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Hamerton Treaty
The Hamerton Treaty was an agreement signed at Zanzibar in 1845 between Great Britain and the Sultan of Muscat, Sa'id bin Sultan, banning slave exports from his African dominions.
Hamesh
Hamesh is an ancient gold-mining settlement and district in Egypt's Eastern Desert, worked in the Pharaonic and Ptolemaic periods, possibly in Roman times, and mined again today about 100 km west of Marsa Alam.
Hamfelde
Hamfelde: name of two Schleswig-Holstein villages, in Herzogtum Lauenburg and Kreis Stormarn, and of a Roman Iron Age urnfield near the former, published by Bantelmann in 1971 with over 800 graves.
Hamgyong - Sanmaek
Hamgyong - Sanmaek, FEOW ecoregion 640, a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion on the northeastern Korean Peninsula, with short steep monsoon rivers, masu salmon, endemic cyprinids, and estuarine habitats.
Hamgyong Mountains
Hamgyong Mountains (함경산맥, 咸鏡山脈), a northeast-southwest range in northeastern North Korea; Korea's highest-mean-elevation range with 72 peaks over 2,000 m, topped by Kwanmobong (2,541 m), forming the Yalu-Tumen/East Sea watershed.
Hamhung
Hamhung (함흥), capital of South Hamgyong Province on North Korea's east coast, historically the second-largest city (769,000; UN estimate 544,000, now third). Its urban form layers Joseon, Japanese colonial, and socialist planning, including East German postwar reconstruction and the Hungnam chemical and vinalon industry.
Hami
Hami (哈密市) is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Xinjiang, China, the "gateway to Xinjiang" and home of the Hami melon, with 2025 GDP of 116.3 billion yuan growing 9.3%, energy-led industry, and UNESCO-listed Twelve Muqam heritage.
Hami controversy
The Hami controversy (哈密之爭) was the dispute between the Ming dynasty and Turfan over control of Hami, an oasis state on the western tribute road, from 1473 to the Jiajing era.
Hami Guard
The Hami Guard (哈密卫) was a loosely ruled frontier guard the Ming dynasty established at Hami, on the route between Jiayuguan and the Western Regions, abandoned in 1529.
Hami-Chongqing UHV Transmission Line power station
The Hami-Chongqing UHV Transmission Line power station is an operating 4,000 MW coal-fired power station in Barköl, Hami, Xinjiang, built as dispatchable generation backing the UHVDC line to Chongqing.
Hamid al-Balkhi
Hamid al-Balkhi (حامد بن محمد بن شعيب البلخي), full name Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Shu'ayb, was a trustworthy Sunni hadith transmitter in Baghdad who died in 309 AH (c. 921 CE).
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (حامد الدين الكرماني) was a leading Ismaili theologian and philosopher of the Fatimid period, chief missionary of Iraq under the caliph al-Hakim.
Hamid al-Din Nagauri
Hamid al-Din Nagauri (حامد الدین ناگوری) was a thirteenth-century Chishti Sufi master of Nagaur in Rajasthan, a leading caliph of Muinuddin Chishti titled Sultan al-Tarikin.
Hamid al-Qazwini
Hamid al-Qazwini, honorific Shams al-Din Abu al-Rida, was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar titled 'shaykh of the Shafi'iyya' who led the Dar al-Hadith in Irbil, fled the Mongol conquest for Aleppo, and died in 1239.
Hamid Ali Khan
Ustad Hamid Ali Khan, born 1953, is a Pakistani classical and ghazal singer of the Patiala gharana, honored with the Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz awards.
Hamid Aytaç
Hamid Aytaç, born Şeyh Musa Azmi, was a Turkish calligrapher (1891–1982) who bridged Ottoman calligraphy and the Turkish Republic, writing inscriptions for the Şişli, Eyüp, and Kocatepe mosques.
Hamid Bey
Hamid Bey (حامد بك) was a Turkmen leader who rose in revolt against the Seljuk government in 1291 in the Isparta and Burdur region of southwestern Anatolia.
Hamid El Shaeri
Hamid El Shaeri (حامد الشاعري) is a Libyan-Egyptian singer, arranger, and record producer, born in 1961, widely described as the godfather of the Egyptian pop style Al Jeel.
Hamid Gul (حمید گل)
Hamid Gul (حمید گل), 1936–2015, Pakistani lieutenant general and ISI director-general 1987–1989 who channeled US-Saudi aid to the Afghan mujahideen, founded the IJI alliance, and later championed the Taliban.
Hamid Idris Awate
Hamid Idris Awate, called the Father of the Eritrean Revolution, was an Eritrean guerrilla commander who fired the first shots of the independence war on September 1, 1961.
Hamid Jafar
Hamid Jafar, born Abdul Hameed Dhia Jafar, is the founder and chairman of the Sharjah-based Crescent Group, whose core company Crescent Petroleum dates to 1971.
Hamid Karzai (حامد کرزی)
Hamid Karzai (حامد کرزی), Afghan president 2001–2014 under the Bonn Agreement and two elected terms; known for patronage-based governance, corruption controversies, and later house arrest under the Taliban.
Hamid Mir (حامد میر)
Hamid Mir (حامد میر), born 1966, Pakistani journalist, columnist, and Geo News Capital Talk anchor; last journalist to interview Osama bin Laden (December 2001); survived a 2014 Karachi shooting and repeated broadcast bans; Washington Post Global Opinions contributor.
Hamid Mohammadi
Hamid Mohammadi (حمید محمدی) is an Iranian entrepreneur who co-founded Digikala in Tehran in 2006 with his twin brother Saeid, serving as its chief executive until November 2023.
Hamid Olimjon
Hamid Olimjon, real name Hamid Olimjonovich Azimov, was an Uzbek poet, playwright, and translator born in Jizzakh in 1909, known for lyrics and dastans like Zaynab va Omon.
Hamid Rabb
Hamid Rabb is a transplant nephrologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Kidney Transplant Program and researches acute kidney injury and inflammation.
Hamid Sourian
Hamid Sourian (حمید سوریان ریحانپور), born 1985 in Ray, Tehran, is a retired Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler, six-time world champion, and the 2012 Olympic 55 kg gold medalist, Iran's first Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس)
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس), Syrian-born mother of Osama bin Laden; married Mohammed bin Laden in Latakia in 1956, divorced, remarried Muhammad al-Attas, and raised Osama in her second household.
Hamida Banu Begum (حمیدہ بانو بیگم)
Hamida Banu Begum (حمیدہ بانو بیگم), also Maryam Makani, was Humayun's wife, married 1541, and mother of Emperor Akbar, born at Amarkot in 1542; often confused with Humayun's senior widow Bega Begam.
Hamida Djandoubi (حميدة جندوبي)
Hamida Djandoubi (حميدة جندوبي), a Tunisian laborer living in Marseille, was guillotined at Baumettes prison on 10 September 1977, the last execution in France and Western Europe.