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Atal Pension Yojana (अटल पेंशन योजना)

Atal Pension Yojana (अटल पेंशन योजना) is a voluntary pension scheme of the Government of India, launched in 2015, guaranteeing a fixed monthly pension of Rs. 1,000 to 5,000 from age 60.

Atal-shen

Atal-shen was a Hurrian ruler who bore the title king of Urkesh and Nawar in present-day north-eastern Syria around 2000 BC, attested by an Akkadian inscription crediting him with building the temple of Nergal.

Atala Masjid

The Atala Masjid (अटाला मस्जिद) is a congregational mosque in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, begun under the Tughluq sultans and completed in 1408 by Ibrahim Shah Sharqi.

Atalanta (Ἀταλάντη)

Atalanta (Ἀταλάντη) is a heroine of Greek mythology, famed as a huntress, wrestler, and runner, known above all for the footrace in which golden apples won her a husband.

Atalaya Asset Income

Atalaya Asset Income is a series of private credit funds, first raised in 2012, managed by Atalaya Capital Management, a New York firm founded by Ivan Zinn in 2006.

Atalia (queen of Sargon II)

Atalia, also written Atalya or Atala, was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and wife of King Sargon II, known from inscribed grave goods found at Nimrud in northern Iraq.

Atamrum

Atamrum was an 18th-century BC king of Andarig in Upper Mesopotamia, who rose from deputy of Eshnunna and king of Allahad, and is known almost entirely from the royal correspondence of Mari.

Atan Burhagohain

Atan Burhagohain (আতন বুঢ়াগোহাঁই) was prime minister of the Ahom kingdom of Assam from 1662 to 1679, leading resistance against the Mughals and twice refusing the crown.

Atanas Burov

Atanas Burov (1875–1954) was a Bulgarian banker and politician who served as minister in four cabinets and died in prison after the 1944 communist takeover.

Atanas Pekanov

Atanas Pekanov, born in 1991, is a Bulgarian economist and politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister for EU funding since 2026, after holding the same post in caretaker governments.

Atanasio Cruz Aguirre

Atanasio Cruz Aguirre (1801–1875) was a Uruguayan National (Blanco) Party politician who served as interim president of Uruguay from 1864 to 1865, during the Brazilian invasion.

Atar

Atar is fire in the Zoroastrian religion, venerated as a divine presence addressed as the Son of Ahura Mazda and as the instrument of God's last judgment.

Ataraxia (ταραξία)

Ataraxia (ἀταραξία), ancient Greek ideal of freedom from mental disturbance, pursued by Pyrrhonism (via epochē), Epicureanism (with aponia), and linked to Stoic apatheia; central concept of Hellenistic eudaimonia.

Atari Games

Atari Games, also known as Time Warner Interactive, was an American arcade game company formed in 1984 from Atari's coin-op division, later renamed Midway Games West in 1999.

Atarshumki I

Atarshumki I, also written Attar-šumki or Attarsumki, was a king of the Aramean kingdom of Bit Agusi in northern Syria, defeated by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III.

Atasamale

Atasamale, also rendered Tshis-ma-nufe, Tesmalo, or Atasamalo, was a queen mother of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, known as the mother of King Harsiotef from his stela at Jebel Barkal, active around 400 BC.

Atasözü

Atasözü, plural atasözleri, is the Turkish term for a proverb: a short anonymous saying conveying the judgments and advice of earlier generations, passed down through oral tradition.

Atatürk's reforms

Atatürk's reforms (Turkish: Atatürk Devrimleri) were the legal, political, and cultural changes under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 1922 to 1938 that made the Ottoman state a secular republic.

Atâullah Mehmed Efendi

Atâullah Mehmed Efendi (died 1715) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's chief mufti, under Sultan Ahmed III in 1713, dismissed after two months over appointment irregularities.

ATB Financial

ATB Financial, also known as Alberta Treasury Branches, is a provincial Crown corporation providing retail, business, and agricultural banking throughout Alberta, established by the Government of Alberta in 1938.

ATB Therapeutics

ATB Therapeutics is a Belgian biotechnology company in Marche-en-Famenne, founded in 2018 by Bertrand Magy, that develops bifunctional atbody antibodies using its plant-based ATBioFarm platform.

ATCO

ATCO Ltd. is a Calgary, Alberta-based energy, utilities, and structures company founded by the Southern family in 1947, which controls Canadian Utilities Limited and its regulated utilities.

Atea Pharmaceuticals

Atea Pharmaceuticals is a Boston-based biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2012 by Jean-Pierre Sommadossi and listed on Nasdaq as AVIR, that develops oral antivirals for hepatitis C and E.

Ateas

Ateas, also spelled Atheas, was a fourth-century BCE king of the Scythians of the northwestern Black Sea region, known for his shifting alliance with Philip II of Macedon.

Aten

Aten (Egyptian itn) is the ancient Egyptian sun-disk elevated by Akhenaten in the Amarna Period (c. 1350-1325 BC) to sole state god, worshipped in open-air temples at Akhetaten (Amarna) until Tutankhamun restored the traditional pantheon.

Atenea

Atenea, full early title Atenea, Revista Mensual de Ciencias, Letras y Bellas Artes, is the official journal of the Universidad de Concepción, Chile, founded in 1924 as a cultural publication.

Ateneo Blue Eagles

Ateneo Blue Eagles are the varsity athletic teams of Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. The program competes in the UAAP and has won 26 championships.

Ateneo de Manila University

Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), Jesuit university founded 1859 in Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines; leading private university, Jose Rizal among alumni; hit by 2026 drowning deaths of two Blue Eagles student-athletes.

Atenism

Atenism, the Aten religion or Amarna religion, was the state cult Akhenaten established in Egypt c. 1353–1336 BCE, worshipping the sun disk alone, suppressing Amun, and collapsing after his death.

Aterian

The Aterian is a North African late Middle Stone Age techno-complex, c. 145-29 ka, known for tanged stone tools, early Homo sapiens makers, shell beads, and hafting evidence from Ifri n'Ammar.