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Pecheneg ambush and death of Svyatoslav (972)
The Pecheneg ambush and death of Svyatoslav (Гибель Святослава) was the killing of the grand prince of Kiev by Pechenegs at the Dnieper rapids in 972.
Pecheneg invasion of the Byzantine Empire
The Pecheneg invasion of the Byzantine Empire was a series of Turkic nomad raids and migrations into the Byzantine Balkans, crushed at Levounion in 1091.
Pecheneg migration to the Pontic steppe
The Pecheneg migration to the Pontic steppe was the 9th-century westward movement of a Turkic nomadic confederacy into the steppe north of the Black Sea.
Pecheneg siege of Kiev
The Pecheneg siege of Kiev (Осада Киева печенегами) was a 968 Pecheneg siege of Kiev, defended by Princess Olga while Sviatoslav was away; voivode Pretich's dawn crossing lifted it.
Pecheneg–Magyar war
The Pecheneg–Magyar war was a late 9th-century conflict in which Pechenegs allied with the Bulgarians drove the Magyars out of Etelköz, setting off the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin.
Pecheneg–Rus' wars
The Pecheneg–Rus' wars were on-and-off conflicts between Pecheneg nomads and the Rus' principalities of Kyiv, from first contact in 915 to Yaroslav's decisive victory in 1036.
Pechenegs
The Pechenegs (Patzinaks, печеніги) were a Turkic nomadic confederation that controlled the Pontic steppe from the late ninth to mid-eleventh century, raiding and trading with Rus and Byzantium, killing Prince Sviatoslav in 972, and dissolving after defeats in 1036, 1091, and 1122.
Pechenegs in Hungary
The Pechenegs in Hungary were Turkic nomads, called besenyők in Hungarian, who settled the kingdom from the 10th century and served as light cavalry and border guards.
Pechengsky District (Печенгский район)
Pechengsky District (Печенгский район), also Pechenga, was a district of Murmansk Oblast on the Kola Peninsula bordering Norway and Finland; formed 1945 from Finnish Petsamo, merged into Pechengsky Municipal Okrug in 2020, center Nikel.
Pechersk
Pechersk (Печерськ) is a historic central district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on the Dnipro River, named for the caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery founded in 1051.
Pechersky Paterik
The Pechersky Paterik, or Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon, is the earliest and most influential East Slavic patericon, a collection of stories about the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery and its first monks.
Pechi
Pechi (பேச்சி) is a 2024 Tamil horror film, Ramachandran B's directorial debut, adapted from his short film. Five trekkers and a guide enter a restricted Kollimalai forest area and awaken a witch; released 2 August 2024, later on Prime Video and Aha Tamil.
Pechini method
The Pechini method is a sol-gel synthesis route in which citric acid chelates metal cations and ethylene glycol forms a resin, calcined to give homogeneous mixed-metal oxides.
Pechora
Pechora (Печора, Komi Печӧра) is a 1,809 km river in northern European Russia rising in the Northern Urals and flowing into the Barents Sea; it has the highest mean discharge of European Arctic rivers and a 322,000 km² coal, oil, and gas basin.
Pechora GRES power station
Pechora GRES (Печорская ГРЭС) is a 1,060 MW thermal power station near Pechora in the Komi Republic, Russia, the republic's largest, supplying about 40 percent of its electricity.
Pechoro-llychskiy Biosphere Reserve
Pechoro-llychskiy Biosphere Reserve (Печоро-Илычский заповедник), a 1930 zapovednik and 1985 UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Komi Republic, Russia; part of the Virgin Komi Forests World Heritage site and home of the world's first moose domestication farm (1949).
Peck Palitchoke
Peck Palitchoke (เป๊ก ผลิตโชค), full name Palitchoke Ayanaputra, is a Thai pop and R&B singer born in Bangkok in 1984, known for melancholy love songs.
Peckerwood
Peckerwood: Southern US dialect term for a woodpecker, an inversion of woodpecker (attested 1825–35/1859), later an offensive slur for poor rural white Southerners, used in lumber, prison, and place names.
Peckforton Castle
Peckforton Castle is a Grade I listed Victorian country house built as a medieval castle near Tarporley in Cheshire, England, and now operating as a hotel.
Peckham
Peckham is a district in the London Borough of Southwark, south-east London, first recorded in the Domesday Book, centered on Rye Lane shopping street, Peckham Rye station and park.
Peckham Boys
Peckham Boys (PB), also called Black Gang, are a Southwark, south London street gang network based on SE15 estates, structured by age into sets like YPB and PYG, known for the Ghetto Boys feud and road rap links.
Pecking order theory
Pecking order theory, stated by Stewart Myers in 1984, holds that firms finance investment first with internal funds, then debt, and equity only as a last resort.
Péclet number
The Péclet number (Pe) is a dimensionless number comparing convective to diffusive transport in a fluid; small Pe means diffusion dominates, large Pe means advection.
Pecluma
Pecluma M.G.Price is a Neotropical fern genus in Polypodiaceae, Polypodioideae, segregated from Polypodium in 1983; about 40-52 species from Florida to northern Argentina, with several Polypodium species nested within it and Miocene Dominican amber fossils.
PECO (utility)
PECO Energy Company, commonly called PECO, is an Exelon-owned utility founded in 1902 that delivers electricity and natural gas to about 1.6 million customers in Philadelphia and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Pecopteris
Pecopteris, a Brongniart 1822 form genus of late Paleozoic fern foliage, chiefly marattialean tree ferns like Psaronius; common Carboniferous-Permian fossil with whole-base pinnules, stretched 350% in a Rhode Island specimen.
Pecorino
Pecorino is the Italian family of sheep's-milk cheeses (pecora = sheep), including PDO varieties Romano, Sardo, Toscano, and Siciliano; Romano, though named for Rome, is now mainly produced in Sardinia.
Pecorino romano
Pecorino Romano, Pecorino Romano DOP, Italian PDO hard cooked sheep's-milk cheese from Sardinia, Lazio, and Grosseto; salty grating cheese of Roman pastas, ~39,000 tonnes a year, 60% exported.
Pecos (landform)
Pecos River, also called Río Salado or Río Puerco, a major Rio Grande tributary rising in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico and flowing over 900 miles to Amistad Reservoir in Texas, draining about 44,000 square miles and known for high salinity.
Pecos (protected area)
The Pecos freshwater ecoregion is a conservation unit defined by the drainage basin of the Pecos River, extending from New Mexico into western Texas within the Rio Grande system.