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- AddankiPlaceAddanki is a town in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
AddedomarusPersonAddedomarus was a British king known from his coins, who ruled the Trinovantes in what is now Essex in the late 1st century BCE.
Addis AbabaPlaceAddis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia, founded in the late nineteenth century under Emperor Menelik II.
Addizione ErculeaWork / monumentThe Addizione Erculea was a planned extension of Ferrara begun in 1492 for Duke Ercole I d'Este and designed by the architect Biagio Rossetti.
Addu AtollPlaceAddu Atoll is the southernmost atoll of the Maldives, just south of the equator, and home to the country's second city.
Adel ShahPersonAdel Shah, born Ali Qoli Khan, was a nephew of Nader Shah who took part in the conspiracy against him and became shah of the Afsharid Empire after Nader's murder in 1747.
Adela of NormandyPersonAdela of Normandy was a daughter of William the Conqueror who married Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois, and governed his lands while he was on the First Crusade and after…
AdelaidePlaceAdelaide is the capital of South Australia, on the plains between Gulf St Vincent and the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Adelaide del VastoPersonAdelaide del Vasto was the third wife of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and regent of the County of Sicily for her young sons from 1101 to 1112.
Adelaide of ItalyPersonAdelaide of Italy was the daughter of King Rudolf II of Burgundy and became queen of Italy by her first marriage to Lothair II.
Adelaide of Saxe-MeiningenPersonAdelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837 as the wife of William IV.
Adelaide of SusaPersonAdelaide of Susa was the heiress of the March of Turin and one of the most powerful rulers in 11th-century Italy.
Adelaide, Countess of VermandoisPersonAdelaide was Countess of Vermandois and Valois, heiress of the Herbertian counts of Vermandois, a branch of the Carolingian dynasty.- Adelasia of TorresPersonAdelasia of Torres was judge, or ruler, of the Judicate of Logudoro in northern Sardinia from 1236 until her death in 1259.
- Adelindis of BuchauPersonAdelindis was a Frankish noblewoman who, according to tradition, founded the convent of Buchau on the Federsee in upper Swabia around 770 and became its first abbess.
AdenPlaceAden is a port city in southern Yemen, built in the crater of an extinct volcano near the entrance to the Red Sea.
Aden Abdullah OsmanPersonAden Abdullah Osman, known as Aden Adde, was the first president of Somalia.
Aden EmergencyRevolt · 1963–1967The Aden Emergency was an insurgency against British rule in Aden and the Federation of South Arabia, lasting from 1963 to 1967.
Aden ProtectorateStateThe Aden Protectorate was the group of sultanates, emirates and sheikhdoms in southern Arabia bound to Britain by treaties of protection around the port of Aden.- Aden Trades Union CongressInstitutionThe Aden Trades Union Congress was the federation of trade unions in the British colony of Aden, founded in 1956 amid the rapid growth of the port and the oil refinery.
Adham KhanPersonAdham Khan was a Mughal general, son of the emperor Akbar's wet-nurse Maham Anga.
Adhemar of Le PuyPersonAdhemar of Le Puy, also called Adhemar of Monteil, was bishop of Le Puy and the papal legate appointed by Pope Urban II to the First Crusade.- AdherbalPersonAdherbal was a king of Numidia, the elder son of Micipsa, who shared the kingdom from 118 BCE with his brother Hiempsal and his adoptive brother Jugurtha.
- AdiatuanusPersonAdiatuanus was king of the Sotiates, an Aquitanian people of south-western Gaul, in 56 BCE.
Adib ShishakliPersonAdib Shishakli was a Syrian army officer who took part in the coups of 1949 and ruled Syria as its military strongman from late 1949 to 1954, as president from 1953.- al-AdidPersonAl-Adid was the last caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate, who died in 1171.
AdigePlaceThe Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, about 410 kilometres long.- Adikavi PampaPersonPampa, called Adikavi or 'first poet', was a 10th-century Kannada poet at the court of the Vemulavada Chalukya king Arikesari II.
al-AdilPersonAl-Adil was the brother of Saladin and sultan of the Ayyubid realm from 1200 to 1218.
Adil ShahPersonAdil Shah was a nephew of Nader Shah who seized power in the Afsharid Empire after Nader's assassination in 1747.
Adil Shahi dynastyPeople / groupThe Adil Shahi dynasty ruled the Bijapur Sultanate in the western Deccan from 1490, when Yusuf Adil Shah broke away from the Bahmani Sultanate, until the Mughal emperor…
Adina MosqueWork / monumentThe Adina Mosque is a ruined mosque at Pandua in the Malda district of West Bengal, India, built by Sultan Sikandar Shah of the Bengal Sultanate and completed in the…- AdinkraTermAdinkra are visual symbols of the Akan peoples of Ghana, each representing a concept, proverb or value.
