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Tudhaliya III
Tudhaliya III, also written Tudḫaliya III, was a Hittite king who reigned from about 1380 to 1355 BC, surviving attacks on several fronts and regaining lost territories.
Tudhaliya III's concentric invasions
Tudhaliya III's concentric invasions were simultaneous enemy attacks on the Hittite kingdom around 1400–1350 BC that burned the capital Hattusa before a counterattack restored Hittite power.
Tudhaliya IV
Tudhaliya IV, also known as Tudhaliyas IV, was a king of the Hittite empire who reigned c. 1237–1209 BC, fought Assyria near Nihriya, and enlarged Hattusa.
Tudhaliya IV's building programme at Hattusa
Tudhaliya IV's building program at Hattusa was the last major wave of royal construction at the Hittite capital under King Tudhaliya IV, c. 1237–1209 BC.
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus was a Hittite military campaign against the island kingdom of Alashiya, generally identified with Cyprus, around 1220–1200 BC, the empire's only attested use of naval forces.
Tudhaliya of Carchemish
Tudhaliya of Carchemish was a king of Karkemish around the 10th century BC, placed after Suhi II in the city's monument list and known only from a stele fragment.
Tudhaliya the Younger
Tudhaliya the Younger was a Hittite prince, the designated heir to the throne, who died violently around the mid-14th century BC, clearing the way for Šuppiluliuma I.
Tudiya
Tudiya, also rendered Tudija, is the first of the seventeen early Assyrian kings the King List says "lived in tents", with no contemporary evidence for him.
Tudor architecture
Tudor architecture, also called Tudor Gothic, is the building style of England under the Tudor dynasty, 1485 to 1603, from Perpendicular Gothic churches to great houses like Longleat.
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, born Ion N. Theodorescu, was a Romanian poet and prose writer whose 1927 collection Cuvinte potrivite carried out the deepest reform of Romanian poetic language.
Tudor Casapu
Tudor Casapu (Fyodor Mikhaylovich Kasapu), born 1963, Moldovan weightlifter; 1992 Barcelona Olympic middleweight gold for the Unified Team and 1990 world champion; Moldova's only individual Olympic champion.
Tudor Dixon
Tudor Dixon, American businesswoman and conservative media personality, 2022 Republican nominee for Michigan governor; lost to Gretchen Whitmer after petition scandal cleared the primary field; steel-industry and Lumen News background.
Tudor domain
Tudor domain: a roughly 50-70 amino acid protein module (Royal Family with chromo, MBT, PWWP) that binds methylated lysine and arginine marks via an aromatic cage, functioning in RNA metabolism, splicing, and germline development; named after Drosophila Tudor and Henry VIII's fertility problems.
Tudor G. Jovin
Tudor Jovin is a vascular neurologist and neurointerventionalist, Chair of Neurology at Cooper University Health Care, known for leading the DAWN, REVASCAT, and BAOCHE thrombectomy trials.
Tudor Ganea
Tudor Ganea (1922–1971) was a mathematician working in algebraic topology, especially homotopy theory and Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, known for the Ganea conjecture, Ganea spaces, and the Eilenberg–Ganea theorem.
Tudor Investment Corporation
Tudor Investment Corporation is an American investment firm founded by Paul Tudor Jones II in 1980, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and known for global macro hedge fund strategies.
Tudor period
The Tudor period (1485–1603) was the English dynasty's rule from Henry VII, victor at Bosworth, through Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Reformation, to Elizabeth I and the Armada, transforming Parliament, religion, and the state.
Tudor Revival architecture
Tudor Revival architecture, also called Mock Tudor or Tudor Style, revives late-medieval English manor and cottage traditions, with steep roofs and decorative half-timbering, peaking in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tudor rose
The Tudor rose, also called the Union Rose, is England's floral heraldic emblem, adopted by Henry VII after his marriage to Elizabeth of York in 1486.
Tudor Vladimirescu
Tudor Vladimirescu (c. 1780, Vladimiri, Wallachia – 1821) was a Wallachian pandur commander who led the 1821 uprising that ended the Phanariote regime and opened the Romanian independence movement.
Tudor Watches
Tudor Watches (Montres Tudor SA) is a Swiss watchmaker founded by Hans Wilsdorf of Rolex, trademarked in 1926, known for the Submariner and Black Bay dive watches.
Tudor Zamfirescu
Tudor Zamfirescu, born 1944, is a Romanian mathematician who was a professor at TU Dortmund, worked in convex geometry and graph theory, and lent his name to several record-holding graphs.
Tudors of Penmynydd
Tudors of Penmynydd (Tuduriaid Penmynydd), Welsh gentry family of Anglesey descended from Ednyfed Fychan; kin of Owen Tudor, grandfather of Henry VII; senior line faded into local squirearchy by 1722.
Tuduan (household registration reform)
Tuduan (土断) was a household registration reform of China's Eastern Jin dynasty, first carried out in the 320s to register northern émigrés where they lived and boost revenue and soldiers.
Tuen Mun
Tuen Mun (屯門) is a district and first-generation new town in northwest New Territories, Hong Kong, with about 506,900 residents over 86.59 sq km, developed from the 1970s, served by Light Rail and the Tuen Ma Line, with the Tuen Mun South Extension targeted for 2030.
Tuesday
Tuesday, the day after Monday and before Wednesday, is named for the Germanic god Tiw, through Old English Tiwes dæg, translating the Latin dies Martis, day of Mars.
Tuesday Society
The Tuesday Society (Hwayohoe, 화요회) was a socialist organization formed in Seoul in 1924 under Japanese rule, and a founding faction of the Korean Communist Party.
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (Susan Ker Weld, born 1943) is an American retired actress of films and TV from 1956 to the 1990s, known for Pretty Poison, Play It as It Lays, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Thief, and Once Upon a Time in America.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie: 1997 Mitch Albom memoir of visits to his dying Brandeis professor Morrie Schwartz; Doubleday, 192 pages, best-selling memoir, Emmy-winning 1999 ABC film and off-Broadway play.
Tuf Voyaging
Tuf Voyaging, also collected as Los viajes de Tuf, is George R. R. Martin's 1986 Baen fix-up novel of seven linked stories about ecological engineer Haviland Tuf and the 30-kilometer seedship Ark, reissued by Bantam in 2013.