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- known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch ... especially between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. The lateness of his conversion ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ... Each Surah is named for a word or name mentioned in an ayah (section ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- Patterson had been knocked out for a count of ten. Liston was known by the ... May 8, 1932, there is a considerable amount of uncertainty about the date ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- The mosque displays an excellent example of Mughal era architecture. The ... 1566, by Mughal emperor Akbar. The symbolism of building the aesthetically ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- to impose a single Mu'tazili version of Islam. On the one hand, he ... rule, which lacked the generosity and piety of his brother and the intellectual ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... science and history represent compendia of the state of learning in these ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar ... through architecture. He stands as one of the greatest Mughal leaders ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ... network, and Spanish troops overran the city of Jolo and built a walled garrison ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning ... won a much more favorable re-negotiation of the peace-terms, established ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ... ==Scope of bioethics== Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... Sinai, and to share them with the people of Israel in the third month after ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... Asia. They were the main caravan merchants of Central Asia and dominated ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab province. It is popularly ... Much of Lahore's architecture from the Mughal and colonial eras ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- true to the Genesis account, this is one of the most famous depictions ... covenants underpin the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is just ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at ... to construct the minar and other monuments of the complex. That resulted ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice or offering ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... in secular life. He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Italy, ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities ... city in the world. Aleppo was the capital of the Amorite kingdom of Yamkhad ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list is highly controversial ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- red") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada ... Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches of ocean to reach new countries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish ... or Ayyoubides. Under Saladin, founder of the dynasty, Egypt became the ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- 24, 1775 – November 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India ... as an Urdu poet. He is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...15 KB (2,289 words) - 07:29, 18 November 2022
- communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf ... Among the attractions of Accra are the National Museum, with a display ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical ... for opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the territory ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- it is usually distinguished form other kinds of determinism such as fate, karma ... Given the difficult nature of the tension of omnipotence and free ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set on ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... , referring to the nationality of the builders of Solomon's Temple ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution5glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for five cannot be neatly traced ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- The Nilgiris District is in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nilgiri ... The Nilgiris district has been the homeland of native tribal peoples ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... Fasting for religious and spiritual reasons has been a part of human ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one ... throughout Europe. A devout Jew and defender of the Jewish position, he was ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It ... but obeyed the kings and emperors of various neighboring powers ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai Chin. ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- #039;s equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. are taken to be used in the definition of a celestial coordinate system—see ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger ... After decades of internal conflict, rebellions and outright invasion ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... rulers in 1365, and became the capital of the empire of Timur, during ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... the 'two-nation' thesis that Muslims and Hindus in India were ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ... The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city ... At the same time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte ... between an old man, with an armful of branches, and a lost European ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation ... In the Second World War, the people of Fiji co-operated with the Allies ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- traditional homes (Indonesian: Rumah adat) of the Minangkabau (also known ... painted floral carvings. Every aspect of the house has a symbolic significance ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 18:12, 22 December 2022
- The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- Darband) is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is the ... Often identified with the legendary Gates of Alexander, Derbent claims ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or ... The ancient Balts of this time actively participated in the trading ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- 039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962. When Rwanda gained ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... " in the tenth century the city of Copenhagen was officially founded ...28 KB (4,058 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- historical, financial and industrial center of Central Asia. It boasts a large ... persons evacuated from the European regions of the Soviet Union, hosted over ...17 KB (2,420 words) - 08:16, 23 July 2023
- , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... thousand refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan along its eastern border ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District ... was both a provincial capital and a center of the world-wide muslin trade ...34 KB (4,736 words) - 20:15, 21 January 2023
- communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- novel in the Spanish language, and one of the most influential and enduring ... could readily be identified within the genre of the novel. Medieval literature ...33 KB (5,296 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- independent thinker who challenged a number of traditional views on such fundamental ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... A large influx of economic and political migrants and refugees from ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- " "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called The ... The book begins with a description of God's act of creation, ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union ... mountain setting is recognized as one of the world¹s most problematic ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of the inhabitants of ancient ... Judean Jews; however, Jesus used the parable of the "Good Samaritan" ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Baky, or Baki, located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, is the capital ... The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... Archaeologists place the first arrival of humans on the island to ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- ("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the ... The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Located in northern India on the banks of the River Yamuna, Delhi has ... Delhi is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds ... preceded written culture, and show influence of both the pagan tradition as ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... native peoples had occupied the island of Montreal for at least 2,000 ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... and Aristotle dealt with virtues in terms of character traits of the soul ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- , located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...24 KB (3,633 words) - 20:00, 15 March 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... North Korea and South Korea. The borders of Korea have fluctuated throughout ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- as an inventor and scientist. At the age of 56 he entered into a spiritual ... his theology as for his mysticism, for much of it was centuries ahead of its ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- – June 19, 1747) ruled as Shah of Iran (1736–47) and was the founder ... Nader Shah was a member of the Turkmen Afshar tribe of northern Persia, ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- Formerly Haute-Volta it was a colony of French West Africa, before ... one party still dominates the politics of the nation. Despite the greater ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- the most populous city in India and capital of the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai ... Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, and houses ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... rule, Kingston became the prosperous center of Jamaica's trade, and a ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian ... region. In 1952, when Bangladesh was part of East Pakistan, this strong ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California ... in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." The ...25 KB (3,875 words) - 02:54, 24 July 2023
- any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...51 KB (7,712 words) - 07:36, 27 February 2023
- years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even ... A revival of Tamil literature took place from the late nineteenth ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- , or AP, the "Rice Bowl of India," refers to a state in ... The same with Islam. Yet Islam has a history of political influence in Andhra ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... vilified by his successors for his neglect of the traditional religious cult ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu ... his culture's traditions in the naming of his daughter. In Burmese historical ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the ... A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade. The ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. his own authority over the apparatus of government. As president and ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- 1878 until 1918, Montenegro was later a part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia ... Based on the results of a referendum, Montenegro declared independence ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ... in a little over 30 years, from a collection of poor desert-coast sheikdoms ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- 1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature ... she recalled it as the happiest part of her life. After she married ...47 KB (7,022 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- genetic studies indicate that the ancestors of the Tibetan people diverged ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... nation's development. Large portions of Guatemala's interior remain ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- Atlanta is the capital and the largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia ... Atlanta has in recent years undergone a transition from a city of ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ... known as azbuka, derived from the old names of the first two letters of most ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... Because of its strategic geographic location, Syria has historically ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million ... Sydney is one of the most multicultural cities in the world which ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- , ['beŋgəɭuːru]), serves as the capital of the Indian state ... rule in South India. The establishment of the Bangalore Cantonment brought ...48 KB (6,769 words) - 03:28, 17 September 2023
- Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ... Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to ... The kingdom included the ancient city of Timbuktu, which was flourishing ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972 ... , named Zurich the city with the best quality of life in the world. ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... and Christianity absorbed elements of Shamanism, Buddhism, and Daoism ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- The Toraja (meaning "people of the uplands") are an ethnic ... social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days. ...36 KB (5,331 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2024
- usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus. It is often ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... #039;s interior. The organic composition of Barbados is thought to be of ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- was the sixty-fifth United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 ... an older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which ...38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... to the south. Iraq has a narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European Bulgarian ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... For many decades, coffee was the mainspring of the Salvadoran economy ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... the Council impacted virtually every element of Catholic life, as they included ...53 KB (8,198 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- , formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ... administrative center, as the capital of the Madras Presidency. ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
