Tudi Gong, in Chinese religion, a god whose deification and functions are determined by local residents. The chief characteristic of a Tudi Gong is the limitation of his jurisdiction to a single place—e.g., a bridge, a street, a temple, a public building, a private home, or a field. In the case of

Franjo Tudjman was a Croat politician who led the country to independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and who was president until his death. Having joined the Partisans in 1941, Tudjman launched a military career in the Yugoslav army, rose quickly in rank, and in 1960 became one of its youngest

Ahhiyawā: …empire during the reign of Tudhaliyas IV (c. 1250–20 bce). With the fall of the Hittite empire, lack of textual evidence has left unknown the fate of the Ahhiyawāns after the 13th century bce.

Palmyra, ancient city in south-central Syria, 130 miles (210 km) northeast of Damascus. The name Palmyra, meaning “city of palm trees,” was conferred upon the city by its Roman rulers in the 1st century ce; Tadmur, Tadmor, or Tudmur, the pre-Semitic name of the site, is also still in use. The city

Mihály Vörösmarty: …of a well-known magazine, the Tudományos Gyűjtemény, and he was the first Hungarian man of letters to make a living—a modest one—from literature. In 1830 he became the first member of the newly founded Hungarian Academy and produced a truly great work, Csongor és Tünde, a symbolic fairy-tale play that…

John Taverner: …music, which is printed in Tudor Church Music, volumes 1 and 3 (1923–24), shows a variety, skill, range, and power that represent the climax of pre-Reformation English music. It includes 8 masses (e.g., The Western Wind), a few mass movements, 3 Magnificats, a Te Deum, and 28 motets. Taverner’s adaptation…

House of Tudor, an English royal dynasty of Welsh origin, which gave five sovereigns to England: Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509); his son, Henry VIII (1509–47); followed by Henry VIII’s three children, Edward VI (1547–53), Mary I (1553–58), and Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The origins of the Tudors can

Tudor style, type of British architecture, mainly domestic, that grafted Renaissance decorative elements onto the Perpendicular Gothic style between 1485 and 1558. The Tudor style in architecture coincides with the first part of the reign of the Tudor monarchs, which commenced in 1485 with the

Antony Tudor was a British-born American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who developed the so-called psychological ballet. He began his dance studies at 19 years of age with Marie Rambert and for her company choreographed his first ballet, Cross-Gartered (1931), based on an incident in

Henry VII was the king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty. Henry, son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort, was born nearly three months after his father’s death. His father

House of Tudor, an English royal dynasty of Welsh origin, which gave five sovereigns to England: Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509); his son, Henry VIII (1509–47); followed by Henry VIII’s three children, Edward VI (1547–53), Mary I (1553–58), and Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The origins of the Tudors can

Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford was the leader of the Lancastrians in Wales, uncle and guardian of Henry, earl of Richmond, afterward Henry VII of England. The second son of Owen Tudor, founder of the family’s fortunes, he was knighted in 1449 and created earl of Pembroke about 1452. Between 1456 and

Margaret Tudor was the wife of King James IV of Scotland, mother of James V, and elder daughter of King Henry VII of England. During her son’s minority, she played a key role in the conflict between the pro-French and pro-English factions in Scotland, constantly shifting her allegiances to suit her

Mary I was the first queen to rule England (1553–58) in her own right. She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England. The daughter of King Henry VIII and the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon, Mary as a child was a pawn

House of Tudor: …dynastic fortunes were established by Owen Tudor (c. 1400–61), a Welsh adventurer who took service with Kings Henry V and Henry VI and fought on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses; he was beheaded after the Yorkist victory at Mortimer’s Cross (1461). Owen had married Henry V’s…

Henry Cavill: The Tudors and films of the early 2010s: …his first leading role, in The Tudors, a cable series following the exploits of Henry VIII (played by Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Cavill portrayed Charles Brandon, a loyal courtier to the king. The series helped make Cavill a familiar face, and during its four seasons (2007–10) he also appeared…

Droupadi Murmu became the 15th president of India on July 25, 2022, when she was sworn in by the chief justice of the country’s Supreme Court. She is the first person from the tribal community, and the second woman after Pratibha Patil, to hold the office of president. She is also the first

Dragon Boat Festival, prominent and festive Chinese holiday that originated at least 1,500 years ago and features dragon boat races and rice dumplings. It is one of the three “festivals of the living,” along with the Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Known as Duanwu Jie in Mandarin and

Enrique González Martínez: …famous for his sonnet “Tuércele el cuello al cisne de engañoso plumaje” (“Wring the neck of the swan with the deceiving plumage”), an attack on the excesses of poetic modernism, published in Los senderos ocultos (1911; “The Hidden Ways”). His other poetic works include La palabra del viento (1921;…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Films: Enough Said and You Hurt My Feelings: …year she also starred in Tuesday, playing the mother of a terminally ill teenager.

