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Pasha
Pasha (Turkish paşa), the highest Ottoman military and civil honorific, granted by the sultan, ranked above bey, graded by one to three horsetail tuğ banners, and abolished in Turkey by the 1934 Titles Law.
Pasha Grishchuk
Pasha Grishchuk (Oksana Vladimirovna Grishchuk, Оксана Грищук), Russian ice dancer born 1972 in Odesa; with Yevgeny Platov won Olympic ice dance gold in 1994 and 1998, the first repeat champions, plus four world titles.
Pasha Kovalev
Pasha Kovalev (Pavel Kovalev, Павел Ковалёв), Russian Latin and ballroom dancer born 1980 in Komsomolsk-na-Amure; US Open finalist with Anya Garnis, So You Think You Can Dance season 3, and Strictly Come Dancing professional 2011–2018, winning the 2014 glitter ball with Caroline Flack.
Pasha Pashkov
Pasha Pashkov (Pavel Pashkov, born 1986) is a Russian-born American ballroom dancer, seven-time U.S National 10-Dance Champion, husband and partner of Daniella Karagach, and a Dancing with the Stars pro since season 28.
Pasha Petkuns
Pavel 'Pasha' Petkuns, Latvian freerunner born 1992 in Daugavpils, three-time Red Bull Art of Motion champion (2011, 2012 twice), 2018 FIG freestyle world ranking leader, Team Farang member, married Riley Reid in 2021.
Pasha Romanovski
Pasha Romanovski is an Israeli venture investor who co-founded the Herzliya-based firm Hanaco Ventures in 2017, which grew to roughly $2 billion under management before stopping new fundraising in 2025.
Pasha Technique
Pasha Technique (Паша Техник), real name Pavel Ivlev (1984–2025), was a Russian underground rapper, founder of Kunteynir, known for gorilla-mask performances, Versus battles, a 2008–2013 prison term, and albums like Chto-to s chem-to (2023).
Pashalik of Timbuktu
The Pashalik of Timbuktu was a military state on the Middle Niger in present-day Mali, ruled from Timbuktu by the Arma, descendants of the Moroccan army that conquered the Songhai Empire in 1591.
Pashchim Champāran
Pashchim Champaran (पश्चिम चंपारण), or West Champaran, is a Bihar district formed in 1972 with headquarters at Bettiah, bordering Nepal, home to Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar's only tiger reserve, and a fertile Gandak-plain farming economy.
Pashed
Pashed, usually written Pashedu, was a workman of Deir el-Medina in Egypt's 19th Dynasty who served under Sety I and Ramesses II and owned Theban tomb TT3.
Pashhur son of Immer
Pashhur, also spelled Pashur, was a Jerusalem priest of the house of Immer who had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and confined in the temple stocks under King Jehoiakim.
Pashime
Pashime, also Bashime, was an ancient city of the Mesopotamian–Elamite borderland, identified with Tell Abu Sheeja in eastern Iraq, where a 2007 excavation found a stele naming its governor Ilšu-rabi.
Pashko Vasa
Pashko Vasa (1825–1892) was an Albanian writer and Ottoman administrator, a leading ideologue of the Albanian National Renaissance and author of the patriotic poem "O moj Shqypni."
Pashto (پښتو)
Pashto (پښتو), an Eastern Iranian language with over 60 million speakers, is one of Afghanistan's two official languages alongside Dari. Distinguished by split ergativity, grammatical gender, extra Perso-Arabic letters, and a literary tradition beginning in the 16th century.
Pashtun tribes
Pashtun tribes (khel) are patrilineal descent groups of the Pashtun people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, nested as zai lineages, aziiz clans, and confederations such as the Durrani and Ghilzai, governed by pashtunwali and marked by egalitarian, segmentary organization.
Pashtunistan (پښتونستان)
Pashtunistan, also spelled Pakhtoonistan (پښتونستان, "Land of the Pashtuns"), is a proposed homeland for Pashtuns split by the 1893 Durand Line, never realized as a state.
Pashtuns (پښتانه)
Pashtuns (پښتانه), also Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Eastern Iranian people of about 60 million in Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking Pashto, governed by Pashtunwali, and divided by the Durand Line.
Pashtunwali (پښتونوالی)
Pashtunwali (پښتونوالی), the unwritten Pashtun honor code and customary law of Afghanistan and Pakistan, built on melmastia hospitality, badal revenge, nanawatai asylum, nang honor, and jirga councils.
Pashupata sect
The Pashupata sect (पाशुपत) was an organized Shaiva ascetic order of ancient India, attributed to the teacher Lakulisha and regarded as the oldest known cult of Shaivism.
Pashupatastra (पाशुपतास्त्र)
Pashupatastra (पाशुपतास्त्र, Pāśupatāstra) is Shiva's personal divine weapon in the Mahabharata, granted to Arjuna after the Kirata contest in Vana Parva; hurled by mind, eye, words, or bow, it must never be used rashly on a lesser foe.
Pashupati Kumar Paras
Pashupati Kumar Paras is an Indian politician who led the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party and served as Union Minister of Food Processing Industries from 2021 to 2024.
Pashupati seal
The Pashupati seal, also called Seal 420 or the Proto-Shiva seal, is a steatite stamp seal from Mohenjo-daro showing a horned seated figure among animals. John Marshall's proto-Shiva identification remains disputed; the Indus script is undeciphered.
Pashupatinath Temple (पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर)
Pashupatinath Temple (पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva as Pashupati on the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, the country's most revered temple.
Pasi A. Jänne
Pasi A. Jänne is an American thoracic medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who co-discovered EGFR mutations that make lung tumors respond to targeted drugs.
Pasig
Pasig is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines, about 12 kilometers east of Manila on the Pasig River, with 803,159 residents recorded in the 2020 census.
Pasión de Gavilanes
Pasión de Gavilanes, Colombian telenovela by Julio Jiménez, RTI/Telemundo/Caracol remake of Las aguas mansas; 188 episodes 2003-2004, Reyes-Elizondo revenge romance, 2022 second season.
Pasión de la tierra
Pasión de la tierra is a 1935 book of prose poems by Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, regarded as the first incursion of Spanish poetry into surrealism.
Pasiphaë (Πασιφάη)
Pasiphaë (Πασιφάη), Greek mythological queen of Crete, daughter of Helios, wife of Minos, mother of the Minotaur by the bull of Poseidon via Daedalus' wooden cow; also a sorceress and Laconian moon-goddess with a dream-oracle.
Pasiphae Linea
Pasiphae Linea is a large linea (dark linear marking) on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved August 30, 2023, 1306 km across, centered at 41.08°N, 8.06°W; named for the wife of King Minos, distinct from the Jovian moon Pasiphae.
Pasir Coal Mine
The Pasir coal mine is a large open-pit coal mine in Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Kideco Jaya Agung and the third largest in Indonesia.