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Zula
Zula is a small town on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea whose vicinity contains the ruins generally identified as Adulis, the ancient port of the kingdom of Aksum.
Zulat
Zulat (זולת) is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, inserted into the Ge'ullah blessing after the morning Shema, recited mainly on Sabbaths and festivals.
Żuławy Gdańskie
Żuławy Gdańskie (Danziger Werder), left-bank subregion of the Vistula Delta in Poland named for Gdańsk; 39,130 ha, partly polder below sea level, fertile soils, arcaded houses, Dutch-settler heritage, major flood-protection program.
Zulay Henao
Zulay Henao (born 1979) is a Colombian-American actress and producer from Medellín, a former U.S. Army soldier, known for Fighting, Takers, If Loving You Is Wrong, and founding Modern Muze.
Zuleika Dobson
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story is Max Beerbohm's only novel, a 1911 satire of Oxford undergraduate life in which a conjurer's visit drives every suitor to suicide; ranked 59th on the Modern Library's 1998 list.
Zuleika T. Lopez
Zuleika T. Lopez, also Zuleika Tanglao Lopez: Filipino lawyer and chief of staff (undersecretary) of the Philippine OVP under Sara Duterte, appointed July 2022; twice Davao City administrator; detained by the House in 2024; subpoenaed, then dropped, as an impeachment witness in 2026.
Zuleikha
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes (Зулейха открывает глаза) is a 2015 debut novel by Tatar writer Guzel Yakhina about a Tatar peasant woman deported to Siberia in the 1930s.
Zuleikha Robinson
Zuleikha Robinson, British actress born 1977 in London, known for Yves Adele Harlow on The Lone Gunmen, Ilana on Lost, Roya Hammad on Homeland, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, and Zeyara Lemos on Jack Ryan.
Zuleyka Rivera
Zuleyka Rivera (Zuleyka Jerrís Rivera Mendoza), Puerto Rican model, actress, and presenter born 1987 in Cayey; Miss Universe 2006 at 18, the island's fifth winner, later star of the Despacito video and film Perla.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ذوالفقار علی بھٹو)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ذوالفقار علی بھٹو), Pakistan Peoples Party founder, President from 1971 and Prime Minister 1973–1977, author of the 1973 Constitution and Simla Agreement; executed 1979, and ruled in 2024 to have been denied a fair trial.
Zulfiqar
Zulfiqar, also known as Dhu'l-Fiqar, is the sword Islamic tradition associates with Ali ibn Abi Talib, given to him by Muhammad after the Battle of Badr in 624.
Zulfiqar (tank)
The Zulfiqar (Persian: ذوالفقار), also written Zolfaqar, is an Iranian main battle tank first revealed in 1994 that combines American M60 Patton components with the T-72's 125 mm gun.
Zulfiqar (জুলফিকার) (film)
Zulfiqar (জুলফিকার) is a 2016 Bengali crime drama directed by Srijit Mukherji, adapting Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra into Kolkata's underworld, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee as crime boss Zulfiqar Ahmed.
Zulfiqar Bhutta
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is a Pakistani pediatrician and global child health researcher with joint appointments at Aga Khan University, Karachi, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Zulfiqar Khan
Zulfiqar Khan, born Muhammad Ismail (1657–1713), was a Mughal general and statesman who became the first Nawab of the Carnatic and served as wazir under Emperor Jahandar Shah.
Zulfiya
Zulfiya, full name Zulfiya Isroilova (1915–1996), was an Uzbek poet, journalist, and editor who led the women's magazine Saodat and was named People's Poet of Uzbekistan in 1965.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo
Zulfiya Chinshanlo (Зульфия Чиншанло), Kazakhstani weightlifter born 1993 in Almaty; three-time world champion, 2012 Olympic gold later stripped for doping, Tokyo 2020 bronze, 134 kg clean and jerk world record.
Zulfiya Zabirova
Zulfiya Zabirova (Зульфия Хасановна Забирова), born 1973 in Tashkent, is a Kazakh road cyclist who won the 1996 Atlanta Olympic time trial for Russia and the 2002 world time trial title, with 51 career wins.
Zulia
Zulia is Venezuela's northwesternmost and most populous state, capital Maracaibo, area 63,100 km2, centered on oil-producing Lake Maracaibo; a sovereign federal state 1864-1868 and later Gran Estado Falcón Zulia (1881-1890).
Zulju
Zulju (زولجو), also written Zulchu, was a Mongol leader from Turkistan who ravaged Kashmir for eight months in 1320 and died with his whole army in a snowstorm.
Zulkifli Hasan
Zulkifli Hasan is an Indonesian politician of the National Mandate Party who has served as Coordinating Minister for Food since 2024 and previously as Minister of Trade and of Forestry.
Zullestein
Zullestein, also Burg Stein or Burg Zullenstein, is an archaeological site in Biblis, Hessen, Germany, at the Weschnitz mouth into the Rhine, spanning about 1,300 years of occupation.
Zulm (ظلم) (TV series)
Zulm (ظلم) is a 2023 Pakistani Urdu TV drama on Hum TV, written by Rehana Aftab, directed by Ilyas Kashmiri, produced by Momina Duraid, starring Faysal Qureshi as corrupt politician Malik Ijlal; 25 episodes from 20 November 2023 to 6 May 2024.
Zulu (1964 film)
Zulu (1964) is Cy Endfield's British epic war film about the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, scored by John Barry, shot in Technirama in apartheid South Africa, and a major British box office hit.
Zulu (group)
Zulu is a hardcore and powerviolence band from Los Angeles, founded by vocalist Anaiah Lei, known for weaving soul, reggae, and gospel samples into blast-beat hardcore.
Zulu amakhanda system
The Zulu amakhanda system, developed by King Shaka in the early nineteenth century, housed the Zulu kingdom's age-regiment warriors in royal homesteads serving as centers of royal authority.
Zulu beadwork
Zulu beadwork (ubuhlalu) is the beadwork tradition of the Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in which women use colored beads to convey messages of courtship, marriage, and identity.
Zulu Civil War
The Zulu Civil War of 1883–1884 was an armed conflict in Zululand between Cetshwayo's uSuthu and Zibhebhu's Mandlakazi, whose resolution led to Boer annexation of much of Zululand.
Zulu conquest of the Ndwandwe
The Zulu conquest of the Ndwandwe (iMfecane kaZwide) was the decisive war of 1818 to 1819 in which Shaka's Zulu forces defeated Zwide kaLanga's Ndwandwe.
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn (1979), directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Cy Endfield and Anthony Story, is a prequel to Zulu (1964) depicting the British defeat by the Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, and John Mills.