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Places

• Agricola, Mississippi
  Agricola, Mississippi
  
  Agricola is an unincorporated community in George County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States.Agricola is home to Agricola Elementary School ....
  

People

Romans

• Gnaeus Julius Agricola
  Gnaeus Julius Agricola
  
  Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
  , Roman general, whose biography Agricola
  Agricola (book)
  
  The Agricola is a book by the ancient Rome historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general....
   was written by the historian Tacitus.
• Julia Agricola
  Julia Agricola
  
  Julia Agricola was the daughter of Ancient Rome general Gnaeus Julius Agricola and Domitia Decidiana, a lady of illustrious birth. Shortly after her birth her elder brother, who was just a young child, died....
  , wife of Tacitus.
• Sextus Calpurnius Agricola
  Sextus Calpurnius Agricola
  
  Sextus Calpurnius Agricola was a Roman Empire general and politician of the 2nd century.Calpurnius Agricola was governor of Germania Superior around 158....
  , Roman governor of the mid second century AD.

As Latin translation of Germanic surnames

• Alexander Agricola
  Alexander Agricola
  
  Alexander Agricola was a Dutch School composer of the Renaissance music. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1500, and his music was widely distributed throughout Europe....
   (1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
• Christoph Ludwig Agricola
  Christoph Ludwig Agricola
  
  Christoph Ludwig Agricola was a Germany Landscape art. He was born and died at Regensburg .He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples, Italy....
   (1667-1719), German landscape painter
• Georg Agricola
  Georg Agricola
  
  Georgius Agricola was a Germany scholar and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony. His real name was Georg Pawer; Agricola is the Latinised version of his name, Pawer/ meaning farmer....
   (1494-1555), German scholar and scientist.
• Georg Andreas Agricola
  Georg Andreas Agricola
  
  Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg.Agricola, who was an able scientist, experimented with plant cuttings and grafting....
   (1672-1738), German physician and naturalist.
• Ignaz Agricola
  Ignaz Agricola
  
  Ignaz Agricola was a Germany Jesuit.Agricola was born in Zusamaltheim in the Bishopric of Augsburg. He entered the Jesuit order on September 28, 1677, and studied in Jesuit schools, philosophy for three years and theology for four years....
   (1661–1729), German Jesuit.
• Johann Friedrich Agricola
  Johann Friedrich Agricola
  
  Johann Friedrich Agricola was a Germany composer, organist, singer, pedagogue and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio....
   (1720-1774), German composer.
• Johannes Agricola
  Johannes Agricola
  
  Johannes Agricola was a Germany Protestantism reformer and humanism. He was a follower and friend of Martin Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the law on Christians....
   (1494-1566), German scholar and theologian, an antinomian
• Stephan Agricola
  Stephan Agricola
  
  Stephan Agricola was a Lutheran church reformer. Born in Abensberg, at a young age he joined the Augustinian order. As a monk, he studied Augustine deeply....
  , also Kastenpaur, (1491–1547), German scholar and theologian, formerly an Augustinian monk
• Martin Agricola
  Martin Agricola
  
  Martin Agricola was a Germany composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.He was born in Swiebodzin in Lower Silesia. His German name was Sohr or Sore....
   (1486-1556), German composer and music theorist of the Renaissance.
• Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola
  
  Mikael Agricola was a Finland clergyman who became de facto founder of written Finnish language and one of the prominent proponents of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden-Finland....
   (1510-1557), Finnish theologian, reformer and "The Father of Finnish written language".
• Philipp Agricola
  Philipp Agricola
  
  Philipp Agricola was a Germany poet and dramatist.Agricola was born in Eisleben, and is assumed to have been the son of Johannes Agricola. He was in Berlin by 1571, where he wrote poetry and dramas about List of rulers of Brandenburg; his drama J?ngste Gericht satirized the Junkers and court clergy....
   (16th c.), German poet and dramatist
• Rodolphus Agricola
  Rodolphus Agricola
  
  Rodolphus Agricola was a pre-Erasmus Humanism of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek language well....
   (1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist.

Christian saints

• Saints Vitalis and Agricola
  Saints Vitalis and Agricola
  
  Saints Vitalis and Agricola are venerated as martyrs, who are considered to have died at Bologna about 304, during the persecution ordered by Roman Emperor Diocletian....
  , martyrs of the fourth century.
• Saint Agricola of Avignon, bishop of Avignon during the seventh century.

Things

• Agricola's Ditch
  Agricola's Ditch
  
  Agricola's Ditch is a Roman era defensive structure spanning the width of Britain. This structure was a precursor of Hadrian's Wall which was a more substantial fortification dividing settled Britannia from the northern Pictish region ....
  , a defensive structure spanning the width of Britain, built by Gnaeus Julius Agricola
• Agricola (book)
  Agricola (book)
  
  The Agricola is a book by the ancient Rome historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general....
  , biography of Julius Agricola written by Tacitus
  Tacitus
  
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
  
• Auster Agricola
  Auster Agricola
  
  The Auster B8 Agricola was a commercially unsuccessful United Kingdom agricultural aircraft designed for the aerial topdressing market which opened up in New Zealand in the early 1950s....
  , unsuccessful aerial topdressing aircraft from the 1950s.
• Agricola (database), database of scientific papers operated by the United States National Agricultural Library
  United States National Agricultural Library
  
  The United States National Agricultural Library is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a National Library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture....
  
• 3212 Agricola
  3212 Agricola
  
  3212 Agricola is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 19, 1938 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku.External links ...
  , asteroid discovered by Yrjö Väisälä
  Väisälä
  
  V?is?l? may refer to:* V?is?l? , a tiny lunar craterPeople with the surname V?is?l?:* Vilho V?is?l? , Finnish meteorologist and physicist...
   in 1939.
• Agricola (school), secret non-commissioned officer school operated by the Szare Szeregi
  Szare Szeregi
  
  Grey Ranks was a codename for the underground Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The organisation was created on September 27, 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation until January 18, 1945 in Warsaw and largely contributed to all resistance actions of the Polish Underground State and some of its members were...
   during World War II.
• Agricola (vehicles)
  Agricola (vehicles)
  
  Agricola was a Greece maker of 4x4 multi-purpose trucks and other farm machinery based in Thessaloniki. The Agricola 25 GT 4x4 truck was a fairly advanced design introduced in 1975, with enhanced all-terrain capabilities, a metal cab and Mercedes-Benz 180D Diesel engine....
  , Greek 4x4 truck manufacturer.
• Agricola (board game)
  Agricola (board game)
  
  Agricola is a German-style board game board game created by Uwe Rosenberg, and published by Lookout Games and Z-Man Games. The aim of the game is to have the most well-balanced farm at the end of 14 turns, with ploughed fields, pastures, grain, vegetables and animals all present, with as little fallow land as possible, with a house with...
  , a German boardgame released in 2007