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Amadou BambaPersonAmadou Bamba was a Senegalese Sufi teacher and founder of the Mouride brotherhood.- Amadu AmaduPersonAmadu Amadu was the third and last ruler of the Massina Empire, the Fula Islamic state in the inner Niger delta, from 1853.
- Amadu SekuPersonAmadu Seku was the son of Seku Amadu and the second ruler of the Massina Empire, the Fulbe Islamic state of the inner Niger delta, from 1845 to 1853.
- AmagePersonAmage was a Sarmatian queen known from the Stratagems of Polyaenus.
Amago clanPeople / groupThe Amago clan was a Japanese warrior family that rose from deputy governors of Izumo province for the Kyōgoku into one of the leading daimyō houses of western Honshu.
Amago HaruhisaPersonAmago Haruhisa was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period who led the Amago clan of Izumo from 1537, succeeding his grandfather Amago Tsunehisa.
Amago TsunehisaPersonAmago Tsunehisa was a Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period who rose from deputy governor to become master of Izumo, seizing Gassan-Toda castle in 1486.- Amago YoshihisaPersonAmago Yoshihisa was the last head of the Amago clan of Izumo.
- AmalabergaPersonAmalaberga was a niece of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great, the daughter of his sister Amalafrida.
AmalasunthaPersonAmalasuntha was the daughter of Theodoric the Great and ruled the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy as regent for her son Athalaric from 526.
AmalekitesPeople / groupThe Amalekites were a nomadic people of the Negev and Sinai described in the Hebrew Bible as descendants of Esau's grandson Amalek and as hereditary enemies of Israel.
Amalfi CoastPlaceThe Amalfi Coast is a stretch of coastline on the southern side of the Sorrento Peninsula, in the province of Salerno in southern Italy.
Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-MünzenbergPersonAmalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg was the wife of Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel and regent for her son William VI from 1637 to 1650.
Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-KyrburgPersonAmalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg was the wife of Prince Anton Aloys of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Amalric I of JerusalemPersonAmalric I was king of Jerusalem from 1163 to 1174.
Amami ŌshimaPlaceAmami Ōshima is the largest of the Amami Islands, between Kyushu and Okinawa, and is now part of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan.
Aman AndomPersonAman Andom was an Ethiopian general of Eritrean origin who became the first chairman of the Derg, the military committee that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie, in…
Amangkurat IPersonAmangkurat I was ruler of the Mataram Sultanate in Java from 1646 to 1677, son of Sultan Agung.
Amangkurat IIPersonAmangkurat II was ruler of Mataram from 1677 to 1703, the son of Amangkurat I.
Amangkurat IIIPersonAmangkurat III, also called Sunan Mas, was ruler of Mataram from 1703 to 1705.- Amangkurat IVPersonAmangkurat IV was ruler of Mataram from 1719 to 1726, succeeding his father Pakubuwana I.
AmanirenasPersonAmanirenas was a ruling queen, or kandake, of the Kingdom of Kush at Meroë.
AmanishakhetoPersonAmanishakheto was a ruling queen, or kandake, of the Kingdom of Kush at Meroë in the late 1st century BCE.
Amannisa KhanPersonAmannisa Khan (1526–1560) was a poet, musician and queen of the Yarkent Khanate as the wife of Abd al-Rashid Khan.- AmanubanStateAmanuban was a traditional Atoni kingdom in the interior of West Timor, Indonesia, centred on Niki Niki.
Amanullah KhanPersonAmanullah Khan ruled Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as emir and from 1926 as king.- AmanyanaboTermAmanyanabo, meaning owner of the town, is the title of the traditional rulers of the Ijaw city-states of the eastern Niger Delta, such as Kalabari, Bonny, Nembe and…
AmapáPlaceAmapá is a state in the far north of Brazil, between the Amazon estuary and French Guiana, with its capital at Macapá.
AmapalaPlaceAmapala is a port town on El Tigre island in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras.
Amar Singh IPersonAmar Singh I was Maharana of Mewar from 1597 to 1620, the son of Maharana Pratap.
Amar Singh of PatialaPersonAmar Singh was raja of Patiala from 1765 to 1782, grandson and successor of its founder Ala Singh.
Amar Singh ThapaPersonAmar Singh Thapa (1751–1816) was a Gorkhali general who led Nepal's westward expansion.- Amara DunqasPersonAmara Dunqas was the first sultan of the Funj Sultanate, ruling from about 1504 to 1533.
AmarapuraPlaceAmarapura is a former royal capital of Burma, now part of the city of Mandalay.- Amari Ngone Sobel FallPersonAmari Ngone Sobel Fall was a ruler of Cayor, a Wolof state that had been a vassal of the Jolof Empire.
