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Mário Silva (athlete) Mário Silva (born 23 July 1961 in Madina do Boe, Guinea-Bissau) is a retired Portuguese runner who specialized in the 1500 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Indoor Championships behind Noureddine Morceli and Fermín Cacho.
Mário Silva (footballer) Mário Fernando Magalhaes da Silva is a Portuguese Soccer Player who currently plays for Cadiz in Spain in the Spanish La Liga he helped the team get to the La Liga for the first time in many years. He currently plays at Boavista FC
Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE (pron. IPA []; born December 7, 1924), Portuguese politician, was born in Lisbon, and graduated in history, philosophy and law from the University of Lisbon.
Mário Wilson Mário Wilson (born October 17, 1929 in Lourenço Marques, today's Maputo, Mozambique) is a retired football player and a former coach of the Portuguese squad, Académica de Coimbra, Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Vitória de Guimarães, among other football teams. As a player, he played for clubs such as Académica de Coimbra and Sporting Clube de Portugal.
Márta Rudas Márta Bajcsay Rudas-Antal (born February 14, 1937) is a former track and field athlete from Hungary, who competed mainly in the javelin. She competed for her native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where she won the silver medal in the javelin.
Márton Bukovi Márton Bukovi (10th December, 1903 - February, 1985) was a Hungarian football (soccer) manager who was instrumental in the development of the 4-2-4 football formation. While at the club Vörös Lobogó he modified the WM formation to a WW, which was later used by fellow countryman Gusztáv Sebes in the successful Hungarian national team of the early 1950s.
Más y Menos Más and Menos are fictional teenaged superhero characters from the Teen Titans animated television series, affiliated with the Titans East team. They are the only heroes on the series not to have originated in the comic book.
Mátyás Rákosi Mátyás Rákosi (born March 14, 1892 as Mátyás Rosenfeld – February 5, 1971) was a Hungarian politician and the leader of Hungary from 1945 to 1956 through his post as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party.
Mátyás Seiber Mátyás Seiber (May 4, 1905 – September 24, 1960) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived in England from 1935 onward. He studied in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály, and in 1928 gave the first academic lectures on jazz in Frankfurt.
Mátyás Szűrös Mátyás Szűrös (born September 11, 1933 in Püspökladány) is a Hungarian politician. He served as provisional President of the Republic from October 18 1989–May 2 1990, thus becoming the first President of the Third Hungarian Republic.
Máximo Gómez Máximo Gómez y Báez (18 November, 1836 in Baní, Dominican Republic - 17 June, 1905 in Havana, Cuba) was a Major General in the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence (1895-1898).
Mé-Zóchi District Mé-Zóchi is a district of São Tomé Province. Out of the seven districts that make up the equatorial Atlantic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, it is second largest in population with approximately 35,300 and covers approximately 122 square kilometers.
Mécanosphère Mécanosphère is a trans-national music/performance art group rooted in Portugal. Formed in 2003 by French drummer and DIY electronic musician Benjamin Brejon ( an ex-student of free jazz percussionist Sunny Murray ) and polyglot Portuguese vocalist Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, frontman of cult Portuguese rockers Mão Morta , the morphing line-up of Mecanosphere also congregates members of the American Radon Collective, such as tribal percussionist Scott Nydegger and saxophonist Steve MacKay ( of Iggy the Stooges ) as well as electronic multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Saldanha , bassist Henrique Fernandes and drummer Gustavo Costa, all from the prolific experimental scene of Porto gravitating around the Soopa and the Let’sGoToWar organizations.
MĂ©daille de la RĂ©sistance The French MĂ©daille de la RĂ©sistance (Resistance Medal) was awarded by General Charles de Gaulle "to recognise the remarkable acts of faith and of courage that, in France, in the empire and abroad, have contributed to the resistance of the French people against the enemy and against its accomplices since June 18 1940".
Médecins du Monde Médecins du monde (MDM), also known as Doctors of the World, is a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation created in march 1980 by 15 French doctors, including Bernard Kouchner after he had left Médecins sans frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders), the aid society which he had founded earlier in 1971. The impetus for the foundation of MDM was Kouchners split with MSF over certain aspects of MSF's policies.
