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Civil war of Dmitry and Andrei Alexandrovich
The civil war of Dmitry and Andrei Alexandrovich (Междоусобица Дмитрия и Андрея Александровичей) was a 1281–1293 struggle for the grand-princely throne of Vladimir between brothers Dmitry and Andrei, sons of Alexander Nevsky.
Civil War of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII
The Civil War of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII was a dynastic conflict between the brother kings of Ptolemaic Egypt, fought from about 170 to 163 BC.
Civil war of Shahu and Tara Bai
The civil war of Shahu and Tara Bai (शाहू-ताराबाई गृहयुद्ध) was the Maratha war of succession from 1707, ending with the state split between Satara and Kolhapur.
Civilian
Civilian, in international humanitarian law, is anyone who is not a member of a party's armed forces or a levée en masse participant; defined by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention and 1977 Additional Protocol I, protected against direct attack unless directly participating in hostilities.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps, first called Emergency Conservation Work, was a New Deal work-relief program that employed about 3 million young men on conservation projects from 1933 to 1942.
Civilista Party
The Civilista Party (Partido Civil) was a Peruvian political party founded in Lima in 1871 as an electoral club backing Manuel Pardo, who became president.
Civilization
Civilization, or human civilization, is a complex society marked by cities, centralized government, social classes, surplus food, and writing; coined in 1750s France, it remains a contested concept.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur) is Sigmund Freud's 1930 essay on the conflict between instinct and civilization, covering the oceanic feeling, instinctual renunciation, guilt, and the Eros-versus-death-drive struggle.
Civilization state
Civilization state: a state claiming to embody an ancient civilization rather than a mere nation; concept launched by Martin Jacques (2009) for China, elaborated by Zhang Weiwei, applied to India, Russia, Turkey, and Israel, and criticized as constructed legitimacy.
Civilizing mission
Civilizing mission (mission civilisatrice): nineteenth-century European imperial justification for bringing Christianity, schooling, and Western culture to colonized peoples; advanced especially under the French Third Republic andcriticized as cover for domination.
Civitas (think tank)
Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society is a London-based independent social policy think tank and registered charity founded in 2000 by David Green, based at 55 Tufton Street, distinct from the UT Austin Civitas Institute and Civitas investment firm.
Çivizâde Damadı Hâmid Efendi
Çivizâde Damadı Hâmid Efendi, born in Konya around 1494, was an Ottoman şeyhülislâm, the empire's chief mufti, from 1574 until his death in 1577, succeeding Ebüssuûd Efendi.
Çivizâde Mehmed Efendi
Çivizâde Mehmed Efendi (1530–1587) was an Ottoman scholar, son of şeyhülislam Çivizâde Muhyiddin Mehmed Efendi, who served as şeyhülislam from 1582 until his death from plague in 1587.
Çivizâde Muhyiddin Mehmed Efendi
Çivizâde Muhyiddin Mehmed Efendi (died 1547) was an Ottoman scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam under Süleyman the Magnificent from 1539 until his dismissal in 1542.
Çınaraltı
Çınaraltı was a weekly Turkist magazine of ideas, literature, and art published in Istanbul from 1941 to 1948, founded and edited by Orhan Seyfi Orhon.
CJ Cheiljedang
CJ Cheiljedang (CJ제일제당) is a South Korean food and bio-fermentation company, founded in 1953 as Samsung's first manufacturing business and known for the Bibigo brand.
CJ Group
CJ Group, also known as CheilJedang Group, is a South Korean conglomerate founded in 1953 by Samsung's founder Lee Byung-chul, spanning food, bio, logistics, and entertainment.
CK Asset Holdings
CK Asset Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-listed property and investment company holding Li Ka-shing's property businesses, UK pubs, hotels, and infrastructure joint ventures, created in 2015.
CK Birla Group
The CK Birla Group, renamed the CKA Birla Group in 2025, is an Indian multinational conglomerate controlled by CK Birla, operating in technology services, automotive, building products, and healthcare.
CK Hutchison Holdings (长江和记实业有限公司)
CK Hutchison Holdings (长江和记实业有限公司) is a multinational conglomerate holding company, controlled by Li Ka-shing's family and listed in Hong Kong, operating ports, retail, infrastructure, and telecoms in about 50 countries.
CK Prahalad
CK Prahalad (1941–2010) was an Indian-American management thinker and University of Michigan professor who developed core competence with Gary Hamel and the bottom of the pyramid.
CK-CS Ribbit Opportunity V, LLC
CK-CS Ribbit Opportunity V, LLC is a Delaware venture capital fund managed by Ribbit Management Company of Palo Alto, which raised about $213.8 million from 23 investors in 2019.
Clacton in the 2024 United Kingdom general election
Clacton constituency at the 2024 UK general election: Nigel Farage won the Essex seat for Reform UK with 46.2% and a majority of 8,405 over Conservative Giles Watling, on 58.7% turnout.
Clactonian
The Clactonian is a British Lower Palaeolithic core-and-flake industry lacking handaxes, named from Clacton-on-Sea, known from Swanscombe, Barnham, and Clacton, and debated as either a distinct tradition or a facies of the Acheulean.
Claes Dahlbäck
Claes Dahlbäck is a Swedish business executive who led Investor AB, the Wallenberg holding company, as CEO from 1978 to 1999, then chaired it until 2005.
Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt
Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt, also Claes Martensen, Dutch immigrant farmer who settled New Amsterdam around 1649, bought a Manhattan farm in 1655, and founded the Roosevelt family ancestral to presidents Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Claire C. Cecchi
Claire C. Cecchi, born Claire Claudia Cecchi in 1964, is a United States district judge in New Jersey appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Claire Castro
Claire Castro, also known as Clarissa Angeles Castro-Seechung, is a Filipino attorney and government official. She serves as the Palace Press Officer for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Claire Eagan
Claire Eagan, born 1950, is a senior US district judge in Oklahoma, appointed by George W. Bush and a FISA Court judge from 2013 to 2019.
Claire Fox
Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 1960), British writer and free-speech campaigner; former Revolutionary Communist Party member, founder of the Academy of Ideas, Brexit Party MEP 2019-2020, and House of Lords peer since October 2020.