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Gucheng Site

固城遗址 (Gucheng site), name of two Chinese city sites: a Spring-Autumn Wu state site in Gaochun, Nanjing, a national key protected unit with the Eastern Han Xiaoguan stele, and a Zhengzhou Warring States-Han site evidencing the 119 AD earthquake.

Guchengzhai City Site

古城寨城址 (Guchengzhai city site): late Longshan culture walled city in Xinmi, Henan, on the Qinshui; 176,000 m² city, 1,265 m surviving walls, palace foundation F1; 2000 Top 10 discovery, 2001 national protection unit.

Gucio Enchanted

Gucio Enchanted (Gucio zaczarowany) is an 1884 children's fantasy-nature novel by the Polish writer Zofia Urbanowska, in which a lazy eight-year-old boy is transformed into a fly.

Gucun

Gucun (顾村镇) is a town in Baoshan District, Shanghai, 41.66 km², home to Gucun Park and its Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival and the Shanghai Robot Industrial Park with about 300 enterprises; distinct from a same-named village in Linwu, Hunan.

Gudaf Tsegay

Gudaf Tsegay (ጉዳፍ ፀጋይ), Ethiopian distance runner born 1997 in Tigray; world champion at 5000 m (2022) and 10,000 m (2023), 1500 m indoor world record holder (3:53.09), Olympic 5000 m bronze medalist, banned four months in 2026 for letrozole.

Gudang Garam

Gudang Garam, formally PT Gudang Garam Tbk, is an Indonesian kretek cigarette manufacturer founded in 1958 by Surya Wonowidjojo in Kediri, East Java, once the country's largest hand-rolled kretek producer.

Gudao Oil Field

Gudao Oil Field (孤岛油田) is a large onshore heavy-oil field in Dongying, Shandong, China, discovered in 1968 and operated by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield Company, Shengli's largest onshore producing unit.

Gudapippali

Gudapippali (गुडपिप्पली), also written Guḍapippali, is a classical Ayurvedic multi-ingredient formulation (AFI000244, dose 6–12 g) built on jaggery and long pepper, indicated for splenic and liver diseases, cough, and chronic fever.

Gudauri

Gudauri (Georgian: გუდაური) is a purpose-built ski resort in Georgia, set at about 2,200 m on the Greater Caucasus roughly 120 km north of Tbilisi and known for freeriding and heliskiing.

Guðbergur Bergsson

Guðbergur Bergsson (1932–2023) was an Icelandic writer and translator who pioneered modernist prose in Iceland with novels like Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, and translated Don Quixote into Icelandic.

Gudbrand Skatteboe

Gudbrand Skatteboe was a Norwegian rifle shooter and banker who won Olympic team gold in 1908 and free rifle team silver at the 1906, 1912, and 1920 Games.

Gudbrandsdalen

Gudbrandsdalen, a 200 km valley in Innlandet, Norway, drained by Gudbrandsdalslågen from Lesjaskogsvatnet to Mjøsa; named after chieftain Dale-Gudbrand, historic Oslo-Trondheim route, pilgrim trail, Peer Gynt country.

Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega (गुड्डन तुमसे ना हो पाएगा)

Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega is an Indian Hindi-language drama that aired 481 episodes on Zee TV from 2018 to 2021, centered on a 20-year-old who becomes mother-in-law to three older women.

Guddi (गुड्डी)

Guddi (गुड्डी), aka Darling Child, is a 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Hindi film starring Jaya Bhaduri as a schoolgirl infatuated with Dharmendra, who plays himself; Gulzar wrote it, Vasant Desai scored it, and it made Bhaduri a star.

Guddu Barrage

Guddu Barrage is a barrage on the Indus River in northern Sindh, Pakistan, commissioned in 1962 to provide controlled irrigation water to upper Sindh and adjacent Balochistan.

Guddu power station

Guddu power station, also called Thermal Power Station Guddu, is a gas-fired power station in Kashmore District, Sindh, Pakistan, with a capacity of about 2,402 MW.

Guddu Rangeela (गुड्डू रंगीला)

Guddu Rangeela (गुड्डू रंगीला), 2015 Hindi comedy-drama by Subhash Kapoor, starring Arshad Warsi, Amit Sadh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Ronit Roy; released 3 July 2015, U/A, 124 minutes.

Gudea

Gudea was ensi (ruler) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in southern Mesopotamia around 2150-2125 BCE, remembered as a temple builder and known from many diorite statues and inscriptions.

Gudea Cylinders

The Gudea Cylinders, or Cylinders of Gudea, are two inscribed clay cylinders from Girsu, Lagash, narrating the building of Ningirsu's É-ninnu temple around 2120 BC.

Gudea diorite from Magan

Gudea diorite from Magan is the dark stone, called na4esi in Sumerian, that Gudea, ruler of Lagash, said he brought from Magan and carved into statues of himself.

Gudea statues

The Gudea statues are diorite portraits of Gudea, ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Lagash, carved around 2150–2125 BC and excavated at Tello, Iraq, from 1877 onward.

Gudea's building of the Eninnu temple

Gudea's building of the Eninnu was the construction of the temple of Ningirsu at Girsu by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, in the late 22nd century BC.

Gudea's building program at Lagash

Gudea's building program at Lagash was the extensive temple building and restoration by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, c. 2144–2124 BC, centering on the Eninnu temple of Ningirsu at Girsu.

Gudea's expedition to Magan

Gudea's expedition to Magan was a venture by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, to obtain diorite from Magan, usually identified with Oman, for his royal statues around 2144–2124 BCE.

Gudeok Folk Village

Gudeok Folk Village (구덕민속촌, Kudok Folk Village) is a hanok restaurant attraction in Hakjang-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan, known for herb-smoked duck and galbi, distinct from Seo-gu's Gudeok Folk Art Center.

Gudetama (ぐでたま)

Gudetama (ぐでたま), also GUDETAMA, is Sanrio's lazy egg character created by designer Amy, debuting in 2013 from the Tabekara Sosenkyo food contest; known for 'darii~' catchphrases, birthday 'every day', a 2022 Netflix series, and stronger overseas rankings than in Japan.

Gudicyadi Taila

Guduchyadi Taila (Gudicyadi Taila, Amritottara Taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated oil of Tinospora cordifolia, cow milk, and sesame oil, used for Vatarakta (gouty arthritis), scalp itching, and gynecological therapies.

Gudit

Gudit, also known as Yodit or Esato, is a 10th-century queen of Ethiopia whom tradition credits with persecuting the church and toppling the kingdom of Aksum.

Gudit's rebellion

Gudit's rebellion was the overthrow of the Christian kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia in the ninth or tenth century by a queen known as Gudit, Yodit, Isat, or Ga'wa.

Gudit's sack of Aksum

Gudit's sack of Aksum is the tenth-century burning of Aksum and extermination of its royal family by the queen Gudit (Yodit, Esato), traditionally ending Aksumite rule until the dynasty's restoration around 1270.