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Akershus
Akershus, Norwegian county (fylke) number 32 around Oslo, re-established 1 January 2024 after Viken dissolved; 21 municipalities, about 749,000 residents, Norway's fastest-growing county.
Akershus Fortress
Akershus Fortress (Akershus festning), medieval castle and fortress in central Oslo begun around 1290 under King Håkon V; never taken by force, last siege 1716, WWII execution site, now museums and state venue.
Akeso
Akeso (康方生物) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in 2012 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, known for cadonilimab and ivonescimab, whose ivonescimab beat pembrolizumab in a phase 3 lung-cancer trial.
Akewa Dorsa
Akewa Dorsa: a 900-km-wide ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 45.5°N, 184.0°E in Ganiki Planitia, IAU-named in 1997 for the Toba sun goddess Akewa, with E-W wrinkle ridges among the region's oldest structures.
AKF-98
The AKF-98 is a Chinese low-observable air-launched land-attack cruise missile, first shown at Airshow China 2022, carried by J-16 and JH-7A fighters, with an export version, the CM-98.
AKG Acoustics
AKG Acoustics is an Austrian audio equipment manufacturer founded in Vienna in 1947, known for studio microphones like the C414 and headphones, and now a brand within HARMAN International, owned by Samsung since 2016.
Akha people
Akha people: Tibeto-Burman-speaking (Southern Loloish) highland people of Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, also called E Kaw; patrilineal, swidden-farming, animist, with AkhaZah customary law and growing Christian conversion.
Akhal-Teke
Akhal-Teke, ancient hot-blooded horse breed from Turkmenistan (Akhal oasis, Teke tribe), famed for its metallic coat sheen, endurance, and the Olympic dressage stallion Absent; fewer than 7,000 exist worldwide.
Akhamenru
Akhamenru was a high official of Thebes in the late 25th Dynasty of Egypt, serving as Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II.
Akhand Bharat
Akhand Bharat is a Hindu nationalist concept that envisions the subcontinent as a single entity. It aims to reverse the 1947 Partition by including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and southern Afghanistan.
Akhand Path (ਅਖੰਡ ਪਾਠ)
Akhand Path (ਅਖੰਡ ਪਾਠ) is the complete, uninterrupted reading of the entire Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scripture, taking about 48 hours and held on joyous or difficult occasions.
Akhanda
Akhanda (అఖండ) is a 2021 Telugu action drama directed by Boyapati Srinu, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna in a dual role as an Aghora ascetic and his twin. Released 2 December 2021; second highest-grossing Telugu film of 2021.
Akhanda 2: Thaandavam
Akhanda 2: Thaandavam is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action thriller directed by Boyapati Sreenu and starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, released in India on December 12, 2025.
Akhbar
Akhbar (أخبار, singular khabar) are reports or anecdotes in Arabic and an early genre of Arabic historiography and adab literature, with each report often introduced by an isnad.
Akhbar al-Dawla al-Abbasiyya
Akhbar al-Dawla al-Abbasiyya (أخبار الدولة العباسية) is an anonymous, strongly pro-Abbasid Arabic chronicle covering the Abbasid family and the revolutionary da'wa that brought it to power in 750.
Akhbar al-dawla al-Saljuqiyya
Akhbar al-dawla al-Saljuqiyya (اخبار الدولة السلجوقية) is an Arabic chronicle of the Great Seljuq sultans covering 1038 to 1194, a key primary source for Persia and Iraq.
Akhbar majmu'a fi fath al-Andalus
Akhbar majmu'a fi fath al-Andalus (أخبار مجموعة في فتح الأندلس) is an anonymous Arabic chronicle of Islamic Spain covering the 711 conquest through Abd al-Rahman III's reign.
Akhbar Misr of al-Musabbihi
Akhbar Misr (أخبار مصر) is a large annalistic history of Egypt by the Fatimid historian and official al-Musabbihi, who died in 1029; only part survives.
Akhbari school
The Akhbari school (اخباری) was a traditionist school of Twelver Shi'i jurisprudence that rejected ijtihad and derived law from the reports of the Prophet and Imams.
Akhenaten
Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), 18th Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt (ca. 1353–1336 or 1349–1332 BC), promoted exclusive worship of the sun-disc Aten, founded the capital Akhetaten (Amarna), and sponsored Amarna art; his reforms were reversed under Tutankhamun.
Akhetaa
Akhetaa (Akhetâa) was a high official of Egypt's Third Dynasty around 2700 BC, known from a limestone door-jamb relief found at Saqqara and held in the Louvre.
Akhethetep (son of Ptahhotep)
Akhethetep was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official and vizier, father of the vizier Ptahhotep II, buried with his son in the double mastaba D64 at Saqqara.
Akhi brotherhoods
The Akhi brotherhoods (آخیان, Ahilik) were urban craft and futuwwa brotherhoods of 13th-century Anatolia, founded by Ahi Evran, which shaped Seljuk life and became Ottoman guilds.
Akhi Siraj Aain-e-Hind
Akhi Siraj Aain-e-Hind (اخی سراج آئنۂ ہند), born Usman Sirajuddin, was a Bengali Chishti Sufi saint who founded the order in Bengal and died in 1357.
Akhil (film)
Akhil (The Power of Jua) is a 2015 Telugu action fantasy film directed by V. V. Vinayak, starring debutants Akhil Akkineni and Sayesha Saigal. Released 11 November 2015 after a graphics-related delay, it revolves around the sacred stone Jua and received mixed reviews.
Akhil Akkineni (అఖిల్ అక్కినేని)
Akhil Akkineni (అఖిల్ అక్కినేని) is an Indian actor in Telugu cinema, born in 1994 in San Jose, California, whose 2026 rural drama Lenin became his biggest commercial hit.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद)
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद, ABVP) is an Indian student organization founded in 1948 and registered 9 July 1949 in Delhi, affiliated with the RSS, active in the JP movement and Emergency resistance, and now the dominant force in Delhi University student politics.
Akhil Datta-Gupta
Akhil Datta-Gupta is an American petroleum engineer at Texas A&M University known for developing streamline simulation of fluid flow in reservoirs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Akhil Sachdeva
Akhil Sachdeva (अखिल सचदेवा) is an Indian singer and songwriter from Delhi, known for the Bollywood ballads "Humsafar" and "Tera Ban Jaunga" and for founding the Sufi-rock band Nasha.
Akhila Bhargavan (അഖില ഭാർഗവൻ)
Akhila Bhargavan (അഖില ഭാർഗവൻ), born 1997 in Payyanur, Kerala, is a Malayalam film actress who rose from Instagram reels to Poovan (2023), Premalu (2024) as Karthika, Sookshmadarshini, and her first lead in It's a Medical Miracle.