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- (from the article "India") ...the Mughal governors of Lahore subah to set up an independent power base for themselves in the region. First 'Abd al-Samad Khan and then his son Zakariyya Khan attempted the twin tracks of conciliation and coercion, but ...
- Zakariyah Mosque
- (from the article "Aleppo") ...streets. Its many khans (caravan rest houses), mosques, and merchants' houses are built of limestone, with many dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Another point of interest is the Great, or Zakariyah, Mosque (built AD 715, rebuilt 1258), which ...
- zakat
- an obligatory tax required of Muslims, one of the five Pillars of Islam. The zakat is levied on five categories of property-food grains; fruit; camels, cattle, sheep, and goats; gold and silver; and movable goods-and is payable each year after ... [5 Related Articles]
- Zakharina-Yureva, Anastasiya
- (from the article "Ivan IV") ...prince of all Russia." The title tsar was derived from the Latin title "caesar" and was translated by Ivan's contemporaries as "emperor." In February 1547 Ivan married Anastasiya Romanovna, a great-aunt of the future first tsar of the Romanov dynasty.Romanov ...
- Zakharov, Andreyan Dmitriyevich
- (from the article "Saint Petersburg") ...historical and cultural heritage is concentrated on the Admiralty Side. The district centres on the Admiralty. This, the nucleus of Peter's original city, was reconstructed in 1806-23 by Andreyan D. Zakharov as a development of the earlier building of Ivan ...
- Zakhor
- (from the article "Sabbath") Sheqalim ("shekels"), occurring on or before Adar I, refers to taxes and has as its text Exodus 30:11-16. On Zakhor ("remember"), Deuteronomy 25:17-19 reminds Jews how they were attacked by Amalek in the wilderness after their Exodus from Egypt. This ...
- Zaki, Ahmed
- Egyptian actor (b. Nov. 18, 1949, Zaqaziq, Egypt-d. March 27, 2005, Cairo, Egypt), broke the unspoken colour barrier in Egyptian cinema as the first dark-skinned actor to play leading roles. Zaki was best known for his portrayals of historical figures, ...
- Zaki, Ibrahim Hussein
- (from the article "Maldives") Earlier in the year, the government of Pres. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom had faced an unprecedented challenge from political dissidents led by former minister Ibrahim Hussein Zaki, who demanded greater democratization of Maldives. This culminated in a protest by some 3,000 ...
- Zaki, Usman
- (from the article "Bida") ...Nupe ("king of the Nupe people"). When the kingdom was conquered about 1806 by Fulani warriors, its central region was incorporated as the Nupe emirate in the Fulani empire. Emir Usman Zaki proclaimed himself etsu Nupe in 1835; and, after ...
- Zakir
- (from the article "Syrian and Palestinian religion") ...by cult personnel and occasionally others, delivering messages from the deity. By this means the deity disclosed his or her wishes or gave divine warnings or promises to the king. The Aramaean king Zakir records that he appealed to his ...
- Zakonik
- (from the article "Stefan Dusan") ...of titles and ranks, and the imperial chancellery was organized on the Byzantine model, as was the uniform organization of local authorities. Dusan, moreover, considered the introduction of a law code part of his imperial duties, and in the Diets ...
- Zakopane
- city, Malopolskie wojewodztwo (province), south-central Poland. The city is situated in the Carpathian Mountains near the Slovakian border. Its location at the foot of the Alpine-like Tatra Mountains makes it a major winter-sports and health-resort centre. Situated ... [2 Related Articles]
- Zakouma National Park
- (from the article "The Environment") ...dead. In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a wildlife officer was killed when Mai Mai rebels attacked patrol posts in Virunga National Park, and three rangers were shot dead in Chad's Zakouma National Park, where elephant poaching was a ...
- Zakros
- (from the article "Aegean civilizations") ...architect and cryptographer Michael Ventris, working with the linguist John Chadwick, though acceptance of this is not yet universal. In 1962 a large palace, destroyed by fire about 1450 BC at Zakros in eastern Crete, was discovered. In 1967 the ...
- Zakrzewska, Marie Elizabeth
- German-born American physician who founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children and contributed greatly to women's opportunities and acceptance as medical professionals. [1 Related Articles]
- Zala
- megye (county), western Hungary. It is bordered by the counties of Vas to the northwest, Veszprem to the northeast, and Somogy to the east and by Croatia to the south and Slovenia to the southwest. Zalaegerszeg is ...
