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History
History of Asia & Australasia
A Abbas
Abbas I (of Egypt)
Abbas I (of Iran)
Abbas II
Abbas, Mahmoud
Abbasids
Abd al-Hamid I
Abd al-Hamid II
Abdul-Aziz
Abdul Rahman, Tunku
Abdullah (king, Saudi Arabia)
Abdullah ibn Hussein
Abdur Rahman Khan
Abe Shinzō
Aboriginal Land Rights Acts
Aboriginal Protection Acts
Abu al-Fida
Abu Bakr
Abydos (Asia Minor)
Achille Lauro
Adams, William
Aga Khan
Aga Khan II
Aga Khan III
Aga Khan IV
Aguinaldo, Emilio
Ahimsa
Ahmad Shah
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali
Airlangga
Aisha
Akbar
Akihito
Al-Husseini, Abd al-Qader
Al-Maliki, Nouri Kamal
Al-Masri, Hikmat
Al-Qassam, Izz ad-Din
Alans
Ali, Haidar
Ali (of Arabia)
Ali Pasha
Amalric
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
Amritsar Massacre
An Lushan
Anastasius I
Anastasius II
Andronicus I Comnenus
Angkor
Annam
Antioch, Siege of
Antonius, George
Aoun, Michel
Aquino, Benigno Simeon, Jr.
Aquino, Corazon
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arab-Israeli War of 1973
Arab Republics, Federation of
Arabi, Ahmad
Arafat, Yasir
Aram
Ardashir I
Ardashir II
Ardashir III
Arens, Moshe
Arthur, Sir George
Ashikaga (family)
Ashqelon
Ashur
Asia Minor
Assad, Bashar al-
Assad, Hafez al-
Assassins
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Attila
Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw
Aung San, U
Aurangzeb
Australian Colonies Government Act
Australian Democrats Party
Avars
Ayub Khan, Muhammad
Ayutthaya, Kingdom of
Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam
B Ba Maw
Baath Party
Babur
Bactria
Baldwin I (of Constantinople)
Baldwin I (of Jerusalem)
Baldwin II (of Constantinople)
Baldwin II (of Jerusalem)
Baldwin III
Baldwin IV
Ballance, John
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias
Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias
Bao Dai
Baring, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer
Barton, Sir Edmund
Basil I
Basil II
Batu Khan
Bayar, Mahmud Celâl
Bayazid I
Bayazid II
Baybars I
Begin, Menachem
Belisarius
Ben-Gurion, David
ben Yehuda, Eliezer
Ben-Zvi, Itzhak
Berenice (princess)
Besant, Annie
Bethel
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Bigge, John Thomas
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
Black Dragon Society
Black Hole of Calcutta
Black September
Blamey, Sir Thomas Albert
Bohemond I
Bolger, James (Jim) Brendan
Bombay (state)
Bonner, Neville Thomas
Bose, Subhas Chandra
Bourke, Sir Richard
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Boxer Uprising
Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall
British India
British Malaya
Brooke, Sir James
Browne, Sir Thomas Gore
Bruce, Stanley Melbourne, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne
Bungaree
Bushrangers
Byzantine Empire
C Cambodia, Secret Bombing of
Camp David Accords
Caravansary
Carnatic Wars
Casey, Richard Gardiner
Castro, João de
Chakri Dynasty
Chalukyas
Chamoun, Camille
Champa, Kingdom of
Chan, Sir Julius
Chang Hsüeh-liang
Chauvel, Sir Henry George
Chen Boda
Chen Duxiu
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Yi
Cheng Ch’eng-kung
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Kai-shek
Chifley, Joseph Benedict
Chisholm, Caroline
Cholas
Chulalongkorn
Chun Doo Hwan
Cilicia
Cixi
Clark, Helen Elizabeth
Clerides, Glafkos John
Clive, Robert
Coen, Jan Pieterszoon
Colchis
Collins, David
Colonial-Aboriginal Wars
Comnena, Anna
Comnenus
Constantine VII
Constantine XI Palaeologus
Cooper, Dame Whina
Cowra Breakout
Cultural Revolution
Curtin, John Joseph
D Daimyo
Dajani, Aref
Dalai Lama
Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 10th Earl of
Dange, Shripat Amrit
Darling, Sir Ralph
Darwaza, Izzat Muhammad
Das, Chittaranjan
