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Antalya Airport

Antalya Airport, also known as Antalya International Airport, is an international airport serving Antalya, Turkey, and the Mediterranean's largest holiday tourism region, with 39.1 million passengers in 2025.

Antalya Province

Antalya Province (Antalya ili) is Türkiye's fifth most populous province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast, capital Antalya (ancient Attaleia of Pamphylia), 20,815 km², 18 districts, tourism- and agriculture-based economy.

Antalya Zoo

Antalya Zoo (Antalya Doğal Yaşam Parkı) is Antalya Metropolitan Municipality's Category A zoo in Kepez, Turkey, begun in 1989 on 400 dönüm, holding about 1,678 animals of 118 species with two-tier tourist pricing and wildlife rehabilitation.

Antalyaspor

Antalyaspor, Turkish football club from Antalya founded 2 July 1966 by merger of three city clubs; red and white, 30 Süper Lig seasons, best finish 6th (2016-17), two Turkish Cup finals, Intertoto 1996-97, relegated again in 2025-26.

Antananarivo

Antananarivo (Tananarive, Tana), capital and largest city of Madagascar in the central highlands at 1,276 m; 1.39 million city residents, 4.4 million metro; former Merina royal capital, taken by France in 1895; accounts for 44% of national GDP and faces severe flood exposure.

Antananarivo Avaradrano

Antananarivo Avaradrano is a district of Analamanga region, Madagascar, north of the capital, population about 449,000, named after the historic northern province of Imerina around Ambohimanga.

Antananarivo-Atsimondrano

Antananarivo-Atsimondrano, a district of Analamanga region, Madagascar, created by decree in 2005; 642,364 inhabitants on 397 km², 26 communes, surrounding the capital's Renivohitra district to the south and west.

Antanas Baranauskas

Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop, poet, and linguist, best known for Anykščių šilelis, the most famous work of 19th-century Lithuanian poetry, and for classifying Lithuanian dialects.

Antanas Guoga

Antanas Guoga, known as Tony G, is a Lithuanian-Australian poker player, businessman, and politician; MEP 2014–2019, briefly Seimas member who resigned in 2021 amid Cypherpunk Holdings controversy.

Antanas Merkys

Antanas Merkys (1887–1955) was a Lithuanian lawyer and statesman, the last prime minister of interwar Lithuania and acting president during the Soviet occupation of June 1940.

Antanas Škėma

Antanas Škėma (1910–1961) was a Lithuanian émigré writer, actor, and director, a pioneer of modern Lithuanian drama whose novel Balta drobulė (White Shroud) ranks among the most significant works of Lithuanian prose.

Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian statesman who served twice as President of Lithuania, from 1919 to 1920 and, after the 1926 coup, from 1926 to 1940.

Antanas Vaičiulaitis

Antanas Vaičiulaitis (1906–1992) was a Lithuanian prose writer, poet, critic, and diplomat, one of interwar Lithuania's foremost prose stylists who later lived in the United States.

Antandros

Antandros (Ἄντανδρος), ancient Aeolian coastal city on the Gulf of Adramyttium near Avcılar, Balıkesir, Türkiye; famed for Ida timber and shipbuilding, Peloponnesian War episodes, a 412-tomb necropolis, and ongoing Ege University excavations.

Antanina Koshal

Antanina Koshal (Antonina Vladimirovna Koshel, Антаніна Уладзіміраўна Кошаль), born 1954 in Smolevichi, is a Belarusian artistic gymnast who won 1972 Olympic team gold for the Soviet Union, placed 16th all-around, and later judged at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

Antapaccay

Antapaccay is an open-pit copper mine in Yauri, Espinar province, in the Cusco region of southern Peru, wholly owned by Glencore and opened in 2012.

Antara

Antara (عنترة) is a 1932 verse drama in Arabic by the Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi, dramatizing the life of the pre-Islamic poet-knight Antara ibn Shaddad and his love for his cousin Abla.

Antara Biswas

Antara Biswas, known as Monalisa, is an Indian actress born in Kolkata, active since 1997. Distinguish her from other Monalisas: Bhojpuri film star, Bigg Boss 10 contestant 2016, married Vikrant Singh Rajpoot in the house, Mohana in Nazar.

Antara Mali (अंतरा माली)

Antara Mali (अंतरा माली), Indian actress, writer, and director in Hindi cinema 1998-2010; Ram Gopal Varma collaborator known for Company, Road, Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon; directed Mr Ya Miss; retired after ...And Once Again (2010).

Antara Mitra (অন্তরা মিত্র)

Antara Mitra (অন্তরা মিত্র), Indian playback singer born 1987, rose to fame on Indian Idol 2 (2006). Known for Pritam collaborations Gerua, Janam Janam, Kesariya, and Bengali hits Baby Jaan and Kishori.

Antarah ibn Shaddad

Antarah ibn Shaddad (عنترة بن شداد), pre-Islamic Arabian warrior-poet of Banu 'Abs, author of one of the Mu'allaqat; son of an Abyssinian slave mother, lover of 'Abla, hero of the epic Sīrat 'Antar, and one of the canonical Six Poets.

AntarChile

AntarChile S.A. is a Chilean industrial holding company founded in 1994 and controlled by the Angelini family, whose principal asset is a 60.82% stake in Empresas Copec.

Antarctic

Antarctica: Earth's southernmost, coldest, driest, and windiest continent, 13,661,000 km², ice sheet holding ~90% of Earth's fresh water, governed by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, with record sea-ice lows and accelerating ice loss since 2015.

Antarctic and subantarctic gastropod fauna

The Antarctic and subantarctic gastropod fauna comprises several hundred shelled marine snails on the Antarctic shelf and 51 non-marine species on subantarctic islands, with about 75% endemism.

Antarctic Bottom Water

Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is the coldest, densest water mass in the ocean, forming around Antarctica's margins and spreading north to fill much of the deep ocean.

Antarctic Circle

The Antarctic Circle is the parallel at about 66°34′S (66.5637°S), where the sun does not set at the summer solstice; first crossed by James Cook in 1773, distinct from the 60°S Antarctic Treaty boundary.

Antarctic circles of latitude

The Antarctic Circle, at about 66°33′48.8″ south, marks where the Sun stays above or below the horizon for a full day, first crossed by James Cook in 1773.

Antarctic Circumpolar Current

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, also known as the West Wind Drift, is the world's largest ocean current, flowing eastward around Antarctica and connecting the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

Antarctic Circumpolar Wave

The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) is a proposed pattern of coupled sea surface temperature, pressure, and sea-ice anomalies propagating eastward around the Southern Ocean, identified in 1996.

Antarctic continental shelf

The Antarctic continental shelf is the deep (average 450 m, over 1,000 m in places), wide (~125 km) seabed around Antarctica, shaped by glacial overdeepening, source of Antarctic Bottom Water, and conduit for warm Circumpolar Deep Water toward ice shelves.