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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Azerbaijani alphabet
Azerbaijani alphabet (Azərbaycan əlifbası): the 32-letter Latin script used for Azerbaijani in the Republic of Azerbaijan since 1991, after earlier Arabic, Latin (1929–1939), and Cyrillic (1939–1991) scripts; transition completed August 1, 2001.
Azerbaijani Armed Forces
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, are the military of Azerbaijan, first established in 1918 and re-formed after independence in 1991.
Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili), an Oghuz Turkic language, is the official language of Azerbaijan with about 50 million speakers, including 30 million in Iran; closely intelligible with Turkish; Latin script since 1991.
Azerbaijani manat
The Azerbaijani manat, also known as the Azeri manat, is the national currency of Azerbaijan, issued by the Central Bank and divided into 100 qəpik since 1992.
Azerbaijani National Council
The Azerbaijani National Council (Azərbaycan Şurayi-Millisi) was the first legislative body of independent Azerbaijan, created on 27 May 1918 in Tiflis by the Muslim faction of the Transcaucasian Seym.
Azerbaijani separatism in Iran
Azerbaijani separatism in Iran: political currents among Iran's roughly 30 million Azeris seeking autonomy or secession, anchored in the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government of 1945-46 under Pishevari and continued today mainly as cultural-linguistic rights activism.
Azerbaijanis
Azerbaijanis, or Azeris, are a Turkic-speaking people and Shiite Muslims. They are the majority in the Republic of Azerbaijan, with 20 to 30 million in Iran.
AZERTY
AZERTY is the keyboard layout family used in France and Belgium, named for its top-row letters A-Z-E-R-T-Y. Derived from QWERTY in the 1890s, it offers direct French accents and was standardized as NF Z71-300 in 2019.
Azes era
The Azes era (अजस् युग) is a calendar era of ancient north-western India, founded by the Indo-Scythian king Azes I and traditionally dated from 58/57 BC.
Azes II
Azes II (Αζης) was an Indo-Scythian king who ruled Gandhara and Taxila around the turn of the first millennium, known almost entirely from coins and inscriptions.
Azhar Waqas
Azhar Waqas, PA-30624, is a Pakistan Army general officer, Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) recipient, who served as Director General Military Intelligence from January 2020 and as Director-General of Pakistan Rangers Sindh from September 2022.
Azi (scribe)
Azi was a scribe of Ebla, a 24th-century BC city-state in western Syria, known from signed and colophoned lexical tablets of the Royal Palace G archive.
Azibaal
Azibaal, also written Azi-Baal or Azbaal, was a king of the Phoenician island city-state of Arwad, appointed to the throne by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal after his father Yakinlu's death.
Azie Faison
Azie Faison Jr. (AZ), born 1964, Harlem crack-era cocaine distributor and partner of Rich Porter and Alpo Martinez; survived a 1987 shooting, later rapper, author of Game Over, and basis for Paid in Full's Ace.
Azilian
The Azilian (Azilien) is an Epipalaeolithic culture of western Europe after the Magdalenian, named for Mas-d'Azil, defined by curved backed points, red deer antler harpoons, and painted pebbles.
Azim F. Shariff
Azim F. Shariff is a Canadian social psychologist and Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, known for research on religion and generosity.
Azim ud-Din I of Sulu
Azim ud-Din I, also written Alimuddin, was Sultan of Sulu who reigned 1735 to 1748 and again from 1764, known for revising the Sulu code of laws.
Azim-us-Shan
Azim-us-Shan (عظیم الشاں), born Muhammad Azimuddin, was a Mughal prince and viceroy of Bengal from 1697 who was proclaimed emperor in 1712 and died in the war of succession.
Aziru
Aziru, also known as Azira, was ruler of Amurru, a kingdom in coastal Syria and part of Lebanon, succeeding his father Abdi-Aŝirta around 1345 BCE.
AZIsotopes (Arizona Isotopes Science Research Corp.)
AZIsotopes, legally Arizona Isotopes Science Research Corp., is a radiopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 that produces medical radioisotopes including strontium-82 at a cyclotron complex in Bunker Hill, Indiana.