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Ziwiye hoard
The Ziwiye hoard, also called the Ziwiye treasure, is a group of gold, silver, bronze, and ivory objects reportedly found near Saqqiz, Iran, around 1946–1947, mixing Assyrian, Urartian, and Scythian styles.
Zixta Martinez
Zixta Q. Martinez is an American financial regulator, CFPB Deputy Director since October 2021 overseeing its Operations Division, and Appraisal Subcommittee chair 2022-2024; previously at Freddie Mac, MALDEF, and the National Fair Housing Alliance.
Ziya Gökalp
Ziya Gökalp (محمد ضيا گوكالپ; born Mehmed Ziya, 1876–1924) was an Ottoman and Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet, the leading ideologue of Turkism and the Committee of Union and Progress.
Ziya Pasha
Ziya Pasha (ضياء باشا, 1829–1880) was an Ottoman statesman, poet, and political writer who co-founded the Young Ottoman movement and the exile newspaper Hurriyet, and died governor of Adana.
Ziyad al-Bakka'i
Ziyad al-Bakka'i (البكائي زياد بن عبد الله) was a second-century Kufan hadith transmitter and historian, best known as the leading transmitter of Ibn Ishaq's Maghazi; he died in 183 AH.
Ziyad Al‐Aly
Ziyad Al-Aly is a clinical epidemiologist and nephrologist who directs the Clinical Epidemiology Center at VA St. Louis, known for VA-records long COVID studies and a 2024 TIME100 health honor.
Ziyad ibn Abih
Ziyad ibn Abih (زياد بن أبيه), later Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan, was an Arab administrator who governed Basra and the east for Mu'awiya and pacified Iraq for the Umayyads.
Ziyadat Allah I
Ziyadat Allah I (زيادة الله الأول) was the third emir of the Aghlabid dynasty of Ifriqiya, reigning 817 to 838 and launching the conquest of Byzantine Sicily in 827.
Ziyâeddin Efendi
Mehmed Ziyâeddin Efendi, born in Istanbul in 1847, was an Ottoman scholar who served twice as şeyhülislam in 1909, delivering the fetva that deposed Sultan Abdülhamid II.
Ziyang
Ziyang (资阳) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan, China, founded as a county in 135 BC and made Sichuan's youngest prefecture-level city in 2000; distinct from Ziyang District of Yiyang, Hunan.
Ziyarid dynasty
The Ziyarid dynasty (آل زیار) was an Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, founded by Mardavij ibn Ziyar, that ruled Tabaristan and Gorgan from 931 to about 1090.
Ziyarid–Buyid wars over Rayy and Gorgan
The Ziyarid–Buyid wars over Rayy and Gorgan (جنگهای زیاری و آل بویه) were 10th-century wars between the Ziyarid and Buyid dynasties, fought chiefly over Rayy, Gorgan, and Tabaristan.
Ziye Songs
The Ziye Songs (子夜歌) are a set of Southern Dynasties yuefu love songs, traditionally attributed to a Jin dynasty woman named Ziye but likely composed by Wu women.
Ziying of Qin
Ziying (子嬰), also Ying Ziying, last ruler of the Qin dynasty: installed as King of Qin by Zhao Gao in 207 BCE, killed Zhao Gao, surrendered to Liu Bang after 46 days, and was slain by Xiang Yu.
Ziynet Sali
Ziynet Sali is a Turkish-Cypriot pop singer born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1975, known for Turkish and Greek songs and hits like "Bana Da Söyle".
Ziyuan
Ziyuan (资源, "Resource"), designated ZY, is a Chinese series of Earth-observation remote-sensing satellites developed by CAST, including China's first civil high-resolution stereo mapping satellite, Ziyuan-3, launched in 2012.
Ziyuan-3
Ziyuan-3 (资源三号, also written ZY-3) is a Chinese series of high-resolution stereo mapping satellites, with three launched in 2012, 2016, and 2020 to produce topographic maps.
Zizania
Zizania (wild rice) is a genus of four aquatic grass species in the rice tribe Oryzeae, native to North America and East Asia. Z. palustris is cultivated as a grain; Z. latifolia yields the vegetable Jiaobai via Ustilago esculenta infection.
Zizania latifolia (菰)
Zizania latifolia (菰), Manchurian wild rice or water bamboo, an East Asian perennial aquatic grass grown as Chinese wild rice grain and, via Ustilago esculenta infection, as the vegetable Jiaobai (茭白).
Zizania texana
Zizania texana, Texas wild rice, is a federally endangered aquatic perennial grass endemic to the upper two miles of the San Marcos River, Texas, needing constant 72°F spring flow and threatened by reduced discharge.
Zizhi Tongjian
Zizhi Tongjian (资治通鉴) is a chronicle of Chinese history written by the Song dynasty historian Sima Guang, one of the most influential works of Chinese historiography.
Zizhi Tongjian compilation team
The Zizhi Tongjian compilation team (资治通鉴书局) was the Song history bureau established in 1066 under Sima Guang to compile the Zizhi Tongjian, completed in 1084.
Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu
Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu (通鑑綱目) is a Song-dynasty historical work by Zhu Xi, written on the basis of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, that became one of the most popular histories.
Zizhi's usurpation in Yan
Zizhi's usurpation in Yan was King Kuai's transfer of the Yan throne to his minister Zizhi during the Warring States period, ending in civil war and Qi's conquest.
Zizhi's usurpation of Yan
Zizhi's usurpation of Yan (子之之乱) was a succession crisis in the Warring States state of Yan, c. 318 to 314 BC, after which Qi conquered Yan.
Zizi Kirana
Zizi Kirana, born Nur Fazelah binti Mad Tahil, is a Malaysian pop and hip-hop singer from Sabah who broke through on Akademi Fantasia in 2009.
Zizi Lambrino
Jeanne "Zizi" Lambrino (1898–1953), Romanian first, morganatic wife of Crown Prince Carol II of Romania; 1918 Odessa marriage annulled 1919; son Mircea Grigore recognized as Carol's descendant in 1955.
Zizians
Zizians: a small cultlike group formed around blogger Jack "Ziz" LaSota as a splinter of the Bay Area rationalist community, linked by authorities to six deaths in California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont between 2022 and 2025, including a Border Patrol agent; members shared veganism, anarchism, and AI-risk beliefs.
Ziziphus
Ziziphus Mill., a genus of about 74-100 spiny shrubs, climbers, and trees in Rhamnaceae (Rosales), native from Africa and Asia to Australia; includes the cultivated jujube Ziziphus jujuba and Indian jujube Z. mauritiana.
Ziziphus mauritiana
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube, ber, Chinee apple) is a spiny Rhamnaceae tree to 15 m native from Sahel Africa to Australia, grown for edible red drupes, drought tolerant, IUCN Least Concern, but an invasive thicket-forming weed in northern Australia.