Tuesday, third day of the week

the Moody Blues: …and yielded two hits, “Tuesday Afternoon” and the signature “Nights in White Satin.” On In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) they traded the orchestra for the Mellotron, an electronic keyboard that reproduces orchestral sounds.

Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club: …part of her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club (1993). The album garnered widespread critical praise, but it was the enormous popularity of “All I Wanna Do” that put Crow on the charts. At the 1994 Grammy Awards ceremony she received three awards: best record and best pop vocal performance…

sinter: Calcareous sinter, sometimes called tufa, calcareous tufa, or calc-tufa, is a deposit of calcium carbonate, exemplified by travertine. So-called petrifying springs, not uncommon in limestone districts, yield calcareous waters that deposit a sintery incrustation on objects exposed to their action. The cavities in calcareous sinter…

tufa cave, umbrella-like canopy formed as a calcium-carbonate-saturated stream plunges over a cliff. As the water is aerated, carbon dioxide is released, causing the calcium carbonate to be deposited. Tufa caves may completely bridge a river, forming a natural tunnel. One of the largest such caves

Tibet, historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called “the roof of the world.” It occupies a vast area of plateaus and mountains in Central Asia, including Mount Everest (Qomolangma [or Zhumulangma] Feng; Tibetan: Chomolungma). It is bordered by the Chinese provinces of Qinghai

tuff, a relatively soft, porous rock that is usually formed by the compaction and cementation of volcanic ash or dust. (The Italian term tufa is sometimes restricted to the soft, porous, sedimentary rock formed by the chemical deposition of calcite, or calcium carbonate, or silica from water as

volcano: Pyroclastic cones: …groundwater; and tuff rings and tuff cones, which are landforms built of compacted pyroclastic deposits. Tuff rings and cones resemble maars, but they have higher rims and are not filled with water. Tuff rings are only about 5 metres (16 feet) high, with craters roughly at ground level. Tuff cones…

volcano: Pyroclastic cones: …of magma and groundwater; and tuff rings and tuff cones, which are landforms built of compacted pyroclastic deposits. Tuff rings and cones resemble maars, but they have higher rims and are not filled with water. Tuff rings are only about 5 metres (16 feet) high, with craters roughly at ground…

history of medicine: Anesthesia and thoracic surgery: Indeed, when Théodore Tuffier, in 1891, successfully removed the apex of a lung for tuberculosis, this was the technique that he used; he even added an inflatable cuff around the tube inserted in the trachea to ensure a gas-tight fit. Tuffier was ahead of his time, however,…

ti: Ti, or ti tree (Cordyline australis), is a common ornamental. In the wild it is a tree up to about 12 metres (40 feet) tall with a crown of long leaves, but it is much shorter when grown as a houseplant. It has green or white flowers…

floor covering: The pile of tufted carpets is formed by tufts inserted into a backing with needles. In knitted carpets, the backing, locking, and pile yarns are all looped together. Flocked types are produced by systems in which adhesives are used to bind fibres or yarns to the backing fabric.

chemoreception: Smell: Tufted cells, which are similar to but smaller than mitral cells, and periglomerular cells, another type of interneuron cell, also contribute to the formation of glomeruli. The axons of all the receptor cells that exhibit a response to a specific chemical or a range of…

puffin: …southerly Pacific distribution is the tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), which is black with red legs and bill, a white face, and straw-coloured plumes curving backward from behind the eyes.

titmouse: …10 North American species, the tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor, formerly Parus bicolor) is the best known, ranging widely over the eastern United States, where its cheery whistled “peter-peter-peter” rings through deciduous woodlands, orchards, and suburbs. Often attracted to bird feeders, this handsome crested little bird relishes sunflowers, although insects make…

dress: Mesopotamia: …the wool combed into decorative tufts. These wraparound skirts were pinned in place and extended from the waist to the knees or, for more important persons, to the ankles. The upper part of the torso was bare or clothed by another sheepskin cloaking the shoulders. From about 2500 bce a…

