History and archaeology

Manufacture Collegium

The Manufacture Collegium (Мануфактур-коллегия) was the Russian government body created by Peter I in 1717 to supervise the empire's factories, first headed by Yakov Bruce.

Manufahi Kingdom

Manufahi (Reino de Manufahi) was a kingdom on the south coast of Timor, in present-day Timor-Leste, remembered for the last great Timorese rebellion against Portuguese rule.

Manugye Dhammathat

The Manugye Dhammathat (မနုကျော် ဓမ္မသတ်) is a Burmese law code compiled under King Alaungpaya at the start of the Konbaung dynasty, the best known of Burma's dhammathats.

Manuha

Manuha (မနူဟာ) was the Mon king of Thaton whom King Anawrahta of Bagan defeated in 1057; in captivity at Bagan he built the well-known Manuha Temple at Myinkaba.

Sep 17, 2026

Manumission, the freeing of individual enslaved people while slavery itself continues, distinct from emancipation; practiced in Rome, Greece, and the Americas, often conditional, with rates varying by society and era.

Sep 17, 2026

Manuport

Manuport: an unmodified natural object, usually a stone, carried by humans to an archaeological site; term introduced by Mary Leakey for Olduvai material, contested there as natural deposition.

Manusara Dhammathat

The Manusara Dhammathat (မနုသာရ ဓမ္မသတ်) is a Burmese law code composed in 1651 or 1652 by the monk Tipitakalankara and the lay jurist Manuraja, written in Pali verse with a Burmese gloss.

Sep 25, 2026

Mao Bowen

Mao Bowen (毛伯温), courtesy name Ruli, was a Ming dynasty official from Jishui, Jiangxi, who settled the Annan question without battle and rebuilt Datong's five border forts.

Mao Dun

Mao Dun (茅盾) was the pen name of Chinese novelist Shen Dehong (1896 to 1981), author of Midnight and first Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

Mao Gong ding

The Mao Gong ding (毛公鼎) is a large Western Zhou bronze tripod cauldron from King Xuan's reign, bearing the longest inscription known on any Chinese bronze vessel.

Mao Ji

Mao Ji (毛纪, 1463–1545), courtesy name Weizhi, was a Ming dynasty official from Ye County, Shandong, who became chief grand secretary and resigned over the Jiajing Emperor's ritual titles.

Mao Jiao

Mao Jiao (茅焦) was a guest from Qi who persuaded the young king of Qin to recall his exiled mother, the queen dowager, to Xianyang.

Mao Jie

Mao Jie (毛玠), courtesy name Xiaoxian, was a high official of the late Eastern Han who ran appointments for the warlord Cao Cao for about twenty years.

Mao Qiling

Mao Qiling (毛奇龄, 1623–1716) was a Qing dynasty scholar and official from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, known for his studies of the Confucian classics and his work on the Ming History.

Mao Wenlong

Mao Wenlong (毛文龙) was a Ming dynasty general who raided the Later Jin rear from islands off Korea until Yuan Chonghuan beheaded him in 1629.

Sep 17, 2026

Māori history

Māori history covers the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand: East Polynesian settlement 1250–1300 CE, the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the New Zealand Wars, Native Land Court land loss, and the modern Treaty-settlement and language revival era.

Mapa Quinatzin

The Mapa Quinatzin is a Nahua pictorial codex from Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico, painted around 1542 by descendants of its ruling dynasty, showing the palace of Nezahualcoyotl and Texcocan laws.

Mappila

Mappila (മാപ്പിള), also spelled Moplah, is a Muslim community of Malabar in Kerala, India, descended from Arab traders and local converts, long dominant in the spice trade.

Maqlû

Maqlû (Akkadian for "Burning") is the longest anti-witchcraft ritual known from ancient Mesopotamia: eight tablets of almost one hundred incantations performed over one night and morning, burning effigies of witches.

Mar Thoma I

Mar Thoma I (മാർ തോമാ ഒന്നാൻ), born Parambil Thoma Kathanar, was the first indigenous metropolitan of the Malankara church, consecrated in 1653 after the Coonan Cross Oath.

Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina

Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina was the third king of Babylon's Dynasty of E, a line that held the city after the Kassite dynasty fell; he reigned from 942 BC to an unknown end.

Mar-biti-apla-uṣur

Mar-biti-apla-uṣur, also written Mar-biti-apla-usur, was a king of Babylon of Elamite origin, reigning around 984–79 BC as the only recorded king of the Elamite dynasty.

Mar-Issar

Mar-Issar, also written Mār-Ištar, was a Babylonian scholar and astrologer in the service of King Esarhaddon, based in Babylon and known from 24 letters reporting celestial omens.

Mara Takla Haymanot

Mara Takla Haymanot (ማራ ተክለ ሃይማኖት) was the first king of the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia, founded around 1137 after he defeated the last Aksumite king, Dil Na'od, and married his daughter.

Maragha Observatory

The Maragha Observatory (رصدخانه مراغه) was a Mongol-era astronomical research institute at Maragha in northwestern Iran, founded in 1259 by Hulegu Khan for the scholar Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.

Marananta

Marananta (마라난타, 摩羅難陀) was a Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism to the Korean kingdom of Baekje, arriving from Eastern Jin China in 384 and welcomed by King Chimnyu.

Maranga

Maranga is a large pre-Hispanic archaeological complex on the Rímac River in Lima, Peru, built by the Lima culture from about 200 BC and later occupied by the Ychsma.

Marash lion

The Marash lion is a basalt gate lion from Kahramanmaraş, capital of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, inscribed for King Halparuntiyas III and found in 1883.

Maratha administration of Odisha

Maratha administration of Odisha (मराठा ओडिशा) was the government by which the Bhonsle dynasty of Nagpur ruled coastal Odisha from 1751 until the British conquest of 1803.