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Beagle ChannelPlaceThe Beagle Channel is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America, named after HMS Beagle.
BeasPlaceThe Beas is a river of northern India, one of the five rivers that give the Punjab its name, alongside the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej.- The BeatlesPeople / groupThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and, from 1962, Ringo Starr.
Beatrice I, Countess of BurgundyPersonBeatrice I was countess of the Free County of Burgundy from 1148, the only child of Count Renaud III.- Beatrice of BourbonPersonBeatrice of Bourbon was the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon through her mother Agnes.
Beatrice of ProvencePersonBeatrice of Provence was countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1245, the youngest daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer IV; her three sisters married the kings of…
Beatrix of the NetherlandsPersonBeatrix was Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013, succeeding her mother Juliana.- Beatus of FacundusWork / monumentThe Beatus of Facundus is an illuminated manuscript of Beatus of Liébana's Commentary on the Apocalypse, copied in 1047 by the scribe Facundus for King Ferdinand I of…
Beatus of LiébanaPersonBeatus of Liébana was a monk of the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana in Cantabria.
Beatus RhenanusPersonBeatus Rhenanus was an Alsatian humanist from Sélestat who edited classical texts, including Tacitus and Velleius Paterculus, and wrote a history of ancient Germany.- BeaubassinPlaceBeaubassin was an Acadian village on the Isthmus of Chignecto, near present-day Amherst, Nova Scotia, founded around 1672.
- BeaucairePlaceBeaucaire is a town on the Rhône in the Gard department of southern France, opposite Tarascon.
- BeaucePlaceThe Beauce is a flat, fertile plain of north-central France, between Chartres and Orléans, long known as the granary of France for its wheat.
- Beauchamp familyPeople / groupThe Beauchamps were an English noble family who held the earldom of Warwick from 1268 until the 1440s.
Beaufort Castle, LebanonWork / monumentBeaufort Castle is a crusader fortress in southern Lebanon, standing on a cliff high above the Litani river.- BeaujeuPlaceBeaujeu is a small town in the Rhône department of eastern France, in the hills west of the Saône.
Beaumaris CastleWork / monumentBeaumaris Castle is a castle on Anglesey in north Wales, begun by Edward I in 1295 after a Welsh revolt and designed by Master James of St George.
Beaumont-HamelPlaceBeaumont-Hamel is a village in the Somme department of northern France.
BeaunePlaceBeaune is a town in the Côte-d'Or department of Burgundy, eastern France, at the heart of the Côte d'Or wine country between Dijon and Chalon-sur-Saône.
BeauvaisPlaceBeauvais is a city in northern France, capital of the Oise department in Hauts-de-France.
Beaver WarsWar · c. 1609–1701The Beaver Wars were a long series of conflicts in which the Iroquois Confederacy, armed through Dutch and then English trade, fought neighbouring peoples and the…
Bec AbbeyWork / monumentBec Abbey, at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy, is a Benedictine monastery founded around 1034 by the knight Herluin.
Bechara El KhouryPersonBechara El Khoury was a Maronite lawyer and politician who became the first president of independent Lebanon, serving from 1943 to 1952.- BeçinPlaceBeçin is a ruined medieval town on a rocky plateau near Milas in south-western Turkey.
- Beckman RevoltRevolt · 1684The Beckman Revolt was a settlers' rising in São Luís, capital of the State of Maranhão, in February 1684, led by the planter Manuel Beckman.
BedePersonBede was a Northumbrian monk and scholar of the twin monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow.
Bedia CathedralWork / monumentBedia Cathedral is a medieval church in eastern Abkhazia, founded in 999 by Bagrat III, king of the Abkhazians and the first king of a united Georgia, who was buried…- Bedir Khan BegPersonBedir Khan Beg was the last mir of the Kurdish Emirate of Bohtan, ruling from Cizre.
BednurPlaceBidanur, also known as Bednore and now called Nagar, is a town in the Shimoga district of Karnataka, India.
BedouinPeople / groupThe Bedouin are the nomadic and semi-nomadic Arab tribes of the deserts of Arabia, Syria, Iraq and North Africa, organised in lineages and tribal confederations.- BeduluPlaceBedulu is a village in Gianyar regency, Bali, Indonesia, near Ubud and Pejeng, in the fertile area between the Petanu and Pakerisan rivers.
BeemsterPlaceThe Beemster is a polder in North Holland, north of Amsterdam, created by draining a lake between 1609 and 1612 with dozens of windmills under the direction of Jan…
Beer Hall PutschRevolt · 1923The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup attempt by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party and General Erich Ludendorff in Munich on 8 and 9 November 1923.
