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VannesPlaceVannes is a city on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, north-western France, capital of the Morbihan department.
VanniusPersonVannius was a king of the Quadi installed by the Romans in 19 CE in the lands north of the middle Danube, roughly modern Slovakia and Moravia, after the fall of the…
Vanraj ChavdaPersonVanraj Chavda, or Vanaraja, was the founder of the Chavda dynasty of Gujarat in the 8th century.
Vansda National ParkPlaceVansda National Park is a protected forest in Navsari district of southern Gujarat, India, on the Ambika river near the Western Ghats.- Vanua BalavuPlaceVanua Balavu is the largest island of the northern Lau group in eastern Fiji, a long, irregular island of limestone and volcanic rock with sheltered bays.
Vanua LevuPlaceVanua Levu is the second-largest island of Fiji, lying north-east of Viti Levu, with Labasa and Savusavu as its main towns.- Vanua'aku PatiPeople / groupThe Vanua'aku Pati is a political party of Vanuatu, founded in 1971 by Walter Lini and other Anglican-educated leaders and renamed from the New Hebrides National Party…
VanuatuPlaceVanuatu is an island nation in the south-western Pacific Ocean, formerly known as the New Hebrides.
VapheioPlaceVapheio is a site in Laconia, south of Sparta, known for a Mycenaean tholos tomb excavated by Christos Tsountas in 1888.
Vaps MovementPeople / groupThe Vaps Movement, formally the Estonian War of Independence Veterans' League, was a radical right-wing populist movement of the early 1930s.
Var (river)PlaceThe Var is a river of south-eastern France that flows about 114 kilometres from the Maritime Alps to the Mediterranean just west of Nice.- Varaguna IIPersonVaraguna II was a king of the Pandya dynasty of Madurai in the second half of the 9th century.
- VarahadevaPersonVarahadeva was a minister of the Vakataka king Harishena in the late 5th century.
VaranasiPlaceVaranasi, also called Benares or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, and one of the holiest cities of Hinduism.- VarandaPlaceVaranda was one of the five Armenian melikdoms of Karabakh, known as the Khamsa, in the south-east of the region.
Varangian GuardInstitutionThe Varangian Guard was the elite bodyguard of the Byzantine emperors, formed around 988 when Basil II received about 6,000 warriors from Vladimir of Kiev.
VarangiansPeople / groupThe Varangians were Scandinavians, mostly from what is now Sweden, who travelled the rivers of eastern Europe from the 9th to the 11th centuries as traders, raiders and…- Varaz GrigorPersonVaraz Grigor was the first prince of Caucasian Albania from the Mihranid dynasty, a branch of a great Parthian noble family that held the canton of Gardman.
- Vardan MamikonianPersonVardan Mamikonian was an Armenian military leader of the Mamikonian noble house who led the Christian rising against the Sasanian king Yazdegerd II's attempt to impose…
VardarPlaceThe Vardar is the longest river of North Macedonia, about 390 kilometres long, flowing from the Šar Mountains past Skopje into Greece, where as the Axios it enters the…
Vardar MacedoniaPlaceVardar Macedonia is the part of the wider region of Macedonia, around the Vardar valley, that Serbia won in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 and that belonged to Yugoslavia…
VardziaPlaceVardzia is a cave monastery cut into the cliffs of Erusheti mountain above the Mtkvari river in southern Georgia.- VareiaPlaceVareia was a town of the Berones on the Ebro, at modern Varea on the eastern edge of Logroño in La Rioja, Spain.
VarendraPlaceVarendra is a historical region of northern Bengal between the Ganges and the Karatoya rivers, largely within the present Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh and the…
Varendra rebellionRevolt · late 11th centuryThe Varendra rebellion was a revolt of the Kaivartas, a community of boatmen and cultivators, against the Pala dynasty in northern Bengal in the late eleventh century.
VarkhumanPersonVarkhuman was king of Samarkand in the mid-7th century.- VarnaInstitutionVarna is the classical Indian system dividing society into four broad orders: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors and rulers), Vaishyas (merchants and farmers) and…
- Varna RatnakaraWork / monumentThe Varna Ratnakara is a Maithili prose work written by Jyotirishvara Thakur at the Karnat court of Mithila in the early 14th century.
Varuna RiverPlaceThe Varuna is a tributary of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, India, that joins the larger river at the northern edge of Varanasi.
VasaiPlaceVasai, formerly Bassein, is a town on the coast north of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India.
VasavadattaPersonVasavadatta is a legendary princess of ancient India, daughter of King Chanda Pradyota of Avanti.
Vasco da GamaPersonVasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who led the first European voyage to reach India by sea, arriving at Calicut in 1498 after rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco de QuirogaPersonVasco de Quiroga was a Spanish judge and churchman who became the first bishop of Michoacán in Mexico.- Vasco Fernandes CoutinhoPersonVasco Fernandes Coutinho was a Portuguese nobleman, a veteran of service in India, who received the hereditary captaincy of Espírito Santo in Brazil from King John III…
Vasco Núñez de BalboaPersonVasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador who in 1510 founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first lasting Spanish settlement on the American mainland.
