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Names of the American Civil War
Names of the American Civil War (1861-1865), also called War Between the States, War of the Rebellion, and War of Southern Independence. The dominant modern name is Civil War; other names reflect Union, Confederate, and Lost Cause viewpoints.
Names of the days of the week
The names of the days of the week descend from a Roman planetary week and a biblical seven-day cycle; English substitutes Germanic gods for Roman ones.
Names of the Islamic State
Names of the Islamic State: ISIS, ISIL, IS, and Daesh, the Arabic acronym of al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham. Traces the group's name changes from 1999 to the June 2014 caliphate declaration and explains why governments and media choose different terms.
Names of the Philippines
Names of the Philippines: Archipelago of San Lazaro (Magellan, 1521), Las Islas Filipinas (Villalobos, 1543, for Philip II), Philippine Islands, and official Philippines/Pilipinas, plus renaming proposals.
Names of the Romani people
Names of the Romani people: endonyms Rom, Roma, Romani ("man" in Romani) versus exonyms Gypsy (from Egyptian), Zigeuner/tsigane (from Greek Athinganos), plus group names Sinti, Kale, Dom, Lom and institutional usage.
Names of World War II
Names of World War II are the terms used to designate the global conflict of 1939 to 1945. The United States officially adopted the designation "World War II" in 1945.
Namesake
A namesake is a person or thing named after another, or sharing another's name. First recorded 1640s from "for the name's sake"; the recipient of a name, as opposed to the eponym, its source.
Namespace
A namespace is a context for identifiers in a program that groups names so each identifier uniquely identifies an entity, preventing collisions between independently written code.
Namewee (黄明志)
Namewee (黄明志), born Wee Meng Chee in 1983 in Muar, Malaysia, is a Taiwan-based Malaysian rapper, filmmaker and actor known for multilingual satirical songs like 漂向北方 and 玻璃心, viral videos, and repeated official controversies.
Namgangseokjae Folk Village
Namgangseokjae Folk Village (남강석재민속촌) is a theme park and tourist attraction in Iksan-si, a city of about 307,000 people in North Jeolla Province, South Korea.
Namghosa
Namghosa (নামঘোষা), also known as Hazari Ghosa, is the principal devotional verse text of Assamese Vaishnavism. Composed by Madhavadeva between 1568 and 1596, its 1,001 verses praise Krishna and teach chanting God's name.
Namghosha
Namghosha, also known as Hazari Ghosa, is a Vaishnavite devotional scripture in Assamese of about a thousand couplets, written by Madhavdeva and still recited in Assam's Namghar prayer halls.
Namgung Eok
Namgung Eok (1863–1939), pen name Hanseo, was a Korean journalist, educator, and independence activist who co-founded the newspaper Hwangseong Sinmun and led the Independence Club during the late Korean Empire.
Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh
The Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh (རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱལ་རབས) was a Tibetan-Buddhist royal house that ruled the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, presiding over its great Drukpa monasteries in the 17th century under King Sengge Namgyal.
Namhansanseong (남한산성)
Namhansanseong (남한산성), a UNESCO World Heritage mountain fortress 25 km southeast of Seoul, rebuilt in 1626 under King Injo as the Joseon dynasty's emergency capital; its 12.4 km walls withstood the 47-day Qing siege of 1636.
Namhansanseong siege government (1636–37)
The Namhansanseong siege government (남한산성 행궁) was the court and provisional capital King Injo of Joseon established in Namhansanseong fortress during the Qing invasion of 1636–37.
Nami (One Piece)
Nami (ナミ), the "Cat Burglar," is the navigator of the Straw Hat Pirates in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece: bounty 366,000,000 berries, dream of mapping the world, Clima-Tact weather staff, played by Emily Rudd in Netflix's live-action series.
NAMI trial
The NAMI trial is a Finnish clinical trial at the University of Turku testing whether dietary counseling and probiotics during pregnancy reduce allergy and obesity.
Nami Zarringhalam
Nami Zarringhalam, born 1984 in Tehran, is an Iranian-born Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the caller-identification company Truecaller in Stockholm in 2009 with Alan Mamedi, and has chaired its board since 2026.
Namib
The Namib is a roughly 2,000 km coastal desert along the southern African Atlantic coast, mainly in Namibia, famed for its fog-fed Namib Sand Sea dunes, Orange River sand provenance, endemic fog-harvesting wildlife, and the 2013 UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Namib (나미브) (TV series)
Namib (나미브) is a 2024–2025 South Korean ENA music drama, also a Genie TV original, starring Go Hyun Jung as fired producer Kang Su-hyun and Ryeoun as trainee Yoo Jin-woo; 12 episodes aired December 23, 2024 to January 28, 2025.
Namib Sand Sea
Namib Sand Sea: coastal fog desert in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 under all four natural criteria; the world's only coastal desert with extensive fog-influenced dune fields, fed by Orange River sand.
Namibe Province
Namibe Province, southwestern Angola on the Atlantic, capital Moçâmedes (formerly Namibe city); about 57,091 km², 600,000–700,000 people; Namib Desert coast, fishing, Port of Namibe, tomatoes, Iona National Park.
Namibia
Namibia (Republic of Namibia), arid southwest African country of 3.1 million on 825,229 sq km; independent from South Africa in 1990, SWAPO-ruled multiparty democracy, lower-middle-income since 2025, Gini 59.1, capital Windhoek.
Namibia Airports Company
The Namibia Airports Company (NAC) is a 100% state-owned enterprise, incorporated under the Airports Company Act 25 of 1998, that develops and operates eight commercial airports across Namibia.
Namibia Cricket Ground
FNB Namibia Cricket Ground (NCG) is a 7,000-capacity cricket stadium in Olympia, Windhoek, Namibia, opened 11 October 2025 with a historic T20I against South Africa; it hosts 2026 U19 and 2027 Men's Cricket World Cup matches.
Namibia Securities Exchange (NSX)
The Namibia Securities Exchange (NSX) is Namibia's only registered stock exchange, trading in Windhoek since 1992, with 61 securities and N$2.81 trillion market capitalization in 2025.
Namibian Black German
Namibian Black German, or Küchendeutsch (Kiche Duits), is a German-based pidgin that arose from about 1900 in colonial Namibia for work-context interethnic communication; reduced German with Afrikaans influence, now dying out.
Namibian Defence Force
Namibian Defence Force (NDF), Namibia's tri-service military (Army, Air Force, Navy), established 1990 by integrating former PLAN guerrillas and SWATF members; about 12,000 personnel under the President as commander-in-chief.
Namibian dollar
The Namibian dollar (N$) is the currency of Namibia, issued by the Bank of Namibia and pegged one-to-one to the South African rand since 1993.