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Almetyevsk-Kuibyshev Oil Pipeline
The Almetyevsk-Kuibyshev oil pipeline is a trunk crude oil pipeline in Russia, completed in 1963 as the feeder line for the trans-European Druzhba pipeline system.
Almetyevsky District
Almetyevsky District (Альметьевский район), founded 10 August 1930 in southeastern Tatarstan with center Almetyevsk, covers 2,500.2 km² and is the core of Tatarstan's oil industry around the Romashkinskoye field and Tatneft.
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (BPSN), also Blackstone Rangers and El Rukns: Chicago street gang founded circa 1959-1960 by Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston in Woodlawn, uniting 21 gangs, later convicted of a Libya-linked terrorism plot.
Almighty So 2
Almighty So 2 is Chief Keef's fifth studio album, released May 10, 2024 via 43B/RBC Records; a 16-track, largely self-produced sequel to his 2013 mixtape Almighty So, debuting at number 30 on the Billboard 200.
Almighty Vice Lord Nation
Almighty Vice Lord Nation (AVLN), a People Nation alliance of African American street gangs founded as the Conservative Vice Lords in Chicago around 1958; major factions include Conservative, Traveling, Mafia Insane, and Four Corner Hustlers, active in drug trafficking and subject to federal RICO prosecutions.
Almitrine
Almitrine, sold as Vectarion and Armanor, is a respiratory stimulant for chronic respiratory failure in COPD, withdrawn across the EU in 2013 after causing peripheral neuropathy and weight loss.
Almış
Almış, also rendered Almysh or Almish, was ruler of the Volga Bulgars on the middle Volga River around 900, under whom his people adopted Islam in 922.
Almoez Ali
Almoez Ali (Almoez Ali Zainalabdeen Mohamed Abdulla), born 1996, Qatari striker for Al-Duhail SC and Qatar; record nine goals, MVP and Top Scorer at the 2019 Asian Cup, first player to score at the Asian Cup, Copa America, and Gold Cup.
Almohad administrative system in al-Andalus
The Almohad administrative system in al-Andalus (نظام الموحدين) was the bureaucracy of diwans, financial offices, and governors through which the Almohad caliphate ruled its Iberian provinces.
Almohad architecture
Almohad architecture is the building tradition of the Almohad Caliphate (1147–1269), a Berber dynasty ruling from Marrakesh and Seville, known for its mosques and square minarets.
Almohad caliphal decrees (sijillat)
The Almohad caliphal decrees (sijillat) were official letters, edicts, and appointment acts issued by the Almohad caliphs of the Maghreb and al-Andalus through their chancery until 1269.
Almohad Caliphate
Almohad Caliphate (al-muwaḥḥidūn, "those of the oneness"): Berber empire of the Masmuda tribes and Muʾminid dynasty, 1130–1269, founded by Ibn Tumart; it displaced the Almoravids in 1147 and ruled Morocco, Iberia, Algeria, and Tunisia.
Almohad campaign of Abd al-Mu'min against Egypt
The Almohad campaign of Abd al-Mu'min against Egypt was a reported project to conquer Fatimid Egypt; a 2019 study argues it was propaganda, not a real plan.
Almohad capture of Fez
The Almohad capture of Fez in 1146, during Abd al-Mu'min's conquest of Morocco, ended a seven-month siege when the official Abdallah ibn Khiyyar al-Jayyani secretly opened the gates.
Almohad civil war and collapse in the Maghreb
The Almohad civil war and collapse in the Maghreb (فتنة الموحدين) was the succession struggle and breakup that destroyed the Almohad caliphate from 1212 to 1269, ending when the Marinids took Marrakesh.
Almohad conquest of Ifriqiya
The Almohad conquest of Ifriqiya (1159–1160) was the campaign by which Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min brought the eastern Maghrib under Almohad rule, ending Norman rule on the coast of modern Tunisia.
Almohad conquest of Marrakesh
The Almohad conquest of Marrakesh (سقوط مراكش بيد الموحدين) was the storming of the Almoravid capital by Abd al-Mu'min in 1147, ending Almoravid rule in the Maghrib.
Almohad conquest of the Almoravid Empire
The Almohad conquest of the Almoravid Empire (الفتح الموحدي لدولة المرابطين) was the campaign by which the Almohads overthrew the Almoravid dynasty, taking Marrakesh in 1147.
Almohad conquest of the Balearic Islands
The Almohad conquest of the Balearic Islands (فتح الجزر الموحدية) was the amphibious expedition by which the Almohad caliphate took Majorca from the Banu Ghaniya in 1203.
Almohad dynasty
The Almohad dynasty (الموحدون) was a Berber caliphal dynasty that ruled the Maghreb and al-Andalus from Marrakesh, founded by Muhammad ibn Tumart in 1121 and overthrown in 1269.
Almohad forced conversion of Jews and Christians
The Almohad forced conversion of Jews and Christians (محاكمة أهل الذمة) was a policy of the Almohad caliphate under its first caliph, Abd al-Mumin, requiring Jews and Christians to convert to Islam or leave.
Almohad mihna
The Almohad mihna (محنة الموحدين) was the Almohad campaign to impose Ibn Tumart's creed across the Maghreb and al-Andalus, exiling Maliki jurists and burning their legal books.
Almohad movement
The Almohad movement (دعوة ابن تومرت) was a religio-political movement founded by Muhammad ibn Tumart, who proclaimed himself the Mahdi in 1121 among the Masmuda Berbers.
Almohad persecution of the Almoravids and the fuqaha
The Almohad persecution of the Almoravids and the fuqaha (اضطهاد المالكية) was the campaign by which the Almohads toppled Almoravid rule in the Maghreb and suppressed its Maliki jurists, burning their books.
Almohad square dirham
The Almohad square dirham (الدرهم المربع الموحدي) is a square silver coin struck by the Almohad caliphs of the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Almohad talaba
The Almohad talaba (طلبة الموحدين) were a salaried corps of scholars, judges, and administrators serving as the doctrinaire elite of the Almohad caliphate, the Berber empire ruling the Maghreb and al-Andalus until 1269.
Almolonga
Almolonga (Volcán de Almolonga, Cerro Quemado) is a 3,173 m Guatemalan stratovolcano with a late-Pleistocene caldera near Quezaltenango; last erupted 1818, VEI 2, with a fatal 1991 geothermal landslide.
Almond
Almond (Prunus dulcis, syn. P. amygdalus), an early-domesticated Near Eastern nut tree; wild ancestor likely P. fenzliana; California grows about 80% of world supply; kernels contain amygdalin.
Almond Blossoms
Almond Blossoms (Almond Blossom, 1890) is Vincent van Gogh's oil painting of white almond branches against a blue sky, painted at Saint-Rémy as a gift for his newborn nephew Vincent Willem and held by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Almond Investment
Almond Investment L.P. is a Cayman Islands venture capital fund whose directors, Sherry Liu and Charlie Cao, filed a 2021 SEC Form D reporting about $152.6 million sold.