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Centrist Democrat International

The Centrist Democrat International (CDI/IDC-CDI, Internacional Demócrata de Centro) is a Brussels-based international of center and center-right, mainly Christian-democratic parties, founded in 1961 as the Christian Democrat World Union and renamed in 2001.

Centrist Reform Alliance (中道改革連盟)

The Centrist Reform Alliance (中道改革連盟) was a Japanese political party formed in January 2026 by merging the lower-house members of the CDP and Komeito, led by Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito.

Centrocaspian Dictatorship

The Centrocaspian Dictatorship (Диктатура Центрокаспия; Sentrokaspi Diktaturası) was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik coalition of Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and Dashnaks that ruled Baku from 1 August to mid-September 1918.

Centrum Air

Centrum Air is a privately owned Uzbek airline based in Tashkent that began flying in 2023, serving 49 cities across Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe.

Centurion

The centurion (Latin centurio) was the professional officer commanding a Roman century of about 80 men, appointed by election, promotion, or commission, paid up to 15 times legionary pay, and led by the primus pilus.

Centurion (film)

Centurion (2010) is a British historical action film written and directed by Neil Marshall, starring Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, and Olga Kurylenko, loosely based on the Roman Ninth Legion's disappearance in Caledonia in AD 117.

Centurion Card

The Centurion Card, informally the Black Card, is an invitation-only American Express charge card with no preset spending limit, costing $10,000 to join in the US.

Centurium Capital (大钲资本)

Centurium Capital (大钲资本) is a China-focused private equity firm co-founded in 2017 by David Li, the former Warburg Pincus Asia Pacific head, best known for its Luckin Coffee investment.

Century Frontier Asset Management

Century Frontier Asset Management (世纪前沿) is a Chinese quantitative private fund manager founded in 2015 by Wu Di and Chen Jiaxin, managing over CNY 60 billion.

Century of humiliation

Century of Humiliation (百年国耻, bainian guochi), Chinese national narrative covering 1839-1949, from the First Opium War to the PRC's founding, marked by unequal treaties, extraterritoriality, and treaty ports; revived after 1989 and central to CCP legitimacy.

Century Pacific Food

Century Pacific Food is a Philippine food and beverage manufacturer controlled by the Po family, the country's top tuna-canner, with brands including Century Tuna, 555, and Argentina.

Century Properties Group

Century Properties Group is a Philippine real estate developer founded by Jose E.B. Antonio in 1986, known for high-rise condominiums, the PHirst first-home brand, and Trump Tower Manila.

Century Therapeutics

Century Therapeutics is a Philadelphia-based, clinical-stage biotechnology company created by Versant Ventures in 2018 that develops allogeneic, off-the-shelf cell therapies for cancer and autoimmune disease from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Ceol of Wessex

Ceol (Ceola, Ceolric), early King of Wessex c. 591–597, nephew of Ceawlin, whom he overthrew in the uprising of 591/592; succeeded by Ceolwulf; dates vary between sources.

Ceolfrid

Ceolfrid, also spelled Ceolfrith (642–716), was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine abbot who ruled Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria for 28 years and commissioned the Codex Amiatinus, the earliest surviving complete one-volume Latin Bible.

Ceolnoth

Ceolnoth was the seventeenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 833 to 870, whose pontificate saw Canterbury taken by Danish Vikings in 851 and a Danish army winter in Thanet in 864.

Ceolwulf II of Mercia

Ceolwulf II of Mercia (fl. 874–879), last independent king of Mercia, placed on the throne after the Danes deposed Burgred; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls him a foolish king's thegn, but coins and Welsh sources show a legitimate king allied with Alfred.

Cepsa

Cepsa, formally Compañía Española de Petróleos, is a Spanish energy and chemicals company founded in 1929 and rebranded as Moeve in 2024 to pursue sustainable energy and mobility.

Ceque system of Cusco

The ceque system of Cusco (sistema de ceques del Cusco) organized hundreds of Inca sacred shrines, or huacas, along lines radiating from Cusco's Temple of the Sun.

CeQur

CeQur is a Swiss medical device company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Horw, known for its CeQur Simplicity wearable patch that delivers mealtime insulin without injections.

Cera

Cera, also known as Cera Care, is a London-based healthcare technology and home-care company founded in 2016 by former NHS doctor Ben Maruthappu, using AI to predict health deterioration.

Ceramic petrography

Ceramic petrography is an archaeological method, practiced since the 1930s, that examines thin sections of pottery under polarized light to infer provenance and production technology.

Cerberus (Κέρβερος)

Cerberus (Κέρβερος, Kerberos) is the monstrous hound of Greek mythology that guards the Underworld's entrance, keeping the dead from escaping. First named by Hesiod as fifty-headed and son of Typhon and Echidna, he is usually three-headed, two-headed on Attic vases, and was captured weaponless by Heracles in the twelfth labor.

Cerberus Capital Management

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is a New York-based alternative investment firm founded in 1992 by Stephen Feinberg, specializing in distressed debt, private equity, and real estate.

Çerçiz Topulli

Çerçiz Topulli (1880–1915) was an Albanian revolutionary and guerrilla fighter of the National Renaissance who fought Ottoman rule in southern Albania and is honored as a People's Hero.

Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic of Wessex (Cerdic, d. 534), traditional founder of the West Saxon kingdom with his son Cynric, per the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: landed 495, king 519. His Brittonic name, borrowed Bernician pedigree, and disputed chronology make his historicity debated.

Cerecin Inc.

Cerecin Inc, formerly Accera Inc, is a private clinical-stage biotech headquartered in Denver and Singapore, developing ketogenic drugs for neurological disorders; Nestlé holds a 60 percent stake.

Ceremonial care of the Guru Granth Sahib

Ceremonial care of the Guru Granth Sahib is the set of Sikh rituals treating the scripture as a living Guru, from morning opening to nightly rest.

Ceremonial mace

Ceremonial mace: an ornamented staff descended from a medieval weapon, symbolizing authority in parliaments (UK, Commonwealth, US House), cities, and universities; carried by the Serjeant-at-Arms and required for a Westminster House to conduct business.

Ceremonial magic

Ceremonial magic, also called ritual magic or high magic, is the Western tradition of formal ritual for summoning and commanding spirits, using consecrated circles and talismans.