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Zgliczyn-Pobodzy
Zgliczyn-Pobodzy, a village in Bieżuń commune, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, is the site of a Przeworsk culture settlement and cemetery with a Lubieszewo-type princely burial, Roman coin finds, and excavations since 1977.
Zgorzelec Treaty
The Zgorzelec Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz, is the 1950 accord in which Poland and East Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as their border.
Zha Li
Zha Li (查礼) was a Qing dynasty civil official who managed army supplies in the Jinchuan campaigns and ended his career as governor of Hunan.
Zha Shenxing
Zha Shenxing (查慎行, 1650–1728) was a Qing dynasty poet and Hanlin official from Haining, Zhejiang, regarded as the leading Song-style poet after Wang Shizhen and Zhu Yizun.
Zha Shibiao
Zha Shibiao (查士標, 1615–1698), courtesy name Erzhan, was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet of the early Qing dynasty, counted among the Four Masters of the Xin'an school.
Zhai Fangjin
Zhai Fangjin (翟方进), courtesy name Ziwei, was a chancellor of the Western Han dynasty under Emperor Cheng, known as the "enlightened minister" until his forced suicide in 7 BC.
Zhai Luan
Zhai Luan (翟銮) was a Grand Secretary of the Ming dynasty who served three emperors and headed the Grand Secretariat before a 1544 examination scandal ended his career.
Zhai Rang
Zhai Rang (翟让) was a late Sui dynasty rebel leader who founded the Wagang army, the era's strongest rebel force, and later yielded its command to Li Mi.
Zhai Rang's Wagang group
Zhai Rang's Wagang group (翟让集团) was a rebel organization of the late Sui dynasty, founded by Zhai Rang at Wagang in Henan in 611 and defeated in 618.
Zhaire Smith
Zhaire Smith (born 1999) is an American guard from Garland, Texas; one-and-done Texas Tech star, 16th pick of the 2018 NBA draft traded for Mikal Bridges, whose NBA career was derailed by a foot fracture and a near-fatal sesame allergy; now a G League player.
Zhaixing Villa
Zhaixing Villa (摘星山莊), or Tanzi Lin House, is an 1871-1879 Qing dynasty two-hall courtyard mansion in Tanzi District, Taichung, built by general Lin Qizhong, designated a city monument in 1997 and famed as the top of Taiwan's ten folk residences.
Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov
Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, competed for the Soviet Union, winning the light-flyweight gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and becoming Kazakhstan's first ethnic champion.
Zhala Hydropower Station
Zhala Hydropower Station (扎拉水电站), also written Zala, is a 1,015 MW hydroelectric project under construction on the Yuqu River in Tibet, built by China Datang.
Zhaling Lake
Zhaling Lake (Chaling Sea, 'white long lake') is a 4,291 m freshwater tectonic lake in Golog, Qinghai, China, the second largest lake in the Yellow River source area, a Ramsar Site (no. 1442, 64,920 ha) within Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve.
Zhalong
Zhalong (扎龙湿地), the Zhalong National Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang, China, is a 210,000-hectare reed-marsh Ramsar wetland on the lower Wuyu'er River, famed for red-crowned cranes and sustained since 2001 by ecological water replenishment.
Zhamak Dehghani
Zhamak Dehghani, creator of data mesh and founder and CEO of Nextdata, introduced the decentralized data architecture at Thoughtworks in 2018, wrote Data Mesh (O'Reilly, 2022), and now builds Nextdata OS for Autonomous Data Products.
Zhambyl GRES power station
Zhambyl GRES (Жамбылская ГРЭС), also known as Jambul, is a 1,230 MW gas-fired power station in Taraz, Kazakhstan, and the backbone of southern Kazakhstan's energy base.
Zhambyl Oblysy
Zhambyl Oblysy (Жамбыл облысы), also called Zhambyl Region, is a region of southern Kazakhstan formed in 1939 with its center at Taraz; an industrial-agricultural region holding most of Kazakhstan's phosphorite and fluorspar reserves.
Zhambyl Zhabayev
Zhambyl Zhabayev (Dzhambul Dzhabaev, 1846–1945) was a Kazakh folk poet and akyn whose improvised aitys contests and wartime poem "Leningraders, My Children!" made him a Soviet cultural figure.
Zhan Beleniuk
Zhan Beleniuk (Жан Венсанович Беленюк), Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1991 in Kyiv: Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 at 87 kg, silver Rio 2016, bronze Paris 2024, two-time world champion, and first Black member of Ukraine's Parliament.
Zhan catalyst
The Zhan catalyst is a recyclable ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalyst developed by Zheng-Yun James Zhan, a phosphine-free Hoveyda-Grubbs-type complex sold by Zannan and recoverable by precipitation in alcohol.
Zhan Chen
Zhan Chen is a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan who studies buried polymer and biological interfaces using sum frequency generation spectroscopy, and was elected an AAAS and Royal Society of Chemistry fellow in 2018.
Zhan Cheng Nan
Zhan Cheng Nan (战城南) is a Western Han yuefu folk song, the only warfare song among the Eighteen Songs of the Han Drum-and-Flute, mourning unburied soldiers and condemning war.
Zhan Hua Kui
Zhan Hua Kui is a chuanqi play by Suzhou playwright Li Yu, adapting Feng Menglong's story of the oil vendor Qin Zhong and the courtesan Wang Meiniang.
Zhan Jisheng
Zhan Jisheng (詹际盛) is a Chinese express-delivery entrepreneur from Chun'an, Zhejiang, who co-founded STO Express's predecessor in 1993 and founded Tiantian Express in Hangzhou in 1994.
Zhan Ruoshui
Zhan Ruoshui (湛若水, 1466–1560), style name Ganquan, was a Ming dynasty Confucian philosopher and official from Zengcheng, Guangdong, who taught experiencing heavenly principle wherever one is and founded over forty academies.
Zhan shi fu (Directorate of the Imperial Household, office administering the heir apparent)
Zhan shi fu (詹事府) was a Ming dynasty office administering the heir apparent; from the mid-Ming it served mainly as a promotion stage for Hanlin Academy officials.
Zhan Xugang
Zhan Xugang (占旭刚; born 1974) is a Chinese former weightlifter who won Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and set world records in the lightweight class.
Zhan Ziqian
Zhan Ziqian (展子虔) was a Chinese painter of the Sui dynasty, active earlier under Northern Qi and Northern Zhou, best known for the landscape handscroll Youchun Tu (Stroll About in Spring).
Zhan-tian and hu-diao system
The zhan-tian and hu-diao system (佔田制與戶調式) was the land-holding and taxation regime the Jin dynasty proclaimed in 280 after reunifying China, combining land limits, grain tax, and household silk quotas.