Alkan (other)
Alkan may refer to: People *Charles-Valentin Alkan Places Iran * Alkan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad * Alkan, Qom Turkey * Alkan, Gülşehir, in Gülşehir district Other uses * Alkan (name), list of people with the name * Alkan Air, airline servicing northwestern Canada and Alaska See also * Alcan, Canadian mining company * Alken (other) * Alkin * Alkon (other) Alkon is a Russian alcoholic beverage manufacturer. Alkon may also refer to: * Amy Alkon (born 1964), American advice columnist and author * David Alkon (born 1937), Mexican former sports shooter See also * Alcon (other) * Alkan (di ...

Charles-Valentin Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan (; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, among the leading pianists in Paris, a city in which he spent virtually his entire life. Alkan earned many awards at the Conservatoire de Paris, which he entered before he was six. His career in the salons and concert halls of Paris was marked by his occasional long withdrawals from public performance, for personal reasons. Although he had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Parisian artistic world, including Eugène Delacroix and George Sand, from 1848 he began to adopt a reclusive life style, while continuing with his compositions – virtually all of which are for the keyboard. During this period he published, among other works, his collections of large-scale studies in all the major keys (Op. 35) and all the mino ...
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Alkan, Kohgiluyeh And Boyer-Ahmad
Alakan ( fa, الاكان, also Romanized as Ālākān and Alākān; also known as Ālkān) is a village in Babuyi Rural District, Basht District, Basht County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 72, in 15 families. References Populated places in Basht County {{Basht-geo-stub ...
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Alkan, Qom
Algan ( fa, الگان, also Romanized as Algān; also known as Alkān) is a village in Qahan Rural District, Khalajastan District, Qom County, Qom Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 50, in 21 families. References Populated places in Qom Province {{Qom-geo-stub ...
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Gülşehir
Gülşehir, formerly Aravissos and Arapsun, ancient Zoropassos (Ancient Greek: ''Ζωρόπασος''), is a town and district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, in the vicinity of the Fairy Chimney valley of Göreme. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 24,503 of which 8,866 live in the town of Gülşehir, and the remainder in surrounding villages. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is . History The old name of Gülşehir, situated on the southern bank of the Kızıl River, 20 km from Nevşehir, is Arapsun and in ancient times it was called “Zoropassos” by the Hittites. In the vicinity of Gülşehir there are still rocks and steles with inscriptions from the Hittites. The Ottoman Grand Vizier Karavezir Mehmet Seyyid Pasha did the same thing in Gülşehir as Damat İbrahim Pasha did in the nearby Nevşehir and a külliye was built in the town which had only 30 houses. The complex consisted of a mosque ...
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Alkan (name)
Alkan is a surname and a masculine given name among Jews. In Turkish, it means "red blood" and also refers to a commander of the Seljuk fleet based in İznik. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Ahmet Alkan, Turkish economist * Akın Alkan (born 1989), Turkish football player * Alphonse Alkan (1809–1889), French printer, bibliographer, and author * Banu Alkan (born 1958), Turkish-Croatian actress * Céleste Alkan (1812–1897), French musician * Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French composer known for his virtuosity as a pianist * Ender Alkan (born 1977), Turkish football player * Engin Alkan (born 1965), Turkish actor * Erden Alkan (born 1941), Turkish actor * Erol Alkan (born 1974), British DJ * Erol Erdal Alkan (born 1994), Turkish football player * Gökhan Alkan (born 1987), Turkish actor * Hüseyin Alkan (born 1988), Turkish Paralympian goalball player * Napoléon Alkan (1826–1906), French composer * Okan Alkan (born 1992), Turkish football play ...
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Alkan Air
Alkan Air Ltd. is an airline headquartered in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The company operates seven-day-a-week charter and air ambulance (medevac) services. The Whitehorse and Mayo (seasonal) bases generally focus on wheel and floatplane charter and medevac services in northern and western Canada and Alaska. The Nanaimo, BC base provides charter and medevac services, focused primarily in western Canada, the western United States and Mexico. From 2016 to 2018, Alkan also operated scheduled flights between Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport and Watson Lake Airport. History Alkan Air was formed in 1977 by Barry Watson and two Whitehorse businessmen, Win and Joe Muff. It was named in honour of the famous Alaska Highway or Al-Can Highway which skirts the City of Whitehorse. Hugh Kitchen became a partner in 1987 when Win and Joe Muff decided to sell their stake in the company in order to start a telecommunications business in Whitehorse. The company began by operating ...
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Alcan
Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer. It was founded in 1902 as the Northern Aluminum Company, renamed Aluminum Company of Canada in 1925, and Alcan Aluminum in 1966. It took the name Alcan Incorporated in 2001. During that time, it grew to become one of the world's largest aluminum manufacturers. Alcan was purchased by Australian-British multinational Rio Tinto for $38 billion in 2007, becoming Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. in 2008. It was headquartered in Montreal, in its Maison Alcan complex. History The Northern Aluminum Company Limited was founded in 1902, in Shawinigan, Quebec, as part of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. In 1913, the company opened a kitchen utensil production plant and foundry in Toronto. It opened a rolling mill in the plant a few years later. During World War I (1914–18), aluminum production increased to 131,000 tonnes from 69,000. In 1925, the company was renamed the Aluminum Company of Canada. The Aluminum Company of Canada was ...
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Alken (other)
Alken may refer to: People *Samuel Alken (1756–1815), English engraver *Henry Thomas Alken (1785–1851), English painter and engraver Places *Alken, Belgium *Alken, Denmark *Alken, Germany See also * Alkan (other) * Alkin * Alkon (other) * Alkene In organic chemistry, an alkene is a hydrocarbon containing a carbon–carbon double bond. Alkene is often used as synonym of olefin, that is, any hydrocarbon containing one or more double bonds.H. Stephen Stoker (2015): General, Organic, an ... unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain at least one carbon-carbon double bond {{disambiguation, geo, surname ...
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Alkin
Alkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Elizabeth Alkin (1600–1655), English publisher, nurse, and spy *John Alkin (born 1947), English actor *Lee Everett Alkin (born 1937), English psychic * Marvin C. Alkin (born 1934), American academic See also * Alkan (other) * Alken (other) * Alkon (other) Alkon is a Russian alcoholic beverage manufacturer. Alkon may also refer to: * Amy Alkon (born 1964), American advice columnist and author * David Alkon (born 1937), Mexican former sports shooter See also * Alcon (other) * Alkan (di ...