Tufts University, private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher education, located in Medford where it meets Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. Tufts grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. Its largest academic division, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is made up of

Tufts University, private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher education, located in Medford where it meets Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. Tufts grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. Its largest academic division, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is made up of

Mark Sandrich: …cast included Colbert, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, and Paulette Goddard, who was nominated for an Academy Award. Here Come the Waves (1944) was a return to the more familiar territory of musical comedy; it featured Crosby and Betty Hutton. Sandrich’s other 1944 film was I Love a Soldier, a wartime…

tuftybell, any of about 260 species of annual and perennial herbs of the genus Wahlenbergia, of the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), mostly native to south temperate regions of the Old World. Ten species of the genus Edraianthus often are included in Wahlenbergia. The ivy-leaved bellflower (W.

New York: Relief: …of Oneida Lake lies the Tug Hill Upland, which is one of the least-settled parts of the state because of its poor soil and drainage and its excessive winter snow conditions.

tug-of-war, athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other across a centre line. In some forms of the game a tape or handkerchief is tied around the centre of the rope, and two others are tied six feet (1.8 metres) on either side. Three

Tugaloo River, river formed southeast of Tallulah Falls, Ga., U.S., at the confluence of the Chattooga and Tallulah rivers (which are there dammed to form Tugaloo and Yonah lakes). The river then flows southeast, serving as a portion of the Georgia–South Carolina state boundary. After a course of

business cycle: Investment theories: …this phenomenon, the Russian economist Mikhayl Tugan-Baranovsky, published a study of industrial crises in England in which he maintained that the cycle of investment continues until all capital funds have been used up. Bank credit expands as the cycle progresses. Disproportions then begin to develop among the various branches of…

tugboat, small, powerful watercraft designed to perform a variety of functions, especially to tow or push barges and large ships. In 1736 Jonathan Hulls of Gloucestershire, Eng., patented a boat to be powered by a Newcomen steam engine to move large vessels in and out of harbours. The first tugboat

Anatolia: The Cimmerians, Lydia, and Cilicia, c. 700–547 bce: …time the Cimmerian leader was Tugdamme (Lygdamis), who is identified in Greek tradition as the victor over Sardis in 652 and is also said to have attacked Ephesus. A nonaggression pact signed between Ashurbanipal and Tugdamme, if correctly dated after the mid-650s, confirms the Greek data concerning Tugdamme’s involvement in…

Tugela Falls, series of cataracts in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The falls are located near the source of the Tugela River in the Drakensberg mountains and are situated within Royal Natal National Park. Tugela Falls ranks among the world’s highest, with an uninterrupted leap of 1,350 feet

Tugela River, principal river of KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. It rises as a stream on the 10,000-foot- (3,050-meter-) high Mont-aux-Sources plateau near the merger point of the Lesotho–Free State province borders. Its upper course, which lies within Royal Natal National Park, flows through

Brno: Tugendhat House (1930), designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. The old town, with narrow streets, is enclosed by a belt of boulevards, beyond which are several modern housing projects.

Australian Capital Territory: Settlement patterns: of Woden–Weston Creek, Belconnen, Tuggeranong, and Gungahlin includes residential suburbs, a major regional centre, and local service centres. These districts were developed according to modern town planning and urban design principles in order to provide services and job opportunities in each urban district close to where people live. This…

Atlanta Falcons: …Anderson on offense and linebacker Jessie Tuggle on defense. The Falcons upset a 15–1 Minnesota Vikings team in the NFC championship game to earn their first Super Bowl berth, a loss to the Denver Broncos. The season after their Super Bowl appearance, however, the Falcons plummeted to a 5–11 record.

Ebrahim Alkazi: …Day in Ashadha), and Karnad’s Tughlaq (1964), the last of which is generally considered Alkazi’s finest.

