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- (from the article "Ziyadid Dynasty") ...who divided the government of the kingdom between two other Mamluks, the northern provinces falling to Najah, the capital and southern regions coming under the rule of Nafis. In 1018 ...
- nafs al-kulliyah
- (from the article "hudud, al-") ...al-Hakim's contemporaries. Hamzah himself became the first principle, or hadd, Universal Intelligence (al-'Aql); al-'Aql generated the Universal Soul (an-Nafs), embodied in Isma'il ibn Muhammad at-Tamimi. The Word (al-Kalimah) emanates from ...
- Nafud, An-
- desert, northern Saudi Arabia, covering about 25,000 square miles (64,000 square km). The reddish, sandy An-Nafud (Arabic: "The Desert") is sometimes called the Great Nafud; it lies at an elevation ... [6 Related Articles]
- Nafusah Plateau
- hilly limestone massif, northwestern Libya. It extends in a west-northeasterly arc between Al-Jifarah (Gefara) plain and Al-Hamra' Plateau. With heights ranging from 1,500 to 3,200 feet (460 to 980 m), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nag Tibba
- (from the article "Himalayas") ...There is a general conformity of altitude among neighbouring summits, which creates the appearance of a highly dissected plateau. The three principal ranges of the Lesser Himalayas-the Nag Tibba, the ...
- Naga
- city, southeastern Luzon, Philippines. It is situated along the Bicol River, south of San Miguel Bay. Founded in 1573 as Nueva Caceres by the Spaniards, it is the site every ...
- naga
- ("serpent"), in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, a member of a class of semidivine beings, half human and half serpentine. They are considered to be a strong, handsome race who can ... [6 Related Articles]
- Naga
- group of tribes inhabiting the Naga Hills of Nagaland (q.v.) state in northeastern India. They include more than 20 tribes of mixed origin, varying cultures, and very different physiques and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Naga Hills
- part of the complex mountain barrier on the border of India and Myanmar (Burma). A northern extension of the Arakan Yoma system, the Naga Hills reach a height of 12,552 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Naga People's Convention
- (from the article "Nagaland") ...government. Despite the agreement, unrest continued in the form of noncooperation with the Indian government, nonpayment of taxes, sabotage, and attacks on the army. A further accord reached at the ...
- naga sannyasin
- (from the article "dasnami sannyasin") Some extreme dasnamis go about naked. They are called naga ("naked") sannyasins and are the most militant among the ascetics. In the past the naga sannyasins on occasion engaged in ...
- naga vairagin
- (from the article "vairagin") Most vairagins, when not wandering or on pilgrimage, reside in monastic communities called sthanas ("spots" or "places"); but the naga ("naked") vairagins, who are also the militants among the Vaisnava ...
- naga-bakama
- (from the article "dress") ...under the itsutsu-ginu or to the kosode worn next to the body, but the divided skirt (naga-bakama) that completes the costume ...
- Nagabhata II
- (from the article "India") ...This initiated a lengthy tripartite struggle. Dharmapala soon retook Kannauj and put his nominee on the throne. The Rashtrakutas were preoccupied with problems in the south. Vatsaraja's successor, Nagabhata II ...
- Nagabhata line
- (from the article "Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty") ...dynasties of medieval Hindu India. The line of Haricandra ruled in Mandor, Marwar (Jodhpur, Rajasthan), during the 6th-9th century, generally with feudatory status. The line of Nagabhata ruled first at ...
- Nagai Kafu
- Japanese novelist strongly identified with Tokyo and its immediate premodern past. [1 Related Articles]
- Nagako, Dowager Empress
- Japanese royal (b. March 6, 1903, Tokyo, Japan-d. June 16, 2000, Tokyo), was the consort of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Akihito. The eldest daughter of Prince Kunihiko-a ...
- Nagaland
- state of India. It lies in the hills and mountains of the northeastern part of the country. One of the smallest states of India, it has a total area of ... [3 Related Articles]
- nagana
- a form of the disease trypanosomiasis (q.v.), occurring chiefly in cattle and horses and caused by several species of the protozoan Trypanosoma. The disease, which occurs in southern and central ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nagano
- landlocked ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. Most of the prefecture is more than 2,600 feet (790 m) in elevation, and 15 peaks, mostly volcanic, rise to more than 9,800 feet ...