Médecins Sans Frontières Médecins Sans Frontières () (English: Doctors Without Borders, its common name in the United States) is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease.
Médoc The Médoc is a French wine growing region, consisting of the area in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux. Its name comes from (Pagus) Medullicus, or "country of the Medulli", the local Celtic tribe.
MĂ©gane Renault Sport The MĂ©gane Renault Sport or MĂ©gane RS is a hot hatch designed and built by the French automobile manufacturer Renault. The base model MĂ©gane (Europe's #1 selling car for several years (In its class, or overall?
MĂ©chant MĂ©chant, also known as MECHANT or Mechant, is a Los Angeles-based alternative rock/power pop band fronted by lead singer Regina Zernay. Forrmer bassist for rock bands Halfcocked and Jam Balaya, Regina formed the band in late 2002/early 2003 to showcase her own material.
Méi Lánfāng Méi Lánfāng () (1894 - 1961) was one of the most famous (Beijing or Peking opera) artists in modern history, exclusively known for his qingyi roles, a type of dan roles. Méi Lánfāng is his stage name, and in Chinese it is generally considered a feminine name.
Mélange In geologic context, mélange is a large scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge above a subduction zone. The mélange typically consists of a jumble of large blocks of varied lithologies of altered oceanic crustal material and blocks of continental slope sediments in a sheared mudstone matrix.
MĂ©lanie de Lusignan MĂ©lanie de Lusignan was born in Monaco on January 18 1985 and is the daughter of Baroness Elisabeth-Anne de Massy and her second husband Nicolai de Lusignan. She lost her place in the line of succession to the Monegasque Throne on the death of Prince Rainier.
MĂ©lanie Doutey MĂ©lanie Doutey (born November 1978, France) is a French actress best known for her role in the film The Flowers of Evil, which also starred Nathalie Baye and El Lobo, the true story of a mole within the Basque terrorist organisation ETA.
Ménage à trois A ménage à trois is the French term describing a relationship or domestic arrangement in which three people, often a married couple and another lover, share a sexual relationship, although the relationship might or might not involve all three persons having sexual relations with each other.For example, Evans v.
Ménétrier's disease Ménétrier's disease (also known as hyperplastic hypersecretory gastropathy, and named after a French physician P. Ménétrier, 1859-1935), is a disorder in which the gastric mucosal folds (rugae) are enlarged (and the total weight of the stomach is increased), making the surface of the stomach look a bit like the brain gyri.
Méret Oppenheim Meret Oppenheim (October 6, 1913, Berlin—November 15, 1985, Switzerland) was a German-born Swiss, Surrealist artist, and photographer. Oppenheim is highly associated with the Dada movement because of her circle of friends.
Méric Casaubon (Florence Estienne) Meric Casaubon (August 14, 1599 - July 14, 1671), son of Isaac Casaubon, was an English classical scholar. Although biographical dictionaries (including the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica) commonly accentuate the name Meric, he himself did not do so.
Mérida cable car The Mérida Cable Car (Spanish: Teleférico de Mérida) is the world's highest (15,633 ft) cable car. Its base is located in the Venezuelan city of Mérida at an altitude of 1640 meters, and its terminus is on Pico Espejo, at 4765 meters.
Méringue Méringue (also mereng) is a kind of Haïtian music related to twoubadou and the Dominican merengue. It is a guitar-based style (unlike the primarily accordion-based merengue), and is generally sung in Haïtian Kréyòl.
MĂ©rode station MĂ©rode is a railway and metro station in Brussels, Belgium. The metro station is located in the municipality of Etterbeek (near the border between Etterbeek, the City of Brussels and Schaerbeek), under the "Porte de Tervueren/Tervuursepoort," which is the start of the "Tervurenlaan/Avenue de Tervueren", a famous avenue in Brussels.
Métabetchouan River The Métabetchouan River is a tributary of Lac Saint-Jean in the centre of the province of Quebec, Canada. It passes through the small town of Saint-André, and passes near Desbiens, where a cave called Le trou de la Fée is located.