South Asian arts: Islāmic architecture in India: period of the Delhi and provincial sultanates: …Delhi, ushered in by the Tughluq dynasty, is impoverished and austere. The buildings, with a few exceptions, are made of coarse rubble masonry and overlaid with plaster. The tomb of Ghiyās-ud-Dīn Tughluq (c. 1320–25), placed in a little fortress, has sloping walls faced with panels of stone and marble. Also…

Timur: Life: …the khan of nearby Kashgar, Tughluq Temür, who had overrun Transoxania’s chief city, Samarkand, in 1361. Tughluq Temür appointed his son Ilyas Khoja as governor of Transoxania, with Timur as his minister. But shortly afterward Timur fled and rejoined his brother-in-law Amir Husayn, the grandson of Amir Kazgan. They defeated…

coin: Ottoman Empire: …notable Ottoman innovation was the tughra, an elaborate monogram formed of the sultan’s name and titles, which occupies one side of the coin. Various European silver dollars also circulated extensively.

calligraphy: Arabic calligraphy: …to Turkish calligraphy is the tuğra (ṭughrā), a kind of royal cipher based on the names and titles of the reigning sultan and worked into a very intricate and beautiful design. A distinctive tuğra was created for each sultan and affixed to imperial decrees by a skilled calligrapher, the neshanı.

Toghrïl Beg was the founder of the Seljuq dynasty, which ruled in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia during the 11th– 14th centuries. Under his rule the Seljuqs assumed the leadership of the Islamic world by establishing political mastery over the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in Baghdad. The grandson of Seljuq,

calligraphy: Arabic calligraphy: …to Turkish calligraphy is the tuğra (ṭughrā), a kind of royal cipher based on the names and titles of the reigning sultan and worked into a very intricate and beautiful design. A distinctive tuğra was created for each sultan and affixed to imperial decrees by a skilled calligrapher, the neshanı.

Mongolia: Finance: …regulating the national currency, the tugrik (tögrög). The establishment of several private-venture and international banks in Ulaanbaatar was followed by periods of consolidation and relative stability, which opened up opportunities to set up services for commercial and private loans and personal banking and to introduce electronic banking, credit cards, and…

Rexford Guy Tugwell was an American economist, one of the three members of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s so-called Brain (or Brains) Trust. Tugwell attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, earning his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees (1915,

Kâtip Çelebi: Tuhfat al-Kibar fi Asfar il-Bahar (Eng. trans. of chapters I-IV, The Maritime Wars of the Turks) is a history of the Ottoman navy; Dustūr al-amal li islah al-khalal (“Instructions for the Reform of Abuses”) is a treatise suggesting remedies for the economic crisis in the…

Raja Ali Haji bin Raja Amhad: …rewrote and expanded as the Tuhfat al-Nafis (c. 1866; “Precious Gift”), which remains an invaluable source for the history of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

Travels, classic travel account by Ibn Baṭṭūṭah of his journeys through virtually all Muslim countries and many adjacent lands. The full title means “The Gift of the Beholders on the Peculiarities of the Regions and the Marvels of Journeys.” The narrative was dictated in 1353 to Ibn Juzayy, who

Ibn al-Abbār: His Tuḥfat al-qadīm, a major study of the Islāmic poets of Muslim Spain, is particularly important. He was also a humorist and a satirist of considerable ability. Ibn al-Abbār’s alleged disrespectful attitude toward al-Mustanṣir angered the ruler. The scholar’s fall from power and subsequent execution may…

Khāqānī: …poem in rhyming couplets), the Tuḥfat al-ʿIrāqayn (“Gift of the Two Iraqs”). It consists of five parts and is essentially a description of the poet’s travels.

Xiong Foxi: …“Young Man with a Hoe”), Tuhu (1933; “The Butcher”), and Guodu (1936; “River Crossing”; later rewritten and published as Houfang [1937; “Rearguard”]). His productions, which often used Western dramatic techniques and emphasized the importance of staging, won him wide renown; he described his experiences in the book Xiju dazhonghua zhi…

dui, type of Chinese bronze vessel produced in the late Zhou dynasty (c. 600–256/255 bc), it was a food container consisting of two bowls—each supported on three legs—that, when placed together, formed a sphere. The dui usually had two loop handles on either side of the rim of each bowl. The

Cao Yu: …to Jiang’an, where he wrote Tuibian (1940; “Metamorphosis”), a patriotic work in which he expressed the hope that China would throw off the constraints of the old ways and embrace the new. He followed it with Beijingren (1940; rev. ed. 1947; “Beijing Man”; Eng. trans. Peking Man), thought by many…

nature worship: Earthquakes: …of the underworld, such as Tuil, the earthquake god of the inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula, who rides on a sleigh under the earth. The earthquake is driven away by noise, loud shouting, or poking with the pestle of a mortar. Among peoples with eschatological (last times) views, earthquakes announce…

