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Tufa (? - 492/493) was a Germanic warrior active in 5th century Italy. The name Tufa is East Germanic, and it is possible that he was Rugian. He was a...

horse-riding accident. Tufa Wugu's father Tufa Sifujian (禿髮思復鞬) was a great-grandnephew of the early Jin Dynasty (266–420) Xianbei general Tufa Shujineng, who...

Tufa Shujineng (Chinese: 禿髮樹機能; pinyin: Tūfà shùjīnéng; Wade–Giles: t'u-fa shu-chi-neng; died 279) was a Xianbei chieftain who lived during the Three Kingdoms...

Tufa Rutan or Tufa Nutan (Chinese: 禿髮傉檀; 365–415), formally Prince Jing of (Southern) Liang) ((南)涼景王), was the last prince of the Xianbei-led Chinese Southern...

Tufa Lilugu (Chinese: 禿髮利鹿孤; died April or May 402), formally Prince Kang of Hexi (河西康王), was a prince of the Xianbei-led Southern Liang dynasty of China...

UNESCO World Heritage list, for its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, and connected waterfalls. The national park was founded in...

water no longer mixes with surface waters. New tufa formations have served as a rare research example of tufa's rate of growth within a century. Maar volcanoes...

Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other...

Tufa Shujineng's Rebellion, also known as the Qin and Liang Provinces Rebellion (Chinese: 秦涼之變), was a tribal rebellion against the Western Jin dynasty...

Hotsprings and tufa mounds (61°56′36″N 127°10′49″W / 61.94333°N 127.18028°W / 61.94333; -127.18028 (Rabbitkettle Hotsprings and tufa mounds)) are the...

was changed from Tuoba to Tufa because one of the Tufa ancestors was born on a blanket, and in the Xianbei language, "Tufa" meant "blanket." All rulers...

extremely porous) deposits formed from ambient-temperature water are known as tufa. Travertine is a sedimentary rock formed by the chemical precipitation of...

brecciated tufa that was deposited in shallow-water and marsh environments.: 376  Finally, the uppermost 10 m "consists almost entirely of phytoclast tufa".: 376 ...

administration and became exceedingly arrogant. In 279, with the general Ma Long having finally put down Tufa's rebellion, Emperor Wu concentrated his efforts on Eastern...

the Northern Wei Tufa Poqiang (禿髮破羌, 407–479), a paramount general of the Northern Wei Yuwen Tai (宇文泰, 507–556), a paramount general of the state Western...

Paris catacombs. The ancient Christians carved the first catacombs from soft tufa rock. (ref)" (World Book Encyclopedia, page 296) All Roman catacombs were...

habitats which include submerged karst, such as Zrmanja and Krka canyons and tufa barriers, as well as underground habitats. The country contains three ecoregions:...

politician and military general of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period and Western Jin dynasty period. He was most known for ending Tufa Shujineng's Rebellion...

his chief general Tufa, surrendered to the Ostrogothic king. Theodoric had no reason to doubt Tufa's loyalty and dispatched his new general to Ravenna...

explorer John C. Frémont, comes from the impressive cone- or pyramid-shaped tufa formations found in the lake and along the shores. A remnant of the Pleistocene...