MĂ©tal Hurlant MĂ©tal Hurlant is the name of a French magazine of science fiction and horror comics, created in December 1974 by cartoonists Jean Giraud (better known as MĹ“bius), Bernard Farkas and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet. It was published in the United States under the title Heavy Metal.
MĂ©tis Nation British Columbia The MĂ©tis Nation British Columbia, formerly MĂ©tis Provincial Council of British Columbia, is an aboriginal organisation representing MĂ©tis people in British Columbia, Canada. Its current president is Bruce Dumont.
MĂ©tis people (Canada) The MĂ©tis (pronounced "MAY tee", IPA: , in French or , in Michif ), also historically known as Bois Brule, mixed-bloods, Countryborn (or Anglo-Metis), are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Their homeland consists of the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, as well as the Northwest Territories.
MĂ©tis Population Betterment Act The MĂ©tis Population Betterment Act was an Act of the Government of Alberta in Canada, which created a committee of members of the MĂ©tis and the government to plot out lands for allocation to the MĂ©tis. Twelve areas were mapped out for this purpose, with the idea of creating an ongoing cooperation between the MĂ©tis and Royal representatives toward the improvement of quality of life for the MĂ©tis.
MĂ©tisse MĂ©tisse is an Irish/African Soul/Electronica band, formed by former Chapterhouse member Skully, and AĂŻda, a singer/choreographer from CĂ´te d'Ivoire. The band's name means mixture, and their music is a mix of African, Celtic, soul and electronic music.
Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia is volume nine in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
Métro Lausanne-Ouchy The Métro - Lausanne – Ouchy (LO) was a railway which linked the lakeside at Ouchy with the main line railway station in Lausanne and Flon. The system also includes a parallel system between the railway station and Flon
Métropole Télévision Métropole 6, known popularly as simply M6, is a French television service owned by a company called Métropole Télévision. M6 broadcasts an over-the-air SECAM signal, and is also carried on the Atlantic Bird 3 broadcast satellite.
MĂ©xico '68 MĂ©xico '68 is film that has been announced to be directed in the near future by Alfonso CuarĂłn, based on the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968. It has also been rumored that Diego Luna and Angelica AragĂłn among others will star in it.
México (state) The State of México (often abbreviated to "Edomex" from Estado de México in Spanish) is a state in the center of the nation of Mexico. It is bounded to the north by Hidalgo, to the east by Tlaxcala and Puebla, to the south by Morelos and Guerrero, and to the west by Michoacán.
MĂ©xico, MĂ©xico (album) MĂ©xico, MĂ©xico is a compilation album recorded for Mexico's soccer team that competed in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The album was released on May 16 2006 and contains the official song of the Mexican soccer team "MĂ©xico, MĂ©xico" by RBD.
Mädchen in Uniform Mädchen in Uniform (1931, 89 minutes, 16 mm), is a German feature-length film based on a novel by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with significant artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film. Winsloe also wrote the screenplay and was on the set during filming.
Mäkiluoto Mäkiluoto (Makilo in Swedish) is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Finland, just to the south of Porkkala peninsula. The whole island is an active military installation and access for civilians is heavily restricted.
Mälaren Valley Mälardalen (Swedish, literally "the Lake Mälaren Valley") is the easternmost part of Svealand, particularly the municipalities bordering the lake. The term is often used interchangeably for the extended capital region of Sweden.
Männer wie wir Männer wie wir ("Men Like Us"; US title Guys and Balls) is a 2004 sports comedy/romance by German-American director Sherry Hormann about a gay goalkeeper who assembles a gay-only soccer team to play against his ex-team which fired him out of homophobia.
Märkisch-Oderland Märkisch-Oderland is a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from the north clockwise) the district Barnim, the country Poland, the district-free city Frankfurt (Oder), the district Oder-Spree and the Bundesland Berlin.
Märklin Digital Märklin Digital was the first digital model railway control system. It consisted of a full system including locomotive decoders (based on a Motorola chip), central control, a computer interface, turnout decoders, digital relays and s88 feedback modules
Märzen Märzen is a traditional bottom fermented Austrian Lager based on the Schwechater Lagerbier developed in 1837 by Anton Dreher. The name was coined by Josef Sedlmayr, and the style was later popularized in Bavaria and by North American German immigrants.
