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Malerkotla
Malerkotla (ਮਾਲੇਰਕੋਟਲਾ), also Maler Kotla, is a city and Punjab's 23rd district, created from Sangrur in June 2021; former Muslim princely state founded 1454, famed for the haa da naara and calm during Partition.
Malese Jow
Malese Jow (Elizabeth Melise Jow, now credited as Melise), American actress and singer born 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; known for Geena Fabiano on Unfabulous, Anna on The Vampire Diaries, Lucy Stone on Big Time Rush, Linda Park on The Flash, and voicing Dupli-Kate in Invincible.
Malesia
Malesia, also called the Malesian Region, is a phytogeographical region spanning the Malay Peninsula and Malay Archipelago, defined by its shared plant flora rather than political borders.
Maletaral
Maletaral, also spelled Malaterata, is a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, attested as king's mother and king's sister, with pyramid Nu. 25 at Nuri attributed to her.
Malevolent (2018 film)
Malevolent (2018) is a British Netflix horror film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, based on Eva Konstantopoulos's novel Hush, starring Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Hughes as fake ghostbusters confronting a real haunting in a Glasgow orphanage.
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who reigned from about 463 to 435 BC, succeeding Nasakhma and buried at Nuri in pyramid 11.
Maleys
Maleys (Malayan, Malay Draughts) is a Dutch draughts variant played on a 10×10 board with 20 pieces per side; men capture in all directions, queens fly, documented by Twiss 1805, unrelated to Malaysia.
Malgium
Malgium, also written Malgûm, was a small independent Old Babylonian kingdom in what is now Iraq, existing from about 2025 to 1761 BCE, when Hammurabi conquered it.
Małgorzata Gosiewska
Małgorzata Gosiewska is a Polish Law and Justice politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing its Delegation for relations with Belarus.
Małgorzata Hołub Kowalik
Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik, Polish 400 m sprinter and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion in the mixed 4x400 m relay and silver medallist in the women's relay; retired 2024, now PZLA board vice president.
Malgudi Days (short story collection)
Malgudi Days is a 1943 short story collection by R. K. Narayan, the book that made him famous, portraying Indian life in his imaginary city of Malgudi.
Malgudi Days (TV series)
Malgudi Days is an Indian television series adapted from R.K. Narayan's stories, directed by Shankar Nag, shot at Agumbe, Karnataka, with 39 Doordarshan episodes from 1986-87.
Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha is an Indian playback singer in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi cinema who debuted under Ilaiyaraaja and recorded many 1990s A. R. Rahman songs.
Malham Cove
Malham Cove is a 70 meter high curved limestone cliff near Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, England, a former waterfall crowned by the district's best known limestone pavement.
Malhar Mound
Malhar Mound (Mallala/Mallalapattana) is a fortified archaeological mound at Malhar, Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, India, excavated 1975-78 and 2009-2012, with five occupation phases from Pre-Mauryan to Later Gupta, the 12th-century Pataleshwar temple, and a c. 200 BC Brahmi-inscribed Vishnu image.
Malhar Ramrao Chitnis
Malhar Ramrao Chitnis (मल्हार रामराव चिटणीस) was a Marathi historian and hereditary secretary to Chhatrapati Shahu of Satara, who wrote the Chitnis bakhars, biographies of the first four Chhatrapatis, in 1810 to 1811.
Malhar Rao Gaekwad
Malhar Rao Gaekwad (मल्हारराव गायकवाड) was Maharaja of the princely state of Baroda from 1870 to 1875, deposed by the British after an inquiry into misgovernment.
Malhar Rao Holkar (मल्हारराव होळकर)
Malhar Rao Holkar (मल्हारराव होळकर, 1693-1766), also called Malhar Rao Holkar I, was a Dhangar-caste Maratha commander under Peshwa Bajirao I who became Subhedar of Malwa and founded the Holkar dynasty of Indore; distinct from Malhar Rao Holkar II (1805-1833).
Malhar Rao Holkar II
Malhar Rao Holkar II (मल्हार राव होळकर) was Maharaja of Indore from 1811 until his death in 1833, coming to the throne as a small child after Yashwant Rao Holkar died.
Malheur
Malheur refers to a freshwater lake in Harney Basin, Oregon, and surrounding features like the wildlife refuge. It is the northernmost internally draining basin in the Great Basin.
Malhun
Malhun (الملحون), also spelled melhun or malhoun, is a Maghrebi tradition of sung colloquial poetry, centered in Morocco and western Algeria, inscribed by UNESCO in 2023.
Malhun Hatun
Malhun Hatun (Mal Hatun), wife of Osman Bey, founder of the Ottoman Beylik; documented as Mal Hatun bint Ömer Bey in the 1324 Mekece vakfiye. Certainly not Şeyh Edebâli's daughter; possibly, but not certainly, mother of Orhan Bey.
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa's Sahel whose capital is Bamako and whose economy rests on agriculture and gold.
Mali conquest of Gao
The Mali conquest of Gao brought the Songhai town of Gao, on the Niger River, under the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Musa.
Mali conquest of Timbuktu
The Mali conquest of Timbuktu was Mansa Musa's incorporation of the trade city into the Mali empire in 1324 or 1325, beginning roughly a century of Malian rule.
Mali embassy to Morocco
The Mali embassy to Morocco was an exchange of envoys and gifts between the Mali empire and the Marinid sultanate of Fez, begun under Mansa Musa.
Mali Empire
The Mali Empire, also known as the Empire of Mali, was a West African state founded by Sundiata Keita after 1235, famed for Mansa Musa's 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mali Federation
The Mali Federation (French: Fédération du Mali) was a short-lived state uniting Senegal and French Sudan, independent from France in June 1960 until its collapse that August.
Mali gold boom
The Mali gold boom is the rapid growth of gold mining in Mali since the early 1990s, driven by a 1991 Mining Code that made Mali one of Africa's leading gold producers.
Mali imperial tribute and taxation system
The Mali imperial tribute and taxation system financed the Mali Empire through tribute from vassal kingdoms and taxes on gold, with all gold nuggets reserved for the mansa.