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Gul Khanan Murdah

Gul Khanan Murdah (Gol Ḵānān Morda), Iron Age III graveyard in the Eyvān plain, Ilām province, Luristan, Iran; 80 stone-lined tombs excavated in 1978 by Louis Vanden Berghe's Belgian mission; not the Pakistani locality Gul Khanan.

Gul Panag (ਗੁਲ ਪਨਾਗ)

Gul Panag (ਗੁਲ ਪਨਾਗ), Miss India 1999, is an Indian actress from Chandigarh known for Dhoop, Dor, Manorama Six Feet Under, The Family Man and Paatal Lok; also a pilot, entrepreneur and 2014 AAP Chandigarh candidate.

Gül ü Bülbül

Gül ü Bülbül ("Rose and Nightingale") is the shared name of allegorical masnavi tales in Persian, Turkish, and Turkic literature about the love between a rose and a nightingale.

Gul-e-Rana (TV series)

Gul-e-Rana (گل رعنا) is a Pakistani Urdu romantic drama based on Samra Bukhari's novel Hasti Ke Ahang, aired on Hum TV 2015–2016 in 21 episodes, starring Sajal Ali and Feroze Khan, directed by Farooq Rind.

Gul'dan

Gul'dan is the orc warlock villain of Blizzard's Warcraft series and the main antagonist of the 2016 film Warcraft, played by Daniel Wu. First orc warlock, Shadow Council leader, opener of the Dark Portal, killed by demons in the Tomb of Sargeras in game lore.

Gula Mons

Gula Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus in western Eistla Regio, about 3 km high and 276 km across, IAU-named in 1982 for a Babylonian earth mother, with summit calderas at either end of a summit rift.

Gula temple (Kalhu)

Gula temple (Kalhu): one of nine temples Ashurnasirpal II founded at Kalhu (Nimrud, Iraq) in the 9th century BC, dedicated to the healing goddess Gula; attested in inscriptions, not securely identified in excavation.

Gulaab Gang (गुलाब गैंग)

Gulaab Gang (गुलाब गैंग), 2014 Hindi action drama by Soumik Sen, starring Madhuri Dixit as activist Rajjo and Juhi Chawla as politician Sumitra Devi; inspired by Sampat Pal's Gulabi Gang, released 7 March 2014 after a court dispute.

Gulaal (गुलाल) (film)

Gulaal (गुलाल) is Anurag Kashyap's 2009 Hindi political drama, released 13 March 2009, about law student Dilip Singh drawn into a Rajputana secessionist movement led by Dukey Bana; a Venice-screened box-office flop with Piyush Mishra's acclaimed soundtrack.

Gulab jamun (गुलाब जामुन)

Gulab jamun (गुलाब जामुन), also luqmat al-qadi, is a South Asian khoya-based sweet of deep-fried milk-solid balls soaked in rose or cardamom syrup, popular across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

Gulab Raghunath Patil

Gulab Raghunath Patil, known as Gulabrao Patil, is an Indian Shiv Sena politician and Maharashtra minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, representing Jalgaon Rural since 2009.

Gulab Singh

Gulab Singh (1792–1857), Dogra Rajput founder and first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir; rose under Ranjit Singh, conquered Ladakh and Baltistan via Zorawar Singh, and received Kashmir by the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar for 7.5 million rupees.

Gulabdas Broker

Gulabdas Broker, pen name Kathak, was a Gujarati short-story writer, playwright, and critic (1909–2006) who worked as a stockbroker in Bombay and received the Padma Shri in 1991.

Gulabo Sitabo (गुलाबो सिताबो)

Gulabo Sitabo (गुलाबो सिताबो) is a 2020 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Shoojit Sircar, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana as feuding landlord and tenant in Lucknow. It was the first big Bollywood film to skip theatres for an Amazon Prime Video release, on 12 June 2020.

Gulaebaghavali (குலேபகாவலி)

Gulaebaghavali (குலேபகாவலி), also Gulebakavali, is a 2018 Tamil comedy heist film directed by Kalyaan, starring Prabhu Deva, Hansika Motwani, and Revathi, released 12 January 2018; distinct from the 1955 MGR film of the same title.

Gulag

The Gulag was the Soviet system of forced labor camps run by the state security police, holding about 18 million people from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Gulai

Gulai is a coconut-milk spiced stew of Indonesian and Malay cuisine, the wet first stage of the gulai-kalio-rendang spectrum, with Minangkabau roots, Indian influence, and many regional variants.

Gulaim Fossae

Gulaim Fossae, a Venusian fossa system (long, narrow tectonic depressions), 800 km across, centered at 5°S, 329°E; IAU-approved 1997, named for a Karakalpak amazon leader.

Gulam Ali

Gulam Ali is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Jammu, nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2022 as the first Gujjar Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir.

Gulamgiri

Gulamgiri (गुलामगिरी, "Slavery") is an 1873 Marathi book by Jyotirao Phule that equates the caste system with slavery and became the foundational text of the Satyashodhak Samaj.

Gulammohammed Sheikh

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (born 1937) is an Indian painter, poet, and art historian, a central figure of post-Independence art who taught for decades at Baroda and won the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

Gulbadan Begum

Gulbadan Begum (گلبدن بیگم) was a Mughal princess, daughter of Babur and half sister of Humayun, remembered for the Humayun-nama and for leading women on pilgrimage to Mecca.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار)

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار), Afghan Islamist leader and founder of Hezb-e Islami, chief ISI-favored mujahideen recipient in the 1980s, 'Butcher of Kabul' in the 1992-96 civil war, post-2001 insurgent, and 2016 peace-deal returnee.

Guldara Stupa

Guldara Stupa (Gul Dara, Gol Dara) is a Buddhist stupa and monastery in Logar province, Afghanistan, 15 km southeast of Kabul at 2,210 m. Excavated 1963–65 by Le Berre and Fussman; Masson's 1834 relic-chamber dig found eight gold coins of Wima Kadphises.

Gülen movement

The Gülen movement, known as Hizmet, is a transnational Turkish Sunni Muslim network of schools, businesses, and media that emerged in the 1960s around the preacher Fethullah Gülen.

Guler school

The Guler school is a branch of Pahari miniature painting from Guler, Himachal Pradesh, founded around 1730–1740 by Pandit Seu and his sons Manaku and Nainsukh.

Gulf Air (طيران الخليج)

Gulf Air (طيران الخليج) is the national carrier of Bahrain, founded in 1950 as Gulf Aviation Company, owned by Bahrain since 2007, and based at Bahrain International Airport.

Gulf and Western Industries

Gulf and Western Industries, commonly written Gulf + Western, was an American conglomerate built by Charles G. Bluhdorn from a Michigan auto-parts business through more than a hundred acquisitions.

Gulf Arabic

Gulf Arabic (اللهجة الخليجية), also called Khaleeji, is a group of closely related Arabic dialects spoken from Kuwait to Oman, serving as the vernacular of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and eastern Saudi Arabia.

Gulf campaigns of Bernardo de Gálvez

The Gulf campaigns of Bernardo de Gálvez (Campañas de Bernardo de Gálvez) were Spanish offensives from 1779 to 1781 that took the British posts of Manchac, Baton Rouge, Natchez, Mobile, and Pensacola.