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Qantas
Qantas, an acronym of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd, is the flag carrier of Australia, founded in outback Queensland in 1920 and the longest continuously operating airline in the world.
Qantas fleet
The Qantas fleet is the aircraft fleet operated by Australian airline Qantas, including its QantasLink, Jetstar, and Qantas Freight subsidiaries, totalling 363 aircraft at June 2025.
Qantas Flight 32
Qantas Flight 32 was a Singapore–Sydney passenger flight whose Airbus A380 suffered an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia in 2010, landing safely with all 469 aboard uninjured.
Qantas Flight 72
Qantas Flight 72 was a 2008 Singapore-to-Perth flight on which an Airbus A330 made two uncommanded nose-down pitches from a faulty air data unit, injuring at least 110 people.
QantasLink
QantasLink is the brand under which the Qantas Group operates regional flights across Australia. In use since May 2001, it flies over 2,000 flights a week on routes serving about 60 regional destinations.
Qantir
Qantir, identified with Pi-Ramesse, is an archaeological site in Egypt's Nile Delta, the delta capital built by Ramesses II in the early 13th century BC.
Qanun (Saljuq land tax)
Qanun (قانون) is a Saljuq land tax term adopted into Arabic after the Muslim conquest of Egypt and Syria, its fiscal doctrine shaped by vizier Nizam al-Mulk.
Qanun-nama of Uzun Hasan
The Qanun-nama of Uzun Hasan (قانوننامه اوزون حسن) is the administrative and fiscal law issued by Uzun Hasan, ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu, who died in 1478.
Qapaghan Qaghan
Kapaghan Qaghan, known in Chinese as Mochuo, was the second qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate and younger brother of founder Ilterish Qaghan, ruling from 691 to 716.
Qaqortoq Airport
Qaqortoq Airport (IATA: JJU) is a regional airport in Qaqortoq, the main town of South Greenland, opened on 16 April 2026 and replacing Narsarsuaq Airport as the region's primary gateway.
Qar (official of Pepi I)
Qar, whose birth name was Meryre-nefer, was a high-ranking Sixth Dynasty Egyptian official who served King Pepi I and oversaw the pyramid cults of Khufu and Menkaure.
Qar (physician)
Qar was a physician and official of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, buried at Saqqara near Cairo, where his undisturbed tomb, mummy, and bronze surgical instruments were found in 2000.
Qar (vizier of Pepi II)
Qar was a vizier of Egypt during the Sixth Dynasty, the second-highest man after the king, buried at south Abusir in a tomb found in 1995.
Qara Khitai
Qara Khitai, also called Western Liao (Xi Liao) and officially the Great Liao, was a sinicized Buddhist Khitan empire in Central Asia, 1124–1218, founded by Yelü Dashi after the Jurchen conquest of the Liao, ruling from Balasagun to the Oxus.
Qara Khitai conquest of Transoxiana
The Qara Khitai conquest of Transoxiana was the seizure of the region between the Oxus and Syr Darya rivers by the Qara Khitai empire in 1141.
Qara Osman
Qara Osman (قره عثمان), known in Turkish scholarship as Kara Yuluk Osman Bey, was the Turkmen chief who founded the Aq Qoyunlu state, ruling from Amid until his death in 1435.
Qara Qoyunlu (قرا قویونلو)
Qara Qoyunlu (قرا قویونلو), the Black Sheep Turkman tribal confederation, ruled Tabriz, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and western Iran from the late 14th century; under Qara Yusuf and Jahan Shah it rivaled the Aq Qoyunlu until Uzun Hasan destroyed it in 1467-69.
Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg
Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg (قرا یولوق عثمان بیک) was the Turkoman ruler who founded the Aq Qoyunlu state, ruling from Amid (Diyarbakir) from 1402 until his death in 1435.
Qara Yusuf
Qara Yusuf (قرا یوسف) was the leader of the Qara Qoyunlu Turkmen confederation from 1389 to 1420, ruling from Tabriz and fighting Timur, the Jalayirids, and the Aq Qoyunlu.
Qarabağ FK
Qarabağ FK (Qarabağ Futbol Klubu), Azerbaijani football club founded 1951 in Aghdam, based in Baku since 1993; most successful club in Azerbaijan, first Azerbaijani team in the Champions League group stage (2017/18), coached by Gurban Gurbanov since 2008.
Qaraghandy Oblysy
Qaraghandy Oblysy (Karaganda Region, Қарағанды облысы) is a central Kazakhstan region, the country's leading industrial area, centered on the Karaganda coal basin; population 1.13 million (2026), 82.8% urban, fourth-largest contributor to national GDP.
Qarakhanid conquest of Khotan
The Qarakhanid conquest of Khotan (فتح ختن به دست قراخانیان) was the takeover of the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan in the Tarim Basin by the Muslim Qarakhanids, completed under Yusuf Qadir Khan around 1006.
Qarakhanid conversion to Islam
The Qarakhanid conversion to Islam (اسلامآوردن قراخانیان) was the acceptance of Islam by the Turkic Qarakhanid dynasty, beginning with prince Satuq Bughra Khan in the tenth century.
Qaramanli dynasty
The Qaramanli dynasty, also spelled Karamanli, was a family of Turkish origin that ruled Ottoman Tripolitania, in present-day Libya, from 1711 to 1835, until Ottoman forces restored direct rule.
Qaranisa
The Qaranisa (القرانيصة) were veteran mamluks inherited from previous sultans in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, a skilled but discontented faction ranked below the julban.
Qarasunqur al-Mansuri
Qarasunqur al-Mansuri (قراسنقر المنصوري), honorifically Shams al-Din, was a Mamluk amir who served as regent of Egypt and governor of Damascus before defecting to the Mongols in 1312.
Qaraunas
The Qaraunas, also called Qara'unas or Negüderis, were mixed-origin Mongol military contingents based in eastern Khurasan and present-day Afghanistan from the mid-1200s onward, active in the Ilkhanate, Chaghadayid, and Timurid states.
Qarawiyyin library
The Qarawiyyin library (خزانة القرويين) is a manuscript library attached to the Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morocco, founded by the Marinid sultan Abu Inan in 1349.
Qarchak
Qarchak (قرچک), city and county capital in Tehran Province, Iran, 20 km southeast of Tehran; grew from brick-kiln village to 269,158 county population; home of the 7,000-year-old Pardis mound and Qarchak Prison.
Qareen
Qareen (قرين), also known as Hamzaad, is in Islamic belief a jinni companion and double assigned to every person for life, generally pushing toward wrongdoing.