Beeston CastleWork / monumentBeeston Castle is a ruined castle on a high sandstone crag in Cheshire, England.
Bega CanalWork / monumentThe Bega Canal is a navigable canal in the Banat region of Romania and Serbia, which follows and regulates the course of the Bega river.- BeghoPlaceBegho was a trading town in what is now the Bono Region of Ghana, near the edge of the forest.
BeglarbegiInstitutionBeglarbegi, meaning "bey of beys", was the title of a provincial military governor in the Safavid Empire.
Begum Hazrat MahalPersonBegum Hazrat Mahal was a wife of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, and a leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
BéhanzinPersonBéhanzin was the last independent king of Dahomey, reigning from 1889 to 1894.
Behbeit el-HagarPlaceBehbeit el-Hagar is an archaeological site in the Nile Delta of Egypt, near Samannud, the ancient Sebennytos.
Behistun InscriptionWork / monumentThe Behistun Inscription is a monumental rock relief and text carved on a cliff in western Iran on the orders of the Achaemenid king Darius I, recording his accession…- Beidi CommanderyPlaceBeidi Commandery, the 'Northern Land', was a commandery of the Qin and Han empires on the north-western frontier of China, in eastern Gansu and Ningxia.
- Beifu ArmyPeople / groupThe Beifu Army was the main field army of the Eastern Jin dynasty of China, raised by Xie Xuan in the late 370s from northern refugees settled around Guangling and…
BeijingPlaceBeijing is a city in northern China that has served as the capital of several imperial dynasties.- BeiraPlaceBeira is a port city in central Mozambique, at the mouth of the Pungwe River on the Indian Ocean.
BeirutPlaceBeirut is a port city on the eastern Mediterranean coast, now the capital of Lebanon.
Beit She'anPlaceBeit She'an is a town in northern Israel at the junction of the Jordan and Jezreel valleys.
Beiteddine PalaceWork / monumentBeiteddine Palace is a palace in the Chouf mountains of Lebanon, built by Emir Bashir Shihab II over some thirty years from about 1788.
Beiyang ArmyInstitutionThe Beiyang Army was the Western-style army created by the Qing dynasty from 1895 under Yuan Shikai, based in the northern region of Zhili.- Beiyang governmentInstitutionThe Beiyang government was the internationally recognised government of the Republic of China seated in Beijing from 1912 to 1928, dominated by officers of the Beiyang…
BéjaïaPlaceBéjaïa, formerly known in Europe as Bougie, is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of north-eastern Algeria, in Kabylia.- BekInstitutionThe bek, or khagan-bek, was the executive ruler in the dual kingship system of the Khazar Khaganate.
Beka I JaqeliPersonBeka I Jaqeli was atabeg of Samtskhe in southern Georgia in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.- Bel (god)Religion / ideaBel, meaning 'lord', was a title of the Babylonian god Marduk that became the name of a chief god worshipped across Mesopotamia, Syria and western Iran.
Béla I of HungaryPersonBéla I was king of Hungary from 1060 to 1063.
Béla III of HungaryPersonBéla III was king of Hungary from 1172 to 1196.
Béla IV of HungaryPersonBéla IV of Hungary was king from 1235 to 1270.- Béla Kovács (politician)PersonBéla Kovács was a Hungarian politician and general secretary of the Independent Smallholders' Party, the largest party after the elections of 1945.
Béla KunPersonBéla Kun was a Hungarian communist who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic of March to August 1919.
BelagaviPlaceBelagavi, known as Belgaum until 2014, is a city in northern Karnataka, India, near the border with Maharashtra and Goa.
Belanjong pillarWork / monumentThe Belanjong pillar is an inscribed stone pillar at Sanur, Bali, dated to 914 CE.- Belarmino TomásPersonBelarmino Tomás was a Spanish Socialist miners' leader from Asturias.
BelarusPlaceBelarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with its capital at Minsk, bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
BelarusiansPeople / groupBelarusians are an East Slavic people who form the majority of the population of Belarus and live in neighbouring parts of Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine.
Belaya (Kuban)PlaceThe Belaya is a river of the north-western Caucasus, a left tributary of the Kuban about 270 kilometres long.- Beleheb Tz'iPersonBeleheb Tz'i was one of the leading kings of the K'iche' Maya kingdom in highland Guatemala at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- Beleheb' KatPersonBeleheb' Kat was one of the two kings of the Kaqchikel Maya, ruling from Iximche in the Guatemalan highlands alongside Kaji' Imox.
