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Maastricht Treaty

Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union), signed at Maastricht on 7 February 1992 by twelve states, in force 1 November 1993; established the European Union, three pillars, EU citizenship, monetary union criteria, and euro opt-outs.

Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre

The Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) is a non-profit air navigation provider run by EUROCONTROL, controlling upper airspace over Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands since 1972.

Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is the youngest stage of the Upper Cretaceous, spanning 72.2 to 66 million years ago and ending at the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

Maasvlakte converter station

The Maasvlakte converter station is the Dutch terminal of the BritNed interconnector at Rotterdam, converting power between the Dutch grid and the subsea link to Great Britain.

Maasvlakte II

Maasvlakte II is a 2,000-hectare reclaimed port and industrial area of the Port of Rotterdam, built between 2008 and 2013 as a westward extension into the North Sea.

Maasvlakte Power Station (Uniper)

The Maasvlakte Power Station is a Uniper power plant in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, centered on the coal- and biomass-fired MPP3, which opened in 2016.

Maat

Maat (Ma'at) is the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, opposed to isfet (chaos), personified as a feathered goddess, maintained by the king, and weighed against the heart at judgment.

Maat Mons

Maat Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus, in the equatorial highland Atla Regio, rising about 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the surrounding plains.

Maathorneferure

Maathorneferure, Hittite princess, daughter of Hattusili III and Puduhepa, married Ramesses II in his regnal year 34; her Hittite birth name is unknown and she is attested by the Marriage Stelae.

Maatkare

Maatkare Mutemhat was a God's Wife of Amun and Divine Adoratrice at Thebes during the 21st Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Pinedjem I, whose mummy was found in 1881.

Maatkare B

Maatkare B, also written Maatkara, was a royal woman of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty, a daughter of Psusennes II who married Osorkon and bore his heir, Shoshenq Q.

Maatkheperre Shoshenq

Maatkheperre Shoshenq, labeled Shoshenq IIc, is a poorly attested early pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second (Libyan) Dynasty, known from a usurped statuette and a few inscriptions, his very existence as a separate king disputed.

Maatrubhumi: May War Rest in Peace

Maatrubhumi: May War Rest in Peace, formerly Battle of Galwan, is an upcoming Hindi war drama by Apoorva Lakhia and Salman Khan Films, starring Salman Khan as Colonel Santosh Babu, based on the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash; delayed, unreleased as of October 2026.

Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde

The Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, or Society of Dutch Literature, is a Dutch literary society founded in Leiden in 1766 to promote the Dutch language, poetry, and history.

Maatstaf

Maatstaf was a Dutch literary magazine, Maandblad voor Letteren, founded in 1953 by publisher and critic Bert Bakker, who applied literary quality as its only editorial standard, until 1999.

Maattrraan (மாற்றான்)

Maattrraan (மாற்றான்), Telugu-dubbed as Brothers, is a 2012 Tamil action thriller by K. V. Anand starring Suriya as conjoined twins Akilan and Vimalan, with Kajal Aggarwal and Sachin Khedekar, released 12 October 2012.

Maaveeran (மாவீரன்) (2023 film)

Maaveeran (மாவீரன்), Telugu Mahaveerudu, is a 2023 Tamil fantasy action thriller by Madonne Ashwin starring Sivakarthikeyan as a cowardly cartoonist guided by a narrator's voice against a corrupt minister; released 14 July 2023, Shanthi Talkies.

Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾)

Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾), born 1980 in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer, voice actress, and stage actress who debuted in 1996 with the Escaflowne theme "Yakusoku wa Iranai," worked long with Yoko Kanno, voices Motoko Kusanagi, Haruhi, and Mari, hosts Vitamin M, and marks her 30th anniversary with M30~Your Best~.

Maaya Uchida (内田真礼)

Maaya Uchida (内田真礼) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, known for roles including Rikka Takanashi in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions and Norman in The Promised Neverland.

Maayan Licht (מַעֲיִין לִיכט)

Maayan Licht (מַעֲיִין לִיכט) is an Israeli sopranista, or male soprano, winner of the Oper! Award Best Newcomer 2025, known for Baroque roles such as Vinci's Alessandro and Handel's Xerxes and for the Technopera project.

Maayavan (மாயவன்)

Maayavan (மாயவன்) is a 2017 Indian science fiction thriller directed by C. V. Kumar. The film follows a police officer investigating murders linked to a memory-transfer experiment.

Maayunnu, Maarivarayunnu, Nisvaasangalil...

Maayunnu, Maarivarayunnu, Nisvaasangalil... (മായുന്നു, മാറിവരയുന്നു, നിശ്വാസങ്ങളിൽ...; Dust Art Redrawn in Respiration) is a 2024 Malayalam experimental mockumentary by Dr. Abhilash Babu, crowdfunded for Rs. 2.5 lakh, premiered at IFFK 2024 and released on IEFFK YouTube and IndieGO OTT.

Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American novelist, essayist, and professor of English at Wesleyan University, born in Addis Ababa in 1971 and named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow.

Maba Diakhou Bâ

Maba Diakhou Bâ, also rendered Ma Ba Jaxu, was a 19th-century Senegambian Muslim leader who founded a theocratic state in the Badibou-Rip region and died in 1867.

MABAC method

The MABAC method is a multi-criteria decision-making method introduced in 2014 by Dragan Pamučar and Goran Ćirović, ranking alternatives by distance from a border approximation area.

Mabala Noise

Mabala Noise, also known as Emabalabala or Mabalabala Entertainment, is a South African record label co-owned by DJ Bongz and Reggie Nkabinde, prominent from 2016.

Mabalacat City

Mabalacat City, a component city in Pampanga, Philippines, created by Republic Act 10164 in 2012; 306,594 residents (2024), 27 barangays, home to Clark International Airport within the Clark Freeport Zone.

Mabe (company)

Mabe is a Mexican manufacturer of large home appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, and washing machines, founded in 1946 and a leading white goods producer in Latin America.

Mabel (singer)

Mabel (Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey) is a British-Swedish pop/R&B singer, daughter of Neneh Cherry and Cameron McVey; hits "Finders Keepers" and "Don't Call Me Up", debut album High Expectations (2019), 2020 Brit Award winner.

Mabel Albertson

Mabel Ida Albertson (1901–1982), American character actress, sister of Jack Albertson; played Darrin's mother Phyllis Stephens on Bewitched and haughty mothers-in-law in films like What's Up, Doc?