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Veii
223, 225, 226.
Veintimilla, Ignacio, Latin American leader
1671.
Velarde, Ramón López, poet
2241.
Velasco, Luis de, Spanish colonial administrator
905.
Velasco Alvarado, Juan, Peruvian leader
3553, 3554, 3554, 3555, 3555.
Velasco Ibarra, José, Ecuadorian leader
3567, 3567, 3567, 3568.
Velásquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, Spanish artist
604, 901.
Velásquez, Elizabeth, Salvadoran leader
3670.
Velázquez, Diego, Spanish conquistador
895, 901.
Velchova Rising, Bulgaria
1298.
Vélez
1672.
Velikiye Luki
2596.
Veltchev, Damyan, Bulgarian leader
2168.
Venaissin
470, 1032, 1033.
Vendée
1005.
Vendôme, duke of, César de Bourbon, French commander
659, 659, 738.
Venedi
See Slavs.
Veneti
228.
Venetia
222, 228, 403, 408, 410, 412, 1009, 1009, 1009, 1066, 1066, 1073, 1102, 1102, 1211, 1211, 1216.
Venetiaan, Ronald, Surinamese leader
3635, 3636.
Venetic
222.
Venezia Giulia
2635, 2925.
Venezuela
897, 897, 908, 909, 909, 911, 911, 974, 1650, 1650, 1650, 1650, 1651, 1671, 1672, 1675, 1675, 2241, 2267, 2269, 3475, 3594, 3594, 3600, 3604, 3605, 3606, 3606, 3676, 3719, 3727, 3760, 3771; independence of, 1650, 1651; republic of, 1650; oil industry, 2269, 2269; WWI, 2269, 2269; oil boom, 3596; and U.S., 3598, 3606.
Vengi
133, 326, 326, 327, 327, 328, 328, 336.
Venice
260, 281, 308, 312, 312, 313, 313, 314, 315, 402, 408, 431, 433, 438, 456, 460, 466, 472, 473, 492, 492, 498, 500, 501, 501, 502, 502, 505, 505, 507, 508, 508, 509, 510, 511, 528, 531, 532, 532, 532, 535, 535, 535, 536, 536, 537, 537, 537, 538, 560, 560, 562, 563, 564, 564, 565, 566, 567, 567, 568, 568, 568, 584, 597, 597, 601, 603, 605, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 610, 611, 611, 611, 611, 611, 612, 613, 614, 625, 625, 735, 735, 745, 745, 745, 745, 793, 796, 797, 797, 801, 801, 801, 802, 803, 804, 804, 805, 806, 813, 1092, 1093, 1093, 1093, 2683; peace of, 469; and Genoa, 473; uprising in, 474; war with Byzantine Empire, 502; treaty of, 505; wars with Ottoman Empire, 538, 538, 538.
Venizelists, Greece
2144, 2147, 2152, 2153, 2154, 2155.
Venizelos, Eleutherios, Greek leader
1136, 1280, 1280, 1283, 1743, 1743, 1743, 1743, 1743, 1758, 1758, 1758, 1759, 1784, 2144, 2144, 2145, 2148, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2154, 3211.
Venner, Thomas, English rebel
674.
Ventris, Michael
169.
Venus
640, 866.
Ver, Fabian, Philippine leader
4292.
Veracruz, earlier Vera Cruz
574, 901, 901, 911, 923, 1578, 1621, 1689, 2292, 2295, 2296.
Verbiest, Ferdinand, French missionary
854.
Verböczy, Stephen, Hungarian leader
635.
Vercellae
236.
Vercelli
537.
Vercingetorix, Gallic leader
240.
Verdandi, student society
1248.
Verdun
411, 615, 624, 685, 707, 1003, 1003, 1738, 1738, 1754, 1755, 1757, 1789, 1789, 1790, 1800, 1802, 2585; treaty of, 411, 413; battles of, 1754, 1754, 1754, 1766, 1800, 1801.
Vereeniging, treaty of
973, 1558.
Vergennes, count of, Charles Gravier, French leader
951.
Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro
239.
Vergina
182.
Vergniaud, Pierre, French leader
1003.
Vermandois
413, 450.
Vermeer, Jan, Dutch artist
596.
Vermont
1567, 1630, 2206, 3441.
Verneuil, battle of
522.
Verona
257, 262, 265, 403, 411, 416, 537, 537, 538, 538, 607, 607, 1960; diet of, 466; congress of, 1045, 1045.
Veronese, Paolo, Italian artist
607.
Véronne, Maria, women's rights activist
1914.