Mästerskapsserien Mästerskapsserien was a short-lived Swedish football league played 1991 and 1992 to decide the Swedish Champions. The top six teams from Allsvenskan qualified for Mästerskapsserien while the four bottom had to play the promotion and relegation Kvalsvenskan league with four (1991) and two (1992) teams from Division 1.
Mätam Hussein ibn Ali's martyrdom on the 10th of Muharram—known as the Aashurah—plays a significant role in Twelver theology. This day is annually commemorated with grief and sorrow; some participate in ritualised beating of their chests.
Mæl Station Mæl Station is a railway station on Rjukanbanen and where the railway cars on the line were transferred to the railway ferry to Tinnoset. The station is located 16 km from Rjukan and on the mouth of the river Måna in Vestfjorddalen where the river runs into Tinnsjå.
Mößbauer spectroscopy Mößbauer spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique based on the Mössbauer effect. In its most common form, Mössbauer Absorption Spectroscopy, a solid sample is exposed to a beam of gamma radiation, and a detector measures the intensity of the beam that is transmitted through the sample, which will change depending on how many gamma rays are absorbed by the sample.
Möbius (crater) Möbius is a lunar crater that is located on the Moon's far side, beyond the eastern limb and northeast of the Mare Marginis. It lies less than a crater diameter to the northwest of the larger, 90-km-diameter Hertz crater, and just to the southeast of Popov crater.
Möbius ladder In the mathematical area of graph theory, the Möbius ladder Mn is a cubic circulant graph with an even number n of vertices, formed from an n-cycle by adding edges (called "rungs") connecting opposite pairs of vertices in the cycle. It is so-named because (with the exception of M6 = K3,3) Mn has exactly n/2 4-cycles (McSorley 1998) which link together by their shared edges to form a topological Möbius strip.
Möbius resistor A Möbius resistor is an electrical component made up of two conductive surfaces separated by a dielectric material, twisted 180° and connected to form a Möbius strip. It provides a resistor which has no residual self-inductance.
Möbius transformation article proofs This mathematics article is devoted entirely to providing proofs and backup support for claims and statements made in the article Möbius transformation. This article is currently an experimental vehicle to see how we might be able to provide proofs and details for math articles without cluttering up the main article itself.
Mödling Mödling is a municipality in, and the capital of, the eponymous Austrian district ("Bezirk") and located at , approximately 15 km south of the centre of Vienna. On May 15 2001 it had 20,400 inhabitants.
Möhlau Möhlau is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Together with the town of Gräfenhainichen and the communities of Jüdenberg, Schköna, Tornau and Zschornewitz, Möhlau forms the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Tor zur Dübener Heide.
Mölders (D186) D186 Mölders was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the second ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F.
Mölle Mölle (56°16′60″N, 12°30′0″E) is a small coastal town in southwestern Sweden in the province of Skåne. The town, population 722, is best known for its scenic harbour and its location adjacent to the Kullaberg Nature Reserve.
Möngke Khan Möngke Khan (蒙哥汗) (1208-1259, also transliterated as Mongke, Mongka, Möngka, Mangu) was the fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1251 to 1259. He was the son of Tolui and Sorghaghtani Beki, brother of Hulagu, and a grandson of Genghis Khan.
Mörk Gryning Mörk Gryning is a non-active Swedish Black metal band formed in 1993 by Goth Gorgon and Draakh Kimera. Draakh Kimera left the band in 2004 and Goth Gorgon dissolved the band in 2005, due to a lack of interest and the loss of inspiration.
Mörser Karl The Karl series of mortars (Mörser Karl) (Gerät 040) were built by the Germans during the Second World War. The vehicle moved on treads, but mostly for aiming as the engines provided very slow speed for huge fuel consumption; thus transporting was done by hanging the whole chassis between two huge railway bogies.
Mössbauer spectrometer A Mössbauer spectrometer is a device that performs Mössbauer spectroscopy, or a device that uses the Mössbauer effect to determine the chemical environment of a sample, typically Iron. See Mössbauer spectroscopy for more details.