- Nagano
- city, Nagano ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It is the capital of the prefecture and is situated in the Nagano Basin. The city dates from the 12th-13th century and grew ...
- Nagano Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") Twenty-six years after the Sapporo Games, the Winter Olympics returned to Japan. The most memorable aspect of the Nagano Games was arguably the weather, which brought heavy snow and periods ...
- Nagano Osami
- Japanese admiral who planned and ordered the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, which triggered U.S. involvement in World War II.
- Nagano, Kent
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...playing musical chairs included Barenboim, who left the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the Staatsoper Berlin and later also was named principal conductor of Milan's La Scala opera company; Kent Nagano, ...
- Nagaoka
- city, Niigata ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the middle reaches of the Shinano River. A castle town in the 1600s, it prospered with the discovery of the Higashiyama oil well ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nagaoka, Hantaro
- (from the article "atom") ...positions. In another contemporary model, the atom resembled the solar system or the planet Saturn, with rings of electrons surrounding a concentrated positive charge. The Japanese physicist Nagaoka Hantaro in ...
- Nagaoka, Hatoni
- (from the article "Curling") ...Bas Buckle defended his men's title with a 5-4 win over the U.S. team, skipped by David Russell. Scotland's Carolyn Morris captured the women's senior championship with a 9-5 win ...
- Nagaon
- city, central Assam state, northeastern India, lying on the Kalang River. It is an agricultural trade centre and has several colleges affiliated with Gauhati University, a technical school, and a ...
- Nagappattinam
- port city, east-central Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies on the Bay of Bengal, about 250 miles (400 km) south of Chennai (Madras). An ancient port known to have ...
- nagaraka
- (from the article "India") ...of 30 officials, divided into six subcommittees, who looked after the administration of Pataliputra. The most important single official was the city superintendent (nagaraka), who had virtual ...
- Nagarakrtagama
- Javanese epic poem written in 1365 by Prapanca. Considered the most important work of the vernacular literature that developed in the Majapahit era, the poem venerates King Hayam Wuruk (reigned ... [6 Related Articles]
- Nagarjuna
- Indian Buddhist philosopher who articulated the doctrine of emptiness (sunyata) and is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Madhyamika school, an important tradition of Mahayana Buddhist ... [8 Related Articles]
- Nagarjunakonda
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Nagarjunakonda sculpture marks the last phase of the relief style. The figures become stiffer and puppet-like, the patterns of movement frozen and mechanical but still possessing the energy and richness ...
- Nagarjuni hills
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...obtained from the excavated foundations and the few examples imitating wooden originals that were cut into the rock, notably the Sudama and the Lomas Rsi caves in the Nagarjuni and ...
- Nagasaki
- ken (prefecture), northwestern Kyushu, Japan, facing the East China Sea. It includes the islands of Tsushima, Iki, Hirado, and the Goto Archipelago. The prefecture has an irregular shape, with rounded ...
- Nagasaki
- capital and largest city, Nagasaki ken (prefecture), western Kyushu, Japan, at the mouth of the Urakami-gawa (Urakami River) where it empties into Nagasaki-ko (Nagasaki Harbour). The harbour is composed of ... [9 Related Articles]
- Nagasawa Rosetsu
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...eclectic painters. In addition to nurturing a talented group of students who continued his identifiable style into several succeeding generations, Okyo's studio also raised the incorrigible Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-99), an ...
- Nagasena
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...identical to the Greek Menander, the name of a Bactrian Indo-Greek king (c. 140-110 BC) who was skeptical of the verities of Buddhism and was enlightened by the teaching of ...
- Nagashima, Yu
- (from the article "Literature") ...seeking to promote the revival of literature as an alternative to the culture of the Internet and the mobile phone, established a prize in his own name. In May 2007 ...
