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BermudaPlaceBermuda is a British Overseas Territory consisting of a group of small islands in the North Atlantic, about 1,000 kilometres east of North Carolina.
Bermudo II of LeónPersonBermudo II was King of León from 984 to 999, having first been proclaimed in Galicia in 982 against his cousin Ramiro III.
Bermudo III of LeónPersonBermudo III was king of León from 1028 until 1037, the last of the male line descended from the Astur-Leonese kings.
Bernabé AráozPersonBernabé Aráoz was an Argentine caudillo from Tucumán who supported the patriot army in the war of independence, notably at the Battle of Tucumán in 1812.
Bernabò ViscontiPersonBernabò Visconti was lord of Milan, ruling the eastern half of the Visconti dominions from 1354 while his brother Galeazzo II held the west.
Bernal Díaz del CastilloPersonBernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador who took part in Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico in the early sixteenth century.
Bernard Ato IV TrencavelPersonBernard Ato IV was a member of the Trencavel family and viscount of Carcassonne, Béziers, Albi, Nîmes and Razès in Languedoc.- Bernard CoardPersonBernard Coard is a Grenadian politician who was deputy prime minister in Maurice Bishop's People's Revolutionary Government.
Bernard de NeufmarchéPersonBernard de Neufmarché was a Norman lord of the Welsh borders who conquered the Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog in the late eleventh century.- Bernard I of ArmagnacPersonBernard I, called the Squinter, was the first count of Armagnac in Gascony, a member of the ruling house of the counts of Fezensac.
Bernard I, Duke of SaxonyPersonBernard I was Duke of Saxony from 973 to 1011, the son of Hermann Billung.- Bernard IV of CommingesPersonBernard IV was count of Comminges from about 1176 to 1225.
Bernard of ClairvauxPersonBernard of Clairvaux was a French Cistercian monk, born at Fontaine-lès-Dijon in 1090, who founded the abbey of Clairvaux in 1115 and became the most influential…- Bernard of SédiracPersonBernard of Sédirac was a French Cluniac monk who became abbot of Sahagún and, after Alfonso VI's conquest of Toledo, the city's first archbishop from 1086.
- Bernard of SeptimaniaPersonBernard of Septimania was a Frankish noble, son of William of Gellone, who held the counties of Barcelona and Septimania and led the defence of the Spanish March…
Bernard VI of ArmagnacPersonBernard VI was count of Armagnac and Fezensac in south-western France.
Bernard VII, Count of ArmagnacPersonBernard VII was count of Armagnac from 1391 and the leader of the Armagnac faction in the French civil war against the Burgundians.
Bernard-Roger of FoixPersonBernard-Roger was a son of Count Roger I of Carcassonne who, on the division of his father's lands around 1012, received the region around Foix together with the…- Bernardini TombWork / monumentThe Bernardini Tomb is a princely burial of the early 7th century BCE at Praeneste, modern Palestrina, in Latium, found in 1876.
Bernardino de SahagúnPersonBernardino de Sahagún was a Spanish Franciscan friar who worked in New Spain in the sixteenth century.
Bernardino RivadaviaPersonBernardino Rivadavia was an Argentine statesman and the first President of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, in 1826–1827.
Bernardo ArévaloPersonBernardo Arévalo is a Guatemalan sociologist, diplomat and politician, son of the reforming president Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo BuontalentiPersonBernardo Buontalenti was a Florentine architect, engineer, stage designer and artist in the service of the Medici grand dukes.
Bernardo ClesioPersonBernardo Clesio was prince-bishop of Trent from 1514 and a cardinal from 1530.
Bernardo de GálvezPersonBernardo de Gálvez was a Spanish soldier who became governor of Spanish Louisiana in 1777.
Bernardo de MonteagudoPersonBernardo de Monteagudo was a revolutionary of the Spanish American wars of independence, born in Tucumán.
Bernardo HoussayPersonBernardo Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for discovering the part played by hormones of the pituitary…
Bernardo O'HigginsPersonBernardo O'Higgins was a leader of Chilean independence and the son of an Irish-born viceroy of Peru.
Bernardo TanucciPersonBernardo Tanucci (1698–1783) was a Tuscan jurist who became the leading minister of the Kingdom of Naples under Charles of Bourbon and regent during the minority of…
Bernat DesclotPersonBernat Desclot was a Catalan chronicler of the late thirteenth century.- Bernat Guillem of CerdanyaPersonBernat Guillem was count of Cerdanya from 1109 to 1117, succeeding his brother William Jordan, who had gone on crusade and become count of Tripoli.
Bernat I, Count of BesalúPersonBernat I, called Tallaferro ('iron-cutter'), was count of Besalú from 988 to 1020 and a brother of Abbot Oliba.- Bernat III of BesalúPersonBernat III was the last count of Besalú, in north-eastern Catalonia.
