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Big Five (Hawaii)People / groupThe Big Five were five corporations that dominated the economy and politics of Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C.
Big HolePlaceThe Big Hole is a vast open pit at Kimberley in South Africa, dug largely by hand from 1871 to 1914 on the site of the Kimberley diamond mine.
Big Three (World War II)People / groupThe Big Three were the principal Allied powers of the Second World War, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, and their leaders Winston Churchill…
Bigbury CampPlaceBigbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort near Canterbury in Kent, England, covering about 10 hectares.
Bight of BeninPlaceThe Bight of Benin is a bay of the Gulf of Guinea on the coast of West Africa, stretching roughly from present-day Ghana to the Niger Delta.
Bignor Roman VillaPlaceBignor Roman Villa is the site of a large Roman courtyard villa near Chichester in West Sussex, England, discovered in 1811.- Bigo bya MugenyiPlaceBigo bya Mugenyi is an archaeological site on the Katonga River in western Uganda, consisting of kilometres of deep ditches enclosing large areas of grassland.
BihaćPlaceBihać is a city in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Una river, near the Croatian border.
BiharPlaceBihar is a state of eastern India in the middle Ganges plain, with its capital at Patna.- BihareaPlaceBiharea (Hungarian: Bihar) is a village in Bihor County, north-western Romania, near Oradea, the site of an early medieval earthwork fortress.
BijapurPlaceBijapur, officially Vijayapura since 2014, is a city in northern Karnataka, India.
Bijjala IIPersonBijjala II was the most important ruler of the Kalachuris of Kalyani in the Deccan.
Bikini AtollPlaceBikini Atoll is a ring of coral islands in the northern Marshall Islands.- Bikram Singh of SeraikelaPersonBikram Singh was the founder of Seraikela State on the Chota Nagpur plateau in present-day Jharkhand.
Bilaspur, Himachal PradeshPlaceBilaspur is a town on the Sutlej in Himachal Pradesh, India, and the headquarters of Bilaspur district.
BilbaoPlaceBilbao is the largest city of the Basque Country in northern Spain, on the estuary of the Nervión.
BilbilisPlaceBilbilis was a Celtiberian and then Roman town on a hill near modern Calatayud in Aragon, Spain.- Bilge Kul Qadir KhanPersonBilge Kul Qadir Khan was a Karluk leader in Central Asia who proclaimed himself khagan after the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840.
Bilge QaghanPersonBilge Qaghan was a ruler of the Second Göktürk Khaganate who consolidated the state in the early eighth century.- BilhanaPersonBilhana was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet from Kashmir who left his homeland, travelled through northern India and became court poet of the Western Chalukya king…
Bilhorod-DnistrovskyiPlaceBilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, known as Cetatea Albă in Romanian and Akkerman in Turkish, is a port on the Dniester estuary in Ukraine, near the Black Sea, on the site of…
Bill of Rights 1689Work / monumentThe Bill of Rights 1689 is an Act of the English Parliament that set out the terms on which William III and Mary II took the throne after the Glorious Revolution.
Billy HughesPersonBilly Hughes was prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923 and led the country through the First World War.
BilmaPlaceBilma is an oasis town in the Kaouar region of north-eastern Niger, in the Sahara.
BiloxiPlaceBiloxi is a city on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, United States.- BilyarPlaceBilyar was a major city of Volga Bulgaria, in present-day Tatarstan, Russia, east of the Volga.
Bima peoplePeople / groupThe Bima people, who call themselves Mbojo, are an ethnic group of eastern Sumbawa in Indonesia, speaking the Bima language.
BimaalPeople / groupThe Bimaal are a Somali clan of the Dir family living in the coastal region around Merca in southern Somalia.
BimbisaraPersonBimbisara was king of Magadha in eastern India, ruling from Rajagriha, and a patron and contemporary of the Buddha.
Bin TepePlaceBin Tepe, Turkish for 'thousand mounds', is a royal cemetery of the Kingdom of Lydia north of Sardis in western Turkey.
BindusaraPersonBindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya Empire, son of Chandragupta Maurya and father of Ashoka.
Bingen am RheinPlaceBingen am Rhein is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the confluence of the Nahe and the Rhine, where the Rhine Gorge begins.
BingervillePlaceBingerville is a town on the Ébrié Lagoon east of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, named after the explorer and first governor Louis-Gustave Binger.
Bingling TemplePlaceBingling Temple is a group of Buddhist cave temples in the cliffs of a canyon on the Yellow River in Yongjing County, Gansu, China, now reached by boat across the…
Bingo ProvincePlaceBingo Province was an old province of Japan on the Inland Sea, now the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture.
