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Aby LagoonPlaceAby Lagoon is a lagoon in south-eastern Ivory Coast, near the border with Ghana, linked to the Gulf of Guinea near Assinie.
Abylai KhanPersonAbylai Khan was a Kazakh ruler of the Middle Juz and a hero of the wars against the Dzungars, during which he was for a time held prisoner by them.
Academia Imperial de Belas ArtesInstitutionThe Academia Imperial de Belas Artes was the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, the main official art institution of the Brazilian Empire.- Academia SinicaInstitutionAcademia Sinica is the national academy of the Republic of China, founded in Nanjing in 1928 and moved to Taiwan after 1949, where it is based in Taipei.
Académie françaiseInstitutionThe Académie française is the French institution responsible for the French language, founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu under Louis XIII.- Academy of GenevaInstitutionThe Academy of Geneva was founded by John Calvin in 1559 to train Reformed pastors and teachers, with Theodore Beza as its first rector.
Academy of GundishapurInstitutionThe Academy of Gundishapur was a centre of learning in the city of Gundishapur in south-western Iran under the Sasanian Empire.
AcadiaPlaceAcadia was a French colony in north-eastern North America, covering parts of present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and neighbouring areas.
AcadiansPeople / groupThe Acadians are the descendants of French colonists who settled Acadia, in what are now the Maritime provinces of Canada, from the 17th century.
AcajutlaPlaceAcajutla is a port town on the Pacific coast of western El Salvador and the country's main seaport.
AcamapichtliPersonAcamapichtli was the first tlatoani, or ruler, of Tenochtitlan, reigning c. 1376–1395.
Acanthus (Greece)PlaceAcanthus was an ancient Greek city on the Chalcidice peninsula in northern Greece, near the isthmus of Mount Athos, founded by colonists from Andros around 655 BCE.
AcapulcoPlaceAcapulco is a port on the Pacific coast of Mexico.- AcarnaniaPlaceAcarnania is a region of western Greece between the Ambracian Gulf, the Achelous river and the Ionian Sea.
Accademia del CimentoInstitutionThe Accademia del Cimento was a scientific society founded in Florence in 1657 by Grand Duke Ferdinando II and his brother Leopoldo de' Medici, followers of Galileo.
Accademia della CruscaInstitutionThe Accademia della Crusca is a Florentine academy founded in the early 1580s to study and preserve the Italian language.
Accessory Transit CompanyInstitutionThe Accessory Transit Company was an American firm founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt that from 1851 carried travellers bound for California across Nicaragua, by steamboat…
Acciaiuoli familyPeople / groupThe Acciaiuoli were a Florentine family of merchant-bankers who rose to prominence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
AccraPlaceAccra is the capital of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea.- Accuta VikkantaPersonAccuta Vikkanta was a king of the Kalabhra family in the Kaveri region of southern India, known from the Pali writings of the Buddhist scholar Buddhadatta in the 5th…
AcehPlaceAceh is the northernmost province of Indonesia, at the tip of Sumatra, with its capital at Banda Aceh.
Aceh RiverPlaceThe Aceh River, in Indonesian Krueng Aceh, flows north through the province of Aceh at the northern tip of Sumatra and reaches the sea at Banda Aceh.
Aceh WarWar · 1873–1904The Aceh War was the long conflict between the Netherlands and the Aceh Sultanate in northern Sumatra, begun by a Dutch invasion in 1873.
AcemhöyükPlaceAcemhöyük is a large settlement mound near Aksaray in central Turkey, occupied from the Early Bronze Age.- Acfred, Duke of AquitainePersonAcfred was duke of Aquitaine and count of Auvergne from 926 until his death in 927, succeeding his brother William II.
AchaeaPlaceAchaea is a region in the northern Peloponnese of Greece, along the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth, with its chief city at Patras.
Achaean WarWar · 146 BCEThe Achaean War of 146 BCE was the conflict in which Rome crushed the Achaean League and its allies in southern Greece.- Achaeans (Achaea)People / groupThe Achaeans of the historical period were the people of Achaea, the strip of the northern Peloponnese along the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth.
Achaeans (Homer)People / groupThe Achaeans are the Greeks of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; it is the poet's most common collective name, alongside Danaans and Argives, for the army that besieged Troy.
Achaemenid EmpireStateThe Achaemenid Empire was the first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE and stretching at its height from the Aegean to the Indus.
Achaeus (general)PersonAchaeus was a Seleucid general and a cousin of Antiochus III who restored Seleucid control of Asia Minor in the 220s BCE.
AchalmPlaceThe Achalm is a hill of 707 metres on the edge of the Swabian Jura above Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg.
AchalpurPlaceAchalpur, historically Ellichpur, is a town in the Amravati district of Maharashtra, India.- Achelous (river)PlaceThe Achelous is the longest river of western Greece, flowing about 220 kilometres from the Pindus mountains to the Ionian Sea.
