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Asaf-ud-Daula
Asaf-ud-Daula (آصف الدولہ) was the fourth Nawab Wazir of Awadh from 1775 to 1797, who moved the capital from Faizabad to Lucknow and built the Bara Imambara.
Asahi Kasei
Asahi Kasei (旭化成株式会社, Asahi Kasei Kabushiki-gaisha) is a diversified Japanese materials, housing, and healthcare group founded in 1922, reporting net sales of ¥3,037.3 billion in fiscal 2024.
Asahiyama Zoo
Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園), Asahikawa's municipal zoo in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost, opened 1967; famous for behavioral exhibits, the Penguin Walk, and a comeback from 260,000 to over 3 million annual visitors.
Asai clan
The Asai clan (浅井氏) was a Sengoku-era warrior house that ruled northern Ōmi Province from Odani Castle, destroyed in 1573 after breaking with Oda Nobunaga.
Asai–Asakura alliance
The Asai–Asakura alliance (浅井・朝倉連合) was a Sengoku-era military coalition of the Asai and Asakura clans, joined by Enryaku-ji and the Ikkō ikki, that opposed Oda Nobunaga from 1570 to 1573.
Asakura clan
The Asakura clan (朝倉氏) was a Japanese warrior house that rose to Sengoku daimyo status, ruling Echizen Province from its base at Ichijōdani until Oda Nobunaga destroyed it in 1573.
Asakura Yoshikage
Asakura Yoshikage (朝倉義景, 1533–1573) was a Sengoku daimyo and the eleventh and last head of the Asakura clan, ruling Echizen Province from Ichijōdani until Oda Nobunaga destroyed the house in 1573.
Asana (आसन)
Asana (आसन, āsana), Sanskrit for "seat", is the yoga term for posture: a steady, comfortable seat in Patañjali's third limb, expanded by haṭha and 20th-century postural yoga into hundreds of modern poses.
Asanga
Asanga (असङ्ग) was an Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher, active in the 4th and 5th centuries CE, regarded as the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism.
Asano Naganori
Asano Naganori (浅野長矩, 1667–1701) was the third lord of Akō domain, who attacked Kira Yoshinaka in Edo Castle in 1701 and was ordered to commit seppuku the same day.
Asansol Municipal Corporation
Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC), the civic body governing Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal; formed 1994 from the 1885 municipality, 106 wards over 326 sq km, under the WB Municipal Corporation Act 2006 and a state-appointed Board of Administrators.
Asante army
The Asante army (Asante asafo) was the military institution of the Asante Empire, a campaign force of the whole adult male population that overthrew Denkyira and conquered an area larger than modern Ghana.
Asante civil war of 1883–1888
The Asante civil war of 1883–1888 was a succession war in Kumasi between rival claimants to the Golden Stool, ending with Prempe's victory in 1888.
Asante conquest of Akyem
The Asante conquest of Akyem (Asante-Akyem ko) was a series of wars on the Gold Coast between the Asante Empire and the Akyem states, ending in Asante victory in 1742.
Asante conquest of Denkyira
The Asante conquest of Denkyira (Asante-Denkyira ko) was a 1699 to 1701 war in the Gold Coast, in which Osei Tutu's Asante crushed Ntim Gyakari's Denkyira at Feyiase in 1701.
Asante Empire
The Asante Empire (Asante Aman) was a powerful Akan state in Ghana, founded by Osei Tutu in the late 1600s. It grew through trade and war into a formidable pre-colonial power.
Asante Great Oath
The Asante Great Oath, known as Mponponsuo, is a solemn Akan oath invoking a national calamity, sworn by senior chiefs to the Asantehene and still enforced today.
Asante-Fante wars
The Asante-Fante wars (Asante-Fante ko) were a series of Asante invasions of the Fante states of what is now southern Ghana, fought mainly between 1806 and 1824 and ending with a British-brokered treaty in 1831.
Asante–British Treaty of 1817
The Asante–British Treaty of 1817, known as the Bowdich Treaty, was a friendship and trade treaty signed on 7 September 1817 between King Osei Bonsu of Asante and a British mission led by Thomas Edward Bowdich.
Asantehemaa
The Asantehemaa is the queen mother of Asante, in present-day Ghana, who co-rules with the king, the Asantehene, and nominates the occupant of the Golden Stool.
Asantemanhyiamu
The Asantemanhyiamu was the great national council of the Asante state at Kumasi, dating to the early eighteenth century and continuing today as the Asanteman Council.
ASAP Group
ASAP Group (ASAP Gruppe, formally ASAP Holding GmbH) is a German automotive engineering services provider in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt, acquired by HCLTech in 2023 for $279.72 million.
ASAPP, Inc.
ASAPP, Inc. is a New York artificial intelligence company, founded by Gustavo Sapoznik in 2015 and headquartered at One World Trade Center, that builds AI customer-service software for enterprise contact centers.
Asaram
Asaram, born Asumal Sirumalani Harpalani and known to devotees as Asaram Bapu, is an Indian spiritual leader who built a following of tens of millions and was convicted of rape in 2018.
ASB Bank
ASB Bank, also known as Auckland Savings Bank, is a New Zealand retail and commercial bank founded in Auckland in 1847 and wholly owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Asbagh ibn al-Faraj
Asbagh ibn al-Faraj (أصبغ بن الفرج) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist and mufti of Fustat who died in 840 CE, remembered as the master of Malik ibn Anas's legal opinions.
Asbaha
Asbaha is a figure of Ethiopian Christian tradition, venerated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church with Abrha as brother kings of Ethiopia; scholars date the underlying event to Emperor 'Ezana's reign in the early 4th century.
Asbjørnsen and Moe
Asbjørnsen and Moe were Norwegian folklore collectors, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, whose 1841 collection Norske Folkeeventyr gathered "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."
Ascanio Colonna
Ascanio Colonna (1560–1608) was an Italian cardinal of the Colonna family, created cardinal in 1586 at Philip II of Spain's request, and viceroy of Aragon from 1602 to 1605.
Ascendant Capital Partners
Ascendant Capital Partners LP is a real estate private equity investment manager based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2019 by Russell Gimelstob, Alexander Halpern, and Joseph Eric Calder.