Bình Ngô đại cáoWork / monumentThe Bình Ngô đại cáo is a proclamation written in classical Chinese by Nguyễn Trãi in 1428 on behalf of Lê Lợi to announce victory over the Ming and the restoration of…
Bình XuyênPeople / groupThe Bình Xuyên was an armed organisation in Saigon in the 1940s and 1950s that grew from river pirates and gangs into a private army under Bảy Viễn.
Bình Định provincePlaceBình Định is a coastal province of south-central Vietnam with its capital at Quy Nhơn.
BinnenhofWork / monumentThe Binnenhof is a complex of buildings in the centre of The Hague, Netherlands, that grew from the residence of the counts of Holland, begun by Count William II around…- Binnya DalaPersonBinnya Dala was the last king of the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom of the Mon in Lower Burma, ruling from Pegu from 1747.
- Binnya UPersonBinnya U was king of the Mon kingdom of Martaban–Hanthawaddy in lower Burma from 1348 to 1384.
- BinokasihWork / monumentThe Binokasih is the royal crown of the Sunda Kingdom of western Java.
Biobío RiverPlaceThe Biobío is one of the longest rivers of Chile, rising in the Andes and flowing north-west to the Pacific at Concepción.
Biograd na MoruPlaceBiograd na Moru is a coastal town in northern Dalmatia, Croatia, south of Zadar.
BiokoPlaceBioko, formerly Fernando Po, is a volcanic island in the Gulf of Guinea, part of Equatorial Guinea and the site of its capital, Malabo.
Bir Chandra ManikyaPersonBir Chandra Manikya was Maharaja of Tripura from 1862 to 1896.- Bir el QuttPlaceBir el Qutt is the site of a Georgian monastery of the fifth and sixth centuries near Bethlehem, excavated in the 1950s.
- Bir SenPersonBir Sen is the traditional founder of Suket State in the western Himalaya, said to have come from a Sen family of Bengal and to have established the kingdom around 765…
- Bir Singh Deo TomarPersonBir Singh Deo, also called Virasimha, was a Tomara Rajput chief who founded the Tomara dynasty of Gwalior in the late 14th century.
- BirchtownPlaceBirchtown is a community near Shelburne in Nova Scotia, Canada, founded in 1783 by about 1,500 Black Loyalists who had escaped slavery to support the British in the…
Birendra of NepalPersonBirendra (1945–2001) was king of Nepal from 1972 to 2001.
Birger JarlPersonBirger Jarl was a Swedish statesman who held the office of jarl from 1248 and governed for his son King Valdemar, founding the Folkung dynasty.
BirgiPlaceBirgi is a small town in İzmir province, western Turkey, on the slopes of the Bozdağ mountains.
BirguPlaceBirgu is an old fortified town on the Grand Harbour of Malta, guarded by Fort St Angelo.
BiricianaPlaceBiriciana was a Roman cavalry fort on the Raetian Limes on the site of present-day Weißenburg in Bavaria, built around 90 CE.
BiridiyaPersonBiridiya was the ruler of Megiddo in Canaan in the fourteenth century BCE, a vassal of the Egyptian pharaohs.
Birim RiverPlaceThe Birim is a river in southern Ghana, a tributary of the Pra, flowing through the forest of the Eastern Region.
BirinusPersonBirinus was a missionary bishop sent from Rome by Pope Honorius I who converted the West Saxons.
BirkaPlaceBirka was a Viking Age trading town on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden, flourishing from the mid 8th to the late 10th century.
BirkebeinerPeople / groupThe Birkebeiner ("birch-legs", from the birch bark some wore as footwear) were a rebel party in the Norwegian civil wars, formed in 1174 among poor and landless men.
BirkenfeldPlaceBirkenfeld is a town in the Hunsrück hills of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Birla familyPeople / groupThe Birla family is an Indian business family of the Marwari community from Pilani in Rajasthan.
Birnin KebbiPlaceBirnin Kebbi is a town in north-western Nigeria, a capital of the Hausa Kingdom of Kebbi from the 16th century.- Birnin ZamfaraPlaceBirnin Zamfara was the walled capital of the Hausa Kingdom of Zamfara in north-western Nigeria.
- BirrPlaceBirr is a town in County Offaly, Ireland, on the Camcor River.
BirsayPlaceBirsay is a parish and village in the north-west of Mainland Orkney, Scotland.
Al-BiruniPersonAl-Biruni was a Khwarazmian scholar born near Kath and one of the greatest minds of the medieval Islamic world.- BiryawazaPersonBiryawaza was a ruler in southern Syria in the 14th century BCE, known from the Amarna letters, the diplomatic correspondence of the Egyptian pharaohs.
