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  • Arab peoples

    Arab peoples

    Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب , DIN 31635: ʿarab , Arabic: [ˈʕɑ.rɑb] ; sg. عَرَبِيٌّ , ʿarabiyyun , pronounced [ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jʊn] ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North A

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  • Martha Leijonhufvud

    Martha Leijonhufvud

    Martha Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud (24 December 1520 in , Ekeberg, Närke – 15 January 1584 in ), known as Kung Märta (lit. ' King Martha ' ), was a politically active Swedish noblewoman. She was the s

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  • Sasanian dynasty

    Sasanian dynasty

    The Sasanian dynasty (also known as the Sassanids or the House of Sasan) was the house that founded the Sasanian Empire of Iran, ruling this empire from 224 to 651 AD. It began with Ardashir I, who

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  • Lake Mälaren

    Lake Mälaren

    Mälaren (UK: /ˈ m ɛ l ər ɛ n / MEL -ər-en, US: /ˈ m eɪ l ɑːr ə n / MAY -lar-ən,Swedish: [ˈmɛ̂ːlarɛn] or [ˈmɛ̂ːlaɳ] ), historically referred to as Lake Malar in English, is the third-largest freshwa

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  • Banu Shayban

    Banu Shayban

    The Banu Shayban (Arabic: بنو شيبان , romanized: Banū Shaybān ) is an Arab tribe, a branch of the Banu Bakr. Throughout the early Islamic era, the tribe was settled chiefly in al-Jazira Province an

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  • Turk Shahis

    Turk Shahis

    The Turk Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Turco-Hephthalite origin, that ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. They may have been of Khalaj ethnicit

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  • Paradise flycatcher

    Paradise flycatcher

    The paradise flycatchers (Terpsiphone) are a genus of birds in the family Monarchidae. The genus ranges across Africa and Asia, as well as a number of islands. A few species are migratory, but the

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  • Wilhelm Meise

    Wilhelm Meise

    Wilhelm Meise (12 September 1901 in Essen - 24 August 2002 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924 to 1928, where he did his Ph.D. dissertation on t

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  • Hammat Gader

    Hammat Gader

    This article needs additional citations for verification.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Ha

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  • Monarch flycatcher

    Monarch flycatcher

    The monarchs or monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks.MonarchidaeMascarene paradi

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