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Yenişehirli Abdullah Efendi
Yenişehirli Abdullah Efendi was an Ottoman Hanafi jurist who served as şeyhülislâm under Ahmed III from 1718 to 1730, best known for the fetva permitting book printing.
Yenisei
Yenisei (Енисей), Siberia's largest Arctic river, formed near Kyzyl by the Bolshoi and Malyi Yenisei; 4092 km long, 2,580,000 km² basin, 17,400 m³/s flow into the Kara Sea, heavily dammed.
Yenisei (rocket)
Yenisei (Енисей) is a Russian super-heavy launch vehicle developed by RKK Energia for Roscosmos, designed to lift over 100 tonnes to low Earth orbit for crewed lunar missions.
Yenisei Kyrgyz inscriptions
The Yenisei Kyrgyz inscriptions are Old Turkic runic epitaphs in the Yenisei River basin, mostly in Khakassia and Tuva, dating mainly to the 9th and 10th centuries.
Yenisei Kyrgyz wars with Russia
The Yenisei Kyrgyz wars with Russia were a series of conflicts from the 1620s to the early eighteenth century, as Russia expanded up the Yenisei River against resisting Kyrgyz nomads.
Yeniseian languages
Yeniseian (Yeniseic) is a small Siberian language family of six languages, Ket, Yugh, Pumpokol, Arin, Assan, and Kott, of which only Ket survives, with under 50 fluent elderly speakers; noted for tones, prefixing polysynthetic verbs, and the contested Dene-Yeniseian link to Na-Dene.
Yenisey
Yenisey (Yenisei), Siberia's great north-flowing river, largest Arctic river by discharge (673 km3/yr), basin 2.58 million km2, heavily dammed, contaminated by plutonium plant at Zheleznogorsk.
Yenisey Gulf (Енисейский залив)
The Yenisey Gulf (Енисейский залив) is the long estuary through which the Yenisey River, the Arctic's largest freshwater source, enters the Kara Sea in northern Siberia.
Yenkhoboy Fossae
Yenkhoboy Fossae is a 900 km fossa (tectonic depression) system on Venus at 48°S, 7°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for Buryatian warrior sisters, one of 34 Venusian fossae named for warrior women.
Yenko Camaro
The Yenko Camaro is a high-performance version of the 1967–1969 Chevrolet Camaro built by Yenko Chevrolet, Don Yenko's Canonsburg, Pennsylvania dealership, which installed 427 V8 engines.
Yennai Arindhaal (என்னை அறிந்தால்)
Yennai Arindhaal (என்னை அறிந்தால்), also known as Thala 55, is a 2015 Indian Tamil action thriller starring Ajith Kumar as police officer Sathyadev, completing Gautham Menon's trilogy of police dramas.
Yentl (film)
Yentl (1983) is Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, a musical drama adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," in which a Jewish woman poses as a man to study Talmud; it won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Yeo Gap Sun
Yeo Gap-Sun (여갑순, Yeo Kab-Soon), born 1974, South Korean sport shooter who won the 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold in women's 10 m air rifle with 498.2, Korea's first Olympic shooting gold, and later won Asian Games and World Championship team medals.
Yeo Hwan-woong
Yeo Hwan-woong (여환웅), known mononymously as Hwanwoong, is a South Korean singer and dancer, the main dancer of the five-member boy group ONEUS, who debuted in 2019 under RBW.
Yeo Jin-goo (여진구)
Yeo Jin-goo (여진구), born 1997, is a South Korean actor who debuted as a child in Sad Movie (2005), broke through with Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013), and starred in The Crowned Clown, Hotel Del Luna, and Beyond Evil.
Yeo Un-hyeong
Yeo Un-hyeong (여운형), pen name Mongyang, was a Korean independence activist and politician who served in the Shanghai Provisional Government and was assassinated in Seoul in 1947.
Yeojin (임여진)
Yeojin (임여진), born 2002, is a South Korean singer, fourth revealed LOONA member with the 2017 solo single "Kiss Later", later a Loossemble member, and since 2026 a MUMW Entertainment soloist with Lv1 and Lv2.
Yeolha Ilgi
Yeolha Ilgi (熱河日記, "Jehol Diary") is a travelogue and essay collection by Joseon scholar Park Ji-won, written after his 1780 embassy to Qing China; it argues for adopting Qing civilization to reform Joseon.
Yeom Hye-ran (염혜란)
Yeom Hye-ran (염혜란), born 1976 in Yeosu, is a South Korean actress who moved from two decades of theater to acclaimed screen roles in The Uncanny Counter, The Glory, Mask Girl, and When Life Gives You Tangerines, winning consecutive Baeksang supporting-actress awards.
Yeom Jang
Yeom Jang (염장) was a Silla military commander, a native of Muju, who assassinated Jang Bogo at a banquet and then suppressed the Cheonghaejin faction.
Yeoman
Yeoman: an English term (recorded from c.1300) for a household servant, later a substantial independent farmer below the gentry; also Yeoman of the Guard, Yeomanry cavalry, and the Jeffersonian yeoman farmer ideal.
Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard is a ceremonial British royal bodyguard created by Henry VII in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth, the oldest military corps in Britain.
Yeomen Warders
Yeomen Warders, popularly called Beefeaters, are the veteran ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, dating to Henry VIII's 1509 detachment of the Yeomen of the Guard; 35 serve today, requiring 22 years' military service, leading tours and the nightly Ceremony of the Keys.
Yeon Gaesomun's coup
Yeon Gaesomun's coup (연개소문의 정변) was the 642 seizure of power in Goguryeo, when the general Yeon Gaesomun killed King Yeongnyu and many ministers at Pyongyang and installed King Bojang.
Yeon Jung-hoon (연정훈)
South Korean actor and television entertainer Yeon Jung-hoon is famous for his roles as Lee Dong-wook in East of Eden and his participation in the variety show 2 Days & 1 Night.
Yeon Namgeon
Yeon Namgeon (淵男建) was a Goguryeo leader who seized power from his brother Namsaeng in 666 and led resistance to Tang China until Pyongyang fell in 668.
Yeon Namsaeng
Yeon Namsaeng (연남생), also called Cheon Namsaeng, was a Goguryeo aristocrat, eldest son of Yeon Gaesomun, who defected to Tang China before Goguryeo fell in 668.
Yeon Namsan
Yeon Namsan (淵男産) was a Goguryeo aristocrat, third son of the military ruler Yeon Gaesomun, who lived through Goguryeo's fall to the Tang dynasty in 668.
Yeon S. Ahn
Yeon S. Ahn (Yeon Soong Ahn) is a Miami-based hematologist known for introducing vincristine and danazol therapies for immune thrombocytopenia at the University of Miami.
Yeon Sang-ho (연상호)
Yeon Sang-ho (연상호, born 1978) is a South Korean director of animation and live action, creator of The King of Pigs, Train to Busan, Peninsula, Hellbound, Jung_E, Parasyte: The Grey, Revelations, and Colony.