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Capitolium
Capitolium (plural capitolia): a Roman temple to the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, modeled on Rome's Temple of Capitoline Jupiter; found at Ostia (AD 120) and in provinces, mostly North Africa, 2nd-3rd century AD.
Capitulation (treaty)
Capitulation (treaty): a treaty or grant, chiefly by Ottoman sultans and Iranian shahs from 1535 onward, conferring extraterritorial consular jurisdiction on foreigners; distinct from surrender capitulations, abolished 1899-1943 (Lausanne, Montreux).
Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia
Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia (kapitulatsioonid 1710): 1710 surrender agreements by which Swedish Estonia and Livonia, cities Riga, Pärnu, Tallinn and the Ritterschaften, joined the Russian Empire in the Great Northern War, with privileges confirmed until Alexander III.
Capitulation of San Mateo
The Capitulation of San Mateo (Capitulación de San Mateo) was the agreement signed on 25 July 1812 by which General Francisco de Miranda surrendered to royalist Domingo de Monteverde.
Capitulation of Toledo
The Capitulation of Toledo (Capitulación de Toledo) was the 1529 agreement by which the Spanish crown licensed Francisco Pizarro to conquer and settle Peru, naming him governor for life.
Capitulations of Santa Fe
The Capitulations of Santa Fe (Capitulaciones de Santa Fe) were the 1492 agreement between Ferdinand and Isabella and Columbus, granting him hereditary titles and trade profits.
Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire
Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire (ahdname): treaties and unilateral sultanic concessions granting European merchants tax, trade, and consular-jurisdiction privileges, traditionally dated to 1536, renewed 1740, abolished 1914.
Capitulations to France
The Capitulations to France (عهدنامه) were trade and legal privileges the Ottoman sultans granted to French merchants, beginning under Suleyman the Magnificent and Francis I in 1535/1536.
Capmont
Capmont is a Munich-based private capital investment manager whose venture arm, Capmont Technology, invests €2–5 million from late seed to Series B in B2B industrial technology and enterprise SaaS startups across Europe and the US.
Capo
Capo (plural capi), from Latin caput, is an Italian noun meaning head; it also denotes a leader or boss (as in the Mafia caporegime, attested in English from 1952), a guitar's capo (capo tasto), and many compound roles.
Capo dei capi
Capo dei capi ("boss of bosses") is an informal Mafia title for the supreme leader, used for Riina and Provenzano in Sicily and held by Morello through Maranzano in the American Mafia until 1931.
Capricorn Energy
Capricorn Energy is a London-listed oil and gas producer founded in 1980 as Cairn Energy and renamed in 2021, holding onshore production assets in Egypt's Western Desert.
Capricorn Partners
Capricorn Partners is a Belgian venture capital firm headquartered in Leuven, founded in 1993, investing in digital technologies, health, and clean technologies, and active as of 2026.
Caprivi conflict
The Caprivi conflict was an armed secessionist struggle in northeastern Namibia, climaxed by the Caprivi Liberation Army's attack on Katima Mulilo on 2 August 1999.
CapsoVision
CapsoVision, Inc. is a Saratoga, California, medical technology company whose CapsoCam Plus capsule endoscope images the small bowel; it went public on Nasdaq under ticker CV in July 2025.
Captain
Captain: a commissioned officer rank, a junior O-3/OF-2 rank in armies and air forces but a senior O-6/OF-5 naval rank equivalent to colonel; from Latin caput, head.
Captain (armed forces)
Captain (armed forces): a commissioned officer rank that is junior O-3 grade in armies and air forces but senior O-6 grade, colonel-equivalent, in navies; also the title of any ship's commanding officer.
Captain (naval)
Captain (naval) is the senior officer rank, usually OF-5/O-6, above commander and equal to an army colonel; distinct from the courtesy title for any ship's commanding officer.
Captain (United States O-3)
Captain (O-3) is the company-grade officer rank in the US Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force, equivalent to Navy and Coast Guard Lieutenant; insignia two silver bars, NATO OF-2.
Captain (United States)
Captain (United States): O-3 company-grade officer rank in the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, but O-6 (colonel-equivalent) in the Navy and Coast Guard; also the courtesy title for any ship's commanding officer.
Captain Pugwash
Captain Pugwash: fictional pirate Captain Horatio Pugwash created by John Ryan, first seen in the Eagle comic on 14 April 1950, later BBC cut-out animation from 1957, Bodley Head books, and a 1991 libel victory over an urban legend about the crew's names.
Captain Tom Moore
Captain Sir Tom Moore (Thomas Moore), British WWII veteran who walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden in April 2020, raising £39m for NHS Charities Together, was knighted, died February 2021, and whose family's Captain Tom Foundation was later sanctioned by the Charity Commission.
Captaincies of Brazil
Captaincies of Brazil (capitanias hereditárias): hereditary coastal land grants created by João III from 1534, given to donatary captains; only São Vicente and Pernambuco succeeded, and the 1549 General Government superseded them.
Captaincy colonies of Brazil
The captaincy colonies of Brazil (Capitanias hereditárias do Brasil) were hereditary grants by which King João III of Portugal had private vassals colonize the Brazilian coast from 1534.
Captaincy General of Chile
The Captaincy General of Chile (Capitanía General de Chile) was the Spanish colonial territory and government of Chile, ruled by a governor under the viceroy of Peru.
Captaincy General of Cuba
The Captaincy General of Cuba (Capitanía General de Cuba) was the Spanish colonial government of Cuba, headed by a governor-captain general seated at Havana, formally the capital from 1607.
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, the Spanish colonial government of Puerto Rico from 1509 to 1898, was ruled by a governor who held both civil and military authority.
Captaincy General of Venezuela
The Captaincy General of Venezuela (Capitanía General de Venezuela) was a Spanish colonial administrative unit created in 1777, seated at Caracas, uniting all the provinces that later formed Venezuela.
Captaincy of Goiás
The Captaincy of Goiás (Capitania de Goiás) was an administrative division of colonial Brazil that existed from 1744 to 1822, centered on the gold-mining region of Vila Boa.
Captaincy of Pernambuco
The Captaincy of Pernambuco, also known as Capitania de Pernambuco, was a hereditary grant of Portuguese colonial Brazil, donated in 1534 to Duarte Coelho Pereira.