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Niskala Wastu Kancana

Niskala Wastu Kancana was a king of the Sunda kingdom in West Java who reigned from Kawali from 1371 to 1475, according to the Carita Parahyangan.

Niterói circus fire

The Niterói circus fire was an arson attack on the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in Niterói, Brazil, on 17 December 1961, killing 503 people by the official count.

Nitobe Inazō

Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸稲造) was a Japanese agricultural economist, educator, and diplomat who served as a League of Nations Under-Secretary-General and wrote Bushidō: The Soul of Japan in 1899.

Nitocris

Nitocris, or Nitiqret, is a queen whom classical tradition places at the end of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, around 2184–2181 BCE, remembered for drowning her brother's killers at a banquet.

Nitocris I (God's Wife of Amun)

Nitocris I, also known as Neitiqert, was a God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, daughter of Psammetichus I, who held the office for almost 70 years from 656 BC.

Nitocris II (Divine Adoratrice of Amun)

Nitocris II was a Saite princess, daughter of Amasis II, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes before the Persian conquest of 525 BC.

Nitta Yoshisada

Nitta Yoshisada (新田義貞, 1301–1338) was a Japanese warrior and head of the Nitta clan who destroyed the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and later served the Southern Court.

Nitta Yoshishige

Nitta Yoshishige (新田義重, 1135–1202) was a Japanese warrior of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods who founded the Nitta-no-shō estate in Kōzuke Province and became ancestor of the Nitta clan, whose descendants included Nitta Yoshisada.

Nityananda

Nityananda (নিত্যানন্দ), also called Nityananda Prabhu, was a 16th-century Bengali religious teacher and the principal associate of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, leading the Gaudiya Vaishnava mission in Bengal.

Niu Fu

Niu Fu (牛辅) was a general of the late Eastern Han dynasty, son-in-law of the warlord Dong Zhuo, whose death after Dong Zhuo's murder led to the sack of Chang'an.

Niu Gao

Niu Gao (牛皋, 1087–1147) was a Song dynasty general who rose from local archer to commander under Yue Fei, fought the Jin, and died of poisoning.

Niu Hong

Niu Hong (牛弘), courtesy name Liren, was a Sui-dynasty statesman and ritual scholar (545–610) who served Emperors Wen and Yang as Director of the Imperial Library and other ministers.

Niu Sengru

Niu Sengru (牛僧孺, courtesy name Sian, 780–848) was a Tang dynasty statesman and chancellor under three emperors, known for strict legality and frontier decisions opposed to Li Deyu.

Niu Xianke

Niu Xianke (牛仙客, 675–742) was a Tang dynasty official who rose from county clerk to military governor of Hexi and Shuofang, then chancellor under Emperor Xuanzong.

Niu-Li Factional Struggles

The Niu-Li factional struggles (牛李党争) were rivalries between court factions of the mid-Tang dynasty, traditionally led by Niu Sengru and Li Deyu from the 810s into the 850s.

Niulin

Niulin (纽璘) was a Mongol commander of the Yuan dynasty who fought the Southern Song in Sichuan under Möngke khan, was made commander-in-chief after taking Chengdu, and anchored Yuan control of the southwest under Kublai.

Niutou land

Niutou land (牛头地) was the land-grant system of the Jin dynasty, under which Jurchen meng'an mouke households received farmland in proportion to their plow teams and paid the niutou tax.

Nivruttinath

Nivruttinath (निवृत्तिनाथ) was a thirteenth-century Marathi saint and Nath yogi of the Deccan, elder brother and guru of Dnyaneshwar, who took samadhi at Trimbakeshwar in 1297.

Niwa Nagahide

Niwa Nagahide (丹羽長秀, 1535–1585) was a Japanese samurai and senior retainer of the Oda clan who later held Echizen as a daimyo from Kitanosho Castle.

Niya (kingdom)

Niya, also written Nii, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in the middle Orontes valley of western Syria, known almost entirely from Hittite cuneiform texts.

Nizam al-Din Ahmad

Nizam al-Din Ahmad (نظام‌الدین احمد) was a Mughal court officer and historian who served Akbar as bakhshi and wrote the Tabaqat-i Akbari, a general history of Muslim rule in India.

Nizam al-Din Shami

Nizam al-Din Shami (نظام‌الدین شامی) was a Persian chronicler born near Tabriz who served Timur and wrote the Zafarnama, a chronicle of Timur's conquests, in AH 804 (1401–1402).

Nizam al-Jadid

Nizam al-Jadid (النظام الجديد, "the new order") was the regular conscript army of early nineteenth-century Egypt, established by Muhammad Ali Pasha and trained in the European style.

Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II

Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (آصف جاہ دوم نظام علی خان), ruled Hyderabad from 1762 to 1803, deposing his brother Salabat Jung and allying with the British.

Nizam of Hyderabad

Nizam of Hyderabad: hereditary title (from Arabic for order/administration) of the rulers of Hyderabad state, 1724–1948, founded by Asaf Jah; largest princely state in British India, ended by Operation Polo in 1948.

Nizam Shahi dynasty

The Nizam Shahi dynasty was one of the five Deccan sultanates, founded in 1490 with its capital at Ahmadnagar and annexed by the Mughals in 1636.

Nizam-i Cedid

Nizam-i Cedid (نظام جديد, "new order") was the reform program of Ottoman sultan Selim III, creating a Western-trained regular infantry corps; it was abolished in the Janissary revolt of 1807.

Nizam-i Cedid army

The Nizam-i Cedid army ("New Order army") was an Ottoman regular infantry corps founded by Sultan Selim III in 1792 and abolished after the 1807 revolt that deposed him.

Nizam-ı Cedid Army

The Nizam-ı Cedid Army (Nizam-i Cedid Ordusu, "New Order army") was a Western-trained regular infantry corps created by Sultan Selim III, reaching about 30,000 men before its abolition in 1807.

Nizam-ı Cedid reforms

The Nizam-ı Cedid (نظام جدید, "New Order") was the reform program of Ottoman sultan Selim III, creating a European-style army with its own treasury before ending in 1807.