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Yayoi period (弥生時代)

Yayoi period (弥生時代), prehistoric era of Japan between Jōmon and Kofun, traditionally 300 BCE–300 CE but possibly beginning 10th–9th century BCE; wet-rice farming, bronze and iron, migration from the Korean Peninsula, warfare, and social stratification.

Yayoi pottery

Yayoi pottery (弥生土器) is the plain, thin-walled unglazed earthenware of Japan's Yayoi period, roughly 300 B.C. to 300 A.D., when rice farming spread through the islands.

Yayuan Liu

Yayuan Liu is an electrochemist and assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University, working on electrically driven carbon capture and battery materials.

Yayue

Yayue (雅乐) is the ceremonial music and dance of China's Zhou dynasty, traditionally credited to Zhou Gongdan, performed at sacrifices, banquets, and state rites, and later championed by Confucius.

Yaz El-Baba

Yaz (Yazan) El-Baba is a venture capitalist and Partner at Emergence Capital since 2024, investing in B2B infrastructure and application software companies like Together AI.

Yaz tepe

Yaz tepe (Yaz-depe), Iron Age settlement in the Murgab delta, Margiana, Turkmenistan; type site of the Yaz I culture, with a 16-hectare mound, adobe citadel palace built 950-650 BCE, and Yaz I-III sequence.

Yazathingyan

Yazathingyan (ရာဇသင်္ကယန်) was a Burmese prince and commander, the middle of the three Shan brothers who ruled Upper Burma after Pagan's fall, dying around 1312.

Yazawin Thit

Yazawin Thit, also called Maha Yazawin Thit or Myanma Yazawin Thit, is a Burmese national chronicle completed in 1798, the first to verify earlier histories against stone inscriptions.

Yazd (یزد)

Yazd (یزد), historic desert city in central Iran 270 km southeast of Isfahan; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, famed for qanats, over 700 windcatchers (badgirs), earthen architecture, and peaceful coexistence of Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.

Yazd Province

Yazd Province (Ostān-e Yazd) is one of Iran's 31 provinces at the country's geographical center, with its capital at Yazd city and a 2016 population of about 1.14 million.

Yazdegerd I

Yazdegerd I (یزدگرد یکم) was Sasanian king of kings of Iran from 399 to 420, remembered for peace with Rome, tolerance toward Christians and Jews, and curbing the nobility.

Yazdegerd III (یزدگرد سوم)

Yazdegerd III (یزدگرد سوم), last Sasanian king of Iran (r. 632–651), grandson of Kosrau II, crowned as a child after civil war; defeated at Qadisiyya and Nihavand, murdered at Merv in 651.

Yazeed Al-Shamsi

Yazeed Al-Shamsi is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari in 2022 with three schoolmates, a Riyadh proptech whose rent-now-pay-later service converts annual rents into monthly payments.

Yazid I (يزيد بن معاوية)

Yazid I (يزيد بن معاوية), second Umayyad caliph (680–683), son and dynastic heir of Mu'awiya I; his reign saw Husayn's killing at Karbala, the Battle of the Harra, and the siege of Mecca.

Yazid ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhir

Yazid ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhir (يزيد بن عبد الله بن الشخير) was a trustworthy Basran hadith transmitter who narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn Usama al-Laythi

Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn Usama al-Laythi (يزيد بن عبد الله بن أسامة الليثي) was a Medinan hadith transmitter graded trustworthy and prolific, dying in Medina in 756 CE.

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (يزيد بن المهلب) was a governor of Khurasan and Iraq under the Umayyad caliphate who died in 720 leading a revolt against Caliph Yazid II.

Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani

Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani (يزيد بن مزيد الشيباني) was an Arab general of the Banu Shayban who governed Yemen and Azerbaijan for the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.

Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi (Ibn Zakara)

Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi (الأزدي أبو زكريا يزيد بن محمد), known as Ibn Zakara, was a Mosul hadith scholar, jurist, and judge who wrote Ta'rikh al-Mawsil.

Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Ruhawi

Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Ruhawi, kunya Abu Farwa, was a 9th-century hadith transmitter from al-Ruha (Edessa) in al-Jazira who died in 269 AH, with 91 narrations recorded through him and sharply divided verdicts from classical critics.

Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra

Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra (يزيد بن عمر بن هبيرة), kunya Abu Khalid, was the last Umayyad governor of Iraq, serving Marwan II and killed at Wasit in 750.

Yazid II

Yazid II (Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik) was an Umayyad caliph from 720 to 724, known for crushing a revolt in Iraq and his 721 edict ordering the destruction of images in Christian churches.

Yazid III

Yazid III (يزيد بن الوليد) was the twelfth Umayyad caliph, who took the throne in 744 by overthrowing his cousin al-Walid II and died six months later.

Yazid Sufaat

Yazid Sufaat (QDi.124), Malaysian Jemaah Islamiyah member and Al-Qaida biological weapons operative, hosted the 2000 Kuala Lumpur summit, funded Moussaoui, and was detained 2001-2019.

Yazidis

Yazidis (Ēzidi, Ezdiki speakers) are a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious minority of northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus practicing Yazidism, a syncretistic religion venerating Malak Ṭāʾus, founded around Shaikh ʿAdi; survivors of the 2014 ISIS genocide.

Yazidism

Yazidism, also called Yezidism, is the monotheistic religion of the Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, with no written sacred book and its sanctuary at Lalish.

Yazin Nizar

Yazin Nizar, sometimes credited as Yasin, is an Indian playback singer born in Kollam, Kerala in 1990, known for Telugu hits and singing in M. M. Keeravani's music for RRR.

Yazıcıoğlu Ali

Yazıcıoğlu Ali was an early Ottoman historian at the court of Murad II, author of the Tevarih-i Al-i Selchuk, a Turkish history of the Seljuks and Ottomans.

Yazılıkaya

Yazılıkaya (Yazilikaya), a Hittite rock sanctuary northeast of Hattusa in Turkey, has two chambers with more than 90 reliefs of deities and kings carved in the 13th century BC.

Yazko Edebiyat

Yazko Edebiyat was a Turkish monthly literary magazine published in Istanbul from November 1980 as the organ of YAZKO, the writers' and translators' cooperative founded by Mustafa Kemal Ağaoğlu.