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Zangezur
Zangezur, also spelled Zangazur and known in Armenian as Syunik, is a mountainous region of southern Armenia separating Azerbaijan from its Nakhchivan exclave, disputed since 1918.
Zangfu
Zangfu (脏腑), also known as Zang-fu viscera or Zang Fu theory, is the traditional Chinese medicine system of five Yin zang organs and six Yang fu organs.
Zangi's capture of Edessa
Zangi's capture of Edessa (فتح الرها) was the storming of the Crusader County of Edessa by Zangi, ruler of Mosul and Aleppo, after a 28-day siege in December 1144.
Zangid atabegate of Mosul
The Zangid atabegate of Mosul (أتابكة الموصل) was a Turkic principality founded in 1127 when Imad al-Din Zangi became governor of Mosul, ruled by his descendants until 1233.
Zangid dynasty
The Zangid dynasty (زنگیان) was a Muslim Turkic dynasty founded by Imad al-Din Zangi in 1127, ruling northern Iraq and Syria and leading the fight against the Crusaders.
Zangid iqta system
The Zangid iqta system (نظام الإقطاع الزنكي) assigned tax revenues of land to cavalry commanders in return for military service, adopted by Imad al-Din Zangi in Mosul after 1127.
Zangids of Mosul
The Zangids of Mosul (بنو زنكي) were a Turkic dynasty that ruled Mosul and the Jazira from 1127 until 1233, founded by Imad al-Din Zangi.
Zangief (Зангиев)
Zangief (Зангиев), codename Vodka Gorbovsky, is Capcom's Russian pro-wrestler grappler from Street Fighter II (1991), once the strongest character in development, later nerfed; appears in SF6, as Mecha Zangief, and in films.
Zango, Luanda
Zango is an urban district of Viana municipality, Luanda, Angola: a state social housing and resettlement area begun in 1999 for people displaced from Boavista, later a centralidade with Vida Pacífica's 2,464 apartments.
Zanj Rebellion
The Zanj Rebellion (ثورة الزنج) was a revolt of enslaved East Africans in southern Iraq, led by Ali ibn Muhammad against the Abbasid caliphate from 869 until its crushing around 883.
Zanja
A zanja is a ditch or trench, and in the American Southwest an irrigation ditch carrying river water by gravity, as under Spanish and Mexican rule.
Zanjan
Zanjan (زنجان) is a city in northwestern Iran and the capital of Zanjan Province, about 298 km northwest of Tehran, with a 2016 population of 430,871.
Zanjan Province
Zanjan Province (استان زنجان), northwestern Iranian province, capital Zanjan city; population 1,057,461; cold semi-arid climate, Qezel Ozan River, Soltaniyeh Dome UNESCO site, knife-making handicrafts.
Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर) (1973 film)
Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर), 1973 Hindi action film directed by Prakash Mehra, written by Salim-Javed, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Inspector Vijay Khanna; established the Angry Young Man persona and was a blockbuster.
Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर) (2013 film)
Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर), also Thoofan in Telugu, is Apoorva Lakhia's 2013 remake of the 1973 Amitabh Bachchan classic, starring Ram Charan in his Bollywood debut with Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, and Prakash Raj; released 6 September 2013 to mixed-to-negative reviews.
Zanku Records
Zanku Records is a Nigerian record label founded by rapper and singer Zlatan Ibile, launched on January 1, 2020, named after the Zanku dance, with signees Papisnoop, Oberz, and Jamopyper.
Zannanza
Zannanza, also known as Zidanza, was a Hittite prince, a son of King Šuppiluliuma I, who died around 1327 BC before a planned marriage to an Egyptian queen.
Zannanza affair
The Zannanza affair was a diplomatic episode around 1327 BC in which a widowed Egyptian queen asked the Hittite king for a son to marry; the prince died en route.
Zanni
Zanni (from Venetian Zani, Gianni, from Giovanni) is the comic servant stock character of commedia dell'arte, originating among Bergamasque porters in the Po Valley; it split into the cunning first zanni (Brighella) and foolish second zanni (Arlecchino), and gave English the word "zany".
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Zanny Minton Beddoes, British journalist and economist, has been The Economist's editor-in-chief since February 2015, its 17th editor and first woman in the role; formerly IMF economist and adviser to Poland's finance minister.
Zanoah
Zanoah, also known as Khirbet Zanoah, was a biblical town in the northern Shephelah of Judah, identified with a ruin between Beth-Shemesh and the Valley of Elah.
Zanolimumab
Zanolimumab (HuMax-CD4, MDX-016) is a fully human IgG1 anti-CD4 monoclonal antibody for T-cell lymphoma; phase 2 CTCL responses reached 56% at high dose, but development was discontinued and rights licensed to TenX Biopharma in 2010.
Zanskar district
Zanskar district, headquarters Padum, is a new district of Ladakh, India, carved from Kargil district and notified 27 April 2026 with 26 revenue villages; a high-altitude, about 96% Buddhist region of roughly 7,000 sq km and 15,000 people.
Zante currant
Zante currants, also called Corinthian raisins, are small, black, seedless dried grapes from the Black Corinth grape, grown principally in Greece on Zakynthos and the Peloponnese.
Zantedeschia
Zantedeschia (calla lily, arum lily) is a genus of about eight aroid species in Araceae, native from Nigeria and Tanzania to South Africa; type species Z. aethiopica, cultivated worldwide for cut flowers, poisonous, and invasive in places.
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Zantedeschia aethiopica, the arum lily or calla lily, is a perennial herb in the arum family native to southern Africa, known for its large white spathe.
Zanthoxylum
Zanthoxylum (prickly ash), a pantropical Rutaceae genus of about 225 prickly trees and shrubs, source of Sichuan pepper (hua jiao) from Z. bungeanum and Z. schinifolium, used over 2000 years in Chinese cuisine and widely in traditional medicine, with more than 400 isolated secondary metabolites.
ZANU–PF
ZANU–PF (Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front), Zimbabwe's ruling party since 1980; founded as ZANU in 1963, merged with ZAPU by the 1987 Unity Accord; led by Mugabe then Mnangagwa; pushed 2026 term extension to 2030.
Zanubrutinib
Zanubrutinib (Brukinsa, BGB-3111) is an oral second-generation covalent BTK inhibitor discovered by BeiGene, FDA-approved from 2019 for MCL, WM, MZL, CLL/SLL, and FL with obinutuzumab, with superior efficacy and lower atrial fibrillation rates than ibrutinib in ALPINE.
Zanvil A. Cohn
Zanvil A. Cohn, also known as Z. A. Cohn (1926–1993), was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who founded modern macrophage biology and co-discovered the dendritic cell.