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Black ForestPlaceThe Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in south-western Germany, between the upper Rhine valley and the sources of the Danube.
Black Guard (Morocco)InstitutionThe Black Guard, or Abid al-Bukhari, was an army of enslaved black soldiers created by the Moroccan sultan Moulay Ismail from the 1670s.
Black HillsPlaceThe Black Hills are a mountain range in South Dakota and Wyoming, sacred to the Lakota.- Black IslePlaceThe Black Isle is a peninsula in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands, bounded by the Cromarty Firth, the Beauly Firth and the Moray Firth.
Black LoyalistsPeople / groupThe Black Loyalists were people of African descent, many formerly enslaved, who sided with Britain in the American Revolutionary War in return for promises of freedom.
Black Madonna of CzęstochowaWork / monumentThe Black Madonna of Częstochowa is an icon of the Virgin Mary and Child kept at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland.
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser IIIWork / monumentThe Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone monument from Nimrud, erected around 825 BCE and now in the British Museum.- Black Power RevolutionRevolution · 1970The Black Power Revolution was a wave of protests in Trinidad and Tobago in February–April 1970, led by students and the National Joint Action Committee, demanding…
- Black RangersPeople / groupThe Black Rangers were a corps of formerly enslaved men raised by the colony of Suriname in 1772 to fight maroon groups, especially those led by Boni, in return for…
Black River (Asia)PlaceThe Black River, or Da River, rises in Yunnan in China and flows south-east through the mountains of north-western Vietnam to join the Red River.- Black River (Honduras)PlaceBlack River was a British settlement at the mouth of a river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, founded in the 1730s by settlers allied with the Miskito.
- Black RutheniaPlaceBlack Ruthenia is a historical region in the upper Neman basin of present-day western Belarus, around Navahrudak, Hrodna and Slonim.
- Black Saturday (1929)EventBlack Saturday was the shooting of a peaceful Mau procession by New Zealand police in Apia, Western Samoa, on 28 December 1929.
Black SeaPlaceThe Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Anatolia, connected to the Mediterranean through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.- Black Sea Coastal LineWork / monumentThe Black Sea Coastal Line was a chain of Russian forts built from the late 1830s along the Black Sea coast of Circassia, from Anapa towards Abkhazia, to cut the…
Black Sea FleetInstitutionThe Black Sea Fleet is the Russian navy's fleet in the Black Sea, founded in 1783 after the annexation of Crimea and based at Sevastopol.
Black SeminolesPeople / groupThe Black Seminoles were people of African descent, many of them escaped slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas, who lived alongside the Seminole in Florida.
Black SeptemberWar · 1970–1971Black September was the armed conflict of September 1970 in which the Jordanian army of King Hussein fought the Palestinian guerrilla groups of the Palestine Liberation…- Black ShipsTermThe Black Ships was the Japanese name for the Western vessels, especially the steam-powered warships of Commodore Matthew Perry's American squadron that entered Edo Bay…
Black StoneWork / monumentThe Black Stone is a stone set in the eastern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered by Muslims as dating back to Adam and Abraham and kissed or saluted by pilgrims as…
Black VoltaPlaceThe Black Volta, or Mouhoun, is a river of West Africa that rises in western Burkina Faso, forms part of the borders of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and joins the White…
Black WarWar · 1820s–1832The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians in Van Diemen's Land from the mid-1820s to about 1832.
Black Warrior RiverPlaceThe Black Warrior River is a river of west-central Alabama in the United States, flowing past Tuscaloosa to join the Tombigbee.
BlackbeardPersonBlackbeard, Edward Teach or Thatch, was an English pirate of the Caribbean and the American coast.
Blackfeet ReservationPlaceThe Blackfeet Reservation is the home of the Blackfeet Nation, the Piikani or Amskapi Pikuni, in north-western Montana, United States, east of Glacier National Park…- BlagajPlaceBlagaj is a village near Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the source of the Buna river below a high cliff.
Blaise DiagnePersonBlaise Diagne was a Senegalese politician, elected in 1914 as deputy for the Four Communes of Senegal, the first black African in the French Chamber of Deputies.
BlajPlaceBlaj is a small town in Alba County, Romania, in central Transylvania.
BlambanganStateBlambangan was a Hindu kingdom at the eastern tip of Java, the last Hindu-Buddhist state on the island, which survived into the eighteenth century.- Blanca Alfonso de MolinaPersonBlanca Alfonso de Molina was Lady of Molina, daughter of the infante Alfonso de Molina and the heiress Mafalda.
Blanche I of NavarrePersonBlanche I (1387–1441) was queen of Navarre from 1425 to 1441.
Blankenburg (Harz)PlaceBlankenburg is a town on the northern edge of the Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
BlantyrePlaceBlantyre is the main commercial city of Malawi, in the Shire Highlands of the south.
