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Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909
The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 (สนธิสัญญาอังกฤษ–สยาม พ.ศ. 2452), also called the Bangkok Treaty, was signed at Bangkok on 10 March 1909 between Great Britain and Siam.
Anglo-Somali protection treaties
The Anglo-Somali protection treaties (معاهدات الحماية الصومالية) were agreements signed between British officials and Somali clan elders between 1884 and 1886, establishing the British Somaliland protectorate.
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (Operation Countenance): joint British-Soviet invasion of neutral Iran on 25 August 1941 to secure supply routes to the USSR, Iranian oil, and expulsion of German nationals; led to Reza Shah's abdication and the 1942 Tripartite Treaty.
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), also called the war of the Spanish Armada, was an intermittent conflict between Elizabethan England and Habsburg Spain, fought at sea, in the Netherlands, Ireland, and the Americas, ending with the Treaty of London of 1604.
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660), Cromwell's war against Philip IV's Spain: Western Design, failed Hispaniola attack, seizure of Jamaica 1655, Blake's 1657 fleet victory, French alliance, peace 1660.
Anglo-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890
The Anglo-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 placed the Sultan of Zanzibar's dominions under British protection, issued by Sultan Seyyid Ali bin Said and Colonel Euan-Smith, distinct from the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty.
Anglo-Zanzibar War
Anglo-Zanzibar War, 27 August 1896, Britain versus the Zanzibar Sultanate; the shortest recorded war at 38 to 45 minutes, ending with Khalid bin Barghash's flight and Hamoud bin Muhammed's installation as Sultan.
Anglo-Zulu War
Anglo-Zulu War (1879): British invasion of the independent Zulu Kingdom under Lord Chelmsford. Isandlwana defeat, Rorke's Drift, Ulundi, Cetshwayo's capture, thirteen-chiefdom partition, and annexation to Natal in 1897.
AngloGold Ashanti
AngloGold Ashanti plc is a major gold mining company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with 11 operations in eight countries and a primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Anglophile
Anglophile: a person who admires England or English/British culture; also an adjective. From Latin Angli plus Greek philos; English use from the 1860s, after French anglophile (1829).
Anglophone Crisis
Anglophone Crisis: armed conflict since late 2016 in Cameroon's North-West and South-West regions between separatists seeking an independent Ambazonia and the government; over 6,000 killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, schools attacked.
Anglophone playwrights: a cross-tradition survey
Anglophone playwrights are dramatists who write for the stage in English across national traditions. Scholarship frames them as a Commonwealth field since 1960 and, more recently, as a global-postcolonial one.
Anglosphere
The Anglosphere, also called the Anglo-Saxon world, is the group of English-speaking countries sharing British historical roots, usually the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Angmar Montes
Angmar Montes: a 230-km mountain range on Titan at 10°S, 221.9°W, IAU-approved 2011, named for a Tolkien Middle-earth range, imaged by Cassini radar (T8, T29).
Angmering
Angmering Roman villa: a dispersed Romano-British villa 2 km west of Angmering, West Sussex, with a detached bathhouse built around AD 65, dismantled in the 2nd century; scheduled monument and the setting of Salvius' villa in the Cambridge Latin Course.
Ango Sakaguchi
Ango Sakaguchi (坂口安吾, 1906–1955), real name Sakaguchi Heigo, was a Japanese novelist and essayist in the Buraiha decadent school, best known for his 1946 essay "Discourse on Decadence."
Angoche Sultanate
The Angoche Sultanate was a Muslim sultanate on the northern Mozambique coast, founded by Kilwa refugees in the late fifteenth century and ended by Portugal in 1910.
Angola
Angola (Republic of Angola), a Portuguese-speaking country on Africa's Atlantic coast; independent from Portugal in 1975, MPLA-ruled, oil-dependent economy (95% of exports), capital Luanda, population about 38 million.
Angola Basin
Angola Basin (Ангольская Котловина), also Southeastern Atlantic Basin or Buchanan Deep: undersea basin of the eastern South Atlantic off Angola and Namibia, bounded by the Walvis Ridge, with Aptian salt, DSDP Leg 75 black shales, and a three-layer deep circulation.
Angola coffee boom
The Angola coffee boom was the expansion of coffee growing in Portuguese Angola, from African smallholders and settler plantations to 210,000 tons and fourth place worldwide by 1974.
Angola diamond trade and UNITA financing
UNITA, the Angolan rebel movement, sold rough diamonds mined in northeastern Angola to buy weapons, financing its war effort until the civil war ended in 2002.
Angola LNG Terminal
The Angola LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas plant at Soyo, Angola, run by a Chevron-led consortium, producing up to 5.2 million tons of LNG annually.
Angola national football team
The Angola national football team, nicknamed Palancas Negras, represents Angola in men's international football under the Angolan Football Federation and reached its only FIFA World Cup in 2006.
Angola oil boom and Luanda reconstruction
The Angola oil boom and Luanda reconstruction was the period from the 2002 end of Angola's civil war to the 2014 oil price collapse, when oil revenue and Chinese loans financed a state-led rebuilding of Luanda.
Angola post-war reconstruction
Angola post-war reconstruction is the rebuilding program the Angolan government launched after the civil war ended in 2002, funded by oil revenues and Chinese credit.
Angola Stock Exchange and Derivatives (BODIVA)
BODIVA (Bolsa de Dívida e Valores de Angola) is Angola's state-owned stock exchange and market operator, created in 2014, which opened debt trading in 2014 and equities in 2022.
Angola Three
The Angola Three were Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, who spent decades in solitary confinement at Louisiana's Angola prison, becoming a landmark case against prolonged isolation.
Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo maritime boundary dispute
The Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo maritime boundary dispute is an unresolved disagreement over oil-rich Atlantic waters off the Congo River mouth, managed since 2023 by a shared Zone of Common Interest.
Angolan Civil War
Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), also called the Angolan conflict: MPLA government versus UNITA and FNLA after independence, a Cold War proxy war with Cuban, Soviet, South African, and U.S. intervention, ending with Savimbi's death and the 2002 Luena Memorandum.
Angolan independence
Angolan independence was the transfer of Angola from Portuguese rule, proclaimed on 11 November 1975 under the Alvor Agreement, and followed immediately by civil war.