- Zala River
- (from the article "Balaton, Lake") ...for 48 miles (77 km) along the southern foothills of the Bakony Mountains of Hungary. At it widest point, Lake Balaton measures about 9 miles (14 km) across. Its maximum depth is 37 feet (11 m). The Zala River provides ...
- Zalaegerszeg
- city with county status and seat of Zala megye (county), western Hungary. It lies on the right bank of the Zala River. The town was of medieval origin and was a frontier fort in Hungary's wars with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Zalau
- town, capital of Salaj judet (county), northwestern Romania. It is located in an isolated part of the country on the northwestern slopes of the Mezes Mountains. It is the terminal of a branch line railway and a local market centre ...
- Zaldivar, Rafael
- (from the article "El Salvador") ...by the export of indigo. Salvadorans solved this problem by means of a "coffee revolution." New lands had to be opened to cultivation, a step facilitated during the administration of Rafael Zaldivar (1876-85), who authorized the sale of Indian lands. ...
- Zale, Tony
- American professional boxer, world middleweight (160 pounds) champion during the 1940s. [3 Related Articles]
- Zalesskya
- (from the article "Osmundaceae") ...Todea, and Leptopteris-the family contains about 20 species; 5 to 10 extinct genera date from the Late Permian Period (about 250 million years ago). Thamnopteris and Zalesskya are the earliest known members of the family. The Osmundaceae family is characterized ...
- Zallaqah, Battle of Al-
- (from the article "Alfonso VI") ...ibn Tashufin, the Almoravid (Berber) emir of North Africa, and his Saharan tribes. The emir disembarked in Algeciras at the end of July 1086 and a few months later, on October 23 at Zallaqah, near Badajoz, inflicted a terrible defeat ...
- Zalmoxis
- (from the article "Getae") ...the lower Danube region and nearby plains. First appearing in the 6th century BC, the Getae were subjected to Scythian influence and were known as expert mounted archers and devotees of the deity Zalmoxis. Although the daughter of their king ...
- Zalta, Edward
- (from the article "mathematics, philosophy of") According to Balaguer and Zalta, on the other hand, the only versions of Platonism that are tenable are those that maintain not just the existence of abstract objects but the existence of as many abstract objects as there can possibly ...
- Zaltan
- town site at the first exploited oil field in Libya. Located 105 miles (169 km) south of the Mediterranean port of Marsa al-Burayqah on the Gulf of Sidra, at the foot of the Zaltan Mountains, the town is in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- zaltys
- in ancient Baltic traditions, a harmless green snake highly respected as a symbol of fertility and wealth. To ensure the prosperity of family and field, a zaltys was kept in a special corner of the house, and the entire household ... [1 Related Articles]
- Zalygin, Sergey Pavlovich
- Russian writer and editor (b. Dec. 6, 1913, Durasovka, Russia-d. April 19, 2000, Moscow, Russia), was a respected Soviet novelist and the first non-Communist Party editor in chief of the monthly literary magazine Novy Mir; during Zalygin's ...
- Zam
- (from the article "Nupe") ...They speak a language of the Nupoid group in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Nupe are organized into a number of closely related territorial groups, of which the Beni, Zam, Batache (Bataci), and Kede (Kyedye) are ...
- Zama, Battle of
- (202 BC), victory of the Romans led by Scipio Africanus the Elder over the Carthaginians commanded by Hannibal. It was the last and decisive battle of the Second Punic War. The battle took place at a site identified by the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Zamakhshari, Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn 'Umar al-
- Persian-born Arabic scholar whose chief work is Al-Kashshaf 'an Haqa'iq at-Tanzil ("The Discoverer of Revealed Truths"), his exhaustive linguistic commentary on the Qur'an. [2 Related Articles]
- Zaman Shah
- (from the article "Afghanistan") After the death of Timur in 1793, his fifth son, Zaman, seized the throne with the help of Sardar Payenda Khan, a chief of the Barakzay. Zaman then turned to India with the object of repeating the exploits of Ahmad ...