Blas de LezoPersonBlas de Lezo was a Spanish admiral from Pasajes in the Basque Country who had lost a leg, an eye and the use of an arm in earlier battles.
Blasco Núñez VelaPersonBlasco Núñez Vela was the first viceroy of Peru, sent by Charles V to enforce the New Laws of 1542, which limited the encomiendas held by the conquerors.
Blau (river)PlaceThe Blau is a short river in Baden-Württemberg that rises at the Blautopf, a deep blue karst spring in Blaubeuren, and flows east to join the Danube at Ulm.- BledaPersonBleda was a king of the Huns who ruled jointly with his younger brother Attila from the death of their uncle Rua around 435.
Bleddyn ap CynfynPersonBleddyn ap Cynfyn was king of Gwynedd and Powys from 1063 until his death in 1075.
Bleiburg repatriationsEventThe Bleiburg repatriations took place in May 1945, when British forces in southern Austria refused the surrender of retreating soldiers of the Independent State of…
BlekingePlaceBlekinge is a province in southeastern Sweden on the Baltic coast.
Bletchley ParkPlaceBletchley Park is a country house and estate in Buckinghamshire, England, that was the centre of British codebreaking during the Second World War.
BlidaPlaceBlida is a city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Tell Atlas, south-west of Algiers, on the edge of the Mitidja plain.
BliesPlaceThe Blies is a river of western Germany and north-eastern France, about 100 km long, rising in the north of Saarland near St.
The BlitzCampaign · 1940–1941The Blitz was the German bombing campaign against British cities from September 1940 to May 1941.
BloemfonteinPlaceBloemfontein is a city in central South Africa, capital of the Free State province and the country's judicial capital.
Bloemfontein ConferencePeace · 1899The Bloemfontein Conference was a meeting held in Bloemfontein from 31 May to 5 June 1899 between Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, and Alfred…- Bloemfontein ConventionTreaty · 1854The Bloemfontein Convention was the agreement of 23 February 1854 by which Britain withdrew from the Orange River Sovereignty and recognised the independence of its…
Blohm & VossInstitutionBlohm & Voss is a shipbuilding company founded in Hamburg in 1877 by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss.- Blood court at CannstattEventThe blood court at Cannstatt was the killing of Alemannic nobles in 746 by the Frankish mayor of the palace Carloman.
- Bloody Christmas (1920)Battle · 1920Bloody Christmas was the Italian army and navy attack on Fiume, now Rijeka, from 24 to 29 December 1920, ending Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of the city.
Blount ReportWork / monumentThe Blount Report was the 1893 investigation by James Henderson Blount, sent by President Grover Cleveland to Hawaii after the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
Blue DivisionPeople / groupThe Blue Division was a unit of Spanish volunteers, mostly Falangists and army men, that fought for Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front as the 250th Infantry Division of…- Blue JacketPersonBlue Jacket was a Shawnee war leader in the Ohio country.
Blue Mosque of TabrizWork / monumentThe Blue Mosque of Tabriz, or Goy Masjid, is a mosque in Tabriz, north-western Iran, completed in 1465 during the reign of the Qara Qoyunlu ruler Jahan Shah.- Blue NilePlaceThe Blue Nile is the river that flows from Lake Tana in the Ethiopian highlands through a deep gorge into Sudan, joining the White Nile at Khartoum.
Blue RibandTermThe Blue Riband is an unofficial honour given to the passenger liner making the fastest regular crossing of the Atlantic.
BluefieldsPlaceBluefields is a port town on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, at the mouth of the Escondido River.- Blum–Viollette proposalWork / monumentThe Blum–Viollette proposal was a bill of 1936 put forward by the Popular Front government of Léon Blum and Maurice Viollette, a former governor-general of Algeria, to…
BlutrittEventThe Blutritt, or Blood Ride, is a mounted procession held each year on the Friday after Ascension Day at Weingarten in upper Swabia, Germany.
Bo Kluea districtPlaceBo Kluea is a district in the mountains of Nan Province in northern Thailand, near the border with Laos.- Bo QinPersonBo Qin was the eldest son of the Duke of Zhou and the first ruler of the State of Lu in the eleventh century BCE.
- Bo Sangaji KaiWork / monumentThe Bo Sangaji Kai is the court chronicle of the Bima Sultanate on the island of Sumbawa in eastern Indonesia.
- Boa (Sabir queen)PersonBoa, also called Boarex, was a queen of the Sabirs, a steppe people north of the Caucasus, in the early 6th century.
- Boa AmponsemPersonBoa Amponsem was a king of Denkyira, in what is now southern Ghana, who reigned in the second half of the 17th century.
- Board of AgricultureInstitutionThe Board of Agriculture was a government office of the Yuan Dynasty responsible for promoting farming.
