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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul (English: /ˈhɑːnɡuːl/ HAHN-gool; Korean: 한글; Hanja: 韓㐎) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl (조선글; 朝鮮㐎) in North Korea, is...

The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the...

A Jyotirlinga (Sanskrit: ज्योतिर्लिङ्ग, romanized: Jyotirliṅga, lit. 'lingam of light') or Jyotirlingam is a devotional representation of the Hindu god...

Chinese culture (simplified Chinese: 中华文化; traditional Chinese: 中華文化; pinyin: Zhōnghuá wénhuà) is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands...

Lingchi (IPA: lǐŋ.ʈʂʰɨ̌, Chinese: 凌遲), usually translated "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in China...

The withdrawal of the United States troops from Iraq began in December 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was mostly completed by...

Gomburza, alternatively stylized as GOMBURZA or GomBurZa, refers to three Filipino Catholic priests, Mariano Gómes, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, who...

The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan Crisis (Persian: غائلهٔ آذربایجان, romanized: Qā'ele-ye Āzarbāyejān) in the Iranian sources, was...

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of its centrally-planned economy, the Russian Federation succeeded it under president Boris...

Beef chow fun, also known as beef ho fun, gōn cháau ngàuh hó, or gānchǎo níuhé in Chinese (乾炒牛河) meaning "dry fried beef Shahe noodles", is a staple Cantonese...

JAC Group (Chinese: 江汽集团; officially Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Ltd.) is a Chinese automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer. The company...

Estonia–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Estonia and Russia. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established...

The Ingrians (Finnish: inkeriläiset, inkerinsuomalaiset; Russian: Ингерманландцы, romanized: Ingermanlandtsy), sometimes called Ingrian Finns, are the...

The Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers to the military occupation of the Republic of Latvia by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939...

Malayalam is one of the Dravidian languages and has an agglutinative grammar. The word order is generally subject–object–verb, although other orders are...

The Cangjie input method (Tsang-chieh input method, sometimes called Changjie, Cang Jie, Changjei or Chongkit) is a system for entering Chinese characters...

21°1′31″N 105°50′47″E / 21.02528°N 105.84639°E / 21.02528; 105.84639 Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwâː lɔ̀], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was...

Dastgāh (Persian: دستگاه) is the standard musical system in Persian art music, standardised in the 19th century following the transition of Persian music...

The Guardians of the Cedars (GoC; Arabic: حراس الأرز; Ḥurrās al-Arz) was a far-right ultranationalist Lebanese party and former militia in Lebanon. It...

The Sasanian army was the primary military body of the Sasanian armed forces, serving alongside the Sasanian navy. The birth of the army dates back to...