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- Ahmed Mohamed MohamoudPersonAhmed Mohamed Mohamoud, known as Silanyo, is a Somaliland politician who was chairman of the Somali National Movement in the 1980s and president of Somaliland from 2010…
Ahmed Muhtar PashaPersonAhmed Muhtar Pasha was an Ottoman general and statesman.
Ahmed Sékou TouréPersonAhmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and the first president of independent Guinea.
Ahmed UrabiPersonAhmed Urabi was an Egyptian army officer who led a nationalist movement against the Khedive Tewfik and European control of Egypt's finances.- Ahmed YusufPersonAhmed Yusuf was sultan of the Geledi in southern Somalia, son and successor of Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim of the Gobroon dynasty.
AhmedabadPlaceAhmedabad is the largest city of Gujarat in western India, on the Sabarmati river.- AhmediPersonAhmedi was an Anatolian Turkish poet who wrote at the courts of the Germiyanid beys and later of the Ottoman prince Süleyman Çelebi.
- Ahmetjan QasimiPersonAhmetjan Qasimi was a Soviet-educated Uyghur leader of the Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili region of Xinjiang.
Ahmose IPersonAhmose I was the pharaoh who founded the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt around c. 1550 BCE.- Ahom peoplePeople / groupThe Ahom are a people of Assam in north-eastern India, descended from Tai followers of Sukaphaa who entered the Brahmaputra valley from upper Burma in 1228 and mixed…
Ahom–Mughal conflictsWar · 1615–1682The Ahom–Mughal conflicts were a series of wars between the Ahom kingdom of Assam and the Mughal Empire from 1615 to 1682.- ʻAhoʻeituPersonʻAhoʻeitu is the first Tuʻi Tonga, the sacred king of Tonga, in Tongan tradition, usually placed around the 10th century.
- Al-Ahsa OasisPlaceAl-Ahsa is a large oasis in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, about 60 kilometres inland from the Persian Gulf, and one of the largest date-palm oases in the world.
- AhsheriPersonAhsheri was a king of Mannaea, south of Lake Urmia in north-western Iran, in the first half of the 7th century BCE.
AhtumPersonAhtum, or Ajtony, was an early 11th-century ruler of the region between the Mureș and the lower Danube, known from the Legend of Saint Gerard.
AhuitzotlPersonAhuitzotl was the eighth tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1486 to 1502.- AhuniPersonAhuni was the king of Bit-Adini, an Aramaean state on the Euphrates in northern Syria, in the 9th century BCE.
AhvazPlaceAhvaz is a city on the Karun River in south-western Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province.- AhwaPlaceAhwa is a small town in the hills of southern Gujarat, India, the headquarters of the Dang district.
- AhwarPlaceAhwar is a town on the coastal plain of Abyan Governorate in southern Yemen, near the Gulf of Aden.
- Đại LaPlaceĐại La was a walled citadel on the site of modern Hanoi, the seat of Chinese governors of the Tang Protectorate General to Pacify the South and later of local rulers.
Đại Việt sử ký toàn thưWork / monumentThe Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the "Complete Annals of Đại Việt", is the official national chronicle of Vietnam, written in classical Chinese.- Ai-KhanoumPlaceAi-Khanoum is the site of a Hellenistic city at the meeting of the Amu Darya and Kokcha rivers in northern Afghanistan, probably founded in the early Seleucid period…
Aichi PrefecturePlaceAichi Prefecture is a prefecture in central Honshu, Japan, with its capital at Nagoya.- AidhabPlaceAidhab was a medieval port on the African coast of the Red Sea, in the Halaib region on the modern border of Egypt and Sudan.
AigaiPlaceAigai, or Aegae, was the first capital and royal burial place of the Kingdom of Macedon, at modern Vergina in northern Greece.
AiholePlaceAihole is a village in Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India, with more than a hundred temples built from the 5th to the 12th century, many under the Chalukyas of Badami.
Aimable PélissierPersonAimable Pélissier (1794–1864) was a French general who served for many years in the conquest of Algeria.
Aimé CésairePersonAimé Césaire was a poet, playwright and politician from Martinique, one of the founders of the Négritude movement with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas.- Aime, SavoiePlaceAime is a town in the Tarentaise valley of Savoie, south-eastern France.
Aimery of CyprusPersonAimery of Lusignan was the first king of Cyprus and later also king of Jerusalem.
AimoréPeople / groupThe Aimoré were Macro-Jê-speaking peoples of the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil, in southern Bahia, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, later called Botocudos by the…
AinPlaceAin is a department of eastern France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, named after the river Ain, a tributary of the Rhône.
Ain FarahPlaceAin Farah is a ruined hilltop settlement in northern Darfur, in western Sudan.
