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Song Zhiwen
Song Zhiwen (宋之问), 656 to 712, was a Tang-dynasty poet and court official who served Empress Wu Zetian and, with Shen Quanqi, set the model for regulated verse.
Song Ziwen
Song Ziwen (宋子文, T. V. Soong), a Harvard-trained economist, served the Republic of China as finance minister, foreign minister, and premier, and negotiated at the Xi'an Incident and with Stalin in 1945.
Song‐Chun Zhu
Song-Chun Zhu (朱松纯) is a Chinese computer vision and AI researcher known for the "grammar of images" and for human-robot value alignment, founding director of BIGAI in Beijing.
Song–Dai Viet war of 1075–1077 (宋越熙寧戰爭)
The Song–Dai Viet war of 1075–1077 (宋越熙寧戰爭) was a war between China's Northern Song dynasty and Vietnam's Lý dynasty, begun by a Đại Việt invasion of Guangxi and ended by negotiation.
Song–Liao war of 999–1004 and Liao invasion of 1004
The Song–Liao war of 999–1004 was fought between China's Song dynasty and the Khitan Liao, ending in the Liao invasion of 1004 and the Treaty of Chanyuan.
Song–Xia Wars
The Song–Xia Wars (宋夏战争) were armed conflicts between the Song dynasty and the Tangut state of Western Xia along China's northwest frontier, fought from 982 to the 1120s.
Songbird
Songbird (oscine, suborder Passeri of Passeriformes): perching birds with a complex bipartite syrinx that learn their songs, like humans and unlike most animals. Nearly half of all bird species; originated in Australia; key model for vocal learning neuroscience.
Songbird (2020 film)
Songbird (2020) is a dystopian pandemic thriller directed by Adam Mason, co-written with Simon Boyes, and produced by Michael Bay; the first major feature shot in lockdown Los Angeles, released December 11, 2020, about immune courier Nico saving Sara from COVID-23 quarantine camps.
Songdo International Business District
Songdo International Business District (송도 국제업무단지) is a master-planned smart city district on reclaimed land in Incheon, South Korea, developed by Gale International and POSCO E&C.
Songea
Songea: capital of Ruvuma Region, southwestern Tanzania, on the A19 road; founded 1897 as a German military station, named after Nduna Songea Mbano; 286,285 residents (2022), 21 wards, Maji Maji memorial site.
Songfangtun Oil Field
Songfangtun Oil Field (宋芳屯油田) is a stratigraphically trapped oil field in the Songliao basin, Heilongjiang, China, producing from Cretaceous Putaohua sandstones as a peripheral Daqing field.
Songgang Jip
Songgang Jip (송강집; 松江集) is the collected poetry and prose of the mid-Joseon poet and official Jeong Cheol, published complete in 1894 in 11 volumes and including his famous gasa and sijo.
Songgotu
Songgotu (索额图) was a Manchu statesman of Qing dynasty China who negotiated the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia and died in prison in 1703.
Songguo Gucheng
宋国故城 (Songgu Gucheng), the ancient city of the State of Song, is a ~10.5 km² Eastern Zhou capital site at Shangqiu, Henan, discovered in the 1990s, with six cities stacked above it and excavated since 2021.
Songgwangsa
Songgwangsa (송광사, 松廣寺) is a Seon monastery of the Jogye Order at Jogyesan mountain near Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, one of Korea's Three Jewel temples, known for producing sixteen national preceptors.
Songhai campaign against Kebbi
The Songhai campaign against Kebbi was a series of Songhai expeditions against Kebbi, a Hausa state that broke away under Kanta Mohammad in 1516; every attack was defeated.
Songhai capture of Timbuktu by Ali Gol
The Songhai capture of Timbuktu was the 1468 seizure of the city by Sunni Ali of Songhai, who drove out its Tuareg governor and killed many scholars.
Songhai conquest of Jenne
The Songhai conquest of Jenne was the capture of the trading city of Jenne, in the Niger and Bani rivers' inland delta, by Sunni Ali's Songhai army in 1473.
Songhai conquest of Katsina and Kano
The Songhai conquest of Katsina and Kano was a campaign by Askia Muhammad's Songhai Empire against the Hausa city-states of northern Nigeria around 1512 to 1514.
Songhai conquest of Mema and Timbuktu
The Songhai conquest of Mema and Timbuktu was the seizure of the Middle Niger cities by Songhai, culminating in Sunni Ali's capture of Timbuktu in 1468.
Songhai conquest of the Air and Takedda
The Songhai conquest of the Air and Takedda was Askia Muhammad's campaign of 1501/2, which extended Songhai control northeast of the Niger bend into the Air mountains and the Agadez sultanate.
Songhai conquest of the salt mines of Taghaza
The Songhai conquest of the salt mines of Taghaza was the seizure of the Saharan salt-mining center of Taghaza from the Tuareg by the Songhai Empire under Askia Muhammad I.
Songhai conquest of Timbuktu and Djenné
The Songhai conquest of Timbuktu and Djenné was the seizure of the two great trading cities by the Songhai ruler Sunni Ali in 1468 and 1473.
Songhai Empire
Songhai (Songhay) Empire, West African state based at Gao under Sunni Ali and Askia Muhammad; largest Sudanic empire, controlling trans-Saharan gold and salt trade until destroyed by Morocco at Tondibi in 1591.
Songhai revolt against the Moroccans
The Songhai revolt against the Moroccans was the armed resistance led by Askia Nuh from Dendi after Morocco's victory at Tondibi in 1591, which denied the occupiers control beyond the river towns.
Songhua Jiang
Songhua Jiang (松花江), the Songhua River, is China's third largest river by discharge and the Amur's largest tributary, draining a 556,800 km² basin in northeast China with the Nenjiang and Second Songhua as sources.
Songjiang
Songjiang (松江区) is a district of southwest Shanghai, area 604.64 km², population 1.96 million (2025), origin of the G60 Sci-Tech Innovation Corridor, historic Huating County (751 AD), called the root of Shanghai.
Songket
Songket is a handwoven textile of maritime Southeast Asia in which gold or silver threads are inserted as a supplementary weft to create ornamental patterns.
Songkhla (สงขลา)
Songkhla (สงขลา), also historically Singora, is a southern Thai province and coastal capital between Songkhla Lake and the Gulf of Thailand, home to the 17th-century Sultanate of Singora, a multicultural old town, and the commercial hub Hat Yai.
Songkhla Zoo
Songkhla Zoo (สวนสัตว์สงขลา) is Thailand's first southern-region zoo, a 878-rai Zoological Park Organization facility at Khao Rup Chang, Songkhla, approved 1989, opened 1998, with over 1,092 animals and breeding programs.