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History

African & Middle Eastern History

Abbas
Abbas, Ferhat
Abbas I (of Egypt)
Abbas I (of Iran)
Abbas II
Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen)
Abbasids
Abd al-Aziz
Abd al-Madjid
Abd-el-Krim
Abdulhamid I
Abdulhamid II
Abdullah ibn Husein
Abdullah II
Abdurahman, Abdullah
Abu al-Fida
Abu Bakr
Abydos (Asia Minor)
Ādwa, Battle of
African National Congress
African Union
Africanus, Sextus Julius
Afrikaner Bond, Die
Afrikaner Nationalism
Ahidjo, Ahmadou
Ahmadu
Ahmed I
Ahmed II
Ahmed III
Aisha
Āksum, Kingdom of
Al Fatah
Al-Maliki, Nouri Kamel
Al-Masri, Hikmat
Algerian War of Independence
Ali Bey
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ali (of Songhai)
Allawi, Iyad
Almohads
Almoravids
Alooma, Idris
Amin, Idi
Andrews, William Henry
Andronicus I Comnenus
Anglo American Plc
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arab Nationalism
Arab Revolt
Arabi, Ahmad
Arafat, Yasir
Aram
Ardashir I
Ardashir II
Arens, Moshe
Ashanti (region)
Ashqelon
Ashur
Asia Minor
Assad, Hafez al-
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Attila
Avars
Awolowo, Obafemi
Ayub Khan, Muhammad
Azikiwe, Nnamdi

Baath Party
Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste
Baldwin II (of Jerusalem)
Baldwin III
Baldwin IV
Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
Bantustans
Barbary Coast
Barghash ibn Said
Barre, Muhammad Siad
Bashir, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-
Basil I
Basil II
Batswana
Bayazid I
Bayazid II
Baybars I
Bédié, Henri Konan
Begin, Menachem
Beit, Alfred
Belisarius
Ben Bella, Ahmed
Ben-Gurion, David
ben Yehuda, Eliezer
Ben-Zvi, Itzhak
Benin, Kingdom of
Benjedid, Chadli
Berenice (princess)
Berlin West Africa Conference
Biafra, Republic of
Biafran War
Biko, Stephen
Biya, Paul
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Sash
Black September
Boesak, Alan
Bohemond I
Bokassa, Jean Bédel
Bongo, Omar
Boni, (Thomas) Yayi
Bophuthatswana
Botha, Louis
Botha, P(ieter) W(illem)
Boumedienne, Houari
Bourguiba, Habib
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Bozizé, François
Brazza, Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de
British East Africa
British West Africa
Bryant, (Charles) Gyude
Buganda
Bunyoro
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha
Buyoya, Pierre
Byzantine Empire

Cabral, Amílcar
Cameroons
Cape Liberal Franchise
Cape Province
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of
Casablanca Conference
Caucasus Campaign
Central African Kingdoms
Cetshwayo
Chiluba, Frederick Titus Jacob
Cilicia
Colchis
Colenso, John William
Comnenus
Compaoré, Blaise
Constantine XI Palaeologus
Conté, Lansana
Cronjé, Piet Arnoldus
Cushite Kingdoms

E	Eban, Abba Ecevit, Bülent Edessa Elam Emir Erbakan, Necmettin Eritrean People's Liberation Front Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front Eyadéma, Faure Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Gnassingbé

Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
Fairbairn, John
Faisal I
Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
Faisal II
Faruk I
Fashoda Crisis
Fatimids
First, Ruth
Fischer, Abram Louis
French Equatorial Africa
French West Africa
Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward, 1st Baronet
Front de Libération Nationale
Fuad I
Fynn, Henry Francis

G	Gallipoli Campaign Gbagbo, Laurent Koudou Gcaleka Genghis Khan Ghana, Kingdom of Goldie, Sir George Gouled Aptidon, Hassan Gowon, Yakubu Great Trek Great Zimbabwe Griqua Guebuza, Armando Emílio Guelleh, Ismail Omar Gulf War Gumede, J(osiah) T(shangana)

J	Jabavu, John Tengo Jameson, Sir Leander Starr Jammeh, Yahya Janissaries Jawara, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of John II Comnenus John III Ducas Vatatzes John VIII Palaeologus Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen Jones, John David Rheinalt Joubert, Piet (Petrus Jacobus) Jugnauth, Sir Anerood

L	Lebanese Civil War Lembede, Anton Muziwakhe Likud Lobengula Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, 1st Baron Lumumba, Patrice Emergy Lunda Empire Luthuli, Albert John Mavumbi

