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Chongzheng Yuan
The Chongzheng Yuan (崇政院) was the privy council of the Later Liang dynasty, created in 907 by renaming the Tang Bureau of Military Affairs and staffed with civil officials.
Chormaqan
Chormaqan (چورماقون), a Mongol general and military governor, commanded the conquest of Persia and the Caucasus from 1229, destroying the Khwarazmian sultan Jalal al-Din and reducing Georgia and Armenia to tribute.
Choronzon
Choronzon (Coronzon, Coronzom, 333) is a demon named in John Dee and Edward Kelley's 1584 Enochian diaries and recast by Aleister Crowley in the 1909 ZAX working as dweller of the Abyss in Thelema.
Choros
Choros (Чорос, Tsoros) was an aristocratic Oirat clan that led the Oirat confederation from the early 15th century and supplied the ruling dynasty of the Dzungar Khanate.
Chorotega kingdom of Nicoya
The Chorotega kingdom of Nicoya was an indigenous chiefdom on the Nicoya Peninsula of northwestern Costa Rica, ruled at Spanish contact by the lord Nicoya and populated mainly by Chorotega people.
Chortkiv offensive
The Chortkiv offensive (Чортківська офензива), also called the June offensive, was a Ukrainian Galician Army offensive against Poland from 7 to 28 June 1919 during the Polish–Ukrainian War.
Chorus.ai
Chorus.ai was a San Francisco conversation-intelligence company founded in 2015 that analyzed sales calls for revenue teams and was acquired by ZoomInfo for approximately $575 million in 2021.
Chōsen Army
The Chōsen Army (朝鮮軍) was the Imperial Japanese Army command occupying Korea from 1904 until Japan's defeat in 1945, serving as the armed core of colonial rule.
Chosen Company
Chosen Company, formerly the 312th Volunteer Company, is a multinational volunteer unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attached to the 59th Motorized Brigade, disbanded by commander Ryan O'Leary on May 26, 2025.
Chosen Council
The Chosen Council (Избранная рада) was an informal circle of advisers led by Alexei Adashev and Sylvester that served as Ivan IV's unofficial government until 1560.
Chosen Education Ordinance
The Chosen Education Ordinance (조선교육령), issued by the Government-General of Chosen, was the basic education law of colonial Korea, first issued in 1911 and revised in 1922, 1938, and 1943.
Chosen Industrial Bank
The Chosen Industrial Bank (조선식산은행) was a colonial Japanese special bank in Korea, created in 1918 and responsible for 55% of all bank loans in the colony.
Chōsen Shrine
Chōsen Shrine (Chōsen Jingū, 朝鮮神宮) was the highest-ranked State Shintō shrine in colonial Korea, completed on Namsan in Seoul in 1925 to enshrine Amaterasu and Emperor Meiji.
Chōsen Sōtokufu
The Chōsen Sōtokufu (朝鮮総督府), or Government-General of Chōsen, was the colonial governing organ through which the Empire of Japan ruled Korea from 1910 until its abolition in 1945.
Chōshū Domain
Chōshū Domain (長州藩), also Hagi Domain, was the 369,000-koku tozama domain in western Honshū ruled by the Mōri clan from 1604; with Satsuma it formed the 1866 alliance that overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate.
Chōshū Expeditions
The Chōshū Expeditions (長州征討) were two military campaigns by the Edo shogunate against the Chōshū domain, in 1864 and 1866; the second ended in shogunate defeat, weakening its authority before the Meiji Restoration.
Chōshū Tenpō Reforms
The Chōshū Tenpō Reforms (長州藩天保改革) were fiscal, military, educational, and industrial measures carried out in Japan's Chōshū domain in the 1840s under Murata Seifū, clearing the domain's debts and preparing it to dominate late-Edo politics.
Chōsokabe clan
The Chōsokabe clan (長宗我部氏) was a Japanese warrior family that rose to rule Tosa Province and, by the 1580s, most of Shikoku under Chōsokabe Motochika.
Chōsokabe Motochika
Chōsokabe Motochika (長宗我部元親) was a Sengoku-period daimyo of Tosa Province on Shikoku who unified Tosa in 1575 and controlled most of Shikoku until Hideyoshi's 1585 invasion reduced him to Tosa alone.
Chōsokabe shikimoku
The Chōsokabe shikimoku (長宗我部元親百箇条) is the house law of the Chōsokabe clan of Tosa Province, drafted by Chōsokabe Motochika and his son Morichika in 1596.
Chosroid dynasty
The Chosroid dynasty was a royal house of Iranian origin that ruled the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia (Kartli) from the late 3rd century into the early medieval period.
Chosun Broadcasting Association
The Chosun Broadcasting Association (조선방송협회) was the sole radio broadcasting organization in colonial Korea, operating from 1932 until the end of Japanese rule in 1945.
Chosun Industrial Bank
Chosun Industrial Bank (조선식산은행, Chōsen Shokusan Ginkō) was a special bank created by the Government-General of colonial Korea in 1918 to supply long-term industrial finance.
Chosun Textile Company
Chosun Textile Company (조선방직, known as Chobang) was Korea's first large-scale machine cotton spinner, founded in Busan in 1917 with Japanese capital and liquidated in 1969.
Chota Char Dham (छोटा चार धाम)
Chota Char Dham (छोटा चार धाम), also called Char Dham of Uttarakhand, is a Himalayan pilgrimage circuit of four shrines, Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath, in Uttarakhand, India.
Chōtoku famine
The Chōtoku famine (長徳の飢饉) was an epidemic that struck Japan in 995 during the Chōtoku era, and the resulting power vacuum propelled Fujiwara no Michinaga to dominance at court.
Chouban Yiwu Shimo
Chouban Yiwu Shimo (筹办夷务始末) is an official Qing dynasty compilation of diplomatic archives covering 1836 to 1874, completed in three parts between 1856 and 1880.
Chouchi
Chouchi (仇池) was a Di state of the Sixteen Kingdoms era, ruled by the Yang clan from a nearly impregnable mountain stronghold in Longyou, with Former and Later phases.
Choudhry Rahmat Ali (چوہدری رحمت علی)
Choudhry Rahmat Ali (چوہدری رحمت علی, 1897–1951) was a Punjabi Muslim activist who coined the name Pakistan in his 1933 pamphlet Now or Never and founded the Pakistan National Movement; he later proposed the Continent of Dinia and was marginalized in Pakistani historiography.
Chouhai Tubian
Chouhai Tubian (籌海圖編) is a thirteen-juan illustrated Chinese treatise on coastal defense against the wokou pirates, compiled in the early 1560s by Zheng Ruozeng under Hu Zongxian.