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Praesidium (Spain)
Praesidium (Spain): Roman place name in Hispania from Latin praesidium, a garrison or fortified post. Attested near O Burgo (Ourense), Sanlúcar del Guadiana (Huelva), Caldedeu (Barcelona), and as Antonine Itinerary stations Praesidio on routes XVII and XVIII.
Praesidium Pompei
Praesidium Pompei (Pompei Praesidium) was a Roman road station and mansio in Moesia Superior, modern Ćićina, Serbia, on the Horreum Margi to Naissus road, garrisoned by a Dardanian cohort and destroyed in the Hun raids of the 440s.
Praesidium Si Aioun
Praesidium Si Aioun is a small Roman military fortlet on the Limes Tripolitanus frontier of Africa Proconsularis, built in 197/198 AD by the Cohors II Flavia Afrorum equitata.
Præsto Fjord, Jungshoved Nor, Ulvshale and Nyord
Præstø Fjord, Jungshoved Nor, Ulvshale and Nyord: Danish Ramsar site no. 161 (designated 1977, about 24,700 ha) in southeast Zealand, a shallow fjord and coastal meadow complex of international importance for waterbirds.
Praetor
Praetor: senior Roman Republic magistrate with imperium, ranked below the consulship. Praetor urbanus judged citizen cases from 366 BCE; the praetor peregrinus (242 BCE) handled foreigner cases; annual edicts shaped Roman private law.
Praetorian Global, Inc.
Praetorian Global, Inc. is a Delaware-formed financial services and investment company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, led by CEO Jacob Pasternack, which reported $86.8 million sold in a 2022 offering.
Praetorian Guard
Praetorian Guard (cohortes praetoriae): the Roman emperor's elite bodyguard, created by Augustus in 27 BCE with nine cohorts, concentrated in the castra praetoria from 23 CE, kingmaker in imperial succession, and disbanded by Constantine I in 312 CE.
Praetorian Guard Barracks at Amba Aradam Metro Station
Hadrianic Roman military barracks, likely a Praetorian Guard garrison, found 9–12 m deep at the Amba Aradam/Ipponio Metro C station in Rome; dormitory with 39 rooms, commander's domus, buried in the 3rd century when the Aurelian Walls were built.
Praetorium
Praetorium: Latin term for a Roman commander's tent, later a governor's palace or fort commander's house; also a place name, notably the Roman auxiliary fort at Mehadia, Dacia.
Praetorium Agrippinae
Praetorium Agrippinae, a Roman castellum and supply base on the Lower Rhine at Valkenburg ZH, Netherlands, founded winter 39/40 by Caligula, named for his mother Agrippina, destroyed in the Batavian revolt, abandoned c.270, refortified to c.400.
Praetorium Publilianum
Praetorium Publilianum, an ancient Roman settlement near Foggia in northern Apulia, was the center of an imperial latifundium in the territory of Teanum Apulum, attested by a sundial inscription naming the imperial dispensator Euelpistus.
Praful Patel (પ્રફુલ્લ મનોહરભાઈ પટેલ)
Praful Manoharbhai Patel (પ્રફુલ્લ મનોહરભાઈ પટેલ), born 1957, Indian NCP politician, Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra, Union Civil Aviation Minister 2004–2011; working president of the Ajit Pawar NCP faction; ED property attachment quashed 2024.
Prafulla Chaki
Prafulla Chaki (প্রফুল্ল চাকী) was a Bengali revolutionary of the Jugantar group who took part in the 1908 Muzaffarpur bomb attack aimed at judge Douglas Kingsford.
Prafulla Chandra Ray (প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়)
Prafulla Chandra Ray (প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়), honored as Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, was an Indian chemist who discovered mercurous nitrite in 1896 and founded India's first pharmaceutical company.
Praga Khan
Praga Khan, the stage name of Belgian musician Maurice Engelen, is a founder of the new beat scene and of the group Lords of Acid, known for "Injected with a Poison."
Praga Południe
Praga Południe, Polish for "Praga South," is a district of Warsaw on the right bank of the Vistula with about 186,000 residents, including Saska Kępa, Grochów, and Gocław.
Pragati Lekhak Samiti
Pragati Lekhak Samiti, the Progressive Writers' Association, was a Bengali literary organization founded in Dhaka in 1939 that made hunger and poverty the material of literature, dissolving after the 1947 partition.
Pragativad
Pragativad (प्रगतिवाद, "progressivism") is the Marxist-oriented literary movement in modern Hindi literature that replaced Chhayavad's individualist poetry with social realism; its organized form dates from the Progressive Writers' Association founded in 1936.
Prage
Prage, formally Prage Management Corporation, is a Makati-based Philippine media company founded in 2018 that publishes the Filipino tabloids Abante and Abante Tonite and other news websites.
Prager Kreis
The Prager Kreis, or Prague Circle, was the German-speaking, largely Jewish literary circle of Prague centered on Franz Kafka and Max Brod from the 1890s to the 1930s.
PragerU
PragerU, also known as Prager University, is an American conservative media organization founded by Dennis Prager in 2009 that makes short videos.
Pragma once
#pragma once is a non-standard C and C++ preprocessor directive, widely supported by compilers, that includes a header's contents only once as an alternative to include guards.
Pragmata
Pragmata (プラグマタ) is Capcom's sci-fi action-adventure game, released April 17, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Switch 2. Astronaut Hugh and android Diana (D-I-0366-7) hack and shoot through a lunar station; two million units sold in 16 days.
Pragmatic clinical trial
A pragmatic clinical trial is a randomized trial testing whether an intervention works in routine care settings with broad eligibility, measuring real-world effectiveness rather than efficacy under ideal conditions.
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 (Pragmatische Sanktion), succession law of Emperor Charles VI issued 19 April 1713 declaring Habsburg lands indivisible with female succession; basis of the monarchy until 1918 and trigger of the War of the Austrian Succession.
Pragmatic Sanction of 1723
The Pragmatic Sanction of 1723 (1723. évi Pragmatica Sanctio) was the Hungarian law by which the Diet accepted Habsburg succession in the female line, securing Maria Theresa's inheritance.
Pragmatic Sanction of 1767
The Pragmatic Sanction of 1767 (Pragmática Sanción de expulsión de los jesuitas) was the decree by which Charles III of Spain expelled all Jesuits from his dominions in 1767.
Pragmatics
Pragmatics, also called linguistic pragmatics, is the branch of linguistics studying how context shapes meaning in language use, covering speech acts (Austin, Searle), conversational implicature (Grice), deixis, presupposition, and politeness, with the term introduced by Charles Morris in 1937.
Pragmatik Labs (语用（上海）科技有限公司)
Pragmatik Labs (语用科技) is a Shanghai artificial intelligence startup founded in 2026 by Lin Junyang, Alibaba's former Qwen technical lead, to develop AI agents spanning digital and physical worlds.
Pragmatism
Pragmatism, an American philosophical tradition from around 1870 founded by Peirce, James, and Dewey, holds that meaning and truth lie in practical consequences; revived since the 1970s by Rorty, Putnam, and Brandom as a third alternative to analytic and Continental philosophy.