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Ashford, Surrey

Ashford, Surrey: a suburban town in Spelthorne on the River Ash, historically Middlesex, part of Surrey since 1965; Domesday Exeforde; distinct from Ashford, Kent; trains to London Waterloo.

Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam

The Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, also called the Ash Fork Steel Dam, is a steel dam built in 1898 near Ash Fork, Arizona, the first large steel dam in the world.

Ashgabat (Aşgabat), capital of Turkmenistan, founded 1881 by Russia near the Iranian frontier; destroyed by the 1948 earthquake, rebuilt, and redeveloped as the white-marble capital with about 1,052,700 residents.

AshGrove Capital

AshGrove Capital is a London-based pan-European specialty lender founded in 2019 by Jonathon Ferguson, Phil Fretwell, and Ilkka Rantanen, lending €10–50 million to European B2B software and services companies.

Oct 10, 2026

Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz

Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz (أشهب بن عبد العزيز) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist, one of Malik ibn Anas's great Egyptian students, who died in 204 AH.

Oct 3, 2026

Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi (अशी ही बनवाबनवी)

Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi (अशी ही बनवाबनवी) is a 1988 Marathi comedy directed by Sachin Pilgaonkar, a remake of Biwi Aur Makan, about four friends cross-dressing to rent a house; it grossed about ₹3 crore and was remade in five languages.

Oct 20, 2026

Ashia Hansen

Ashia Hansen, British triple jumper born 1971 in Evansville, Indiana; world indoor record 15.16 m (1998), two world indoor titles, 2002 European and two Commonwealth golds.

Ashigaru (足軽)

Ashigaru (足軽), literally "light foot," were Japanese foot soldiers who grew from medieval raiders into the weapon-specialized Sengoku infantry, notably musket units, and became the lowest samurai rank in the Edo period until abolition in the Meiji era.

Ashik

An ashik (aşıq, plural aşıqlar) is a professional bardic performer of the Turkic peoples, above all Azerbaijanis, combining poetry, singing, saz music, storytelling, dance, and improvisation in one art.

Sep 23, 2026

Ashik Pasha

Ashik Pasha (عاشق پاشا) was an early fourteenth-century Anatolian Sufi poet, author of the Garibname, a large masnavi in Western Turkish. He died in Kirshehir in 1332.

Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique, American democratic socialist organizer, DSA National Co-Chair since 2023 with Megan Romer, and research analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies' National Priorities Project studying military spending.

Ashikaga clan

The Ashikaga clan (足利氏) was a prominent eastern Japanese warrior family whose head, Ashikaga Takauji, founded the Muromachi shogunate and held the shogun's office from 1338.

Ashikaga Mochiuji

Ashikaga Mochiuji (足利持氏, 1398–1439) was a Muromachi-period military commander who served as the fourth Kamakura kubō from 1409 until 1439, when, defeated after rebelling against the shogunate, he was forced to take his own life.

Ashikaga School

The Ashikaga School (足利学校) was a Confucian academy in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, regarded as the oldest surviving school in the country and closed in 1872.

Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府)

The Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府), or Muromachi bakufu, was Japan's second warrior government, founded by Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto in 1338 and ruled by fifteen shoguns until Oda Nobunaga overthrew it in 1573, spanning the two-courts schism, Yoshimitsu's Ming trade, and the Ōnin War.

Ashikaga Tadayoshi

Ashikaga Tadayoshi (足利直義, 1306–1352) was a Japanese warrior-administrator and younger brother of shogun Ashikaga Takauji, who headed the early Muromachi shogunate's administration and judiciary for about a decade.

Ashikaga Takauji

Ashikaga Takauji (足利尊氏, 1305–1358) was a Japanese warrior who founded the Ashikaga shogunate, the Muromachi bakufu, and served as its first shogun from 1338 to 1358.

Ashikaga Takauji's defection and capture of Rokuhara

Ashikaga Takauji's defection and capture of Rokuhara was the 1333 defection of a shogunal army to Emperor Go-Daigo and its destruction of the shogunate's Kyoto headquarters, the Rokuhara Tandai.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki

Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利義昭, 1537–1597) was the fifteenth and last shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, installed in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga in 1568 and driven out by him in 1573.

Ashikaga Yoshiakira

Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利義詮, 1330–1367) was the second shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, ruling from 1358 to 1367, restoring order in the bakufu and negotiating to unite the two courts.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu

Ashikaga Yoshiharu (足利義晴, 1511–1550) was the twelfth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, installed in Kyoto in 1521 by Hosokawa Takakuni and mostly exiled from the capital.

Ashikaga Yoshihisa

Ashikaga Yoshihisa (足利義尚, 1465–1489) was the ninth shogun of Japan's Muromachi shogunate, appointed at age 9 as son of the eighth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa; he died in camp in Ōmi Province campaigning against Rokkaku Takayori.

Ashikaga Yoshikane

Ashikaga Yoshikane (足利義兼, 1154–1199) was a Japanese warrior, second head of the Ashikaga clan and an ally of Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Genpei War.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa

Ashikaga Yoshimasa (足利義政) was the eighth shogun of Japan's Muromachi shogunate from 1449 to 1473, whose succession dispute sparked the destructive Ōnin War in 1467.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利義満)

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利義満), 1358–1408, third Muromachi shogun (1368–1394), unified the Northern and Southern courts, took Ming investiture as King of Japan in 1404, and built Kyoto's Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji).

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's mission to the Ming

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's mission to the Ming (勘合貿易の開始) was the shogun's 1401 embassy to Ming China, which won him the title King of Japan and opened the tally trade in 1404.

Ashikaga Yoshimochi

Ashikaga Yoshimochi (足利義持) was the fourth shogun of the Muromachi bakufu, reigning 1394 to 1423; he broke off trade with Ming China in 1411 and died in 1428 without an heir.

Ashikaga Yoshinori

Ashikaga Yoshinori (足利義教) was the sixth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, in office from 1429 until his assassination in 1441, known for autocratic rule and reviving trade with Ming China.

Ashikaga Yoshitane

Ashikaga Yoshitane (足利義稙, 1466–1523), initially named Ashikaga Yoshiki, was the tenth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate and the only shogun installed twice, ruling 1490–1493 and again 1508–1521.