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Zulfikar Ali BhuttoPersonZulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani statesman who founded the Pakistan Peoples Party in 1967.
Zulfiqar KhanPersonZulfiqar Khan was a Mughal general and statesman who commanded Aurangzeb's armies in southern India and was appointed the first Nawab of the Carnatic in 1692.- ZuljuPersonZulju (Dulucha) was a Mongol or Turkic commander who invaded Kashmir in 1320 with a large army, plundering, burning and enslaving across the valley for about eight…
ZülpichPlaceZülpich is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, west of Bonn, on the site of the Roman settlement of Tolbiacum.
Zulu KingdomStateThe Zulu Kingdom was a powerful state in south-eastern Africa built by Shaka from the 1810s onward through military reform and conquest.- Zumaque IWork / monumentZumaque I was the oil well at Mene Grande, on the eastern side of Lake Maracaibo, that in 1914 became the first commercially productive well in Venezuela.
- ZumboPlaceZumbo was a trading settlement on the Zambezi River, in present-day Mozambique near the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
ZunReligion / ideaZun was a god worshipped in southern Afghanistan before and during the early Islamic period, at a famous shrine at Zamindawar in the upper Helmand valley.
ZungeruPlaceZungeru is a town in Niger State, central Nigeria.
ZunyiPlaceZunyi is a city in northern Guizhou province in south-western China.
Zuo ZhuanWork / monumentThe Zuo Zhuan is an ancient Chinese narrative history covering the period from 722 to 468 BCE, arranged as a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals of the State of…
Zuo ZongtangPersonZuo Zongtang (1812–1885) was a Chinese statesman and general of the late Qing dynasty.
Zürich BibleWork / monumentThe Zürich Bible is the German translation of the Bible produced by Huldrych Zwingli, Leo Jud and their colleagues of the Prophezei in Zürich.
Zürich OberlandPlaceThe Zürich Oberland is the hilly eastern part of the canton of Zürich, around the towns of Wetzikon, Hinwil and Bauma.- ZürichgauPlaceThe Zürichgau was an early medieval district (Gau) of Alemannia, covering the land around Lake Zürich and the Limmat between the Reuss and the Thurgau.
- Zusho HiromichiPersonZusho Hiromichi was a retainer of the Satsuma Domain who restored its ruined finances from the late 1820s.
- Zvenyhorod (Lviv Oblast)PlaceZvenyhorod is a village south-east of Lviv in western Ukraine, on the site of a medieval town that was the seat of a principality in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Zviad GamsakhurdiaPersonZviad Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian dissident writer and nationalist leader who became the first elected president of Georgia.
ZwaanendaelPlaceZwaanendael was a Dutch whaling and farming settlement founded in 1631 near modern Lewes, Delaware, by patroons of the Dutch West India Company.- ZwangendabaPersonZwangendaba was a Nguni military leader who led the Ngoni people northwards from south-eastern Africa during the upheavals of the Mfecane in the early nineteenth century.
ZweibrückenPlaceZweibrücken is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with Saarland.
ZwentiboldPersonZwentibold was the illegitimate son of the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia, who made him king of Lotharingia in 895.
Zwickauer MuldePlaceThe Zwickauer Mulde is a river in Saxony, Germany, about 165 kilometres long.- ZwidePersonZwide was king of the Ndwandwe in present-day northern KwaZulu-Natal in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
ZwiefaltenPlaceZwiefalten is a municipality in the district of Reutlingen in the Swabian Jura, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
ZwinPlaceThe Zwin is a former tidal inlet of the North Sea on the border of Belgium and the Netherlands.
Zwinger (Dresden)Work / monumentThe Zwinger is a Baroque palace complex in Dresden, built from 1710 to 1728 for Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, by the architect Matthäus…
ZwollePlaceZwolle is a city in the north-eastern Netherlands, capital of the province of Overijssel.
ZygiiPeople / groupThe Zygii, or Zygoi, were a people of the north-eastern Black Sea coast mentioned by Greek and Roman geographers such as Strabo, who described them as pirates.