AchillesPersonAchilles is the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War in Greek legend and the central figure of Homer's Iliad.
Achimota SchoolInstitutionAchimota School is a boarding school near Accra, Ghana, founded in the 1920s by Governor Gordon Guggisberg, the Reverend Alexander Fraser and James Kwegyir Aggrey and…
Achirimbi IIPersonAchirimbi II was Fon of Bafut, a kingdom in the Grassfields of north-western Cameroon, from 1932 to 1968.
AcholiPeople / groupThe Acholi are a Nilotic, Luo-speaking people of northern Uganda and southern South Sudan.
AchterhoekPlaceThe Achterhoek ('back corner') is a rural region in the east of the Dutch province of Gelderland, bordering Germany.
Achyuta Deva RayaPersonAchyuta Deva Raya was emperor of Vijayanagara from 1529 to 1542, succeeding his half-brother Krishnadevaraya.
AcllahuasiInstitutionAn acllahuasi ('house of the chosen women') was an institution of the Inca Empire housing the aclla, women selected from across the provinces to live in seclusion.
AcolhuaPeople / groupThe Acolhua were a Nahua people of the eastern Valley of Mexico, whose rulers claimed descent from Chichimec migrants led by Xolotl.
Acoma PuebloPlaceAcoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo built on a sandstone mesa west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the…- AcraephiaPlaceAcraephia was an ancient city of Boeotia in central Greece, on the eastern shore of Lake Copais below Mount Ptoon.
- AcrePlaceAcre is a port city on the coast of present-day northern Israel.
Acre WarWar · 1899–1903The Acre War was a conflict over the rubber-rich region of Acre in the Amazon, then claimed by Bolivia but settled mainly by Brazilian rubber tappers.
AcrocorinthPlaceAcrocorinth is the steep rock, about 575 metres high, that rises above ancient Corinth in southern Greece.
AcronaupliaWork / monumentAcronauplia is the rocky peninsula and oldest fortified quarter of Nafplio in the Peloponnese, Greece.
Acropolis of AthensPlaceThe Acropolis of Athens is the rocky citadel above the city, occupied since the Neolithic and the site of a fortified Mycenaean palace in the Late Bronze Age.
Act of AbjurationEventThe Act of Abjuration was the declaration of 1581 by which the northern provinces of the Low Countries formally renounced the sovereignty of Philip II of Spain.- Act of Federation of the United Provinces of New GranadaWork / monumentThe Act of Federation of the United Provinces of New Granada was signed on 27 November 1811 by delegates of several provinces of the former Viceroyalty of New Granada…
Act of Free ChoiceEventThe Act of Free Choice was the process in July and August 1969 by which Indonesia sought to confirm its sovereignty over West New Guinea under the New York Agreement of…
Act of Independence of LithuaniaWork / monumentThe Act of Independence of Lithuania was signed in Vilnius on 16 February 1918 by the twenty members of the Council of Lithuania, chaired by Antanas Smetona.
Act of MediationEventThe Act of Mediation was the constitution imposed on Switzerland by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, replacing the unstable Helvetic Republic after civil strife in 1802.
Act of Security 1704Work / monumentThe Act of Security 1704 was a law of the Parliament of Scotland that reserved its right to choose a different successor to Queen Anne from the one chosen by England…- Act of Settlement 1662Work / monumentThe Act of Settlement 1662 was a law of the Irish Parliament that set out the terms for redistributing land in Ireland after the Restoration of Charles II.
Act of Settlement 1701Work / monumentThe Act of Settlement 1701 is an Act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns on Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and her…- Act of Supremacy 1534Work / monumentThe Act of Supremacy 1534 was a law passed by the English Parliament declaring Henry VIII and his successors the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
- Act of Union (1815)Work / monumentThe Act of Union of 1815, Riksakten, was the law adopted by the Norwegian Storting and the Swedish Riksdag that set the terms of the personal union of Sweden and Norway.
Act of Union 1840EventThe Act of Union 1840 was a British statute that merged Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the single Province of Canada, proclaimed in February 1841.
Acts of the ApostlesWork / monumentThe Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament, written by the author of the Gospel of Luke, probably late in the 1st century CE.- Acts of the Scillitan MartyrsWork / monumentThe Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs is a short Latin record of the trial at Carthage on 17 July 180 of twelve Christians from the town of Scilli in Roman North Africa.
Acts of ThomasWork / monumentThe Acts of Thomas is an early 3rd-century Christian text, probably written in Syriac at Edessa, telling of the mission of the Apostle Thomas to India.
