History and archaeology

Manikya dynasty

The Manikya dynasty (মাণিক্য) was the ruling house of Tripura in northeastern India, whose kings bore the title Manikya from the fifteenth century until 1947.

Manimekalai

Manimekalai (மணிமேகலை) is a Buddhist Tamil epic composed by the grain merchant Sattanar of Madurai, one of the five great Tamil epics and a sequel to the Silappatikaram.

Manipur kingdom

The Manipur kingdom (ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯀꯡꯂꯣꯟ) was a Meitei kingdom in northeastern India, ruled by the Ningthouja dynasty from 33 AD until its merger with India in 1949.

Maniram Dewan

Maniram Dewan (মনিৰাম দেৱান) was an Assamese courtier and tea planter, the first Indian to grow tea commercially in Assam, hanged by the British in 1858.

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Manishtushu (Man-ištūšu, 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢), third king of the Akkadian Empire (c. 2269–2255 BC), son of Sargon and brother of Rimush; known for the Obelisk of Manishtushu land purchases, Elam and Gulf campaigns, and standardized royal statues.

Manishtushu Obelisk

The Manishtushu Obelisk is a four-sided inscribed stone monument of Akkadian king Manishtushu, recording his purchase of large tracts of land around Kish about 2270 BC.

Manishtushu's campaign against Anshan and Shirihum

Manishtushu's campaign against Anshan and Shirihum was a military expedition of Manishtushu, king of Akkad, against Anshan, the highland capital of Elam, in the later 23rd century BC.

Manishtushu's campaign against Magan

Manishtushu's campaign against Magan was a seaborne expedition of c. 2270 BC in which Manishtushu, third king of Akkad, crossed the Persian Gulf and defeated a coalition of thirty-two kings.

Manium

Manium, also written Manui and Mannu-dannu, was the king of Magan whom Naram-Sin of Akkad defeated and captured, probably in the second half of the 23rd century BC.

Manjak al-Yusufi

Manjak al-Yusufi (منجك اليوسفي) was a Mamluk amir of Cairo who rose from military slave to vizier of Egypt, viceroy of Syria, and commander-in-chief, dying in 1374 or 1375.

Manjeok

Manjeok (만적, 萬積) was a Goryeo slave who plotted a slave uprising in Gaegyeong in 1198, aiming to kill Choe Chung-heon and burn the slave registers; betrayed, he and about 100 others were executed.

Manjutakin

Manjutakin (منجوتكين) was a Turkic military commander in Fatimid service and governor of Damascus, best known for crushing a Byzantine army at the Orontes near Apamea in 994.

Mankessim Kingdom

The Mankessim Kingdom was the original Fante state of southern Ghana, founded at Mankessim before the end of the fifteenth century as the Fante's sacred city.

Mannean–Assyrian wars

The Mannean–Assyrian wars were recurring conflicts and shifting alliances between the kingdom of Mannea in northwestern Iran and the Neo-Assyrian Empire, spanning roughly 843 to 616 BC.

Mannean–Urartian wars

The Mannean–Urartian wars were recurring conflicts between Urartu and the kingdom of Mannea over the Urmia basin from about 820 BC to the mid-7th century BC.

Manorial estates (zhuangyuan)

Manorial estates (zhuangyuan, 庄园) were large landholdings in Tang China owned by the imperial house, nobles, officials, or temples, and rented to tenants, often for half the harvest.

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Manorialism

Manorialism (seigneurialism, the manorial system): the medieval European rural economic system of lords and dependent peasants on manors, with demesne land, labor rents, and manor courts; distinct from feudalism; rose from late Roman and Carolingian roots, declined after the Black Death.

Mansa

Mansa is a Mande-language royal title meaning "king" or "emperor," borne by the rulers of the Mali Empire in West Africa from the thirteenth century onward.

Mansa Maghan I

Mansa Maghan I was a ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa, the son and successor of Mansa Musa I, reigning from 1337 to 1341, when his uncle Mansa Sulayman took the throne.

Mansa Mahmud I

Mansa Mahmud I was a ruler of the Mali empire in West Africa who deposed the usurper Sandaki and restored the Keita dynasty to the throne.

Mansa Mahmud IV

Mansa Mahmud IV, also known as Mahmud Keita IV or Mansa Mamadou III, was the last significant mansa of the Mali Empire; his 1599 attack on Djenné failed, and he died around 1610.

Mansa Musa's hajj

Mansa Musa's hajj was the 1324–1325 pilgrimage to Mecca by Mansa Musa of the Mali empire, whose lavish gold spending in Cairo depressed Egypt's gold value for years.

Mansa Ouali II

Mansa Ouali II (Ouali II) was a mansa, or ruler, of the Mali empire who succeeded Moussa III in the early 15th century, when Mali was losing territory to Tuareg and Songhai.

Mansa Sakura

Mansa Sakura was a freed slave who seized the throne of the Mali Empire, ruling from about 1285 to 1300 and conquering the city of Gao.

Mansa Suleyman

Mansa Suleyman (سليمان) was mansa of the Mali Empire from 1341 to 1360, brother of Mansa Musa, who hosted Ibn Battuta and restored Mali's lost lands.

Mansa Uli

Mansa Uli, also rendered Mansa Wali or Waii, was the second mansa of the Mali Empire, son and successor of founder Sundiata Keita, reigning about 1255 to 1270.

Mansabdari system

The Mansabdari system (मनसब) was the rank-based framework by which Mughal emperor Akbar organized his nobility and military command, paying holders through jagir revenue assignments.

Manshiyat Ezzat Palette

The Manshiyat Ezzat Palette is a decorated ceremonial greywacke cosmetic palette unearthed in 1998 from an intact First Dynasty elite tomb at Minshat Ezzat in the northeastern Nile Delta.

Mansong Diarra

Mansong Diarra, also rendered Monzon, was faama, or war chief, of the Bamana state of Segou from about 1790 to 1808, taking Timbuktu in 1800.