- Adipurana (Pampa)Work / monumentThe Adipurana is a Kannada epic poem by Pampa, completed in 941, telling the life of Rishabhanatha, the first Jain tirthankara.
Aditya IPersonAditya I was king of the Chola dynasty of southern India in the late 9th century, the son of Vijayalaya.- AdityasenaPersonAdityasena was a king of the Later Gupta dynasty of Magadha in the second half of the 7th century.
AdityawarmanPersonAdityawarman was a Sumatran king of Malayu and Javanese descent who had served Majapahit before founding his own kingdom in the Minangkabau highlands.- Adlan IPersonAdlan I was a sultan of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar in the early seventeenth century.
Admirable CampaignCampaign · 1813The Admirable Campaign was Simón Bolívar's military campaign of 1813 in which he advanced from New Granada across the Andes into western Venezuela and drove back the…- Admirable CongressEventThe Admirable Congress was the constituent congress of Gran Colombia that met in Bogotá from January to May 1830, presided over by Antonio José de Sucre.
Admonitio generalisWork / monumentThe Admonitio generalis is a capitulary issued by Charlemagne in 789, one of the main texts of the Carolingian reforms.- Admonitions of Saint StephenWork / monumentThe Admonitions of Saint Stephen are a Latin mirror for princes addressed by Stephen I of Hungary to his son Emeric, probably written in the 1010s or 1020s.
Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court LadiesWork / monumentThe Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is a Chinese handscroll painting illustrating a moralising text written by Zhang Hua in 292 for women of the…
Adna ChaffeePersonAdna Chaffee was a United States Army officer who commanded the American contingent in the relief of the Beijing legations during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
Adnan MenderesPersonAdnan Menderes was a Turkish politician who co-founded the Democrat Party and became prime minister after its victory in the 1950 election, the first peaceful transfer…
Adolf Frederick I, Duke of MecklenburgPersonAdolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, shared the duchy with his brother John Albert II and divided it with him in 1621, taking Mecklenburg-Schwerin while John Albert…- Adolf Frederick II of Mecklenburg-StrelitzPersonAdolf Frederick II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the first duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Adolf Frederick, King of SwedenPersonAdolf Frederick, King of Sweden, was a prince of the house of Holstein-Gottorp who served as prince-bishop of Lübeck from 1727 to 1750.
Adolf HitlerPersonAdolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.- Adolf II of HolsteinPersonAdolf II of Holstein was count of Holstein and Stormarn from 1130, of the house of Schauenburg.
Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-LippePersonAdolf II was the last reigning prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, a small state of the German Empire, succeeding his father George in 1911.
Adolf III, Count of HolsteinPersonAdolf III (1160–1225) was count of Holstein and Stormarn from the house of Schauenburg.
Adolf LüderitzPersonAdolf Lüderitz was a Bremen merchant whose purchase of the bay of Angra Pequena and its hinterland in 1883 led Germany to proclaim a protectorate over South West Africa…- Adolf of Cleves, Lord of RavensteinPersonAdolf of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein, was a younger son of Adolf I, Duke of Cleves, and a nephew of Philip the Good of Burgundy.
Adolf of NassauPersonAdolf of Nassau was a count of Nassau elected King of the Romans in 1292.- Adolf SchultenPersonAdolf Schulten was a German historian and archaeologist of ancient Spain.
Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-EisenachPersonAdolf William was a son of Duke William of Saxe-Weimar who received Eisenach as his own duchy when his father's lands were divided in 1662.
Adolfo López MateosPersonAdolfo López Mateos was president of Mexico from 1958 to 1964 for the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Adolfo SuárezPersonAdolfo Suárez was a Spanish politician who as prime minister from 1976 to 1981 led the transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy.- AdoloPersonAdolo was an Oba, or king, of the Benin Empire in the nineteenth century.
Adolphe SaxPersonAdolphe Sax was a Belgian instrument maker, born in Dinant, who invented the saxophone, patented in Paris in 1846.
Adolphe ThiersPersonAdolphe Thiers was a French historian and statesman who served as a minister and prime minister under the July Monarchy.
Adolphe, Grand Duke of LuxembourgPersonAdolphe was the last Duke of Nassau, from 1839 to 1866, and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1890 to 1905.
Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzPersonAdolphus Frederick III (1686–1752) was Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1708, the second ruler of the duchy created by the partition of Mecklenburg in 1701.- Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzPersonAdolphus Frederick VI was the last reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, from 1914 to 1918.
- AdomnánPersonAdomnán (c. 624–704) was abbot of Iona from 679 and the biographer of its founder, Columba.
