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Hisense (海信)
Hisense, also known as Hisense Group, is a Chinese consumer electronics and home appliance group founded in 1969 in Qingdao and ranked second in global TV shipments from 2022 through 2024.
Hisham I
Hisham I (هشام الأول) was the second Umayyad emir of Cordoba in al-Andalus, ruling from 788 to 796, son of Abd al-Rahman I, known for suppressing his brothers' revolts and annual campaigns against the Christian kingdoms.
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (هشام بن عبد الملك) was the Umayyad caliph from 724 to 743, whose reign saw wars on every frontier and the last period of Islamic political unity.
Hisham ibn al-Ghaz
Hisham ibn al-Ghaz (هشام بن الغاز) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Qur'an reader of Damascus who settled in Baghdad and served over the treasury of Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur.
Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (هشام بن محمد الكلبي) was an Arab genealogist and historian of Kufa who wrote over 150 works on pre-Islamic Arab genealogy before dying in 819.
Hisham ibn Urwa
Hisham ibn Urwa (هشام بن عروة) was a Medinan hadith scholar, son of Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, who narrated about four hundred hadiths and died in Baghdad in 763.
Hisham II
Hisham II (هشام الثاني) was the third Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, reigning 976 to 1009 and 1010 to 1013 while real power lay with Almanzor.
Hisham III
Hisham III (هشام الثالث) was the last Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, reigning from 1027 until the caliphate was abolished in 1031; he died in exile near Lerida in 1036.
Hisham Mehanna
Hisham Mehanna (Hisham Mohamed Mehanna) is a British head and neck surgeon, Professor at the University of Birmingham, known for the PET-NECK and De-ESCALaTE HPV trials.
Hisham Sulami
Hisham Sulami, also known as Hisham ibn Ammar al-Sulami, was a Damascene Quran reciter, preacher, and hadith scholar who lived from 153 to 245 AH and transmitted the canonical reading of Ibn Amir.
Hishammuddin Hussein
Hishammuddin Hussein is a Malaysian politician, son of former PM Hussein Onn, who served as a cabinet minister holding roles like Education and Defence, and MP for Sembrong.
Hishep-ratep
Hishep-ratep, also rendered Ḫišepratep, was the ninth ruler of the Awan dynasty of Elam around 2350 BC, known only from a king list found at Susa.
Hishi Akebono (ヒシアケボノ)
Hishi Akebono (ヒシアケボノ), American-bred Japanese Thoroughbred (1992, Woodman–Mysteries), won the 1995 Sprinters Stakes G1 and was JRA Best Sprinter & Miler; heaviest JRA G1 winner, later an Umamusume character.
Hishi Amazon
Hishi Amazon (ヒシアマゾン), 1991–2019, American-bred Japanese racehorse by Theatrical out of Katies; won the 1993 Hanshin Sansai Himba Stakes and 1994 Queen Elizabeth 2 Commemorative Cup, champion filly/mare 1993–1995, 10 wins from 20 starts.
Hishida Shunsō
Hishida Shunsō (菱田春草, 1874–1911) was a Japanese Nihonga painter who, with Yokoyama Taikan, developed the lineless mōrōtai technique and painted Fallen Leaves and Black Cat.
Hishikari Mine
Hishikari Mine (菱刈鉱山) is an underground gold mine in Isa, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining. Discovered in 1981, it is Japan's only commercial-scale metal mine.
Hishikawa Moronobu
Hishikawa Moronobu (菱川師宣) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active in Edo as a book illustrator and painter until his death in 1694, and the first artist to sign printed ukiyo-e books.
Hishutash
Hishutash, rendered Hišur in the Susa king list, was the fourth of twelve early Elamite rulers called kings of Awan in the third millennium BC, known from no other source.
HiSilicon (海思)
HiSilicon (海思, Haishi) is Huawei's wholly owned fabless chip design subsidiary, maker of Kirin smartphone SoCs, Kunpeng server CPUs, Ascend AI accelerators, and Balong modems; hit by US sanctions in 2020, it returned via SMIC 7nm Kirin chips and Ascend 910B/910C AI chips.
Hismaic script
Hismaic, formerly called Thamudic E, is an Ancient North Arabian script and dialect of Old Arabic, carved mainly in the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia.
Hispania
Hispania: the Latin name for the Roman provinces covering the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), conquered from 218 BC, divided into Citerior and Ulterior in 197 BC, reorganized by Augustus into Tarraconensis, Baetica, and Lusitania, and lost to the Visigoths after 409 AD.
Hispania Baetica
Hispania Baetica, also called Baetica, was the senatorial Roman province of southern Spain created in 27 BCE with capital Corduba and four conventus (Gades, Corduba, Astigi, Hispalis); its Guadalquivir valley produced the olive oil shipped empire-wide in Dressel 20 amphorae.
Hispania Tarraconensis
Hispania Tarraconensis, also Hispania Citerior, was the largest imperial Roman province of Hispania after Augustus's 27 BC reorganization, governed from Tarraco (Tarragona) in seven conventus and divided under Caracalla and Diocletian.
Hispanic
Hispanic: U.S. ethnic category for people of Spanish-speaking origin or descent, defined by the OMB regardless of race; also called Latino. 70.1 million Americans (21%) in 2025; Hispanic preferred over Latino by 54% to 30%.
Hispanic America
Hispanic America (Hispanoamérica): the 18 Spanish-speaking American countries formed from Spain's former colonies, a subset of Latin America, shaped by independence from Spain in 1808-1826.
Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories)
Hispanic and Latino are pan-ethnic categories in U.S. federal statistics for people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish origin, regardless of race.
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans: US residents of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish origin regardless of race; an ethnicity, not a race, marked by census undercounts, education gains, wage gaps, and the Hispanic mortality paradox.
Hispanic Monarchy (political entity)
Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica), also called the Catholic Monarchy: the Habsburg-era composite monarchy of the kings of Spain, uniting Castile, Aragon, Portugal (1580–1640), Italian and American realms under one ruler with distinct laws.
Hispanicized Filipino-Chinese surnames
Hispanicized Filipino-Chinese surnames are Chinese-origin Philippine family names reshaped into Spanish-sounding forms, chiefly via the 1849 Claveria decree, patriarch-name adoption (Cojuangco, Teehankee), the Hokkien suffix -co, and baptismal godparent names, distinct from retained monosyllabic surnames like Tan.
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Quisqueya, La Isla Española): second-largest Greater Antilles island after Cuba, ~77,914 km², shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti along a 388 km border; highest relief in the West Indies at Pico Duarte.