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- VolksraadInstitutionThe Volksraad (Dutch for 'people's council') was the elected legislature of the Boer republics of southern Africa in the 19th century, including the Natalia Republic…
Volksraad (Dutch East Indies)InstitutionThe Volksraad (People's Council) was an advisory and later partly legislative assembly of the Dutch East Indies, which first met in Batavia in 1918.
Volodar RostyslavychPersonVolodar Rostyslavych was a Rurikid prince of Peremyshl, now Przemyśl, in south-western Rus'.
Volodymyr OlgerdovichPersonVolodymyr Olgerdovich was a son of Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania who ruled the Principality of Kiev as a Lithuanian prince from about 1362 to 1394.- Volodymyr ShcherbytskyPersonVolodymyr Shcherbytsky was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989 and a member of the Soviet Politburo.
Volodymyr VynnychenkoPersonVolodymyr Vynnychenko was a Ukrainian writer and Social Democratic politician.
Volodymyr ZatonskyPersonVolodymyr Zatonsky was a Ukrainian Bolshevik and member of the People's Secretariat, the Soviet government formed in Kharkiv in December 1917 in opposition to the…- Volodymyrko VolodarovychPersonVolodymyrko Volodarovych was a prince of Zvenyhorod and Peremyshl who united the lands of his family and in 1141 made Halych on the Dniester their capital, creating the…
- Vologases (Thracian priest)Revolt · fl. 11 BCEVologases was a priest of Dionysus among the Bessi, a Thracian people, who led a major uprising against Roman control in 11 BCE.
Vologases VIPersonVologases VI was a king of the Parthian Empire who reigned from about 208 to 228 CE.
Volok ReformEventThe Volok Reform was an agrarian reform of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania introduced by Sigismund II Augustus in 1557.
VolosPlaceVolos is a port city in Thessaly, Greece, at the head of the Pagasetic Gulf below Mount Pelion, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit.- VolquinPersonVolquin was the second master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, from 1209 until his death in 1236.
Volta RedondaPlaceVolta Redonda is an industrial city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the Paraíba do Sul river.
Volta RiverPlaceThe Volta is a river system of West Africa that flows south through present-day Ghana to the Gulf of Guinea.
Volta-Bani WarWar · Revolt · 1915–1916The Volta-Bani War was an armed revolt against French colonial rule in 1915–1916 in the region between the Volta and Bani rivers, in present-day western Burkina Faso…
VoltairePersonVoltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, was a French writer and philosopher and the most famous figure of the Enlightenment.
Volto Santo of LuccaWork / monumentThe Volto Santo of Lucca is a large wooden crucifix showing Christ robed and alive on the cross, kept in a chapel in Lucca Cathedral.
VolturnoPlaceThe Volturno is the longest river of southern Italy, about 175 km long, rising in Molise and flowing through Campania to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
VolubilisPlaceVolubilis is the site of an ancient city near Meknes in Morocco.
Volunteer ArmyPeople / groupThe Volunteer Army was the main anti-Bolshevik White army in southern Russia during the Russian Civil War, formed in late 1917 by generals Mikhail Alekseyev and Lavr…- Volunteers of the FaithPeople / groupThe Volunteers of the Faith (Ghuzat al-Jihad) were a corps of North African, mainly Zenata Berber, warriors who served the Nasrid Emirate of Granada from the late…
- VoorcompagnieënInstitutionThe voorcompagnieën, or pre-companies, were the Dutch trading companies formed in the 1590s to send ships to Asia before the creation of the Dutch East India Company.
VoortrekkersPeople / groupThe Voortrekkers were Dutch-speaking settlers, mainly from the eastern Cape Colony, who left British rule from 1835 onwards in the Great Trek and moved into the…
VorarlbergPlaceVorarlberg is the westernmost state of Austria, lying between Lake Constance, the Rhine and the Arlberg pass, with its capital at Bregenz.
Vorau AbbeyWork / monumentVorau Abbey is a house of Augustinian canons in eastern Styria, Austria, founded in 1163 by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria.
VormaPlaceThe Vorma is a short river in eastern Norway that drains Lake Mjøsa south past Eidsvoll to join the Glomma at Nes in Romerike.
Voroneț MonasteryWork / monumentVoroneț is a monastery in Bukovina, north-eastern Romania, founded by Stephen the Great in 1488.- VorortTermThe Vorort was the leading or presiding canton of the Swiss Confederation before 1848, which convened the federal Diet and conducted common business between sessions.
VortigernPersonVortigern was a 5th-century British ruler who, according to Gildas, Bede and the Historia Brittonum, invited Saxon mercenaries under Hengist and Horsa to defend…
VortiporiusPersonVortiporius was a 6th-century king of Dyfed in south-west Wales, whom Gildas called tyrant of the Demetae and condemned in On the Ruin of Britain.
VosgesPlaceThe Vosges are a range of low mountains in north-eastern France, running parallel to the Rhine on the western side of the Upper Rhine plain and separating Alsace from…- Voting Rights Act of 1965Work / monumentThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a United States law, signed by President Lyndon B.
Voulet–Chanoine MissionCampaign · 1899The Voulet–Chanoine Mission was a French military expedition of 1899 led by Captains Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, sent from French Sudan to conquer the territory…
Vratislaus II of BohemiaPersonVratislaus II was Duke of Bohemia from 1061 and the first Bohemian ruler to hold the title of king, granted personally by Emperor Henry IV in 1085 for his support…- VrbasPlaceThe Vrbas is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 200 kilometres long, which rises in the Dinaric Alps, flows north past Jajce and Banja Luka and joins the Sava…
VredenburgWork / monumentVredenburg was a castle built by Emperor Charles V in the city of Utrecht from 1529, after he acquired the secular lordship of the prince-bishops in 1528.
VryburgPlaceVryburg is a town in North West Province, South Africa.
VryheidPlaceVryheid, Afrikaans for 'freedom', is a town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Vseslav of PolotskPersonVseslav of Polotsk was prince of Polotsk from 1044 to 1101 and a rival of the sons of Yaroslav the Wise.
Vsevolod I of KievPersonVsevolod I, a son of Yaroslav the Wise, received Pereyaslavl on his father's death in 1054 and was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1078 to 1093.
Vsevolod MstislavichPersonVsevolod Mstislavich was prince of Novgorod from 1117 to 1136, a grandson of Vladimir Monomakh.- Vsevolod Mstislavich of BelzPersonVsevolod Mstislavich was a prince of the Volhynian branch of the Rurikids, a son of Mstislav II of Kiev and brother of Roman Mstislavich.
Vsevolod the Big NestPersonVsevolod III, called the Big Nest for his many sons, was grand prince of Vladimir-Suzdal from 1176 to 1212.
VučitrnPlaceVučitrn is a town in northern Kosovo, south of Mitrovica in the Sitnica valley.
Vuk BrankovićPersonVuk Branković was a Serbian noble, son-in-law of Prince Lazar, who after the break-up of the Serbian Empire built up a lordship in Kosovo and northern Macedonia rich in…- Vukan of RaškaPersonVukan was Grand Župan of Raška, the inland Serbian principality, from about 1083 to about 1112.
Vukanović dynastyPeople / groupThe Vukanović dynasty ruled the Serbian principality of Raška from the late eleventh century until 1166, taking its name from Grand Župan Vukan.
Vukašin MrnjavčevićPersonVukašin Mrnjavčević was a Serbian noble crowned king in 1365 as co-ruler with Emperor Uroš V, ruling lands in western Macedonia from Prilep.- VulcaPersonVulca was an Etruscan sculptor of Veii, the only Etruscan artist named in Roman literature.
- Vulgrin I, Count of AngoulêmePersonVulgrin I was a Frankish noble and kinsman of Charles the Bald, who appointed him count of Angoulême and Périgord in 866 to defend the Charente and Dordogne valleys…
- Vunivalu of BauTermThe Vunivalu of Bau is the paramount chiefly title of Bau in Fiji, originally that of the war king, who shared authority with the senior sacred chief, the Roko Tui Bau.
VushmgirPersonVushmgir ibn Ziyar was the brother of Mardavij and ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty from 935 to 967.
VyachkoPersonVyachko was a Rus' prince of the Polotsk dynasty who ruled Koknese on the Daugava in present-day Latvia.- VyatichiansPeople / groupThe Vyatichians were an East Slavic tribe of the early Middle Ages, living along the upper and middle Oka river, in the area of modern Moscow, Kaluga and Oryol.
VyazmaPlaceVyazma is a town in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, on the Vyazma river on the road from Moscow to Smolensk.
VyborgPlaceVyborg, in Finnish Viipuri, is a port city at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Karelian Isthmus, now in Russia.
Vytautas LandsbergisPersonVytautas Landsbergis is a Lithuanian musicologist and politician who led the Sąjūdis reform movement.
Vytautas Magnus UniversityInstitutionVytautas Magnus University is a university in Kaunas, founded in 1922 as the University of Lithuania and renamed in 1930 after the medieval grand duke Vytautas the Great.
Vytautas the GreatPersonVytautas the Great was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1392 to 1430, son of Kęstutis of Trakai and cousin of Jogaila.
VytenisPersonVytenis was grand duke of Lithuania from about 1295 to 1316.