Znaim Armistice. 1809. Napoleon and Archduke Charles. Wagram Battle.

Zoë. 978-1050. Byzantine Empress 1028-. Married and murdered Romanus III. Crowned lover Michael IV and son Michael V. Married Constantine IX.

Zoroaster. Zarathustra. c628-551BC. Persian religious reformer, founder of Zoroastrianism. World is an eternal struggle between forces of good and evil.

Zosimus. 300. Alexandrian alchemist.

Zuccarelli, Francesco. 1702-88. Italian landscape artist. Influenced English. Florentine Royal Academy 1768.

Zuiderzee. Netherlands. 13C. Floods caused by storms. 1927-32 Dam built. 1930s Land reclaimed. 1944 Flooded by Nazis. 1946 reclaimed.

Zululand. c1800 Mtetwa Empire. 1843 British. 1897 Natal. Boer War.

Zutphen, Battle. 1586. Spanish victory in Holland.

Zwingli, Huldrych. 1484-1531. Swiss humanist and religious reformer. Zurich Reformation 1522. Urged priests to marry. Attacked Roman mass and worship of images. Swiss Evangelical Church. Killed in Kappel Wars.

Allen, Ethan. 1738-89. Led Green Mountain Boys in American Revolution. Failed to take Montreal, 1775.

Atlas. King of Titans, turned into a mountain to support the sky.

Baldwin, James. 1924-87. US writer of black experience. Another Country 1962. Go Tell it on the Mountain 1953.

Battenberg. Family name anglicized to Mountbatten.

Borglum, Gutzon. 1867-1941. US sculptor. Mount Rushmore 1941.

Echo. Greek mountain nymph.

Green Mountain Boys. 1770. Ethan Allen’s Vermont militia in American Revolution.

Kurds. Sunni Moslem Taurus, Zagros Mountain peoples of Kurdistan, central Asia. 1925 rebelled in Turkey. 1922,44,63 rebelled in Iraq. Persecuted in Turkey, Iraq, Iran. Saladin. Sevres Treaty.

Lycia. Mountain district of Anatolia. 43 conquered by Rome. Xanthos.

Mann, Thomas. 1875-1955. German/US novelist. Opposed Nazism. Buddenbrooks 1900. Magic Mountain 1927. Death in Venice 1929. Dr Faustus.

Paramountcy, Doctrine of. 19C. British East India Company claims right to intervene if any state is misgoverned.

Ramuz, Charles. 1878-1947. Swiss novelist: Terror on the Mountain 1925. Beauty on Earth 1927. Soldier’s Tale.

RCMP. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 1873 Formed as NW Mounted Rifles. 1920 =RCMP.

Rushmore, Mt. 1927~41. 4 US Presidents carved into SD mountain by Borglum.

Ticonderoga, Battle. 1775. Green Mountain Boys defeat British, capture Fort Ticonderoga.

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