- nagaswaram
- conical double-reed aerophone of southern India. The nagaswaram may be as long as about 95 cm (37 inches). It has a conical bore, is made of dark wood, and has ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nagata Tokuhun
- (from the article "medicine, history of") ...symptoms-are classified and described in 51 groups; the work is unusual in that it includes a section on the diseases of old age. Another distinguished physician and teacher of the ...
- Nagaur
- town, administrative headquarters of Nagaur district, Rajasthan state, western India. Nagaur, a walled town held successively by the 12th-century Hindu ruler of Dilli (Delhi), Prthviraja, by the 12th- and 13th-century ...
- nagauta
- (Japanese: "long song"), basic lyric musical accompaniment of Japanese Kabuki and classical dances (buyo). The genre is found in the Kabuki plays by the mid-17th century, although the term itself ... [1 Related Articles]
- nageire
- (Japanese: "thrown in"), in Japanese floral art, the style of arranging that stresses fresh and spontaneous designs adhering only loosely to the classical principles of triangular structure and colour harmony. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nagel, Ernest
- American philosopher noted for his work on the implications of science. [2 Related Articles]
- Nagel, Thomas
- (from the article "ethics") The American philosopher Thomas Nagel was one of the first contemporary moral philosophers to challenge Hume's thesis that reason alone is incapable of motivating moral action. In The Possibility of ...
- Nageli, Hans Franz
- Swiss politician and military leader who was prominent in Bern's public affairs for nearly 40 years.
- Nageli, Karl Wilhelm von
- Swiss botanist famous for his work on plant cells. [2 Related Articles]
- Nagelmackers, Georges
- (from the article "Orient-Express") The Orient-Express was developed by the Belgian businessman Georges Nagelmackers and made its inaugural run in 1883. During its first journey the passengers traveled from Paris to the Bulgarian port ...
- Nagercoil
- city, southernmost Tamil Nadu state, southern India. Nagercoil lies west of the Aramboli Gap in the Western Ghats. It controls the major routes between Madras and Trivandrum and is a ...
- Nago
- (from the article "African dance") ...wear richly coloured, close-fitting costumes with face masks and elaborate headpieces of embroidered cloth, which allow for a dance that accelerates into a climax of rapid, abrupt movement. The Nago ...
- Nagodba
- 1868, pact that governed Croatia's political status as a territory of Hungary until the end of World War I. When the Ausgleich, or Compromise, of 1867 created the Austro-Hungarian Dual ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nagorik Shakti
- (from the article "Yunus, Muhammad") In February 2007 Yunus entered the Bangladeshi political arena by forming a political party, Nagorik Shakti (Citizen Power), and announcing his intention to contest the upcoming election. His announcement came ...
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- region of southwestern Azerbaijan. The name is also used to refer to an autonomous oblast (province) of the former Azerbaijan S.S.R. and to the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, ... [12 Related Articles]
- Nagoya
- capital of Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, and one of the country's leading industrial cities. It is located at the head of Ise Bay. [3 Related Articles]
- Nagoya Castle
- (from the article "Nagoya") Nagoya abounds in cultural assets. Educational institutions include Nagoya University (1939), Nagoya Institute of Technology (1949), and Nagoya City University (1950). An important landmark is Nagoya Castle, originally built in ...
- Nagpur
- city, northeastern Maharashtra state, western India. It lies along the Nag River and is situated almost at the geographic centre of India. The present city was founded in the early ... [4 Related Articles]
- Nagpur
- (from the article "India") Unlike the Kolhapur Bhonsles and the descendants of Vyamkoji at Thanjavur, both of whom claimed a status equal to that of the Satara raja, the line at Nagpur was clearly ...
- Nagpur Plain
- (from the article "Chhindwara") The surrounding area comprises chiefly a central plateau of the Satpura Range, which rises in the northwest to rugged hills. The plateau slopes toward the Nagpur Plain in the south. ...
- Nags Head
- resort town, Dare county, eastern North Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Bodie Island (one of the Outer Banks barrier islands) between Roanoke Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, just south ...
- Nagua
- city, northern Dominican Republic, located just north of the mouth of the Nagua River, facing Escocesa Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean. Nagua is located on the main coastal road connecting ...
- nagual
- personal guardian spirit believed by some Mesoamerican Indians to reside in an animal, such as a deer, jaguar, or bird. In some areas the nagual is the animal into which ...