Dayan, Moshe
Deakin, Alfred
Deccan States
Delhi Sultanate
Demirel, Süleyman
Deng Xiaoping
Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji
Diem, Ngo Dinh
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of
Diponegoro
Doihara Kenji
Dong, Pham Van
Dupleix, Joseph François
Dutch East Indies
E East India Company
Eban, Abba
Ecevit, Bülent
Edo Period
Elam
Enrile, Juan Ponce
Erbakan, Necmettin
Ershad, Hossain Mohammad
Eshkol, Levi
Estrada, Joseph
Eunos Bin Abdullah, Muhammad
Eureka Rebellion
Evatt, Herbert Vere
Everest, Sir George
F Fahd
Faisal
Faisal I
Faisal II
Far Eastern Territory
Fatah
Fêng Yü-Hsiang
First Fleet
First Indochina War
Fisher, Andrew
Five-Power Treaty
Flynn, John
Four-Power Treaty
Fraser, Malcolm
French India
Fujiwara
Fujiwara Michinaga
Fukuzawa Yukichi
G Gajah Mada
Gandhi, Indira Priyadarshini
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gang of Four
Gaozu
García, Carlos Poléstico
Gawler, George
Gayoom, Maumoon Abdul
Gemayel, Amin
Geneva Accords
Genghis Khan
Ghaznavids
Giap, Vo Nguyen
Gipps, Sir George
Glubb, Sir John Bagot
Go-Daigo
Go-Toba
Goh Chok Tong
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna
Golden Horde
Goldstein, Vida
Gorton, John Grey
Great Leap Forward
Great Wall (China)
Grey, Sir George
Gudea
Gül, Abdullah
Gupta Dynasty
Gurkhas
Gürsel, Cemal
Guy of Lusignan
H Habash, George
Hall, Ben
Hamas
Hamengkubuwono IX
Han Dynasty
Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
Hara-Kiri
Hara Takashi
Hariri, Rafik al-
Hart, Sir Robert
Hashemite
Hashimoto Ryutaro
Hassan, Khaled (Abu Sa’id)
Hatta, Muhammad
Hau Pei-tsun
Hawke, Bob
Hayam Wuruk
Heke Pokai, Hone
Heraclius
Herzl, Theodor
Herzog, Chaim
Hezbollah
Hinkler, Bert
Hirohito
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hobson, William
Hōjō
Holland, Sir Sidney George
Holyoake, Sir Keith J(acka)
Homma, Masaharu
Hon Sui Sen
Hong Xiuquan
Hongi Hika
Hosokawa Morihiro
Howard, John Winston (prime minister)
Hoysala Dynasty
Hrawi, Elias
Hsin Dynasty
Hsu Hsin-liang
Hu Han-min
Hu Jintao
Hu Shi
Hu Yaobang
Hua Guofeng
Huangdi
Hughes, William Morris
Huizong
Hukbalahaps
Hulagu
Humayun
Hun Sen
Huns
Hunter, John (governor)
Husein ibn Ali
Hussein I
Hussein, Saddam
I Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz
Ibn Shaddād
Ignatyev, Count Nikolay Pavlovich
Ii Naosuke
Ikeda Hayato
India, Native States of
Indian National Congress
Indo-Pakistani Wars
İnönü, İsmet
Inouye, Kaoru
Intifada
Inukai, Ki Tsuyoshi
Iqbal, Sir Muhammad
Iran-Iraq War
Irene
Islam, Spread of
Islamic Revolution of Iran
Itō Hirobumi
J Jahangir
Jalahimah, Rahmah ibn Jabir al-
Janissaries
Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
Jiang Qing
Jiang Zemin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali
John I Tzimisces
John II Comnenus
John III Ducas Vatatzes
John IV (of Byzantium)
John of Brienne
John V Palaeologus
John VI Cantacuzene
John VII Palaeologus
John VIII Palaeologus
Justinian I
K Kaifu Toshiki
Kamikaze
Kang Sheng
Kang Yuwei
Kanishka
Kara Mustafa Pasha
Karst
Karzai, Hamid
Kassem, Abdul Karim
Katipunan
Kato Takaakira
Katsura Taro
Kautilya
Keating, Paul John
Kediri, Kingdom of
Kelly, Ned
Kerr, Sir John Robert
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalifa, Isa bin Sulman al-
Khalji Dynasty
Khamenei, Seyed Ali
Khan
Khatami, Mohammed
Khazars
Khitan
Khmer Kingdoms
Khmer Rouge
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khosrau I
Khosrau II
Kido Takayoshi
Kim Dae Jung
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il
Kim Young Sam
King Movement, Maori
King, Philip Gidley
Kingi, Wiremu
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward
Kirgiz Soviet Socialist Republic
Kirk, Norman Eric
Kishi Nobusuke
Koguryŏ
Koiso, Kuniaki
Koizumi Junichiro
Kojong
Kokoda Trail, Battle of
