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Nagasaki foreign settlement

The Nagasaki foreign settlement (長崎外国人居留地) was the district of the port of Nagasaki, Japan, where foreign residents lived and traded from 1859 to 1899, under the Ansei treaties.

Nagasaki Holland Village

Nagasaki Holland Village (長崎オランダ村) is a Dutch-themed park in Saikai, Nagasaki, opened 1983, closed 2001, revived 2017 from Port of Horn Nagasaki; forerunner of Huis Ten Bosch.

Nagasaki Incident

The Nagasaki Incident (長崎事件), also called the Qing Sailors' Violence Incident, was a violent 1886 clash between sailors of China's Beiyang Fleet and Japanese police in Nagasaki.

Nagasaki Ironworks

Nagasaki Ironworks (Nagasaki Seitetsusho) was a ship-repair and machine works built by the Tokugawa shogunate in Nagasaki, completed in 1861 as Japan's first Western-style factory.

Nagasaki mushroom cloud

The Nagasaki mushroom cloud is the column of smoke that rose over Nagasaki, Japan, after the United States detonated the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.

Nagasaki Naval Training Center

The Nagasaki Naval Training Center (Nagasaki Kaigun Denshūjo) was a naval school opened by the Tokugawa shogunate at Nagasaki in 1855, taught by Dutch naval officers.

Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium

Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium (長崎ペンギン水族館) is a public aquarium in Nagasaki City, Japan that specializes in penguins, keeping 9 of the world's 18 species. It opened in 2001.

Sep 24, 2026

Nagasaki tsūji

The Nagasaki tsūji (長崎通詞) were the hereditary corps of Chinese and Dutch interpreters at Nagasaki during the Edo period, serving the shogunate from 1604 to 1867.

Oct 10, 2026

Nāgasamāla (नागसमाल) was a Sākiyan monk who entered the Order at Kapilavatthu and served as a temporary attendant of the Buddha before Ānanda, known for the disputed-road bowl episode and four Theragāthā verses on his arahantship.

Nagasena

Nagasena (नागसेन) was a Buddhist monk and teacher, remembered as the sage who instructed the Indo-Greek king Milinda, identified with Menander, in the Milindapanha, a Pali dialogue on Buddhist doctrine.

Nagashima Spa Land

Nagashima Spa Land (ナガシマスパーランド) is a large amusement park in Kuwana, Mie, Japan, opened 1966 within Nagashima Resort. Known for Steel Dragon 2000, Japan's longest coaster at 2,479 m, the Hakugei hybrid coaster, and about 60 attractions.

Nagasi Krestos

Nagasi Krestos (ነጋሲ ክርስቶስ) was an Amhara noble who ruled Shewa from about 1682 to 1703 and is traditionally considered the founder of the Shewan Solomonid dynasty.

Nagastra-1

Nagastra-1 is an Indian man-portable loitering munition, or suicide drone, developed by Economic Explosives Limited; the Indian Army received the first of 480 units in June 2024.

Sep 24, 2026

Nagata Tetsuzan

Nagata Tetsuzan (永田鉄山) was an Imperial Japanese Army general who built the army's national mobilization system, led its Control faction, and was assassinated in 1935 by a rival officer.

Nagatitan

Nagatitan, species Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, is a large long-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of northeastern Thailand, described in 2026 as the largest dinosaur from Southeast Asia.

Nagato (长门) (Naruto)

Nagato (長門, alias Pain) is the Akatsuki leader in Naruto: an Amegakure Uzumaki orphan wielding Madara's transplanted Rinnegan, controlling the Six Paths of Pain, destroying Konoha with Shinra Tensei, then dying reviving his victims.

Nagato-class battleship

The Nagato class (長門型戦艦) comprised two Imperial Japanese Navy super-dreadnought battleships, Nagato and Mutsu, completed in 1920 and 1921 as the first warships carrying 16-inch guns.

Nagaur District

Nagaur District, Rajasthan, India; headquarters Nagaur city; central Rajasthan district of 17,718 sq km with 3.3 million people (2011), dryland farming, gypsum, Makrana marble, salt, and the 1959 Panchayati Raj launch site.

Nagavalli (నాగవల్లి) (film)

Nagavalli (నాగవల్లి) is a 2010 Telugu supernatural thriller directed by P. Vasu, a remake of Kannada Aptharakshaka and sequel to Chandramukhi, starring Venkatesh in a dual role and Anushka Shetty as Chandramukhi.

Nagavanshi dynasty of Chakrakota

The Nagavanshi dynasty of Chakrakota (नागवंशी), also called the Chindaka Naga, was a ruling house of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India, governing Chakrakota from 1023 to 1324 CE.

Nagavarma I

Nagavarma I was a Kannada grammarian, prosodist, and champu poet from Vengi in the eastern Deccan, whose Chandombudhi is the earliest available Kannada work on prosody; his dating is disputed.

Nagavarma II

Nagavarma II was an 11th-century Kannada grammarian, poet, and lexicographer who served as court scholar under the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II; his Vardhamanapuranam was completed in 1042.

Nagavonyi Corona

Nagavonyi Corona is a 190-km-diameter corona on Venus at 18.5°S, 259°E in quadrangle V-40 near Parga Chasma, named for a Ganda crop goddess, showing inward-bowing fractures from upwarp under extension.

Oct 20, 2026

NagaWorld

NagaWorld (ណាហ្គាវើលដ៍) is Phnom Penh's only integrated casino resort, run by Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp (3918) under a 70-year licence to 2065; known for its 1,658-room complex, the LRSU strike since 2021, and VIP revenue swings.

Sep 24, 2026

Nagaya-o Incident

The Nagaya-o Incident (長屋王の変) was a 729 purge at the Nara court in which Prince Nagaya, accused of sorcery by the Fujiwara brothers, was forced to commit suicide.

Oct 10, 2026

Nagayoshi Iwahori

Nagayoshi Iwahori (岩堀長慶, 1926–2011) was a Japanese mathematician at the University of Tokyo whose 1964 and 1965 papers founded the theory of Iwahori–Hecke algebras in representation theory.

Nageia

Nageia is a genus of five evergreen podocarp conifers ranging from southern India and Bangladesh through Malesia to southern Japan, unusual among conifers for flat, broad, many-veined leaves.

Nageia nagi

Nageia nagi (Thunb.) Kuntze, the nagi tree or Asian bayberry (竹柏, ナギ), is a broad-leaved podocarp conifer native to southeast China, Taiwan, and Japan, listed Near Threatened globally and Endangered in Taiwan.