- Naguib, Muhammad
- Egyptian army officer and statesman who played a prominent role in the revolutionary overthrow of King Farouk I in 1952. [2 Related Articles]
- Nagurski, Bronko
- American collegiate and professional gridiron football player who, at the unusually large size of 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 metres) and 226 pounds (102.5 kg), was the quintessential bruising fullback ...
- Nagwamatse, Ibrahim
- (from the article "Kontagora") ...enlarged the emirate by conquests of Kamuku, Kamberi, Dakarki (Dakarawa), Dukawa, Yauri, Nupe, and Gbari (Gwari) towns and captured many slaves. In the first reign (1880-1901) of his son, Emir ...
- Nagwamatse, Umaru
- (from the article "Kontagora") town and traditional emirate, northwestern Niger state, western Nigeria, on the south bank of the Kontagora River. Umaru Nagwamatse, an adventurer of the ruling Fulani house of Sokoto (186 miles ...
- Nagy, Ferenc
- statesman who in his brief post-World War II term as premier tried to bring democracy to Hungary.
- Nagy, Imre
- Hungarian statesman, independent Communist, and premier of the 1956 revolutionary government whose attempt to establish Hungary's independence from the Soviet Union cost him his life. [4 Related Articles]
- Nagy, Ivan
- Hungarian ballet dancer who lived in the United States from 1965.
- Nagykanizsa
- city of county status, Zala megye (county), southwestern Hungary. On the Principalis-csatorna (canal) connecting the Zala and Mura rivers, it is 9 mi (15 km) from the Croatian frontier. An ...
- Nagykunsag
- (from the article "Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok") ...crosses the Jaszsag, a marginal depression of the Alfold, which extends into Pest county and produces vegetables, fruit, and poultry for the Budapest market. East of the Tisza is the ...
- Nagyvarad, Treaty of
- (from the article "Hungary") By a secret agreement-the Treaty of Nagyvarad, mediated in 1538 by John's adviser, Gyorgy Martinuzzi ("Friar George")-Ferdinand was to succeed John upon his death. The agreement was upset when, just ...
- Nagyvazsony
- (from the article "Veszprem") ...city was home to Queen Gizella, the wife of Stephen I, and the castle there was the seat of Hungarian queens in the 10th century. At Zirc, high in the ...
- Naha
- city and capital, Okinawa ken (prefecture), Japan. It lies on southwestern Okinawa Island, which is one of the Ryukyu Islands. Long the chief city of the archipelago, it contains the ...
- Nahan
- city, southern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. It lies south-southeast of Simla, the state capital, at the foot of the Siwalik Range and is a trade centre for agricultural produce ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nahant
- town (township), Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. Lying just northeast of Boston and adjacent to the city of Lynn, the peninsula of Nahant comprises the "islands" of Little Nahant and ...
- Nahapana
- (from the article "India") ...and Shodasa. Ultimately the Shakas settled in western India and Malava and came into conflict with the kingdoms of the northern Deccan and the Ganges valley-particularly during the reigns of ...
- Nahariyya
- city, northwestern Israel. It lies on the Mediterranean coast halfway between 'Akko (Acre) and the Lebanese border at Rosh ha-Niqra. The name comes from the Hebrew nahar ("river") and is ...
- Nahavand
- (from the article "Murad III") ...He took Fez (now Fes, Mor.) from the Portuguese in 1578. He fought an exhausting war against Iran (1578-90), which extended his rule over Azerbaijan, Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), Nahavand, ...
- Nahavand, Battle of
- (AD 642), military clash in Iran between Arab and Sasanian forces that was a major turning point in Iranian history. The battle ended in disastrous defeat for the Sasanian armies ... [2 Related Articles]
- nahcolite
- colourless to white carbonate mineral (NaHCO3), a naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate. Its structure consists of planar chains of carbonate groups linked with hydrogen bonds; planes are linked together by sodium ...
- Nahdah, Al-
- (from the article "Tunisia") Because of the ban on parties based on religion, ethnicity, region, or language, the major opposition group, the Islamist party Al-Nahdah ("The Renaissance"), has not been granted legal status, and ...