Machel, Samora Moïses
Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie
Mahmud I
Mahmud II
Mahomed, Ismail
Maji Maji Uprising
Malan, Daniel François
Mali Empire
Mamelukes
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
Mansur, Abu Ja'far al-
Mascarenhas Monteiro, António
Masire, Quett Ketumile Joni
Matthews, Z. K.
Mau Mau
Mbeki, Govan Archibald Munyelwa
Mboya, Tom
Mehmed Köprülü Pasha
Meir, Golda
Menelik II
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Merriman, John Xavier
Mesopotamian Campaign
Mfecane
Michel, James Alix
Mobutu Sese Seko
Moffat, Robert
Mogae, Festus Gontebanye
Moi, Daniel Arap
Mondlane, Eduardo
Moors
Morocco Crises
Moshoeshoe I
Mossadegh, Muhammad
Mpande
Mswati
Mubarak, (Muhammad) Hosni
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel
Muhammad (?-1538)
Muhammad Ahmad Abd Allah
Muhammad Ali (1769-1849)
Muhammad II
Muhammad III
Muhammad IV
Muhammad V
Muhammad VI Vahdettin
Murad I
Murad II
Murad III
Murad IV
Murad V
Musa
Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta
Muslim Brotherhood
Mustafa I
Mustafa II
Mustafa III
Mustafa IV
Mutapa Kingdom
Mutazilites
Mutharika, Bingu wa
Muzorewa, Abel Tendekayi
Mwanawasa, Levy Patrick
Mzilikazi

O	Obasanjo, Olusegun Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Teodoro Obote, (Apollo) Milton Olmert, Ehud Omdurman, Battle of Oppenheimer, Harry Frederick Oppenheimer, Sir Ernest Orhan Osman Osman III Ottoman Empire Özal, Turgut

Q	Qaboos bin Said Qaddafi, Muammar al-

R	Rabin, Yitzhak Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rain Queens Ramaphosa, Matamela Cyril Rand Revolt Ravalomanana, Marc Rawlings, Jerry John Retief, Piet Rharabe Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of Rorke’s Drift, Battle of Rozwi Empire Ruanda-Urundi Rwandan Genocide

Sabah, Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-
Sadat, Anwar al-
Safavids
Said ibn Sultan
Saifawa
Saladin
Saleh, Ali Abdullah
Samory Touré
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Sasanians
Sassou-Nguesso, Denis
Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
Scott, (Guthrie) Michael
Scramble for Africa
Sekukuni
Seljuks
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
Shah
Shaka
Shamir, Yitzhak
Sharett, Moshe
Sharon, Ariel
Sharpeville Massacre
Shepstone, Sir Theophilus
Shoa
Sisulu, Walter
Sithole, Ndabaningi
Six-Day War
Slabbert, Frederik van Zyl
Slave Coast
Slavery in Africa
Slovo, Joe
Smith, Ian Douglas
Smuts, Jan Christiaan
Sobhuza II
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso
Sofala
Soga, Tiyo
Sokoto Caliphate
Somerset, Lord Charles Henry
Songhai
Soshangane
Sotho
South African War
South Arabia, Federation of
Soweto Uprising
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Stewart, James (1831-1905)
Steyn, Marthinus Theunis
Stockdale, Henrietta
Strijdom, Johannes Gerhardus
Suleiman I
Suleiman II
Sultan
Sundiata Keita
Suzman, Helen
Swahili States
Swazi Kingdoms
Sykes-Picot Agreement

Tambo, Oliver
Tandja, Mamadou
Taya, Maaouya Ould Sid' Ahmed
Theodore II
Timurids
Tippu Tib
Tolbert, William Richard, Jr.
Touré, (Ahmed) Sékou
Touré, Amadou Toumani
Transkei
Treurnicht, Andries Petrus
Tshombe, Moise Kapenda
Tsvangirai, Morgan
Tubman, William V(acanarat) S(hadrach)
Tukolor Empire
Tutu, Desmond Mpilo

U	Umar Usuman Dan Fodio Uthman ibn Affan

V	Van der Kemp, Johannes Theodorus Van der Stel, Simon Van Riebeeck, Jan Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Vizier Voortrekker Vorster, Balthazar Johannes

W	Wade, Abdoulaye War on Iraq Weizman, Ezer Weizmann, Chaim Welensky, Sir Roy Woods, Donald

X	Xuma, Alfred Bitini

Y	Yom Kippur War Young Turks

Z	Zayed Zenawi, Meles Zeno Zenobia Zeroual, Liamine Zimbabwe African National Union Zimbabwe African People's Union Zulu Wars Zululand Zuma, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zwangendaba

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