Komura, Jutaro
Konoe Fumimaro, Prince
Koo, Vi Kyuin Wellington
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha
Köprülü Muhammad Pasha
Korea
Korean War
Koryŏ Dynasty
Kublai Khan
Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kuomintang
Kurds
Kurusu, Saburo
Kushāna Dynasty
Kusunoki Masahige
L Labour Party (New Zealand)
Lang, John Dunmore
Lang, John Thomas
Lange, David Russell
Lapulapu (chief)
Lasseter’s Reef
Le Duan
Le Duc Anh
Le Dynasty
Lebanese Civil War
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee, Martin Chu-Ming
Lee Teng-hui
Legazpi, Miguel López de
Leo III
Lewis, Sir Essington
Li Dazhao
Li Hongzhang
Li Lisan
Li Peng
Liang Qichao
Liaquat Ali Khan
Likud
Lim Bo Seng
Lin Biao
Liu Shaoqi
Lodi Dynasty
Lon Nol
Long March
Lung-Shan Culture
Ly Dynasty
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius
M Mabini, Apolinario
Mabo v. Queensland
Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria
Macapagal, Diosdado
Macarthur, John
Macquarie, Lachlan
Magadha, Kingdom of
Magsaysay, Ramón
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Mahmud II
Majapahit, Kingdom of
Malacca, Kingdom of
Malay States
Malaya, Federation of
Malayan Emergency
Mana Motuhaka o Aotearoa
Manchuria
Mandarin
Mangu Khan
Mansūr, Abū Ja’far al-
Manuel I Comnenus
Manuel II Palaeologus
Mao Zedong
Maratha Confederacy
Marcos, Ferdinand Edralin
Marcos, Imelda Romualdez
Marsden, Samuel
Marshall, David Saul
Massey, William Ferguson
Matsukata Masayoshi
May Fourth Movement
McEwen, John
McMahon, William
Meiji
Meiji Restoration
Meir, Golda
Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Mikado
Minamoto Yoritomo
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Ming Dynasty
Mirza, Iskander
Molesworth Committee
Monash, Sir John
Mongkut
Mongol Empire
Morshead, Sir Leslie James
Mosaddeq, Mohammad
Muda Hassanal Bolkiah
Mughal Empire
Muhammad I
Muhammad II
Muhammad of Ghur
Muldoon, Sir Robert David
Murad I
Murad II
Murad III
Murad IV
Murayama Tomiichi
Musharraf, Pervez
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
My Lai Massacre
Myall Creek Massacre
N Nadir Shah
Naidu, Sarojini
Najibullah, Mohammad
Nakasone Yasuhiro
Nalanda
Nan Chao, Kingdom of
Nancy Bird Walton
Nanda Dynasty
Naoroji, Dadabhai
Narayan, Jayaprakash
Nasrallah, Hassan
Nasution, Abdul Haris
National Liberation Front (Vietnam)
National Party (New Zealand)
National Party of Australia
Native Police
Ne Win, U
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Netanyahu, Benjamin
Netherlands Indies
New Guinea, Territory of
New South Wales Corps
New Zealand Company
Ngata, Sir Apirana Turupa
Ngo Dynasty
Nguyen Dynasty
Nine-Power Treaty
Northern Expedition
Nu, U
Nunjiang
O Obuchi Keizo
Ochirbat, Punsalmaagiyn
Oda Nobunaga
Okuma Shigenobu
Olmert, Ehud
Opium Wars
Orhan
Osman
Osman II
Osmeña, Sergio
Ottoman Empire
Ozawa Ichiro
P Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the
Paekche
Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah
Pahlavi, Reza Shah
Pala Dynasty
Palestine, Ancient
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine, Modern
Palestinian National Authority
Pallava Dynasty
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi
Pandya Dynasty
Parameswara
Park Chung Hee
Parkes, Sir Henry
Patel, Vallabhbhai
Pathet Lao
Patten, Christopher Francis
Peel, Thomas
Pemulwuy
Peng Dehuai
People Power Movement
People’s Liberation Armed Forces
Peres, Shimon
Persian Gulf War
Petrov Affair
Phibun Songkhram
Phillip, Arthur
Phoumsavan, Nouhak
Plassey, Battle of
Pol Pot
Polish-Turkish Wars
Polo, Marco
Pontus (district)
Prajadhipok
Prasad, Rajendra
Prem Tinsulanonda
Pridi Phanomyong
Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhailovich
Pu Yi, Henry
Q Qaboos bin Said
Qianlong
Qin Dynasty
Qin Shihuangdi
