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Mataka
Mataka was the dynastic title of the rulers of the leading Yao chieftaincy in what is now Niassa Province, northern Mozambique, from the mid 19th century until 1912.
Matam
Matam: a region of northeastern Senegal created in 2002, capital Matam town, on the Senegal River bordering Mauritania; 29,616 km², about 855,000 inhabitants in 2024, economy based on farming and pastoralism.
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Matamoros (Heroica Matamoros), Tamaulipas: border city across from Brownsville, Texas; 541,979 residents in 2020; founded 1774, made a port and villa in 1826; maquiladora trade economy and new Puerto del Norte port operating since August 2025.
Matan Even
Matan Even (born 2007), the "Bill Clinton Kid," is an Israeli-American YouTuber and prankster from Los Angeles who crashed the 2022 Game Awards, stream-sniped streamers like Kai Cenat, and hosts The Matan Show podcast.
Matan Sultanate
The Matan Sultanate (Kesultanan Matan) was a Malay Islamic kingdom in what is now Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, emerging from the older Tanjungpura kingdom and taking the name Matan after its conversion to Islam.
Matangi (मातंगी)
Matangi (मातंगी) is a Hindu Tantric goddess, the ninth of the ten Mahavidyas, who governs speech, music, learning, and the arts and is worshipped as the outcaste Tantric Saraswati.
Matango
Matango (マタンゴ), aka Attack of the Mushroom People, is Ishirō Honda's 1963 Toho horror film about seven castaways transformed by a mutant fungus, adapted from Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night".
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su), Alaska's second-class borough incorporated January 1, 1964; seat Palmer, largest city Wasilla. Fastest-growing Alaska region, 107,081 people in 2020, 24,707 square miles, Anchorage suburb and bedroom community.
Matara
Matara, also known as Metera, is an archaeological site near Senafe in the Eritrean highlands, occupied from pre-Aksumite into Aksumite times and excavated from 1959.
Mataram
Mataram (Kota Mataram) is the capital of Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province on Lombok island; 61.30 km², 452,410 people (2026), six districts, municipality since Law No. 4 of 1993.
Mataram conquest of Pajang
The Mataram conquest of Pajang (Penaklukan Pajang oleh Mataram) was the overthrow of the Pajang sultanate by Mataram under Sutawijaya in the 1580s and 1590s.
Mataram conquest of Surabaya
The Mataram conquest of Surabaya (Penaklukan Surabaya oleh Mataram) was Sultan Agung's campaign against his main East Javanese rival, the Duchy of Surabaya, from 1620 to 1625.
Mataram Kingdom
Mataram Kingdom is the name of two successive Javanese states: the Hindu-Buddhist Old Mataram (Medang) kingdom of central Java, and the Islamic Mataram Sultanate, partitioned in 1755.
Mataram sieges of Batavia
The Mataram sieges of Batavia (Pengepungan Batavia oleh Mataram) were two failed attacks by Sultan Agung's armies on the Dutch-held port in 1628 and 1629.
Matariki
Matariki, also called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, is the star cluster whose midwinter heliacal rising marks the Māori New Year in Aotearoa New Zealand; some iwi instead use Puanga (Rigel). It became a national public holiday in 2022, with dates set by lunar calendar.
Mataripe Refinery
The Mataripe Refinery (Refinaria de Mataripe), formerly the Landulpho Alves Refinery, is an oil refinery in Bahia, Brazil, opened in 1950 and today the country's second largest.
Matarrah
Matarrah (Tell Matarrah) is a prehistoric settlement mound in Kirkuk District, Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq, one of the oldest villages of the Near East, with Hassuna, Ubaid, and Samarra-culture pottery connections, excavated and published by Braidwood in 1952.
Matas Buzelis
Matas Buzelis, Lithuanian-American forward born 2004 in Chicago, played for G League Ignite (14.3 ppg, 2.1 bpg) before the Chicago Bulls drafted him 11th overall in 2024; first Bull with 170 threes and 100 blocks in a season.
Matatu
Matatu, styled Matatu: Journal for African Literary and Cultural Studies, is a peer-reviewed journal covering African literatures, languages, and cultures, published twice yearly by Brill.
Mataungan Association
The Mataungan Association was a Tolai anti-colonial political movement formed on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, in 1969 to oppose a multiracial local council.
Matavo
Matavo (Matavone, Matavonium) was a Roman road station near Cabasse, Var, Provence, on the road from Forum Julii, chief town of the pagus Matavonicus, which issued coins after 27 BC.
MatBench
MatBench is a benchmark suite of 13 curated machine learning tasks for predicting properties of inorganic bulk materials, introduced in 2020 by researchers in the Materials Project ecosystem.
Matbench Discovery
Matbench Discovery is a benchmark and interactive leaderboard for evaluating machine learning models that predict the thermodynamic stability of inorganic crystals, simulating high-throughput discovery campaigns.
MatBERT/MaterialsBERT
MatBERT/MaterialsBERT are BERT language models pre-trained or fine-tuned on materials science text, improving over general models like BERT and SciBERT by 1% to 12% on materials named entity recognition.
Match
A match is a small stick with a combustible chemical head that ignites by friction, giving a portable, single-use flame; invented by John Walker in 1826.
Match Factory!
Match Factory! is a free-to-play 3D tile-matching puzzle game for iOS and Android by Turkish studio Peak Games, published under Zynga, released worldwide in 2023 and a leading title in the 3D match genre.
Match fixing
Match fixing, or manipulation of sports competitions, is the prearranged alteration of results for betting or sporting gain, defined by the 2014 Macolin Convention and fought through INTERPOL, FIFA, and betting-market monitoring.
Match Fixing (film)
Match Fixing: The Nation At Stake is a 2025 Hindi political thriller directed by Kedaar Gaekwad, based on Col. Kanwar Khatana's book The Game Behind Saffron Terror, starring Vineet Kumar Singh as a framed army officer; released 10 January 2025.
Match Game
Match Game is an American celebrity panel game show, also known as The Match Game and Match Game PM, where contestants match fill-in-the-blank answers with six celebrities; it premiered on NBC in 1962 and peaked with the bawdy CBS Match Game '73 revival hosted by Gene Rayburn.
Match Group
Match Group, Inc. is an American internet company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, whose portfolio of online dating brands includes Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish.