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Azazel (עזאזל)
Azazel (עזאזל) is a word appearing four times in Leviticus 16 for the goat sent alive into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, its meaning long disputed.
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is a full-service Indian corporate law firm founded in 2004 by Zia Mody, Ajay Bahl, and Bahram Vakil, with six offices and more than 700 lawyers.
Azbaal (king of Kition)
Azbaal, also rendered Ozibaal, was a Phoenician king of Kition and Idalion on Cyprus in the fifth century BC, attested by an inscription and silver coins, who ruled under Persian suzerainty after Kition annexed Idalion.
Azbil Corporation
Azbil Corporation (アズビル株式会社; formerly Yamatake Corporation) is a Japanese automation company, founded in 1906, that develops and sells measurement and control products and systems for buildings, factories, plants, and infrastructure.
Azcapotzalco
Azcapotzalco was a Tepanec city-state in the Valley of Mexico, capital of a hegemonic empire that ruled the basin under Tezozomoc until Tenochtitlan and Texcoco conquered it in 1428.
Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks (Azealia Amanda Banks, also Miss Bank$), American rapper and singer born 1991, in Harlem, New York; known for the 2011 rap/house hybrid hit '212,' the acclaimed independent album Broke with Expensive Taste (2014), and the 2026 meditation album Zenzealia.
Azeez Butali
Azeez Butali is a craniofacial geneticist and dentist at the University of Iowa who studies the genetics of orofacial clefts and directs the African Craniofacial Anomalies Network.
Azekah
Azekah (Tel Azekah, Tell Zakariyeh) is an ancient fortified Judahite city in the Shephelah, Israel, about 27 km south-west of Jerusalem, overlooking the Valley of Elah.
Azekah inscription
The Azekah inscription is a fragmentary Akkadian cuneiform tablet from Nineveh, mostly attributed to Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign, describing the storming of the Judean fortress of Azekah and naming Hezekiah.
Azelaic acid
Azelaic acid (nonanedioic acid, C9H16O4) is a saturated nine-carbon dicarboxylic acid found in wheat, rye, and barley, used in acne creams and as a polymer monomer.
Azelastine
Azelastine, a phthalazinone H1-antihistamine developed as Asta Pharma compound A 5610, is used as a nasal spray (Astelin, Astepro) for allergic and vasomotor rhinitis, as eye drops for allergic conjunctivitis, and with fluticasone as Dymista.
Azeliragon
Azeliragon (TTP488, PF-04494700) is an oral RAGE antagonist developed by TransTech Pharma and vTv Therapeutics; its Phase 3 Alzheimer's STEADFAST trials failed in 2018, and it is now in oncology trials.
Azelnidipine
Azelnidipine (CS-905, Calblock) is a third-generation dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker for hypertension, launched in Japan in 2003 and approved in China and India; it lowers blood pressure similarly to amlodipine but reduces heart rate instead of raising it.
Azem Galica
Azem Galica, born Azem Bejta, was an Albanian resistance leader from Drenica in Kosovo who led the Kaçak uprisings from 1918 until his death in 1924.
Azemilcus
Azemilcus, also known as Azemilkos, was king of Tyre in the mid-4th century BC, reigning during Alexander the Great's seven-month siege of the city in 332 BC.
Azenta
Azenta is an American life sciences company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, formed from Brooks Automation's life sciences business, which took the Azenta name in December 2021.
Azeotrope
An azeotrope, or azeotropic mixture, is a liquid mixture that boils at constant temperature with vapor of the same composition; the ethanol-water mixture at 95.6% ethanol is the classic example.
Azeotropic distillation
Azeotropic distillation is a chemical separation technique that adds a third component, the entrainer, to break azeotropes that ordinary distillation cannot, classically dehydrating ethanol with benzene or cyclohexane.
Azepane
Azepane, also known as hexamethyleneimine or hexahydroazepine, is a saturated seven-membered heterocycle with one nitrogen in a cycloheptane ring, a colorless liquid amine used industrially and found in more than 20 FDA-approved drugs.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan), South Caucasus republic on the Caspian Sea, capital Baku, population about 10.4 million, official language Azerbaijani, currency manat; hydrocarbon economy, Aliyev presidency since 2003, regained Karabakh in 2023, 2025 US-brokered Armenia deal.
Azerbaijan (آذربایجان) (Iran)
Azerbaijan (آذربایجان, Azarbaijan) is the historical northwestern region of Iran, named after the satrap Atropatene, Turkicized under the Safavids, distinct from the Republic of Azerbaijan named in 1918.
Azerbaijan Airlines
Azerbaijan Airlines, also known as AZAL or Azərbaycan Hava Yolları, is the flag carrier of Azerbaijan, founded in 1992 and flying from Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku.
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 (J2-8243), an Embraer 190 (4K-AZ65) flying Baku–Grozny, crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024 after suspected Pantsir-S shrapnel damage; 38 of 67 aboard died.
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (Azərbaycan Xalq Cümhuriyyəti), ADR: independent South Caucasus state, 28 May 1918 to 28 April 1920; first parliamentary republic in the Muslim East, enfranchised women in 1918; ended by the Red Army's entry into Baku.
Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Azerbaijan Grand Prix (Azərbaycan Qran Prisi), Formula One race at the 6.003 km Baku City Circuit since 2017 (2016 as European GP); 51 laps, lap record 1:43.009 (Leclerc 2019), only repeat winner Sergio Pérez, contracted until 2030.
Azerbaijan Investment Holding (AIH)
The Azerbaijan Investment Holding (Azərbaycan İnvestisiya Holdinqi) is an Azerbaijani public legal entity, created by presidential decree in 2020, that manages state-owned enterprises including SOCAR without owning their shares.
Azerbaijan national football team
Azerbaijan national football team (AFFA, founded 1992, UEFA/FIFA member 1994): men's team that has never qualified for a World Cup or EURO, FIFA-ranked 126th in July 2026 (best 73rd), record 10 WCQ points under Prosinečki.
Azerbaijan Premier League
Azerbaijan Premier League (Azərbaycan Premyer Liqası, Misli Premier League), Azerbaijan's top football division run by the PFL since 2008; 12 teams, 33 rounds since 2025/26; Qarabağ FK holds a record 12 titles, Sabah FK is reigning champion.
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azərbaycan SSR), Soviet republic established 28 April 1920, part of the Transcaucasian federation 1922–1936, then a USSR union republic until 1991, centered on Baku oil.
Azerbaijan thermal power plant
The Azerbaijan thermal power plant (Azərbaycan İES) is a gas-fired power station at Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, whose eight 300 MW units, commissioned between 1981 and 1990, generate over 40% of the country's electricity.