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Maja e Jezercës

Maja e Jezercës (Jezerski vrh), 2,694 m, is the highest peak of the Prokletije/Accursed Mountains and the Dinaric Alps, Albania's second highest after Korab, first climbed in 1929.

Maja Grønbæk (Maja Corina Grønbæk, born 1971) is a Danish handball player, Olympic gold medalist with Denmark in women's handball at Sydney 2000; 22 caps, 38 goals; clubs IK Skovbakken and SK Aarhus Handbold.

Sep 19, 2026

Maja Hoffmann

Maja Hoffmann, born 1956 in Basel, is a Swiss heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche fortune and founder of the LUMA Foundation, president of the Locarno Film Festival since 2023.

Sep 21, 2026

Maja Pantić

Maja Pantić, also written Maja Pantic, is a computer scientist and professor of affective and behavioral computing at Imperial College London, known for machine analysis of facial expressions and social signals.

Maja Salvador

Maja Salvador (Maja Ross Andres Salvador, born 1988) is a Filipina actress, dancer, host, and founder of Crown Artist Management, known for Wildflower, The Killer Bride, and Sukob, with Gawad Urian and Asia Contents Awards Best Actress wins.

Maja Todd

Maja Todd, Polish beauty queen born 2005 in Katowice, won Miss Polonia 2025, competed at Miss International 2025 in Tokyo, and represented Poland at Miss World 2026 in Nha Trang, reaching Miss World Europe Top 10; studies Global Business at SGH Warsaw.

Maja Valles

Maja Valles, a roughly 1,500-km Martian outflow channel from Juventae Chasma across Lunae Planum and Xanthe Terra to Chryse basin; IAU-named 1979 from a Nepali word for Mars; water-versus-lava origin debated.

Majalis al-hikma

Majalis al-hikma (مجالس الحكمة) were the regular esoteric teaching sessions of the Fatimid Ismaili da'wa, held by the chief da'i al-Qadi al-Nu'man every Friday in the palace until 1171.

Majalis al-Mu'minin

Majalis al-Mu'minin (مجالس المؤمنین, "Assemblies of the Believers") is a Persian bio-bibliographical compendium of Shi'i figures, completed by Qazi Nurullah Shushtari in 1602 and considered the first comprehensive work of its kind.

Majalis al-Nafais

Majalis al-Nafais is a biographical dictionary of poets written in Chagatai Turkic by Alisher Navai in Herat in the 1490s, covering 459 Persian and Chagatai poets of the 15th century.

Majan Ridges

Majan Ridges, an Arabian Sea undersea feature classified as a ridge in the Marine Regions and GEBCO gazetteers, listed near the Murray Ridge, Kurma Ridge, Khanjar Ridge, Oman Basin, and Oman Abyssal Plain.

Majandra Delfino

Majandra Delfino (Maria Alejandra Delfino, born 1981, Caracas) is a Venezuelan-American actress and singer known for Maria DeLuca on Roswell, Traffic, Friends with Better Lives, and albums The Sicks and Tarte.

Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve

Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve, southwest Ethiopia's Gambella region, UNESCO MAB site designated June 2017, 225,490 ha of moist Afromontane forest; home of Majang and Shekacho peoples, who derive 64.53% of household income from forest products.

Majangwa

Majangwa is a play by the Ugandan playwright Robert Serumaga, first produced in 1971 and published in 1974, on which his reputation as a founder of modern East African theater rests.

Majapahit

Majapahit, also known as Wilwatikta, was a Hindu–Buddhist empire based in eastern Java from about 1293 to 1527, remembered as the greatest pre-Islamic power in the Indonesian archipelago.

Majapahit art

Majapahit art is the visual art of the East Javanese kingdom of Majapahit (1293–1527), the last Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Java, known for slender sculpture and red brick temples.

Majapahit conquest of Bali

The Majapahit conquest of Bali (Penaklukan Bali oleh Majapahit) was the 1343 campaign in which Gajah Mada's forces defeated the Balinese kingdom of Bedahulu, bringing Bali under Majapahit rule.

Majapahit navy

The Majapahit navy (Armada Majapahit) was the naval force of the Majapahit kingdom of East Java, securing the Java Sea and carrying Javanese power across the archipelago.

Majapahit succession crisis of 1429–1478

The Majapahit succession crisis of 1429–1478 was a prolonged dispute over the throne of the Majapahit empire in eastern Java, beginning with Queen Suhita's accession in 1429.

Majapahit tribute and vassal system

The Majapahit tribute and vassal system, known as the manca or desa-manca system, ordered Majapahit's realm in Java into tiers of tribute-paying vassal states, as described in the 1365 Nagarakretagama.

Majaz Lucknawi

Majaz Lucknawi (مجاز لکھنوی), born Asrar-ul-Haq, was an Indian Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement, best known for the popular nazm "Aawara" and the 1938 collection Aahang.

Majd al-Din Ibn al-Athir

Majd al-Din Ibn al-Athir (مجد الدين المبارك بن محمد الجزري) was a civil administrator and hadith scholar who served the Zengid rulers of Mosul, dying in 1210.

Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya

Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (مجد الدين ابن تيمية) was a Hanbali jurist and hadith scholar who died in 1255, grandfather of the theologian Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya.

Majdabad

Majdabad (مجد آباد) is an ancient limestone quarry site in Fars, Iran, 40 km west of Persepolis, source of the dark grey-black Achaemenid building stone; also several modern Iranian villages of the same name.

Majdal Shams attack

Majdal Shams attack, July 27, 2024 rocket strike on a football pitch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 12 children; Israel attributed it to Hezbollah and its Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket, which denied responsibility.