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Aro Expedition
The Aro Expedition, or Anglo-Aro War, was a British military campaign in 1901 to 1902 against the Aro Confederacy in southeastern Nigeria, ending with the destruction of the Ibini Ukpabi oracle.
Aro–Bonny alliance
The Aro–Bonny alliance was a commercial and political partnership in which the Aro trading network sold slaves to the Niger Delta city-state of Bonny for Atlantic export.
Aromanian language
Aromanian (Limba armãneascã, also called Vlach) is an Eastern Romance variety of the Balkans, related to Daco-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian; attested from 1156, not standardized, endangered, with Pindean, Fãrshãrot, and Gramustean dialects.
Aromanians
Aromanians (Armãni, Vlachs) are an Eastern Romance-speaking ethnic group of the southern Balkans, related to Romanians, dispersed across Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, with an endangered language.
Aromanticism
Aromanticism, or being aro, is a romantic orientation marked by little or no romantic attraction, distinct from asexuality. Covers spectrum terms, amatonormativity, queerplatonic relationships, stigma research, and Ace Community Survey data.
Aron Landy
Aron Landy is a financial executive who has been CEO of Brevan Howard Asset Management since October 2019, after 16 years as its chief risk officer.
Aron Schwarzkopf
Aron Schwarzkopf is an Ecuadorian-American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the payments company Kushki, founded in 2017, which became Ecuador's first unicorn in 2022 at a $1.5 billion valuation.
Aron Trainin (Арон Наумович Трайнин)
Aron Trainin, also known as Aron Naumovich Trainin, was a Soviet criminal law scholar who coined "crimes against peace" and helped negotiate the Nuremberg Charter in 1945.
Aron Wieder
Aron Wieder is an American Democratic politician, a member of the New York State Assembly from the 97th district who previously served on the East Ramapo School Board and the Rockland County Legislature.
Aroon Purie
Aroon Purie (born 1944, Lahore) is the founding Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group, a chartered accountant who launched India Today magazine in 1975 and built it into a multi-platform media group including Aaj Tak.
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ)
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ), also Aror or Arore, a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh mercantile caste named after Aror (Rohri, Sindh); historically in south-west Punjab and Bahawalpur, 775,734 in the 1931 census, closely tied to the Khatris.
Aroundhome
Aroundhome, formerly Käuferportal, is a Berlin-based online broker founded in 2008 by Robin Behlau and Mario Kohle that connects German homeowners with local firms for home products and services.
Arpa Ke'un
Arpa Ke'un (آرپا کاون), also Arpa Khan, was a Mongol prince who ruled the Ilkhanate from late 1335 until his defeat and death in May 1336.
Árpád
Árpád (c. 850 – 907?) was grand prince of the Hungarian tribal confederation who led the conquest of the Carpathian Basin around 895, founding the dynasty that ruled Hungary until 1301.
Arpad Busson
Arpad Busson, known as "Arki", is a French-born financier who founded EIM Group in 1992, built it into a leading fund of hedge funds, and founded the charity Ark in 2002.
Árpád dynasty
The Árpád dynasty (Árpád-ház) was the first ruling house of Hungary, which ruled from the late ninth century until the male line died out in 1301.
Arpit Agarwal
Arpit Agarwal is an Indian venture capital investor and Partner at Blume Ventures, a Mumbai early-stage firm he joined in 2014, known for investments in Cashify, Spinny, and Euler Motors.
Arqamani
Arqamani, also rendered Ergamenes, was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroe in the third century BC and is the only Meroitic king named in classical literature.
Arraignment
Arraignment is the first court hearing in a criminal case, where the defendant learns the charges, is advised of rights including appointed counsel, and enters a guilty or not-guilty plea; deadlines, bail, and remote practice vary by jurisdiction.
Arran Dokal
Arran Dokal is a UK cancer scientist and Chief Technology Officer of Kinomica, a Queen Mary University of London spin-out developing phosphoproteomic diagnostics to predict cancer drug response.
Arranged marriage
Arranged marriage, also called prearranged marriage, is a marriage in which families lead the choice of partner, while consent formally remains with the couple, distinguishing it from forced marriage.
Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent
Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent is marriage arranged primarily by parents or family matchmakers, remaining the predominant form of marriage in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Arrears
Arrears (arrearages) are accumulated debts unpaid past their due date, covering rent, mortgage, child support, and tax arrears; also the accounting sense of payments due at period end, from Old French ariere, behind.
Arrest
Arrest: taking a person into custody to answer charges. Also called custodial detention; governed by warrant rules, probable cause, Article 22 safeguards in India, Fourth Amendment standards in the US, and prompt judicial review.
Arrest and deportation of Toussaint Louverture
The arrest and deportation of Toussaint Louverture (Arrestation de Toussaint Louverture) was the French seizure of Saint-Domingue's governor general in 1802, who died imprisoned at the fort de Joux.
Arrest and indictment of Pavel Durov
Arrest and indictment of Pavel Durov: Telegram's founder-CEO was detained 24 August 2024 at Le Bourget, France, and placed under formal investigation 28 August on 12 charges of platform complicity in organized crime, with 5 million euro bail.
Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu
Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu: detention of Istanbul's CHP mayor on 19 March 2025 and formal arrest on corruption charges on 23 March, days after his university diploma was annulled, triggering mass protests and market turmoil.
Arrest of Feodosia Morozova
The arrest of Feodosia Morozova (Дело боярыни Морозовой) was the 1671 arrest in Moscow of the boyarynya who refused the Russian Orthodox Church reforms; tortured, she died of hunger in 1675.
Arrest of Jesus
The arrest of Jesus, also called the arrest of Christ, is his nighttime capture in a garden on the Mount of Olives after the Last Supper, with Judas identifying him by a kiss.
Arrest of Lavrenty Beria
The arrest of Lavrenty Beria (Арест Берии) took place in Moscow on 26 June 1953, when Marshal Zhukov and armed officers seized him at a Presidium meeting.