Verrazano, Giovanni de, Italian explorer
920.
Verres, Caius, governor of Sicily
238.
Verri, Gabriele, Italian jurist
744.
Verrocchio, Andrea del, artist
536.
Versailles
662, 662, 707, 711, 713, 728, 759, 907, 1001, 1001, 1003, 1188, 1234, 1698, 1698, 1698, 1708, 1708, 1724, 1724, 1784, 1784, 1784, 1784, 1817, 1821, 1832, 1882, 1902, 1964, 1973, 1973, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990, 2039, 2097, 2114, 2190, 2358, 2464, 2554, 2632; peace conference at, 1698, 2489, 2499.
Versinicia, battle of
440.
Verulamium
421.
Verus, Lucius Aurelius, Roman emperor
253, 254, 254, 254, 254.
Verus, Marcus Annius, son of Marcus Aurelius
253.
Vervins, treaty of
599, 603.
Vesalius, Andreas, Belgian anatomist
637.
Vesey, Denmark, U.S. black leader
1574.
Vesle River
1812.
Vespasian, Roman emperor
246, 246, 249, 251, 251, 251, 251, 251, 251, 251.
Vespucci, Amerigo, explorer
573, 573.
Vestal Virgins
268.
Vestini
222.
Vestre Party
2041.
veterans
1604.
Veysel, Aik, Turkish minstrel
3796.
Via Appia
223.
Via Aurelia
229.
Via Flaminia
229, 231.
Via Sacra
260.
Viazma
2593, 2596.
Vibhasha
131.
Viborg
1774, 2053.
Viborg Manifesto, and Russia
1264.
Vicenza
537, 538, 538, 607.
Vichy, French WWII government at
1901, 1916, 1916, 1917, 2234, 2521, 2526, 2527, 2556, 2557, 2586, 2586, 2590, 2592, 2612, 2614, 2624, 2839; and Germany, 1917, 1917, 1917, 1917, 1917; and Syria, 2377, 2377, 2382, 2382; and Southeast Asia, 2454, 2454.
Vickers, Harry, automotive pioneer
991.
Vicksburg, battle of
1587, 1588, 1588, 1588.
Vico, Giambattista, Italian scientist
645, 735.
Victor II, pope
467.
Victor III, pope
468.
Victor IV, antipope
469.
Victor Amadeus, duke of Savoy
600.
Victor Amadeus I, king of Savoy
612.
Victor Amadeus II, king of Sardinia
738, 738, 738, 738, 739, 739.
Victor Amadeus III, duke of Savoy
1009.
Victor Amadeus III, king of Sardinia
739.
Victor Emmanuel I, king of Piedmont and later of Italy
1066, 1067.
Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sardinia-Piedmont and later of Italy
1093, 1104, 1202, 1210, 1211, 1211, 1213, 1219.
Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy
1223, 1838, 2142, 2165, 2208, 2925, 2926.
Victoria, Australia
1489, 1490, 1490, 1492, 1492, 1492, 1494, 1494, 1495, 1495, 1496, 1497, 1497, 4309.
Victoria, Cameroon
1539.
Victoria, queen of England
1046, 1049, 1050, 1155, 1396, 1503, 1539, 1558; as empress of India, 1162, 1397.
Victoria, Guadalupe, Mexican leader
1687, 1687.
Victoria Falls, Africa
1508.
Victorianism
1050, 1142.
Victoria Nyanza
1508, 1509.
Vicuña Aguirre, Pedro Félix, Latin American leader
1662.
Vidal, Francisco A., Latin American leader
1667.
Vidaurre, José Antonio, Latin American leader
1662.
Videla, Gabriel González, Chilean leader
3508.
Videla, Jorge Rafael, Argentine leader
3492, 3493, 3496.
Vidin
810, 1299, 1329.
Vieche, Novgorod
488.
Vieira, Antônio, Brazilian scholar
918.
Vieira, João Bernardo, Guinea-Bissau leader
4327, 4351, 4351, 4351, 4351, 4351, 4352, 4379.
Vienna
254, 374, 542, 561, 617, 617, 622, 635, 662, 757, 757, 757, 779, 779, 793, 804, 985, 1026, 1073, 1073, 1087, 1087, 1087, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1089, 1089, 1090, 1090, 1090, 1090, 1090, 1092, 1104, 1133, 1140, 1238, 1284, 1284, 1746, 1771, 1771, 1779, 1817, 1835, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2018, 2023, 2591, 2676, 2745, 3028, 3030, 3031, 3031, 3035, 3038, 3039, 3040, 3185, 3289, 3406, 3779; Ottoman siege of, 575; treaty of 1864, 1100; treaty of 1866, 1216; treaty of 1809, 1267; treaty of 1818, 1410; conference, 1833.
