People

1110–1166

Muhammad al-Idrisi was a twelfth-century geographer and cartographer who worked at the court of Roger II of Sicily. He compiled a major description and map of […]

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Muhammad al-Nasir was Almohad caliph from 1199 to 1213, ruling territories across North Africa and al-Andalus. He assembled a major army against the Christian kingdoms of […]

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Murad II was Ottoman sultan from 1421 to 1444 and again from 1446 to 1451. He defeated rival claimants and campaigns backed by Byzantium, fought Hungary […]

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1584–1656

Myles Standish was an English military officer who travelled on the Mayflower and became the principal military commander of Plymouth Colony. He organised its defences, led […]

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1209–1259

Möngke Khan was a grandson of Genghis Khan and great khan of the Mongol Empire from 1251 to 1259. Supported by Batu, he defeated rival branches […]

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1865–1948

Najib Nassar was a Palestinian journalist, editor and political writer who founded the Arabic newspaper Al-Karmil in Haifa in 1908. From its pages he criticised Ottoman […]

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c. 11th century BCE–c. 11th century BCE

Nathan was a prophet at the court of King David. He confronts David over the death of Uriah and later supports Bathsheba in securing Solomon’s accession. […]

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Nathanael Greene is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works […]

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1650–1687

Nell Gwyn was an English actress and mistress of Charles II. Her career from the Restoration stage to the royal court made her one of the […]

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1085–1136

Nest ferch Rhys was a Welsh princess, the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr of Deheubarth, who became the wife of the Norman lord Gerald de Windsor. […]

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