Ain-i-AkbariWork / monumentThe Ain-i-Akbari is a detailed account of the administration of the Mughal Empire under Akbar, written by his minister Abu'l-Fazl and completed around 1598 as the third…
Aina MahalWork / monumentThe Aina Mahal ('hall of mirrors') is an 18th-century palace in Bhuj, Gujarat, India, built for Rao Lakhpatji of Cutch.- AinnurruvarPeople / groupThe Five Hundred Lords of Ayyavole (Ainnurruvar) was the most powerful merchant guild of medieval southern India, active from about the ninth to the fourteenth century…
AínsaPlaceAínsa is a small town in the province of Huesca, Aragon, at the meeting of the Cinca and Ara rivers.
AinuPeople / groupThe Ainu are an indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, with their own language, religion and culture centred on hunting, fishing and trade.
Aïr MountainsPlaceThe Aïr Mountains are a massif of granite and volcanic highlands in northern Niger, in the Sahara.- Aircraft carrierTermAn aircraft carrier is a warship designed to carry, launch and recover aircraft, serving as a mobile air base at sea.
AirlanggaPersonAirlangga was a Javanese king who founded the kingdom of Kahuripan in East Java.- AishaPersonAisha bint Abi Bakr was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and daughter of the first caliph, Abu Bakr.
Aishwarya of NepalPersonAishwarya (1949–2001) was queen of Nepal as the wife of King Birendra, whom she married in 1970.
AisnePlaceThe Aisne is a river of northern France, about 350 km long, flowing west from the Argonne to join the Oise near Compiègne.- AissóRevolt · 9th centuryAissó, or Aizo, was a Gothic noble of the Spanish March who rebelled against Frankish rule in 826.
AistulfPersonAistulf was king of the Lombards from 749 to 756, previously duke of Friuli.- Ait Ba AmranPeople / groupThe Ait Ba Amran are a Berber tribal confederation of south-western Morocco, living in the hinterland of Sidi Ifni.
- AitakkamaPersonAitakkama was king of Kadesh in western Syria during the Amarna period in the 14th century BCE.
- Aiteke BiPersonAiteke Bi was a Kazakh judge and orator of the Junior Juz, one of the three biys traditionally credited with drafting the law code Zhety Zhargy ('Seven Charters') under…
AitutakiPlaceAitutaki is an island in the southern Cook Islands, made up of a volcanic island and a ring of reef islets enclosing a large lagoon.
Aix-en-ProvencePlaceAix-en-Provence is a city in Provence, southern France, north of Marseille.
AizputePlaceAizpute, in German Hasenpoth, is a small town in the Kurzeme region of western Latvia.
AizsargiPeople / groupThe Aizsargi (Defenders) were a Latvian volunteer paramilitary home guard founded in March 1919, during the War of Independence, to protect local communities and…
AizuPlaceAizu is the western part of Fukushima Prefecture in northern Japan, a mountain basin centred on the castle town of Aizuwakamatsu.- Aj Wosal Chan K'inichPersonAj Wosal Chan K'inich was a king of the Maya city of Naranjo in present-day Guatemala, who came to the throne as a child in 546 and reigned for about seventy years.
- Aja peoplePeople / groupThe Aja are a Gbe-speaking people of southern Benin and Togo, related to the Fon and Ewe.
AjaigarhPlaceAjaigarh is a hill fort and town in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, India, on a flat-topped hill above the Ken river.
Ajanta CavesWork / monumentThe Ajanta Caves are about thirty Buddhist rock-cut monasteries and prayer halls in a horseshoe-shaped gorge of the Waghora river in Maharashtra, India.
AjatashatruPersonAjatashatru was a king of Magadha in eastern India in the 5th century BCE, the son and successor of Bimbisara of the Haryanka dynasty.- Ajatashatru of KashiPersonAjatashatru of Kashi was a king of Kashi, around Varanasi, named in the Brihadaranyaka and Kaushitaki Upanishads of the Later Vedic period.
Ajax the GreatPersonAjax the Great is a hero of Greek mythology, son of Telamon king of Salamis, who fights in the Trojan War in Homer's Iliad as the mightiest Greek warrior after Achilles.
Ajax the LesserPersonAjax the Lesser is a hero of Greek mythology, son of Oileus and leader of the Locrians in the Trojan War.- Ajay PalPersonAjay Pal was a raja of the Panwar dynasty who in the 14th or 15th century subdued the many local chiefs of the central Himalaya and united the Garhwal Kingdom, named…
- Ajayaraja IIPersonAjayaraja II was a king of the Chahamanas of Shakambhari in the early 12th century who founded the city of Ajmer, then called Ajayameru, around 1113 and made it the…
- Ajbar SenPersonAjbar Sen was a raja of Mandi, a hill state in the western Himalaya in present-day Himachal Pradesh, India.
