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Gorni Lom

Gorni Lom (Горни Лом) is a village in Chuprene municipality, northwestern Bulgaria. It is known for hikers accessing Midzhur and the Midzhur explosives site, which saw two explosions.

Górnik Zabrze

Górnik Zabrze, Polish football club from a coal-mining city, founded 1948; record 14 Polish titles, 1970 Cup Winners' Cup final lost to Manchester City; Arena Zabrze; Lukas Podolski majority owner.

Gorno-Badakhshan

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), Russian Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область, is Tajikistan's mountainous eastern autonomous region in the Pamirs, created in 1925, capital Khorog, home to the Ismaili Pamiri minority and site of 2021-2022 protest crackdowns.

Gorny Institute

Gorny Institute (Gornogo Instituta, Gornyi Institute) is a 2,125 m Holocene stratovolcano in the central Sredinny Range, Kamchatka, Russia; last major eruption about 700 years ago (1250 CE).

Goro Akechi

Goro Akechi (明智吾郎) is the detective character and Justice Confidant of Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal, wielding the Personas Robin Hood, Loki, and Hereward, with a manual Royal confidant requiring Rank 8 by November 17.

Goro Miyazaki (宮崎 吾朗)

Goro Miyazaki (宮崎 吾朗), born 1967 in Tokyo, is a Japanese animation director, eldest son of Hayao Miyazaki; former Ghibli Museum director, director of Tales from Earthsea, From Up on Poppy Hill, Earwig and the Witch, and Ronia.

Gorō Shimura

Gorō Shimura (志村五郎) was a Japanese number theorist at Princeton University who introduced Shimura varieties and, with Yutaka Taniyama, predicted the modularity behind Fermat's Last Theorem.

Gorocanadi Vati

Gorocanadi Vati (Gorochanadi Gulika), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet of about 46 ingredients led by gorochana (cattle bile), from Vaidyayogaratanavali; used for fever, cough, and respiratory conditions, widely in Kerala.

Gorod 312

Gorod 312 (Город 312) is a Russian-language pop-rock group formed in 2001 by musicians from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, named for the city's telephone code 312, and known for radio hits from film soundtracks.

Gorodskoy Okrug Blagoveshchensk

Gorodskoy Okrug Blagoveshchensk (городской округ город Благовещенск) is the urban okrug of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, created by 2005 oblast law; 321 km², 245,200 residents (2023), includes Belogorye, Mukhinka, and other rural localities.

Gorodskoy Okrug Bryansk

Gorodskoy Okrug Bryansk (городской округ город Брянск) is the urban okrug of Bryansk city, administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia; four city districts, population about 392,000 (2023), charter adopted 2005.

Gorodskoy okrug Simferopol

Gorodskoy okrug Simferopol (городской округ Симферополь), a municipal urban okrug in the Republic of Crimea centered on the capital city Simferopol; 107.4 km², 353,800 residents (2025), six settlements, major transport hub with international airport.

Gorodskoy Plyazh

Городской пляж (city beach; Ukrainian Міський пляж) is a municipal beach within city limits in Russia and neighboring countries, offering supervised swimming, buoys, changing cabins, volleyball courts and free entry, with swimming status set by water-quality tests.

Gorontalo

Gorontalo is an Indonesian province on northern Sulawesi's peninsula, capital Kota Gorontalo, created by Law 38/2000 from North Sulawesi; about 1.23 million people (2025), agriculture-led economy, 5.71% growth in 2025.

Gorr the God Butcher

Gorr the God Butcher, Marvel Comics villain created by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribić, debuting in Thor: God of Thunder #2 (2013); wields All-Black the Necrosword, built the Godbomb, and appeared in Thor: Love and Thunder and Marvel Rivals.

Görresburg

Görresburg, also Matronenheiligtum Görresburg, is a Roman sanctuary of the Aufan Matrons on a spur near Nettersheim in the German Eifel, part of the vicus Marcomagus on the Cologne–Trier road, excavated from 1909 and shown in the Nettersheim archaeological park.

Gors Fawr stone circle

Gors Fawr stone circle: Bronze Age ring of 16 stones, about 22 m across, near Mynachlog-ddu in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire; eight spotted dolerite bluestones, a stone pair 120 m away, scheduled monument PE117.

Gorsedd Cymru

Gorsedd Cymru, formerly Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain (Gorsedd of the Bards of the Island of Britain), is a Welsh society of bards, poets, musicians and honorees founded in 1792 by Iolo Morganwg. It stages the ceremonies of the National Eisteddfod and renamed itself Gorsedd Cymru in 2019 despite its invented Druidic origins.

Gorsedh Kernow

Gorsedh Kernow, the Cornish Gorsedd of Bards, is a non-political Cornish cultural organization associated with the 1928 Boscawen Un ceremony led by Henry Jenner, with about 500 Bards in blue robes, annual September ceremonies in Cornish, and links to the Welsh and Breton Gorsedds.

Gorszewice

Gorszewice, a village in Greater Poland (Kaźmierz commune, Szamotuły county), first recorded in 1394, site of a rich Lusatian culture Hallstatt C cemetery with Italian and Alpine imports, excavated from 1873.

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, also known as Gortimer Gibbon – Mein Leben in der Normal Street, is Amazon's first original live-action kids series (2014–2016), created by David Anaxagoras, about Gortimer, Ranger, and Mel on a magically tinged suburb; 2 seasons, 39 episodes.

Görtschach

Görtschach (Goritschach, Goriče) names several Austrian Alpine villages, chiefly one in Hermagor-Pressegger See, Carinthia, plus a Roman imperial-cult site near Lienz, a medieval noble family, and a Carinthian youth home under investigation.

Gortyna Flexus

Gortyna Flexus is a 940 km cycloidal ridge (flexus) on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 42.1°S, 144.6°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Cretan place where Zeus brought Europa.

Gory Guerrero

Gory Guerrero (Salvador Guerrero Quesada, 1921–1990), Mexican lucha libre star with EMLL, El Santo's Pareja Atómica partner, inventor of the Gory Special and Camel Clutch, patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family.

Goryeo

Goryeo (고려, 918–1392): Korean dynasty founded by Wang Geon, unified the Later Three Kingdoms in 936; 34 kings, Tripitaka Koreana, 1234 metal movable type, Mongol vassalage, ended by Joseon in 1392.

Goryeo annals

The Goryeo annals (실록, sillok) were the official veritable records of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), compiled for each reign; none survives, though they fed the Goryeosa.

Goryeo architecture

Goryeo architecture is the building tradition of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), centered on palace and Buddhist temple construction; wars destroyed most work, leaving chiefly temple halls.

Goryeo aristocracy

The Goryeo aristocracy was the hereditary ruling stratum of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), made up of capital civil officials and great local families who monopolized high office.

Goryeo armor

Goryeo armor (갑주) is the body armor and headgear of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, 918–1392, made under state management in an overcoat-like form and worn into early Joseon.

Goryeo bell casting

Goryeo bell casting is the bronze casting of Korean Buddhist temple bells, or beomjong, during the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), which kept the Silla style in smaller forms.