- Board of Proprietors of East JerseyInstitutionThe Board of Proprietors of East Jersey was the body through which the proprietors who bought East Jersey in 1682 managed their land rights.
Bob HawkePersonBob Hawke was the Labor prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, after leading the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Bob MarleyPersonBob Marley was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who brought reggae to a worldwide audience with his band the Wailers.
Bobbio AbbeyInstitutionBobbio Abbey was a monastery in the Trebbia valley of northern Italy, founded in 614 by the Irish missionary Columbanus on land granted by the Lombard king Agilulf.
Bobi WinePersonBobi Wine, the stage name of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is a Ugandan musician and politician.
Bobo peoplePeople / groupThe Bobo are a Mande-speaking people of western Burkina Faso and neighbouring Mali, living mainly around Bobo-Dioulasso, the city that bears their name.
Bobo-DioulassoPlaceBobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, in the south-west of the country.
Boboli GardensWork / monumentThe Boboli Gardens are the park behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, laid out for Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora of Toledo from about 1550 to designs by Niccolò…
BobolicePlaceBobolice, in German Bublitz, is a small town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland.
BobovacPlaceBobovac is a ruined royal fortress in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the town of Vareš.
BóbrPlaceThe Bóbr, in German Bober, is a river in south-western Poland, flowing about 270 kilometres from the Sudetes north through Lower Silesia to join the Oder.
Bocas del Toro ProvincePlaceBocas del Toro is a province in north-western Panama on the Caribbean coast, bordering Costa Rica and including the Bocas del Toro archipelago.
Bocchus IPersonBocchus I was king of Mauretania in north-west Africa and father-in-law of Jugurtha of Numidia.
Bocchus IIPersonBocchus II was king of Mauretania, ruling its eastern part from around 49 BCE and the whole kingdom after expelling his brother Bogud in 38 BCE.
BochicaReligion / ideaBochica was a culture hero and god of the Muisca of the Colombian highlands.
BochniaPlaceBochnia is a town in Lesser Poland, east of Kraków, known for its salt mine, one of the oldest in Europe, where rock salt was mined from the mid-13th century until 1990.- BocholtPlaceBocholt is a town in the Borken district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, near the Dutch border.
BodawpayaPersonBodawpaya was the sixth king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma, reigning from 1782 to 1819.
Bodh GayaPlaceBodh Gaya is a town in Bihar, India, where according to Buddhist tradition Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.- Bodhachandra SinghPersonBodhachandra Singh was the last ruling Maharaja of Manipur, succeeding his father Churachand Singh in 1941.
BodhanPlaceBodhan is a town in the Nizamabad district of Telangana in southern India.- BodhisattvaReligion / ideaA bodhisattva, in Buddhism, is a being who has attained great spiritual merit and seeks enlightenment for the benefit of all, a central ideal of Mahayana Buddhism.
Bodleian LibraryInstitutionThe Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, opened in 1602 through the refounding of the university library by Sir Thomas Bodley.
Bodo-Kachari peoplesPeople / groupThe Bodo-Kachari peoples are a group of Tibeto-Burman-speaking communities of north-eastern India, among them the Bodo, Dimasa, Tiwa, Garo, Rabha and Chutia, whose…
BoduognatusPersonBoduognatus was the war leader of the Nervii, a Belgic people of northern Gaul, who commanded them against Julius Caesar in 57 BCE.
BoeotiaPlaceBoeotia is a region of central Greece north of Attica, whose fertile plains were dominated in antiquity by Thebes.- BoersPeople / groupThe Boers were the descendants of Dutch-speaking settlers in southern Africa, who founded independent republics in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in the nineteenth…
BoethiusPersonBoethius was a Roman senator and philosopher who served Theodoric the Great, becoming consul in 510 and master of offices.
Bogd KhanPersonThe Bogd Khan was the 8th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the head of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia, born in Tibet.
Bogdan I of MoldaviaPersonBogdan I was a Romanian voivode from Maramureș who, having quarrelled with the Hungarian crown, crossed the Carpathians around 1359, drove out the descendants of Dragoș…
Bogdan III the One-EyedPersonBogdan III the One-Eyed was prince of Moldavia from 1504 to 1517, the son and successor of Stephen the Great.- Bogenbai BatyrPersonBogenbai Batyr was a Kazakh military leader of the Middle Juz and one of the best-known commanders in the eighteenth-century wars against the Dzungars.
Bogislaw IV, Duke of PomeraniaPersonBogislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania, was a member of the Griffin dynasty.
Bogislaw XPersonBogislaw X was Duke of Pomerania from 1474, called the Great.
Bogislaw XIVPersonBogislaw XIV was the last Duke of Pomerania of the House of Griffins, ruling Stettin from 1620 and all Pomerania from 1625.