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Zimbabwe national football team

Zimbabwe national football team, the Warriors, men's team run by ZIFA (founded 1965). Six AFCON appearances since 2004, all group-stage exits; FIFA rank 129; coach Mario Marinica since 2025.

Zimbabwe Rhodesia

Zimbabwe Rhodesia, also called Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, was the unrecognised state renamed from Rhodesia on 1 June 1979 under Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's biracial internal-settlement government; it lasted until 12 December 1979, when UDI was renounced and the territory returned to British rule before becoming Zimbabwe in 1980.

Zimbabwe Women Writers

Zimbabwe Women Writers is a Zimbabwean organization for women writers, founded in Harare in 1990 to promote, publish, and train women writing in Shona, Ndebele, and English.

Zimbabwe women's cricket team in Thailand in 2022–23

Zimbabwe Women's tour of Thailand 2022-23: bilateral women's cricket tour, 3 ODIs and 4 T20Is at Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok, 19-29 April 2023; Thailand won the ODIs 3-0 and the T20Is 2-1.

Zimbabwean dollar

The Zimbabwean dollar was Zimbabwe's currency from 1980 until hyperinflation collapsed it in 2008–2009, reaching a Z$100 trillion note before dollarization; successor units include the 2019 dollar and the gold-backed ZiG.

Zimbabwean involvement in the Second Congo War

Zimbabwe's involvement in the Second Congo War was its military deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1998 to 2002 in support of Laurent Kabila's government.

Zimbabwean novel

The Zimbabwean novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English, beginning in the mid-1950s and shaped by themes of land dispossession, the liberation war, and nationalism.

Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar note

The Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar note is a banknote issued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in January 2009, during hyperinflation, worth about US$5 at issue.

Zimbabwean stone sculpture

Zimbabwean stone sculpture, often marketed as "Shona sculpture," is a contemporary art movement in which Zimbabwean artists carve figurative and abstract works from local stones like serpentine.

Zimbardo time perspective inventory

The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) is a 56-item questionnaire measuring how people orient to past, present, and future, introduced by Zimbardo and Boyd in 1999.

Zimberelimab

Zimberelimab (AB122, GLS-010, WBP-3055; YuTuo) is a fully human IgG4 anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody approved in China for PD-L1-positive recurrent/metastatic cervical cancer and relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, and studied globally in combination immunotherapy trials.

Zimcerla Dorsa

Zimcerla Dorsa is an 850-km-long dorsum (ridge) on Venus at 47.5°S, 73.5°E in the Aino Planitia quadrangle, named in 1997 for a West Slavic dawn goddess.

Zimeldine

Zimeldine, also spelled zimelidine and sold as Zelmid, was the first marketed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, introduced in 1982 and withdrawn worldwide in 1983 for causing Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Zimina

Zimina (Зимина) is an extinct volcanic massif of merged stratovolcanoes, 3,057-3,081 m, at the southeastern end of the Klyuchevskaya volcano group in Kamchatka, Russia; no Holocene eruptions are known.

Zimmer (automobile)

Zimmer was an American maker of neoclassic automobiles, founded by Paul Zimmer in Syracuse, New York, in 1978 and known for the Mustang-based Golden Spirit coupe.

Zimmer Biomet

Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology company headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, formed in 2015 and a major manufacturer of hip and knee replacement implants.

Zimmer Generating Station

The Zimmer Generating Station, formally the William H. Zimmer Generating Station, was a 1,300-megawatt coal-fired plant in Moscow, Ohio, and the first converted from nuclear to coal, operating from 1991 to 2022.

Zimmerit

Zimmerit was a paste-like coating applied to German tanks and assault guns from August 1943 to September 1944 to prevent magnetic anti-tank mines from adhering.

Zimmermann-Laband syndrome

Zimmermann-Laband syndrome (ZLS, OMIM 135500), also called Laband's syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with gingival fibromatosis, nail and distal phalanx hypoplasia, hypertrichosis, and intellectual disability, caused by KCNH1, ATP6V1B2, or KCNN3 mutations.

Zimplistic

Zimplistic is a Singapore-based food-technology company founded in 2008 by Pranoti Nagarkar and Rishi Israni, best known for the Rotimatic, a kitchen robot that makes a flatbread in about 90 seconds.

Zimredda of Lachish

Zimredda, also known as Zimredda (mayor of Lachish), was mayor of the Canaanite city of Lachish in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters.

Zimredda of Sidon

Zimredda, also Zimrida, was king of Sidon in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the bitter rival of Abimilki, king of Tyre.

Zimri (king of Israel)

Zimri was the fifth king of Israel, an officer who murdered King Elah at Tirzah, reigned seven days around 885 BC, and died in the burning citadel.

Zimri-Addu

Zimri-Addu was an official of the kingdom of Mari, modern Tell Hariri, in the 18th century BC, known from a gift-disbursement list in the royal archives of King Zimri-Lim.

Zimri-Lim

Zimri-Lim was the last king of Mari, a major 18th-century BC center on the Euphrates, reigning about 1775 to 1761 BCE until Hammurabi of Babylon destroyed the city.

Zina

Zina (زنا, zinā) is the Islamic-law category of unlawful sexual intercourse, covering fornication and adultery, proved by confession or four male witnesses and punished by lashes or stoning; modern codes in Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, and Afghanistan enforce it, often against rape survivors.

Zina Garrison

Zina Garrison, American tennis player from Houston, peaked at WTA No. 4, won 1988 Olympic doubles gold, and reached the 1990 Wimbledon final beating Seles and Graf.

Zinaida Amosova

Zinaida Stepanovna Amosova (Зинаида Степановна Амосова), born 1950, Soviet cross-country skier; 1976 Olympic relay champion and 1978 world champion at 10 and 20 km.

Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Гиппиус), 1869–1945, was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and prose writer who, with her husband Dmitry Merezhkovsky, hosted a famous literary salon before emigrating to Paris in 1919.

Zinaida Turchina

Zinaida Turchina (Зінаїда Турчина), Ukrainian playmaker born 1946 in Kyiv; Soviet handball great, double Olympic champion 1976 and 1980, 1988 bronze, IHF female player of the 20th century, Spartak Kyiv legend.