Vasile LupuPersonVasile Lupu was Prince of Moldavia from 1634 to 1653, a wealthy ruler of Albanian descent whose long reign brought relative prosperity.
Vasili IV of RussiaPersonVasili IV Shuisky was tsar of Russia from 1606 to 1610, during the Time of Troubles.
Vasilko KonstantinovichPersonVasilko Konstantinovich was prince of Rostov from 1218 to 1238, the eldest son of Konstantin of Rostov.
Vasily Dolgorukov-KrymskyPersonVasily Mikhailovich Dolgorukov was a Russian general who commanded the Second Army in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.
Vasily I of MoscowPersonVasily I was grand prince of Moscow from 1389 to 1425, the eldest son of Dmitry Donskoy.
Vasily II of MoscowPersonVasily II was grand prince of Moscow from 1425 to 1462.
Vasily III of MoscowPersonVasily III was grand prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533, son of Ivan III and father of Ivan the Terrible.
Vasily KosoyPersonVasily Kosoy was a son of Yury of Zvenigorod and a contender in the Muscovite civil war of 1425–1453.
Vasily of KostromaPersonVasily of Kostroma was the youngest son of Grand Prince Yaroslav II of Vladimir and the first prince of Kostroma, which he received as his appanage after his father's…- Vasily ShemyachichPersonVasily Shemyachich was prince of Novgorod-Seversky and a grandson of Dmitry Shemyaka.
- Vasily Yaroslavich of SerpukhovPersonVasily Yaroslavich was prince of Serpukhov and Borovsk, a grandson of Vladimir the Bold and brother-in-law of Grand Prince Vasily II of Moscow.
VasishkaPersonVasishka was a Kushan emperor of the 3rd century CE, one of the successors of Vasudeva I during the empire's decline.- Vasishthiputra ChamtamulaPersonVasishthiputra Chamtamula, also known as Santamula I, was the founder of the Ikshvaku dynasty in the lower Krishna valley of Andhra in the early 3rd century, after the…
Vasishthiputra PulumaviPersonVasishthiputra Pulumavi was a Satavahana king of the Deccan in the second century CE, son and successor of Gautamiputra Satakarni.- VassakaraPersonVassakara was the chief minister of Ajatashatru, king of Magadha, in the 5th century BCE.
VassalInstitutionA vassal is a ruler or lord who holds power or land in subordination to a superior, owing loyalty, tribute or military service in return for protection or recognition.- Vassal and tributary systemsHistorical factorVassal and tributary systems describe the recurring pattern by which empires ruled indirectly through subordinate rulers who kept local authority in exchange for…
VästergötlandPlaceVästergötland is a historical province in south-western Sweden, between lakes Vänern and Vättern and the Kattegat coast.
VästgötalagenWork / monumentThe Västgötalagen, or Västgöta Law, is the provincial law of Västergötland in Sweden.
VastoPlaceVasto is a coastal town in the province of Chieti in Abruzzo, Italy, on the Adriatic.- VastryoshanInstitutionThe vastryoshan were the commoners in the social hierarchy of the Sasanian Empire, comprising both peasant cultivators and artisans.
- VastupalaPersonVastupala was a Jain minister of the Vaghela rulers of Gujarat, serving Viradhavala at Dholka with his younger brother Tejapala from about 1220.
VasudevaReligion / ideaVasudeva is a Hindu deity, originally a hero of the Vrishni clan of Mathura who was worshipped as a god and later merged with Krishna and identified with Vishnu.
Vasudeva IPersonVasudeva I was the last great emperor of the Kushan Empire, whose inscriptions date roughly from 190 to 230 CE and are concentrated around Mathura.
Vasudeva IIPersonVasudeva II was one of the last Kushan kings, ruling in the later 3rd century CE over a much reduced realm around the Indus and the Punjab.- Vasudeva KanvaPersonVasudeva Kanva was a Brahmin minister who founded the Kanva dynasty of Magadha in northern India around 73 BCE.
- Vasyl ChuchupakPersonVasyl Chuchupak was a Ukrainian insurgent leader who in 1919 organised a peasant self-defence force around the Motronynskyi Monastery in the Kholodny Yar forest of…
- Vasylko RostyslavychPersonVasylko Rostyslavych was prince of Terebovl in Galicia.
Vata pagan uprisingRevolt · 1046The Vata pagan uprising was a revolt in Hungary in 1046, led by a nobleman named Vata, against Christianity and the rule of King Peter Orseolo.- VathyPlaceVathy is the main town and port of the Greek island of Samos, on a deep bay of its north-eastern coast.
