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Nyamwezi caravan trade
The Nyamwezi caravan trade was the long-distance trading system run by the Nyamwezi people of central Tanzania, moving ivory, slaves, and copper between the coast and Ujiji.
Nyamwezi people
The Nyamwezi, also called Wanyamwezi or Banyamwezi, are a Bantu-speaking people of west-central Tanzania, the country's second largest ethnic group with about 1.5 million people.
Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat, or Pop-Tart Cat, is a 2011 pixel-art meme of a cat with a Pop-Tart body flying through space trailing a rainbow, created by Chris Torres and set to daniwellP's song; fifth most-watched YouTube video of 2011, sold as an NFT for about $590,000 in 2021.
Nyandarua
Nyandarua County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, located in the former Central Province with its headquarters at Ol Kalou, and ranks first nationally in Irish potato production.
Nyanga ruins
The Nyanga ruins are the remains of a Later Farming Community culture in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands, with stone terraces, pit structures, and hilltop forts built between the 14th and early 19th centuries.
Nyango Star
Nyango Star (にゃんごすたー) is a cat-and-apple yuru-chara mascot drummer from Kuroishi, Aomori, Japan, played by an anonymous drummer, famous for metal covers of X Japan's Kurenai and the Anpanman March.
Nyanyi Sunyi
Nyanyi Sunyi ("Songs of Solitude") is a 1937 poetry collection by Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah with 24 devotional poems, a key work of modern Indonesian literature.
Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep is an H. P. Lovecraft entity introduced in his 1920 prose-poem of that name (also the Crawling Chaos), an Egyptian-featured showman who became the soul and messenger of the Mythos gods in later Lovecraft, Bloch, and Derleth fiction, roleplaying games, and recent video games.
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san) is a GA Bunko light novel series by Manta Aisora and Koin, begun in 2009, reimagining Cthulhu Mythos deities as aliens; adapted into TV anime seasons in 2012 and 2013.
Nyasaland
Nyasaland, also called the Nyasaland Protectorate and earlier British Central Africa, was a British protectorate (1891-1964) in south-central Africa, becoming Malawi on 6 July 1964 after the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved.
Nyasaland Emergency
The Nyasaland Emergency was a state of emergency declared by Governor Sir Robert Armitage on 3 March 1959, leading to over 1,300 arrests and the detention of Hastings Banda.
Nyash
Nyash (variants yansh, nyansh) is Nigerian Pidgin and West African slang for the buttocks, especially a woman's, used playfully or admiringly in speech, Afrobeats lyrics, dance, and social media; it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the December 2025 update.
Nyato Dukam
Nyato Dukam is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Arunachal Pradesh, holding the Commerce & Industries, Labour & Employment, and Information & Public Relations portfolios.
Nyatsimba Mutota
Nyatsimba Mutota was a fifteenth-century Shona ruler who founded the Mutapa state, or Mwene Mutapa kingdom, in the Zambezi region of northern Zimbabwe around 1450.
Nyaungyan dynasty
The Restored Toungoo dynasty, also called the Nyaungyan dynasty, was the Burmese royal house founded by Nyaungyan Min, son of Bayinnaung, which ruled reunified Burma from Ava until 1752.
Nyawa di-Hujung Pedang
Nyawa di-Hujung Pedang ("Life at the Edge of the Sword") is a Malay novel by Ahmad Murad Nasaruddin, based on the true story of Yazid Ahmad, tortured by the Japanese Kempeitai during the occupation of Malaya.
Nyaya (न्याय)
Nyaya (न्याय), also Nyaya darshana, is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, founded on the Nyaya-sutra of Akshapada Gautama. It teaches four pramanas (perception, inference, comparison, testimony), a five-membered syllogism, sixteen categories, and later merged with Vaisheshika as Nyaya-Vaisheshika.
Nyāya Sūtras
The Nyāya Sūtras are the foundational Sanskrit text of the Nyāya school of Indian philosophy, a manual of logic and debate attributed to Akṣapāda Gautama.
Nyayo era
The Nyayo era is the 1978 to 2002 period of Kenyan history under Daniel arap Moi, named from the Swahili word for footsteps, his pledge to follow Kenyatta's path.
Nyayo House torture chambers
The Nyayo House torture chambers were basement cells and interrogation rooms in Nairobi where Kenya's state tortured hundreds of political dissidents under President Daniel arap Moi.
Nyayo National Stadium
Nyayo National Stadium: 30,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Nairobi, opened 1983, named for Moi's Nyayo philosophy; home of FKF and Athletics Kenya headquarters, CHAN 2024 venue, AFCON 2027 training venue.
NYC Comptroller
The New York City Comptroller is a citywide elected official serving as the city's chief auditor, chief financial officer, and custodian of five public pension funds.
NYC Local Law 97
NYC Local Law 97 (LL97) is a 2019 New York City law imposing annual greenhouse gas emissions limits on buildings over 25,000 square feet, beginning in 2024.
Nyca Investment
Nyca Investment is the SEC filing name for the funds of Nyca Partners, a fintech venture capital firm founded in New York in 2014 by Hans Morris.
Nyck de Vries
Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver born 1995, 2019 Formula 2 and 2020-21 Formula E world champion; brief 2023 F1 stint with AlphaTauri after points-scoring Williams debut; now races for Mahindra in Formula E and Toyota in the WEC.
Nyckelharpa
Nyckelharpa: Swedish keyed fiddle (nyckelharpa, key fiddle) with wooden keys, tangents, drone and 12 sympathetic strings; 16-string chromatic form, 600-year history centered in Uppland, revived by Bohlin and Sahlström.
Nyctaginaceae
Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a Caryophyllales family of about 30-32 genera and 400 species, mostly New World tropics, with anthocarp fruits, Mirabilis jalapa, Bougainvillea, bird-catcher Pisonia trees, and two independent C4 origins.
Nyctalopia
Nyctalopia (night blindness) is impaired dim-light vision from subnormal rod function, classically the earliest sign of vitamin A deficiency via rhodopsin loss; other causes include retinitis pigmentosa and congenital stationary night blindness.
Nyctalus
Nyctalus (noctule bats), genus Bowdich 1825 of vesper bats (Vespertilionidae, Pipistrellini); includes N. noctula, N. leisleri, N. lasiopterus; large open-air hawking, migratory bats of Europe to Japan.
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (Parijat, night jasmine, tree of sadness) is an Oleaceae shrub or small tree to 10 m, native Himalaya to Jawa, with fragrant night-opening white flowers, orange dye tubes, and Ayurvedic medicinal use.