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Zapadno-Surgutskoye Oil Field
Zapadno-Surgutskoye Oil Field (Западно-Сургутское месторождение) is a large multi-reservoir oil field about 20 km northwest of Surgut in Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1962 and operated by Surgutneftegas.
Zapadno-Tarkosalinskoye gas field
Zapadno-Tarkosalinskoye field (Западно-Таркосалинское) is an oil, gas, and condensate field in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Russia, discovered in 1972, producing since 1996, and operated by Gazprom interests.
Zapata Computing Holdings Inc.
Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. was a Boston-based quantum software company, founded from a Harvard lab in 2017, that ceased operations in October 2024 before re-emerging in 2025 as Zapata Quantum.
Zapata Formation
Zapata Formation, Lower Cretaceous marine shale of the Rocas Verdes back-arc basin in Patagonian Chile (Ultima Esperanza, Torres del Paine); Tithonian–Albian, 1000–1200 m thick, source of the Tyndall ichthyosaurs; distinct from the Texas Zapata delta and the Antillean Zapata formation.
Zapateado
Zapateado is a percussive dance step and rhythm in Mexican traditional music, in which dancers strike a resonant wooden tarima to serve as the percussion of sones, huapangos, and fandangos.
Zapatismo
Zapatismo, the movement of Mexico's EZLN, is the 1994 indigenous uprising in Chiapas and its later autonomous self-government through Caracoles, MAREZ municipalities, and Good Government Juntas, restructured in 2023.
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), indigenous political-military movement in Chiapas, Mexico. Rose in arms January 1, 1994 against NAFTA's entry into force; later built autonomous municipalities, caracoles, and Good Government Juntas, restructured in 2023.
Zapatista Landscape
Zapatista Landscape (Paisaje zapatista, also El guerrillero) is a 1915 Cubist oil painting by Diego Rivera, held at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.
Zapatista uprising
The Zapatista uprising (Spanish: alzamiento zapatista) was an armed rebellion launched in Chiapas, Mexico, on January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA took effect, by the EZLN, drawn largely from indigenous Maya communities.
Zapatlela (झपाटलेला)
Zapatlela (झपाटलेला) is a 1993 Marathi horror comedy directed, written, and produced by Mahesh Kothare, inspired by Child's Play, starring Laxmikant Berde and Dilip Prabhavalkar as Tatya Vinchu; a 2013 3D sequel followed.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox is the two-headed, three-armed Betelgeusian President of the Galaxy in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide series; a fraudulent figurehead who steals the Heart of Gold to find Magrathea, altered his own memory, and was played by Mark Wing-Davey and Sam Rockwell.
Zapier
Zapier is an American online automation platform founded in 2011 that lets people without coding connect more than 9,000 web apps through trigger-and-action workflows called Zaps.
Zapiola Rupes
Zapiola Rupes is an 89-km lobate scarp on Mercury near 72°N, 44°W, in quadrangle H-01. IAU-approved in 2022, it is named for the Argentinian oceanographic research ship Zapiola and records thrust faulting from global contraction.
Zápolya family
The Zápolya family (Hungarian: Szapolyai) was a Hungarian noble dynasty, the kingdom's largest landholders from 1494, which gave Hungary two rival kings, John I and John II.
Zapolyarnoye Oil and Gas Field
Zapolyarnoye Oil and Gas Field is a giant onshore gas and condensate field in the Yamal-Nenets area of Western Siberia, Russia, operated by a Gazprom subsidiary.
Zapolyarye-Purpe Oil Pipeline
The Zapolyarye-Purpe Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод Заполярье-Пурпе) is a 485-km Russian trunk oil pipeline, built 2012–2016 to carry crude from Yamalo-Nenets fields to the Transneft system.
Zapopan
Zapopan (Tzapopan, 'place of zapotes') is a municipality in Jalisco, Mexico, northwest of Guadalajara in its metropolitan area. Most populous Jalisco municipality, 1,476,491 people (2020), seventh in Mexico; city since 1991; home of the Virgen de Zapopan romería.
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя)
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя), also spelled Zaporizhia, is a large industrial city in southeastern Ukraine on the Dnipro River, founded as the fortress Oleksandrivsk in 1770 and renamed in 1921.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (Запорізька атомна електростанція)
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Zaporizhzhia NPP, is Europe's largest nuclear power plant near Enerhodar, Ukraine, with six reactors totaling 6,000 MW.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Запорізька область)
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Запорізька область) is a south-eastern Ukrainian oblast created 10 January 1939, centered on Zaporizhzhia on the Dnipro; largely Russian-occupied and illegally annexed in 2022.
Zaporizhzhya Raion
Zaporizhzhya Raion (Запорізький район), a district of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Zaporizhzhia city; created 1939, reformed 2020 into 17 hromadas, 4,693.4 km², 866,203 people.
Zaporozhian Cossacks (Запорозькі козаки)
Zaporozhian Cossacks (Запорозькі козаки), Cossacks beyond the Dnipro Rapids centered on the Zaporozhian Sich from the mid-16th century to 1775, when Catherine II abolished the Host; known for elected otamans, Black Sea naval raids, and the Khotyn and Khmelnytsky campaigns.
Zaporozhian Host
The Zaporozhian Host (Viisko Zaporizke) was the elected Cossack organization of the lower Dnieper, a self-governing state whose Sich was destroyed by Russia in 1775.
Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich (Запорожська Січ) was the fortified camp and military-political organization of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, founded around 1552 by Dmytro Vyshnevetsky and destroyed in 1775.
Zapotec civilization
The Zapotec civilization, called Be'ena' Za'a, was a Mesoamerican society in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, with its capital at Monte Albán flourishing from about 500 BC to 850 AD.
Zapotec funerary urns
Zapotec funerary urns are ceramic effigy vessels made by the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico, between about 100 BCE and 700 CE and placed in or around elite tombs.
Zapotec oral literature
Zapotec oral literature is the body of narratives, chants, legends, and ritual speech passed down by word of mouth in the Zapotec languages of Oaxaca, Mexico, preserved since colonial times.
Zapotec polity of Zaachila
The Zapotec polity of Zaachila (Señorío de Zaachila) was a Zapotec city-state in the Valley of Oaxaca, still inhabited when the Spaniards arrived in 1521.
Zapoteca
Zapoteca (white stickpea) is a genus of about 22 species of mimosoid legume shrubs in Fabaceae, native from the southwestern USA to northern Argentina, segregated from Calliandra by 16-grained pollen polyads and chromosome number 13.
Zapovednye and urochnye leta
Zapovednye and urochnye leta (Заповедные и урочные лета) were Russian laws binding peasants to the land: forbidden years banned leaving, and fixed years limited the search for runaways.