Samoa: Independence: …office outside the building, but Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, prime minister since 1998, announced that he planned to continue as caretaker until the dispute was resolved. In late June the Supreme Court ordered parliament to convene within seven days. After the head of state sought to delay the convening of parliament,…

Paris: The Triumphal Way: The Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), which fronted the Tuileries Palace (looted and burned in 1871 during the Commune), have not altered much since André Le Nôtre redesigned them in 1664. Le Nôtre was born and died in the gardener’s cottage in the Tuileries; he succeeded…

Tuileries Palace, French royal residence adjacent to the Louvre in Paris before it was destroyed by arson in 1871. Construction of the original palace—commissioned by Catherine de Médicis—was begun in 1564, and in the subsequent 200 years there were many additions and alterations. Among the French

Tuileries Palace, French royal residence adjacent to the Louvre in Paris before it was destroyed by arson in 1871. Construction of the original palace—commissioned by Catherine de Médicis—was begun in 1564, and in the subsequent 200 years there were many additions and alterations. Among the French

Tuira River, stream in eastern Panama, 106 miles (170 km) long. It rises in the Darién highlands (Serranía del Darién) and flows south-southeast then north and west past El Real de Santa María, where it receives the Chucunaque River, and then northwest to La Palma on the Gulf of San Miguel (Pacific

Tuira River, stream in eastern Panama, 106 miles (170 km) long. It rises in the Darién highlands (Serranía del Darién) and flows south-southeast then north and west past El Real de Santa María, where it receives the Chucunaque River, and then northwest to La Palma on the Gulf of San Miguel (Pacific

Tujia, any member of a people distributed over western Hunan and southwestern Hubei provinces in China. The Tujia numbered more than eight million in the early 21st century. Their language, which remains unwritten and is spoken by only a few hundred thousand of the total population, belongs to the

Tao Hongjing: …living practices, he produced the Tujing yanyi bencao, one of the major pharmacological works of China. Tao also effected a working synthesis of the private and individual practices of the Mao Shan literature with the 4th-century public rites of the Lingbao liturgies. His writings on the Lingbao pantheon reveal his…

Turkic peoples: …and linguistically connected with the Tujue, the name given by the Chinese to the nomadic people who in the 6th century ce founded an empire stretching from what is now Mongolia and the northern frontier of China to the Black Sea. With some exceptions, notably in the European part of…

fish sauce, in Southeast Asian cookery, a liquid seasoning prepared by fermenting freshwater or saltwater fish with salt in large vats. After a few months time the resulting brownish, protein-rich liquid is drawn off and bottled. It is sometimes allowed to mature in the sun in glass or earthenware

Tukārām was a Marathi poet who is often considered to be the greatest writer in the language. His abhaṅgas, or “unbroken” hymns, are among the most famous Indian poems. The son of a shopkeeper, Tukārām was orphaned in childhood. Failing in business and family life, he renounced the world and became

Battle of Tukaroi, (March 3, 1575), conflict between the forces of the Indian Mughal emperor Akbar under Munʿīm Khan and Dāʾūd Khan, the Afghan sultan of Bengal. The battle, which took place at a village between Midnapore and Jalesar in western Bengal, was decisive in scattering the Bengali army.

mental health: Early institutions: At about the same time William Tuke, a Quaker tea and coffee merchant, founded the York (England) Retreat to provide humane treatment. Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, also advocated protection of the rights of the insane. Despite this progress, more than half a century…

Mikhail Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military chief responsible for the modernization of the Red Army prior to World War II. Tukhachevsky was born to a noble family and graduated from the Alexandrovskoe Military Academy in 1914. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Army, and from 1918 he served as

Mikhail Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military chief responsible for the modernization of the Red Army prior to World War II. Tukhachevsky was born to a noble family and graduated from the Alexandrovskoe Military Academy in 1914. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Army, and from 1918 he served as

Bactria: …Iranian people and included the Tocharoi, whose name was subsequently applied to the whole area (Tocharian kingdom). In the 1st century ce the new rulers of Bactria extended their rule into northwestern India. That movement is associated with a group known as the Kushans, under whom the country became a…

Holkar dynasty: Tukoji Holkar, a distant relative whom she had appointed as commander of her forces, succeeded her two years later; on his death, in 1797, his illegitimate son Jaswant Rao seized power.

