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Nuraghe Losa
Nuraghe Losa (nurache 'e losas) is a trilobate tholos nuraghe at Abbasanta, Oristano, Sardinia, built 15th–9th century BC, occupied to the 7th–8th century AD, and the first nuraghe excavated systematically (1890).
Nuraghe Lugherras
Nuraghe Lugherras, Paulilatino, Oristano, Sardinia: a complex polylobate Bronze Age nuraghe with keep, bastion, well, and antemural, excavated by Taramelli in 1906 and reused as a Punic-Roman sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.
Nuraghe Maiori
Nuraghe Maiori, also Majori, is a mixed corridor-and-tholos Bronze Age nuraghe near Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, at 498 m on a granite dome, excavated by Angela Antona and on Italy's UNESCO Tentative List.
Nuraghe Porcarzos
Nuraghe Porcarzos is a Bronze Age complex nuraghe, a megalithic tower-fortress in Borore, Sardinia, whose central tower stands inside a four-lobed bastion enclosing a courtyard, with excavation and restoration underway since 2024.
Nuraghe S'Ortali 'e su Monti
Nuraghe S'Ortali 'e su Monti (San Salvatore), Tortolì, Ogliastra, Sardinia: a Middle Bronze Age complex nuraghe with domus de janas, menhirs, giants' tomb, village, and Sardinia's leading nuragic granary.
Nuraghe Santu Antine
Nuraghe Santu Antine (sa Domu 'e su Re), a Bronze Age complex nuraghe near Torralba, Sassari, Sardinia; central tower about 17.55 m tall in a trilobate bastion, built 16th-15th century BC, on Italy's UNESCO Tentative List.
Nuraghe Succoronis
Nuraghe Succoronis (also Succurronis) is a single-tower Bronze Age nuraghe on a trachyte outcrop near Macomer, Sardinia, with a 14.20 m tower, intact 8.50 m tholos chamber, three side chambers, and spiral light openings.
Nuraghe Vignamarina
Nuraghe Vignamarina is a nuraghe, a prehistoric Sardinian stone tower, near Santa Teresa Gallura in Sassari, Sardinia. Recorded as a single-tower nuraghe with an associated village, it stands about 2 km from town on high ground with remains of probably two contiguous towers.
Nuragic civilization
The Nuragic civilization was the Bronze and Iron Age society of Sardinia, named after its nuraghe stone towers (about 8,000 survive). It ran from about 1800 to 238 BC, had an agro-pastoral economy with copper and lead mining, and traded across the Mediterranean before Phoenician contact.
Nurali Khan
Nurali Khan, also rendered Nuraly, was khan of the Kazakh Little Zhuz from 1748 to 1786, eldest son of Abulkhair Khan and the first Kazakh ruler confirmed by Russia.
Nurbanu Sultan
Nurbanu Sultan (Nûr-Bânû, died 1583) was haseki of Selim II and an early valide sultan as mother of Murad III, founding the Atik Valide complex in Üsküdar.
Nürburgring
Nürburgring: German motorsport complex at Nürburg in the Eifel, opened 1927. Known for the 20.8 km Nordschleife ('Green Hell'), the 1984 Grand Prix circuit, the 24-hour race, public tourist drives, and lap-record benchmarking.
Nurburgring Nordschleife
Nürburgring Nordschleife, the northern loop of the Nürburgring in Germany's Eifel mountains, also called the Green Hell: a 20.832 km, 73-corner track opened in 1927, longest permanent race circuit in the world.
Nurcan Taylan
Nurcan Taylan is a Turkish weightlifter who won the women's 48 kg gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the first Olympic title for a Turkish woman.
Nurcin Celik
Nurcin Celik is an industrial and systems engineer at the University of Miami and a 2014 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
NUREG-1150
NUREG-1150 is a 1990 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission report, Severe Accident Risks, that quantified severe accident risks at five representative nuclear power plants using probabilistic risk assessment.
Nurek Dam
The Nurek Dam, also known as Nurek Hydro-electric Station, is a 300-meter embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, the tallest embankment dam in the world.
Nurek hydroelectric plant
The Nurek hydroelectric plant (Нурекская ГЭС) is a 3,000 MW power station on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, home to the world's tallest embankment dam at 300 meters.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria's second-largest city with about 547,000 residents, is the economic and cultural center of northern Bavaria, a former Free Imperial City, site of the Nazi party rallies, Nuremberg trials, and Germany's first railway.
Nuremberg (2025 film)
Nuremberg (2025) is a James Vanderbilt historical drama adapted from Jack El-Hai's The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, starring Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, Rami Malek as psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, and Michael Shannon as Robert H. Jackson; Sony Pictures Classics released it November 7, 2025.
Nuremberg (Нюрнберг») (2023 film)
Nuremberg (Нюрнберг) is a 2023 Russian historical drama by Nikolai Lebedev about the 1945 Nuremberg tribunal, following Soviet interpreter Igor Volgin; released 2 March 2023, distinct from the 2025 American film of the same name.
Nuremberg Chronicle
The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) is an illustrated universal history compiled by Hartmann Schedel and printed in Nuremberg in 1493 by Anton Koberger, with about 1,800 woodcuts.
Nuremberg Code
Nuremberg Code (Nürnberger Kodex): ten-point set of ethical principles for human experimentation issued August 19, 1947, in the verdict of the Doctors' Trial (USA v. Karl Brandt et al.), centered on absolute voluntary informed consent; basis for the Declaration of Helsinki and Belmont Report.
Nuremberg executions
Nuremberg executions: the hangings of ten Nazi leaders in Nuremberg Prison's gymnasium on October 16, 1946, after IMT death sentences; Hermann Göring escaped by cyanide suicide hours before.
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze), enacted September 15, 1935 at the Nuremberg party rally, comprised the Reich Citizenship Law and the Blood Protection Law, which stripped over 500,000 German Jews of citizenship, banned Jewish-German marriage, and defined Jews by ancestry.
Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were post-WWII tribunals in Nuremberg, Germany, where the International Military Tribunal tried 22 Nazi leaders for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, convicting 19 and sentencing 12 to death, followed by twelve Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
Nuremberg Zoo
Tiergarten Nürnberg (Nuremberg Zoo), a German municipal zoo opened 1912 at Luitpoldhain and relocated 1939 to the Schmausenbuck; over 6,800 animals of about 310 species, a dolphin lagoon, and 46 international breeding programs.
Nureongi (누렁이)
Nureongi (누렁이, also Hwanggu/황구, "the yellow one") is the non-standardized Korean yellow landrace dog, the type most commonly farmed for meat, now phased out by South Korea's 2024 Special Act banning dog meat consumption from 2027.
Nurgan Regional Military Commission
The Nurgan Regional Military Commission (奴兒幹都司) was a regional military commission of the Ming dynasty, governing the Jurchen far northeast from Telin until the 1430s.
Nurhaci (ᠨᡠᡵᡤᠠᠴᡳ)
Nurhaci (ᠨᡠᡵᡤᠠᠴᡳ, 努尔哈赤), 1559–1626, Jurchen khan of the Aisin Gioro clan, unifier of the Jurchens, founder of the Later Jin (1616) and creator of the Eight Banners, posthumously Qing Taizu.