In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

His oracular shrine in Abae in Phocis, where he bore the toponymic epithet Abaeus (, Apollon Abaios ) was important enough to be consulted by Croesus ( Herodotus, 1. 46 ).

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

Alexander I of Epirus (, 370 BC – 331 BC ), also known as Alexander Molossus (), was a king of Epirus ( 350 – 331 BC ) of the Aeacid dynasty.

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Alexis (, c. 394 BC – c. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

Andocides or Andokides (, 440 – 390 BC ) was a logographer ( speech writer ) in Ancient Greece.

The other names are the Danaans (, Danaoi used 138 times in the Iliad ), Argives ( used 182 times in the Iliad ) while Hellenes (, Hellenes ) was used only once.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Aedile (, from aedes, " temple building ") was an office of the Roman Republic.

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Aedesius (, died 355 ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family.

Abigail (, spelled Abigal in ) was the wife of Nabal ; she became a wife of David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ).

This agreement gave Lithuanians control of the city of Vilnius (, ), the old Lithuanian capital, but a city with a majority Polish population.

He then gathered most of the right wing of the old National Liberal Party into the German People's Party (, DVP ), with himself as chairman.

The term ultimately stems from the Chinese chuán (, " boat ; ship "), also based on and pronounced as () in the Min Nan dialect ( 閩南語 ), or zhōu, the old word for a sailing vessel.

* Zhijiang Campus (, the old campus of mathematics and related theoretical sciences, at present the main part of it is Guanghua Law School )

Other important markets in the vicinity were the second-hand market (), the " Long Market " (), corresponding to the Greek " Makrós Émbolos " (,, a long porticoed mall stretching downhill from the Forum of Constantine to the Golden Horn, which was one of the main market areas of the city ), while the old book market () was moved from the Bazaar to the present picturesque location near the Beyazid Mosque only after the earthquake of 1894.

* Lesny muzhik / ded (, ), meaning " forest man " or " old forest man "

Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (, created in 1999 as a result of Local Government Reorganization Act ), previously in Warszawa Voivodeship ( or, 1975 – 1998 ) and old Masovian Voivodeship ( before 1975 ).

Zator (, Vilamovian: Naojśtaod ) is an old town on the Skawa river within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship ( since 1999 ) in southern Poland.

His home town, Piran, now has a statue of Tartini in the square, which was the old harbour, originally Roman, named the Tartini Square (, ).

Sütterlinschrift (, Sütterlin script ) is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the old German blackletter handwriting.

Older, unrelated reflexes of yat exist ; for example, old word (, carts ) became modern Russian телеги ( telegi ) but in Serbian it is таљиге ( taljige ).

The Ems Ukaz, or Ems Ukase (, Emskiy ukaz ;, Ems ’ kyy ukaz ), was a secret decree ( ukaz ) of Tsar Alexander II of Russia issued in 1876, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print, with the exception of reprinting of old documents.

The double Theodosian Walls (, teichos Theodosiakon ), located about 2 km to the west of the old Constantinian Wall, were erected during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II ( r. 408 – 450 ), after whom they were named.

Snæfellsjökull (, snow-fell glacier ) is a 700, 000 year old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit in western Iceland.

Cupid and Psyche (, ), also known as The Tale of Amour and Psyche and The Tale of Eros and Psyche, is a myth that first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD.

The New Italian Socialist Party (, NPSI ) is a small political party in Italy which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s ( see Mani pulite ).

The Gothic Quarter (, ) is the centre of the old city of Barcelona.

Haeckel, in his book The History of Creation, devoted most of a chapter to the argument, and ended by proposing, perhaps with tongue slightly in cheek, to set up " a theory of the unsuitability of parts in organisms, as a counter-hypothesis to the old popular doctrine of the suitability of parts " (, p. 331 ).

Aljama (,, ) is a term of Arabic origin used in old official documents in Spain and Portugal to designate the self-governing communities of Moors and Jews living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

When several children have died in a family the next that is born has no name given to it, but is referred to as " Alter " (, literally " old "), or Alterke, the view being that the Angel of Death, not knowing the name of the child, will not be able to seize it.

" Collection of 100 fairy tales "), written by Yusuke (, or Yūsa ) in 1723 and in the book Rōō Chabanashi (, " Tea-time gossip of old ladies "), written by Misaka Daiyata () in 1742.

Portuguese pavement (,, calçada portuguesa ), is a traditional style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal, while it can also be found in Olivença ( a disputed territory administered by Spain ) and throughout old Portuguese colonies such as Brazil and Macau.

" Nyingma " literally means " ancient ," and is often referred to as Nga ' gyur (, school of the ancient translations ) or the " old school " because it is founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan, in the eighth century.

Although their existence was mentioned in some old East Slavic manuscripts, the discovery of birch bark documents (, berestyanáya grámota, and also grámota in those documents ) significantly changed the understanding of the cultural level and language spoken by the East Slavs between 11th and 15th centuries.