural River, historically the Yaik, flows from the southern Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea and is often taken as a boundary between Europe and Asia.
UraniborgWork / monumentUraniborg was the observatory and residence built by the astronomer Tycho Brahe on the island of Ven in the Øresund, with the support of Frederick II of Denmark, from…
UrasoePlaceUrasoe is a city on Okinawa Island, Japan, just north of Naha.
Đurađ BrankovićPersonĐurađ Branković was Despot of Serbia from 1427 to 1456.
Đurađ CrnojevićPersonĐurađ Crnojević was the last lord of Zeta from the Crnojević family, ruling from 1490.
Đurađ I BalšićPersonĐurađ I Balšić was lord of Zeta, roughly modern Montenegro, from 1362 to 1378, the most capable of the three Balšić brothers who made Zeta independent as the Serbian…- Đurađ II BalšićPersonĐurađ II Balšić, son of Stracimir and so also called Stracimirović, was lord of Zeta from 1385 to 1403.
- Urbarial Patent of 1767Work / monumentThe Urbarial Patent of 1767 was a decree of Maria Theresa that regulated the obligations of serfs to their lords in the Kingdom of Hungary.
- UrduTermUrdu is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Hindi, written in a Perso-Arabic script and rich in Persian and Arabic vocabulary.
- UreukPersonUreuk was a musician of the Gaya kingdom of Daegaya in 6th-century Korea.
UrfInstitutionUrf is a term for customary law, and in the Safavid Empire it referred to the royal law administered through the Shah's courts.- Urhi-TeshubPersonUrhi-Teshub, who reigned as Mursili III, was king of the Hittites for several years in the early 13th century BCE, son of Muwatalli II.
- UrhilinaPersonUrhilina, called Irhuleni in Assyrian records, was king of Hamath in the mid-9th century BCE.
Urho KekkonenPersonUrho Kekkonen (1900–1986) was a Finnish politician of the Agrarian, later Centre, Party who served as prime minister five times and as president from 1956 to 1982, the…
Uriah ButlerPersonTubal Uriah 'Buzz' Butler was a Grenadian-born labour leader and preacher in Trinidad.
Urien RhegedPersonUrien Rheged was a king of Rheged in northern Britain in the late 6th century, praised in poems attributed to Taliesin.
UrmiaPlaceUrmia is a city in north-western Iran, the capital of West Azerbaijan province, on a plain west of Lake Urmia.- UrnayrPersonUrnayr was a king of Caucasian Albania in the 4th century, remembered as the ruler who made Christianity the religion of his kingdom.
Urnes Stave ChurchWork / monumentUrnes Stave Church is a wooden church on the Lustrafjord, a branch of the Sognefjord in western Norway, built around 1130 and among the oldest surviving stave churches.- UrogsPeople / groupThe Urogs were a people of the western Eurasian steppe recorded by the Byzantine historian Priscus.
UromiPlaceUromi is a town in Edo State in southern Nigeria and one of the largest of the Esan chiefdoms, ruled by its own Onojie.
UronartiPlaceUronarti was a Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortress on an island in the Nile near Semna, in Lower Nubia, built under Senusret III.
Urraca of León and CastilePersonUrraca was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 to 1126, the daughter and heir of Alfonso VI.- UrshuPlaceUrshu was an ancient city in northern Syria or south-eastern Anatolia, besieged by the Hittites during their early expansion.
Ursus of SolothurnPersonUrsus of Solothurn is a Christian martyr who, according to tradition, belonged to the Theban Legion and was executed at Solothurn with his companion Victor around 300.
UruguayPlaceUruguay is a country in South America on the east bank of the Río de la Plata.
Uruguayan Civil WarWar · 1839–1851The Uruguayan Civil War, known as the Guerra Grande, was fought from 1839 to 1851 between the Colorados of Fructuoso Rivera and the Blancos of Manuel Oribe.- UrukPlaceUruk was one of the oldest and largest cities of ancient Sumer, in southern Mesopotamia, and is associated with the early development of writing and urban life.
Uruk periodTermThe Uruk period is the archaeological period of Mesopotamia from about 4000 to 3100 BCE, named after the city of Uruk.- UrukaginaPersonUrukagina, or Uru-inimgina, was the last ruler of the First Dynasty of Lagash, reigning around 2350 BCE.
UrumqiPlaceUrumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, lying in an oasis on the northern side of the Tian Shan.
UrupPlaceThe Urup is a river of the North Caucasus in Russia, about 230 kilometres long, a left tributary of the Kuban.- Urus KhanPersonUrus Khan was a Jochid ruler of the White Horde, in the eastern part of the Golden Horde, from about 1368 until his death in 1377.
- UrzanaPersonUrzana was king of Musasir, a small mountain state between Assyria and Urartu famous for the temple of the god Haldi.
- US oil embargo against JapanCrisis · 1941The US oil embargo against Japan was the cutting off of American oil exports to Japan in 1941, imposed in response to Japanese expansion in Indochina.
- Usain BoltPersonUsain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as the greatest of all time.
- Usama ibn MunqidhPersonUsama ibn Munqidh was an Arab poet, soldier and courtier of the Munqidhite family of Shaizar in northern Syria.
Usambara MountainsPlaceThe Usambara Mountains are a range in north-eastern Tanzania, part of the ancient Eastern Arc Mountains.
Usatges of BarcelonaWork / monumentThe Usatges of Barcelona are a collection of customary laws of Catalonia, traditionally attributed to Count Ramon Berenguer I of Barcelona in the mid-11th century but…
UsedomPlaceUsedom is an island in the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Oder, divided between Germany and Poland, whose part includes the port of Świnoujście.