Vatican LibraryInstitutionThe Vatican Library is the library of the Holy See in Vatican City, formally established in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV, building on the collection of Nicholas V.
Vatican MuseumsInstitutionThe Vatican Museums are the art and archaeological museums of the popes in Vatican City, begun in 1506 when Pope Julius II displayed the newly found statue of Laocoön.- Vatican RadioInstitutionVatican Radio is the broadcasting service of the Holy See, set up by Guglielmo Marconi and inaugurated by Pope Pius XI on 12 February 1931.
VatsagulmaPlaceVatsagulma was the capital of the western branch of the Vakataka dynasty, in the Deccan of India, identified with modern Washim in Maharashtra.- VatsarajaPersonVatsaraja was a king of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the late 8th century who made it a major power in northern India.
VaudPlaceVaud is a French-speaking canton of western Switzerland, stretching from Lake Geneva to the Jura with Lausanne as its capital.- VazimbaPeople / groupThe Vazimba are, in Malagasy tradition, the earliest inhabitants of the central highlands of Madagascar, displaced or absorbed by the ancestors of the Merina.
VechtaPlaceVechta is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Oldenburg Münsterland.
VechtePlaceThe Vechte is a river about 180 kilometres long that rises in Westphalia, Germany, flows through the former County of Bentheim past Nordhorn and enters the Netherlands…- VedantaReligion / ideaVedanta is a group of schools of Hindu philosophy based on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, concerned with the nature of the ultimate reality…
VedasWork / monumentThe Vedas are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, composed in Vedic Sanskrit in north-west India from about 1500 BCE and transmitted orally for centuries.
VedenoPlaceVedeno is a village in the mountains of south-eastern Chechnya, Russia.- Veera Ballala IPersonVeera Ballala I was a ruler of the Hoysala dynasty in southern Karnataka at the start of the 12th century, the eldest son of the prince Ereyanga.
Veera Ballala IIPersonVeera Ballala II was king of the Hoysala Empire in southern India from 1173 to 1220.- Veera Ballala IIIPersonVeera Ballala III was the last major king of the Hoysala Empire, ruling from 1292 to 1343.
VeerePlaceVeere is a small town on the former island of Walcheren in the Dutch province of Zeeland.
VEFInstitutionVEF (Valsts Elektrotehniskā Fabrika, State Electrotechnical Factory) was a state-owned electrical manufacturer in Riga, established in 1919.
Vega of GranadaPlaceThe Vega of Granada is the fertile plain around the city of Granada in Andalusia, Spain, watered by the Genil river and its tributaries.- Vega RealPlaceThe Vega Real, 'royal plain', is a fertile valley in the north-central Dominican Republic, the eastern part of the Cibao valley drained by the Yuna River.
VegesackPlaceVegesack is a district of Bremen on the Weser, about 20 kilometres downstream from the city centre.
Veit StossPersonVeit Stoss was a German sculptor and woodcarver of the late Gothic period, active mainly in Nuremberg and Kraków.
Vel' d'Hiv RoundupEventThe Vel' d'Hiv Roundup was a mass arrest of Jews in Paris on 16–17 July 1942, carried out by French police under the Vichy government at German request.
Vela JiménezPersonVela Jiménez was count of Álava in the late 9th century, one of the frontier lords of the Kingdom of Asturias.- VelamaPeople / groupThe Velamas are a Telugu-speaking landholding community of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southern India.
VelayPlaceThe Velay is a historic region of the Massif Central in south-central France, around Le Puy-en-Velay, named after the Gallic Vellavi.
VeledaPersonVeleda was a seeress of the Bructeri in Germany in the 1st century CE, described by Tacitus.
Veliko TarnovoPlaceVeliko Tarnovo is a city in north-central Bulgaria on the Yantra river, built on hills including Tsarevets and Trapezitsa.
Veliky NovgorodPlaceVeliky Novgorod is one of the oldest cities of Russia, on the Volkhov river near Lake Ilmen.- Veliky UstyugPlaceVeliky Ustyug is a town in Vologda Oblast in northern Russia, at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug rivers, first mentioned in the chronicles in 1207.
Velleius PaterculusPersonVelleius Paterculus was a Roman soldier and historian who served under Tiberius in Germany and Pannonia.
VelletriPlaceVelletri is a town in the Alban Hills south-east of Rome, Italy.
VellorePlaceVellore is a city in the north of Tamil Nadu, India, known for its sixteenth-century fort built under the Vijayanagara Empire.
Velu Thampi DalawaPersonVelu Thampi Dalawa was the chief minister, or dalawa, of the kingdom of Travancore from 1802 to 1809.- VeluvanaPlaceVeluvana, the Bamboo Grove, was a park outside Rajagriha, the capital of Magadha, which King Bimbisara gave to the Buddha and his order of monks.
VeluwePlaceThe Veluwe is a forested ridge of sandy hills in the Dutch province of Gelderland, between Arnhem, Apeldoorn and the IJssel.