BernburgPlaceBernburg is a town on the Saale in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-MeiningenPersonBernhard I was the first Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, third son of Ernest the Pious of Saxe-Gotha.- Bernhard II of LippePersonBernhard II was lord of Lippe in Westphalia and a companion of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony.
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-MeiningenPersonBernhard II was Duke of Saxe-Meiningen from 1803, under a regency until 1821, to 1866.
Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-MeiningenPersonBernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, was the last reigning duke of Saxe-Meiningen, succeeding his father George II in 1914.
Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-BadenPersonBernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, was a son of Margrave Christopher I of Baden.
Bernhard of Saxe-WeimarPersonBernhard of Saxe-Weimar was a German prince and one of the leading Protestant generals of the Thirty Years' War.- Bernhard RothmannPersonBernhard Rothmann was a German preacher who led the Reformation in the city of Münster, where he won much of the citizenry to Lutheran views by 1532.
- Bernhard, Duke of SaxonyPersonBernhard, a younger son of Albert the Bear of the Ascanian house, was Count of Anhalt and from 1180 Duke of Saxony.
Bernkastel-KuesPlaceBernkastel-Kues is a wine town on the Moselle in Rhineland-Palatinate, formed in 1905 from Bernkastel and Kues on opposite banks.- Berno of SchwerinPersonBerno was a Cistercian monk who became the first bishop of Schwerin, appointed under Henry the Lion around 1160 to convert the Obotrites.
Bernt NotkePersonBernt Notke was a painter and sculptor based in Lübeck, the leading artist of the Baltic region in the late 15th century.- Bernward of HildesheimPersonBernward was bishop of Hildesheim from 993 to 1022, after serving as tutor to the young Emperor Otto III.
Berry (province)PlaceBerry is a former province of central France, with Bourges as its capital, roughly the modern departments of Cher and Indre.
Bertalan SzemerePersonBertalan Szemere was a Hungarian politician who served as minister of the interior in the first Hungarian government of 1848 and as prime minister from May to August…
Bertha of KentPersonBertha was a Frankish princess, daughter of the Merovingian king Charibert I of Paris, who married Æthelberht of Kent.
Berthold I of ZähringenPersonBerthold I of Zähringen, called the Bearded, was a Swabian noble and founder of the power of the house of Zähringen.
Berthold IV of ZähringenPersonBerthold IV of Zähringen was Duke of Zähringen from 1152 until his death in 1186 and rector of Burgundy, the imperial office that gave his family authority west of the…
Berthold IV, Duke of MeraniaPersonBerthold IV (d. 1204), of the Bavarian counts of Andechs, was Duke of Merania from 1188, a title linked to lands on the Adriatic coast, and Margrave of Istria.- Berthold of ReichenauPersonBerthold of Reichenau was a monk of the abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance and a chronicler of the eleventh century.
Berthold V, Duke of ZähringenPersonBerthold V was the last duke of Zähringen, a powerful dynasty of south-western Germany and western Switzerland, ruling from 1186 to 1218.- Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-SchleusingenPersonBerthold VII (1272–1340), called the Wise, was Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen, raised to the rank of princely count in 1310.
Bertrada of LaonPersonBertrada of Laon was a Frankish queen, the wife of Pippin the Short and mother of Charlemagne and Carloman.
Bertrada of PrümPersonBertrada of Prüm, also called Bertrada the Elder, was a Frankish noblewoman of the early 8th century.- Bertrand d'OgeronPersonBertrand d'Ogeron was a French colonial governor appointed by the French West India Company in 1665 to govern Tortuga and the French settlements on the coast of…
Bertrand du GuesclinPersonBertrand du Guesclin was a Breton knight who became constable of France in 1370 and the leading French commander of the Hundred Years' War under Charles V.
Bertrand of BauxPersonBertrand of Baux was a Provençal lord of the house of Baux who acquired the principality of Orange through his marriage to Tiburge, heiress of the lords of Orange.
Bertrand of Saint-GenièsPersonBertrand of Saint-Geniès was a French churchman who served as Patriarch of Aquileia from 1334 to 1350.
Bertrand of ToulousePersonBertrand was a son of Raymond IV of Toulouse who governed the county of Toulouse and in 1108 sailed to the East to claim his father's conquests in the Levant.
BeruasPlaceBeruas is a small town in the Manjung district of Perak, Malaysia.
Berwick-upon-TweedPlaceBerwick-upon-Tweed is a town at the mouth of the River Tweed, now the northernmost town in England.
Berwyn rangePlaceThe Berwyn range is a range of moorland mountains in north-east Wales, rising to 832 metres at Cadair Berwyn.
BesReligion / ideaBes was an ancient Egyptian protective deity, shown as a bearded dwarf with a lion-like face, who guarded households, women in childbirth and children against evil.
