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Anglo-Satsuma War
The Anglo-Satsuma War (薩英戦争) was an 1863 battle in Kagoshima Bay, where seven British warships bombarded Satsuma to punish it for the Namamugi Incident, ending in a draw and later friendship.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a set of Old English annals first compiled under King Alfred (871-899), continued in seven manuscripts A-G to 1154 at Peterborough, the chief vernacular source for early England.
Anglo-Saxon dress
Anglo-Saxon dress, also called Anglo-Saxon clothing, is the clothing worn in England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, reconstructed mainly from fasteners found in graves.
Anglo-Saxon paganism
Anglo-Saxon paganism, also known as Anglo-Saxon heathenism, is the pre-Christian religion of the Germanic settlers of Britain, practiced from about 450 to 700 AD before their conversion to Christianity.
Anglo-Saxon runes
Anglo-Saxon runes, or futhorc (fuþorc), is the runic alphabet derived from the Elder Futhark and expanded to 28–33 runes for writing Old English and Old Frisian, known from the Ruthwell Cross, Franks Casket, coins, and manuscripts.
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain: 5th–8th century migration from the continental North Sea zone into eastern England. Ancient DNA shows up to 76% continental ancestry in early medieval eastern England, 10–40% in modern southern English, mass migration plus native adoption.
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons: Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) who settled Britain from the fifth century to 1066, founding kingdoms, converting to Christianity from 597, and unifying England under Wessex.
Anglo-Scottish border
Anglo-Scottish border: the 108-mile land boundary between England and Scotland, fixed by the 1237 Treaty of York, following the Tweed, Cheviots, Esk and Sark, and an internal UK boundary since the 1707 Union.
Anglo-Siamese Agreement of 1896
The Anglo-Siamese Agreement of 1896 was an agreement between Britain and Siam in which Siam pledged not to alienate territory, chiefly in the northern Malay States.
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.