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Battle of Ain Jalut
History; World history

The defeat of the Mongols by the Mamluke army of Baibars in Palestine in 1260. The expansion of the Mongol Ilkhanate was checked and the Mamlukes assured as heirs of the Ayyubid ...

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
History; World history

Signed 18 October 1748, ending the War of the Austrian Succession. It involved mutual restitution of territories lost to Britain and France in America and India, and a guarantee ...

Ajanta
History; World history

Sacred Buddhist site in Maharashtra state, western India, some 106 kilometers (66 miles) northwest of Aurangabad. It comprises temples and monasteries carved by hand from the rock ...

Ajmer
History; World history

Rajput city of northwest India, captured by the Mughals in 1556. From 1708 the Rajputs were effectively independent until the city was annexed by the Marathas in 1770. Thereafter ...

Akhenaten
History; World history

Egyptian pharaoh (r.1353-1335 BC), also known as Amenophis IV, who reacted against the power of the priests at the sacred city of Thebes by establishing a monotheistic religion ...

Al Fatah
History; World history

'Victory' - the name of the guerrilla wing of the Palestine Liberation Movement formed in 1957 and chaired by Yassir Arafat. It took over the Palestine National Council in 1968 ...

al-Fustat
History; World history

The first city founded in Egypt by the Muslims (643) on the east bank of the Nile by the small Greek town of Babylon. It was later divided into two districts, on the river bank ...

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