Vienna, Congress of
734, 1032, 1032, 1033, 1066, 1070, 1071, 1233, 1257, 1267.
Vienna, University of
758.
Vienna–Istanbul Railway
1346.
Vienna system
1087.
Vienna-to-Constantinople Railroad
1289, 1304.
Vienne
264, 405, 453.
Vientiane
342, 845, 1409, 1409, 4094, 4098, 4103.
Vieques, island
3734.
Viera, Feliciano, Uruguayan leader
2252.
Viêt Cong (NLF)
2670, 3411, 3415, 3424, 4084, 4085, 4259, 4262, 4262, 4263, 4263, 4264, 4264, 4264, 4265, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4268, 4269, 4270, 4270, 4270, 4270, 4271, 4271, 4271, 4272, 4273, 4273, 4273.
Viète, François (Vieta), French mathematician
638.
Viêt Minh
2528, 2636, 4093, 4093, 4253, 4253, 4254, 4254, 4255, 4255, 4257.
Vietnam
51, 51, 136, 138, 153, 153, 155, 279, 281, 281, 397, 397, 397, 397, 397, 397, 397, 397, 397, 398, 398, 398, 398, 399, 399, 399, 399, 399, 399, 474, 837, 849, 849, 849, 849, 850, 853, 856, 863, 863, 863, 863, 863, 863, 863, 863, 1409, 1419, 1473, 1473, 2455, 2489, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2524, 2525, 2525, 2526, 2526, 2527, 2528, 2529, 2637, 2640, 2644, 2644, 2653, 2665, 2667, 2676, 2778, 2847, 2857, 3390, 4047, 4047, 4069, 4084, 4086, 4086, 4087, 4087, 4087, 4087, 4087, 4088, 4088, 4088, 4088, 4088, 4088, 4088, 4100, 4101, 4101, 4101, 4102, 4102, 4253, 4255, 4256, 4256, 4257, 4268, 4269, 4273, 4275, 4275, 4275, 4276, 4277, 4277, 4278, 4279, 4281, 4291; WWII, 2454; and Japan, 2459; Great Depression, 2525; Vietnam War, 2637; peace agreement, 2670; and U.S., 3409, 3409, 3411, 3411, 3433, 4100, 4253, 4255, 4256, 4256, 4261, 4264, 4264, 4264, 4264, 4264, 4265, 4265, 4265, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4266, 4267, 4267, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4268, 4269, 4269, 4269, 4269, 4269, 4269, 4270, 4270, 4270, 4270, 4270, 4271, 4271, 4271, 4271, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4272, 4273, 4273, 4273, 4273, 4273, 4275, 4275, 4276, 4277, 4278, 4279, 4280, 4280, 4281, 4281, 4282, 4282; and China, 4163, 4253, 4253, 4255, 4257, 4268, 4269, 4275, 4275, 4275, 4276, 4277, 4278; and South Korea, 4205; Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 4253, 4256; and France, 4253, 4254, 4254, 4254, 4255, 4255, 4255, 4256, 4256, 4256, 4257, 4280; Republic of Cochin China, 4254; and Russia, 4255, 4266, 4266, 4267, 4269, 4269, 4275, 4275; Vietnamization, 4271; Socialist Republic, 4274; Chinese, 4275, 4275; economic changes in 1980s and 1990s, 4276, 4276, 4276, 4276, 4276, 4280; makeup, 4277; MIAs, 4281. See North Vietnam; South Vietnam.
Viêt Nam Duy Tan Hoi, party
2524.
Vietnamese National Liberation Front
See Viêt Cong (NLF).
Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League
2524.
Vietnamese Workers' Party
4255, 4261.
Viêt Nam Quang Phuc Hoi, party
2524.
Viêt Nam Quoc Dan Dang, party
2525.
Vietnam War
2779, 2780, 3062, 3390, 3390, 3400, 3409, 3411, 3413, 3415, 3420, 4047, 4067, 4067, 4093, 4098, 4205, 4208, 4259, 4269, 4278, 4302, 4302, 4303, 4303, 4305, 4306, 4316; antiwar, 3413, 3413, 3413, 3414, 3414, 3414, 3415, 3416, 3417, 3417, 3418, 3419, 3419, 3419, 3419, 3420, 3422, 3425; Thailand, 3418; Laos, 3418; Cambodia, 3419, 3419, 3420; My Lai, 3422; cease-fire agreement, 3424; cost of war, 4273.
