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Zalwar
Zalwar, also written Zalbar, was a small North Syrian city-state of the early 2nd millennium BC, probably identified with Tilmen Höyük in Gaziantep province, southern Turkey.
Zama
Zama, also known as Zama Regia, was a royal city of the Numidian kingdom in Tunisia, name-site of Scipio's victory over Hannibal in 202 BC.
Zama (2017 film)
Zama (2017) is Lucrecia Martel's fourth feature, an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 novel, premiering at Venice. It stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a colonial magistrate waiting for a royal transfer that never comes.
Zama Minor
Zama Minor, an ancient city of Numidia in modern Tunisia, one of several Zamai distinguished from Zama Regia (Zama Major); a titular see represented at Carthage in 255, traditionally placed at Sidi Amor Jedid but now of uncertain location.
Zamak
Zamak, also spelled Zamac, is a family of zinc die casting alloys containing about 4% aluminum, developed by the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1929.
Zamalek SC (نادي الزمالك الرياضي)
Zamalek SC (نادي الزمالك الرياضي), the White Knights, is a Cairo-Giza Egyptian club founded 1911 (as Qasr El Nile, later El Mokhtalat and Farouk). 14 league titles, 5 CAF Champions Leagues, Al Ahly's derby rival.
Zamama
Zamama is an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io, first seen as a new lava flow in Galileo images in 1996 after being absent from Voyager's 1979 pictures.
Zaman Shah Durrani
Zaman Shah Durrani (زماں شاہ درانی), third ruler of the Durrani Empire (r. 1793–1801), son of Timur Shah and grandson of Ahmad Shah; campaigned in the Punjab, took Lahore in 1796, and was dethroned and blinded by his half-brother Mahmud in 1800–1801.
Zamana
Zamana (زمانہ) was an Urdu-language monthly literary magazine founded in 1903 in Bareilly, India, and edited from Kanpur by Daya Narain Nigam until 1949, best known for first publishing Muhammad Iqbal's poem "Hamara des".
Zamasu (ザマス)
Zamasu (ザマス), also rendered Zamas, is a Dragon Ball Super villain: Universe 10's North Kaiō who swaps bodies with Goku via the Super Dragon Balls to become Goku Black and runs the Human Zero Plan.
Zambales
Zambales is a first-class province in Central Luzon, Philippines, capital Iba, 13 municipalities, 681,225 people (2024). Known for nickel and chromite mining in Santa Cruz, 5.0% economic growth in 2023, and coastal flooding.
Zambetas
Giorgos Zambetas (Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας) was a Greek laiko composer, singer, and bouzouki virtuoso, born in Athens in 1925 and died there in 1992. He wrote more than 250 songs and music for over 100 films.
Zambezi
The Zambezi, Africa's fourth longest river (about 3,400 km), drains a 1,370,000 km² basin across eight countries to the Indian Ocean; its Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams dominate hydropower, flow regulation, and drought-exposed energy supply.
Zambezi Delta (landform)
Zambezi Delta, Mozambique landform at the Zambezi River's Indian Ocean mouth; 230 km coastline, 18,000 km2 wetlands, Ramsar Marromeu site, buffalo and wattled cranes, altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zambezi Delta (protected area)
Zambezi Delta Ramsar Site (site 1391), Mozambique's second Wetland of International Importance, designated 2004 and extended in 2015 to over 3,000 km2; a biodiversity-rich delta threatened by upstream Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zambezi Expedition
The Zambezi Expedition (1858–1864) was a British government-sponsored exploration of the Zambezi River led by David Livingstone; it discovered Lake Malawi but failed when the river proved unnavigable.
Zambezi Floodplains
Zambezi Floodplains: seasonally inundated wetlands along the Zambezi River, chiefly the Barotse Floodplain (9,000 km2 Ramsar site) plus Kafue Flats, Chobe, and Mana Pools, sustaining Lozi society, fisheries, and a seasonal flood pulse now altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zambezi Valley tsetse control campaigns
The Zambezi Valley tsetse control campaigns are operations in northern Zimbabwe to suppress tsetse flies, the vectors of trypanosomiasis, beginning with hunting in 1933 and advancing to odor-baited insecticide-treated targets.
Zambezian Headwaters
Zambezian Headwaters, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 555, covers headwaters of the upper Zambezi, Okavango, Kafue, and Cunene rivers in Angola and Zambia, with miombo woodland, dambos, and five endemic fish species.
Zambezian Highveld
The Zambezian Highveld is a freshwater ecoregion, numbered 560 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World classification, covering Zimbabwe's interior plateaus above 600 m and draining to the Zambezi, Save, and Limpopo rivers.
Zambezian Lowveld
Zambezian Lowveld (FEOW ecoregion 576): southern African freshwater ecoregion of ~520,418 km2 on low-lying coastal rivers from south of the Zambezi Delta, where tropical Zambezian and temperate fish faunas overlap; 105 native fish species, status Vulnerable.
Zambia
Zambia, a landlocked southern African country of about 20-22 million people bordering eight states, gained independence in 1964. Its copper-driven economy defaulted in 2020, restructured over $12 billion of debt under an IMF program, and faces hydropower dependence on Lake Kariba.
Zambia Independence Act 1964
The Zambia Independence Act 1964 is a UK Parliament act that made the protectorate of Northern Rhodesia an independent republic, Zambia, on 24 October 1964.
Zambia national football team
Zambia national football team, the Chipolopolo (Copper Bullets), governed by the Football Association of Zambia; AFCON champions 2012 in Libreville, runners-up 1994, never at a World Cup, marked by the 1993 Gabon air crash.
Zambian African National Congress
The Zambian African National Congress (ZANC) was a political party in Northern Rhodesia founded by Kenneth Kaunda in October 1958 and banned in March 1959.
Zambian copper boom and bust
The Zambian copper boom and bust was the cycle of high copper prices and output after independence in 1964, followed by price collapse in the mid-1970s and two decades of decline.
Zambian copper nationalization
Zambian nationalization was the transfer of majority state ownership of Zambia's copper industry, beginning in 1969 under President Kenneth Kaunda and concluding with full privatization in 2000.
Zambian Defence Force
The Zambian Defence Force (ZDF), also called ZNDF, is Zambia's military: Zambia Army, Air Force, and National Service under the President. Established 1964; ~16,000 personnel; major UN peacekeeping contributor.
Zambian kwacha
The Zambian kwacha is the currency of Zambia, issued by the Bank of Zambia and divided into 100 ngwee. It replaced the Zambian pound in 1968.
Zambiya
Zambiya, also Zambija, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned 1836–1834 BC, between Enlil-bani and Iter-pisha, and rebuilt Isin's great wall.