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Erzulie Mons

Erzulie Mons is a 300-km-wide volcano on Venus at 68.0°S, 8.0°E in Lada Terra, named in 1997 for the Haitian voodoo goddess of love, rising about 2,800 m above the mean planetary radius.

Erzurum

Erzurum, a high-altitude city and province in northeastern Anatolia, Turkey, formerly Theodosiopolis and Karin. Known for its harsh continental climate, Palandöken ski center, 2011 Winter Universiade, and widespread earthquake risk from nearby fault junctions.

Erzurum Province

Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia province of Turkey with capital Erzurum; 736,877 people in 2025, 24,768 km² (4th largest), high-altitude continental climate, first 1864 vilayet, site of the 1919 Erzurum Congress.

Es Trepucó

Es Trepucó (Trepucó) is a large Talayotic settlement near Maó, Menorca, with a cyclopean wall, a 26 m talayot, and a 4.80 m taula; first scientifically excavated on the island by Margaret Murray in 1930 and part of Talayotic Menorca World Heritage.

ES Troyes AC

ES Troyes AC (ESTAC, Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne), French football club founded 1986, plays at Stade de l'Aube; Intertoto Cup 2001, Ligue 2 champions 2014-15; City Football Group majority owner since 2020.

ES-2

ES-2 (ES2, CVCL_3509, ATCC CRL-1978) is a human ovarian cancer cell line established in 1991, reported as clear cell carcinoma from a 47-year-old Black patient but flagged as probably misclassified, with European ancestry and BRAF V600E and TP53 S241F mutations.

Es-Sig

Es-Sig (Es-Sîg) is a traditional Tunisian race board game played by women, racing wedding-ring pieces toward Mecca while a Ghula (witch, a piece of coal) drags them back, using four two-sided stick dice; documented by Ayoub 1991 and playable in Ludii (DLP.Games.1499).

Es'ad Efendi

Es'ad Efendi (اسعد افندی) was an Ottoman religious scholar, poet, and author who served as sheyhulislam, the highest religious office, under Sultan Mahmud I from 1748 to 1749.

Es'kia Mphahlele

Es'kia Mphahlele, born Ezekiel Mphahlele in Pretoria in 1919, was a South African writer and teacher whose memoir Down Second Avenue became a landmark of African literature.

Esa Pole

Esa Pole (born 2001, Hayward, CA) is an NFL offensive tackle, 6-7 and 319 lb, from Chabot College and Washington State; an undrafted 2025 Chiefs signee who started 4 games as a rookie.

ESAB

ESAB (Elektriska Svetsnings Aktiebolaget) is a Swedish-founded manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment and consumables, established in Gothenburg in 1904 by Oscar Kjellberg, inventor of the coated welding electrode.

Esabad

Esabad (Akkadian for "House of the Open Ear") was a temple of the goddess Gula in Babylon's Tuba district, rebuilt by Ashurbanipal and Nebuchadnezzar II.

ESAF Small Finance Bank

ESAF Small Finance Bank Limited is an Indian small finance bank that grew out of the NGO Evangelical Social Action Forum and began operations in 2017.

Esagila

Esagila, also written Esagil, was the chief temple of the god Marduk at Babylon, standing south of the ziggurat Etemenanki and serving as the setting of the Babylonian New Year festival, attested from 1835 BC.

Esah Oil and Gas Field

The Esah Oil and Gas Field is an offshore Mexican oil field in the Sonda de Campeche, discovered by Pemex's Esah-1 well in 2015, with 2P reserves of 43 million barrels.

Esai Morales

Esai Morales (Esaí Manuel Morales D'Clet, born 1962), American actor of Puerto Rican descent from Brooklyn: Bob Morales in La Bamba (1987), Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue, Gabriel in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, NHFA co-founder.

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was a Swedish poet, professor of Greek at Lund University, and bishop of Växjö, best known for the verse cycle Frithiofs saga.

Esalen Institute

Esalen Institute, a nonprofit retreat and alternative-education center in Big Sur, California, founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price; birthplace of the human potential movement, host to Fritz Perls and Maslow, and known for workshops, Gestalt therapy, and hot springs.

Esam Al-Nahdi

Esam Alnahdi is a Saudi fintech entrepreneur who co-founded HALA, a Riyadh-based financial platform for small businesses that raised a $157 million Series B in 2025.

Esapekka Lappi

Esapekka Lappi, born 1991, is a Finnish rally driver who won the 2016 WRC2 title and two WRC rounds, Rally Finland 2017 and Sweden 2024.

Esarhaddon

Esarhaddon, also known as Aššur-aḫa-iddina, was king of Assyria from 681 to 669 BC, son of Sennacherib and father of Ashurbanipal, who rebuilt Babylon and conquered Egypt in 671 BC.

Esarhaddon's Arabian campaigns

Esarhaddon's Arabian campaigns were Assyrian military operations around 677-676 BC against the desert land of Bazu, whose eight rulers Esarhaddon defeated, and the Arabs under King Hazael.

Esarhaddon's campaign against Baal of Tyre

Esarhaddon's campaign against Baal of Tyre was the 671 BC blockade that starved the island city until King Baal submitted, paid tribute, and lost his mainland towns.

Esarhaddon's destruction of Sidon

Esarhaddon's destruction of Sidon was the sack of the Phoenician city by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon around 677 BC, after which Sidon became the Assyrian province Kar-Esarhaddon.

Esarhaddon's first Egyptian campaign

Esarhaddon's first Egyptian campaign was a failed Assyrian invasion of Egypt in 673 BC, defeated by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqo; Esarhaddon returned and captured Memphis in 671 BC.

Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt

Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt was the Neo-Assyrian invasion of 671 BC that defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa, captured Memphis, and made Esarhaddon the first Mesopotamian ruler titled king of Egypt.

Esarhaddon's treaty with Ba'al of Tyre

A treaty between Esarhaddon of Assyria and Ba'al of Tyre, granting Tyre trading ports in exchange for Assyrian oversight of its politics, dated around 677 BC.

Ešasurra

Ešasurra, "House of the Womb", was the temple of the goddess Išḫara in the Šuanna quarter of Babylon, identified with excavated Temple Z; attested in Neo-Babylonian prebend texts such as BM 77521.

ESATA

eSATA, short for External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, is an external variant of the SATA storage interface released in 2004, letting external hard drives run at internal-drive speeds over shielded cables up to 2 meters long.

ESATAp

ESATAp (Power over eSATA), also called Power eSATA or eSATA USB Hybrid Port, is a connector combining eSATA data with USB power in one socket, announced by SATA-IO in 2008.