Mötley Records Mötley Records is the current record label for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Albums the company has made with Mötley Crüe include Red, White and Crüe, Genaration Swine, and New Tatoo as well as all the original albums that have been remastered.
Möve The Möve was a microcar that had an egg-shaped body based on a Felber Autoroller chassis. 12 are said to have been built in Vienna, though the only one known is said to be in the Automuseum Aspang/Wechsel in Austria.
Møldrup municipality Møldrup municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 212 km², and has a total population of 7, 670 (2005).
Møller scattering Møller scattering is the name given to electron-electron scattering in Quantum Field Theory. The electromagnetic and electroweak forces that govern electron interactions produce wonderful effects like electricity and electric fields, and at the same time result in the three body problem in atomic Helium.
Møller-Plesset perturbation theory Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP) is one of several quantum chemistry post-Hartree-Fock ab initio quantum chemistry methods in the field of computational chemistry. It improves on the Hartree-Fock method by adding electron correlation effects using perturbation theory, usually to second (MP2), third (MP3) or forth (MP4) order.
Møn Møn is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007 it was a municipality in its own right but is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingborg.
Møns Klint Møns Klint, , is an impressive landmark and tourist attraction along the eastern coast of the Danish island of Møn in the Baltic Sea. The bright chalk cliffs stretch some 6 km from the park of Liselund in the north to the lighthouse in the south.
Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal is a county in the northernmost part of the Vestlandet region of Norway, and borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde.
Møysalen National Park Møysalen National Park is a national park located on Hinnøya in North Norway that preserves undisturbed coastal alpine landscape. The scenery is characterized by peaks jutting out of the ocean and fjords, the highest point is Møysalen (1262m).
MÂł (album) MÂł is the debut album from The Flashbulb. Stylistically, this album is very straightforward and Jordan's direct influences of fellow IDM artists such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher are much more apparent than in subsequent releases.
Mırra Mırra is a traditional type of bitter coffee from the Urfa region in Turkey, which is also sometimes correctly referred to as Arabic coffee because the name is derived from Arabic; mur meaning bitter. Since it is very bitter and dark, it is served in tiny cups without handles similar in size to Italian espresso cups.
Mā'ili, Hawai'i Māili is a town and census-designated place (CDP) in the Waianae District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. In Hawaiian, māili means "pebbly" referring to rounded stones at the shore.
Māori culture Māori culture is a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. With the growth of tourism and exposure of haka to international audiences on TV and at sporting competitions, Māori culture that was previously observed only in Māori society and social gatherings with a significant Māori aspect, is increasingly seen as fundamental to New Zealand culture as a whole.
Māori influence on New Zealand English Many loanwords from the Māori language, mainly bird, plant, fish and place names, entered New Zealand English in the 19th century, but the flow stopped abruptly around the beginning of the 20th century, according to New Zealand English specialist Elizabeth Gordon. Only in the last quarter of the 20th century, with a revival of interest in Māori culture, has the flow resumed, this time of cultural concepts.
Māori King Movement The Māori King Movement or Kīngitanga is a movement that arose among some of the Māori tribes of New Zealand in the 1850s to establish a symbolic role similar in status to that of the monarch of the colonising people, the British.
Māori language Māori or Te Reo Māori, commonly shortened to Te Reo (literally the language) is an official language of New Zealand. An Eastern Polynesian language, it is closely related to Tahitian and Cook Islands Māori; slightly less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Niuean and Tongan.
Māori music Māori music is music composed or performed by Māori, the native people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music styles, often integrated with poetry and dance, as well as modern rock and roll, soul, reggae and hip hop.
Māori mythology Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided. The rituals, beliefs, and the world view of Māori society were ultimately based on an elaborate mythology that had been inherited from a Polynesian homeland and adapted and developed in the new setting (Biggs 1966:448).
Māori politics Māori politics is the politics of the Māori people, who were the original inhabitants of New Zealand and who are now the country's largest minority. Modern Māori politics can be seen as a subset of New Zealand politics in general, but has a number of distinguishing features.
