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Goguryeo–Wa war

The Goguryeo–Wa war was a 399–400 campaign in which Goguryeo, answering Silla's request, sent 50,000 troops to expel Wa invaders and pursued them into Gaya.

Goguryeo–Wei war

The Goguryeo–Wei war (고구려-위 전쟁) was a conflict between Goguryeo and Cao Wei fought from 244 to 246, after Goguryeo attacked Xi'anping in Liaodong in 242.

Goguryeo's adoption of Buddhism

Goguryeo's adoption of Buddhism was the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo's official acceptance of Buddhism in 372, when the monk Sundo arrived from Former Qin with a Buddha statue and sutras.

Goguryeo's move of capital to Pyongyang

Goguryeo's move of capital to Pyongyang in 427 CE, in the 15th year of King Jangsu, shifted the kingdom's center from Gungnae, near present-day Ji'an, China, to the Taedong River basin.

Gogynfeirdd

The Gogynfeirdd were professional Welsh court poets who composed praise poetry in Middle Welsh for Welsh princes and nobility from roughly 1100 into the fourteenth century.

Gôh

Gôh is an administrative region of central-west Côte d'Ivoire with departments Gagnoa (capital) and Oumé, part of the Gôh-Djiboua autonomous district; an agricultural area producing rubber, cocoa, yam, cassava, and rice.

Goh Cheng Liang

Goh Cheng Liang was a Singapore entrepreneur who founded Wuthelam Holdings in 1974 and became the controlling shareholder of Japan's Nippon Paint, dying in 2025 at 98.

Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong (born 1941) is Singapore's second Prime Minister, serving November 1990 to August 2004 after Lee Kuan Yew; MP for Marine Parade 1976 to 2020, later Senior Minister, MAS chairman, and Emeritus Senior Minister.

Goh Hanyan

Goh Hanyan (吴函燕), Singaporean PAP politician, MP for Nee Soon GRC since May 2025 and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for MCCY and MSE; former MDDI Smart Nation and AI policy director.

Goh Hup Jin

Goh Hup Jin is a Singapore businessman, son of tycoon Goh Cheng Liang, who has chaired Japan's largest paint maker, Nippon Paint Holdings, since 2021 through his family's controlling stake.

Goh Keng Swee

Goh Keng Swee (吴庆瑞, 1918–2010) was a Singaporean economist, politician, and founding member of the People's Action Party who as Singapore's first Minister for Finance and later Defence Minister shaped its economic and security policy.

Goh Pei Ming

Goh Pei Ming (吴培铭), Singaporean PAP politician, MP for Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC since April 2025 and Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Social and Family Development from July 2026; former SAF Chief of Staff-Joint Staff.

Gôh-Djiboua

Gôh-Djiboua (District du Gôh-Djiboua) is an autonomous district of Côte d'Ivoire, capital Gagnoa, comprising the Gôh and Lôh-Djiboua regions; about 1.61 million people (2021), a major cocoa, coffee, and oil palm producer.

Gohan

Gohan (孫悟飯) is Son Goku's eldest son in Dragon Ball, born to Goku and Chi-Chi, trained by Piccolo, voiced by Masako Nozawa, briefly intended as protagonist, and later gaining the Gohan (Beast) form.

Gohan (โกหาน) (film)

Gohan (โกฮัง..หัวใจโกโฮม) is a 2026 Thai drama from GDH 559, BASK, and Houston Films, co-directed by Chayanop Boonprakob, Baz Poonpiriya, and Atta Hemwadee, following a white stray dog through three owners over a decade; released 2 April 2026.

Gohar Ali Khan (گوہر علی خان)

Gohar Ali Khan (گوہر علی خان), Barrister Gohar, is a Pakistani barrister and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf since December 2023 and MNA for NA-10 Buner; he led PTI-backed independents into the Sunni Ittehad Council after the 2024 election.

Gohar Ejaz

Gohar Ejaz is a Pakistani textile industrialist who led the Ejaz Group and APTMA, and served as caretaker federal commerce and interior minister in 2023-24.

Gohatto (御法度)

Gohatto (御法度, Taboo) is Nagisa Oshima's 1999 final feature, adapted from Ryotaro Shiba's Shinsengumi Keppuroku, about homoerotic turmoil in the Shinsengumi after beautiful recruit Kano Sozaburo (Ryuhei Matsuda's debut) joins; music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cannes 2000 competition entry.

Gohil clan

The Gohil clan (गोहिल) is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan that migrated from Marwar into Saurashtra in the 13th century and ruled the princely state of Bhavnagar until 1948.

Gohōjō house laws

The Gohōjō house laws are the house codes of the Later Hōjō clan, warlords who ruled Izu, Sagami, and the Kantō region from Odawara until 1590.

Gohta Goshima

Gohta Goshima is a Japanese cell biologist at Nagoya University known for identifying genes required for mitotic spindle assembly and for discovering the augmin complex.

Goi of Baekje

Goi of Baekje (고이왕, King Goi) was the eighth ruler of the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, reigning from 234 to 286 and credited with organizing the state.

Goiânia

Goiânia, capital of Goiás, Brazil: planned city founded 1933 by Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, designed by Attilio Corrêa Lima for 50,000 people; 2022 census population 1,437,366.

Goiânia accident

The Goiânia accident (Césio-137) was a 1987 Brazilian radiological contamination accident from a ruptured caesium-137 teletherapy source; four died, 249 were contaminated, and it reshaped international orphan-source safety rules.

Goiás

Goiás is a Brazilian Center-West state, capital Goiânia, seventh largest by area (340,242.859 km²), 7,056,495 inhabitants (2022 census), 246 municipalities, predominantly Cerrado vegetation, gold-rush origins and 1988 split creating Tocantins.

Goias esporte clube

Goiás Esporte Clube (Verdão, Esmeraldino), Brazilian football club founded 6 April 1943 in Goiânia under a streetlight; record 28 Goiano titles, Série B champion 1999 and 2012, Copa Verde 2023, Copa Sudamericana runner-up 2010.

Goiás Velho

Goiás Velho, officially the Cidade de Goiás, is a historic Brazilian municipality founded in the 1720s as the gold-mining settlement of Vila Boa, the first capital of Goiás.

Goiás, Goiás

Goiás, also called Cidade de Goiás or Goiás Velho, is a Brazilian municipality founded in 1727 that served as the state of Goiás's capital until 1937.

Goibniu Patera

Goibniu Patera is an 85-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at −47.31°, 108.77°, named in 2026 after the Celtic smith god of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Goichi Suda (須田 剛一)

Goichi Suda (須田 剛一), aka Suda51, Japanese game designer, founder and CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture (1998), creator of The Silver Case, Killer7, and No More Heroes; studio independent again from NetEase in 2026.