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Zarzas
Zarzas was a Libyan commander of rebel mercenaries against Carthage in the Mercenary War, trapped with a 50,000-strong army by Hamilcar Barca at the Saw in 238 BC.
Zarzuela
Zarzuela: Spanish lyric theater genre mixing sung numbers and spoken dialogue, born at the 17th-century Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid; home venues Teatro de la Zarzuela (1856) and Apolo; declared intangible cultural heritage in 2024.
Zasechnaya cherta
The Zasechnaya cherta (Засечная черта, "abatis line"), later called the Bolshaya zasechnaya cherta, was a fortified defensive line of 16th-century Russia against Tatar raids, over 1,000 km long.
Zasocitinib
Zasocitinib (TAK-279, NDI-034858) is Takeda's investigational oral, allosteric, highly selective TYK2 inhibitor, AI-designed with over 1 million-fold TYK2 selectivity; it beat deucravacitinib in a phase 3 psoriasis head-to-head trial (PASI 100 36.5% vs 13.9%).
Zasta
Zasta GmbH is a German tax-tech startup founded in 2017 by Michael Potstada and Jörg Südkamp, letting users file tax returns through an app with human advisors.
Zastava Arms
Zastava Arms (Zastava Oružje, formerly Crvena Zastava) is a Serbian firearms manufacturer based in Kragujevac, founded in 1853 as a gun foundry and known for the M70 rifle.
Zastava M76
The Zastava M76 is a Yugoslav semi-automatic sniper rifle in 7.92×57mm Mauser caliber, adopted in 1976 as the platoon-level marksman rifle of the Yugoslav People's Army.
Zastavna Raion
Zastavna Raion (Заставнівський район), former district in northwestern Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Zastavna. Created 1940, reestablished 1944, area 618 km², 56,306 people (2001); abolished in the 2020 reform into Chernivtsi Raion.
ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (Eliza Susan Pitts, 1894-1963), American film actress of silent and sound cinema, Trina in Greed (1924), half of the Pitts-Todd Hal Roach comedy shorts, later radio and TV character actress.
Zat pwe
Zat pwe (ဇာတ်ပွဲ) is the classical dance-drama of Myanmar (Burma), an all-night outdoor performance combining song, dance, acting, and comic improvisation, with plots drawn chiefly from the Buddhist Jataka birth stories.
Zat-taw
Zat-taw (ဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese term for the jataka, the stories of the Buddha's former existences, usually counted as 550, and the source of the name of Burmese dance-drama, zat pwe.
Zatanna
Zatanna Zatara, DC Comics' backwards-speaking stage-magician heroine created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson in Hawkman #4 (1964); daughter of Zatara, Justice League and Justice League Dark member, star of 2024-2025 solo series.
Zatarain's
Zatarain's is a New Orleans-area food brand founded in 1889 by Emile Zatarain, known for rice dinner mixes, seafood boils, and seasonings; owned by McCormick since its 2003 $180 million acquisition.
Zatch Bell!
Zatch Bell! (Konjiki no Gash!!, 金色のガッシュ!!) is Makoto Raiku's 2001–2007 Weekly Shonen Sunday manga about 100 demon children battling via spell books, adapted into a 150-episode Toei anime, with a 2022 digital sequel.
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops is a Czech UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape, inscribed 2023, combining Saaz hop fields near the Ohře river with the town of Žatec, documenting over 700 years of hop growing, processing, and trade.
Zathura
Zathura is a 2002 Chris Van Allsburg picture book and 2005 Jon Favreau film about a space board game, a sequel to Jumanji; also zathura, a keyboard-driven Linux document viewer.
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Zathura: A Space Adventure is a 2005 Columbia Pictures sci-fi family film directed by Jon Favreau, based on Chris Van Allsburg's 2002 Jumanji sequel book, starring Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, and Tim Robbins.
Zati
Zati (ذاتی) was an Ottoman divan poet of Balikesir origin who rose from a bootmaker's family to become a leading poet of the early 1500s and the teacher of Baki.
Zatipy
Zatipy, meaning "daughter of Ipy", was an Egyptian woman of the early 12th Dynasty, attested in tomb 14 at Beni Hasan and dated to the reign of Amenemhat I.
Zatoichi (座頭市)
Zatoichi (座頭市) is a fictional blind masseur and master swordsman created by Kan Shimozawa, played by Shintaro Katsu in 26 films from 1962 to 1989 plus 100 television episodes.
Zatoichi (座頭市) (1989 film)
Zatoichi is a 1989 Japanese samurai film directed, written, produced by, and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur swordsman, the 26th and final theatrical film in the series.
Zatoichi (座頭市) (2003 film)
Zatoichi (座頭市), also released as The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, is Takeshi Kitano's 2003 remake of the blind swordsman series, starring Kitano with Tadanobu Asano; it won the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director and the Toronto People's Choice Award.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (座頭市千両首)
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (座頭市千両首, Zatoichi senryokubi) is a 1964 Daiei chambara film, sixth in the Zatoichi series, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro with Shintaro Katsu; Ichi is falsely accused of stealing a village's 1,000-ryo tax chest.
Zatoichi at Large (座頭市御用旅)
Zatoichi at Large (座頭市御用旅, Zatoichi goyotabi) is a 1972 Japanese chambara film, the 23rd Zatoichi entry, directed by Mori Kazuo and starring Shintaro Katsu, produced by Katsu Productions and distributed by Toho after Daiei's collapse.
Zatoichi Challenged (座頭市血煙り街道)
Zatoichi Challenged (Zatōichi chikemuri kaidō) is a 1967 Daiei Kyoto chambara film, the 17th Zatoichi movie: Shintaro Katsu's blind swordsman escorts a boy to his father, a painter forced into illegal erotica, and duels ronin Jushiro Konoe in snow.
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (座頭市あばれ火祭り)
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (座頭市あばれ火祭り, Zatoichi abare-himatsuri) is the 21st Zatoichi film, a 1970 chambara directed by Kenji Misumi, co-written by star Shintaro Katsu, with Tatsuya Nakadai as a vengeful ronin and a blind yakuza boss villain.
Zatoichi in Desperation (新座頭市物語・折れた杖)
Zatoichi in Desperation (新座頭市物語・折れた杖, Shin Zatoichi monogatari: Oreta tsue) is the 24th Zatoichi film, a 1972 Toho chambara directed by and starring Shintaro Katsu, his first as series director, in which the blind swordsman buys a prostitute's freedom and fights on with crushed hands.
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (新座頭市 破れ！唐人剣, 1971), also called Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman, is a Golden Harvest-Daiei Japan-Hong Kong crossover, the 22nd Zatoichi film, pitting Shintaro Katsu against Jimmy Wang Yu with alternate endings reported.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (座頭市と用心棒)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (座頭市と用心棒) is Kihachi Okamoto's 1970 chambara film, the 20th Zatoichi entry, pairing Shintaro Katsu's blind swordsman with Toshiro Mifune as a ronin bodyguard; their final duel ends in a draw.
Zatoichi on the Road (座頭市喧嘩旅)
Zatoichi on the Road (座頭市喧嘩旅, Zatoichi kenka-tabi), also Masseur Ichi on the Road, is a 1963 Daiei chambara film, the fifth Zatoichi entry, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, starring Shintaro Katsu, with Shiho Fujimura and Akira Ifukube's score.