- Nahdatul Ulama
- (from the article "Indonesia") ...From the revolutionary period, Indonesia had inherited a multiparty system. The main parties after independence were the major Muslim party, Masyumi (Masjumi); the Muslim theologians' party, Nahdatul Ulama (NU), which ...
- Nahhas Pasha, Mustafa al-
- statesman who, as the leader of the nationalist Wafd party, was a dominant figure in Egyptian politics until the revolution of 1952. [2 Related Articles]
- Nahienaena
- princess, the only child of Kamehameha I, conqueror and consolidator of the Hawaiian Islands, and his highest ranking wife, Keopuolani. She was sent to a U.S. Protestant missionary school and ...
- Nahl, Johann August
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Dietz at Bamberg pursued an increasingly individual Rococo style that often parodied the growing taste for Neoclassicism. Prussian Rococo sculpture was less distinguished, though the decorations of Johann August Nahl ...
- Nahman ben Simhah of Bratslav
- Hasidic rabbi and teller of tales, founder of the Bratslaver Hasidic sect.
- Nahman of Grodenka
- (from the article "Ba'al Shem Tov") While still a young man, the Besht had become acquainted with such figures as Rabbi Nahman of Gorodenka and Rabbi Nahman of Kosov, already spoken of as creators of a ...
- Nahman of Kosov
- (from the article "Ba'al Shem Tov") While still a young man, the Besht had become acquainted with such figures as Rabbi Nahman of Gorodenka and Rabbi Nahman of Kosov, already spoken of as creators of a ...
- Nahmanides
- Spanish scholar and rabbi and Jewish religious leader. He was also a philosopher, poet, physician, and Kabbalist.
- Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp
- (from the article "Lebanon") The Lebanese army successfully seized full control of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Sept. 2, 2007, after 105 days of fighting the extremist organization Fatah al-Islam. According to ...
- Nahrawan Canal
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...regulation of the flow of the water stored. The Phoenicians, Assyrians, Sumerians, and Egyptians all constructed elaborate canal systems. The most spectacular canal of this period was probably Nahrawan, 400 ...
- Nahrawan, Battle of
- (from the article "Kharijite") ...Mu'awiyah. Repudiating not only the existing caliphal candidates but all Muslims who did not accept their views, the Kharijites engaged in campaigns of harassment and terror. In the Battle of ...
- Nahua
- Middle American Indian population of central Mexico, of which the Aztecs (see Aztec) of pre-Conquest Mexico are probably the best known members. The language of the Aztecs, Nahua, is spoken ... [4 Related Articles]
- Nahuan languages
- subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan languages, including Pochutec, Nahua, and Pipil; they are sometimes considered a subfamily coordinate with Shoshonean and Sonoran, and sometimes included in the Sonoran subfamily. The languages ...
- Nahuatl
- (from the article "Latin America, history of") ...cooperation between Spanish ecclesiastics and indigenous aides led to the adaptation of the Latin alphabet to indigenous languages and subsequently to regular record production. In the case of Nahuatl, the ...
- Nahuatl language
- American Indian language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in central and western Mexico. Nahuatl, the most important of the Uto-Aztecan languages, was the language of the Aztec and Toltec civilizations ... [4 Related Articles]
- Nahuel Huapi National Park
- national park in Rio Negro and Neuquen provinces, southwestern Argentina; it encompasses Lake Nahuel Huapi in the Andes adjacent to the Chilean border. It originated as a reserve in 1903 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nahuel Huapi, Lake
- largest lake (210 sq mi [544 sq km]) and most popular resort area in Argentina's lake district, lying in the wooded eastern foothills of the Andes at an altitude of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nahum
- (from the article "Nahum, Book of") ...of the Minor Prophets (grouped together as The Twelve in the Jewish canon). The title identifies the book as an "oracle concerning Nineveh" and attributes it to the "vision of ...
- Nahum
- (from the article "Boris I") ...the Christian faith among the Bulgarian people, in organizing the Bulgarian church as an independent institution, and in building churches throughout the country. In 886 he gave asylum to Clement, ...
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