BiscayPlaceBiscay (Basque: Bizkaia) is a province of the Basque Country in northern Spain, with its capital at Bilbao.- BisenzioPlaceThe Bisenzio is a river of Tuscany that flows from the Apennines south through Prato into the Arno near Florence.
BishapurPlaceBishapur was a city in southwestern Iran founded by the Sasanian king Shapur I in the third century CE.
BishkekPlaceBishkek is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan, in the Chüy valley at the foot of the Kyrgyz Range.- BishopInstitutionA bishop is a senior member of the Christian clergy who oversees a diocese and its priests.
- Bishopric of Ösel–WiekStateThe Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek was a prince-bishopric of medieval Livonia, covering the islands of Saaremaa (Ösel) and Hiiumaa and the Läänemaa (Wiek) region of western…
Bishopric of WormsStateThe Bishopric of Worms was a diocese on the middle Rhine, centred on the cathedral city of Worms, whose bishops also ruled a small territory as princes of the Holy…
Bishops' WarsWar · 1639–1640The Bishops' Wars were two brief conflicts in 1639 and 1640 between Charles I and the Scottish Covenanters, who rejected his imposition of bishops and a new prayer book…
BiskraPlaceBiskra is an oasis city in north-eastern Algeria, on the southern edge of the Aurès Mountains at the gateway to the Sahara.
Bismarck (battleship)Work / monumentBismarck was a German battleship built by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1940.
Bismarck ArchipelagoPlaceThe Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off north-eastern New Guinea, including New Britain, New Ireland and the Admiralty Islands.
BisotunPlaceBisotun is a village and archaeological site in Kermanshah province, western Iran, at the foot of a mountain on the ancient road from Mesopotamia to the Iranian plateau.
BissanduguPlaceBissandugu is a town in the Kankan region of eastern Guinea that served as the capital of Samori Ture's Wassoulou Empire from the 1870s.
BissauPlaceBissau is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau, on the estuary of the Geba river.- Bist DoabPlaceThe Jalandhar Doab, also called the Bist Doab, is the land between the Beas and the Sutlej in Punjab, India, including the districts of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur…
- Biswa SinghaPersonBiswa Singha was the founder of the Koch kingdom in the Brahmaputra valley and northern Bengal in the early 16th century.
BithyniaPlaceBithynia is a historical region in northwestern Anatolia, bordering the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.
BitlisPlaceBitlis is a city in eastern Turkey, south-west of Lake Van, in a narrow valley on the route between the Armenian highlands and Upper Mesopotamia.
BitolaPlaceBitola is a city in the Pelagonia plain of southern North Macedonia, near the Greek border and the ruins of the ancient city of Heraclea Lyncestis.
Bitòn CoulibalyPersonBitòn Coulibaly, also called Mamari Kulibali, was the founder of the Bambara Empire of Ségou in present-day Mali, ruling from about 1712 until his death in 1755.
BitterfeldPlaceBitterfeld is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which grew from the late 19th century into a centre of the chemical industry, based on local brown coal.
BituitusPersonBituitus was a king of the Arverni in Gaul in the late 2nd century BCE, son of Luernios.
Bizen wareWork / monumentBizen ware is a Japanese stoneware made around Imbe in the former Bizen Province, now Okayama Prefecture.
Black and White GuelphsPeople / groupThe Black and White Guelphs were rival factions into which the Guelph party of Tuscany split around 1300, beginning in a feud within the Cancellieri family of Pistoia.
Black Army of HungaryPeople / groupThe Black Army was the standing mercenary army of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, built up from the 1460s.
Black BrunswickersPeople / groupThe Black Brunswickers were a volunteer corps raised in 1809 by Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick, to fight Napoleon after his duchy had been absorbed into the…- Black Consciousness MovementPeople / groupThe Black Consciousness Movement was a South African anti-apartheid movement of the late 1960s and 1970s led by Steve Biko and others, beginning with the South African…
Black DeathEventThe Black Death was the pandemic of plague that swept across Eurasia and North Africa in the mid-fourteenth century, killing a large share of the population.- Black DecreeWork / monumentThe Black Decree was a law issued by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico on 3 October 1865, declaring that members of armed bands fighting the empire would be tried by…
Black Economic EmpowermentReligion / ideaBlack Economic Empowerment is a South African government policy, given legal form by the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act of 2003, that aims to redress the…
Black Flag ArmyPeople / groupThe Black Flag Army was a band of Chinese irregulars led by Liu Yongfu, formed from rebel remnants who crossed into northern Vietnam in the 1860s.- Black Flag RebellionRevolt · 1875The Black Flag Rebellion was an uprising of white diggers on the diamond fields of Kimberley, in the Crown colony of Griqualand West, in 1875.