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Azerbaijan
History; World history

Muslim state in the Caucasus conquered by Russia and Turkey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Declaring independence 1918, Azerbaijan was conquered by the Bolsheviks in ...

Ayyubid dynasty
History; World history

Islamic dynasty of Egypt, founded by Saladin in 1177. The Ayyubids also controlled Syria and reduced the Crusader States of the Holy Land to a coastal strip. The dynasty was ...

Ayutthaya
History; World history

Thai kingdom named for its capital Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, Thailand. It was the direct precursor of the kingdom of Siam. The city, founded in 1351 by Ramathabodi I, was the ...

Ayub Khan
History; World history

(1907-74) Pakistani soldier and politician. He became president of Pakistan in 1958. He fought India in the Second Indo-Pakistan War (1965) and accepted the peace agreement ...

Axum
History; World history

Important trading kingdom in northern Ethiopia that successfully exploited its position on the Red Sea to survive for nearly 1,000 years (1st to 10th centuries AD). Christianity ...

Axis powers
History; World history

Germany, Italy and Japan, allied to fight World War II under the Tripartite Pact of 1940. (Germany and Italy were already joined by the Pact of Steel of 1939 and Germany and Japan ...

Awsa
History; World history

East African sultanate, established in 1577, when the rulers of Adal fled from a Galla invasion. They lost control of Harar soon after. The surrounding deserts protected it from ...

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