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Tawang (རྟ་དབང་)

Tawang (རྟ་དབང་, तवांग) is a district in northwestern Arunachal Pradesh, India, home of the Monpa people, the 400-year-old Tawang Monastery, birthplace of the 6th Dalai Lama, and a 1962 Sino-Indian War border area.

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋宗達) was a Japanese painter active in Kyoto from around 1600 into the 1630s, regarded as the founder of the Rinpa style of decorative painting.

Tawau

Tawau is a district and town on Sabah's southeast coast, Malaysia, near the Kalimantan border; third largest Sabah urban center, 372,615 people (2020 census), 416,400 (2025 est.), agriculture, port, and Semporna island tourism gateway.

Tawawa on Monday (月曜日のたわわ)

Tawawa on Monday (月曜日のたわわ) is Kiseki Himura's weekly Twitter illustration series begun February 22, 2015, adapted into a 2016 web anime and a Weekly Young Magazine manga since 2020; known for its blue-edition volumes and the 2022 Nikkei ad controversy protested by UN Women.

Taweelah A1 power plant

Taweelah A1 is a gas-fired cogeneration power and water plant at the Al Taweelah complex in Abu Dhabi, commissioned in 1989 and privatized as the emirate's second IWPP in 2000.

Taweelah B Power and Desalination Station

Taweelah B is a gas-fired power and seawater desalination plant on the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, supplying the region with electricity and fresh water.

Tawera Vallis

Tawera Vallis, a 500-km sinuous lava channel (vallis) on Venus at 11.6S, 67.5E, named in 1997 after the Maori name for Venus; one of 18 named valles outside Venus's regional plains.

Taweret

Taweret (Thoeris, Opet, Reret), ancient Egyptian hippopotamus goddess, "the large one," protector of pregnant women and children; composite pregnant hippo with crocodile back, lion paws, sa and ankh attributes, household deity without a temple cult.

Tawerettenru

Tawerettenru was a royal woman of ancient Egypt, thought to be a wife of Ramesses V, known only from her estate in the Wilbour Papyrus.

Tawfik Bentayeb

Tawfik Bentayeb, Moroccan centre-forward born 2002 in Casablanca; Mohammed VI Academy and Union Touarga product, Ligue 2 top scorer with Troyes 2025-26, joined RSC Anderlecht in August 2026.

Tawfiq al-Hakim

Tawfiq al-Hakim (توفيق الحكيم) was an Egyptian playwright and novelist, regarded as the founder of contemporary Egyptian drama and a leading figure in modern Arabic literature.

Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad

Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad (توفيق يوسف عواد, 1911–1989) was a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and diplomat counted among the leading Lebanese novelists of the twentieth century, known for al-Raghif and Tawahin Bayrut.

Tawfiq Zayyad

Tawfiq Zayyad (توفيق زيّاد, 1929–1994) was a Palestinian poet and communist politician, mayor of Nazareth from 1975 until his death and a Knesset member for six terms.

Tāwhaki

Tāwhaki is an ancestral hero and demigod of Māori tradition, famed for climbing to the heavens on a sacred vine to obtain spells and knowledge.

Tawhaki Vallis

Tawhaki Vallis is a sinuous lava channel on Jupiter's moon Io, over 190 km long, 0.5-6 km wide, and 40-65 m deep, near Tawhaki Patera; IAU-named 2006 for a Māori lightning god, interpreted as thermally eroded by lava.

Tāwhiao

Tāwhiao (Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao) was the second Māori King, reigning for 34 years from 1860 to 1894 and leading Waikato resistance to British land confiscation.

Tawhid (توحيد)

Tawhid (توحيد), also spelled Tawheed, is the Islamic doctrine of the unity and uniqueness of God, professed in the shahada and contested across fourteen centuries of Islamic theology.

Tawilan

Tawilan is an excavated Iron Age settlement of the Edomite kingdom in southern Jordan, near Petra, dug by Crystal-M. Bennett between 1968 and 1982, with a gold jewelry hoard and a cuneiform tablet among its finds.

Tawinan Anukoolprasert

Tawinan Anukoolprasert (ซี ทวินันท์ อนุกูลประเสริฐ), nicknamed Sea, is a Thai actor with GMMTV since 2021, born 1999 in Bangkok, known for lead BL roles as Talay in Vice Versa, Day in Last Twilight, and In in My Magic Prophecy opposite Jimmy Jitaraphol.

Tawke Oil Field

The Tawke Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, near Zakho, discovered in 2006 and operated by Norway's DNO ASA.

Tawla

Tawla (တောလား) is a genre of classical Burmese poetry whose name means a journey through the forest, traditionally depicting a monk's pilgrimage, best known through Shin Uttamakyaw's Inwa-period poem.

Tawny Cypress

Tawny Cypress (born 1976, Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American actress known as Simone Deveaux on Heroes and adult Taissa Turner on Yellowjackets, with regular roles in K-Ville, Unforgettable, House of Cards, and The Blacklist: Redemption.

Tawny eagle

Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax; Afrikaans Roofarend), an Accipitridae eagle of Africa and South Asia; scavenging, piratical raptor, globally Vulnerable since 2021 but Endangered in South Africa with 500-800 mature birds.

Tawny frogmouth

Tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides), an Australian nocturnal bird of Podargidae, related to nightjars not owls; 34-53 cm, bark camouflage, oom-oom call, IUCN Least Concern, Bird of the Year 2025.

Tawny Kitaen

Tawny Kitaen (Julie Kitaen, 1961–2021), American actress and model famous for Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" video, Jaguar cartwheel, Ratt album covers, and Tom Hanks's fiancée in Bachelor Party (1984).

Tawny Little

Tawny Little, also Tawny Elaine Godin, born 1956, won Miss America 1976 as Miss New York and became a Los Angeles news anchor at KABC-TV, KCAL-TV, and KCOP-TV.

Tawny Newsome

Tawny Newsome (born 1983) is an American actress, comedian, musician, and writer, the voice of Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Angela Ali on Space Force, a Second City alumna, and a Starfleet Academy writer.

Tawny owl

Tawny owl (Strix aluco), a nocturnal Palearctic woodland owl, resident and strongly territorial, feeding mainly on mice and voles; about 50,000 UK pairs, amber-listed after a 39% population decline since 1967.

Tawqi'

Tawqi' (Arabic: التوقيع, plural tawqi'at) is a brief written endorsement a caliph, prince, or vizier placed on submitted correspondence, a prose art of Arabic literature that flourished in the Abbasid era.

Tawus ibn Kaysan

Tawus ibn Kaysan (طاوس بن كيسان) was a Yemeni jurist, hadith scholar, and judge of the Tabi'un who narrated from Ibn Abbas and died in Mecca in 724–725.