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Navy List
The Navy List is the official register of the British Royal Navy, listing naval officers with their ranks, seniority, and commands, first published in 1814.
Navy Midshipmen football
Navy Midshipmen football, also known as Navy football, is the United States Naval Academy's Division I college football program in Annapolis, Maryland, famous for its annual Army-Navy Game rivalry, played every year since 1930.
Navy Ministry
The Navy Ministry (海軍省) was the cabinet ministry in charge of naval administration of the Imperial Japanese Navy, created in 1872 from the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Navy Navigation Satellite System
The Navy Navigation Satellite System, known as Transit, was the first operational satellite navigation system, serving the US Navy from 1964 until GPS replaced it in 1996.
Navy of Eastern Wu
The Navy of Eastern Wu was the fleet of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu, which fought under Zhou Yu at the Battle of Red Cliffs.
Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot pier on Lake Michigan in Chicago, opened 1916 as Municipal Pier No. 2 from Burnham's Plan of Chicago, renamed 1927, a WWII Navy training site, University of Illinois campus 1946-1965, and reopened as an entertainment destination in 1995.
Navy Records Society
The Navy Records Society is a British society, founded in 1893, that publishes edited original documents on the history of the Royal Navy in annual volumes.
Navy SEALs (film)
Navy Seals (1990), also Navy SEALs, is a Lewis Teague action film starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn, written by former SEAL Chuck Pfarrer, budgeted at $20 million, shot in Virginia and Spain without active Navy support.
Navya movement
The Navya movement was the modernist phase of Kannada literature that began in the 1950s, led by Gopalkrishna Adiga and inaugurated by V. K. Gokak's Navya Kavitegalu.
Navya Nair
Navya Nair (നവ്യ നായർ), born Dhanya Veena in 1985, is an Indian actress in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada cinema, a two-time Kerala State Film Award Best Actress winner for Nandanam and Saira, and a Bharatanatyam dancer who returned with Oruthee (2022).
Navya..Naye Dhadkan Naye Sawaal
Navya..Naye Dhadkan Naye Sawaal (नव्या) is a Hindi Star Plus drama (4 April 2011 to 29 June 2012, 331 episodes) by Swastik Pictures starring Soumya Seth and Shaheer Sheikh as college lovers Navya and Anant, with the Shilpa Rao theme "Bekaboo".
Navyadhyaksha
Navyadhyaksha (नावध्यक्ष), or Superintendent of Ships, was the Mauryan official who regulated navigation on seas, rivers, and lakes, collecting tolls and fighting pirates, as set out in the Arthashastra.
Nawa
Nawa is a region of Côte d'Ivoire, one of 31, located in the southwest within the Bas-Sassandra district, with its capital at Soubré. It is the nation's largest cocoa-producing area.
Nawa Nagatoshi
Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年) was a warrior of Hōki Province who aided Emperor Go-Daigo in overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate, served the Kenmu government, and died fighting Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto in 1336.
Nawab
Nawab, from Arabic naib (deputy), a Muslim title for Mughal deputy governors of provinces; later held by quasi-independent rulers of Bengal, Awadh, Arcot, and Farrukhabad, and finally an honorary title in British India, yielding the English word nabob.
Nawab Bai
Nawab Bai, also known as Rahmat-un-Nisa, was a Rajput princess of Rajauri who married the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and was the mother of the future emperor Bahadur Shah I.
Nawab Kapur Singh
Nawab Kapur Singh (ਨਵਾਬ ਕਪੂਰ ਸਿੰਘ; 1697–1753) was a Sikh military and religious leader who received the title of Nawab in 1733, reorganized the Khalsa, and founded the Singhpuria Misl.
Nawab Malik (नवाब मलिक)
Nawab Malik (नवाब मलिक) is an Indian politician from Mumbai, a five-time Maharashtra legislator and NCP national spokesperson.
Nawab of Dhaka
The Nawab of Dhaka (نواب ڈھاکہ) was the title of the heads of Dhaka's Kashmiri-descended Khwaja family, held under British sanction from 1875 to 1952.
Nawab of the Carnatic
The Nawab of the Carnatic (کرناٹک) was the Muslim ruler of a southern Indian state based at Arcot, independent from 1710 until British annexation in 1801.
Nawab Shah (actor)
Nawab Shah (नवाब शाह), Indian character and villain actor in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema; born 1972 in Delhi; known for Don 2 (Jabbar), Lakshya, Sacred Games, Bambai Meri Jaan, Sikandar; married Pooja Batra in 2019.
Nawabs of Arcot
The Nawabs of Arcot (نواب کرناٹک) ruled the Carnatic region of southern India from 1692, first as Mughal governors and later as an effectively independent dynasty seated at Arcot.
Nawabs of Awadh
The Nawabs of Awadh (نواب اودھ) were rulers of a North Indian Mughal successor state founded by Saadat Khan in 1722 and annexed by the British in 1856.
Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawabs of Bengal (বাংলার নবাব) were the governors and later independent rulers of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, based at Murshidabad from the early 1700s.
Nawabs of Surat
The Nawabs of Surat (نواب سورت) were hereditary Muslim rulers of Surat, a port city in Gujarat, who shared power with the English East India Company from 1759 until the British annexation of 1800.
Nawabs of the Carnatic
The Nawabs of the Carnatic (نوابان کرناٹک) were the Muslim rulers of the Carnatic, centered on Arcot, who ruled as an independent state from 1710 until accepting British authority in 1801.
Nawabshah
Nawabshah (نواب شاہ), city in central Sindh, Pakistan, headquarters of Shaheed Benazirabad district (formerly Nawabshah District). Named for Syed Nawab Ali Shah's 1909 railway land donation; 363,138 city residents in 2023; hot desert climate.
Nawabshah District
Nawabshah District, officially Shaheed Benazirabad District since 2008, is a district in central Sindh, Pakistan, headquartered at Nawabshah city. Established 1 November 1912, it had 1,845,102 residents in the 2023 census across four tehsils.
Nawabzaade (नवाबज़ादे)
Nawabzaade (नवाबज़ादे) is a 2018 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Jayesh Pradhan, starring Dharmesh Yelande, Punit Pathak, Raghav Juyal, and Isha Rikhi; released 27 July 2018, it flopped with ₹4.05 crore in India.
Nawadir
Nawadir (النوادر; singular nadira) is an Arabic term meaning rare or singular things, and a classical adab genre of short, witty anecdotes; the word also titles linguistic, legal, and hadith works.