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Z1 (computer)

The Z1, originally named V1, was a binary mechanical programmable calculator built by Konrad Zuse in his parents' Berlin apartment between 1936 and 1938, with about 30,000 metal parts.

Z²

Z² (Z squared) is Devin Townsend's 2014 double album on InsideOut Music, pairing the Devin Townsend Project disc Sky Blue with Dark Matters, the sequel to 2007's Ziltoid the Omniscient; guests include Chris Jericho and Anneke van Giersbergen.

z21 Ventures

z21 Ventures is a San Francisco early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by four IIT Kharagpur alumni, investing in AI, enterprise software, and healthcare startups.

Z3 (computer)

The Z3, also known as the Zuse Z3, was an electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in Berlin. Completed in 1941, it was the first working programmable binary computer.

Z3LLA

Z3LLA is a Los Angeles electronic music duo of Julia "Juj" Seeley and Kiana Tebyani, known for "hyperbass", their hook-heavy fusion of pop and bass-driven club sounds.

Z3Partners

Z3Partners is a Mumbai-based venture capital fund manager founded in 2019 by Gautam Patel, which invests in early-growth Indian tech startups through SEBI-registered Category II funds.

z8_GND_5296

z8_GND_5296 is a star-forming galaxy in the GOODS-North field whose spectroscopic redshift of 7.51, confirmed in 2013, made it the most distant known galaxy at the time.

Z80 instruction set

The Z80 instruction set is the machine-language repertoire of the Zilog Z80, an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in 1976, covering load, arithmetic, block transfer, I/O, and control instructions.

Za (guilds)

Za (座) were privileged trade associations of merchants, artisans, and performers in medieval Japan, holding tax exemptions and trading monopolies under patrons such as temples, shrines, and noble houses.

Za Dengel

Za Dengel (Geʽez: ዘድንግል; regnal name Aṣnaf Sägäd II) was emperor of Ethiopia from 1603 to 1604, deposed and killed after his turn toward Roman Catholicism provoked revolt.

Za dynasty

The Za dynasty (زا), also written Dia or Dya, was the earliest recorded dynasty of Songhai kings, ruling from Kukiya and later Gao in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Za Haqala

Za Haqala, listed as Zahakale, is a king of Aksum in the Ethiopian regnal lists, proposed by Henry Salt as the Zoskales of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

Za Zalis

Za Zalis, printed as Za Les in Henry Salt's 1814 edition, is an early 1st-century AD ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum known only from the Ethiopian king lists.

Za-Ilmaknun

Za-Ilmaknun, meaning "the unknown, the hidden one," is the name for the last king of the Zagwe dynasty, which ruled northern Ethiopia from Roha until about 1270.

Za'atar (زعتر)

Za'atar (زعتر) is both a Levantine wild herb, Origanum syriacum (Bible hyssop), and the eponymous spice blend of dried herb, toasted sesame, sumac, and salt, eaten with olive oil on manakish flatbread across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.

Za'Darius Smith

Za'Darius Smith is a retired American football edge defender, drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2015, who made three Pro Bowls and retired in 2025 with 70.5 sacks.

Zaachila

Zaachila (Teozapotlán), Zapotec archaeological site 15 km from Oaxaca city; last capital of Zapotec power, ruled by Cosijoeza, known for richly furnished Tombs 1 and 2 explored by Roberto Gallegos in 1962.

Zaafarana Oil Field

The Zaafarana oil field is an offshore oil field in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, discovered by BG Group in 1990 and producing heavy crude through a platform and an FPSO vessel.

Zaanse Schans

Zaanse Schans, also De Zaanse Schans, is a heritage village in Zaanstad, North Holland, with relocated Zaan timber houses and working windmills such as De Kat and De Zoeker; created from 1947, opened by Queen Juliana in 1972, and facing overtourism of 2.6 million annual visitors.

Zaap Oil and Gas Field

The Zaap oil and gas field is a heavy crude field in the Bay of Campeche off Campeche, Mexico, operated by Pemex within the Ku-Maloob-Zaap complex.

Zaat

Zaat (ذات, also translated as Self) is a 1992 novel by the Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim following an ordinary woman's life as a mirror of Egyptian society.

Zaatari refugee camp

Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan's largest camp for Syrian refugees, opened 28 July 2012 near Mafraq. Jointly run by SRAD and UNHCR, it peaked at 200,000 residents in 2013 and now hosts about 47,700.

Zab Judah

Zab Judah (Zabdiel Judah, born 1977, Brooklyn) is a retired American southpaw boxer, undisputed welterweight champion 2005-2006, IBF light welterweight champion 2000, WBO 2003, active 1996-2019.

Zababa-shuma-iddina

Zababa-šuma-iddina was a king of Babylon, the penultimate ruler of the Kassite dynasty, reigning about one year in the mid-1150s BC before the dynasty fell.

Zabaia

Zabaia, also rendered Zabâia, was the fourth ruler of the Larsa dynasty in southern Mesopotamia, reigning nine years, c. 1941–1933 BC, and rebuilding the Ebabbar temple.

Zabaione

Zabaione, also zabaglione or sabayon, is an Italian foamy custard of egg yolks, sugar, and wine (Marsala, Moscato, or Vin Santo) whisked in a bain-marie, thickening at 82–85 °C; a Piedmont PAT since 2015 with disputed 16th-century origins.

Zabalam

Zabalam, also written Zabala, was a Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, identified with Tell Ibzeikh in present-day Iraq and the cult center of the goddess Inanna of Zabalam.

Zabarge

Zabarge (Забърге, Забърде; Serbian Zabrđe) is a historical-geographic region in Sofia Province, Bulgaria, and neighboring Serbia, centered on Godech and the Nishava basin, elevation 726 m, GeoNames ID 725475.

Zabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray

Zabaykalskiy Kray (Забайкальский край), or Transbaikal Territory, is a Russian federal subject formed 1 March 2008 from Chita Oblast and Aginsky Buryat AO, in the Far Eastern district since 2018; mining-dominated economy on the China border, population about 992 thousand (2023).

Zabbix

Zabbix is an open source distributed monitoring solution created by Alexei Vladishev in Latvia in 1997 that tracks servers, applications, and networks, alerting operators when problems occur.