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BaetuloPlaceBaetulo was a Roman town on the Catalan coast, on the site of modern Badalona north-east of Barcelona.- BaezaPlaceBaeza is a town in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, on a ridge above the Guadalquivir valley.
- The Bafut BeaglesWork / monumentThe Bafut Beagles is a 1954 book by the British naturalist Gerald Durrell, describing his animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroon Grassfields in 1949.
- Baga of MauretaniaPersonBaga was a king of the Mauri, the first ruler of Mauretania known by name, in the late 3rd century BCE.
Bagadates IPersonBagadates I was a ruler of Persis in south-western Iran in the early 3rd century BCE, often regarded as the first of the frataraka dynasts who governed the region after…
Bagalkot districtPlaceBagalkot district is a district in the north of Karnataka state in India, with its headquarters at Bagalkot.
BagandaPeople / groupThe Baganda, or Ganda, are a Bantu-speaking people of central Uganda, the country's largest ethnic group, whose kingdom of Buganda lay on the northern shore of Lake…- BagaudaPersonBagauda is the legendary first king of Kano in northern Nigeria, who according to the Kano Chronicle came to power around 999 among the farming and iron-working…
- BagaudaePeople / groupThe Bagaudae were bands of rebels in the late Roman West, drawn from impoverished peasants, runaway slaves and others outside imperial control.
- BagdatiPlaceBagdati is a town in the Imereti region of western Georgia, south of Kutaisi.
BagendonPlaceBagendon is a village in Gloucestershire, England, near Cirencester, beside which lie the earthworks of a large late Iron Age oppidum.
BagerhatPlaceBagerhat is a town in south-western Bangladesh, in the Sundarbans region.
BagesPlaceBages is a comarca, or county, in central Catalonia, Spain, with its capital at Manresa.- Baggara ArabsPeople / groupThe Baggara Arabs are cattle-herding Arab groups living in the Sahel belt of present-day Sudan and Chad, including Darfur and Kordofan.
BaghaberdPlaceBaghaberd is a ruined medieval fortress in Syunik Province of southern Armenia, near Kapan.
BaghdadPlaceBaghdad is a city on the Tigris in Iraq, founded in 762 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Baghdad PactTreaty · 1955–1979The Baghdad Pact was a Cold War defensive alliance formed in 1955 by Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and the United Kingdom, with the United States closely associated.
Baghdadi JewsPeople / groupThe Baghdadi Jews were communities of Arabic-speaking Jews from Iraq and neighbouring lands who settled in the trading ports of India and East Asia from the late 18th…
BaghelPeople / groupThe Baghels or Vaghelas are a Rajput clan regarded as a branch of the Solanki (Chaulukya) of Gujarat.- Baghelkhand AgencyPlaceThe Baghelkhand Agency was a political agency of British India within the Central India Agency, created in 1871.
Baginda OmarPersonBaginda Omar, Sultan Omar Riayat Shah, ruled Terengganu on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula from 1839 to 1876.- BagirmiStateBagirmi was a Muslim sultanate in the central Sahel, south-east of Lake Chad, founded in the sixteenth century.
BaglerPeople / groupThe Bagler were a faction in the Norwegian civil wars, formed in 1196 by opponents of King Sverre with the backing of the church, led by Bishop Nicholas Arnesson of Oslo.
Bagnolo in PianoPlaceBagnolo in Piano is a small town in the province of Reggio Emilia, in the plain north of Reggio.
BagoPlaceBago, formerly Pegu, is a city in southern Myanmar, north-east of Yangon.- BagoasPersonBagoas was a powerful eunuch official at the Achaemenid court in the fourth century BCE.
BagramPlaceBagram is a town north of Kabul in Parwan province, Afghanistan, near the meeting of the Ghorband and Panjshir rivers.
Bagrat III of GeorgiaPersonBagrat III of the Bagrationi dynasty was the first king of a united Georgia.
Bagrat VI of GeorgiaPersonBagrat VI was a prince of a branch of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty who made himself king of Imereti in western Georgia.
Bagrati CathedralWork / monumentBagrati Cathedral is an eleventh-century cathedral in Kutaisi, western Georgia, built under Bagrat III, the first king of united Georgia, and completed in the early…
Bagrationi dynastyPeople / groupThe Bagrationi were the royal dynasty of Georgia, one of the longest-ruling families in the world.
Bagratuni dynastyPeople / groupThe Bagratuni dynasty was an Armenian noble house that rose from among the great princely families of the Arsacid kingdom to become the leading power in Armenia.- BagyendanwaWork / monumentBagyendanwa is the royal drum of the Kingdom of Ankole (Nkore) in south-western Uganda.
- BagyidawPersonBagyidaw was king of Burma from 1819 to 1837, the grandson and successor of Bodawpaya.
