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Mughal invasion of Tripura

The Mughal invasion of Tripura was a 1618 expedition by Emperor Jahangir against the Manikya kingdom of Tripura, its most serious confrontation with the Mughals.

Mughal jade wine cup

A Mughal jade wine cup is a small drinking vessel carved from nephrite jade at the Mughal imperial workshops, chiefly for emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and often inscribed with Persian verses.

Mughal painting

Mughal painting: a court miniature painting tradition of the Mughal Empire (16th–19th centuries), founded by Humayun's Persian masters and Akbar's atelier, blending Persian, Indian, and European styles, peaking under Jahangir and Shah Jahan.

Mughal wazirate

The Mughal wazirate, the empire's revenue ministry under the wazir or Diwan-i-kul, grew after Aurangzeb's death in 1707 into the supreme office of the declining empire.

Mughal-e-Azam (مغلِ اعظم)

Mughal-e-Azam is a 1960 Indian epic historical drama film directed by K. Asif, starring Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, and Prithviraj Kapoor; it remained the highest-grossing Indian film for 15 years.

Mughal-Safavid loss and recovery of Kandahar

The Mughal-Safavid loss and recovery of Kandahar was the contest for the fortress city of Kandahar between the Mughal Empire and Safavid Iran, first taken by Shah Abbas I in 1622.

Mughal-Safavid loss of Kandahar (1622)

The Mughal-Safavid loss of Kandahar (कंधार का नुकसान) was Shah Abbas I of Persia's capture of the fortress city of Kandahar from the Mughal Empire of Jahangir in 1622.

Mughal–Maratha War (1681–1689)

The Mughal–Maratha War (मोगल–मराठा युद्ध) of 1681–1689 was fought between Aurangzeb's Mughal Empire and the Marathas under Sambhaji, who was captured and executed in 1689.

Mughal–Maratha Wars

The Mughal–Maratha Wars (مغل مرہٹہ جنگیں) were wars fought in the Deccan between the Mughal Empire and the Maratha state from 1681, when Aurangzeb personally came south, until his death in 1707.

Mughlai cuisine

Mughlai cuisine, the cooking tradition of the Mughal court (1526 onward), blends Persian, Central Asian, and Indian elements in rich meat curries using spices, nuts, cream, and dried fruit; it shaped biryani, korma, kebab, and modern Indian restaurant food.

Mugil cephalus

Mugil cephalus, the flathead grey mullet or striped mullet, is a cosmopolitan euryhaline mugilid fish of coastal and estuarine waters, farmed for centuries, spawning at sea, and now shown by genetics to be a complex of at least 14 species.

Mugil curema

Mugil curema, the white mullet (also silver mullet, lisa blanca), is a mugilid fish of Atlantic and Pacific American coasts and the eastern Atlantic; a commercially important estuarine species later shown to be a complex of cryptic lineages.

Mugil liza

Mugil liza, the Lebranche mullet (tainha, liza), a grey mullet of the western Atlantic from Florida and the Caribbean to Argentina; catadromous, up to 80 cm, commercially fished and farmed, IUCN Data Deficient.

Mugilidae

Mugilidae, the grey mullets, sole family of Mugiliformes: coastal schooling fishes of tropical to temperate seas, about 26 genera and 78 species, revised to 25 genera after molecular phylogenies overturned morphology-based taxonomy.

Muğla

Muğla, southwestern Turkish province on the Aegean and Mediterranean, ancient Caria (Mobolla), 13 districts, 1,081,867 people (2024), 1,480 km coastline, Turkey's third most visited province after Antalya and Istanbul.

Mugogo

Mugogo, a small extinct cinder cone in North Kivu, DR Congo, Virunga Volcanic Province; formed in the 45-hour 1957 eruption (VEI 1) with rare ankaratrite lava; summit 2,338 m, volcano number 223045.

Muguajie Gangue power station

Muguajie Gangue power station (木瓜界) is a coal-fired power plant in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, with two 660 MW units burning coal gangue from the adjacent Pingshuo washery.