Tukulor, a Muslim people who mainly inhabit Senegal, with smaller numbers in western Mali. Their origins are complex: they seem basically akin to the Serer and Wolof peoples, and contacts with the Fulani have greatly influenced their development. They speak the Fulani language, called Fula, which

Tukulor empire, Muslim theocracy that flourished in the 19th century in western Africa from Senegal eastward to Timbuktu (Tombouctou). The founder of the empire, al-Ḥajj ʿUmar (c. 1795–1864), was a Tukulor cleric of the austere Tijānīyah brotherhood who about 1848 moved with his followers to

Tuktoyaktuk, hamlet, Inuvik region, northwestern Northwest Territories, Canada, lying on the Beaufort Sea. It is situated 20 miles (32 km) east of the Mackenzie River delta and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Inuvik town. Tuktoyaktuk (an Inuit word for “reindeer that looks like caribou”) was

South Sudan: Settlement patterns: …round hut known as a tukul. It has a thatched conical roof and is made of mud, grass, millet stalks, and wooden poles.

Tukulor, a Muslim people who mainly inhabit Senegal, with smaller numbers in western Mali. Their origins are complex: they seem basically akin to the Serer and Wolof peoples, and contacts with the Fulani have greatly influenced their development. They speak the Fulani language, called Fula, which

Tukulor empire, Muslim theocracy that flourished in the 19th century in western Africa from Senegal eastward to Timbuktu (Tombouctou). The founder of the empire, al-Ḥajj ʿUmar (c. 1795–1864), was a Tukulor cleric of the austere Tijānīyah brotherhood who about 1848 moved with his followers to

Tiglath-pileser I was one of the greatest of the early kings of Assyria, reigning c. 1115–c. 1077 bc. Tiglath-pileser ascended the throne at the time when a people known as the Mushki, or Mushku (Meshech of the Old Testament), probably Phrygians, were thrusting into Asia Minor (now Turkey). Their

Tiglath-pileser II was the king of Assyria (c. 965–c. 932 bc). He apparently ruled effectively, as a successor addressed him by a title reserved for mighty monarchs. Otherwise, little is known of the period other than that Assyria was beginning to emerge from its collapse of a century

Tiglath-pileser III was the king of Assyria (745–727 bc) who inaugurated the last and greatest phase of Assyrian expansion. He subjected Syria and Palestine to his rule, and later (729 or 728) he merged the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia. Since the days of Adad-nirari III (reigned 810–783 bc)

Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, the only extant Assyrian epic tale; it relates the wars between Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria (reigned c. 1243–c. 1207 bc) and Kashtiliashu IV of Babylonia (reigned c. 1232–c. 1225 bc). Written from the Assyrian point of view, the epic gives a strongly biased, though poetic,

Tukulti-Ninurta I, (reigned c. 1243–c. 1207 bc), king of Assyria who asserted Assyrian supremacy over King Kashtiliashu IV, ruler of Kassite-controlled Babylonia to the southeast, and subjugated the mountainous region to the northeast and, for a time, Babylonia. A promoter of cultic ritual,

history of Mesopotamia: Assyria and Babylonia until Ashurnasirpal II: Tukulti-Ninurta II (c. 890–884), the son of Adad-nirari II, preferred Nineveh to Ashur. He fought campaigns in southern Armenia. He was portrayed on stelae in blue and yellow enamel in the late Hittite style, showing him under a winged sun—a theme adopted from Egyptian art.…

Tanna: …3,556 feet (1,084 meters) at Mount Tukuwasmera. Well-watered, wooded, and with a tropical climate, Tanna is the most fertile island in Vanuatu and produces copra, coffee, and cattle for export. On the southeast coast, 3 miles (5 km) from Port Résolution, is Yasur, an active volcano that has been erupting…

Sándor Weöres: After the publication of Tűzkút (1964; “The Well of Fire”) in Paris, his poetry again became officially tolerated in Hungary. His later works included Psyché (1972), a collection of letters and poems by a fictitious 19th-century woman, and several verse dramas. He also edited Három veréb hat szemmel (1977;…