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Gurdwara (ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ)
A gurdwara (ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ), also called Gurudwara Sahib, is a Sikh house of worship, literally "the Guru's door". It centers on the Guru Granth Sahib and serves the free langar meal to all.
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, also called Kartarpur Sahib, is a Sikh gurdwara on the Ravi River in Punjab, Pakistan, built where Guru Nanak died in 1539.
Gurdwara Patthar Sahib (ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਪੱਥਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ)
Gurdwara Patthar Sahib (Gurudwara Pathar Sahib) is an Indian Army-maintained Sikh shrine about 25 km from Leh, Ladakh, at 12,000 ft, built around a boulder said to bear Guru Nanak's body imprint from a 1517 legend.
Gurgānj Dam
The Gurgānj Dam was a medieval wooden dam on the Amu Darya below Gurgānj, today's Konye-Urgench in Turkmenistan, built for irrigation and destroyed by the Mongols in 1221.
Gurgaon
Gurgaon, officially Gurugram (गुरुग्राम) since 2016, is a satellite city of Delhi in Haryana, India: the state's industrial and financial centre, an IT and auto hub, third-highest per capita income in India, with a major metro expansion underway.
Gurgaon (film)
Gurgaon (गुड़गांव), 2017 Hindi neo-noir crime film, Shanker Raman's directorial debut; Pankaj Tripathi as real-estate baron Kehri Singh; kidnapping of daughter Preet; Jar Pictures; released 4 August 2017.
Gurgen Mahari
Gurgen Mahari (Գուրգեն Մահարի), born Gurgen Grigori Achemyan, was an Armenian poet and novelist (1903–1969), a refugee from Van whose works Burning Orchards and Barbed Wires in Blossom were suppressed.
Gurgum
Gurgum was a Syro-Hittite kingdom centered at Marqasi, the modern Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, ruled by thirteen Luwian-speaking kings until Assyria annexed it in 711 BC.
Guri Dam
The Guri Dam, officially the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant, is a dam on Venezuela's Caroní River with about 10,000 MW capacity, built between 1963 and 1986.
Guri Melby
Guri Melby is a Norwegian politician who leads the Liberal Party (Venstre) and its parliamentary group, and previously served as Minister of Education in the Solberg government.
Guri-si
Guri-si (구리시) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, east of Seoul on the Han River. Korea's smallest city by area (33.33 km²), population about 188,000, home to the UNESCO-listed Donggureung royal tombs, promoted to city status in 1986.
Guria Republic
The Guria Republic was a peasant self-governing entity proclaimed in Guria, Georgia, in 1905, with its own courts and administration, described as the world's first quasi-Marxist state.
Gurindam
Gurindam is a traditional Malay poetic form in which each two-line stanza rhymes internally, pairing a condition with its consequence to give advice or moral teaching.
Gurindam Dua Belas
Gurindam Dua Belas is a didactic Malay poem of twelve sections by Raja Ali Haji, written on Penyengat Island, Riau, in 1847 and famed for its if-then couplets.
Gurindar S. Sohi
Gurindar S. Sohi, known as Guri Sohi, is an Indian-born American computer architect at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha (born 1960) is a British film director, writer, and producer born in Nairobi and raised in London, known for Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.
Gurindervir Singh
Gurindervir Singh (born 2000, Punjab) is an Indian Navy sprinter holding India's 100m national record at 10.09s (Ranchi, 23 May 2026), the first Indian under 10.10; also 60m (6.60) and 4x100m (38.69) national records.
Gurjar
Gurjar (Gujjar, Gujar) community of northern India and Pakistan, pastoralist origin, linked to the medieval Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty; Scheduled Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, OBC in other states, with an active reservation movement in Rajasthan.
Gurjara tribe
The Gurjara tribe (गुर्जर) was a people of early medieval India prominent in North India from the sixth century, centered in Rajasthan and Gujarat, from whom rose the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty.
Gurjaradesha
Gurjaradesha (Gurjaradesa, Gurjaratra), "Gurjara country", a historical region of southern Rajasthan and northern Gujarat prominent 6th-12th century CE, seat of the Gurjara-Pratiharas and namesake of modern Gujarat.
Gurjars in Kashmir
The Gurjars, also spelled Gujjars, are a Muslim, Gojri-speaking community of Jammu and Kashmir and the region's largest Scheduled Tribe, with many historically practicing transhumance between Pir Panjal pastures.
Gurjars in Punjab
Gurjars in Punjab: the Gurjar (Gujjar) ethnic community of Indian and Pakistani Punjab, historically pastoral and agricultural, recorded at 2,038,692 in the 1931 census, with place names Gujrat, Gujranwala, and Gujar Khan derived from the tribe.
Gurjeet Singh Aujla
Gurjeet Singh Aujla, born 1972, in Amritsar, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Amritsar in the Lok Sabha since 2017.
Gurjeet Singh Toot
Gurjeet Singh Toot (ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਤੂਤ), Indian circle kabaddi raider from Toot village, Ferozepur, Punjab; Best Raider England 2005 and Canada Cup 2007, 2007 World Cup winner; died 11 August 2026 aged 45 of kidney disease.
Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey
Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, also published as Gurjit Khurana Hershey, is a physician-scientist directing asthma research at Cincinnati Children's, known for identifying an interleukin-4 receptor mutation linked to allergy risk.
Gurju Khatun
Gurju Khatun (Gürcü Hatun), born Tamar, was a Georgian Bagratid princess who married the Seljuk sultan of Rum, Kaykhusraw II, and became a leading patron of Rumi in Konya.
Gurkha
Gurkhas are Nepalese soldiers recruited into the British Army since 1815, forming the Brigade of Gurkhas. Four regiments transferred from the Indian Army in 1947; equal pension terms date from 2007.
Gurkha conquest of Kumaon
The Gurkha conquest of Kumaon was the 1790 invasion and annexation of the Chand-ruled kingdom of Kumaon by the Gorkhas, who held it until 1815.
Gurkha conquest of the Himalayan hill states
The Gurkha conquest of the Himalayan hill states was the Gorkha kingdom of Nepal's westward expansion, annexing Kumaon in 1790 and Garhwal in 1803–1804 under commanders like Amar Singh Thapa.
Gurkha Contingent
Gurkha Contingent (GC), specialist unit of the Singapore Police Force formed 9 April 1949, recruited from Nepal; handles protective security, public order, and civil disturbance response, with its Gurkha Special Action Group in the Special Operations Group.