UsingenPlaceUsingen is a small town in the Hochtaunus district of Hesse, Germany, in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt.- UsipetesPeople / groupThe Usipetes were a Germanic people of the lower Rhine.
UslarPlaceUslar is a small town in the Solling hills of southern Lower Saxony, Germany, north-west of Göttingen.- Usman dan FodioPersonUsman dan Fodio was a Fulani Islamic scholar and reformer who led a jihad against the Hausa kingdoms beginning in 1804 and founded the Sokoto Caliphate.
- Usman ZakiPersonUsman Zaki was the first emir of Bida in the Nupe country of central Nigeria.
- UsoraPlaceUsora was a medieval region in northern Bosnia, around the valley of the Usora river, a tributary of the Bosna near Doboj.
UsrushanaPlaceUsrushana was a historical region of Central Asia between Samarkand and Khujand, south of the Syr Darya, in modern northern Tajikistan.
USS Buchanan (DDG-14)Work / monumentUSS Buchanan was a Charles F.
USS Charleston (C-2)Work / monumentUSS Charleston was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1889.
USS Cole bombingEventThe USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by al-Qaeda on the American destroyer USS Cole while it was refuelling in the harbour of Aden, Yemen, on 12 October 2000.- USS MissouriWork / monumentThe USS Missouri was a United States Navy battleship of the Iowa class, commissioned during the Second World War.
Ussher FortPlaceUssher Fort is a fort in Accra, Ghana, built by the Dutch West India Company in 1649 as Fort Crèvecoeur.
UstašePeople / groupThe Ustaše were a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist movement founded by Ante Pavelić in 1929, which used terrorism against the Yugoslav state, including the…
UstertagEventThe Ustertag was a mass assembly of some 10,000 people from the countryside of the canton of Zürich, held at Uster on 22 November 1830.
Usumacinta RiverPlaceThe Usumacinta River rises in the highlands of Guatemala and flows north-west to the Gulf of Mexico, for much of its course forming the border between Mexico and…- uSuthuPeople / groupThe uSuthu were the faction of the Zulu royal house loyal to Cetshwayo and later to his son Dinuzulu.
Uta von BallenstedtPersonUta von Ballenstedt was a Saxon noblewoman, the wife of Margrave Ekkehard II of Meissen.
Utagawa HiroshigePersonUtagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, the last great master of the woodblock print in the Edo period.
UtahPlaceUtah is a state in the western United States, with its capital at Salt Lake City.
Utah TerritoryStateUtah Territory was an organised territory of the United States created by the Compromise of 1850 from part of the lands taken from Mexico, replacing the Mormon-proposed…
Utendi wa TambukaWork / monumentThe Utendi wa Tambuka is an epic poem in Swahili composed in 1728 at the court of Pate, on the coast of present-day Kenya.- Uthman DeyPersonUthman Dey was dey of Ottoman Tunisia from 1598 until his death in 1610, when deys chosen from the Janissary corps held real power.
- Uthman ibn AffanPersonUthman ibn Affan was the third caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruling from 644 to 656 CE.
UthumphonPersonUthumphon was a king of Ayutthaya who succeeded his father Borommakot in 1758 but gave up the throne within weeks to his elder brother Ekkathat and became a monk.
UtikPlaceUtik was a province of ancient Armenia on the right bank of the Kura river, between Artsakh and the river.
UtilaPlaceUtila is the smallest of the three main Bay Islands of Honduras, in the western Caribbean near the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
UtraquismReligion / ideaUtraquism was the moderate branch of the Hussite movement in Bohemia, named after its central demand for communion under both kinds (sub utraque specie), bread and…- Uttar PradeshPlaceUttar Pradesh is a state of northern India, the most populous in the country, lying across the Ganges–Yamuna plain with its capital at Lucknow.
UttaraditPlaceUttaradit is a town in northern Thailand on the Nan river and the capital of Uttaradit Province.
UttarakhandPlaceUttarakhand is a state of northern India in the central Himalaya, with its capital at Dehradun.
UttaramerurPlaceUttaramerur is a village in Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India.- UttarapathaPlaceUttarapatha, 'the northern road', was the ancient trade route of northern India, running from the Ganges plain through Taxila and the north-west towards Bactria and…
- UttararamacharitaWork / monumentThe Uttararamacharita ('The Later Story of Rama') is a Sanskrit drama in seven acts by Bhavabhuti, written in the 8th century.
UtuReligion / ideaUtu, called Shamash in Akkadian, was the Mesopotamian god of the sun, justice and truth.
Utu-hengalPersonUtu-hengal was a king of Uruk in the late 22nd century BCE who led the Sumerian cities against the Gutians.
UwajimaPlaceUwajima is a port city in Ehime Prefecture on the western coast of Shikoku, Japan, facing the Bungo Channel.
Uxama ArgaelaPlaceUxama Argaela was a town of the Arevaci near modern El Burgo de Osma in the province of Soria, Spain.
UyaynaPlaceUyayna is a town in the Najd region of central Saudi Arabia, north-west of Riyadh in Wadi Hanifa.- Uyghur MuqamWork / monumentThe Uyghur Muqam is the classical music tradition of the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, a set of large suites combining songs, dances, poetry and instrumental music.
- UyghursPeople / groupThe Uyghurs are a Turkic people who founded a powerful khaganate on the Mongolian steppe in the mid-eighth century after overthrowing the Second Turkic Khaganate in…