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Sambhaji
Sambhaji (1657–1689), also called Shambhu Raje, second Chhatrapati of the Maratha kingdom and son of Shivaji; reigned 1680–1689, fought Aurangzeb's Deccan campaign, was captured at Sangameshwar and executed in 1689 after refusing conversion to Islam.
Sambhaji Raje (संभाजीराजे छत्रपती)
Sambhaji Raje (संभाजीराजे छत्रपती), also Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati, is a Kolhapur royal-family descendant of Shivaji, BJP-nominated Rajya Sabha member 2016–2022, and leader of Maharashtra's Maratha reservation agitation who later founded the Swarajya party.
Sambhal (संभल)
Sambhal (संभल), Uttar Pradesh city and district seat in Moradabad division; Kalki avatar prophecy site, Babur-era Shahi Jama Masjid, horn-bone handicraft exports, and the 2024 mosque survey dispute.
Sambhar Lake
Sambhar Lake (Shakambhari Jheel), Rajasthan's hypersaline wetland southwest of Jaipur, is India's largest inland salt lake, a Ramsar site producing about 9% of India's salt and a major flamingo wintering ground now shrinking from groundwater over-extraction.
Sambhar Mound
Sambhar Mound, the excavated site of ancient Sakambhari (Śākambharī), Chahamana capital beside Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan; dug by Hendley 1884 and Sahni 1936-38, occupied from the 3rd-2nd century B.C. to the 10th century A.D.
Sambhavam Adhyayam Onnu
Sambhavam Adhyayam Onnu (സംഭവം അദ്ധ്യായം ഒന്ന്), 2026 Malayalam time-loop mystery-fantasy thriller by debutant Jithu Satheesan Mangalathu, starring Askar Ali; released 6 March 2026, streams on JioHotstar, IMDb 7.3/10.
Sambhavna Seth
Sambhavna Seth (संभावना सेठ) is an Indian actress, dancer, and vlogger of Bhojpuri cinema and Hindi item songs, a Bigg Boss 2 and Season 8 contestant, Dancing Queen winner, AAP member 2023-2024, and YouTuber with about 3.9 million subscribers.
Sambhūta Sāṇavāsī
Sambhūta Sāṇavāsī (सम्भूत साणवासी) was an arahant elder of the early Indian Saṅgha who, about a century after the Buddha's death, helped produce the Second Council at Vesālī.
Sambhuvarman
Sambhuvarman, known in Chinese records as Phạm Phạn Chí, was a king of Champa who reigned from about 572 to 629 and rebuilt the burned Shiva sanctuary at My Son.
Sambisa Forest
Sambisa Forest, a forest in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, about 60 km southeast of Maiduguri; a former game reserve (gazetted 1958) that became Boko Haram's main stronghold, with area figures ranging from 518 km² to a broader 60,000 km².
Sambit Patra (संबित पात्रा)
Sambit Patra (संबित पात्रा), Indian surgeon-turned-politician, BJP national spokesperson from 2014 and MP for Puri, Odisha since 2024, elected by 104,709 votes over BJD's Arup Mohan Patnaik after losing the seat narrowly in 2019.
Sambizanga
Sambizanga is Sarah Maldoror's 1972 Angola/France feature, adapted from José Luandino Vieira's novel A Vida Verdadeira de Domingos Xavier, about Maria searching for her MPLA activist husband arrested by Portuguese police; banned in colonial Angola, it won the 1972 Carthage Tanit d'Or and was restored in 2021.
Sambo (racial term)
Sambo is a racial term with two English senses: a 1748 term for mixed African, European, and Indigenous ancestry (from Spanish zambo), and an 1818 derogatory name for a Black man tied to the submissive Sambo stereotype of slavery and Jim Crow, spread by Bannerman's 1898 book and the Sambo's restaurant chain.
Sambo (Самбо) (martial art)
Sambo (Самбо), from samozashchita bez oruzhiya, is a Soviet-era Russian martial art of throws, hold-downs, and joint locks; sport sambo bans strikes and chokes, combat sambo allows strikes; FIAS-governed, IOC-recognized since 2018.
Sambo's
Sambo's was an American pancake-house chain founded in Santa Barbara in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett, peaking at 1,117 restaurants in 47 states before 1981 bankruptcy; its last location became Chad's in 2020.
Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí
The Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí, officially the Passarela Professor Darcy Ribeiro, is Rio de Janeiro's purpose-built samba school parade venue, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1984.
Sambomaster
Sambomaster (サンボマスター) is a Japanese three-piece rock band formed in 2000 at Toyo University, best known for the NARUTO opening Seishun Kyōsōkyoku and the Densha Otoko theme song.
Sambucus
Sambucus (elder, elderberry) is a genus of about 20-22 accepted species in Viburnaceae, native to temperate and tropical-mountain regions worldwide; includes S. nigra, S. canadensis, and S. cerulea, used for food and medicine but toxic except ripe fruit and flowers.
Sambucus canadensis
Sambucus canadensis, American elderberry (sureau du Canada), a Viburnaceae shrub native from North America to Venezuela and Bolivia; also treated as Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis; cooked purple-black berries edible, used in food, medicine, and wildlife plantings.
Sambucus nigra
Sambucus nigra, black elder or European elderberry, a Viburnaceae shrub native to Europe to W. Iran, grown for elderflower cordial, berries, and medicine; clinical evidence for cold and flu benefit is uncertain.
Sambucus racemosa
Sambucus racemosa, the red elderberry or red-berried elder, is a deciduous shrub of North America and Eurasia with white flower clusters and toxic-when-raw red berries.
Samburu people
The Samburu (also Burkeneji, Sampur) are a Maa-speaking Nilotic pastoral people of Samburu County, north-central Kenya, closely related to the Maasai, numbering about 250,000, with gerontocratic age-set (moran) society and cattle-based livelihood.
Sambuvaraya chiefs
The Sambuvaraya chiefs (சம்புவராயர்) were a line of the Sengeni family who ruled northern Tamil country, first as Chola feudatories, later as independent kings at Padaividu.
Sambyeolcho
The Sambyeolcho (삼별초) was a Goryeo military organization, formed under the dictator Ch'oe U around 1230, that served as the armed core of the military regime.
Sambyeolcho Rebellion
The Sambyeolcho Rebellion (삼별초의 난) was a three-year armed resistance by Goryeo's Sambyeolcho unit against the court's peace with the Mongols, crushed on Jeju Island in 1273.
Samcheok Blue power station
Samcheok Blue power station (삼척블루파워), also called the Samcheok Thermal Power Plant, is a 2,100 MW coal-fired power station in Samcheok, South Korea, the last coal plant completed in the country.
Samcheok Green power station
Samcheok Green power station (삼척그린파워발전소) is a two-unit, 2,080-MW net ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant in Samcheok, South Korea, owned and operated by Korea Southern Power, online in 2016 and 2017.
Samcheok LNG Terminal
Samcheok LNG Terminal (삼척LNG생산기지) is a liquefied natural gas terminal in Samcheok, South Korea, KOGAS's fourth and its first on the east coast, operating since July 2014.
Samchonpo power station
Samchonpo power station (삼천포화력발전소), also spelled Samcheonpo, is a coal-fired power station in Goseong County, South Korea, the first large-scale bituminous coal plant in Korea, opened in 1983.
Samchully
Samchully (삼천리) is a South Korean integrated energy company founded in 1955 as a coal briquette producer; it is now Korea's largest city gas retailer, serving about 3.37 million households.