#revolt
- Anti-feudal — Opposing feudalism, manorial social structures, or hereditary aristocratic privileges; a movement, doctrine, or revolt aimed at abolishing serfdom, emancipating the peasantry, and establishing modern legal and economic relations. The term describes the revolutionary transformations oriented toward eliminating feudal servitude.
- Anti-philistinism — An intellectual attitude, current of opinion, or aesthetic stance manifested by the radical rejection of philistinism (narrow bourgeois mindset, cultural conformism, pettiness, lack of spiritual openness, and ignorant attachment to purely material values). It represents the revolt of artists against vulgar tastes and social hypocrisy.
- Anti-Greek — Manifesting, promoting, or containing prejudice, hostility, aversion, or hatred directed against the Greek people, Hellenic culture, or the Greek state; Hellenophobic. Historically, it describes social movements or polemical writings oriented toward limiting the economic monopoly of Greek factions.
- Arabi Pasha — The historical reference name of Ahmed Urabi (1839–1911), an Egyptian nationalist officer and central figure of the 1879–1882 revolt against Anglo-French control and Khedive Tewfik Pasha. His persona symbolizes the early anti-colonial movements in the Middle East, with his actions directly triggering the bombardment of Alexandria and the subsequent long-term British protectorate over Egypt.
- Aristonicus — An ancient proper name borne by Hellenic figures, most famously Aristonicus of Pergamum (also known by his royal name Eumenes III), a pretender to the Pergamene throne who led a major popular revolt against the Roman Republic between 133 and 129 BC, proclaiming the creation of an ideal state of equality called the 'City of the Sun' (Heliopolis) where slaves and the poor were freed.
- Artevelde — A surname of Flemish origin historically borne by a famous dynasty of political and military leaders from Ghent (Flanders) in the 14th century, most notably Jacob van Artevelde and his son, Philip van Artevelde. They led popular uprisings of the weavers' guilds against the influence of the French nobility, securing the commercial independence of the region during the Hundred Years' War; in the modern era, the name identifies Belgian higher education institutions and geographical landmarks.