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Yaprak Erkek
Yaprak Erkek (born 2001, Ankara) is a Turkish volleyball outside hitter, 182 cm, for Eczacıbaşı and Türkiye; 2025 World Championship silver, 2023 Club World champion, 2026 European champion.
Yapsin
Yapsins are a family of GPI-anchored aspartyl proteases on the cell surface of budding yeasts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cleaving proteins after basic residues and maintaining cell wall integrity.
YapStone
YapStone is a payments company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, that processed payments for apartment and vacation rental marketplaces before its 2024 acquisition by Velo Payments.
Yapyap
Yapyap (YAPYAP) is a magic-themed co-op horror game by Maison Bap, released February 3, 2026 on Steam: up to six wizard minions vandalize a rival's tower using voice-activated spells; 500,000 copies sold in a week.
Yaqeen Institute
Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research: Texas-based 501(c)(3) Islamic research nonprofit founded in 2016 by Omar Suleiman; publishes free peer-reviewed papers, videos, and podcasts on contemporary Islamic questions.
Yaqeen Ka Safar (یقین کا سفر)
Yaqeen Ka Safar (یقین کا سفر) is a 2017 Hum TV Pakistani drama adapted from Farhat Ishtiaq's novel, directed by Shahzad Kashmiri, starring Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir as Zubia and Dr Asfandyar, 29 episodes, noted for themes of justice and women's autonomy.
Yaqub al-Mansur
Yaqub al-Mansur (أبو يوسف يعقوب المنصور) was the third Almohad caliph, ruling North Africa and al-Andalus from 1184 to 1199 and defeating Castile at Alarcos in 1195.
Yaqub Beg
Yaqub Beg (Yaqub Beg, یعقوب بیگ), Kokand-born commander who founded the independent Emirate of Yettishar at Kashgar in East Turkestan (1865-1877), gained recognition from Britain, Russia, and the Ottomans, and died in 1877 during Zuo Zongtang's Qing reconquest.
Yaqub Sarruf
Yaqub Sarruf (يعقوب صروف) was a Lebanese-born scholar and journalist who co-founded al-Muqtataf in Beirut in 1876 and directed it from Cairo until his death in 1927.
Yaqui
The Yaqui (Yoeme) are an Indigenous people of the Yaqui River valley in southern Sonora, Mexico, with communities in Arizona including the federally recognized Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Tucson. Known for sustained resistance to Spanish, Mexican, and US rule and recent large-scale land restitution in Mexico.
Yaqui Wars
The Yaqui Wars (Guerra del Yaqui) were military campaigns fought from 1882 to 1909 by Mexico and Sonora against the Yaqui resisting land dispossession, ending in defeat and mass deportation.
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yaqut al-Hamawi (Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, 1179-1229) was a Greek-born Arab geographer, former slave, and author of the Mu'jam al-Buldan, an alphabetical geographical dictionary of the medieval world, and the Mu'jam al-Udaba biographical dictionary.
Yaqut al-Musta'simi
Yaqut al-Musta'simi (يعقوب المستعصمي) was a Baghdad calligrapher of slave origin who served the last Abbasid caliph, survived the Mongol sack of 1258, and fixed the six classical scripts.
Yar City
雅尔湖故城 (交河故城, Yar City / Jiaohe ruins), an earthen city site 10 km west of Turpan, Xinjiang; Jushi capital, Tang Anxi Protectorate seat, 2nd c. BC–14th c. AD, first-batch national monument and 2014 World Heritage site.
YARA
YARA is a pattern-matching language and tool for identifying and classifying malware by textual or binary patterns in files and process memory, released in 2013.
Yara Brunsbüttel
Yara Brunsbüttel is a German ammonia and urea production plant at Büttel on the Elbe, operated by a subsidiary of Norway's Yara International and started in 1978.
Yara Cartagena
Yara Cartagena is a fertilizer production complex operated by Yara Colombia in the Mamonal industrial zone of Cartagena, Colombia, producing NPK fertilizer, calcium nitrate, and ammonia.
Yara Clean Ammonia
Yara Clean Ammonia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Norway's Yara International established in 2021, trades and ships ammonia worldwide and develops low-emission blue and green ammonia production.
Yara Cubatão
Yara Cubatão is Yara International's fertilizer and nitrogen-chemicals complex in Cubatão, São Paulo state, Brazil, acquired from Vale in 2018, with about 1.5 million tonnes of annual capacity.
Yara International
Yara International is a Norwegian fertilizer and ammonia producer founded in 1905, operating in more than 60 countries and serving over 140 markets, with 2025 revenues of USD 15.7 billion.
Yara Porsgrunn
Yara Porsgrunn is Yara International's fertilizer and ammonia complex at Herøya in Porsgrunn, Norway, founded by Norsk Hydro in 1928 and producing about 2 million tonnes of NPK fertilizer yearly.
Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi (Yara Sayeh Shahidi), American actress and producer born 2000 in Minneapolis, plays Zoey Johnson on black-ish and grown-ish, founded 7th Sun Productions and WeVoteNext, and graduated from Harvard in 2022.
Yara Sluiskil
Yara Sluiskil is a fertilizer and nitrogen chemicals plant in Sluiskil, Netherlands, owned by Norway's Yara International and the largest ammonia and nitrate fertilizer site in Europe.
Yara van Kerkhof
Yara van Kerkhof (born 1990, Zoetermeer) is a retired Dutch short track speed skater, nicknamed Pitbull, who won Olympic silver in the 2018 500m, 2018 relay bronze, and 2022 relay gold, retiring in 2024.
Yaracuyanos
Yaracuyanos FC (Colosos de Sorte), Venezuelan football club founded 2006 in San Felipe, Yaracuy; twice Segunda División champion (2019, 2024), plays at Estadio Florentino Oropeza.
Yaraktinskoye Oil Field
Yaraktinskoye is an onshore oil, gas, and condensate field in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, about 140 km from Ust-Kut. Discovered in 1971, it is operated by the Irkutsk Oil Company.
Yaran North Oil Field
Yaran North Oil Field is an operating oil field in Khuzestan, Iran, forming the northern part of the Yaran field shared with Iraq, where it is called Majnoon.
Yarchester
Yarchester Roman Villa: minor Romano-British corridor villa near Harley, Shropshire, occupied c. AD 200 to mid-4th century, excavated 1955-62 by W.A. Silvester, with mosaics paralleled at Verulamium and Cirencester; scheduled monument 1002934.
Yard
The yard (symbol yd) is a unit of length in the British imperial and US customary systems, equal to 3 feet and exactly 0.9144 meter since 1959.
Yard (sailing)
A yard is a horizontal spar set across a mast from which a square sail is set, swung by braces; in the lateen rig it carries a triangular sail.