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Tuvalu

Tuvalu: Polynesian Pacific island nation of nine low-lying atolls, 26 sq km, population about 11,600, independent since 1978, capital Funafuti, Commonwealth realm aligned with Taiwan, facing sea level rise and the Falepili Union climate visa with Australia.

Tuvaluan oral literature

Tuvaluan oral literature is the body of stories, songs, chants, and genealogies passed down by word of mouth in Tuvalu, serving as the islands' historical record and archive.

Tuvan People's Republic

Tuvan People's Republic (Тыва Арат Республик), also Tannu Tuva, a partially recognized Soviet client state 1921-1944, recognized only by the USSR and Mongolia, annexed as a Russian SFSR autonomous oblast in October 1944.

Tuvan throat singing

Tuvan throat singing, khöömei (хөөмей), is a solo multiphonic technique from Tuva, Russia, producing drone and amplified overtones in styles kargyraa, khoomei, and sygyt; distinct from Mongolian khöömii and Inuit throat singing.

Tuvans

Tuvans (Tyva kizhi), a Turkic-speaking people of the Tuva Republic in Russia with diasporas in Mongolia and China, known for xöömei throat-singing, Tibetan Buddhism with shamanism, and a history of Manchu rule, the 1914 Russian protectorate, and the 1921–1944 Tuvan People's Republic.

Tuvaraka Taila

Tuvaraka Taila is a classical Ayurvedic medicated oil prepared from tuvaraka (chaulmoogra) seed oil with a khadira decoction, prescribed mainly for skin diseases such as kushtha.

Tuvia Bielski (טוביה ביילסקי)

Tuvia Bielski (טוביה ביילסקי), 1906–1987, led the Bielski otriad, an all-Jewish partisan detachment in western Belorussia that rescued over 1,200 Jews, the largest Jewish partisan group of World War II.

Tuvixeddu necropolis

Tuvixeddu is a Phoenician-Punic necropolis on a hill in Cagliari, Sardinia, in use from the 6th century BC and described as the largest in the Mediterranean, with rare painted tombs.

Tuwana

Tuwana, known in Assyrian records as Tuhana, was an Iron Age kingdom in southern Cappadocia, Anatolia, part of the region the Assyrians called Tabal, with its capital identified with Tyana at Kemerhisar.

Tuwati

Tuwati, also rendered Tuwatis or Tuatti, was a great king of Tabal in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC, known as the father of King Wasusarma.

Tuwayq Mountains

Tuwayq Mountains (Jabal Tuwayq, جبال طويق), a Jurassic limestone cuesta escarpment in central Saudi Arabia west of Riyadh, about 800 km long, with west-facing cliffs, the Edge of the World landmark, and Qiddiya icon status.

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Tuways

Tuways (طويس), born Isa ibn Abd Allah, was a singer of Medina and the first great singer of the Islamic period, famed under Caliph Uthman and died in 710 or 711.

Tux (mascot)

Tux, the Linux penguin, is the plump penguin mascot of the Linux kernel and free software community, drawn by Larry Ewing in 1996 after Linus Torvalds proposed a penguin logo.

Tuxedo

Tuxedo is an American fishing card game, a Casino variant for 2-6 players created by George Parker, played with Rook cards in four colors and scored with oranges, sweeps, and Fives to 100 points.

Tuxedo Mask

Tuxedo Mask (タキシード仮面, Tuxedo Kamen) is the masked, top-hatted alter ego of Mamoru Chiba in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga and anime; Prince Endymion reborn, he supports Sailor Moon with rose throws and, in the manga, Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber.

Tuxpan III and IV power station

The Tuxpan III and IV power station is a combined cycle gas-fired power plant in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, opened in 2003 with about 983 MW of capacity.

Tuxtla, Chiapas

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital city of Chiapas, Mexico, in the Central Depression at ~600 m on the Sabinal River; 604,147 inhabitants (2020), fast unplanned growth, recurrent flooding, urban heat island, commerce and services economy.

Tùy bút

Tùy bút is a Vietnamese prose genre, meaning "follow-the-pen" writing and corresponding roughly to the Western essay; it emerged in the 1930s and is inseparable from Nguyễn Tuân.

Tuya

Tuya, also called Mut-Tuya, was the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Seti I and mother of Ramesses II, buried in the Valley of the Queens.

Tuya Volcanic Field

Tuya Volcanic Field, also called Tuya Butte or Tuya Lake Volcanic Field, is a Canadian volcanic field of Pleistocene subglacial tuyas in northern British Columbia's Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, the type area for the landform "tuya."

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Tuya's Marriage (图雅的婚事)

Tuya's Marriage (图雅的婚事) is Wang Quan'an's 2006 Chinese drama starring Yu Nan, about an Inner Mongolian shepherdess who divorces her paralyzed husband Bater to remarry on condition the new husband also care for him; it won the 2007 Berlin Golden Bear.

TÜYAP Istanbul Book Fair

The TÜYAP Istanbul Book Fair (Uluslararası İstanbul Kitap Fuarı) is an annual international book fair held each December in Istanbul. First held in 1982, it draws more than half a million visitors.

Tuyen Quang

Tỉnh Tuyên Quang (Tuyên Quang province): mountainous province in northeast Vietnam, formed 1 July 2025 by merging former Tuyên Quang and Hà Giang; 13,795.50 km², 1,865,270 people, 277.556 km China border, capital Tuyên Quang city.

Tuyen Quang hydroelectric plant

The Tuyen Quang hydroelectric plant (Thủy điện Tuyên Quang) is a 342 MW storage-reservoir hydropower station in Tuyen Quang province, Vietnam, providing flood control and regulating water for Hanoi.

Tuymaada (Туймаада)

Tuymaada (Туймаада) is an international science olympiad for secondary school students in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and informatics, held annually in Yakutia, Russia, since 1994.

Tuymazinskoye Oil Field

Tuymazinskoye Oil Field (Туймазинское месторождение) is a large oil field in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia, discovered in 1944 and a birthplace of waterflooding, with more than 330 million tonnes produced.

Tuymazy-Omsk-Novosibirsk 2 Oil Pipeline

The Tuymazy-Omsk-Novosibirsk 2 oil pipeline (TON-2), built in 1964, is a parallel 720 mm line of the trans-Siberian trunk pipeline from Tuymazy through Omsk to Novosibirsk.

TUYU (ツユ)

TUYU (ツユ) was a Japanese music unit of Pusu, Rei, and miro, formed June 12, 2019, known for "Compared Child" and three albums; activity stopped June 2024 after an incident involving Pusu.