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Agra (district)
Agra district (आगरा ज़िला), Uttar Pradesh, India: administrative district around the Taj Mahal city on the Yamuna. Census 2011 population 4,418,797, six tehsils, footwear hub supplying about 65% of India's domestic shoes.
Agra (आगरा)
Agra (आगरा), city on the Yamuna in western Uttar Pradesh, India; former Mughal capital and home of the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, and Fatehpur Sikri. Known for its footwear and marble-inlay industries, Agra Metro, and severe air and Yamuna pollution.
Agra Fort
Agra Fort, also called the Red Fort of Agra or Lal Qila, is a 16th-century Mughal fortress in Agra, India, rebuilt in red sandstone by Akbar from 1565.
Agra Metro (आगरा मेट्रो)
Agra Metro (आगरा मेट्रो) is a rapid transit system in Agra, India, which began passenger service in 2024 on a 6 km corridor serving the Taj Mahal.
Agrahara
An agrahara (अग्रहार), also called brahmadeya, was a village or fields granted rent-free to Brahmanas in early medieval India, proclaimed by royal authority and recorded on copper-plate charters conferring tax exemptions and administrative immunities.
Agrahara and Brahmadeya Land Grants
Agrahara and brahmadeya land grants, literally gift to Brahmins, were royal grants prominent under the Gupta empire from the fourth century, recorded on copper-plate charters that granted land, administrative rights, and tax exemptions.
Agrai (Greece)
Agrai (Ἄγραι), also Agra, was a district and suburb of ancient Athens south of the Ilissos River, home to the temple of Artemis Agrotera, the Lesser Mysteries of Demeter, and sanctuaries of Zeus Meilichios and Eileithyia.
Agranulocytosis
Agranulocytosis: severe neutrophil deficiency (ANC <500/µL), usually drug-induced (clozapine, antithyroid drugs, metamizole), presenting with fever and infection; about 5% lethality, treated with drug stop, antibiotics, G-CSF.
Agraphia
Agraphia (ICD-11 MB4B.3) is the acquired loss of the ability to write, usually after stroke or brain injury. Divided into central (linguistic) and peripheral (motor) subtypes including apraxic, allographic, and phonological agraphia.
Agrarian Decree of 6 January 1915
The Agrarian Decree of 6 January 1915 (Decreto del 6 de enero de 1915) was issued by Venustiano Carranza at Veracruz, beginning Mexican agrarian reform.
Agrarian Law of 1870
The Agrarian Law of 1870 (Agrarische Wet 1870) was a Dutch colonial land law for the East Indies, issued April 9, 1870, opening land to long-lease plantations.
Agrarian Party (Czechoslovakia)
The Agrarian Party (Czech: agrární strana), officially the Republican Party of Farmers and Smallholders, was Czechoslovakia's largest interwar party and the backbone of every governing coalition until 1938.
Agrarian reform in Bulgaria under Aleksandar Stamboliyski
Agrarian reform in Bulgaria under Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union government's 1919 to 1923 program capping landholdings, funding land for poor peasants, and imposing compulsory labor service.
Agrarian Reform Law of the People's Republic of China
The Agrarian Reform Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国土地改革法) is a land reform statute promulgated by Mao Zedong on 30 June 1950, under which over 300 million farmers received land.
Agrarian society
An agrarian society, or agrarian civilization, is a pre-industrial society where most production is agriculture, marked by plow farming, peasant majorities, and social hierarchy. Plow-based societies arose about 5,000 years ago in the Middle East.
Agrarianism
Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy favoring family farming, widespread landownership, and political decentralization. Associated with Thomas Jefferson, the 1930 Southern Agrarians' I'll Take My Stand, and today's La Vía Campesina food sovereignty movement (182 organizations, 81 countries).
Agrasen (अग्रसेन)
Agrasen (अग्रसेन), also Agrasena, is the legendary king of Agroha in Haryana revered as ancestor of the Agrawal trading community; his Jayanti on Ashwin Shukla Pratipada is a Haryana holiday, and Agroha Dham is his principal shrine.
Agraulos Corona
Agraulos Corona is a 170-km-diameter corona on Venus at 27.7°S, 165.8°E, named for a Greek fertility goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1994; it lies in the V-49 Mahuea Tholus quadrangle within the Diana-Dali Chasma rift zone.
Agrawal (अग्रवाल)
Agrawal (अग्रवाल), also Aggarwal, a North Indian Bania (Vaishya) mercantile caste with exogamous gotras, caste endogamy, surnames like Gupta and Mittal, and documented genetic homogeneity.
Agreeableness
Agreeableness, a Big Five personality trait, describes cooperation, compassion, trust, and modesty. Covers its facets, lexical origins, HEXACO distinctions, and meta-analytic links to health, work, and relationships.
Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora
The Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora are Antarctic Treaty conservation rules adopted in 1964, creating a permit system and protecting species and areas.
Agreed-upon procedures
Agreed-upon procedures (AUP) is an auditing engagement in which a practitioner performs only procedures agreed in advance with the engaging party and reports factual findings, with no opinion or assurance.
Agreement on 5% NATO defence spending by 2035
NATO's Hague Summit Declaration (25 June 2025) commits Allies to spend 5% of GDP annually by 2035: at least 3.5% on core defence and up to 1.5% on defence-related investment, with annual plans and a 2029 review; Spain opted out.
Agreement on Agriculture
The Agreement on Agriculture is a World Trade Organization treaty, in force since 1995, disciplining agricultural trade through market access, domestic support, and export competition rules.
Agreement on Government Procurement
The Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral WTO treaty, binding only its 22 parties, that opens government procurement worth over US$1.7 trillion annually to non-discriminatory foreign competition.
Agreement on Port State Measures
The Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) is a binding 2009 FAO treaty requiring port states to deny entry to vessels engaged in illegal fishing.
Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, or SCM Agreement, is a WTO treaty negotiated in the Uruguay Round that defines subsidies, prohibits export and local-content subsidies, and caps countervailing duties.
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade is a World Trade Organization treaty, in force since 1995, requiring technical regulations not to create unnecessary trade obstacles.
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) was a WTO agreement, in force from 1995 to 2005, that phased out import quotas on textiles and clothing.
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is a World Trade Organization treaty letting governments protect human, animal, and plant health through science-based food-safety and quarantine measures.