Mugur Sundar

Mugur Sundar (Sundaram Master), born 31 October 1935 in Mugur village, Mysore district, is a South Indian film choreographer of over 200 films, father of Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram, and Nagendra Prasad, and director of Manasella Neene (2002).

Mugwa

The mugwa (무과, 武科) was the military branch of the gwageo examination system of Korea's Joseon dynasty, held from 1402 until its abolition in 1894.

Mugwort

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), also felon herb or wild wormwood, an aromatic perennial Asteraceae herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa, naturalized and invasive in North America, used in traditional medicine, moxibustion, and cooking, and a major cause of pollen allergy.

Muhabbat Gumshuda Meri (محبت گمشدہ میری)

Muhabbat Gumshuda Meri (محبت گمشدہ میری), "My love is lost," is a 2023 Hum TV Pakistani romantic drama by Rahat Jabeen and Shahid Shafaat, starring Khushhal Khan and Dananeer Mobeen as teenage Islamabad neighbors Saim and Zubia; premiered 28 April 2023, ran about 26 episodes.

Muhacirin resettlement policy

The Muhacirin resettlement policy (اسکان-ی مهاجرین) was the Ottoman Empire's 19th-century program for settling Muslim refugees from Russia and the Balkans, coordinated by a commission from 1860.

Muḩāfaz̧at ‘Amrān

Muḩāfaz̧at ‘Amrān (محافظة عمران), Amran Governorate, is a Yemeni governorate in the central highlands 50 km north of Sana'a, with 20 districts, capital Amran city, highland climate, agriculture-based economy, and severe water scarcity and humanitarian needs.

Muḩāfaz̧at Abyan

Muḩāfaz̧at Abyan, or Abyan Governorate (Arabic: أَبْيَن), is a governorate of Yemen on the country's southern coast, with its capital at Zinjibar and 11 districts bordering the Arabian Sea.

Muḩāfaz̧at ad Dākhilīyah

Muḩāfaz̧at ad Dākhilīyah (محافظة الداخلية), Al Dakhiliyah Governorate, is Oman's central-interior governorate with center Nizwa, nine wilayats, about 31,900 km2, population roughly 478,500-488,500, historic forts, Bahla Fort UNESCO site, and aflaj irrigation.

Muḩāfaz̧at aḑ Ḑāli‘

Muḩāfaz̧at aḑ Ḑāli‘ (محافظة الضالع, Al-Dhale'a Governorate) is a Yemeni governorate created in 1998, capital Al-Dhalea city, nine districts, 4,098 km², agriculture-based economy, and a 2015 civil-war frontline and Southern Transitional Council stronghold.

Muḩāfaz̧at al Jawf

Muḩāfaz̧at al Jawf (محافظة الجوف), Al Jawf Governorate, is a Yemeni first-order administrative division on the Saudi border, capital Al-Hazm, 12 districts, population 532,000; distinct from Saudi Arabia's Al-Jawf Province.

Muḩāfaz̧at Ḩajjah

Muḩāfaz̧at Ḩajjah (محافظة حجة, Hajjah Governorate) is a northwestern Yemeni governorate bordering Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea, capital Hajjah city, with 31 districts, 2.69 million people, agriculture-based economy, and severe conflict-driven humanitarian needs.

Muḩāfaz̧at Ḩawallī

Muḩāfaz̧at Ḩawallī (محافظة حولي), Hawalli Governorate, one of Kuwait's six governorates; 85 km2, census population 926,170, mostly non-Kuwaiti; districts include Salmiya, Hawalli, Jabriya, Bayan, Rumaithiya.

Muḩāfaz̧at Laḩij

Muḩāfaz̧at Laḩij (Lahij Governorate, لحج) is a Yemeni governorate on the southwestern coast, capital Al-Hawtah, 15 districts, about 1.17 million people, agricultural economy, contested by the STC, recognized government, and Houthi forces since 2015.