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Nagaon
Nagaon (নগাওঁ), formerly Nowgong, is a district in central Assam, India, headquartered at Nagaon town on the Kolong River. Formed 1832; agrarian rice-bowl district; most populous in Assam at Census 2011 before the Hojai split.
Nagar Naluākot
Nagar Naluākot (নগর নলুয়াকোট), also Nogor Noluakot or Sutoria, is a locality in Patuli, Belabo Upazila, Narsingdi District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh; population about 273,000, elevation 19 m, postal code 1652. Not the Nepali Nuwakot.
Nagar Singh Chouhan
Nagar Singh Chouhan is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh, holding the Scheduled Castes Welfare portfolio.
Nagara Style
Nagara style: the North Indian Hindu temple architecture tradition, defined by a curvilinear shikhara over the garbhagriha, amalaka and kalasha crowns, no gopuram; Gupta origins, Odisha, Khajuraho, and Solanki schools.
Nagara/Dionysopolis
Nagara/Dionysopolis (Νάγαρα, Διονυσόπολις), ancient city in Gandhara recorded by Ptolemy, identified with Nagarahara near Jalalabad, Afghanistan; Greek military colony, later subject to Kapisa.
Nagarahavu
Nagarahavu (ನಾಗರಹಾವು), also spelled Naagarahaavu, is a 1972 Kannada drama by Puttanna Kanagal starring Vishnuvardhan as Ramachari, based on Ta.Ra.Su novels, winner of eight Karnataka State awards; distinct from the 2016 snake fantasy film.
Nagarakretagama
The Nagarakretagama, also called Desawarnana, is an Old Javanese court poem by Mpu Prapanca, completed in 1365 in praise of King Hayam Wuruk of Majapahit.
Nagaram
The nagaram (நகரம்) was the corporate body of merchants governing market towns in the medieval Tamil country, run by the nagarattar and later promoting commerce with itinerant guilds.
Nagarathar (நகரத்தார்)
Nagarathar (Nattukottai Chettiar, Nakarattar), Tamil merchant-banking caste of Chettinad, Tamil Nadu; ran a hundi-based banking system across Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya, 1870–1930, with clan temples and Chettinad mansions on the UNESCO tentative list.
Nagaravatta
Nagaravatta (នគរវត្ត, meaning Angkor Wat) was a nationalist Khmer-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh from 1936 to 1942, the first Khmer paper to cover politics; it closed after its directors led an anti-French demonstration.
Nagareru
Nagareru (流れるループ, Flowing Loop) is a Nikoli pencil-and-paper logic puzzle: draw one directed loop through a grid obeying black arrows and wind rules. NP-complete; studied with ZDD solvers in 2022.
Nagareyama
Nagareyama (流山市) is a city in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan, about 20 minutes from Tokyo by Tsukuba Express. Known as the birthplace of shiro mirin, it has one of Japan's fastest-growing populations thanks to childcare support policies.
Nagarhole National Park (ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ)
Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi National Park, ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ) is a 643 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka's Western Ghats, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, adjoining Bandipur and Wayanad, with high tiger and elephant densities and heavy human–wildlife conflict.
Nagari Pracharini Sabha
Nagari Pracharini Sabha (नागरीप्रचारिणी सभा), a society for promoting Hindi and the Devanagari script, was founded in Varanasi in 1893 and published the landmark dictionaries Shabd Sagar and Hindi Vishwakosh.
Nagarik
Nagarik (নাগরিক, The Citizen) is Ritwik Ghatak's 1952 Bengali directorial debut about an unemployed graduate in post-Partition Calcutta; unreleased until 1977, after his death, and restored in 4K in 2026.
Nagarjun
Nagarjun (नागार्जुन), born Vaidyanath Mishra and known in Maithili as Yatri, was an Indian poet of the progressive stream of modern Hindi poetry who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna (c. 150–250 CE), South Indian Buddhist monk and founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school; author of the Mulamadhyamakakarikā (450 stanzas); identified dependent arising with emptiness (śūnyatā), the lack of intrinsic nature, shaping Buddhist philosophy across India, Tibet, China, and Japan.
Nagarjuna (actor)
Nagarjuna (Akkineni Nagarjuna Rao), Telugu film actor and producer born 1959 in Chennai, son of Akkineni Nageswara Rao; lead debut Vikram (1986), breakthrough with Geethanjali and Siva (1989), nickname King, two National Film Awards, 100th film King 100 slated for December 2026.
Nagarjuna filmography
Nagarjuna filmography: screen record of Akkineni Nagarjuna (నాగార్జున), Telugu actor-producer born 1959. Debut Vikram 1986; 1989 breakthrough with Geetanjali and Siva; over ten Hindi films; two National Film Awards; Coolie and Kuberaa 2025, King 100 upcoming.
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, also known as the Nagarjuna Sagar Project, is a masonry gravity dam on the Krishna River in India, completed in 1967 and irrigating about 900,000 hectares.
Nagarjunabhra rasa
Nagarjunabhra rasa (Nāgārjunābhra Rasa), an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill of 100-puta abhraka bhasma levigated with Terminalia arjuna bark decoction; AFI dose 125-250 mg, indicated mainly for hridroga (heart disease).
Nagarjunakonda
Nagarjunakonda (Vijayapuri), Buddhist archaeological site in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh; Ikṣvāku capital ca. 225–310 CE, discovered 1926, excavated 1954–60, now an island in the Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir.
NAGARJUNANJANA
Nāgārjunāñjana (नागार्जुनाञ्जन) is a classical Ayurvedic collyrium named after the alchemist Nāgārjuna; AFI entry 11:2, a herbo-mineral eye salve with copper sulphate, calcined copper, and Triphala, indicated for timira and paṭala roga.
Nagarm Mound
Nagarm Mound (also spelled Nagram) is an archaeological mound at Nagarm, Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, a centrally protected monument of national importance, ASI serial 174, maintained by ASI Lucknow Circle.
Nāgarpur
Nāgarpur (নাগরপুর) is an upazila of Tangail District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh: 266.77 sq km, 319,296 people (2022 census), 12 unions, declared a thana in 1906 and an upazila in 1983.
Nagarro
Nagarro, also known as Nagarro SE, is a Munich-based digital engineering and technology consulting company founded in 1996 and spun off from Allgeier SE in 2020.
Nagasaki (district)
Nagasaki (district): the four remaining rural districts (gun) of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, Nishisonogi, Higashisonogi, Kitamatsuura, and Minamimatsuura, which together contain the prefecture's eight towns alongside thirteen district-free cities.
Nagasaki (長崎市)
Nagasaki (長崎市) is the prefectural capital of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Port opened 1571 for Portuguese trade; Japan's only open port 1641–1858 via Dejima; atomic-bombed 1945; population about 390,000.
Nagasaki bugyo
The Nagasaki bugyo (長崎奉行) was the commissioner's office governing Nagasaki for the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603 until 1868, controlling foreign trade, diplomacy, coastal defense, and surveillance of western Japan.
Nagasaki clan
The Nagasaki clan (長崎氏) was a hereditary vassal house of the Hōjō regents of the Kamakura shogunate whose stewards, notably Takasuke, held real power until the clan fell with the Hōjō in 1333.