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Northern Crusades
The Northern (Baltic) Crusades, 1147–1525: papally authorized campaigns by Danish, Swedish, Saxon rulers and the Sword Brothers and Teutonic Knights to convert Baltic pagans, creating the Ordensstaat.
Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, TRNC) is a self-declared state in the northern third of Cyprus, proclaimed 15 November 1983, recognized only by Turkey and declared legally invalid by UN Security Council resolution 541.
Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer (1961–1990), Canadian-bred Thoroughbred by Nearctic out of Natalma; first Canadian-bred Kentucky Derby winner (1964, two-minute flat), also won Preakness and Queen's Plate; dominant sire of Nijinsky II, Sadler's Wells, and Danehill's line.
Northern Darfur
North Darfur State, Sudan: northwestern state with capital El Fasher; arid farming-pastoralist economy; epicenter of the 2023-2026 Sudan war famine, with IPC-confirmed famine in Zamzam, Abu Shouk and Al Salam camps and the RSF capture of El Fasher in October 2025.
Northern Deccan Plateau
Northern Deccan Plateau, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 713, the Godavari River system ecoregion of peninsular India; Indo-Malay floodplain-river unit with low known fish endemism and three endemic threatened fishes.
Northern District
Northern District (Hebrew: mehoz haTzafon), one of six administrative districts of Israel, covering the Galilee, Jezreel and Jordan Valleys; also a Mandatory Palestine district; lowest salaries and highest poverty rates except Jerusalem.
Northern dusky salamander
Northern dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus, Green 1818), a lungless plethodontid salamander of eastern North America, streamside and seep-dwelling, aquatic larvae, 12-51 guarded eggs, NatureServe G5 but Endangered in Ontario.
Northern Dvina
Northern Dvina (Северная Двина), large northwestern Russian river formed by the Sukhona and Yug confluence, flowing 744 km to the White Sea; fifth-largest European basin, major timber route.
Northern Eastern Rift
Northern Eastern Rift (FEOW ecoregion 528, Afrotropic): freshwater ecoregion of the northern Ethiopian Rift Valley's endorheic lakes (Zwai, Abijata, Langano, Shala, Awassa), crater lakes, and the Awash River terminating in Lake Abhe, spanning Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia.
Northern Elements Progressive Union
The Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) was a radical political party in Northern Nigeria, founded in Kano in 1950. Led by Aminu Kano, it championed the talakawa against the aristocracy.
Northern elephant seal
Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), largest true seal of the Northern Hemisphere; nearly extinct by 1892 (~20 animals), recovered to over 220,000; deep-diving North Pacific squid and fish predator.
Northern Endurance Partnership
The Northern Endurance Partnership is a bp, Equinor, and TotalEnergies joint venture transporting and storing carbon dioxide from Teesside and the Humber under the North Sea.
Northern England
Northern England: the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and the Humber regions; 16 million people, one fifth of UK GVA, Industrial Revolution heartland, and the subject of the North–South divide in productivity and health.
Northern Europe
Northern Europe: the continent's north, defined by the UN M49 geoscheme (British Isles, Nordic countries, Baltic states), by glaciated uplands and the North European Plain, and by Nordic-Baltic cultural usage.
Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition (北伐), or Beifa, was the Kuomintang military campaign of 1926 to 1928, led by Chiang Kai-shek, that toppled China's warlord-backed Beijing government.
Northern expeditions of 505–507 under Xiao Hong
The Northern expeditions of 505–507 under Xiao Hong (天监北伐) were a Liang offensive against Northern Wei in the Huai River region, led by Emperor Wu's brother Xiao Hong.
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure, CBS comedy-drama 1990–1995 by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, set in fictional Cicely, Alaska, filmed in Roslyn, Washington; seven Emmys, two Peabodys, Golden Globe winner.
Northern Extended Millimeter Array
The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) is a millimeter radio interferometer of twelve 15-meter antennas on the Plateau de Bure in the French Alps, operated by IRAM since 1990.
Northern Fleet (Северный флот)
Northern Fleet (Северный флот), Russia's largest fleet, based at Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula; operates most of Russia's sea-based nuclear deterrent, SSBNs, Yasen-M submarines, and Bastion Arctic defenses.
Northern flicker
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), a large ground-foraging North American woodpecker that eats ants and beetles. Yellow-shafted and Red-shafted groups hybridize from Alaska to Texas; Guatemalan Flicker split in 2024.
Northern Football League
Northern Football League (Ebac Northern League), founded 1889/1890, second oldest football league in the world; two north-east England divisions at Steps 5 and 6 of the National League System feeding the Northern Premier League.
Northern Fujiwara
The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏), or Oshu Fujiwara, was a warrior dynasty ruling Mutsu and Dewa provinces from Hiraizumi, founded by Fujiwara no Kiyohira and destroyed in 1189.
Northern fur seal
Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), a large sexually dimorphic eared seal of the North Pacific and Bering Sea; breeds mainly on the Pribilof Islands, population down from 2.4 million to about 624,000, IUCN Vulnerable and COSEWIC Threatened.
Northern gannet
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus), largest seabird of the North Atlantic, family Sulidae. Plunge-dives from over 100 feet at 60 mph; breeds in six Canadian and 32 European colonies; 2022 avian influenza cut Bass Rock by about 30%.
Northern Gas Networks
Northern Gas Networks is a British gas distribution company that owns the pipes serving 2.9 million customers across North East England, northern Cumbria, and much of Yorkshire.
Northern Gas Pipeline
The Northern Gas Pipeline, also known as the North East Gas Interconnector, is a 622 km pipeline linking Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, to Mount Isa, Queensland, opened in 2019.
Northern Governorate
Northern Governorate (المحافظة الشمالية), Bahrain's most populous of four governorates, on the main island's northwest; 378,228 people (2014), 145.8 km², Hamad Town, Barbar Temple, burial mounds.
Northern Gulf of Guinea Drainages - Bioko
A freshwater ecoregion, FEOW ID 518, covering rivers from Nigeria's Cross River to Cameroon's Wouri estuary plus Bioko Island, with endemic killifishes and endangered status.
Northern Han
Northern Han (北汉) was a small state of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, founded by Liu Chong at Jinyang in 951 as the continuation of the Later Han dynasty.
Northern Heavy Industries Group
Northern Heavy Industries Group is a Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer based in Shenyang, formed in 2006, that makes tunnel boring machines from 3 to 15 meters in diameter.