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Gajaaga
Galam was the 18th-century French name for Gajaaga, a Soninké kingdom on the Upper Senegal River that remained under African rule until a French treaty in 1858.
Gajaana
Gajaana (கஜானா) is a 2025 Tamil supernatural fantasy adventure film written, directed and produced by Prabadish Samz for Four Square Studios, starring Vedhika, Yogi Babu, and Inigo Prabhakaran; released 9 May 2025, 108 minutes, U/A.
Gajah Mada
Gajah Mada (c. 1290–c. 1364), mahapatih or chief minister of Majapahit, famed for the Sumpah Palapa oath recorded only in the later Pararaton; led expansion under Tribhuwana and Hayam Wuruk, died 1364, namesake of Universitas Gadjah Mada and the Palapa satellites.
Gajakesari
Gajakesari (ಗಜಕೇಸರಿ) is a 2014 Kannada action film starring Yash and Amulya, directed by S Krishna in his debut; it completed 100 days at the box office.
Gajanan Jagirdar (गजानन जागीरदार)
Gajanan Jagirdar (गजानन जागीरदार, 1907–1988), Marathi and Hindi film actor-director, first principal of FTII; known for Ramshastri (1944) and the Mirza role in Shejari/Padosi (1941).
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध, 1917–1964) was a Hindi poet, critic, and essayist best known for his long poems and his posthumous cult status.
Gajanan Maharaj (गजानन महाराज)
Gajanan Maharaj, also known as Sant Gajanan Maharaj, was an Indian saint who appeared at Shegaon, Maharashtra, in 1878 and took samadhi there in 1910.
Gajapati army
The Gajapati army was the military force of the Gajapati kingdom of Odisha, expanded under Kapilendra in the 1450s and defeated by Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara in 1512–1516.
Gajapati dynasty
The Gajapati dynasty (ଗଜପତି) was the Suryavamsi ruling house of Odisha, ruling from Cuttack from 1434 or 1435 to 1539 or 1550, with an empire stretching from the Ganges to the Pennar river.
Gajapati invasion of Vijayanagara
The Gajapati invasion of Vijayanagara was a series of campaigns from about 1454 in which Kapilendra Deva Gajapati of Odisha overran its eastern provinces, reaching the Kaveri delta by 1464.
Gajapati kingdom
The Gajapati kingdom (ଗଜପତି ରାଜ୍ୟ) was an empire ruled by the Suryavamsi Gajapatis of Odisha, founded by Kapilendra Deva in 1434 and extending from the Ganges to the Kaveri at its height.
Gajapati military and paika organization
The Gajapati military and paika organization (गजपति सेना, पाइक) was the armed force of the Gajapati kings of Odisha, built around paiks, hereditary soldier-cultivators holding rent-free land for service.
Gajapati–Bahmani wars
The Gajapati–Bahmani wars were campaigns of the 1450s and 1460s between Kapilendra Deva of Orissa and the Bahmani Sultanate over the eastern Deccan, won by the Gajapatis.
Gajapati–Vijayanagara Wars
The Gajapati–Vijayanagara wars were fought between the Gajapati kingdom of Orissa and the Vijayanagara Empire for control of India's eastern coastal country, ending in 1518.
Gajar ka halwa (गाजर का हलवा)
Gajar ka halwa (गाजर का हलवा), also gajrela or gajorer halwa, is a North Indian winter dessert of grated red Delhi carrots slow-cooked in milk, ghee, and sugar with khoya and cardamom, derived from Arabic halwa.
Gajendra Chauhan
Gajendra Chauhan (गजेंद्र चौहान), born 1956, Indian actor and BJP leader famous as Yudhishthir in B.R. Chopra's Mahabharat (1988–90); his 2014 appointment as FTII chairman sparked a 139-day student strike.
Gajendra Patel
Gajendra Singh Patel, born 1975 in Barwani, is an Indian BJP politician and national general secretary who has represented Khargone in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, born in 1967, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Union Cabinet Minister for Culture and Tourism and as the Lok Sabha member for Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Gajendra Verma
Gajendra Verma (गजेंद्र वर्मा) is an Indian singer, songwriter, and composer from Sirsa, Haryana, whose 2010 song 'Emptiness' became one of India's first viral independent hits.
Gajendra Yadav
Gajendra Yadav, born in 1978, is an Indian BJP politician who is a minister in the Government of Chhattisgarh and represents Durg in its assembly.
Gajus Worthington
Gajus Worthington is an American engineer who co-founded the life-science tools company Fluidigm in 1999 and served as its chief executive officer for about 17 years.
Gajuwaka
Gajuwaka (గాజువాక) is an industrial area about 15 km south of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, home to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant; its municipality merged into GVMC in November 2005 with 32 gram panchayats.
Gaki Sherocho
Gaki Sherocho, nicknamed Chinito, was the last king of the Kingdom of Kaffa in southwest Ethiopia, ruling 1890 to 1897 and resisting the invasion by Emperor Menelik II's forces.
Gaki zōshi
Gaki zōshi (餓鬼草紙, "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts") is a set of 12th-century Japanese narrative handscrolls depicting gaki, the hungry ghosts of Buddhist cosmology; two scrolls are National Treasures held in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Gakirah Barnes
Gakirah Barnes, aka K.I. or Lil Snoop (1997–2014), was a Chicago Woodlawn teenager and Fly Boy Gang/Gangster Disciples member whose prolific Twitter record became research data on grief and gang violence after her fatal shooting at 17.
Gakkel Ridge
Gakkel Ridge: ultraslow-spreading Arctic mid-ocean ridge, northern continuation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, spreading 14 to under 8 mm/yr, with thin crust, abundant hydrothermal vents, and deep explosive volcanism.
Gakkhars
The Gakkhars (گکھڑ) were a hill tribe of the Potwar plateau in northern Punjab, known for resisting Mahmud of Ghazna and, by tradition, killing Muhammad Ghori in 1206.
Gakkō Bosatsu of Yakushi-ji
Gakkō Bosatsu (月光菩薩, Moonlight Bodhisattva) is a gilt-bronze attendant bodhisattva flanking Yakushi Nyorai at Yakushi-ji in Nara, part of the National Treasure Yakushi Triad of the 7th–8th century.
Gakko II (学校II)
Gakko II (学校II, A Class to Remember II) is Yamada Yoji's 1996 Shochiku drama, second in the Gakko series, set at a Hokkaido special support high school where teacher Aoyama searches for two missing students; Mainichi Film Concours winner.
Gákti
The gákti is the traditional frock-like coat of the Sámi people, whose cut, colors, and trim signal the wearer's region, family, and gender; everyday use ended in the 1960s.