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CIDI (Xidi Zhijia) (company)

CiDi (希迪智驾), formerly Changsha Intelligent Driving Institute, is a Chinese company founded in 2017 that builds autonomous mining trucks and V2X products, listed in Hong Kong in 2025.

Cie Management

Cie Management is a pair of special-purpose entities controlled by BC Partners, not an independent firm, serving as general partner to the BC European Capital IX fund family.

Cielo Magno

Maria Cielo D. Magno is a Filipino economist and UP School of Economics professor who served as a Department of Finance undersecretary from 2022 until 2023.

Científicos

The científicos, a group of positivist intellectuals and statesmen, advised President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico during the late Porfiriato until the Revolution of 1910 ended their power.

CIF Southern Section

CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) is one of ten sections of the California Interscholastic Federation, the state body for high school sports, covering 565 schools across eight counties.

CIFI Holdings Group

CIFI Holdings Group (旭辉控股), also known as CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd., is a Shanghai-headquartered Chinese property developer, founded in 2000, that defaulted on offshore debt in 2022.

Çiftlik stele

The Çiftlik stele is a Neo-Hittite stone monument from Ovaçiftlikköy in Kayseri Province, Turkey, bearing a mid-8th-century BC Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription by a servant of the Tabalian ruler Tuwati.

CIH 6

CIH 6 is a Late Sabaic construction inscription from Maʾrib, Yemen, dated year 573 of the Himyarite era, recording a house built in one year and furnished with two carved lions.

CIII-DT

CIII-DT (virtual channel 41), also known as Global Toronto, is the flagship station of the Global Television Network in Toronto, Ontario, owned by Corus Entertainment. It signed on January 6, 1974 as CKGN-TV and transmits from the CN Tower.

Cilegon revolt

The Cilegon revolt, also known as the Geger Cilegon, was an 1888 uprising in Banten, Indonesia, led by Kiai Haji Wasyid against Dutch colonial rule.

Cilice

A cilice, also known as a hair shirt, is a penitential garment of rough goat's hair cloth, or in modern Opus Dei use a spiked metal chain worn against the skin.

Ciliushi Jiuwen

Ciliushi Jiuwen (次柳氏旧闻) is a Tang collection of seventeen anecdotes about Emperor Xuanzong's court, compiled by Li Deyu and presented to Emperor Wenzong in 834.

Cilles

Cilles was a Macedonian commander serving Ptolemy I who, after the Battle of Gaza, was surprised and captured by Demetrius Poliorcetes at Myus in 311 BC, then released with gifts.

Cilluka

Cilluka (चिल्लुक), recorded as Muninatha Chilluka-bhatara, was a 10th-century Shaiva ascetic born in Karnataka, regarded in a 943 Mysore inscription as an incarnation of Lakulin.

Cim Infrastructure

CIM Infrastructure is the infrastructure private equity platform of Los Angeles-based CIM Group, led by Jennifer Gandin since 2007 and investing $50 million to $150 million per deal.

CIM UII Onshore, L.P.

CIM UII Onshore, L.P. is a Los Angeles-based real estate private equity fund and feeder vehicle of the CIM Urban Income Investments master fund managed by CIM Group, first selling interests in 2016.

CIM Urban Income Investments Parallel - 2, L.P.

CIM Urban Income Investments Parallel - 2, L.P. is a Delaware private real estate fund formed in 2021 and managed by CIM Group from Los Angeles.

CIMB

CIMB, also known as CIMB Group Holdings, is a Kuala Lumpur-headquartered universal banking group serving over 30 million customers across 10 ASEAN and other markets.

Cimbri

The Cimbri (Κίμβροι) were a people from north Jutland who migrated with the Teutones and Ambrones, crushed Roman armies at Noreia (113 BC) and Arausio (105 BC), and were destroyed by Marius and Catulus at Vercellae in 101 BC; their Celtic or Germanic identity remains disputed.

Cimbrian War

The Cimbrian War (113–101 BC) pitted the Roman Republic against the migrating Cimbri and Teutones, ending in Roman victories at Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae under Gaius Marius.

CIMC Financial Leasing

CIMC Financial Leasing (中集融资租赁), renamed Shenzhen Financial Leasing (Group), is a Shenzhen financial leasing company founded in 2007, now majority owned by Shenzhen Capital Operation Group.

CIMIC Group

CIMIC Group, formerly Leighton Holdings until 2015, is an Australian engineering, construction, mining, and services group comprising CPB Contractors, Thiess, and UGL, under Germany's HOCHTIEF.

Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia

The Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia was a series of incursions by nomadic Cimmerians, driven south by the Scythians, who destroyed Phrygia and sacked Sardis before their defeat by Lydia.

Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia

The Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia was the nomadic Cimmerian attack on the Iron Age kingdom of Midas in central Anatolia, traditionally dated about 700–675 BC.

Cimmerian invasion of Urartu

The Cimmerian invasion of Urartu was a series of attacks by nomadic Cimmerians on the kingdom of Urartu in the Armenian highlands between 720 and 714 BC.

Cimmerian raid on Ionia and Aeolis

The Cimmerian raid on Ionia and Aeolis was an attack by Cimmerian nomads under King Lygdamis on Greek cities of western Anatolia in the 640s BC.

Cimmerian sack of Sardis

The Cimmerian sack of Sardis was the mid-seventh-century BC capture of the Lydian capital by Cimmerians under Lygdamis, in which King Gyges was killed; the citadel held out.

Cimmerian sack of the Artemision at Ephesus

The Cimmerian sack of the Artemision at Ephesus was the reported destruction of the sanctuary of Artemis by Cimmerian raiders under King Lygdamis in the 640s BC.

Cimmerians

Cimmerians (Gimirrai, Gomer, Kimmérioi): nomadic people, likely Iranian, of the 8th-7th centuries BCE, based in Transcaucasia and Anatolia; sacked Sardis in 644 BCE, raided Ionia, defeated by Alyattes of Lydia; archaeologically indistinguishable from early Scythians.

Ciñcamāṇavikā

Ciñcamāṇavikā, also spelled Ciñcī, is a female wanderer of Sāvatthī in the Pali Buddhist tradition who, at rival sectarians' urging, falsely accused the Buddha of impregnating her.