AjdirPlaceAjdir is a village in the Rif region of northern Morocco, near the bay of Al Hoceima.- AjeleInstitutionThe Ajele were royal representatives of the Alaafin of Oyo stationed in tributary towns of the Oyo Empire.
- Aji Batara Agung Dewa SaktiPersonAji Batara Agung Dewa Sakti is the founder of the Kutai Kartanegara kingdom in eastern Borneo according to the Salasilah Kutai chronicle.
- Aji Pangeran Sinum Panji MendapaPersonAji Pangeran Sinum Panji Mendapa was a ruler of Kutai Kartanegara in eastern Borneo in the early 17th century.
- Ajib al-KafutaPersonAjib al-Kafuta was the most famous chief of the Abdallab, the Arab rulers of northern Sudan who governed as viceroys of the Funj Sultanate.
- AjibogunPersonAjibogun, also called Obokun, is the legendary founder of the Ijesha Kingdom, centred on Ilesa in south-western Nigeria.
- Ajit Singh of LadwaPersonAjit Singh was the raja of Ladwa, one of the Cis-Sutlej Sikh states under British protection after 1809.
- AjitapuranaWork / monumentThe Ajitapurana is a Kannada poem by Ranna, completed in 993, telling the life of Ajitanatha, the second Jain tirthankara.
AjivikaReligion / ideaAjivika was an ascetic religious movement of ancient India, led in the 5th century BCE by Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary and rival of the Buddha and Mahavira.
AjmerPlaceAjmer is a city in central Rajasthan, India, among the Aravalli hills.- Ajmer-MerwaraStateAjmer-Merwara was a small province of British India in Rajputana, formed from the district of Ajmer, ceded by the Marathas to the British in 1818, and the hill tract of…
- Ajwad ibn ZamilPersonAjwad ibn Zamil was the greatest ruler of the Jabrid dynasty of eastern Arabia in the late 15th century.
- AkabaPersonAkaba was king of Dahomey from about 1685, succeeding Houegbadja.
AkademgorodokPlaceAkademgorodok is a scientific town near Novosibirsk in Siberia, founded in 1957 as the centre of the new Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Akaki ChkhenkeliPersonAkaki Chkhenkeli was a Georgian Menshevik politician who headed the government of the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in April–May 1918 and…
Akal TakhtInstitutionThe Akal Takht is the highest seat of temporal authority in Sikhism, located in the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar.
Akali movementPeople / groupThe Akali movement was a campaign by Sikh reformers in the Punjab from 1920 to 1925 to take control of gurdwaras, Sikh shrines, from hereditary custodians backed by the…- AkanPeople / groupThe Akan are a group of peoples in present-day Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire who share related languages and cultural traditions, including matrilineal descent.
AkapanaWork / monumentThe Akapana is the largest structure at Tiwanaku, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia: a terraced platform mound about 17 metres high, faced with stone and built mainly…- Akassa raidEventThe Akassa raid was an attack on 29 January 1895 by warriors of the Nembe kingdom of Brass, led by King Frederick William Koko, on the Royal Niger Company's depot at…
AkbarPersonAkbar was the third Mughal emperor, reigning from 1556 to 1605.
Akechi MitsuhidePersonAkechi Mitsuhide was a Japanese general in the service of Oda Nobunaga.- AkengbuwaPersonAkengbuwa was Olu, or king, of the Itsekiri kingdom of Warri in the western Niger Delta in the early 19th century.
- Akenzua IPersonAkenzua I was an Oba of the Benin Empire in the early eighteenth century.
Akenzua IIPersonAkenzua II was the Oba of Benin in southern Nigeria from 1933 until his death in 1978.- Akershus FortressPlaceAkershus Fortress is a medieval castle and fortress on the harbour of Oslo, begun around 1299 under King Haakon V, who moved the centre of royal government to Oslo.
- AkhaPeople / groupThe Akha are a Tibeto-Burman hill people living in the mountains of southern Yunnan in China, eastern Myanmar, northern Laos, northern Thailand and Vietnam.
AkhaltsikhePlaceAkhaltsikhe is a town in southern Georgia and the centre of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
AkhenatenPersonAkhenaten was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned c. 1353–1336 BCE.
AkhetatenPlaceAkhetaten, known today as Amarna, was the capital city founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten in Middle Egypt in the fourteenth century BCE.
Akhmat KhanPersonAkhmat Khan was khan of the Great Horde, the main successor of the Golden Horde, from about 1465 to 1481.- Akhmet BaitursynovPersonAkhmet Baitursynov was a Kazakh scholar, poet and politician, a founder of the Alash party and a leader of the Alash Orda government.
AkhmimPlaceAkhmim is a town on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, in Sohag Governorate.
AkhnoorPlaceAkhnoor is a town on the Chenab River in the Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, about 30 kilometres north-west of Jammu.