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Moyen-Comoé

Moyen-Comoé (Middle Comoé) was a former region of eastern Côte d'Ivoire, capital Abengourou, an old coffee-cocoa plantation area of about 7,400 km²; it merged with Sud-Comoé into the Comoé district in 2011.

Moyenne Dr'a

Moyenne Dr'a (Middle Dr'a) is a Moroccan Ramsar site no. 1482, designated 15 January 2005: a 45,000 ha wetland combining the Al Mansour Ad-Dahbi dam reservoir and six Dr'a River oases, hosting ruddy shelducks, marbled teal, fennec foxes and migratory birds.

Moyna Macgill

Moyna Macgill (Charlotte Lillian McIldowie, 1895–1975) was a Belfast-born stage and screen actress, West End player and later Hollywood character actress, mother of Angela Lansbury.

Oct 15, 2026

Moynihan Train Hall

Moynihan Train Hall is the Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road concourse at New York City's Penn Station, opened in January 2021 inside the Farley Post Office Building.

Moyra Hiscox

Moyra Hiscox, known as Molly Hiscox, is a British former sprinter who broke the 440 yards world record in 1958 and took 400 m bronze at the European Championships.

Moyshe Kulbak

Moyshe Kulbak (משה קולבאַק, 1896–1937) was a Yiddish poet, novelist, and dramatist of Smorgon near Vilna, a leading modernist executed in the Stalinist purges of 1937.

Moysiacum

Moysiacum, ancient name recorded in the Vita of Saint Desiderius, identified with Moissac on the Tarn (Tarn-et-Garonne), France; a Gallo-Roman villa landscape with the Saint-Martin baths, first named in a 680 donation.

Moytura Regio

Moytura Regio is a 483 km regio on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Celtic battle site of the Fomorians and Tuatha Dé Danann; it is the type example of Moytura chaos material and the smallest of Europa's eight regiones.

Moyuer: More Rain, More Wind

Moyuer: More Rain, More Wind (摸鱼儿) is a ci lyric by Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, a political lament written in 1179 at a farewell banquet.

Moyuer: Tomb of the Wild Geese

Moyuer: Tomb of the Wild Geese (摸鱼儿·雁丘词) is a ci poem by Jin dynasty poet Yuan Haowen about a goose that died for its mate.

Moza bint Nasser

Moza bint Nasser (الشيخة موزا بنت ناصر المسند), Sheikha Moza, Qatari royal, second wife of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and mother of Emir Tamim; chairs Qatar Foundation and Education Above All, UN SDG Advocate.

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (مظفرالدین شاه قاجار)

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (مظفرالدین شاه قاجار), fifth Qajar shah of Iran (r. 1896–1907), son and heir of Naser al-Din Shah; endorsed the 1906 electoral law and Constitution before dying January 1907.

Mozambican Civil War

Mozambican Civil War (1977–1992, also dated from 1979): FRELIMO government versus RENAMO insurgents backed by Rhodesia and South Africa; over one million dead, millions displaced; ended by the Rome General Peace Accords of 4 October 1992, distinct from the later Cabo Delgado insurgency.

Oct 10, 2026

Mozambican escudo

The Mozambican escudo was the currency of Mozambique from 1914, when it replaced the milréis, until 1980, when it was replaced at par by the metical after independence.

Mozambican general election, 1994

The Mozambican general election of 1994 was the country's first multiparty election, in which FRELIMO won a parliamentary majority and President Joaquim Chissano was reelected.

Mozambican independence

Mozambican independence was the transfer of sovereignty from Portugal to Mozambique, proclaimed by FRELIMO leader Samora Machel at midnight on 25 June 1975, after ten years of armed struggle and the 1974 Lusaka Agreement.

Oct 10, 2026

Mozambican metical

The Mozambican metical is the currency of Mozambique, introduced in June 1980 to replace the Mozambican escudo and redenominated in 2006 at 1,000 old to one new metical.

Mozambican peace agreement (2019)

The Mozambican peace agreement of 2019, the Maputo Accord for Peace and National Reconciliation, is a treaty signed on 6 August 2019 by President Filipe Nyusi and RENAMO leader Ossufo Momade.

Mozambican refugee crisis in Malawi

The Mozambican refugee crisis in Malawi was the mass flight from Mozambique's civil war into Malawi, peaking at 1.06 million refugees in 1992 before mass repatriation.

Mozambican War of Independence

The Mozambican War of Independence, fought by FRELIMO guerrillas against Portuguese rule from 1964 to 1974, ended after Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution, with independence proclaimed on 25 June 1975.

Mozambique

Mozambique (Moçambique), Southern African country with a 2,700 km Indian Ocean coast; independent from Portugal in 1975, civil war 1977–1992, FRELIMO-ruled, gas-rich but poor, with a Cabo Delgado insurgency and disputed 2024 elections.

Oct 20, 2026

Mozambique Basin

Mozambique Basin: a sedimentary basin under central and southern Mozambique's coastal plain and shelf, formed during Gondwana break-up, holding about 6 Tcf of gas, and the deep oceanic basin of the southwest Indian Ocean west of the Mozambique Ridge.

Mozambique Channel

Mozambique Channel: Indian Ocean arm between Mozambique and Madagascar, about 400 km wide at its narrowest. Known for southward-propagating anticyclonic eddies feeding the Agulhas Current, rich coral biodiversity, tanker shipping, gas reserves, and Franco-Malagasy island disputes.

Mozambique Company

The Mozambique Company (Companhia de Moçambique) was a Portuguese chartered company that administered the Territory of Manica and Sofala in central Mozambique from 1892 to 1942, collecting taxes and granting concessions.

Mozambique Defence Armed Forces

Mozambique Defence Armed Forces (FADM, Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique): Mozambique's military (Army, Air Force, Navy), created under the 1992 Rome General Peace Agreement merging Frelimo and Renamo forces; president is commander in chief; fought the Cabo Delgado insurgency with Rwandan, SADC, and EU support.