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Surat (Gujarati: [suɾət]) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means face in Urdu, Gujarati and Hindi. Located on...

Yakutsk (Russian: Якутск; Yakut: Дьокуускай, romanized: J̌okuuskay, pronounced [ɟokuːskaj]) is the capital city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km...

Wing Chun (Cantonese) or Yongchun (Mandarin) (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring") is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung...

This article contains Urdu text. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu...

Turkey's involvement in the Syrian Civil War began diplomatically and later escalated militarily. Initially, Turkey condemned the Syrian government at...

The Syrian occupation of Lebanon (Arabic: الاحتلال السوري للبنان) began in 1976, during the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War, and ended on...

The Tagalog people are native to the Metro Manila and Calabarzon regions and Marinduque province of southern Luzon, and comprise the majority in the provinces...

The Mumbai cricket team, formerly known as the Bombay Cricket Team, is a cricket team which represents Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. It is governed...

Portuguese Ceylon (Portuguese: Ceilão Português; Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; Tamil: போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day...

Highland Papua (Indonesian: Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened...

Attock (Punjabi, Urdu: اٹک), formerly known as Campbellpur (Punjabi, Urdu: کیمبل پور), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the country's capital...

Kowloon City District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the city of Kowloon. It had a population of 381,352 in 2001, and increased...

In the Philippines, Protected Areas are administered by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)'s Biodiversity Management Bureau under...

Brokskat (Tibetan: འབྲོག་སྐད་, Wylie: ’brog skad) or Minaro is an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Brokpa people in the lower Indus Valley...

Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai, of Elenkath, KCIE, CBE (24 July 1898 – 31 March 1992), popularly known as "Rag", was an Indian civil servant. He served...

Eric Charles Matti (born December 21, 1970), professionally known as Erik Matti, is a Filipino filmmaker. He is known for directing On the Job (2013),...

Before the unification of the country by the Bagrationi dynasty in the 10th century, several Georgian states including Iberia and Colchis, managed to subsist...

Bukan (Persian: بوکان, romanized: Bukân and Kurdish: بۆکان, romanized: Bokan) is a city in the Central District of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan province...

Events from the year 1529 in India. May 6 – The Battle of Ghaghra is fought. Krishnadevaraya ends his reign as emperor of Vijayanagara Empire. Achyuta...

Events from the year 1528 in India. Birbal, Wazīr-e Azam of the Mughal court (died 1586) Ravidas, mystic-poet of the Bhakti movement dies (year of birth...