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Gwalia (gold mine)
Gwalia is an underground gold mine near Leonora in Western Australia, opened in 1897 as the Sons of Gwalia mine and owned by Genesis Minerals since 2023.
Gwalior (ग्वालियर)
Gwalior (ग्वालियर) is a historic city in northern Madhya Pradesh, India, former Scindia capital and a UNESCO City of Music. Census 2011: city 1,054,420; district 2,032,036; famed for Gwalior Fort and Tansen.
Gwalior Campaign
The Gwalior Campaign (ग्वालियर अभियान) was a brief December 1843 war in which the East India Company defeated the army of Gwalior State in central India.
Gwalior Fort (ग्वालियर क़िला)
Gwalior Fort (ग्वालियर क़िला) is a hill fortress in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, rising about 100 meters above the city, which Babur called "the pearl amongst the fortresses of Hind".
Gwalior State
Gwalior State (ग्वालियर रियासत) was a princely state in central India ruled by the Scindia family, a major regional power in the 18th century that merged into Madhya Bharat in 1948.
Gwalior Zoo
Gwalior Zoo, or Gandhi Zoological Park (गांधी प्राणी उद्यान), a small CZA-recognized municipal zoo in Phool Bagh, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; founded as a royal Scindia menagerie (1902 or 1922), named King George Zoo in 1922, known for white tigers.
Gwan-Hyoung Lee
Gwan-Hyoung Lee (이관형) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for research on 2D materials such as graphene, including the 2025 hypotaxy growth method.
Gwanak-gu
Gwanak-gu (관악구) is a southwestern autonomous district of Seoul, South Korea, established in 1973 from Yeongdeungpo-gu. It covers 29.56 km², has 21 dongs, about 478,000 residents, Seoul National University's main campus, and Gwanaksan Mountain (829 m).
Gwanchang
Gwanchang (관창) was a sixteen-year-old Silla hwarang and son of general Kim Pum-il, whose death at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol in 660 rallied the Silla army to victory.
Gwanda Chakuamba
Gwanda Chakuamba was a prominent Malawian politician who held cabinet positions for nearly 17 years, spent time imprisoned for sedition, and ran for president in 1999 and 2004.
Gwandong byeolgok
Gwandong byeolgok (관동별곡), or Song of Gwandong, is a Korean gasa travel poem written in 1580 by Jeong Cheol, describing the Gwandong region and Mount Geumgang.
Gwangan Bridge
Gwangan Bridge (광안대교), also called Gwangandaegyo and nicknamed the Diamond Bridge, is a 7.42 km two-story bridge in Busan, South Korea, opened in 2003 and curving past Gwangalli Beach.
Gwanggaeto Stele
The Gwanggaeto Stele (廣開土王碑) is a granite monument erected in 414 CE by King Jangsu at Ji'an, China, to commemorate his father, King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo.
Gwanggaeto the Great
Gwanggaeto the Great (광개토대왕) was the nineteenth king of Goguryeo, reigning from 391 to 412, whose conquests took 64 fortresses and made Goguryeo the dominant Korean power.
Gwanggaeto's campaigns
Gwanggaeto's campaigns (광개토대왕의 정복 활동) were the conquest wars fought between 391 and about 413 by Gwanggaeto the Great, the 19th king of Goguryeo, greatly expanding its territory.
Gwanggaeto's northern campaigns
Gwanggaeto's northern campaigns (광개토의 북방 정벌) were the wars fought by Goguryeo from 391 to 412 under King Gwanggaeto against the Khitan, Later Yan, and others.
Gwanghaegun of Joseon (이혼)
Gwanghaegun (Yi Hon, 이혼), 15th king of Joseon (r. 1608–1623): postwar reconstruction, Daedong law, neutral diplomacy between Ming and Later Jin, deposed by the 1623 Injo Restoration after the pyemosalje affair.
Gwanghaegun's neutral diplomacy
Gwanghaegun's neutral diplomacy (광해군의 중립 외교) was Joseon Korea's policy of balancing Ming China and the rising Later Jin under King Gwanghaegun, from 1608 to 1623.
Gwanghwamun
Gwanghwamun (광화문) is the main and southern gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, built in 1395 under King Taejo and rebuilt in wood at its original site in 2010.
Gwangjong of Goryeo (광종)
Gwangjong (광종, 光宗; Wang So, 925–975) was the fourth king of Goryeo, reigning 949–975. He introduced the Slave Review Act (956), the gwageo civil examination (958), and official robes (960), purged the hojok magnates, and used imperial titles and era names.
Gwangjong's reforms
Gwangjong's reforms (광종의 개혁) were measures taken by Gwangjong, fourth king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, from 956 to 975 to strengthen royal power against the aristocratic hojok magnates.
Gwangju (광주)
Gwangju (광주, "light prefecture") names two Korean cities: Gwangju Metropolitan City, sixth-largest in Korea, home of the 1980 May 18 Uprising and Gwangju Biennale, and Gyeonggi's satellite city of 421,000 near Seoul.
Gwangju family land
Gwangju Family Land (광주패밀리랜드) is a 1991 amusement park in Uchi Park, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea, paired with Uchi Park Zoo (about 95 species, 700 animals). Known for the 75 m Big Eye Ferris wheel, it has declined from 1.3 million to about 300,000 annual visitors and is seeking a new operator.
Gwangju Inhwa School (광주인화학교)
Gwangju Inhwa School (광주인화학교), a South Korean special school for the hearing-impaired in Gwangju, was the site of serial sexual abuse of deaf students by faculty from 2000 to 2005; light sentences and the 2011 film Dogani (The Crucible) triggered national outrage and the school's forced closure.
Gwangju Student Independence Movement
The Gwangju Student Independence Movement (광주 학생 독립 운동) was a nationwide wave of Korean student protests against Japanese colonial rule, starting in Gwangju in November 1929.
Gwangju Uprising
Gwangju Uprising (5·18 광주민주화운동, 5.18 Kwang-ju minjung hangjaeng): ten-day May 18–27, 1980 citizen resistance in Gwangju, South Korea, against Chun Doo-hwan's martial-law regime; citizens held the city six days before suppression; 193 official deaths, contested to ~2,000.
Gwangmu land survey
The Gwangmu land survey (광무양전사업) was a land surveying and ownership registration project of the Korean Empire, conducted from 1899 to 1903 under Emperor Gojong.
Gwangmu Reforms
The Gwangmu Reforms (광무개혁, 光武改革) were modernization reforms of the Korean Empire under Emperor Gojong, run from 1897 to about 1903 and ending with Japan's occupation.
Gwangmyeong
Gwangmyeong (광명시), city in western Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, bordering Seoul; promoted from Siheung County's Seo-myeon on 1 July 1981. About 294,000 residents (2026), 38.5 km², industrial satellite city with KTX Gwangmyeong Station and Gwangmyeong Cave.
Gwangmyeong Florist
Gwangmyeong Florist (광명식물원) is a garden in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, at 35.1564° N, 126.81694° E; a namesake flower shop operates in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi.