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Mapuche uprising of 1598

The Mapuche uprising of 1598 was a general Mapuche rebellion in southern Chile, triggered by the battle of Curalaba, that destroyed Spanish settlements south of the Biobío River by 1602.

Mapuche uprising of 1766

The Mapuche uprising of 1766 was an armed revolt of the Mapuche of south-central Chile against a Spanish plan, agreed in 1764, to concentrate them in newly founded towns.

Mapudungun dialects

Mapudungun dialects are the regional varieties of Mapudungun, a language isolate of Chile and Argentina: Picunche, Moluche, Pehuenche, and Huilliche, grouped into three broad dialect groups.

Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003) in Limpopo, South Africa, at the Limpopo-Shashe confluence, preserving remains of the first indigenous Southern African kingdom (900-1300 AD), a gold-and-ivory trading state abandoned after rainfall decline.

Mapungubwe gold rhinoceros

The Mapungubwe gold rhinoceros is a gold foil figurine from a royal grave on Mapungubwe Hill, South Africa, excavated in 1933 and now a national symbol.

Mapungubwe National Park

Mapungubwe National Park, formerly Vhembe Dongola National Park, is a SANParks park in Limpopo, South Africa, at the Limpopo-Shashe confluence, protecting the ruins of the AD 900-1300 Kingdom of Mapungubwe, a 2003 World Heritage Site with the golden rhino finds.

Maputo

Maputo, formerly Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique, a port on Delagoa Bay and the Indian Ocean, its economy centered on the harbor and links to Johannesburg.

Maputo Province

Maputo Province (Província de Maputo), southern Mozambique province around Maputo City, capital Matola; 8 districts, about 2 million people, 71% urban, the country's industrial hub with the Mozal aluminum plant and lowest poverty after Maputo City.

Maputo–Katembe Bridge

The Maputo–Katembe Bridge (Ponte Maputo–Katembe) is a suspension bridge over Maputo Bay connecting Mozambique's capital, Maputo, with Katembe; opened in 2018, it is the longest suspension bridge in Africa.

Mapy.com

Mapy.com, formerly Mapy.cz, is a mapping and navigation service run by Czech company Seznam.cz since 1998. Renamed in March 2025, it offers offline maps and outdoor route planning.

Sep 19, 2026

Maqaba

Maqaba, also rendered Maqabah, is a Tylos-period burial mound cluster on Bahrain's main island, where a Japanese mission found the first coin treasure from a Tylos-period burial mound.

Maqam er-Rab

Maqam er-Rab (مقام الرب), also Beit Jaalouk, is a basalt Roman peripteral temple ruin near Menjez in Akkar, Lebanon, with a Nemesis altar and inscriptions dated 160 to 262 A.D., later converted into a Byzantine church.

Maqama

Maqama (مقامة) is a classical Arabic literary genre of rhymed-prose tales recounting the adventures of an eloquent trickster, founded by al-Hamadhānī in the tenth century.

Maqamat al-Hamadhani

Maqamat al-Hamadhani (مقامات الهمذاني) is a collection of rhymed-prose narratives by Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, who died in 398 AH and created the maqama as an Arabic literary genre.

Maqbool (मक़बूल)

Maqbool (मक़बूल) is Vishal Bhardwaj's 2003 Hindi crime drama adapting Macbeth to Mumbai's underworld, starring Irrfan Khan, Tabu, and Pankaj Kapur, with corrupt policemen as the witches; critically acclaimed, commercially unsuccessful, first of his Shakespeare trilogy.

Maqbool Bhat (مقبول بھٹ)

Maqbool Bhat (مقبول بھٹ), 1938–1984, Kashmiri separatist, co-founder of the National Liberation Front and forerunner of the JKLF; hanged in Tihar Jail on 11 February 1984 after the Ravindra Mhatre kidnapping, buried in prison, later commemorated as Shaheed-e-Azam.

Maqbool Salmaan

Maqbool Salmaan (മഖ്ബൂൽ സൽമാൻ), Malayalam film actor, son of Ibrahimkutty, nephew of Mammootty, cousin of Dulquer Salmaan; debuted in Asuravithu (2012), lead in Matinee, roles in Kasaba and Masterpiece.

Maqhan (café)

مقهئ (مقهى, maqhan) is the Arabic word for a café or coffeehouse. In older Iraqi usage the word casino meant a café or social venue, notably on Baghdad's Abu Nuwas Street, not a gambling hall.

Sep 19, 2026

Maqlû

Maqlû (Akkadian for "Burning") is the longest anti-witchcraft ritual known from ancient Mesopotamia: eight tablets of almost one hundred incantations performed over one night and morning, burning effigies of witches.

Maquan

Maquan (Maquan Tsangpo, Maquan River, Tachog Khabab), the ~270 km Tibetan headwater branch of the Yarlung Tsangpo (upper Brahmaputra) in Burang and Saga counties, rising from Himalayan glaciers at over 5,200 m.

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう)

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarō) is a 2018 Japanese anime film, Mari Okada's directorial debut for P.A.WORKS, about an ageless Iorph girl raising a human son; it won the 2018 Shanghai Golden Goblet for Best Animation Film.

Maquiladora

A maquiladora, or maquila, is a Mexican manufacturing plant that imports materials duty-free for assembly and export, created by the 1965 Border Industrialization Program and now covering over 6,500 establishments.

Maquis

Maquis (macchia) is dense evergreen sclerophyllous shrubland of the Mediterranean Basin, taller counterpart of garrigue, akin to chaparral and matorral; a fire-prone, often human-derived degradation stage below woodland.

Maquis (Star Trek)

The Maquis are a fictional Star Trek resistance of Federation colonists and ex-Starfleet officers fighting the Cardassians after a treaty ceded their colonies, introduced on The Next Generation, central to Voyager, and destroyed after Cardassia joined the Dominion.

Maquis (World War II)

Maquis: rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance in WWII, named after scrubland hideouts. Formed largely by STO draft evaders from February 1943, absorbed into the FFI in 1944; Glières, Vercors and Mont Mouchet were crushed by German assaults.

Maquis of Fizi

Guerrilla zone and rival administration led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Fizi-Baraka, Sud-Kivu, Congo, 1967–1986; base of his PRP and Hewa Bora maquis.

Maquoketa Caves State Park

Maquoketa Caves State Park, a Jackson County, Iowa state park near Maquoketa, holds more caves than any other Iowa state park, about 13 including 1,100-foot Dancehall Cave, with six miles of trails, CCC-era structures, and annual winter cave closures for hibernating bats.