BesalúPlaceBesalú is a medieval town in the Garrotxa district of Catalonia, Spain, on the Fluvià river.
BesançonPlaceBesançon is a city on the Doubs in eastern France, the historic capital of Franche-Comté.
BeshbaliqPlaceBeshbaliq, 'five towns', was a city in the north of the Tian Shan, near modern Jimsar in Xinjiang, China.- BessarabiaPlaceBessarabia is a historical region between the Prut and Dniester rivers in eastern Europe, the eastern half of the medieval Principality of Moldavia.
BessarionPersonBessarion was a Byzantine scholar and churchman born in Trebizond.- Besshatyr kurgansPlaceThe Besshatyr kurgans are a Saka burial ground on the right bank of the Ili river in south-eastern Kazakhstan, dated to around the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.
BessinPlaceThe Bessin is a historical region of Normandy around Bayeux, between the Cotentin and the plain of Caen along the Channel coast.
BessusPersonBessus was the Persian satrap of Bactria in the late Achaemenid period.- BetarPlaceBetar was an ancient fortified town in the Judaean hills south-west of Jerusalem, at Khirbet al-Yahud near the village of Battir.
Beth-shemeshPlaceBeth-shemesh is an ancient town in the Shephelah west of Jerusalem, excavated at Tel Beth Shemesh beside the modern Israeli city of the same name.
BethelPlaceBethel was an ancient town north of Jerusalem, usually identified with Beitin in the West Bank.
BethlehemPlaceBethlehem is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, about 10 kilometres south of Jerusalem.- BethsaidaPlaceBethsaida is an ancient town near the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, associated in the New Testament with the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.
Betico CroesPersonBetico Croes, born Gilberto François Croes, was an Aruban politician who led the movement for Aruba's separation from the Netherlands Antilles.
BetsileoPeople / groupThe Betsileo are a Malagasy people of the southern central highlands of Madagascar, around Fianarantsoa and Ambalavao.- BetsimitatatraPlaceThe Betsimitatatra is the plain of the Ikopa river below Antananarivo in the central highlands of Madagascar.
Bettino RicasoliPersonBettino Ricasoli was a Tuscan baron and statesman who led the provisional government of Tuscany in 1859–1860, after the grand duke fled, and steered its union with the…- BeturiaPlaceBeturia was the ancient name of the region between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers in south-western Iberia, roughly northern Huelva, southern Badajoz and part of…
BetuwePlaceThe Betuwe is a region of the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, lying between the Nederrijn and Lek to the north and the Waal to the south.
Betwa RiverPlaceThe Betwa is a river of central India that rises in the Vindhya Range in Madhya Pradesh and flows north-east for about 590 km to join the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh.
BevagnaPlaceBevagna, the ancient Mevania, is a small town in the Umbrian plain of central Italy, on the route of the Roman Via Flaminia.
Beveridge ReportWork / monumentThe Beveridge Report, officially Social Insurance and Allied Services, was a British government report written by the economist William Beveridge and published in…- Bevin–Sforza planEventThe Bevin–Sforza plan was a proposal agreed in May 1949 by the British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin and the Italian foreign minister Carlo Sforza for the future of…
Bewcastle CrossWork / monumentThe Bewcastle Cross is an Anglo-Saxon stone cross standing in the churchyard of Bewcastle in Cumbria, probably carved in the early eighth century.- BeylerbeyInstitutionA beylerbey, meaning "bey of beys", was the governor of a major province in the Ottoman Empire.
- BeylikInstitutionA beylik was a Turkic principality ruled by a bey, especially one of the small states that emerged in Anatolia after the collapse of Seljuk authority in the thirteenth…
BeyşehirPlaceBeyşehir is a town in Konya Province in central Turkey, on the shore of Lake Beyşehir, the country's largest freshwater lake.
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha CavesWork / monumentThe Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves are a complex of Buddhist cave temples in the Flaming Mountains near Turfan in Xinjiang, China, dating from the 5th to the 14th…
BéziersPlaceBéziers is a city on the River Orb in the Hérault department of Languedoc, southern France.
Bełżec extermination campPlaceBełżec was a Nazi extermination camp in south-eastern German-occupied Poland, the first built for Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder the Jews of the General…- Bhabru edictWork / monumentThe Bhabru edict, also called the Calcutta-Bairat edict, is an inscription of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka found near Bairat in Rajasthan and now kept in Kolkata.
BhadarwahPlaceBhadarwah is a town in an upland valley of the Doda district in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.- BhadohiPlaceBhadohi is a town in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, west of Varanasi, and the headquarters of a district of the same name.
BhadrachalamPlaceBhadrachalam is a temple town on the left bank of the Godavari river in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana, India.