- Amarna archiveWork / monumentThe Amarna archive is the collection of clay tablets found at Amarna, the site of Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten in Egypt.
Amarna lettersWork / monumentThe Amarna letters are a set of clay tablets from the 14th century BCE, discovered at Amarna in Egypt, recording diplomatic correspondence between Egyptian pharaohs and…- Amarna PeriodTermThe Amarna Period is the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, named after Amarna (Akhetaten), the new capital built by the pharaoh…
- Amarsinhji of WankanerPersonAmarsinhji was the ruler, with the title Raj Sahib, of Wankaner, a princely state of the Jhala Rajputs in Kathiawar, western India, from 1881 to 1948.
Amasis IIPersonAmasis II was pharaoh of Egypt from 570 to 526 BCE, of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
AmasraPlaceAmasra is a small port town on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, in Bartın Province.- AmastrisPersonAmastris was a Persian princess, niece of Darius III, who married Craterus and then Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica.
AmasyaPlaceAmasya is a city in northern Anatolia, Turkey, in the narrow gorge of the Yeşilırmak river.
AmatitlánPlaceAmatitlán is a town in the department of Guatemala on the shore of Lake Amatitlán, south of Guatemala City.- Amaury VI of MontfortPersonAmaury de Montfort was the eldest son of Simon de Montfort, leader of the Albigensian Crusade.
AmawariPersonAmawari was lord of Katsuren Castle on Okinawa in the mid-fifteenth century and a powerful rival of the Ryukyuan royal court.
Amaziah of JudahPersonAmaziah was king of Judah in the early eighth century BCE, the son of Joash of Judah.- AmazonPlaceThe Amazon is the vast rainforest and river basin of northern South America, most of which lies in Brazil.
- Amazonas RegionPlaceAmazonas is a region of northern Peru on the eastern slopes of the Andes, crossed by the Marañón and Utcubamba rivers, with its capital at Chachapoyas.
AmazonsPeople / groupIn Greek mythology the Amazons were a nation of women warriors living on the edges of the known world, often placed near the Black Sea or in Scythia.- AmbaghaiPersonAmbaghai was a khan of the Khamag Mongol confederation in the 12th century, successor of Khabul Khan and a leader of the Tayichiud clan.
AmbarisPersonAmbaris was a king of Bit-Burutash in Tabal in south-central Anatolia in the late 8th century BCE.
AmbarnathPlaceAmbarnath is a city in Thane district, Maharashtra, India, in the outer suburbs of Mumbai.
AmbergPlaceAmberg is a town in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria, Germany.
AmbhiPersonAmbhi was the king of Taxila in north-western India in the late 4th century BCE, known to the Greeks as Taxiles and also as Omphis.- AmbigatusPersonAmbigatus was a legendary king of the Bituriges in Gaul, known from the Roman historian Livy.
- AmbikapurPlaceAmbikapur is a city in northern Chhattisgarh, India, and the headquarters of Surguja district.
AmbiorixPersonAmbiorix was a king of the Eburones, a Belgic people between the Meuse and the Rhine, who ruled jointly with Catuvolcus.- AmbodifotatraPlaceAmbodifotatra is the main town of Île Sainte-Marie, or Nosy Boraha, an island off the north-east coast of Madagascar.
AmbohimangaPlaceAmbohimanga is a fortified royal hill town about 20 kilometres north-east of Antananarivo in the highlands of Madagascar.- AmbonPlaceAmbon is an island and city in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia and the capital of the province of Maluku.
Ambon IslandPlaceAmbon Island is an island in the Maluku archipelago of eastern Indonesia, home to the city of Ambon, capital of Maluku province.
Ambracian GulfPlaceThe Ambracian Gulf, now the Gulf of Arta, is an inlet of the Ionian Sea in north-western Greece.
Ambrogio ContariniPersonAmbrogio Contarini was a Venetian merchant and diplomat sent in 1474 as ambassador to the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan, to seek an alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
Ambrogio LorenzettiPersonAmbrogio Lorenzetti was a Sienese painter, the younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti.
Ambrogio SpinolaPersonAmbrogio Spinola was a Genoese nobleman who became the leading general of Spain's armies in the Low Countries.
AmbrosePersonAmbrose was bishop of Milan from 374 and one of the four original Doctors of the Latin Church.