Baha al-DawlaPersonBaha al-Dawla was a Buyid ruler, a son of Adud al-Dawla, who held Baghdad and Iraq from 989 and later reunited Fars, ruling until his death in 1012.- Bahadur Shah FaruqiPersonBahadur Shah Faruqi was the last sultan of Khandesh in the northern Deccan.
Bahadur Shah IIPersonBahadur Shah II, also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, was the last Mughal emperor, whose authority by then barely extended beyond Delhi.
Bahadur Shah of GujaratPersonBahadur Shah of Gujarat was sultan of Gujarat from 1526 to 1537.- Bahadur Shah of NepalPersonBahadur Shah of Nepal was a son of Prithvi Narayan Shah and regent of the Kingdom of Nepal from 1785 to 1794 for his young nephew Rana Bahadur Shah.
Bahauddin ZakariyaPersonBahauddin Zakariya was a Sufi master of Multan, in what is now Pakistan, who brought the Suhrawardi order to South Asia.- Bahawal Khan IPersonBahawal Khan I was a nawab of the Abbasi Daudpota family, which claimed descent from the Abbasid caliphs and had moved from Sindh to the Sutlej valley earlier in the…
BahiaPlaceBahia is a state in north-eastern Brazil, with its capital at Salvador, which was the colonial capital of Brazil until 1763.
BahimaPeople / groupThe Bahima are the pastoral, cattle-keeping people of the kingdoms of the Great Lakes region of East Africa, especially Ankole in Uganda and Karagwe in Tanzania.
BahlaPlaceBahla is an oasis town in the interior of Oman, at the foot of the Jebel Akhdar.
Bahlul LodiPersonBahlul Lodi was an Afghan noble who founded the Lodi dynasty, the last ruling house of the Delhi Sultanate, taking power in Delhi in 1451.
Bahmani SultanateStateThe Bahmani Sultanate was a Muslim state in the Deccan founded in 1347 by nobles who rebelled against Muhammad bin Tughluq of Delhi.- Bahnar peoplePeople / groupThe Bahnar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, living mainly in Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces.
- Bahr al-GhazalPlaceBahr al-Ghazal is a region of north-western South Sudan named after the river that drains it into the White Nile.
Bahr YusufPlaceThe Bahr Yusuf ('waterway of Joseph') is a channel that branches from the Nile in Middle Egypt and flows into the Faiyum depression.
BahrainPlaceBahrain is an island in the Persian Gulf.
Bahrain IslandPlaceBahrain Island, known in medieval Arabic sources as Awal, is the largest island of the Bahrain archipelago in the Persian Gulf and the site of the capital, Manama.
Bahram ChobinPersonBahram Chobin was a Sasanian general of the Mihran family who defeated the Turks in 588–589.- Bahram Shah of GhaznaPersonBahram Shah was a sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty who reigned from 1117 to 1157, having taken the throne with Seljuk help as a vassal of Sultan Sanjar.
Bahram VPersonBahram V was a Sasanian king of Persia who reigned from 420 to 438.- Bahri MamluksPeople / groupThe Bahri Mamluks were a regiment of slave soldiers formed by the Ayyubid sultan al-Salih Ayyub and stationed on an island in the Nile, from whose name ('bahr', river)…
- BahurutshePeople / groupThe Bahurutshe are a Tswana people regarded in tradition as the senior line from which the Bakwena and other Tswana groups branched.
Bai BurehPersonBai Bureh was a Temne ruler and war leader in northern Sierra Leone who led the Hut Tax War of 1898 against British rule.
Bai QiPersonBai Qi was a general of the State of Qin in the Warring States period and one of the most successful commanders of ancient China.
BaiaPlaceBaia is a village in Suceava County, Romania, and one of the oldest towns of Moldavia, with an early Saxon community and a Catholic church.
BaidichengPlaceBaidicheng, the "White Emperor City", is a historic fortress and temple site on a hill above the Yangtze at the entrance to the Qutang Gorge, the first of the Three…
Baijnath, UttarakhandPlaceBaijnath is a town on the Gomti River in Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand, India, known for a group of medieval Shiva temples.- BaijuPersonBaiju was a Mongol general who succeeded Chormaqan as commander of the Mongol forces in north-western Iran about 1242.
Baikonur CosmodromePlaceThe Baikonur Cosmodrome is a space launch site on the steppe of southern Kazakhstan, near the Syr Darya.- Baili XiPersonBaili Xi was a minister of the State of Qin under Duke Mu in the seventh century BCE.
- BainukPeople / groupThe Bainuk are a people of the Casamance region of southern Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, regarded as among the oldest inhabitants of the area.
- BairatPlaceBairat, or Viratnagar, is a town in the Jaipur district of Rajasthan, India.
- BairuPeople / groupThe Bairu are the farming people of the Kingdom of Ankole in south-western Uganda and of neighbouring kingdoms such as Karagwe.