Qing Dynasty
Qu Qiubai
Quezon y Molina, Manuel Luis
Quirino, Elpidio
R Rabin, Yitzhak
Rabuka, Sitiveni Ligamamada
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rahman, Mujibur
Rahman, Ziaur
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti
Rakhmonov, Imamali
Rama IX
Ramathibodi
Ramkhamhaeng
Ramos, Fidel Valdez
Rana Dynasty
Ranjit Singh
Rao, P. V. Narasimha
Rashid, Harun ar-
Rashtrakuta Dynasty
Red Guards (China)
Reeves, William Pember
Republican Revolution (China)
Rhee, Syngman
Rizal, José
Roh Tae Woo
Rolleston, William
Romulo, Carlos Peña
Ronin
Rowling, Wallace Edward
Roxas y Acuña, Manuel
Rudd, Kevin
Rum Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
S Saakashvili, Mikhail
Sabah, Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-
Said bin Taimur
Saigō Takamori
Saionji Kimmochi
Saito Makoto
Saladin
Saleh, Ali Abdullah
Samanids
Samurai
Sargon II
Sarit Thanarat
Sato Eisaku
Saud
Savage, Michael Joseph
Saw Maung
Scullin, James Henry
Sea Peoples
Seddon, Richard John
Selim I
Selim II
Selim III
Seljuks
Sepoy Rebellion
Shah Jahan
Shamir, Yitzhak
Shamshi-Adad I
Shang Dynasty
Sharett, Moshe
Sharif, Mian Muhammad Nawaz
Sharon, Ariel
Shastri, Lal Bahadur
Shimonoseki, Treaty of
Shipley, Jenny
Shivaji Bhonsle
Shogun
Shōtoku, Prince
Shulgi
Sihanouk, Norodom
Silk Road
Silla
Sima Qian
Sin, Jaime
Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
Sino-Japanese Wars
Six-Day War
Sjahrir, Sutan
Slave Dynasty
Song Dynasty
Soong
Soong, Charlie
Soong Ching-ling
Soong Mei-ling
Soong, T. V.
Souphanouvong
South Arabia, Federation of
Souvanna Phouma
Soviet-Afghan War
Soviet Central Asia
Spence, Catherine Helen
Sri Vijaya, Kingdom of
Suharto
Sui Dynasty
Sukarno
Sukarnoputri, Megawati
Süleyman I
Sultan
Sun Yat-sen
Sunay, Cevdet
Sung Chiao-jen
Sunga Dynasty
T Taiping Rebellion
Taira
Taira Kiyomori
Taliban
Tamerlane
Tanaka Giichi, Baron
Tanaka Kakuei
Tang Dynasty
Tanzimat
Tartary
Tata
Taxila
Te Heuheu Tukino IV
Te Kooti Rikirangi
Te Puea Herangi
Te Rauparaha
Te Wherowhero
Tenji
Tet Offensive
Thaksin Shinawatra
Than Shwe
Thani, Khalifa bin Hamad al-
Thanom Kittikachorn
Thant, U
Thieu, Nguyen Van
Tho, Le Duc
Thugs
Tiananmen Square Protest
Tiglath-pileser III
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Timurids
Tipu Sahib
Togo Heihachiro, Marquis
Togrul Beg
Tōjō Hideki
Tokugawa
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tran Dynasty
Treaty Ports
Trinh
Truganini
Tu Duc
Tughluq, Muhammad ibn
Tun Perak
Tung Chee-hwa
Twenty-One Demands
U U.S.-Iraq War
Umar I
Umayyad
Unaipon, David
Ungku, Abdul Aziz
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Arab Republic
United Malays National Organization
V Vajpayee, Atal Bihari
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
Vietnam War
Vietnamization
Vijayanagar
Vizier
Vogel, Sir Julius
W Wahid, Abdurrahman
Waitangi, Treaty of
Wan-Li
Wang Anshi
Wang Ching-wei
Wang Mang
War in the Pacific
Ward, Sir Joseph George
Weizmann, Chaim
Wen Jiabao
Wentworth, William Charles
White Australia Policy
Whitlam, (Edward) Gough
Wu Han
Wudi
Wynyard, Robert Henry
X Xia Dynasty
Xiongnu
Y Yagan
Yamagata Aritomo
Yamamoto Isoroku
Yamashita’s Gold
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yang Guifei
Yang-Shao Culture
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen, People’s Democratic Republic of
Yoshida Shigeru
Yoshihito
Young Ottomans for a Constitution
Young Turks
Yuan Dynasty
Yuan Shikai
Yudhoyono, Susilo Bambang
Yunus, Muhammad
Z Zahir Shah, Muhammad
Zayed
Zeng Guofan
Zeno
Zhang Guotao
Zhang Zhidong
Zhao Ziyang
Zhenla, Kingdom of
Zhou Dynasty
Zhou Enlai
Zhu De
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zia, Begum Khaleda
Zia ul-Haq, Muhammad
Zunyi Conference
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