AdonijahPersonAdonijah was the fourth son of King David according to the Hebrew Bible.
AdonisReligion / ideaAdonis was a figure of Greek myth, a beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite who was killed by a boar and mourned each year in the festival of the Adonia.
AdoptionismReligion / ideaAdoptionism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus, in his human nature, was the adopted rather than the natural Son of God.
AdourPlaceThe Adour is a river of south-western France, about 300 km long, rising in the Pyrenees near the Tourmalet pass and flowing through Bigorre, the Landes and Dax to the…- AdovacriusPersonAdovacrius was a Saxon leader who fought in north-western Gaul in the 460s.
Adrar des IfoghasPlaceThe Adrar des Ifoghas is a sandstone massif in the Kidal region of north-eastern Mali, in the southern Sahara.- Adriaan van JaarsveldPersonAdriaan van Jaarsveld was a frontier farmer and commando leader on the eastern border of the Dutch Cape Colony, known for campaigns against the Xhosa.
Adrian PeltPersonAdrian Pelt was a Dutch journalist and international civil servant who served as United Nations Commissioner in Libya from 1950 to 1951.
Adrian von BubenbergPersonAdrian von Bubenberg was a Bernese knight and statesman, several times Schultheiss (mayor) of Bern.
Adud al-DawlaPersonAdud al-Dawla was the greatest ruler of the Buyid dynasty.
AdulisPlaceAdulis was an ancient port on the Red Sea coast of present-day Eritrea.
Adur GushnaspWork / monumentAdur Gushnasp was one of the three great sacred fires of Zoroastrian Iran, associated with the warrior class and the kings.
Advance Australia FairWork / monumentAdvance Australia Fair is the national anthem of Australia, written by Peter Dodds McCormick and first performed in Sydney in 1878.- Advocate of the Holy SepulchreTermAdvocate of the Holy Sepulchre was the title taken by Godfrey of Bouillon after the crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, when he declined to be called king.
AdygeaPlaceAdygea is a republic of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, surrounded by Krasnodar Krai, with its capital at Maykop.
Adyghe KhabzeReligion / ideaAdyghe Khabze is the traditional unwritten code of conduct and customary law of the Circassians.
AeacidaePeople / groupThe Aeacidae were the royal house of the Molossians and the Kingdom of Epirus, who claimed descent from Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and grandson of Aeacus.
AeclanumPlaceAeclanum was the main town of the Hirpini in the southern Apennines, near modern Mirabella Eclano in Campania.- Áed FindPersonÁed Find was a king of Dál Riata of the Cenél nGabráin, whose death the Irish annals record in 778.
- Áed FindliathPersonÁed Findliath was king of Ailech, of the northern Uí Néill, and High King of Ireland from 862 to 879.
- Áed mac AinmuirechPersonÁed mac Ainmuirech was a king of the Cenél Conaill of the northern Uí Néill and high king of Ireland in the late sixth century.
- Áed mac BoantaPersonÁed mac Boanta was a king of Dál Riata in the early ninth century, probably ruling under the dominance of the Pictish kings of Fortriu.
- Áed SláinePersonÁed Sláine was a king of the southern Uí Néill in Ireland, from whom the Síl nÁedo Sláine descended.
Áedán mac GabráinPersonÁedán mac Gabráin was king of Dál Riata, the Gaelic kingdom of Argyll and north-eastern Ireland, from about 574 to about 609.- AedemonPersonAedemon was a freedman of King Ptolemy of Mauretania who led a revolt after the emperor Caligula had Ptolemy executed in 40 CE.
AEGInstitutionAEG, the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, was a German electrical company founded in Berlin in 1883 by Emil Rathenau to exploit Edison's patents.- AegeanPlaceThe Aegean is the arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Anatolia, scattered with numerous islands.
- AegidiusPersonAegidius was a Roman general who commanded in northern Gaul from about 457 until his death in 464 or 465.
- AegitnaPlaceAegitna was an ancient port on the coast of southern Gaul, in the territory of the Ligurian Oxybii, known chiefly from the historian Polybius.
- Aelia CapitolinaPlaceAelia Capitolina was the Roman colony founded by the emperor Hadrian on the ruins of Jerusalem around 130 CE, with a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus.
Aelia EudoxiaPersonAelia Eudoxia (died 404) was the wife of the eastern Roman emperor Arcadius, whom she married in 395.- Aelius GallusPersonAelius Gallus was the second Roman prefect of Egypt, appointed by Augustus.
AeneasPersonAeneas is a Trojan hero of Greek and Roman legend, son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Venus (Aphrodite).
AeneidWork / monumentThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by Virgil, written between about 29 and 19 BCE.