World history

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Middle eastern kingdom, formerly part of the Ottoman empire. Renamed Transjordan in 1921, it was under British protection from 1923 to 1946. It became an independent kingdom in 1946 and was renamed ...

Kamakura shogunate

History; World history

First military government of Japan. Following his victory in 1185 over the Taira clan in the Gempei War, Minamoto Yoritomo founded a bakufu (military government) at Kamakura, south of Edo (modern ...

Hakodate

History; World history

Seaport in southwest Hokkaido, Japan. Scene of Commodore Matthew Perry's meeting with the Bakufu convention (1854). Together with Shimoda, it was the first port open to trade with US ships and as a ...

Hussein, Saddam

History; World history

(1937-2006) Iraq's dictator and fifth president. On 16 July 1979, Saddam Hussein became chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, the decision making body in Iraq before the 2003 ...

Huns

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Turkic nomadic pastoralist peoples from central Asia who moved westward into Hungary in about AD 372, causing many Germanic tribes in eastern Europe to flee to the Roman empire. They forced the Roman ...

Havana

History; World history

Seaport and capital of Cuba. It was founded in 1519 by Spanish conquistadors and effectively became the capital of the Spanish colony in 1592 when the governor established his residence there. It was ...

Nippur

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Major city and the most important religious center in Sumeria, founded by 4000 BC. Nippur was the site of the temple of Enlil, the god responsible for sanctifying secular power, making control of the ...