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Medeniyet
Medeniyet (مدنيّت) is the Turkish word for civilization, derived from Arabic medîne ("city") and adopted in 1837 as the standard Ottoman equivalent of French civilisation.
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750–1819) was a Martinique-born jurist, historian, and French politician whose works on Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti, remain core sources for colonial Haitian history.
Medes
Medes (Old Persian Mada), ancient Iranian people of the Zagros with capital Ecbatana; first attested 836 BC, allied with Babylon to take Nineveh in 612 BC, ended when Cyrus defeated Astyages in 550 BC.
Medetera
Medetera (woodpecker flies) is a large, nearly cosmopolitan genus of long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae) with 355 extant species; larvae prey on bark beetles under bark, making the genus a key natural enemy of forest pests such as Ips typographus.
Medetomidine
Medetomidine, sold as Domitor, is a synthetic alpha-2 adrenergic agonist used as a veterinary sedative and analgesic; since 2021 it has appeared as a fentanyl adulterant in North America.
Medetsiz Tepe
Medetsiz Tepe (Medetsiz Dağı, Mount Medetsiz) is a 3,524 m limestone peak in the Bolkar Mountains of the Central Taurus, Turkey; the range's highest summit, an ultra-prominent peak with 2,058 m prominence and a small glacier.
Medeya Jugeli
Medeya Jugeli (მედეა ჯუღელი, Mzia), Georgian gymnast for the Soviet Union, 1952 Helsinki Olympic team gold and portable apparatus silver, vault 4th; later coach and federation vice-president.
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Massachusetts: Middlesex County city on the Mystic River, settled 1630 as Matthew Cradock's private plantation, third oldest Massachusetts settlement, later a shipbuilding, brick, and rum center, home of Tufts University, population about 60,000.
Medford, Oregon
Medford, Oregon: county seat of Jackson County in the Rogue Valley, founded 1883 as an Oregon and California Railroad town, incorporated 1885, named by engineer David Loring after Medford, Massachusetts; 2020 population 85,824.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP's first Mississippi field secretary, World War II Army veteran, voter-registration organizer, and James Meredith ally, assassinated June 12, 1963 in Jackson by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted in 1994.
Medgar Evers College
Medgar Evers College is a public four-year senior college of CUNY in Crown Heights, Central Brooklyn, founded July 30, 1970, the youngest CUNY senior college, named for civil rights leader Medgar Evers and rooted in community advocacy.
Medgaz
Medgaz is a 210 km subsea natural gas pipeline from Beni Saf, Algeria, to Almería, Spain, the first direct undersea gas link between Algeria and Europe.
Medgaz Gas Pipeline
The Medgaz gas pipeline is a subsea natural gas pipeline running 210 km under the Mediterranean from Beni Saf, Algeria, to Almería, Spain, in service since 2011.
MedGenome
MedGenome is a Bengaluru-based genomics company founded in 2013 that combines genetic diagnostics with sequencing research services, operating labs in India and offices across the US, Singapore, and Africa.
Medha Kulkarni
Medha Kulkarni is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra since 2024 who earlier represented Kothrud in Pune in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar (born 1954) is an Indian social activist, founder-leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, National Convenor of NAPM, and Right Livelihood Award (1991) and Goldman Prize (1992) recipient.
Medha Servo Drives
Medha Servo Drives is an Indian railway technology manufacturer founded in 1984 and headquartered in Hyderabad, known for traction systems, signaling, and the Kavach anti-collision system.
Medha Shankr (मेधा शंकर)
Medha Shankr (मेधा शंकर), also Medha Shankar, Indian actress from Noida; debuted in Beecham House (2019), film debut Shaadisthan (2021), breakthrough as Shraddha Joshi in 12th Fail (2023), later Ginny Wedss Sunny 2 (2026).
Medhātithi
Medhātithi (मेधातिथि) was a Sanskrit jurist who wrote the Manubhāṣya, the oldest surviving complete commentary on the Manusmṛti; he probably lived in Kashmir in the second half of the 9th century.
Medhi Benatia
Medhi Benatia (Mehdi Amine El-Mouttaqi Benatia, born 1987) is a Moroccan former defender, ex-captain of Morocco, who played for Udinese, Roma, Bayern Munich, and Juventus, then was Olympique de Marseille director of football from January 2025 to May 2026.
MEDi robot
MEDi, a humanoid healthcare robot built on Softbank's NAO platform, uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to help children during procedures like vaccinations; it was introduced at Alberta Children's Hospital in 2014.
Media (region)
Media (Old Persian Māda, Greek Mēdía) was the ancient region of northwestern Iran, homeland of the Medes, whose capital Ecbatana is modern Hamadan; Median independence ended in 550 BCE.
Media Artist Booking srl
Media Artist Booking srl (S.C. MEDIA ARTIST BOOKING S.R.L., CUI 31155633) is a Romanian micro-enterprise in Orășa, Bacău County, founded 30 January 2013, providing artist booking and performance support services (CAEN 9002) and operating the GIGx booking platform.
Media Atropatene
Media Atropatene, also Atropatene (Middle Persian Āturpātakān), ancient kingdom in northwestern Iran named after satrap Atropates; independent after 323 BC, later Parthian vassal, Sasanian province, source of the name Azerbaijan.
Media bias
Media bias: systematic slant in news selection, framing, or presentation toward political or organizational interests. Also covered via the Media Bias Taxonomy (linguistic, cognitive, context, reporting types), objectivity history, and Ad Fontes/AllSides rating scales.
Media bias in the United States
Media bias in the United States, also called news slant or partisan media bias, is the systematic slanting of US news content in selection, framing, or tone. Groseclose and Milyo found left-of-Congress skew across major outlets, while Budak, Goel, and Rao found fifteen major outlets far more similar than perceived.
Media conglomerate
A media conglomerate is a large corporation whose holdings span media industries such as film studios, television networks, and streaming services, like Disney or Time Warner.
Media coverage of climate change
Media coverage of climate change, also called global warming in the media, is reporting on climate change by newspapers, television, radio, and online media, tracked since 1988.
Media cross-ownership in the United States
Media cross-ownership in the United States: common ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in one market, restricted by the FCC's 1975 rule, relaxed in 2007, litigated through Prometheus, and reshaped by 2026 deregulation.
Media democracy
Media democracy: the theory that democracy requires a free, plural media system and public sphere. Covers Habermas's public sphere, press freedom, media pluralism, platformization, and algorithmic reach.