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Meles of Lydia
Meles of Lydia was a semi-historical Heraclid king of Sardis of the 8th century BC, placed just before Candaules and known from Herodotus' lion legend.
Meles Zenawi (መለስ ዜናዊ)
Meles Zenawi (መለስ ዜናዊ), Ethiopian revolutionary leader and prime minister 1995-2012 of TPLF/EPRDF-ruled Ethiopia; architect of ethnic federalism and the developmental state; Eritrea war 1998-2000; died August 20, 2012.
Meletii Smotrytsky
Meletii Smotrytsky (Мелетій Смотрицький), born Maksym around 1577, was a Ruthenian philologist and churchman whose 1619 Church Slavonic Grammar became the standard textbook for nearly 150 years.
Meletios Α. Dimopoulos
Meletios A. Dimopoulos is a Greek hematologist and multiple myeloma researcher who led landmark myeloma drug trials and served as Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Meletius I Pigas
Meletius I Pigas (Μελέτιος Πηγάς), a Cretan-born Orthodox saint, was Patriarch of Alexandria from 1590 to 1601 and overseer of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1597 to 1598.
Meletius II
Meletius II (Greek: Μελέτιος Β΄) was a native of Tenedos who served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1768 to 1769, ending in dismissal and exile.
Meletius III
Meletius III, secular name Meletius Pangalos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1845, elected on April 18 after the resignation of Germanos IV and dying in office late that year.
Meletius IV
Meletius IV (Μελέτιος Μεταξάκης), born Emmanouēl Metaxakēs, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1921 to 1923, then Patriarch of Alexandria as Meletios II from 1926 to 1935.
MELFA
MELFA is the industrial robot brand of Mitsubishi Electric, a Japanese electronics manufacturer, spanning six-axis and SCARA robots and the ASSISTA collaborative robot, programmed in MELFA-BASIC.
Melford Spiro
Melford Spiro (1920–2014) was an American psychological anthropologist known for fieldwork on Ifaluk Atoll, in Israeli kibbutzim, and in Burma, and for founding the anthropology department at UC San Diego.
MelGAN
MelGAN is a non-autoregressive GAN vocoder introduced in October 2019 by Kundan Kumar and colleagues at Descript, converting mel-spectrograms into raw audio waveforms over 100 times faster than real time.
Melgarejo regime
The Melgarejo regime was the dictatorial government of General Mariano Melgarejo over Bolivia from 1864 to 1871, remembered for the first systematic attack on indigenous communal land and cessions of territory to Chile and Brazil.
Melhem Barakat
Melhem Barakat (ملحم بركات) was a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer, born in 1945, known for "Habibi Enta" and for singing only in colloquial Lebanese Arabic.
Meli Derenalagi
Ratu Meli Derenalagi (born 1998, Nadi, Fiji), Fijian rugby player; won men's rugby sevens gold with Fiji at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, captained Fiji 7s and the Fijian Drua, and plays back row for the Flying Fijians.
Meli-Šipak
Meli-Šipak, also written Melishipak or Meli-Šiḫu, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned c. 1186–1172 BC, known from Louvre kudurrus recording land grants to his children.
Melia
Melia (chinaberry genus) is a genus of three Meliaceae tree species, M. azedarach, M. dubia, and M. volkensii, native to Africa, Asia, and Australia, known for toxic limonoid-rich fruits, insecticidal compounds, and invasive M. azedarach.
Melia azedarach
Melia azedarach, chinaberry or Persian lilac (Meliaceae), a deciduous Asian-Australian tree with lilac flowers and toxic yellow drupes; planted for timber and pesticide, invasive in the southern US, South Africa, and on EPPO's 2025 list.
Melia Mons
Melia Mons is a 311-km-diameter volcanic mountain (mons) on Venus at 62.8°N, 119.3°E in quadrangle v03, approved by the IAU in 1985 and named for a Greek nymph; it borders the Atalanta Planitia quadrangle near Jael Mons.
Meliaceae
Meliaceae, the mahogany family (Meliaceae Juss., nom. cons., type genus Melia), is a pantropical Sapindales family of about 50 genera and 600-800 species of scented-wood trees, including Swietenia mahogany, neem, and limonoid-rich chemistry.
Meliadine mine
The Meliadine mine is a gold mine owned by Agnico Eagle in Nunavut, Canada, 25 km north of Rankin Inlet, which began commercial production in May 2019.
Meliboea family
Meliboea family: asteroid family in the outer main belt named after (137) Meliboea, a small, highly inclined (~15 degrees) CX-complex carbonaceous group, old and depleted in small members, with parent body estimates of 130-242 km.
Melica
Melica, commonly known as melic or melicgrass, is a genus of about 90 species of perennial grasses in the grass family Poaceae, found in temperate and subtropical regions worldwide.
Melicoccus bijugatus
Melicoccus bijugatus (mamoncillo, Spanish lime, quenepa, genip) is a Sapindaceae fruit tree native to northern South America, naturalized in the Caribbean and Florida; IUCN Least Concern, sister to Talisia in RAxML phylogenies.
Melid
Halpasulupi was an early ruler of Melid (Malizi), an Iron Age kingdom at Arslantepe near modern Malatya in eastern Turkey, attested by Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions of the 12th and 11th centuries BC.
Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday, born Muzaffer Melih (1915-2002), was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator who co-founded the Garip movement, the free-verse revolution in modern Turkish poetry.
Melikdom of Dizak
The Melikdom of Dizak was one of the five Armenian feudal principalities of mountainous Karabakh, ruled by the Melik-Yeganyans and dissolved under Russian rule in 1822.
Melikdom of Gulistan
The Melikdom of Gulistan, also called the Talish melikdom or Igirmidort, was one of the five Armenian melikdoms of Karabakh, ruled by the Melik-Beglaryan family from the 17th or early 18th century.
Melikdom of Jraberd
The Melikdom of Jraberd was one of the five Armenian melikdoms of mountainous Karabakh, ruled from Jraberd Fortress on the Tartar River until the late eighteenth century.
Melikdom of Varanda
The Melikdom of Varanda (Վարանդայի մելիքությունը) was one of the five Armenian melikdoms of Artsakh, ruled by the Melik-Shahnazarian family from the early 17th century until the early 19th century.
Melikdoms of Karabakh
The Melikdoms of Karabakh, collectively called Khamsa, were five Armenian principalities in Nagorno-Karabakh, recognized by Persia in 1603 and abolished under Russian rule by 1828.