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Zamorin of Calicut
The Zamorin of Calicut (സാമൂതിരി) was the hereditary monarch of the kingdom of Calicut in Malabar, Kerala, who welcomed Vasco da Gama in 1498 and fought Portuguese expansion.
Zamość Uprising
The Zamość Uprising (Polish: Powstanie zamojskie) was the armed resistance of the Polish underground, chiefly the Home Army and Peasants' Battalions, against German expulsions of about 100,000 Poles in the Zamość region from 1942 to 1943.
Zamua
Zamua was an ancient land on the western Zagros slopes in modern Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, identified with Lullubu and made an Assyrian province in 842 BC.
Zamug
Zamug is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish in Sumer, known only from the Sumerian King List and unattested by any contemporary inscriptions.
Zamzam Well (بئر زمزم)
Zamzam Well (بئر زمزم) is a 30.5 m hand-dug well in the Grand Mosque's Mataf, about 21 m east of the Kaaba, feeding the mineral-rich, alkaline Zamzam water, monitored by the Saudi Geological Survey and bottled under the King Abdullah project.
Zana of Tkhina
Zana of Tkhina (Зана) was a 19th-century captive woman of Abkhazia's Tkhina village, once called an Almasty wild woman; 2021 ancient DNA shows she was a modern human of East African ancestry.
Zanabazar
Zanabazar, known in Tibetan as Blo bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan, was the First Jebtsundamba Khutuktu of Khalkha Mongolia, famed for gilded bronze Buddhas and Taras.
Zanabazar school
The Zanabazar school is a school of Mongolian Buddhist sculpture founded in the late seventeenth century by Zanabazar, regarded as the beginning of native Mongolian sculpture.
Zanabazar's White Tara
Zanabazar's White Tara, or Tsagaan Dar Ekh, is a gilt bronze sculpture of the Buddhist goddess White Tara made in the late 17th century by Zanabazar, Mongolia's most celebrated sculptor.
Zanamivir
Zanamivir, sold as Relenza, is an inhaled antiviral drug that blocks influenza neuraminidase and is used to treat and prevent influenza A and B infections.
Zanata
Zanata (Berber: Iznaten; Arabic: زناتة), also Zenata, was one of the three great medieval Berber confederations of the Maghreb, known for horse-riding nomads and ruling dynasties like the Marinids.
Zanclean flood
Zanclean flood (Zanclean megaflood), proposed catastrophic refilling of the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar about 5.33 million years ago, ending the Messinian salinity crisis; estimated 68–100 Sv discharge, 390 km erosion channel, debated evidence.
Zand dynasty
The Zand dynasty (Zand-e Zandiya, 1751-1794) ruled Persia except Khorasan from Shiraz between the Afsharids and the Qajars; its founder Karim Khan Zand ruled as wakil, never shah.
Zanda
Zanda (Mathews, 1913) is an Australian genus of black cockatoos with white or yellow subterminal tail bands, split from Calyptorhynchus; it includes Baudin's, Carnaby's, and the yellow-tailed cockatoos, with species limits still debated.
Zandelisib
Zandelisib (ME-401, PWT-143), an oral selective PI3Kδ inhibitor by MEI Pharma and Kyowa Kirin for B-cell lymphomas; intermittent dosing gave 73% ORR in TIDAL, but development was discontinued in 2023.
Zander
Zander (Sander lucioperca), or pikeperch, is a large European percid fish native to continental Europe and western Siberia, related to walleye and sauger, listed as injurious in the US, and intensively farmed in Europe.
Zander Clark
Zander Clark (Alexander Clark, born 1992, Glasgow) is a Scottish goalkeeper for Heart of Midlothian, on loan at Doncaster Rovers in 2026; ex-St Johnstone cup double winner, 4 Scotland caps.
Zandra Rhodes
Dame Zandra Rhodes (born 1940, Chatham, Kent), British fashion and textile designer, 'Princess of Punk', founder of London's Fashion and Textile Museum, known for hand-screen-printed fabrics and clients from Princess Diana to Freddie Mercury.
Zane A. Brown
Zane A. Brown is a University of Washington professor of obstetrics and gynecology whose cohort studies quantified how herpes simplex virus passes from mother to infant around delivery.
Zane Durant
Zane Durant (born 2004) is a Buffalo Bills defensive tackle from Lake Nona, Florida; Penn State All-Big Ten DT drafted 181st overall in Round 5 of the 2026 NFL Draft after a 4.75-second 40-yard dash at the combine.
Zane Duursma
Zane Duursma (born 2005) is an AFL medium forward, pick No.4 in the 2023 draft, who played 38 games and kicked 28 goals for North Melbourne before being traded to Melbourne in October 2026.
Zane Grey
Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Gray, 1872-1939), American dentist-turned-novelist, author of Riders of the Purple Sage; most successful American author of the 1920s and record-holding big-game fisherman.
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe, New Zealand-born broadcaster, DJ, and Grammy-nominated producer, hosted BBC Radio 1 prime time 2003–2015 after XFM and MTV, then joined Apple Music in 2015 as global creative director and anchor of Apple Music 1.
Zane Okoro
Zane Okoro (Zane Kola Okoro), American right winger born in Norwalk, Connecticut; Lincoln City player on loan at Tranmere Rovers after 4 goals on loan at Coleraine in the NIFL Premiership.
Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesville, Ohio, county seat of Muskingum County at the Licking-Muskingum river confluence; founded 1804, Ohio capital 1810-1812, home of the Y-Bridge and a pottery heritage.
Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings
Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings (Agyemang-Rawlings) is a Ghanaian medical doctor and NDC politician, MP for Korle Klottey since 2016, Minister for Environment, Science and Technology from August 2026, daughter of Jerry Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Zang Ba
Zang Ba (臧霸), courtesy name Xuangao, was a Chinese general of the late Eastern Han and early Cao Wei who rose from Taishan strongman to serve Cao Cao.
Zang Kejia
Zang Kejia (1905–2004) was a Chinese poet and editor called the founder of modern native-soil poetry; his first collection, Brand, appeared in 1933, and "Some People" commemorates Lu Xun.
Zang Rongxu's Jin shu
Zang Rongxu's Jin shu (晋书) was a Southern dynasties history of the Jin, the fullest of the old Jin histories and a foundation of the surviving Tang version.
Zanga
Zanga (la zanga) is a Spanish four-player partnership trick-taking card game derived from Hombre, played near Malaga (32-card version) and in the Canary Islands (40-card version), with permanent trumps espadilla and bastillo.