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Nakoleia
Nakoleia, also Nacoleia or Nacolia, was a city of ancient Phrygia in central Anatolia on the Parthenios river, identified with modern Seyitgazi in Eskişehir Province, Turkey.
Nakoso power station
Nakoso power station (勿来発電所) is a coal-fired power plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, operated by Joban Joint Power and best known for Japan's first commercial IGCC unit.
Nakrah Temple (Baraqish)
The Nakrah Temple, anciently called Barrān, was a Minaean hypostyle temple at Baraqish, ancient Yathill, in Yemen, in use for about five hundred years until its destruction in 2015.
Nakshatra
Nakshatra (Nakṣatras) is one of the 27 divisions of the ecliptic in traditional Indian astronomy and astrology, each a lunar mansion the Moon occupies for about a day.
Nakshatram (నక్షత్రం) (film)
Nakshatram (నక్షత్రం) is Krishna Vamsi's 2017 Telugu action film starring Sundeep Kishan, Regina Cassandra, Sai Dharam Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, and Prakash Raj, released 4 August 2017 after delays. A police-aspirant cop drama, it flopped, earning about Rs 5 crore on a Rs 25 crore-plus budget and unfavorable reviews.
Nakshi kantha
Nakshi kantha (নকশি কাঁথা) is a traditional embroidered quilt of Bengal, made by rural women who layer worn cloth and work decorative patterns into it with running stitches.
Nakshi Kanthar Math
Nakshi Kanthar Math (নকশী কাঁথার মাঠ, "The Field of the Embroidered Quilt") is a 1929 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the tragic love of villagers Rupai and Saju.
Naktong Vallis
Naktong Vallis, an ancient fluvial valley on Mars south of Arabia Terra, southern part of the 4700 km Naktong-Scamander-Mamers system, the longest organized valley on Mars, active into the Hesperian with sapping and runoff evidence.
Nakul Aggarwal
Nakul Aggarwal is an Indian technology entrepreneur and IIT Bombay graduate who co-founded the software-testing company BrowserStack in Mumbai in 2011, now valued at $4 billion.
Nakula (नकुल)
Nakula (नकुल), one of the five Pandava twins with Sahadeva in the Mahabharata, son of Madri and the Asvins; a horseman famed for beauty and swordsmanship, serving as Granthika in Virata's court.
Nakulamātā
Nakulamātā ("mongoose's mother") was a female lay disciple of the Buddha, the wife of Nakulapitā, whom the Pali tradition names foremost among his trustworthy female followers.
Nakulapitā
Nakulapitā (नकुलपिता, "father of Nakula") was a wealthy householder of Sumsumāragiri whom the Buddha named foremost among trusting lay disciples, together with his wife Nakulamātā.
Nakuru (city)
Nakuru is a city in Kenya's Rift Valley, the capital of Nakuru County, made Kenya's fourth city on 1 December 2021 after Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu.
Nakuru (district)
Nakuru District, former Kenyan district named after Nakuru Town (Maasai-derived name), headquarters of colonial White highlands administration; township 1904, municipality 1952, now Nakuru County with 11 sub-counties.
Nakuru Lacuna
Nakuru Lacuna, a 188-km dry lake basin (lacuna) on Titan at 65.81°N, 94.00°W, IAU-approved December 3, 2013, named after the intermittent Lake Nakuru in Kenya.
Nakusp
Nakusp: village municipality on Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, incorporated 1964, population 1,589 (2021), known for forestry, community forest NACFOR, and the Nakusp Hot Springs.
Nakuul Mehta (नकुल मेहता)
Nakuul Mehta (नकुल मेहता), born 1983 in Udaipur, is an Indian actor and producer known for Pyaar Ka Dard Hai, Ishqbaaaz, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2, and Space Gen: Chandrayaan.
NAL Saras
The NAL Saras (SARAS) is a twin-engine turboprop light transport aircraft developed by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories in Bengaluru as India's first indigenous civil passenger aircraft, first flown in 2004.
Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary
Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary (Nalsarovar, નાળ સરોવર) is a 12,000-hectare shallow freshwater lake and Ramsar site (no. 2078, designated 2012) in Gujarat, India, the largest natural wetland of the Thar Desert province and a Central Asia Flyway stopover hosting over 200 bird species.
Nala (fintech company)
NALA is a cross-border payments fintech founded by Tanzanian entrepreneur Benjamin Fernandes, letting users in the US, UK, and EU send money to Africa and Asia.
Nala (The Lion King)
Nala is the lioness deuteragonist of Disney's The Lion King (1994), Simba's childhood friend and queen who persuades him to return from exile; voiced by Niketa Calame and Moira Kelly, later Beyoncé, and expanded in the Broadway musical.
Nala and Damayanti (दमयन्ती)
Nala and Damayanti (दमयन्ती), heroes of the Nalopākhyāna in the Mahabharata's Vana Parva: a king ruined at dice, exiled, disguised as cook Bāhuka, and restored through his wife's loyalty.
Nala Ray
Nala Ray, known online as Fitness Nala, is an American creator who left OnlyFans in 2024 after earning millions and became a Christian influencer, podcaster, and speaker.
Nalachampu
Nalachampu (नलचम्पू), also known as Damayantīkathā or Damayantīcampū, is a Sanskrit champu mixing prose and verse, written by Trivikrama Bhaṭṭa in the early tenth century.
Nalacharitam
Nalacharitam (നളചരിതം) is a four-part Kathakali play text written in the late 17th or early 18th century by Unnayi Warrier, dramatizing the Nala-Damayanti story from the Mahabharata.
Naladiyar
Naladiyar (நாலடியார்), also called Naladi Nanuru, is a Tamil ethical anthology of 400 four-line quatrains in venba meter, attributed to Jain ascetics and ranked next to the Tirukkural among moral texts.
Nalaka
Nalaka is the nephew and disciple of the sage Asita in the Pali tradition; he waited 35 years in the Himalaya foothills, met the Buddha, and attained arahatship.
Nalakhyan
Nalakhyan (નળાખ્યાન) is the title of several medieval Gujarati narrative poems telling the Mahabharata story of King Nala and Damayanti, the most famous composed by Premanand in 1686.
Nalan Ci
Nalan Ci (纳兰词) is the collected ci poetry of Nalan Xingde, a Manchu aristocrat of the early Qing dynasty, praised for its sincerity and mournful love poems.
Nalan Kumarasamy
Nalan Kumarasamy (நலன் குமாரசாமி), born 1980 in Tiruchirappalli, is a Tamil film director and screenwriter whose debut Soodhu Kavvum (2013) defined Tamil dark comedy; also wrote Super Deluxe and directed Vaa Vaathiyaar (2026).