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Piya Ka Ghar (पिया का घर)

Piya Ka Ghar (पिया का घर) is a 1972 Hindi Basu Chatterjee comedy-drama produced by Rajshri, starring Jaya Bhaduri and Anil Dhawan as newlyweds crowded into a Bombay chawl; distinct from the 2002–2006 Zee TV serial of the same name.

Piya Pal

Piya Pal is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, known for sparse array geometries and winning the 2019 PECASE award.

Piyaa Albela (पिया अलबेला)

Piyaa Albela (पिया अलबेला), also spelled Piya Albela, is a Hindi Zee TV drama by Rajshri Productions' Sooraj Barjatya, aired 2017–2018, starring Akshay Mhatre and Sheen Das as Naren and Pooja, a modern Vishwamitra–Menaka love story.

Piyadasa Sirisena

Piyadasa Sirisena (පියදාස සිරිසේන, 1875–1946) was a Sinhala novelist, poet, and journalist called the father of the Sinhala novel, with over twenty novels to his name.

Piyale

Piyâle (Wine Glass) is a 1926 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Ahmet Hâşim, his second and last book, opening with his influential manifesto on poetry as an art closer to music than to words.

Piyale Pasha

Piyale Pasha (Piyale Paşa) was an Ottoman grand admiral, born in Hungary, who annexed Chios in 1566, married into the imperial dynasty, and died in 1578.

Piyama-Kurunta

Piyama-Kurunta of Arzawa was an Arzawan prince, son of King Uhha-Ziti, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II at Walma on the river Astarpa during the campaigns of Mursili's third and fourth regnal years.

Piyamaradu

Piyamaradu, also written Piyama-Radu, was a warlord of obscure origin who raided the Hittite Empire's western lands for roughly 40 years in the 13th century BC.

Piyasavalli Rasa

Piyasavalli Rasa (Piyush Valli Ras) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill from Rasashastra, recorded in Rasa Jala Nidhi vol. 4 for chronic diarrhea, dysentery, grahani, and fever, made with mercury, sulphur, metals, and herbs.

Piyassili

Piyassili, also known as Šarri-Kušuḫ, was a Hittite prince, a middle son of King Suppiluliuma I, made king of Carchemish after his father's Syrian conquests.

Piye

Piye, also spelled Piankhi or Piankhy, was a king of Kush ruling from Napata who conquered Egypt in the 8th century BC, founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

Piye's campaign into Egypt

Piye's campaign into Egypt, also called the Piankhi campaign, was the Kushite king Piye's c. 730–727 BC march north against a Delta coalition led by Tefnakht of Sais.

Piye's conquest of Egypt

Piye's conquest of Egypt was a campaign around 728 BC in which the Kushite king Piye defeated a coalition of Delta princes led by Tefnakht of Sais.

Piyusavalli Rasa

Piyusavalli Rasa (Piyushvalli Rasa) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasa shastra formulation built on purified mercury and sulphur with calcined mica, iron, silver, chalcopyrite, and six herbs; AFI dose 500 mg, indicated for diarrhea, fever, jaundice, and anemia.

Piyush Chawla (पीयूष प्रमोद चावला)

Piyush Chawla (पीयूष प्रमोद चावला), Indian leg-spinner born 1988 in Aligarh; played all three formats for India, won the 2007 World T20 and 2011 World Cup, took 192 IPL wickets, retired June 2025.

Piyush Goyal (पीयूष वेदप्रकाश गोयल)

Piyush Goyal (पीयूष गोयल), born 1964, is India's Union Minister of Commerce and Industry and BJP MP for Mumbai North, elected in 2024 by 357,608 votes. A chartered accountant and former BJP national treasurer, he previously held power, coal, railways, finance, and textiles portfolios; distinct from IAS officer Piyush Goyal of Mines.

Piyush Gupta

Piyush B. Gupta is a cancer biologist who leads a lab at the Whitehead Institute and MIT, known for identifying salinomycin as a selective killer of breast cancer stem cells.

Piyush Mishra (पीयूष मिश्रा)

Piyush Mishra (पीयूष मिश्रा), born Priyakant Sharma in 1963 in Gwalior, is an Indian actor, lyricist, singer, playwright, and screenwriter; NSD 1986 graduate, Act One theatre member, known for Maqbool, Gangs of Wasseypur, Gulaal songs and band Ballimaaraan.

Piyush Sahdev (पीयूष सहदेव)

Piyush Sahdev (पीयूष सहदेव), born 1982 in Delhi, is an Indian television actor known for Lord Rama in Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev, Kabir Tripathi in Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke, Pavan Bakshi in Devanshi, and Samay in Beyhadh; brother of Meher Vij and Gireesh Sahdev.

Piyusti

Piyusti, also printed Wiušti, was the pre-Hittite king of Hattusa whom Anitta, king of Kussara, defeated and whose city he destroyed in the second half of the 18th century BC.

Piyyut

Piyyut (Hebrew פיוט, plural piyyutim) is a Hebrew liturgical poem composed to embellish statutory synagogue prayers, written from the first centuries CE until the Haskalah.

Piyyut of the Land of Israel

Piyyut of the Land of Israel is the Hebrew liturgical poetry composed in the synagogues of Palestine from late antiquity, first appearing around the 5th century CE.

Piz Bernina

Piz Bernina, 4,049 m, is the highest peak of the Eastern Alps and Graubünden, Switzerland, and their only independent 4,000er. First climbed in 1850 by Johann Coaz; famous for the Biancograt ridge and the Spallagrat normal route.

Piz Daint

Piz Daint was a petascale supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, installed in 2012 as a Cray XC30 with NVIDIA GPUs and ranked third worldwide in 2017 at 19.59 petaflops.

Pizhou

Pizhou (邳州, Pizhou City) is a county-level city under Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, population about 1.5 million. Known as the 'town of ginkgo and garlic': a top Chinese garlic producer (about 830,000 tonnes in 2025) and ginkgo processing center, formerly Xiapi.

Pizus

Pizus (Pizos, Pizo) was a Roman emporium and road station in Thrace near modern Dimitrievo, Bulgaria, founded in AD 202 under Septimius Severus and documented by the edict of Q. Sicinius Clarus (IGBulg III/2 1690), later refortified under Justinian I.

Pizza

Pizza: baked flatbread with tomato, cheese, and toppings, born as poor people's street food in late 18th-century Naples, first pizzeria Port'Alba (1738), first US pizzeria Lombardi's (1905), now a $200 billion global industry with UNESCO-recognized Neapolitan craft.

Pizza (2012 film)

Pizza (பீட்சா) is a 2012 Tamil horror-thriller, Karthik Subbaraj's directorial debut, starring Vijay Sethupathi as a pizza delivery man trapped in a haunted house; the first Tamil film with 7.1 surround sound and a sleeper hit.

Pizza (2014 film)

Pizza (2014) is a Hindi-language 3D horror film directed by debutant Akshay Akkineni, a remake of Karthik Subbaraj's 2012 Tamil film, starring Akshay Oberoi and Parvathy Omanakuttan, released 18 July 2014.

Pizza 4P's

Pizza 4P's is a Japanese-Italian farm-to-table pizza and pasta chain founded in 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City by the Japanese couple Yosuke Masuko and Sanae Takasugi.