Viipuri
2583.
Vijayabahu I, Ceylonese ruler
341.
Vijayaditya III
327.
Vijayanagar
332, 333, 333, 337.
Vijayanagara Empire
331, 337, 830, 830, 830, 831, 833.
Vike-Frieberga, Vaira, Latvia
3350.
Vikings
412, 412, 422, 422, 422, 422, 426, 426, 426, 488, 769.
Vikramaditya, ruler of India
326.
Vikramaditya II, ruler of India
326, 327.
Vikramaditya VI, ruler of India
336, 336.
Vilcabamba
898, 899, 899, 899.
Villa, Francisco (Pancho), Mexican leader
1621, 2290, 2292, 2292, 2292, 2292, 2293, 2294, 2296, 2297.
Villafañe, Ángel, Spanish colonial administrator
905.
Villafavila, treaty of
601.
Villafranca
1211.
Villain, Raoul, assassin
1901.
Villalar, battle of
602.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor, composer
2241.
Villalobos, Ruy de, Spanish explorer
867.
Villani, Giovanni, historian
534.
Villanueva, José Cabino, Bolivian leader
2255.
Villa Occidental
1666.
Villarroel, Gualberto, Bolivian leader
2257, 3536.
Villa Viciosa
659.
Villazón, Eleodoro, Latin American leader
1669.
Villeda Morales, Ramón, Honduran leader
3694, 3694.
Villegagnon, Nicolás Durand de, French colonizer
914.
Villehardouin, Geoffroy I, prince of Achaea
508.
Villehardouin, Geoffroy II, prince of Achaea
508.
Villehardouin, Geoffrey de, historian
452.
Villehardouin, Guillaume, prince of Achaea
508, 564.
Villehardouins
564.
Villeneuve-Bargemont, French reformer
1061.
Villermé, Louis, French reformer
1061.
Villeroy, duke of, François, French commander
655, 658.
Villiger, Kaspar, Swiss leader
2978.
Villmergen Wars
748, 749, 749.
Villon, François, poet
524.
Vilna
557, 1029, 1708, 1794, 1817, 2085, 2086, 2086, 2087, 2087, 2114, 2125, 2593; confederation of, 633; dispute, 1817; diet, 1817; ghetto, 2084; plebiscite, 2088, 2117.
Vilnius
3300, 3353, 3354, 3354.
Vima Kadphises of Bactria
130.
Vimala Saha, Indian leader
331.
Vimeiro, battle of
1027.
Viminacium
428.
Vimy Ridge
1801.
Vinaroz
1931.
Vincennes, battle of
950.
Vincent, Stenio, Haitian leader
2316, 2316, 2316.
Vincent Ferrer, St.
525.
Vincent of Beauvais, scholar
452.
Vincenzo II, Gonzaga
612.
Vindex, Caius Julius, Roman legate
249.
Vindhyas
130, 132, 133.
Vindobona, Vienna
254.
Vinekh, Bulgarian ruler
439.
Vinland
281, 571.
Vio, Tommaso de, cardinal of Gaëta
613.
Viola, Roberto, Argentine leader
3493, 3493.
Viraballala III, ruler of India
337, 337.
Virarajendra, Chola, ruler of India
336.
Virchow, Rudolph, pathologist
1151.
Virginia
905, 924, 925, 926, 929, 932, 937, 937, 937, 937, 937, 937, 939, 940, 940, 941, 944, 947, 950, 951, 952, 1585, 1586, 1588, 1594, 1809; early settlements, 588, 924, 924, 924, 924; in the Civil War, 1587, 1587.
Virginia Company
924.
Virginia Convention, on independence
947.
Virgin Islands
954, 997, 2311, 2600; and U.S., 2208; Great Depression, 2311, 2312.
Viriathus, Lusitanian leader
233.
Virpazar
1297.
Virupaksha
326.
Visayan Islands
724, 867, 867.
Vischer, Peter, two German artists
616.
Visconti, Bernabò, lord of Milan
537, 537.
Visconti, Filippo Maria, duke of Milan
533, 535, 535, 537, 537, 538.
Visconti, Galeazzo II, lord of Milan
537, 537.
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, duke of Milan
537, 537.
Visconti, Gian Maria, ruler of Milan
537, 537.
Visconti, Giovanni
534.
Visconti, Matteo I, ruler of Milan
474, 537.
Visconti, Otto, archbishop of Milan
537.
Visconti, Stefano, lord of Milan
537.
Visconti, Valentina, wife of Louis of Orléans
537, 597.
Visconti family
535, 537, 537, 537, 537, 538.
Visegrad
560.
Vishinsky, Andrei Y., Russian leader
3095, 3264, 3267, 3268, 4198.
Vishnukundin dynasty
133.
Vishva Hindu Parishad, VHP
3977.
Visigoths
257, 260, 264, 265, 265, 265, 266, 402, 402, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 403, 406, 407, 407, 419, 429, 479, 525; in Spain, 418, 419, 420, 420.
Vistula River
402, 405, 482, 486, 776, 1739, 1792, 2114, 2621.
Visuddhimagga, Way of Purity
134.
Vital, Hayim, Jewish mystic
797.
Vitalian, Bulgarian commander
270.
Vitascope, prototype of modern film projector
990.
Vitebsk
2597.
Vitellius, Roman emperor
251, 251, 251, 251.
Viterbo, treaty of
564.
Viti Company
2530.
Vitkevich, Ivan, Russian envoy
1354.
Vitoria, Francisco de, Spanish scholar
604.
Vitruvius, architect
643.
Vittoria, battle of
1029.
Vittorio Veneto, battle of
1778.
Vivaldi, Antonio, Italian composer
735.
Vivaldo, Ugolino, explorer
281.
Vivekananda, Bengali swami
1398, 1701.
Vives, Luis, Spanish philosopher
604.
Viviani, René Raphaël, French leader
1140.
Vizagapatam
326.
Vizcaíno, Sebastián, Spanish explorer
904.
Vlad, Iulian, Romanian leader
3256.
Vladimir I, the Saint
438, 488, 488.
Vladimirescu, Tudor, Wallachia leader
1311.
Vladimir Monomakh, prince of Kiev
488.
Vladimir principality
489, 489, 489, 490.
Vladislav I, Ladislas
486.
Vladislav II, Ladislas
484.
Vladislav IV, Lokietek
555.
Vladislav VI, king of Poland and Hungary
555, 556, 560, 561.
Vladislavich, Sava, Russian envoy to China
853.
Vladislav Laskonogi, son of Mieszko III
487.
Vladivostok
956, 1259, 1418, 1422, 2067, 2498, 2498, 2596.
Vlora, Ismail Kemal, Albanian leader
1326, 1326, 1326.
Vlore
3200.
Vodun
3465.
Voeslau, treaty of
1287.
Vogel, Julius
1503.
Vogelweide, Walther von der, poet
459.
Voinovich, Vladimir, writer
3301.
Voitech, George, Bulgarian leader
496.
Voitinsky, Grigorii, Coummunist agent
2465.
Vojvodina
3177, 3178.
Voldemaras, Augustinas, Lithuanian leader
2085, 2090, 2090.
Volga River
278, 291, 488, 488, 489, 629, 784, 961, 2067, 2595.
Volhynia
555.
Volksgeist, soul of the people
1035.
Volksraad, Indonesia
2456, 2456, 2456, 2456.
Volksunie, Belgium
2822.
Volkswagen
3024.
Volkswehr, Austria
1998.
Volmar, Isaak, Austrian envoy
624.
Vologesus III, king of Parthia
254.
Volosin, Augustin, Carpatho-Ukraine leader
2032.
Volsci
222, 225.
Volstead Act, National Prohibition Act
2190.
Volta, Alessandro, scientist
735, 981.
voltaic battery
1041.
Voltaic pile, forerunner of modern battery
981.
Voltaire, French writer
645, 749, 789.
Volta River
870, 870, 873, 2555.
Volturno, battle of
1212.
Volunteers in Service to America, VISTA
3410.
Volunteers, Irish
See National Volunteer Convention.
Volynia
488, 489.
Vo Nguyên Giap, Vietnamese leader
2528, 2529, 4256, 4271, 4277.
Vonones, Iranian ruler
130.
Voortrekkers
1551, 1551, 1552.
Vorarlberg, Switzerland
1964.
Vorkuta
3315.
Voronezh
2595.
Voroshilov, K. Y., Russian leader
3274.
Vorovsky, Vaslav, Russian diplomat
1966.
Vorparlament, Prussia
1096.
Vossem, Peace of
652.
Vostok I, Russian space vehicle
2703, 3275.
voting rights
See suffrage.
Voting Rights Act, U.S.
3411, 3420.
Vouillé
407, 418.
Vouli, Greek parliament
3211.
Voyager space program
2641.
Vranitzky, Franz, Austrian leader
3037, 3039.
 
 
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