Baise RajyaStateBaise Rajya, the 'twenty-two kingdoms', were the small hill principalities of the Karnali basin in western Nepal that emerged after the Khasa Malla kingdom broke up in…- BaiulyPeople / groupThe Baiuly are the largest of the three tribal groupings of the Junior Zhuz, the western branch of the Kazakh people, made up of twelve clans, including the Adai.
- Baixa de KasanjePlaceThe Baixa de Kasanje, or Baixa de Cassanje, is a broad fertile lowland in the valley of the Kwango River in northern Angola.
BaiyuePeople / groupThe Baiyue, or Hundred Yue, were the various non-Chinese peoples of southern China and northern Vietnam in the first millennium BCE, living in states such as Minyue…
Baja CaliforniaPlaceBaja California is the long peninsula of north-western Mexico between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California.
Bajamonte TiepoloPersonBajamonte Tiepolo was a Venetian nobleman who led a conspiracy in June 1310 to overthrow Doge Pietro Gradenigo, whose policies, including the closing of the Great…
BajaurPlaceBajaur is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the Afghan border north of Peshawar.
Baji Rao IPersonBaji Rao I was the Peshwa, or chief minister, of the Maratha state from 1720 to 1740.
Baji Rao IIPersonBaji Rao II was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, ruling from Pune from 1795 to 1818.
Baji RoutPersonBaji Rout was a 12-year-old boatman from Dhenkanal in Odisha, India, who was shot dead by state police on 11 October 1938 for refusing to ferry them across the Brahmani…- Bajreshwari Devi TempleWork / monumentThe Bajreshwari Devi Temple is a Hindu temple to the goddess Vajreshwari in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, and one of the major goddess shrines of northern India.
Bak HyeokgeosePersonBak Hyeokgeose is the legendary founder of Silla, said in the Samguk sagi to have become king in 57 BCE, when the six villages of the Gyeongju basin chose him as ruler.- Bakar ould Soueid AhmedPersonBakar ould Soueid Ahmed was emir of Tagant in central Mauritania, of the Idaw Aish, whose long reign covered much of the 19th century.
- BakelPlaceBakel is a town on the Senegal River in eastern Senegal, near the borders with Mali and Mauritania.
BakenranefPersonBakenranef, called Bocchoris by the Greeks, was the second and last king of the Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling from Sais in the western Delta in the 720s BCE.- Bakhchisaray FountainWork / monumentThe Bakhchisaray Fountain, also called the Fountain of Tears, is a marble wall fountain in the Khan's Palace at Bakhchysarai in Crimea, made in 1764 by the Persian…
BakhchysaraiPlaceBakhchysarai is a town in the south-west of the Crimean peninsula.
Bakhchysarai PalaceWork / monumentThe Bakhchysarai Palace, or Khan's Palace, is the residence of the Crimean khans at Bakhchysarai, begun in the 16th century.
Bakht Buland ShahPersonBakht Buland Shah was a Gond king of Deogarh in central India in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.- Bakht Singh of AjaigarhPersonBakht Singh of Ajaigarh was a Bundela Rajput ruler descended from the house of Panna.
- Bakhtawar Singh of AlwarPersonBakhtawar Singh of Alwar was the second ruler of the Naruka Rajput state of Alwar in Rajasthan.
- BakhtiariPeople / groupThe Bakhtiari are a tribal people of the Zagros Mountains in south-western Iran, traditionally pastoral nomads.
Bakhtiyar KhaljiPersonBakhtiyar Khalji was a Turkic-Afghan commander of the Ghurids who conquered Bihar and western Bengal at the end of the 12th century.- BakilPeople / groupThe Bakil are the largest tribal confederation of northern Yemen, spread across the highlands north and east of Sanaa, and with the Hashid one of the two great tribal…
- Al-BakriPersonAl-Bakri was an Andalusian geographer and historian who wrote a description of North and West Africa completed around 1067.
BakuPlaceBaku is a city on the western shore of the Caspian Sea and the capital of present-day Azerbaijan.- Bakur III of IberiaPersonBakur III was king of Iberia in eastern Georgia in the sixth century.
Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipelineWork / monumentThe Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline carries crude oil about 1,768 km from the Caspian oilfields near Baku in Azerbaijan through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean port…- BakwenaPeople / groupThe Bakwena are a Tswana people who trace their origin to a split from the Bahurutshe and who in turn gave rise to the Bangwato and Bangwaketse.
BakırçayPlaceThe Bakırçay is a river of western Turkey, known in antiquity as the Caicus, which flows west past Pergamon to the Aegean at the Gulf of Çandarlı.- BalachadiPlaceBalachadi is a coastal village near Jamnagar in Gujarat, India, where during the Second World War Maharaja Digvijaysinhji of Nawanagar sheltered several hundred Polish…
BalaguerPlaceBalaguer is a town on the Segre in the province of Lleida, Catalonia.
Balaji Baji RaoPersonBalaji Baji Rao, known as Nanasaheb, was Peshwa of the Maratha Empire from 1740 to 1761, the son of Baji Rao I.