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Akjang
Akjang (악장) is the sung lyric of Korean court music, praising the Joseon dynasty from the fifteenth century; Yongbieocheonga of 1445 was the first work written in Hangul.
AKK Coal Mine
The AKK Coal Mine is an operating opencast coal mine in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, worked by Central Coalfields Limited in the East Bokaro coalfield.
Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ)
Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) was a twelfth-century Kannada poet and Shaiva religious figure associated with the Lingayat or Virashaiva tradition. She is known for devotional vachanas addressed to Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna and.
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas (ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿಯ ವಚನಗಳು) are about 400 short free-verse devotional poems in Kannada, composed in the 12th century by the Virashaiva mystic Akka Mahadevi and addressed to Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna.
Akkad (city)
Akkad (Sumerian Agade, Akkadian Akkadū), capital of Sargon's ca. 2350-2150 BCE empire in northern Babylonia, near the Tigris-Diyala confluence; its meaning is unknown and its ruins have never been found despite 140 years of search.
Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (2025 film)
Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (అక్కడ అమ్మాయి ఇక్కడ అబ్బాయి), 2025 Telugu comedy drama by debut directors Nitin–Bharath, starring Pradeep Machiraju and Deepika Pilli; released 11 April 2025, flopped at ₹1.55 crore gross, streamed on ETV Win.
Akkadevi
Akkadevi (ಅಕ್ಕಾದೇವಿ) was an 11th-century princess of the Western Chalukya dynasty who governed provinces in the Deccan under Jayasimha II and Someshvara I, capturing the Gokage fort in 1047.
Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire (c. 2350/2334-2154 BCE), also called the Empire of Agade, was the world's first multinational empire, founded by Sargon the Great in Mesopotamia; it introduced standardized administration, a postal system, and divine kingship, and collapsed amid revolts, Gutian invasion, and a debated 4.2 ka drought.
Akkadian language
Akkadian (akkadûm) is the extinct East Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform and split into Babylonian and Assyrian dialects; the second-millennium Near Eastern lingua franca, superseded by Aramaic by the first century CE.
Akkanna
Akkanna (అక్కన్న) was a seventeenth-century Brahmin official of the Golconda Sultanate who, with his brother Madanna, ran its revenue administration under Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah.
Akkas Gas Field
Akkas Gas Field is a natural gas field in Iraq's western Anbar desert, about 30 kilometers from the Syrian border, holding around 5.6 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Akkenam
Akkenam (அஃகேனம்) is a 2025 Tamil action-thriller directed by Uday K, starring father-daughter actors Arun Pandian and Keerthi Pandian, released 4 July 2025, UA13+, about a cab driver and a released convict facing a common evil.
Akkihebbal Ravishankara
Akkihebbal Ravishankara, known as Ravi Ravishankara, is an Indian-born American atmospheric chemist who showed in 2009 that nitrous oxide is the leading ozone-depleting emission, and later taught at Colorado State University.
Akkineni Nageswara Rao (అక్కినేని నాగేశ్వర రావు)
Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR, అక్కినేని నాగేశ్వర రావు), Telugu cinema actor-producer (1923 or 1924–2014); 256 films, Devadasu, Missamma, Maya Bazaar; founded Annapurna Studios 1976; Padma Vibhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient.
Akkineni Ramesh Prasad
Akkineni Ramesh Prasad (born 1936), Indian film producer and engineer, son of L.V. Prasad; heads Prasad Studios, Prasad Film Laboratories, and Prasads IMAX in Hyderabad, and is a founder trustee of the L V Prasad Eye Institute.
Akkodis
Akkodis is a global digital engineering consulting company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, formed by merging AKKA Technologies and Modis as one of the Adecco Group's three business units.
Akkosaka-Bhāradvāja
Akkosaka-Bhāradvāja (अक्कोसकभारद्वाज) was a brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan at Rājagaha who abused the Buddha, was subdued by his refused-food parable, took ordination, and soon became an arahant.
Akkruva Colles
Akkruva Colles, also spelled Akruva Colles, is the largest named colles (small-hill field) on Venus, 1,059 km across at 46.1N 115.5E, IAU-named in 1985 for a Saami-Lapp fishing goddess and interpreted as abundant small shield volcanoes.
Akku Yadav
Akku Yadav (Bharat Kalicharan Yadav) was a Nagpur gangster and serial rapist lynched by about 200 women from Kasturba Nagar in Court No. 7 of Nagpur district court on 13 August 2004; 21 accused were tried and all acquitted in 2014.
Akkub
Akkub is a name the medieval chronicle Seder Olam Zuta places among the earliest, prehistoric exilarchs of Babylonian Jewry, between Hezekiah and Nahum; no near-contemporary source attests him.
Akkullanu
Akkullanu was an Assyrian scholar of celestial divination and senior priest of the god Ashur who served kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BC.
Akkuyu nuclear power plant
The Akkuyu nuclear power plant is Turkey's first nuclear power plant, a four-unit Rosatom-built station under construction at Akkuyu Bay in Mersin Province on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Aklan
Aklan is a province of the Philippines occupying northern Panay in the Western Visayas, with Kalibo as capital; it is best known for Boracay Island and the Ati-Atihan Festival.
Aklilu Habte-Wold
Aklilu Habte-Wold (አክሊሎ ሀብተወልድ) was an Ethiopian diplomat who served as foreign minister under Emperor Haile Selassie and as prime minister of Ethiopia from 1961 to 1974.
AKM
The AKM (Russian: Автомат Калашникова модернизированный) is a Soviet 7.62 × 39 mm assault rifle adopted in 1959 as a lighter, cheaper stamped-receiver update of the AK-47.
Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir
Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir is a Malaysian People's Justice Party politician and Member of Parliament for Johor Bahru who has served as Minister of Economy since December 2025.
AKMU (악뮤)
AKMU (악뮤, formerly Akdong Musician) is a South Korean sibling duo, Lee Chanhyuk and Lee Suhyun, who won K-Pop Star 2, debuted under YG in 2014, and went independent in 2026 with the label 영감의 샘터 and the album FLOWERING.
Akna Montes
Akna Montes is an 830-km arcuate fold mountain belt on Venus along the western edge of Lakshmi Planum in Ishtar Terra, formed by NW-SE compression, with 2.5-3 km relief and semiconductor-mineral radar emissivity.
Ako ang Daigdig
"Ako ang Daigdig" ("I am the world") is a Tagalog poem by Alejandro G. Abadilla, first published in Liwayway in 1940, that introduced free verse into Tagalog poetry.
AKO Literature Prize
The AKO Literature Prize (AKO Literatuurprijs) was a Dutch literary award for the best Dutch-language book of the year, first awarded in 1987 and modeled on the Booker Prize.