All articles starting with N

Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngo Dinh Diem (Ngô Đình Diệm), 1901–1963, first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), premier from 1954, president 1955–1963, overthrown and assassinated in the November 1963 coup.

Ngo dynasty

The Ngo dynasty (Nhà Ngô) was a Vietnamese dynasty founded by Ngo Quyen, who proclaimed himself king in 939 after defeating Southern Han on the Bach Dang river.

Ngo Pa

Ngo Pa (เงาะป่า, "Forest Savage") is a 1905 Thai verse play by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), a tragic love triangle among forest dwellers considered a Thai literary masterpiece.

Ngô Phương Ly (Ngo Thi Phuong Ly, born 1970) is the wife of Vietnamese Party General Secretary and President Tô Lâm, Vietnam's de facto first lady since 2024, a former VTV culture-arts department head and Golden Kite emblem designer active in cultural diplomacy.

Ngo Quyen

Ngo Quyen (Ngô Quyền, 898–944) was a Vietnamese general and king who destroyed a Southern Han fleet at the Bach Dang River in 938, ending Chinese rule.

Ngo Si Lien

Ngo Si Lien (Ngô Sĩ Liên) was a Vietnamese historian of the Later Le dynasty who compiled the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, presented in 1479.

Ngô Tất Tố

Ngô Tất Tố (吳必素, 1893–1954) was a Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Tắt đèn, about a peasant family ruined by the colonial head tax.

Ngô Thanh Vân

Ngô Thanh Vân (Veronica Ngo), Vietnamese-born Norwegian actress born 1979 in Trà Vinh, star of Hai Phượng (200+ billion VND), known as Vietnam's "đả nữ" action heroine, Studio68 producer-director, and Hollywood roles in The Old Guard, Star Wars, and The Creator.

Sep 27, 2026

Ngo Van Tuan

Ngo Van Tuan (born 1971) is a Vietnamese politician of the Communist Party of Vietnam who has served as Minister of Finance since 2026, after serving as State Auditor General.

Oct 20, 2026

Ngoc Linh (mountain, Vietnam)

Ngoc Linh (Ngọc Linh), 2,598 m, highest peak of Vietnam's Central Highlands on the Kon Tum–Quảng Nam border; ultra-prominent Annamite summit, home of endemic Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamensis) and a demanding trekking destination.

Ngoc Lu drum

The Ngọc Lũ drum (Trống đồng Ngọc Lũ) is a Đông Sơn bronze drum found in Hà Nam, Vietnam, in 1893, famed for its scenes of boats, dancers, and stilt houses.

Ngoenyang

Ngoenyang, also known as Hirannakorn Ngoenyang, was an early Tai polity in the Chiang Saen lowlands of northern Thailand and the ancestral seat of the Mangrai dynasty.

Ngogo chimpanzee war

Ngogo chimpanzee war: ongoing lethal conflict after the 2018 permanent fission of Uganda's Ngogo chimpanzee community (Kibale National Park) into Central (107) and Western (83) groups; 24 attacks killed at least seven mature males and 17 infants.

Ngola (title)

Ngola was the royal title of the monarchs of the Kingdom of Ndongo, a Mbundu state in present-day northern Angola, whose name gave Angola its name.

Ngola Mbande

Ngola Mbande was king of Ndongo, an Mbundu kingdom in present-day Angola, from 1617 to 1624, and sent his sister Njinga to negotiate peace with Portugal in 1622.

Oct 21, 2026

Ngolo

Ngolo names two Central African traditions: N'golo (Engolo, Zebra Dance), a Bantu Angolan fight-dance and precursor of capoeira, and Ngola, a Congolese four-row mancala board game.

Ngolo Diarra

Ngolo Diarra was faama of the Bamana Kingdom of Segu in present-day Mali from 1766 to 1790, founding a dynasty and expanding Segu into an empire.

Sep 19, 2026

Ngoma

Ngoma is a Bantu term across East and Central Africa meaning drum, dance, music, and healing ceremony, an event-environment rather than a genre, feeding Tanzanian pop styles like bongo flava.

Ngoma poetry

Ngoma poetry is sung poetry performed within ngoma, the Bantu performance event combining drumming, song, and dance; scholars see ngoma as the context for adult Swahili nyimbo.

Ngongo Lutete

Ngongo Lutete was a Tetela slave trader who served the Congo Free State in 1892, helping to conquer Nyangwe and Kasongo before his death in 1893.

Ngoni migrations

The Ngoni migrations were the northward movements, beginning in the 1820s, of Nguni-speaking peoples from South Africa and Eswatini into Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania, set off by the Mfecane.

Ngoni praise poetry

Ngoni praise poetry is the izibongo praise-poem tradition of the Ngoni people of Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, who carried the genre north during the Mfecane migrations.

Oct 21, 2026

Ngoring

Ngoring Lake (鄂陵湖, Tibetan Cuoelang, cyan lake) is the largest freshwater lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in Madoi County, Qinghai, at the Yellow River source; sister lake of Gyaring, area about 610-651 km2, elevation about 4,269 m.