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Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος)
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος), or Zante, a Greek Ionian Sea island: third largest Ionian island, 406 km², 41,180 residents, about 2 million tourists yearly, home of Navagio beach and Caretta caretta nesting sites.
Zakythos/Zacynthus (settlement)
Zakythos/Zacynthus (settlement), ancient town on the Ionian island of Zakynthos (Zante); Ptolemy's Ζάκυνθς, Tabula Peutingeriana Insula Zachintus, Pleiades 531155; hilltop acropolis fortified by the 5th century BCE.
Zal Batmanglij
Zal Batmanglij, American film director and screenwriter born in France to Iranian parents; co-writer with Brit Marling of Sound of My Voice (2011), The East (2013), The OA (2016–19), and A Murder at the End of the World (2023).
Zal Bilimoria
Zal Bilimoria is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Refactor Capital in Burlingame, California in 2016 after product roles at Netflix, YouTube, and Microsoft, and has been its sole general partner since 2018.
Zal Montes
Zal Montes is a 436 km wide mountain complex on Jupiter's moon Io, made of two massifs, South and North Zal Mons, that flank the volcanic depression Zal Patera.
Zal Patera
Zal Patera is a large volcanic depression, or patera, on Jupiter's moon Io, about 168 km wide, where NASA's Juno spacecraft observed fresh lava flows in 2023 and 2024.
ZALA Kub-BLA
ZALA Kub-BLA, also written KYB-UAV, is a Russian kamikaze drone made by ZALA Aero, a Kalashnikov subsidiary, first shown in 2019 and used in Ukraine from 2022.
ZALA Lancet
The ZALA Lancet, also called the Zala drone, is a Russian catapult-launched kamikaze loitering munition by ZALA Aero, presented in 2019 and heavily used against Ukrainian artillery since 2022.
Zala megye
Zala megye (Zala vármegye, Zala County) is a county in southwestern Hungary with seat Zalaegerszeg; first mentioned as Kolon county in 1009, it lost Muraköz at Trianon in 1920 and covers 3,784 km².
Zalando
Zalando SE, Berlin-based European fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform founded 2008 by Robert Gentz and David Schneider; 62 million active customers, 29 markets, 2025 revenue 12.3 billion euros, ABOUT YOU acquired July 2025.
Zalataya Padkova
Залатая падкова (Золотая подкова, "golden horseshoe"): a heraldic charge (Jastrabiec arms, 1768), a 2001 Belarusian blacksmithing festival, and the shared name of a dairy OAO, cafe-motels, banquet complexes, and equestrian clubs in Belarus and Russia.
ZalaZONE
ZalaZONE is a vehicle proving ground near Zalaegerszeg in western Hungary, built for testing autonomous, connected, and electric vehicles alongside conventional testing; the first phase opened in May 2019.
Zalcitabine
Zalcitabine (ddC, 2′,3′-dideoxycytidine, Hivid) was Roche's nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, FDA-approved in 1992 with zidovudine for advanced HIV; limited by peripheral neuropathy and stomatitis, discontinued December 31, 2006.
Zaldapa
Zaldapa was a Late Roman fortified city in Dobrudzha, near Abrit in northeast Bulgaria, the region's largest Late Antique fortress, abandoned after the Avar invasion of 585.
Zaldy
Zaldy (Zaldy Goco) is an American Filipino-origin fashion and costume designer, three-time Emmy winner for RuPaul's Drag Race, head designer of the ZALDY label (2002), tour designer for Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and others, and creator of the 2024 Victoria's Secret show.
Zaldy Co
Zaldy Co, Elizaldy Salcedo Co, is a Filipino businessman and former politician who represented the Ako Bicol party-list. He is the subject of ongoing graft and plunder proceedings.
Zaleplon
Zaleplon, originally sold as Sonata and also marketed as Starnoc, is a short-acting nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic drug used for short-term treatment of insomnia, distinguished by an elimination half-life of about one hour.
Zali Steggall
Zali Steggall OAM MP (born 1974, Manly) is an Australian former alpine skier and independent politician; Nagano 1998 slalom bronze, Vail 1999 world slalom champion, and member for Warringah since 2019, when she defeated Tony Abbott.
Zall Smart Commerce Group
Zall Smart Commerce Group (卓尔智联集团) is a Chinese company founded in 2003 that operates B2B trading platforms in agriculture, chemicals, steel, and cross-border trade, alongside wholesale malls.
Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (Williamsburg)
Zalman Leib Teitelbaum is a Hasidic rabbi who leads the Satmar community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, declared grand rebbe by his followers after his father died in 2006.
Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar (זלמן שזר), born Shneur Zalman Rubashov (1889–1974), was Israel's third president (1963–1973), its first education minister, Davar editor, and a scholar of Jewish history and Yiddish.
Zalman Shneour
Zalman Shneour (זלמן שניאור), born Shneur Zalkind, was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet, novelist, and playwright from Shklov who died in New York in 1959.
Zalmay Khalilzad (زلمی خلیلزاد)
Zalmay Khalilzad (زلمی خلیلزاد), Afghan-born American diplomat; US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the UN, and Special Representative who negotiated the February 2020 Doha agreement with the Taliban.
Zalo
Zalo, also known as Zalo.me, is a Vietnamese messaging and social networking app launched by VNG Corporation in 2012, now dominant with nearly 80 million monthly users.
Zalophus
Zalophus, a genus of eared seals (Otariidae) with three Pacific species: California sea lion (Z. californianus), endangered Galápagos sea lion (Z. wollebaeki), and the extinct Japanese sea lion (Z. japonicus), once classed as subspecies.
Zalpa
Zalpa, also written Zalpuwa, was a Bronze Age city and territory of northern Anatolia, known almost entirely from Hittite cuneiform texts, its location still disputed.
Zalphas
Zalphas (Zalpha, Gen ZAlpha) are a micro-generation born on the cusp of Generation Z and Generation Alpha, roughly late 2000s to early 2010s; ranges vary (2006–2012, 2008–2014, 2010–2015) and the cohort is described as pandemic-era digital natives.
Zaltu Mons
Zaltu Mons is a 220-km-diameter volcanic mountain on Venus at 18.0N, 163.5E in Niobe Planitia, named for an Assyro-Babylonian goddess (IAU 2003), with mapped lava flows and radial fractures up to 250 km.
Zalunfiban
Zalunfiban (RUC-4, Disaggpro) is an investigational subcutaneous glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor for STEMI given at first medical contact; the phase 3 CELEBRATE trial (2,467 patients) showed improved artery patency and fewer 30-day adverse outcomes without excess severe bleeding.
Zalutumumab
Zalutumumab (HuMax-EGFr, clone 2F8), a fully human IgG1 anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody from Genmab for head and neck cancer; development suspended in 2011 after phase 3 trials showed no overall survival benefit.