Belek GhaziPersonBelek Ghazi was an Artuqid Turkoman emir, a nephew of Ilghazi, who held Harput and other fortresses in eastern Anatolia.
BelémPlaceBelém is a port city near the mouth of the Amazon in northern Brazil and the capital of the state of Pará.
BelfastPlaceBelfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, at the mouth of the River Lagan on Belfast Lough.
Belfort GapPlaceThe Belfort Gap, or Burgundian Gate, is a lowland pass in eastern France between the Vosges to the north and the Jura to the south, linking the Rhine valley with the…
Belgian RevolutionRevolution · 1830–1831The Belgian Revolution was the uprising of 1830–1831 in which the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands broke away from King William I.
Belgica SecundaPlaceBelgica Secunda was a late Roman province in north-eastern Gaul, formed by the division of Gallia Belgica around 300, with its capital at Reims.
BelgiumPlaceBelgium is a country in northwestern Europe that became independent in 1830 and acquired a large colonial empire in Central Africa.
Belgium–Luxembourg Economic UnionInstitutionThe Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union is a customs and monetary union created by a treaty signed in 1921, after Luxembourg had left the German Zollverein.- Belgorod LineWork / monumentThe Belgorod Line was a fortified defensive line built by Muscovy in 1635–1658 along its southern steppe frontier against Crimean and Nogai Tatar raids.
BelgradePlaceBelgrade is a city at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, now the capital of Serbia.
BelisariusPersonBelisarius was the leading general of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.- BelitungPlaceBelitung is an island in the Java Sea off the east coast of Sumatra, part of the Indonesian province of the Bangka Belitung Islands.
Belize CityPlaceBelize City is the largest city of Belize, at the mouth of the Belize River on the Caribbean coast.- Belize Estate and Produce CompanyInstitutionThe Belize Estate and Produce Company was a British firm founded in 1875 that became the largest landowner in British Honduras.
Bellapais AbbeyWork / monumentBellapais Abbey is a ruined monastery near Kyrenia in northern Cyprus, founded around 1200 and largely rebuilt under the Lusignan kings in the 13th and 14th centuries.- Belle Isle (County Fermanagh)PlaceBelle Isle is an island and estate in Upper Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
BellerophonPersonBellerophon was a hero of Greek myth, best known for taming the winged horse Pegasus and killing the Chimera in Lycia.- BellovesusPersonBellovesus was a legendary Gallic leader, nephew of King Ambigatus of the Bituriges, who according to Livy led a great migration of Celts across the Alps into northern…
Bellum IugurthinumWork / monumentThe Bellum Iugurthinum is a historical monograph by Sallust, written around 40 BCE, on Rome's war against the Numidian king Jugurtha in 112–105 BCE.- Belmanna riotsRevolt · 1876The Belmanna riots were an uprising of labourers at Roxborough in Tobago in May 1876, named after Corporal Belmanna, a police officer who had shot a woman during unrest…
BelmopanPlaceBelmopan is the capital of Belize, a planned city built in the interior of the country in the 1960s.
Belovezha AccordsTreaty · 1991The Belovezha Accords were signed on 8 December 1991 at Viskuli in the Belovezha Forest of Belarus by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: Boris Yeltsin, Leonid…
BelozerskPlaceBelozersk, known in the Middle Ages as Beloozero, is a town on the southern shore of Lake Beloye in Vologda Oblast, Russia.
BelshazzarPersonBelshazzar was the son of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and governed Babylon as regent for about a decade while his father lived at the Arabian…- Belsky familyPeople / groupThe Belskys were a princely family descended from Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, through his son Vladimir, and named after their appanage of Bely.
- BelurPlaceBelur is a town in Hassan district, Karnataka, India, on the Yagachi river.
Belvedere, ViennaWork / monumentThe Belvedere is a Baroque palace complex in Vienna built for Prince Eugene of Savoy by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, with the Lower Belvedere completed in 1716 and the…
Belvoir FortressPlaceBelvoir Fortress is a crusader castle on a plateau above the Jordan valley, south of the Sea of Galilee in present-day Israel.
BelyovPlaceBelyov is a small town in Tula Oblast, Russia, on the Oka river.- BelzPlaceBelz is a small town in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, near the Polish border.
Belz Hasidic dynastyPeople / groupThe Belz Hasidic dynasty is a Hasidic movement founded in the town of Belz in Galicia by Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, who became its leader in 1817.
Belz VoivodeshipStateThe Belz Voivodeship was a province of the Kingdom of Poland, and later of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1462 when King Casimir IV took over the…- BemoimPersonBemoim was a prince of the Jolof Empire in present-day Senegal who ruled for a time before being driven out in a succession struggle.