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Uíge
Uíge (Uíje), formerly Carmona (1954–1975), is the capital of Uíge Province in northern Angola. Founded in 1917 as a Portuguese fort, it became the center of Angola's Robusta coffee industry; 2024 census: 773,099 in the municipality.
Uíge Province
Uíge Province, northern Angola, capital Uíge city (formerly Carmona); 58,698 km², 23 municipalities, 2,017,922 people (2024 census); former Kingdom of Kongo territory and colonial robusta coffee heartland.
Uigeumbu
The Uigeumbu (의금부, 義禁府) was the special judicial organ of Joseon Korea, chiefly interrogating treason cases, operating from 1414 until the Gabo Reforms of 1894 renamed it Uigeumsa.
Uija of Baekje
Uija of Baekje, personal name Buyeo Uija, was the 31st and last king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 641 to 660.
Uijeok
Uijeok (의적) was a Korean Buddhist monk of Unified Silla, active from the late 7th to the early 8th century, who studied Yogacara under Xuanzang and wrote surviving commentaries.
Uijeongbu
Uijeongbu (의정부, 議政府) was the highest deliberative and administrative organ of Korea's Joseon dynasty, established in 1400, directing the Six Boards until real power passed to the Bibyeonsa after 1592.
Uijeongbu-si
Uijeongbu-si (의정부시), a city in northern Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, north of Seoul. Known for budaejjigae sausage stew, former USFK bases including Camp Red Cloud, GTX-C rail plans, and about 462,000 residents.
Uijong of Goryeo
Uijong of Goryeo (의종) was the 18th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, reigning from 1146 to 1170, deposed by a military coup in 1170, and assassinated in exile in 1173.
Uilata Fluctus
Uilata Fluctus is a large lava flow field on Venus, about 700 km across, centered in the Guinevere Planitia quadrangle and intermingling with outflows from the volcano Tuli Mons.
Uilleann pipes
Uilleann pipes (píob uilleann, union pipes), Ireland's bellows-blown bagpipe with a two-octave chromatic chanter, drones, and chord-playing regulators; evolved from pastoral pipes by 1768, UNESCO-inscribed 2017.
Uilliam Barros
Uilliam Barros Pereira, Brazilian centre-forward born 1994 in Bonito, brother of retired player Vinícius; Fortaleza youth product, Copa do Nordeste 2018 winner with Sampaio Corrêa, now at Persib Bandung in Indonesia's Super League.
Uinta Basin
The Uinta Basin is a structural basin in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado that holds Utah's principal oil and gas resources, producing 93 percent of the state's crude.
Uinta Mountains
Uinta Mountains: east-west trending range in northeastern Utah and northwest Colorado, 150 miles long, Utah's highest with Kings Peak 13,528 ft; Laramide uplift 70-34 Ma on Precambrian Cheyenne Belt structure.
UiO-66
UiO-66 is a zirconium-based metal-organic framework in which zirconium-oxide clusters are connected by terephthalate linkers into a porous cubic lattice, first reported at the University of Oslo.
UiPath
UiPath Inc. is an American enterprise automation software company, founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 2005 as DeskOver and headquartered in New York, that is a leading robotic process automation vendor.
Uisang
Uisang (의상, 625–702) was a Silla monk who studied Huayan Buddhism under Zhiyan in Tang China, wrote the Hwaeom Ilseung Beopgyedo in 668, and founded Buseoksa in 676.
UISEE Technologies (驭势科技)
UISEE Technologies (驭势科技) is a Chinese Level 4 autonomous-driving company founded in Beijing in 2016, serving airports and factories, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2026.
Uisge
Uisge (Scottish Gaelic for "water"), also called Scorpion, is a 1984 two-player abstract strategy board game by Roland Siegers, published by Hexagames, in which players flip crown-sided stones on a 42-square board while keeping all pieces connected; it won the 1984 Spiel des Jahres Sonderpreis "Schönes Spiel".
Uishdish
Uishdish, also known as Uishdesh, was a district of the Mannean kingdom in northwestern Iran, attested in Sargon II's inscriptions and probably located north of Maragheh.
Uitlander
Uitlander was a foreign resident of the Transvaal who challenged the republic over taxation and the denial of voting rights, leading to the South African War of 1899.
Új versek
Új versek ("New Verses") is the third poetry collection of the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, published in Budapest in 1906 and seen as opening modern Hungarian poetry.
UJ-25 Skyline
The UJ-25 Skyline is a Ukrainian jet-powered one-way attack drone made by Ukrjet, derived from the UJ-23 Topaz target drone and first used in combat in December 2023.
Ujamaa
Ujamaa (Swahili "familyhood") is Julius Nyerere's African socialism and Tanzania's post-1967 development strategy, defined in his 1962 essay and the Arusha Declaration, implemented through villagization, and abandoned after economic failure.
Ujda Chaman (उजड़ा चमन)
Ujda Chaman (उजड़ा चमन) is a 2019 Hindi comedy-drama, Abhishek Pathak's official remake of the Kannada film Ondu Motteya Kathe, starring Sunny Singh as a balding lecturer seeking a wife; released 1 November 2019.
Uji
Uji (宇治) is a city of about 177,000 in southern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, home to the World Heritage Byodoin Temple and Ujigami Shrine, the setting of the Tale of Genji's final chapters, and the historic center of Uji tea, 17 minutes from Kyoto Station.
Uji Shūi Monogatari
Uji Shūi Monogatari (宇治拾遺物語) is a Japanese setsuwa collection of 197 short tales compiled in the first half of the 13th century by an unknown compiler.
Uji–kabane system
The uji–kabane system (氏姓制度) was the hierarchy of lineage groups and hereditary titles through which Japan's Yamato court organized its nobility from the 5th to the late 7th century.
Ujjain (उज्जैन)
Ujjain (उज्जैन), historically Ujjayini or Avantika, is a city on the Kshipra River in Madhya Pradesh, India, one of the seven sacred Hindu cities and home of the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple.
Ujjani Dam (उज्जनी धरण)
Ujjani Dam (उज्जनी धरण), also known as Bhima Dam, is a dam on the Bhima River in Solapur district, Maharashtra, India, completed in 1980 to irrigate drought-prone districts.
Ujjayanta Palace
Ujjayanta Palace (उज्जयंता महल) is the former royal palace of the Manikya kings of Tripura in Agartala, built by Maharaja Radha Kishore Manikya in 1899–1901.