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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 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.

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 Treaty System

Antarctic Treaty System (ATS): the international regime governing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, based on the 1959 Antarctic Treaty plus CCAS, CCAMLR, and the 1991 Madrid Protocol; consensus rule, 57 parties, 29 consultative, science and peace focus.

Antarctica Service Medal

The Antarctica Service Medal is a U.S. award established July 7, 1960 (Public Law 86-600) for armed forces members, U.S. citizens, and resident aliens serving in Antarctica or supporting U.S. operations there since 1946, with Wintered Over devices.

Antares Capital

Antares Capital is a Chicago-based private credit lender making senior-secured loans to private equity-backed middle-market companies. Founded in 1996, it manages about $95 billion and is majority-owned by CPPIB.

Ante Pavelić

Ante Pavelić (1889–1959), founder and poglavnik of the Ustaša movement and dictator of the Axis Independent State of Croatia 1941–1945, responsible for mass killings of Serbs, Jews, and Roma; the claimed 1952 Tito quote is a forgery.

Ante Starčević

Ante Starčević was a Croatian politician, publicist, and writer, born in 1823 near Gospić, who founded the Party of Rights in 1861 and was called Father of the Homeland.

Ante Susnjar

Ante Šušnjar, born in 1983 in Mostar, is a Croatian politician and lawyer serving as Minister of Economy since 2024 and a founder of the Domovinski pokret party.

Ante Trumbić

Ante Trumbić was a Croatian politician and lawyer who led the Yugoslav Committee and served as the first foreign minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Antebellum (film)

Antebellum is a 2020 American horror thriller starring Janelle Monáe, the directorial debut of Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, released on demand in the United States in September 2020.

Antebellum South

Antebellum South: the pre-Civil War southern United States (c. 1820–1860), a plantation society built on slavery and cotton, with roughly 4 million enslaved people by 1860 and cotton at 75 percent of world supply.

Antecedent (grammar)

Antecedent (grammar): the noun, phrase, or clause a pronoun refers to, also called the referent; postcedent covers pronoun-following cases. Core of pronoun-antecedent agreement and anaphora resolution.

Antediluvian

Antediluvian means "before the Flood": the biblical world and period between the creation of humanity and Noah's Flood, or anything extremely old-fashioned. Sir Thomas Browne coined the word in 1646.

Antelope Hills Expedition

The Antelope Hills Expedition was an 1858 Texas Ranger campaign under John S. "Rip" Ford against the Comanche, ending in the Battle of Little Robe Creek in Oklahoma.

Antemoro Kingdom

The Antemoro Kingdom was a theocratic state in southeastern Madagascar, ruled by Islamized migrants from the late 1400s until the late 1800s and known for sorabe manuscripts.

Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)

Antena 3, also called Antena 3 Televisión, is Spain's first private free-to-air TV channel, launched 25 January 1990, owned by Atresmedia (Grupo Planeta), and the country's most-watched channel with a 12.8% share in 2025.

Antengene (德琪医药)

Antengene Corporation Limited (德琪医药) is a China-founded, Hong Kong-listed oncology biopharmaceutical company founded by Jay Mei in 2017, which began as a clinical-stage in-licensing biotech and reported its first profit in 2026.

Antenna TV

Antenna TV is an American classic-television digital multicast network launched January 1, 2011 by Tribune Media, now owned by Nexstar, airing 1960s-1970s programming including Johnny Carson reruns from WGN-TV in Chicago, with sister network Rewind TV.

Anténor Firmin

Anténor Firmin (Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin, 1850–1911) was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician whose 1885 book De l'égalité des races humaines rebutted racial hierarchy theories.

Antera Duke

Antera Duke (ca. 1735–ca. 1809) was an Efik slave-trading chief of Duke Town, Old Calabar, Nigeria, known for his pidgin-English diary of 1785 to 1788.

Anteros (ντέρως)

Anteros (Ἀντέρως), Greek god of requited love and avenger of unrequited love, brother of Eros among the Erotes; son of Ares and Aphrodite or of Aphrodite alone, with an altar in Athens and a wrestling relief at Elis.

Anterus

Anterus, also Anteros, was the nineteenth pope, serving about six weeks from November 235 to January 236; he is venerated as a saint on 3 January.

Anthem Biosciences

Anthem Biosciences is a Bangalore-based contract research, development, and manufacturing organization founded in 2006 by Ajay Bhardwaj and others, serving pharma and biotech clients from drug discovery through commercial manufacturing.

Anthemis Insurance Venture Growth Fund I S.C.Sp

Anthemis Insurance Venture Growth Fund I S.C.Sp is a Luxembourg special limited partnership venture capital fund, formed in 2019 by Anthemis Group to invest in growth-stage insurance technology companies.

Anthim the Iberian

Anthim the Iberian (Antim Ivireanul) was a Georgian-born Orthodox hierarch and printer, Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia from 1708 to 1716, who directed the printing of 63 books.

Anthimos I

Anthimos I, also Anthimus, was a monk and bishop of Trebizond who served as Patriarch of Constantinople from 535 to 536, deposed as a Monophysite.

Anthimos II

Anthimos II (Άνθιμος Β΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 18 June to 22 September 1623, between the second and third reigns of Cyril I Lucaris.

Anthimos III

Anthimos III (Άνθιμος Γ΄), surname Chorianopoulos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1822 to 1824, during the Greek War of Independence, and died in Smyrna in 1842.

Anthimos IV

Anthimos IV (Ἄνθιμος Δ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in two non-consecutive terms, 1840–1841 and 1848–1852, chiefly remembered for the 1850 tomos granting autocephaly to the Church of Greece.