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Luo Zenan

Luo Zenan (罗泽南, 1807–1856) was a Qing dynasty Confucian scholar and village teacher from Hunan who became a founding commander of the Xiang Army against the Taiping rebellion.

Luo Zhenyu

Luo Zhenyu (羅振玉, 1866–1940) was a Chinese scholar, collector, and publisher of the late Qing and Republican periods, known for assembling over 30,000 oracle bones from Anyang.

Luo Zundian

Luo Zundian (罗遵殿) was a Qing dynasty official from Anhui who served as governor of Zhejiang and died when Taiping forces took Hangzhou in 1860.

Luo–Shu–Shuo factional strife

The Luo–Shu–Shuo factional strife (洛蜀朔党争) was a court conflict of the Northern Song Yuanyou era among three parties led by Cheng Yi, Su Shi, and Liu Zhi, breaking into the open in 1086.

Lupaca kingdom

The Lupaca kingdom (reino Lupaca) was an Aymara-speaking polity based at Chucuito on the western shore of Lake Titicaca, Peru, flourishing independently before becoming semi-independent within the Inca Empire.

Lupaca polity

The Lupaca polity was an Aymara-speaking lordship based at Chucuito on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in what is now Peru, surviving semi-independently under Inca rule.

Lupakki

Lupakki is the name of several Hittite officials of the Empire period, attested in cuneiform tablets and sealings from the late 14th into the 13th century BC.

Lupercalia

Lupercalia, ancient Roman festival held February 15 at the Lupercal cave on the Palatine; Luperci priests sacrificed goats and a dog, ran nearly naked striking people with goatskin thongs as purification and fertility rites; not the origin of Valentine's Day.

Lurg Moor

Lurg Moor Roman fortlet, near Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland: mid-2nd-century Antonine fortlet and road, scheduled monument SM1653, one of Scotland's best-preserved unexcavated Roman fortlets.

Lushai Expedition

The Lushai Expedition was a British punitive campaign of 1871–1872 in the Lushai Hills, present-day Mizoram, launched in response to Lushai raids into Cachar and Chittagong.

Lüshi chunqiu

The Lüshi chunqiu, or Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Lü (吕氏春秋), is a Chinese compilation of political theory assembled under the Qin chancellor Lv Buwei around 241–238 BC.

Lushui Hu

Lushui Hu (卢水胡) was an ancient people of China's frontier, named for their residence on the Lushui river, best known for Gai Wu's rebellion of 445.

Lutipri

Lutipri, also written Lutibri, was an early ruler of Urartu around 844 to 830 BC, known only as the father named by King Sarduri I in his inscriptions.

Luwians

The Luwians, also known as Luvians, were an ancient Anatolian people speaking Luwian, an Indo-European language closely related to Hittite, attested from the 16th through the 8th century BCE.

Luxeuil Abbey

Luxeuil Abbey (Abbaye de Luxeuil), founded c. 590 by Irish monk Saint Columbanus at Luxeuil-les-Bains, France, on Roman Luxovium; a cradle of Western monasticism with a famed scriptorium, 600 monks by the mid-7th century, and 2005 finds of its Merovingian Saint-Martin church.

Luxor statue cache

The Luxor statue cache is a pit of 26 royal and divine statues found in 1989 beneath Luxor Temple and now displayed at Luxor Museum.

Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple, at Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt, is an 18th Dynasty temple of kingship begun by Amenhotep III around 1390 BCE and expanded by Tutankhamun, Horemheb, and Ramesses II, linked to Karnak by the Avenue of Sphinxes and central to the Opet festival.

Luy Thay

Luy Thay (Lũy Thầy) is a system of defensive walls in Quang Binh, Vietnam, built in the early 1630s to shield the Nguyen lords from Trinh invasion.

Lv Benzhong

Lv Benzhong (呂本中, 1084–1145) was a Song dynasty poet, poetry theorist, and official who named the Jiangxi school of poetry and wrote the Guanzhen on official conduct.

Lv Buwei

Lv Buwei (吕不韦) was a Warring States merchant who rose to chancellor of Qin, engineered the succession of the future First Emperor, and directed the compilation of the Lüshi Chunqiu.

Lv Duan

Lv Duan (吕端, 935–1000) was a Song dynasty chief councilor who secured Emperor Zhenzong's accession and was famed as "muddled in small matters but not in great ones."

Lv Fan

Lv Fan (吕范), courtesy name Ziheng, was a general and administrator of Eastern Wu during the late Han and Three Kingdoms period, rising from county clerk to Grand Marshal.

Lv Gongzhu

Lv Gongzhu (吕公著, 1018–1089), courtesy name Huishu, was a Song dynasty statesman, son of chief minister Lv Yijian, who served five emperors and ended as chief councillor.

Lv Haowen

Lv Haowen (吕好問, courtesy name Shuntu) was a Song dynasty statesman who helped bring Emperor Gaozong to the throne after the fall of the Northern Song capital in 1127.

Lv Huiqing

Lv Huiqing (吕惠卿) was a Song dynasty statesman from Quanzhou, Fujian, who served as vice chancellor under Wang Anshi and later commanded the northwestern frontier against Xia.

Lv Kun

Lv Kun (吕坤, 1536–1618) was a Ming dynasty official and thinker from Ningling, Henan, remembered for his 1597 Youweishu memorial and his enrollment in the Confucian temple.

Lv Meng

Lv Meng (吕蒙), courtesy name Ziming, was a general of Eastern Wu during the late Han dynasty, best known for masterminding the seizure of Jingzhou from Guan Yu.

Lv Mengzheng

Lv Mengzheng (吕蒙正, 946–1011) was a Song dynasty statesman who served three times as chancellor under Emperors Taizong and Zhenzong, one of only two men to do so.

Lv Mu

Lv Mu (吕母) was a wealthy woman of Langya who raised a rebellion at the end of Wang Mang's rule to avenge her executed son.

Lv Wenhuan

Lv Wenhuan (吕文焕), style name Changshan, was a Song dynasty general who defended Xiangyang against the Mongols, surrendered in 1273, and served the Yuan until his death in 1296.