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Tibbald (crater on Iapetus)
Tibbald is a 160 km wide impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 57°N, 358°W, named in 2008 for the Song of Roland baron Tibbald of Reims.
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software is an American enterprise software company known for integration, messaging, and analytics products like BusinessWorks and Spotfire, now part of Cloud Software Group.
Tiber
The Tiber (Tevere, Tiberis) is central Italy's main river, about 405 km long, rising on Mount Fumaiolo and flowing through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea; known for its floods, 1870 embankments, Tiber Island, and ancient river port.
Tiberian Hebrew
Tiberian Hebrew (ניקוד טברני): the pronunciation and vocalization tradition of Biblical Hebrew codified by the Masoretes of Tiberias in the second half of the first millennium CE; it supplanted Babylonian and Palestinian systems and underlies the niqqud of the standard Hebrew Bible.
Tiberiane
Tiberiane (Τιβεριανή, Tibereus) was a Roman fort and granite quarry settlement in Egypt's Eastern Desert at Wadi Barud, a satellite of Mons Claudianus, known from second-century ostraca and Pliny's Tiberian stone.
Tiberias (טבריה)
Tiberias (טבריה), a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, founded by Herod Antipas and named for Emperor Tiberius; later a center of Jewish scholarship, repeatedly struck by earthquakes, now about 55,000 residents.
Tiberiu Popoviciu
Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975) was a Romanian mathematician in Cluj-Napoca who wrote the first monograph on convexity theory, introduced B-splines in 1934, and founded Romanian scientific computing.
Tiberius
Tiberius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, 42 BC–AD 37), second Roman emperor AD 14–37, stepson and adopted heir of Augustus; known for the Sejanus affair, treason trials, retirement to Capri, and the hostile Tacitus–Suetonius tradition versus Velleius.
Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman tribune of the plebs killed in 133 BCE; his agrarian law capped ager publicus at 500 iugera with 250 per grown son, redistributed excess in 30-iugera plots, and led to Rome's first political violence in over 300 years.
Tibesti Mountains
Tibesti Mountains (Tibesti Massif): volcanic range in the central Sahara, mostly northwestern Chad with extension into Libya and Niger; about 480 km long, 100,000 km2; Emi Koussi 3,415 m is the Sahara's highest point; Toubou homeland with ancient rock art.
Tibet
Tibet (Bod, བོད་), high plateau region north of the Himalayas; Tibet Autonomous Region of China (capital Lhasa, 1,221,600 sq km) or, in wider usage, Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan; occupied 1951, Dalai Lama exiled 1959.
Tibet (བོད་) (1912–1951)
Tibet (བོད་), 1912–1951: the de facto independent Ganden Phodrang state under the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas, from the expulsion of Qing forces through the Simla Convention to the 1950 PLA invasion and the 17-Point Agreement.
Tibet (བོད་) (region)
Tibet (བོད་) is a high-altitude cultural and geographical region centered on the Tibetan Plateau, covering about 2,500,000 km² at an average elevation above 4,500 m.
Tibet ASγ experiment
The Tibet ASγ experiment is a China-Japan air shower observatory at Yangbajing, Tibet, operating since 1990; it reported the first astrophysical photons beyond 100 TeV in 2019.
Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet Autonomous Region (Xizang, 西藏), province-level autonomous region of China established 1965, capital Lhasa; covers central Tibetan Plateau, 90% Tibetan (2020 census), governed under regional ethnic autonomy with disputed self-government and documented human rights restrictions.
Tibet Selincuo Wetlands
Tibet Selincuo Wetlands (西藏色林错湿地), Ramsar Site no. 2352, designated 8 January 2018 around Siling Lake, Tibet; China's largest Ramsar site at 1,893,630 ha, averaging 4,700 m elevation, a black-necked crane stronghold.
Tibet under Yuan rule
Tibet under Yuan rule, the Yuan-Sakya period, lasted from the 1240s to the 1360s, when the Mongol Yuan dynasty governed Tibet largely through the Sakya school of Buddhism.
Tibet's submission to the Yuan dynasty
Tibet's submission to the Yuan dynasty (西藏归附元朝) was Tibet's passage into Mongol rule, agreed at Liangzhou in 1247 by Sakya Pandita and Godan and consolidated under Kublai Khan.
Tibetan Buddhist architecture
Tibetan Buddhist architecture is the tradition of monasteries, temples, stupas, and palaces of Tibetan Buddhism, developed from the 7th century on the Tibetan Plateau and across the Himalayas.
Tibetan butter sculpture
Tibetan butter sculpture (Tibetan mar gyus, Chinese su youhua) is the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of sculpting yak butter into ritual offerings, displayed at Losar and Kumbum Monastery.
Tibetan calligraphy
Tibetan calligraphy (yigzo, དབུ་ཅན Uchen and དབུ་མེད Umê) is the art of writing the Tibetan script, traditionally devised by Thonmi Sambhota under Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century, with formal block and cursive styles used for scriptures, documents, and art.
Tibetan Capture of Chang'an
The Tibetan Capture of Chang'an (吐蕃入長安) was the 763 occupation of the Tang dynasty capital Chang'an by a Tibetan army, after which Emperor Daizong fled and the invaders withdrew within weeks.
Tibetan capture of Longyou
The Tibetan capture of Longyou (吐蕃陷陇右) was the Tibetan Empire's seizure of the Tang dynasty's Longyou frontier region after the An Lushan rebellion of 755.
Tibetan conquest of the Western Regions
The Tibetan conquest of the Western Regions was the Tibetan Empire's seizure of the Tang dynasty's Central Asian territories, mainly between 763 and about 790.
Tibetan conquest of Tuyuhun
The Tibetan conquest of Tuyuhun (吐蕃滅吐谷渾) was the Tibetan Empire's destruction of the Tuyuhun kingdom of Qinghai in the reign of Tang Emperor Gaozong, dated 663 or 670.
Tibetan cuisine
Tibetan cuisine (藏餐) is the food culture of the Tibetan Plateau, centered on tsampa roasted barley flour, yak meat and dairy, butter tea, thukpa noodle soup, and momos, distinct from neighboring Sichuan, Indian, and Nepali cuisines.
Tibetan Empire
Tibetan Empire (630–842), also called the Tibetan imperial period under the Yarlung kings: unified state founded by Songtsen Gampo that fought Tang China, held Silk Road cities like Khotan and Dunhuang, and made Buddhism the state religion before mid-9th-century collapse.
Tibetan gilt bronze sculpture
A Tibetan gilt bronze sculpture is a Buddhist devotional image made in Tibet from copper or brass, coated with gold by mercury gilding, and consecrated for veneration in monasteries.
Tibetan imperial expansion into the Himalayas
Tibetan imperial expansion into the Himalayas (तिब्बत साम्राज्य) was the outward growth of the Tibetan Empire under the Yarlung dynasty, from unification in the seventh century to fragmentation after 842.
Tibetan Mastiff
Tibetan Mastiff (Do Khyi), ancient Himalayan livestock and homestead guardian dog from Tibet; FCI Group 2, 66 cm minimum males, EPAS1 high-altitude adaptation, recognized by FCI 1961 and AKC 2006.