Acts of Union 1707Treaty · 1707The Acts of Union 1707 were the parliamentary acts that united the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.- Acts of Union 1800EventThe Acts of Union 1800 were parallel acts of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland that united the two kingdoms as the United Kingdom of Great…
Ada of CariaPersonAda was a member of the Hecatomnid dynasty of Caria, a daughter of Hecatomnus, who ruled as satrap with her brother and husband Idrieus and alone after his death in 344…- Adad-apla-iddinaPersonAdad-apla-iddina was king of Babylon from about 1068 to 1047 BCE, during the Second Dynasty of Isin.
- Adad-nirari IPersonAdad-nirari I was a king of the Middle Assyrian period in the thirteenth century BCE.
- Adad-nirari IIPersonAdad-nirari II was king of Assyria from 911 to 891 BCE and is counted as the first king of the Neo-Assyrian period.
Adad-nirari IIIPersonAdad-nirari III was king of Assyria from about 811 to 783 BCE, succeeding his father Shamshi-Adad V while young, possibly under the influence of his mother Sammuramat.
Adal SultanateStateThe Adal Sultanate was a Muslim state in the Horn of Africa, centred on the region of Harar and Zeila, which flourished from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.
Adalard of CorbiePersonAdalard of Corbie was a Frankish abbot and statesman, a cousin of Charlemagne.
Adalbero of ReimsPersonAdalbero was Archbishop of Reims from 969 until his death in 989.- Adalbert II of TuscanyPersonAdalbert II, called the Rich, was margrave of Tuscany from 886 until his death in 915, ruling from Lucca.
- Adalbert of BabenbergPersonAdalbert of Babenberg was a Franconian count of the Popponid family, the elder Babenbergs.
Adalbert of HamburgPersonAdalbert was archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 1043 to 1072.- Adalbert of PomeraniaPersonAdalbert of Pomerania was the first bishop of Pomerania, appointed in 1140 with his seat at Wolin.
- Adalbold II of UtrechtPersonAdalbold II was bishop of Utrecht from 1010 to 1026 and one of the learned churchmen of the Ottonian court.
Adalrich, Duke of AlsacePersonAdalrich, also called Eticho, was Duke of Alsace in the later 7th century and founder of the Etichonid family.- Adalulf, Count of BoulognePersonAdalulf was count of Boulogne in the early 10th century, a younger son of Baldwin II of Flanders and Ælfthryth, daughter of Alfred the Great.
- Adam AsilPersonAdam Asil was sultan of Wadai from 1909 to 1912, a rival of Sultan Muhammad Dud Murra.
- Adam BaldridgePersonAdam Baldridge was an English former pirate who from 1691 ran a fortified trading post on Île Sainte-Marie off the north-east coast of Madagascar.
Adam FergusonPersonAdam Ferguson was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment, professor at the University of Edinburgh.- Adam Kok IIPersonAdam Kok II was a Griqua kaptein in southern Africa.
Adam Kok IIIPersonAdam Kok III was kaptein of the Philippolis Griqua from 1837.
Adam of BremenPersonAdam of Bremen was a German chronicler who wrote the Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg, a history of the archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen, around 1075.
Adam OleariusPersonAdam Olearius was a German scholar in the service of Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp.
Adam OpelPersonAdam Opel was a German industrialist who founded the company that bears his name.
Adam Philippe, Comte de CustinePersonAdam Philippe, Comte de Custine was a French general who served in the American War of Independence and commanded the Army of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Adam SmithPersonAdam Smith was a Scottish philosopher and economist of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Adamawa EmirateStateThe Adamawa Emirate was a Fulani state founded around 1809 by Modibbo Adama during the jihad of Usman dan Fodio, as part of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Adamawa PlateauPlaceThe Adamawa Plateau is an upland region of central Cameroon extending into Nigeria and the Central African Republic, rising to over 1,000 metres between the southern…
Adams–Onís TreatyTreaty · 1819The Adams–Onís Treaty, signed in Washington on 22 February 1819 by the American secretary of state John Quincy Adams and the Spanish minister Luis de Onís, transferred…
AdanaPlaceAdana is a city of southern Turkey on the Seyhan river in the Cilician plain, one of the largest cities in the country.- AdandozanPersonAdandozan was king of Dahomey from 1797 to 1818.
- Adarnase IV of IberiaPersonAdarnase IV of Iberia was a Bagratid prince of Tao-Klarjeti in south-western Georgia.
- AdatReligion / ideaAdat refers to the body of customary law and traditional practice in the Malay world and the Indonesian archipelago.
- AddaPlaceThe Adda is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy, about 313 km long, rising in the Alps, crossing the Valtellina and Lake Como and joining the Po near Cremona.
Adda (river)PlaceThe Adda is a river of northern Italy, about 313 km long, which rises in the Alps, flows through the Valtellina and Lake Como and joins the Po near Cremona.- AddacPersonAddax was king of the Alans in Hispania, who had crossed the Rhine with the Vandals and Suebi in 406 and entered Spain in 409.