All articles starting with Q

Qal'at al-Bahrain

Qal'at al-Bahrain, also known as Bahrain Fort, is an archaeological tell on Bahrain's north coast, identified as the probable capital of ancient Dilmun, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.

Qal’at Salah El-Din/Fortress of Saladin

Qal’at Salah El-Din (قلعة صلاح الدين), Fortress of Saladin, Sahyun, Château de Saône: medieval castle in Latakia Governorate, Syria, with Byzantine, Frankish, and Ayyubid phases; UNESCO World Heritage 2006 with Crac des Chevaliers, in Danger since 2013.

Qala (क़ाला) (film)

Qala (क़ाला) is a 2022 Hindi psychological drama directed by Anvita Dutt. It follows a singer in 1940s India, starring Triptii Dimri and Swastika Mukherjee.

Qalaat Faqra

Qalaat Faqra (قلعة فقرة), also Faqra, is a Roman-era sanctuary site at about 1,500 m in Kfardebian, Mount Lebanon, with the Tower of Claudius (43 AD, imperial cult of Claudius and Belgalassos), a great temple of Adonis/Jupiter Heliopolitanus, and an Atargatis temple later reused as a Byzantine baptistery.

Qalaichi

Qalaichi, also written Tepe Qalaychi, is an Iron Age III mound in the Bukan plain of West Azerbaijan, Iran, and a major excavated Mannaean site.

Sep 23, 2026

Qalandariyya

The Qalandariyya (قلندریہ) is an antinomian Sufi movement of wandering dervishes, founded by Shaykh Jamal al-Din al-Sawi in Damascus around 1223 and brought to Delhi under Sultan Iltutmish.

Qalat-i Dinka

Qalat-i Dinka is a rocky outcrop and archaeological site in the Peshdar Plain of Iraqi Kurdistan, excavated since 2015 as part of the Iron Age Dinka Settlement Complex.

Qalatgah

Qalatgah, meaning 'place of the fortress', is an Urartian fortified site in the Ushnu valley of West Azerbaijan, Iran, on the kingdom's southern border in the 9th and 8th centuries BC.

Qalawun (قلاوون)

Qalawun (قلاوون), al-Mansur Sayf al-Din Qalawun, Kipchak Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1279–1290), founder of the Qalawunid dynasty (to 1382); conquered Tripoli 1289, built the Cairo Qalawun complex with the famous al-Mansuri bimaristan hospital.

Sep 24, 2026

Qalawunid dynasty

The Qalawunid dynasty (بنو قلاوون) was the house of Mamluk sultans of Egypt and Syria founded by al-Mansur Qalawun, who took the sultanate in 1279; his descendants ruled until 1382.

Qalb (film)

Qalb (ഖൽബ്, also Kalb) is a 2024 Malayalam romantic drama directed by Sajid Yahiya, starring Ranjith Sajeev and Neha Nazneen. Set in Alappuzha, it tells an interfaith love story through seven Sufi stages of love, released 12 January 2024.

Qalb Lozé

Qalb Lozé (قلب لوزة, Heart of the Almond) is a village on Jebel al-A'la, Idlib, Syria, with a well-preserved mid-fifth-century three-aisled basilica with twin towers, broad piers and arches, part of the UNESCO Ancient Villages of Northern Syria.

Qaleh Dukhtar

Qaleh Dukhtar (Qalʿa-ye Doḵtar, قلعه دختر), the Maiden's Castle, is Ardashir I's Sasanian palace-fortress above the Tang-ab gorge at Firuzabad, Fars, built before 224 CE; distinct from namesake castles at Kerman, Saveh, and Miana.

Qaleh Kharabeh fortress

Qaleh Kharabeh (Qal'eh Kharabeh, Persian for 'Ruined Castle') is a Sasanian-era fortress in the Gorgan Plain of northern Iran, probably built between the 410s and the mid-5th century.

Qalhata

Qalhata (Khalhata) was a queen consort of Kush of the 25th Dynasty, wife of King Shabaqo and mother of King Tanwetamani, buried around 700 to 650 BCE at el-Kurru.

Sep 24, 2026

Qalidurut

Qalidurut was a king of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria, centered at Old Dongola, who led its defense against the Muslim invasion of 651 and concluded the baqt treaty with Egypt around 652.

Qalparunda (Patina)

Qalparunda, in Hieroglyphic Luwian Halparuntiya, was king of Patina (Assyrian Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey, who paid tribute to Shalmaneser III in 857 BC.

Qalqilya (قلقيلية)

Qalqilya (قلقيلية), also spelled Qalqiliya, is a Palestinian city of about 56,000 in the northern West Bank, the only one fully encircled by Israel's separation wall since 2002.

Qalyubia Governorate

Qalyubia Governorate is a governorate of Egypt at the head of the Nile Delta, immediately north of Cairo, with its capital at Benha and largest city Shubra Al-Kheima.

Oct 15, 2026

QAM (complexity class)

QAM, or quantum Arthur-Merlin, is a quantum complexity class of decision problems with two-message public-coin quantum interactive proofs, where Arthur sends random bits, Merlin replies with a quantum state, and it sits between QMA and QIP.

Qamar Javed Bajwa

Qamar Javed Bajwa, retired Pakistani four-star general, Chief of Army Staff 29 November 2016 to 29 November 2022 under Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan; Baloch Regiment officer, 2019 extension, succeeded by Asim Munir.

Qamber Shahdadkot District

Qamber Shahdadkot District (Sindhi: قمبر شهدادڪوٽ) is an agrarian district in northwest Sindh, Pakistan, at the edge of the Kirthar range, where about 95% of the population depends on agriculture.

Qamdo Shi

Qamdo Shi (昌都市, Chamdo/Changdu) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Tibet, the region's east gate at the Tibet-Sichuan-Yunnan-Qinghai junction; 109,830 km², 10 counties and 1 district, Three Parallel Rivers terrain, Yulong copper mine, and a 19-million-kW clean energy base.

Qanat

A qanat (قنات), also called karez, is a gently sloping underground canal of ancient Iranian origin that taps an aquifer and carries water by gravity alone.

Qanat-i Bagh

Qanat-i Bagh (قنات باغ), also Qanat Bagh, is a Sasanian-era stepped stone monument in the Farrashband valley, Fars, Iran, first read as a fire altar and chahar taq by Vanden Berghe (1984) and reinterpreted by Huff (1992) as a reliquary astodan; the name also denotes a nearby village of 303 people (2006).