Māori Party [Māori Party, a political party] in [[New Zealand based around Māori citizens, formed around Tariana Turia, a former Labour Party member who had been a New Zealand Cabinet minister in the current Labour-dominated coalition government. Pita Sharples, a high-profile Māori academic, became co-leader.
Māori religion Māori religion, that is, the belief system of the Māori of New Zealand, conceived of everything, including natural elements and all living things as connected by common descent through whakapapa or genealogy. Accordingly, all things are conceived of as possessing a life force or mauri.
Māori seats In New Zealand politics, the Māori Seats, a special category of electorate, give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament. That parliament first set up Māori Seats in 1867, after Britain established Westminster-style parliamentary government in New Zealand in 1852.
Māori Television Service The Māori Television Service is a state sector organisation in New Zealand that was established on May 7 2003 under the Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakāta Irirangi Māori) Act 2003 to replace the Te Reo Māori Television Trust (Te Awhiorangi). The service's function under Section 8 of the Act is to 'promote te reo Māori me nga tikanga Māori through the provision of a high quality, cost-effective Māori television service, in both Māori and English, that informs, educates, and entertains a broad viewing audience, and, in doing so, enriches New Zealand's society, culture, and heritage.
Māori Toa The Māori, like the Japanese, had a distinct warrior class known as the Toa. The Toa rose out of the Iwi or tribes vying for land and coastal Trading Pā or Fort which was considered important to the growth of an Iwi.
Māras *In ancient Latvia, Māras or Māras diena (also Lielās Māras diena or Mātes diena) was a festival, celebrated on August 15, held in honor of Māra, the Latvian goddess. It marked the midpoint between Jāņi (the summer solstice in June) and Miķeļi (end of harvest season).
Mārikoriko In a Māori legend attributed by White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Mārikoriko (Twilight) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi (Shimmering heat) from the heat of the sun and the echoing cliff. She married Tiki, the first man, and gave birth to Hine-kau-ataata (Woman floating in shadows).
Māzandarān Province Mâzandarân (Persian: مازندران, prior to 1596 known as Tabarestan / Tapurestan / Tapuria Persian: تبرستان / تپورستان) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea in the north. Mazandaran was part of the ancient state of Hyrcania and former Tabaria.
Măcin Mountains Măcin Mountains are a mountain range in Tulcea County, Dobrogea, Romania. Part of Northern Dobruja Massif, they are located between Danube to the north and west, Taiţa river and Culmea Niculiţelului to the east and Casimcea Plateau to the south.
Mădăraş, Bihor Mădăraş (Hungarian: Madarász; Slovak: Madaras) is a four village-commune in Bihor County, Romania, 3 km away from Salonta, located nearby the Hungarian border - on the European road E671, and the Körös River canal. In 2002, it had 3,024 inhabitants.
Măiastru Sfetnic Măiastru Sfetnic is an album released by Negură Bunget in 2000. The original release is the (infamous) handmade digipak, which with no doubt is the blackest album design of all time, in fact the whole album is black (there were 1000 copies made).
Mălăieşti, Transnistria Mălăieşti () is one of the larger towns in the Administrative Region of Grigoriopol in the disputed territory of Transnistria (internationally recognised as part of the Republic of Moldova). Its name is derived from Romanian "mălai", which means "millet or maize flour", with suffix -eşti.
Mărginimea Sibiului Mărginimea Sibiului (Hungarian: Szeben-Hegyalja) is an area which comprises 18 Romanian localities in the south-western part of the Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, all of them having a unique ethnological, cultural, architectural and historical heritage.
Mărţişor Mărţişor is the traditional celebration of the beginning of the spring in Romania and Moldova, on 1 March. The day's name is the diminutive of March (in Romanian Martie), and thus means something like "little" or "dear March".
Mb (digraph) Mb (lowercase: mb) is a digraph present in many African languages where it is pronounced (IPA) or . It is also used in Irish to indicate the eclipsis of b and is pronounced ; for example ár mbád "our boat" (cf.
Mbabane Mbabane, with an estimated population of 70,000 (2003), is the capital of Swaziland. It is located on the Mbabane River and its tributary the Polinjane River in the Mdimba Mountains at 26°19' South, 31°8' East (-26.

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