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Mamitu Tesserae
Mamitu Tesserae is a tessera terrain feature on Venus, a region of intensely deformed, elevated crust about 900 km across, named for the Akkadian goddess of destiny in 1997.
Mamiya
Mamiya is a Japanese camera brand founded in 1940 by Seiichi Mamiya (間宮精一) in Tokyo, one of Japan's two major medium-format camera makers alongside Pentax.
Mamluk (مملوك)
Mamluk (مملوك, "someone owned"): Islamic military slave, purchased young, converted, trained in horsemanship and war, then manumitted; gave its name to the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250–1517.
Mamluk army
The Mamluk army (جيش المماليك) was the military of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, built around slave soldiers and freeborn cavalry, from 1250 until the Ottoman conquest in 1517.
Mamluk campaigns against Makuria
The Mamluk campaigns against Makuria were military interventions by Mamluk Egypt under Sultan Baybars against the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria, mainly from 1272 to 1276.
Mamluk campaigns against the Banu Kanz
The Mamluk campaigns against the Banu Kanz (بنو كنز) were expeditions against the Arab-Beja warrior tribe holding the Egypt–Nubia frontier, including Baybars's 1275–1276 invasion of Nubia.
Mamluk coinage
Mamluk coinage (العملة المملوكية) was the gold, silver, and copper currency of the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517, marked by repeated debasements of the silver dirham.
Mamluk conquest of Ayyubid Syria
The Mamluk conquest of Ayyubid Syria was the Mamluk takeover of Syria and Palestine from the Ayyubids between 1260 and 1263, after their victory over the Mongols at Ain Jalut.
Mamluk conquest of Dongola
The Mamluk conquest of Dongola (غزو النوبة) was the invasion of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt in 1275–1276, launched by Sultan Baybars.
Mamluk conquest of Suakin
The Mamluk conquest of Suakin (فتح سواقين) was a 1265 punitive expedition by Sultan Baybars I against the Red Sea port of Suakin in Sudan.
Mamluk conquest of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
The Mamluk conquest of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (فتح قيليقية) was the Mamluk campaigns that reduced the Mongol-allied Armenian kingdom to a tributary, ending with Sis's fall in 1375.
Mamluk conquest of the Syro-Palestinian coastal cities
The Mamluk conquest of the Syro-Palestinian coastal cities (فتح السواحل الشامية) was the campaign by which the Mamluks expelled the Crusaders from the Syrian coast, ending with Acre in 1291.
Mamluk conquest of Yemen
The Mamluk conquest of Yemen (الغزو المملوكي لليمن) overthrew the Tahirid sultanate of Yemen by 1517, after an expedition sent against the Portuguese turned on Yemen instead.
Mamluk coup of 1250
The Mamluk coup of 1250 (انقلاب المماليك 1250) was the murder of Ayyubid sultan Turanshah by his father's mamluks, who installed Shajar al-Durr as sultana.
Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
Mamluk dynasty of Delhi (1206–1290), also called the Slave or Ilbari dynasty: first Delhi Sultanate dynasty, founded by Qutb al-Din Aibak, consolidated by Iltutmish, ended by the Khalji rise in 1290.
Mamluk dynasty of Baghdad
The Mamluk dynasty of Baghdad (مماليك بغداد) was a line of military governors who ruled Ottoman Baghdad and Basra until 1831, when the last governor, Dawud Pasha, was removed.
Mamluk dynasty of Iraq
The Mamluk dynasty of Iraq was a Georgian Mamluk regime that ruled Baghdad, Basra, and Shahrizor from 1750 to 1831, when an Ottoman army restored direct rule.
Mamluk enamelled glass
Mamluk enamelled glass is luxury glassware decorated with enamel paints and gold, made in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for mosque lamps of the fourteenth century.
Mamluk hierarchy of amirs
The Mamluk hierarchy of amirs (مراتب الأمراء) was the formal ranking of military commanders in the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517.
Mamluk metalwork
Mamluk metalwork is silver- and gold-inlaid brass and bronze produced under the Mamluk sultans, mainly in Cairo and Damascus, from about 1250 until the Ottoman conquest of 1517.
Mamluk minarets of Cairo
The Mamluk minarets of Cairo are masonry minarets built under Mamluk rule from 1250 to 1517, giving Cairo its name as the City of 1000 Minarets.
Mamluk mosque lamps
Mamluk mosque lamps are enameled and gilded glass hanging lamps made in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate to light mosques, and are among the most celebrated works of Islamic glassmaking.
Mamluk Nile works at Cairo
The Mamluk Nile works at Cairo were the dams, canals, and Nilometer by which the Mamluk state regulated the Nile flood and set land taxes.
Mamluk Qur'an illumination
Mamluk Qur'an illumination is the painted and gilded decoration of Qur'an manuscripts produced in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), known for geometric star-polygon frontispieces and monumental muhaqqaq calligraphy.
Mamluk seizure of power in Egypt
The Mamluk seizure of power in Egypt (الانقلاب المملوكي) was the murder of Ayyubid sultan al-Mu'azzam Turanshah by his Bahri mamluks in 1250, ending Ayyubid rule and opening the Mamluk sultanate.
Mamluk Sultanate (سلطنة المماليك)
Mamluk Sultanate (سلطنة المماليك), slave-soldier state ruling Egypt and Syria 1250–1517, founded by Qipchaq mamluks who overthrew Turan Shah; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260, split into Bahri and Burji lines, and fell to the Ottomans in 1517.
Mamm Creek Oil and Gas Field
Mamm Creek Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado with reserves of more than one trillion cubic feet.
Mamma mia!
Mamma Mia! (Uwe Rosenberg, Abacusspiele 1999) is a pizza-themed memory and push-your-luck card game for 2-5 players; Mamma Mia! Plus (2009) expands it to six players with shrimp toppings and a Helping rule.
Mamma Mia! (film)
Mamma Mia! is a 2008 jukebox musical film directed by Phyllida Lloyd, adapted from the 1999 ABBA stage musical, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Amanda Seyfried; it grossed about $580.8 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing film released in the UK.
Mamma Mia! (musical)
Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Catherine Johnson built on ABBA songs by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Opened London 1999, Broadway 2001; over 70 million viewers, 50 productions, 16 languages, two hit films.