- Zambales Mountains
- volcanic range in the southwestern part of northern Luzon in the Philippines. The range stretches northwest-southeast from Lingayen Gulf in the north to the Bataan Peninsula and the entrance to Manila Bay in the south. Its greatest elevation is High ... [1 Related Articles]
- Zambezi basin
- (from the article "Africa") The Zambezi River is about 2,200 miles in length; it occupies a basin with an approximate area of 463,000 square miles. Originally, there were two rivers, corresponding to the upper and lower courses of the present river; the valley of ...
- Zambezi delta
- (from the article "Zambezi River") At its mouth the Zambezi splits into a wide, flat, and marshy delta obstructed by sandbars. There are two main channels, each again divided into two. The wider, eastern channel splits into the Muselo River to the north and the ...
- Zambezi River
- river draining a large portion of south-central Africa. Together with its tributaries, it forms the fourth largest river basin of the continent. The river flows eastward for about 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometres) from its source on the Central African Plateau ... [12 Related Articles]
- Zambezia Company
- (from the article "Mozambique") ...the lands and peoples of specific areas in exchange for an obligation to develop agriculture, communications, social services, and trade. The Mozambique Company, the Niassa Company, and the Zambezia Company were all established in this manner in the 1890s. Any ...
- Zambia
- landlocked country in south-central Africa. Zambia has a long land border on the west with Angola but is divided from its neighbours to the south by the Zambezi River. To the southwest is the thin projection of Namibian territory known ... [32 Related Articles]
- Zambia African National Congress
- (from the article "Kaunda, Kenneth") ...the movement's rank and file. Thus, when the leadership of the ANC clashed over strategy in 1958-59, Kaunda carried a major part of the ANC operating structure into a new organization, the Zambia African National Congress.
- Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd.
- (from the article "Zambia") ...Africa. In 1973 management contracts under which the day-to-day operations of the mines had been carried out by Anglo American and RST were ended. In 1982 NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. (ZCCM).
- Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation
- (from the article "Zambia") ...body, the Finance and Development Corporation (FINDECO). The banks successfully resisted takeover. INDECO, MINDECO, and FINDECO were brought together in 1971 under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO), to create one of the largest companies in ...
- Zambia Publishing House
- (from the article "Zambia") The Zambia Publishing House (formerly the Kenneth Kaunda Foundation) is a government-backed publisher of the works of Zambian authors and school textbooks. The few other publishers are mainly church-supported. Zambian scholars have contributed to knowledge in a wide range of ...
- Zambia, flag of
- national flag consisting of a green field with an orange eagle and vertical stripes of red, black, and orange at the fly end. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
- Zambia, history of
- (from the article "Zambia") HistoryBritish South Africa CompanyBritish South Africa CompanyBy 1900 the company was administering both Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zam
- Zambia, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of Zambia was opened in Lusaka in 1966, graduating its first students in 1969. In 1979 legislation was passed creating a federal university; a second campus was established at the Zambia Institute of Technology at Kitwe. In 1988 ...
- Zambian Airways Corporation
- (from the article "Zambia") Zambian Airways Corporation operates domestic and international services. Scheduled internal service by other operators was first allowed in 1990. The main airports are at Lusaka, Ndola, and Livingstone, but there are 12 secondary and 31 minor airports, in addition to ...
- Zambian Sugar Company
- (from the article "Zambia") Irrigated agriculture is increasingly important. Started in 1966, the first successful scheme was at Nakambala on the south side of the Kafue Flats, where the Zambia Sugar Company has more than 25,000 acres under sugarcane. Their refinery also serves nearby ...
- zambo
- (from the article "race") ...mulato ("mulatto") usually referred to a person of African and European descent. Labels multiplied as time went on, as with zambo (black-indigenous mix) and pardo (literally, "brown person," commonly used to denote a person ...
- Zamboanga City
- city and port, western Mindanao, Philippines. It is a busy port strategically located on the southwestern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula, on Basilan Strait and sheltered by Basilan Island. The immediate coastal lowlands are narrow, with low, rugged hills located ...
- Zamboanga Peninsula
- long, semicircular peninsula of western Mindanao, Philippines, extending southwesterly toward the Sulu Archipelago and Borneo. It has an area of roughly 5,600 square miles (14,500 square km). It is bordered on the north and west by the Sulu Sea and ...
- Zamenhof, L.L.
- Polish physician and oculist who created the most important of the international artificial languages-Esperanto. [2 Related Articles]
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