Ambrosius AurelianusPersonAmbrosius Aurelianus was a Romano-British war leader of the 5th century who, according to Gildas, rallied the Britons against the Anglo-Saxon invaders after the end of…
Ambrosius BlarerPersonAmbrosius Blarer was a Protestant reformer from Constance who left his monastery in 1522 and led the Reformation in his home city.
Ambrosius EhingerPersonAmbrosius Ehinger was a German agent of the Welser banking house of Augsburg and the first governor of their colony of Klein-Venedig in Venezuela from 1529.
Amda Seyon IPersonAmda Seyon I was emperor of Ethiopia who acceded in 1314.
AmdoPlaceAmdo is the north-eastern region of the Tibetan plateau, now mostly in the Chinese province of Qinghai with parts of Gansu and Sichuan.- Ame PalPersonAme Pal was a Tibetan warrior who around 1380 unified the upper Kali Gandaki valley and founded the kingdom of Lo, now Mustang in northern Nepal.
AmecamecaPlaceAmecameca is a town in the State of Mexico, at the foot of the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.
Amédée-François LamyPersonAmédée-François Lamy was a French army officer who led the military escort of the Foureau–Lamy mission across the Sahara from Algeria to Lake Chad in 1898–1900.- AmeinoclesPersonAmeinocles was a Corinthian shipbuilder named by Thucydides, who records that he built four ships for the Samians about three hundred years before the end of the…
- Amel-MardukPersonAmel-Marduk was king of Babylon from 562 to 560 BCE, the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar II.
- Amelia TokagahahauPersonAmelia Tokagahahau Aliki was Queen of Uvea, on Wallis Island in the Pacific, from 1869 until her death in 1895.
Amelia Tokagahahau AlikiPersonAmelia Tokagahahau Aliki was queen, or Lavelua, of Uvea (Wallis Island) from 1869 until her death in 1895.
Amelia, UmbriaPlaceAmelia, the ancient Ameria, is a hill town in southern Umbria, Italy.
Amenemhat IPersonAmenemhat I was the founder of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, reigning for about thirty years from around 1985 BCE.
Amenemhat IIPersonAmenemhat II was the third king of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, reigning for more than thirty years around the turn of the twentieth and nineteenth centuries BCE.
Amenemhat IIIPersonAmenemhat III was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty who reigned for about 45 years in the 19th century BCE, the height of the Middle Kingdom.
Amenemhat IVPersonAmenemhat IV was the penultimate king of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, reigning for about nine years in the late nineteenth century BCE.- Amenhotep HuyPersonAmenhotep, called Huy, was the Egyptian viceroy of Kush, the 'King's Son of Kush', under Tutankhamun in the 14th century BCE.
Amenhotep IIIPersonAmenhotep III was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the fourteenth century BCE.
Amenirdis IPersonAmenirdis I was a Kushite princess, daughter of King Kashta and sister of Piye and Shabaka, who served as God's Wife of Amun at Thebes in the late 8th century BCE.
American Civil WarWar · 1861–1865The American Civil War was fought between the United States and the eleven southern states that seceded as the Confederacy to defend slavery.
American Colonization SocietyInstitutionThe American Colonization Society was an organisation founded in Washington in 1816 to settle free Black Americans in Africa.
American Popular Revolutionary AlliancePeople / groupThe American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) is a Peruvian political party founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in Mexico in 1924 as an anti-imperialist…
American RevolutionRevolution · 1765–1783The American Revolution was the rebellion of thirteen British colonies in North America, which declared independence in 1776 and won it in the war that ended with the…
American Revolutionary WarWar · 1775–1783The American Revolutionary War was fought between Britain and its rebel colonies in North America, which declared independence as the United States in 1776.
American SouthPlaceThe American South refers to the southern states of the United States, where plantation agriculture relied on enslaved African labour before the Civil War.
AmericasPlaceThe Americas are the continents of North and South America and the Caribbean.- Americo-LiberiansPeople / groupAmerico-Liberians are Liberians descended from the free and formerly enslaved African Americans who settled Liberia from 1822, together with Africans freed from slave…
- Ameyaw KwaakyePersonAmeyaw Kwaakye is a king of the Akan state of Bono, in the forest-savanna borderland of present-day Ghana, remembered in oral tradition.
AmfissaPlaceAmfissa is a town in Phocis, central Greece, below Mount Parnassus near Delphi.- AmharaPlaceAmhara is a highland region in north-central Ethiopia, the homeland of the Amhara people.
AmharicTermAmharic is a Semitic language of Ethiopia, written in the Ge'ez script, and the working language of the Ethiopian federal government.- AmidaPlaceAmida was a fortified city on the Tigris in upper Mesopotamia, now Diyarbakır in Turkey.