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Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Mauryan Empire, 322–185 BCE) was India's first subcontinent-spanning empire, founded by Chandragupta Maurya with Chanakya, ruled by Bindusara and Ashoka of the Kalinga war and edicts, ending with Pushyamitra Shunga.
Mauryan army
The Mauryan army (मौर्य सेना) was the paid standing professional army of the Maurya Empire under Chandragupta Maurya, reported at 600,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry, and 9,000 elephants.
Mauryan espionage service
The Mauryan espionage service (गूढपुरुष, gudhapurusha, "hidden men") was the Maurya Empire's network of secret agents for intelligence, surveillance, and covert action, described in Kautilya's Arthashastra and run under Chandragupta Maurya.
Mauryan espionage system
The Mauryan espionage system (गुप्तचर व्यवस्था) was a network of secret agents, called gudhapurusha, operated under Chandragupta Maurya for intelligence gathering, testing of officials, and internal security, as prescribed in Kautilya's Arthashastra.
Mauryan land-revenue system
The Mauryan land-revenue system (भूमि कर) was the taxation framework through which the Maurya Empire drew its main income from agricultural land, chiefly the one-sixth bhaga tax.
Mauryan military administration
Mauryan military administration (सेना प्रबंध) organized the Maurya Empire's standing, salaried army through a war office of 30 members in six boards, known from Megasthenes and the Arthashastra.
Mauryan provincial administration
Mauryan provincial administration was the system by which the Maurya Empire was governed through outlying provinces, established under Chandragupta Maurya and liberalized by Ashoka, whose edicts name capitals at Taxila, Ujjain, Tosali, and Suvarnagiri.
Mauryan revenue administration
Mauryan revenue administration (कर प्रशासन) assessed and collected state income for the Maurya Empire of ancient India, detailed in the Arthashastra, a treatise ascribed to Kautilya, also named Chanakya.
Mauryan taxation and customs
Mauryan taxation and customs (कर व्यवस्था) is the fiscal system of the Mauryan Empire (c. 321–185 BC), known chiefly through the Arthashastra attributed to Kautilya.
Maurycy Mochnacki
Maurycy Mochnacki (1803–1834) was a Polish literary critic, historian, pianist, and revolutionary who announced the November Uprising in Warsaw in 1830 and later wrote a history of it.
Maus
Maus, Art Spiegelman's two-volume Holocaust graphic novel (1986, 1991) depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, won a 1992 Pulitzer Special Citation and was banned by a Tennessee school board in 2022.
Mausala Parva (मौसल पर्व)
Mausala Parva (मौसल पर्व), the Book of the Clubs, is the 16th book of the Mahabharata, telling of the Yadava clan's self-destruction by mace fight, Krishna's death by a hunter's arrow, and Arjuna's failed rescue of the Yadava women.
Mausam (2011 film)
Mausam (मौसम), 2011 Hindi romance-drama and directorial debut of Pankaj Kapur, starring Shahid Kapoor as IAF pilot Harry and Sonam Kapoor as Aayat; released 23 September 2011, flopped despite Rs 22 crore opening weekend.
Mausam (मौसम) (1975 film)
Mausam (मौसम), 1975 Hindi romantic drama directed by Gulzar, starring Sanjeev Kumar and Sharmila Tagore in a dual role; loosely based on A.J. Cronin's The Judas Tree, with Madan Mohan's final score and National and Filmfare awards.
Mausen
Mausen (Jumbo & Co) is a 2004 Detlef Wendt card game from Abacusspiele for 3–6 players, ages 8+, about 15 minutes, on the Spiel des Jahres 2004 recommended list; a rock-paper-scissors chase of elephants, dogs, cats, and mice.
Mauser
Mauser is a German firearms manufacturer from Oberndorf am Neckar, founded by Wilhelm and Peter Paul Mauser. The company is best known for its Model 98 bolt-action rifles.
Mauser BK-27
The Mauser BK-27 (Bordkanone 27) is a 27mm revolver autocannon developed by Mauser in Germany, standard on the Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon and also used in naval mounts.
Mauser C96
The Mauser C96, commonly called the broomhandle Mauser, is a semi-automatic pistol produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser in Oberndorf, Germany, from 1896 until the late 1930s, with more than one million made.
Mauser M71/84
The Mauser M71/84, officially the Infanterie-Gewehr Modell 1871/84, was a German bolt-action military rifle with an eight-round tubular magazine, adopted in 1884 as Germany's first repeating service rifle and produced until 1887.
Mauser Model 1871
The Mauser Model 1871, or Gewehr 71, was the first successful rifle designed by the Mauser brothers, a single-shot bolt action adopted by Prussia in 1871 and built in numbers over 1.8 million.
Mauser Model 1904
The Mauser Model 1904, officially the Espingarda 6,5 mm m/1904 and known as the Mauser-Vergueiro, was a bolt-action rifle adopted by the Portuguese Army in 1904.
Mauser Standardmodell
The Mauser Standardmodell was a short bolt-action rifle built on the Model 98 action, secretly produced in Switzerland and the direct predecessor of the Karabiner 98k.
Mausoleo della Conocchia
Mausoleo della Conocchia, Roman funerary monument on the ancient Via Appia at Curti, Caserta; also called la Conocchia. Superimposed-body tomb, 16.6 m tall, third quarter 1st century BC, restored 1792 under Ferdinando IV.
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is a free-standing above-ground structure housing burial chambers, named for the tomb of King Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus
Mausoleum and Sacred Area of Hecatomnus, also called Uzunyuva, a 4th-century B.C. dynastic tomb in Milas, Turkey, attributed to the Carian satrap Hecatomnus, father of Mausolus; discovered in 2010 after looting and on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2012.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, tomb of Carian satrap Mausolus (d. 353 BCE) built by Artemisia at Bodrum, Turkey; one of the Seven Wonders, source of the word mausoleum, destroyed by 1522.
Mausoleum Campo Barbarico
Mausoleum Campo Barbarico (Mausoleo di Campo Barbarico, "la Casaccia") is a 2nd-century AD Roman temple-tomb in brick on the Via Latina, Rome, named for the Gothic camp of 537/539, later a hay barn, protected since 1965 and under PNRR restoration.
Mausoleum Hadriani
Mausoleum Hadriani (Hadrian's Mausoleum, Castel Sant'Angelo): Hadrian's dynastic tomb on the Tiber's right bank, completed AD 139, holding urns of Antonine and Severan emperors until Alaric's 410 sack; later papal fortress, prison, and museum.
Mausoleum of Alexander
The Mausoleum of Alexander, known in antiquity as the Soma, was Alexander the Great's burial complex in Ptolemaic Alexandria, lost in late antiquity and never located despite more than 140 excavations.
Mausoleum of Augustus
Mausoleum of Augustus (Mausoleo di Augusto), Rome's largest circular tomb, begun 28 BC in the Campus Martius for the Julio-Claudian dynasty; later a fortress, amphitheater, and concert hall, now under restoration.