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 * Antiochus XII Dionysus : Antiochus XII was King of Syria between 87 and 82 BC. He appeared destined to regain the Seleucid Empire's former glory but after defeating Judea and running the Nabataeans close, he was killed at the Battle of Cana, causing nominator to remark, "History is a witness to countless moments where a leader was so close to victory then lost all due to a miscalculation and perhaps stupid courage which led him to fight in the front lines, getting killed in the process, leading his army to disband and his enemy to prevail."


 * Muhammad I of Granada : Muhammad I (1195–1273) was the founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain. He had an uneasy relationship with the neighbouring Kingdom of Castile, maintaining a relatively long peace with the Christians and even allying with them against the Muslims in Seville, before siding with Castile's Muslim rebellion in 1264. Castile finally annexed Granada in 1492. Muhammad's great architectural legacy is the Alhambra, his residence in Granada that was completed and extended by his successors.


 * Tower Hill Memorial (HJ Mitchell) : Harry Mitchell's latest article on war memorials designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens describes the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's only memorial located in London. The Tower Hill structure comprises a pair of memorials commemorating civilian merchant sailors and fishermen who were killed as a result of enemy action and have no known grave. The first of these memorials was unveiled in 1928 and the second in 1955. Harry took the article through A-class review before nominating for FAC.


 * U-1-class submarine (Austria-Hungary) (White Shadows) : This article on Austria-Hungary's initial attempt to acquire submarines for its navy has had a long and interesting journey to featured status. According to nominator White Shadows, "I've taken an old gem that wrote many years ago, added every exhaustible source I own and have come across, and doubled the size of the article over the course of my work. Bellhalla deserves a heck of a lot of credit for helping to get this article to A-class as well. I wish he were still active on Wikipedia to see it finally make it to FAC." The subs themselves were unusual, including such features as a diving chamber to allow access to the vessel underwater, and wheels to facilitate travel across the seabed!


 * Glycerius (Iazyges) : Glycerius was a Western Roman Emperor from 473 to 474. He was the commander of the palace guard before being elevated to emperor, but his reign was not recognised by the Eastern Roman Emperor, who nominated a replacement and invaded the west. Glycerius was without allies, and abdicated in June 474. He was made a bishop, but died either later that year or in 480.


 * SMS Preussen (1903) (Parsecboy) : Preussen was a German battleship which ship served with the High Seas Fleet during World War I, but saw limited action. She was the guard ship for the Danish straits during the Battle of Jutland, and missed the largest naval battle of the war. She was one of the few battleships that Germany retained after the war, but she was converted into a tender for minesweepers, and never served again as a warship. A section of her hull was retained for weapons testing, and it was eventually sunk by Allied bombers in 1945.


 * South Australian Mounted Rifles (Kges1901) : The article covers a colonial-era Australian mounted infantry unit which fought in the Second Boer War. The first contingent of South Australian Mounted Rifles was raised in 1899, followed by a second contingent in 1900. Both contingents saw combat before returning what was now the nation of Australia in 1901. Kges1901 developed this article after finding that coverage of "the Second Boer War was surprisingly incomplete".


 * Ersatz Monarch-class battleship (White Shadows) : The Ersatz Monarch-class were the final battleships designed for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and the first intended to be capable of operating in open seas. Four ships of the class were planned to be constructed between 1914 and 1919, but the very initial work on the first of the class came to an end within days of the start of World War I. While the Austro-Hungarians hoped to restart work on the ships, they were cancelled in 1917 when the war lasted for longer than had been initially expected. Four guns built for the ships were used in combat on the Italian Front.


 * Arab–Khazar wars (Cplakidas) : This article covers a series of conflicts fought in the Caucasus region between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates and their respective vassals between 642 and 799. The wars involved several major invasions between 642 and 737, and small-scale fighting thereafter. Cplakidas began work on the article in 2012, and recently completed it after finding a copy of a key reference.


 * William Edward Sanders (Zawed) : The latest in Zawed's series on New Zealanders who were awarded the Victoria Cross during World War I covers the only one of these men who achieved this honour for a naval action. Sanders was a merchant seaman before the war, and served in the Merchant Navy until 1916 when he joined the Royal Naval Reserve. He assumed command of a Q-ship in 1917, and received his Victoria Cross for seeing off a German submarine during his first patrol. He was killed when another German submarine sank his ship in August 1917.


 * 42nd Infantry Division Murska (Peacemaker67) : The 42th Infantry Division formed part of the Yugoslav Army at the time of the German invasion in April 1941. It was largely manned by Croat troops, whose hearts were not in the fight, as many saw the Germans as liberators from Serb oppression in the interwar period and a means to achieve independence. Like many Yugoslav formations, it surrendered after being encircled in the early days of the invasion. Almost all of its Croatian personnel were soon released by the Germans.