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Umm el-Qa'ab
Umm el-Qa'ab ("mother of pots") is the Early Dynastic royal cemetery at Abydos, Egypt, with tombs of Dynasty 0–2 kings, excavated since 1895 and by the German Archaeological Institute since 1977.
Umm Gudair oil field
Umm Gudair oil field (أم قدير) is an onshore oil field in western Kuwait, discovered in 1962, operated by the Kuwait Oil Company, and counted among Kuwait's giant fields.
Umm Haram bint Milhan
Umm Haram bint Milhan (أم حرام بنت ملحان) was a woman Companion of Muhammad from Medina's Ansar who died on the first Muslim naval expedition against Cyprus in the 640s.
Umm Kulthum (أم كلثوم)
Umm Kulthum (أم كلثوم), born Fatima Ibrahim al-Beltagi (1898 or 1904, unregistered, died 3 February 1975), Egyptian singer called Kawkab al-Sharq, famed for monthly first-Thursday Radio Cairo concerts, tarab improvisation, and 'Enta Omri'.
Umm Kulthum bint Ali
Umm Kulthum bint Ali (أم كلثوم بنت علي) is a daughter of Ali and Fatimah and sister of Hasan, Husayn, and Zaynab, whose reported marriage to Caliph Umar is disputed between Sunni and Shia sources.
Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (أم كلثوم بنت محمد)
Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (أم كلثوم بنت محمد) was, in the dominant Sunni and Shia tradition, a daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah, married to Uthman ibn Affan.
Umm Lulu
Umm Lulu, also written Umm al Lulu, is an offshore oil field in shallow Arabian Gulf waters about 30 km from Abu Dhabi, which produced first oil in 2014.
Umm Musa al-Hashimiyya
Umm Musa al-Hashimiyya (أم موسى الهاشمية) was a qahramana, a harem stewardess, at the Abbasid court in Baghdad under Caliph al-Muqtadir, famed for dismissing viziers.
Umm Niqa oil field
Umm Niqa is a heavy oil field in northern Kuwait, operated by Kuwait Oil Company, producing about 22,000 barrels per day from the Lower Fars formation.
Umm Qasr Zoo
Umm Qasr Zoo (حديقة الحيوانات) is a zoo in Umm Qasr, Basra Governorate, Iraq, on al-Hindiya al-Shamaliya at 30.0335°N, 47.91076°E, mapped as OpenStreetMap way 371917417, near the city's port, hospital, and mosque.
Umm Ruweim
Umm Ruweim is an archaeological site in the El Rum oasis of the Wadi Abu Dom in northern Sudan, three large ancient building compounds dating to about AD 240–330.
Umm Saad
Umm Saad (أم سعد) is a 1969 novella by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, published in Beirut, centered on a refugee-camp mother whose son joins the fedayeen.
Umm Salama
Umm Salama (أم سلمة), born Hind bint Abi Umayya, was a wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a learned hadith narrator remembered for her counsel at al-Hudaybiyya.
Umm Shaif oil field
Umm Shaif is an offshore oil field in the Arabian Gulf near Abu Dhabi, discovered in 1958 and the site of Abu Dhabi's first oil exports in 1962.
Umm Ubaydah
Umm Ubaydah (Umm Ubayda, Umm Ubayd) is the ruined temple of Amun at Egypt's Siwa Oasis, built under Nectanebo II, linked by a causeway to the Oracle temple, largely destroyed in the 1800s.
Umma (2022 film)
Umma (엄마) is a 2022 American supernatural horror film, Iris K. Shim's directorial debut, starring Sandra Oh as a Korean American beekeeper haunted by her dead mother's remains; produced by Sam Raimi, released March 18, 2022.
Umma archive
The Umma archive is a corpus of about 30,000 administrative cuneiform tablets from the Ur III province of Umma in southern Iraq, dating to 2112-2004 BC.
Umma Party
The Umma Party (حزب الأمة, Party of the Nation) was an Egyptian political party founded in 1907, led by Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid, advocating gradual constitutional independence from Britain.
Umma Sulcus
Umma Sulcus is a 1,270-km-wide grooved bright terrain (sulcus) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at 4.10°N, 249.5°W; IAU-named in 2000 after the Sumerian town of Umma.
Umma–Lagash border dispute
The Umma–Lagash border dispute, also called the Gu-edina dispute, was a prolonged conflict between the Sumerian city-states of Umma and Lagash over the fertile Gu-edena border tract.
Ummagumma
Ummagumma is Pink Floyd's 1969 Harvest double album: two live sides from Birmingham and Manchester plus solo sides by Wright, Waters, Gilmour, and Mason; No. 4 UK, No. 74 US, Hipgnosis Droste-effect cover.
Ummah (أُمَّة)
Ummah (أُمَّة), also called the Muslim Ummah, is an Arabic term for the worldwide community of Muslim believers, a community that numbered 2.0 billion people in 2020.
Ummanigash
Ummanigash, also known as Humban-nikaš II, was a king of Elam, son of Urtak, installed by Ashurbanipal of Assyria in 653 BC and killed after backing a Babylonian revolt.
Ummanunu
Ummanunu was a king of Susa in Elam during the early sixth century BC, known from administrative tablets found at Susa and as the father of the later king Šilhak-Inšušinak II.
UMMC Ekaterinburg (УГМК)
UMMC Ekaterinburg (УГМК, UMMC Yekaterinburg) is a Russian women's basketball club owned by the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, with 19 Russian titles and six EuroLeague Women championships; Brittney Griner played there until her 2022 detention.
Ummeda Ram Beniwal (उम्मेदा राम बेनीवाल)
Ummeda Ram Beniwal (उम्मेदा राम बेनीवाल), born 1977, is an Indian National Congress MP from Barmer, Rajasthan, in the 18th Lok Sabha. A former Delhi Police constable (1995–2005) and handicraft exporter, he lost two Baytu assembly races for the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party before winning Barmer in 2024.
Ummeed Housing Finance
Ummeed Housing Finance Private Limited is a Gurugram-based, RBI-regulated housing finance company founded in January 2016 by Ashutosh Sharma, lending to low- and informal-income households in small-town India.
Umnak Island
Umnak Island is a dumbbell-shaped volcanic island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska, separated from Unalaska by Umnak Pass and holding the chain's earliest known settlement.
Umo Eno
Umo Bassey Eno, born in 1964, is a Nigerian politician, businessman, and clergyman serving as Governor of Akwa Ibom State since 2023, after founding Royalty Hotels.
UMOD
UMOD encodes uromodulin (Tamm–Horsfall protein), the most abundant protein in urine, made only by the kidney's loop of Henle. It defends against UTIs and kidney stones, and UMOD mutations cause ADTKD-UMOD inherited kidney disease with gout.