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Gorj

Gorj (Județul Gorj) is a county in southwestern Romania on the Jiu River, seat Târgu Jiu; a coal and lignite region receiving 550 million euros in EU Just Transition funding, home of Brâncuși's Târgu Jiu ensemble.

Sep 27, 2026

Gorka Elejabarrieta Díaz

Gorka Elejabarrieta Díaz is a Spanish politician of the Basque pro-independence party EH Bildu who serves as a senator and the party's spokesperson in the Senate of Spain.

Gorka Guruzeta

Gorka Guruzeta Rodríguez, born 1996 in San Sebastián, is a Spanish center-forward for Athletic Club in La Liga, who returned in 2022 and became the club's first-choice striker.

Gorka Márquez

Gorka Márquez (born 1990, Bilbao) is a Spanish professional Latin and ballroom dancer, a Strictly Come Dancing professional 2016-2024, three-time runner-up, judge on Bailando con las Estrellas, partner of Gemma Atkinson.

Gorkha conquest of Garhwal

The Gorkha conquest of Garhwal (गढ़वाल पर गोरखा आक्रमण) was the 1803 invasion of the Garhwal kingdom by Nepal's Gorkha army, which killed Raja Pradyuman Shah in 1804 and ruled until 1815.

Gorkha conquest of Kumaon

The Gorkha conquest of Kumaon (कुमाऊँ पर गोरखा विजय) was the invasion of Chand-ruled Kumaon by Nepal's Gorkha kingdom, which took Almora in 1790 or 1791 and ended Chand rule.

Gorkha conquest of the Nepal valley states

The Gorkha conquest of the Nepal valley states (गोरखा विजय) was Prithvi Narayan Shah's capture of the three Malla kingdoms of Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur in 1768 and 1769.

Gorkha kingdom (गोरखा राज्य)

The Gorkha kingdom (गोरखा राज्य) was a hill principality in the central Himalayas, ruled by the Shah dynasty, that became the nucleus of modern Nepal.

Gorkha occupation of Garhwal

The Gorkha occupation of Garhwal was Nepalese rule over the Garhwal kingdom in present-day Uttarakhand, won in 1803 and ended by the Treaty of Sagauli in 1816.

Gorkha regiments (India)

Gorkha regiments (India): seven Indian Army infantry regiments (1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th Gorkha Rifles, plus the 11th) recruiting Nepali and Indian Gorkhas under the 1947 Tripartite Agreement; lineage from the 1815 Nasiri battalion; Nepali recruitment suspended since 2020 amid the Agnipath dispute.

Gorkhali revenue system in Kumaon and Garhwal

The Gorkhali revenue system in Kumaon and Garhwal was the land and tax regime imposed by Nepal's Gorkha kingdom from 1791, with harsh collection and many supplementary taxes.

Gorkhatri

Gorkhatri (Gor Khatri), Peshawar's fortified archaeological complex in the Walled City, a Mughal caravanserai (Sarai Jahanabad, 1641) built by Jahan Ara Begum over 8.5 m of deposits spanning about 2,300 years; UNESCO Tentative List 2026.

Gorki

Gorki (Russian for "hillocks") is the name of several places in Russia and Belarus, including a Moscow cascade park, a Lenin museum estate, and a Sochi resort.

Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio (Киностудия им. М. Горького) is a historic Moscow film studio established in 1915. In 1936, it became Soyuzdetfilm, recognized as the first studio dedicated to children's cinema.

Gorky Park (film)

Gorky Park is a 1983 American Cold War thriller directed by Michael Apted, adapted by Dennis Potter from Martin Cruz Smith's novel, starring William Hurt as Moscow detective Arkady Renko; filmed in Helsinki after the USSR barred shooting in Moscow.

Gorky Park (Moscow)

Gorky Park (Центральный парк культуры и отдыха имени Горького) is Moscow's central park, opened 12 August 1928 on the 1923 agricultural exhibition site, named for Maxim Gorky in 1932, and reconstructed from 2011.

Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation

Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation (Парк культури та відпочинку ім. Горького): name shared by several Soviet-era municipal parks, chiefly Kharkiv's Central Park (founded 1893–95, renamed 2023) and Moscow's Gorky Park (opened 1928, 212 ha).

Gorky-Center Gas Pipeline

The Gorky-Center Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод «Горький — Центр») is a Russian natural gas pipeline running from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast toward Moscow, in service since 1974.

Gorleben salt dome

The Gorleben salt dome (Salzstock Gorleben) is a rock salt formation in Lower Saxony, Germany, explored for decades as a possible repository for high-level radioactive waste.

Oct 22, 2026

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive

The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive was a joint German and Austro-Hungarian breakthrough launched in Galicia on 2 May 1915 that destroyed the Russian Third Army and drove the Tsarist forces out of Russian Poland by September.

Gorlin syndrome

Gorlin syndrome (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, NBCCS), an autosomal dominant PTCH1/SUFU cancer predisposition disorder with basal cell carcinomas, jaw keratocysts, palmar pits, falx calcification, and medulloblastoma risk.

Görlitz

Görlitz (Zhorjelc, Zgorzelec) is Germany's easternmost city, in Saxony on the Lusatian Neisse, with 55,065 residents, over 4,000 listed buildings, the twin city Zgorzelec, and the film nickname Görliwood.

Gorlois

Gorlois is the legendary Duke of Cornwall, first husband of Igraine, in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136). Uther Pendragon, disguised as Gorlois by Merlin, fathered Arthur at Tintagel the night Gorlois died in battle; Malory calls him only Duke of Tintagel.

Gorm oil and gas field

Gorm (Danish: Gormfeltet) is an oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea about 200 km west of Esbjerg, discovered in 1971 and brought on stream in 1981.

Gorm the Old

Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle, died c. 958), Viking Age king of Denmark, husband of Thyra, father of Harald Bluetooth; first Danish king named in contemporary sources, the Jelling rune stones, and ancestor of the Danish royal line.

Gorman-Rupp

Gorman-Rupp is an American pump manufacturer headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio. Founded in 1933 by J.C. Gorman and H.E. Rupp, it makes pumps for water, wastewater, and industrial markets.

Gormenghast (series)

Gormenghast series, also called the Gormenghast Trilogy or Titus Books: Mervyn Peake's three dark-fantasy novels Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959), set in a ritual-bound crumbling castle, plus the unfinished fourth book Titus Awakes.