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2,763 entries under B · page 28 of 28: Burmi – Byzas
- BurmiPlaceBurmi is a site in northeastern Nigeria where the last independent Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Attahiru I, was killed in battle with British forces in July 1903.
- Burna-Buriash IIPersonBurna-Buriash II was a Kassite king of Babylonia in the 14th century BCE.
Burney TreatyTreaty · 1826The Burney Treaty was an agreement signed in June 1826 between Siam and the British East India Company, negotiated by Captain Henry Burney during the First…
Burra, South AustraliaPlaceBurra is a town in the mid-north of South Australia, founded after copper was discovered there in 1845.
BursaPlaceBursa is a city in northwestern Anatolia, near the Sea of Marmara.- BurtasPeople / groupThe Burtas were a people of the middle Volga region mentioned by Arab and Persian geographers of the ninth and tenth centuries, living between the Khazars and the Volga…
Burundian Civil WarWar · 1993–2005The Burundian Civil War was fought from 1993 to 2005 between the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebel groups.- Burunduk KhanPersonBurunduk Khan was a khan of the Kazakhs and a son of Kerei, one of the two founders of the Kazakh Khanate.
BurushaskiTermBurushaski is a language spoken in the Hunza, Nagar and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan.
Bury St EdmundsPlaceBury St Edmunds is a market town in Suffolk, England.
BurzenlandPlaceThe Burzenland, Romanian Țara Bârsei, is a historical region in south-eastern Transylvania, Romania, around the city of Brașov.- Bushati familyPeople / groupThe Bushati family was an Albanian dynasty that ruled the Pashalik of Scutari from Shkodër between 1757 and 1831.
- BushehrPlaceBushehr is a port city on the Persian Gulf coast of southern Iran.
Bushenyi DistrictPlaceBushenyi District is a district in western Uganda, in the former Ankole region.- BushidoReligion / ideaBushido, meaning "the way of the warrior", is the code of conduct and ethics associated with the Japanese samurai, stressing loyalty, honour, discipline and martial…
- Bushime RiverPlaceThe Bushime River is a river in the southeast of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BushirePlaceBushire is an older European spelling of Bushehr, a port on the Persian Gulf coast of southern Iran.- BusirisPlaceBusiris was an ancient Egyptian city in the central Nile Delta, near present-day Abusir Bana.
- BusiroPlaceBusiro is one of the original core counties of the Kingdom of Buganda, lying west of Kampala along the shore of Lake Victoria in present-day Wakiso District of Uganda.
BussetoPlaceBusseto is a small town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, on the Po plain.
BüssingInstitutionBüssing was a German maker of buses and lorries founded by Heinrich Büssing in Braunschweig in 1903.- Bustan al-SalatinWork / monumentThe Bustan al-Salatin, 'Garden of Kings', is a Malay encyclopaedic work written by Nuruddin ar-Raniri at the court of Aceh, begun in 1638 at the command of Sultan…
- ButambalaPlaceButambala is a county of the Kingdom of Buganda in central Uganda, west of Kampala.
- ButanaPlaceThe Butana is a semi-arid plain in eastern Sudan between the Nile, the Atbara and the Blue Nile, known in antiquity as the Island of Meroë.
Butha-ButhePlaceButha-Buthe is a town in northern Lesotho, capital of the district of the same name, below the mountain of Butha-Buthe.- ButilinPersonButilin, or Buccelin, was an Alemannic duke in the service of the Frankish Merovingian kings.
Butler dynastyPeople / groupThe Butler dynasty was an Anglo-Norman family in Ireland descended from Theobald Walter, who held the hereditary office of butler of Ireland from 1185.
ButoPlaceButo was an ancient city in the north-western Nile Delta of Egypt, at modern Tell el-Fara'in.
Buto-Maadi cultureReligion / ideaThe Buto-Maadi culture was the main prehistoric culture of Lower Egypt in the 4th millennium BCE, named after the sites of Buto in the Delta and Maadi near Cairo.
Buton IslandPlaceButon is an island off the south-eastern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in the province of Southeast Sulawesi.
Butuga IIPersonButuga II was a king of the Western Ganga dynasty of southern Karnataka.
BützowPlaceBützow is a small town on the Warnow in Mecklenburg, Germany.- Buurba JolofTermBuurba Jolof was the title of the kings of the Jolof Empire, who were overlords of the Wolof states of Senegal.
- BuyagaPlaceBuyaga is a county in western Uganda, part of the historic heartland of Bunyoro.
- Buyan-BadyrgyPersonBuyan-Badyrgy was a Tuvan noble and politician who led the government of the Tuvan People's Republic in the 1920s.
- Buyeo PungPersonBuyeo Pung was a prince of Baekje, son of its last king Uija, who lived at the Yamato court in Japan as a hostage.
Buyid dynastyStateThe Buyid dynasty was a Shia Iranian dynasty from Daylam that controlled much of Iran and Iraq in the tenth and eleventh centuries.- BuynakskPlaceBuynaksk, known until 1922 as Temir-Khan-Shura, is a town in Dagestan in the Russian North Caucasus.
- Buyruk KhanPersonBuyruk Khan was a son of the Naiman ruler Inanch Bilge Khan, who after his father's death in the 1190s ruled part of the Naiman khanate in the Altai mountains while his…
Büyük Menderes RiverPlaceThe Büyük Menderes, the ancient Maeander, is a river of south-western Turkey that flows west into the Aegean Sea near ancient Miletus.- Büyük Süleyman PashaPersonBüyük Süleyman Pasha, 'Sulayman the Great', was a Georgian-born mamluk who governed Baghdad for the Ottomans from 1780 to 1802, the high point of Mamluk Iraq.
Buzen ProvincePlaceBuzen was an old province of Japan in north-eastern Kyushu, now divided between Fukuoka and Ōita prefectures.- Buzurg KhanPersonBuzurg Khan was a Khoja of the Afaqi line, descended from the former rulers of Kashgar, who lived in exile in Kokand.
- Bwa peoplePeople / groupThe Bwa are a Gur-speaking people of west-central Burkina Faso and south-eastern Mali, in the region of the Black Volta.
ByblosPlaceByblos is an ancient port city on the coast of Lebanon, north of Beirut, known in Arabic as Jbeil or Jubail.- ByedaikInstitutionThe Byedaik was the privy council of the Burmese kings, which handled the monarch's private affairs and served as an inner office between the palace and the Hluttaw…
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist RepublicStateThe Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was the Soviet republic in the territory of modern Belarus, with its capital at Minsk.- ByeolmubanInstitutionThe Byeolmuban was a special army of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo, created in 1104 on the advice of Yun Gwan after defeats by the Jurchen.
- ByeongnandoPlaceByeongnando was the main international port of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo, on the Yeseong River near the capital Kaegyong (modern Kaesong).
- BylazoraPlaceBylazora was the largest city of ancient Paeonia, on the Vardar near modern Sveti Nikole in North Macedonia.
ByrsaPlaceByrsa is the hill at the centre of ancient Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, on which the city's citadel stood.
BytomPlaceBytom is a city in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland and one of the oldest towns in Upper Silesia.- Byzantine commonwealthReligion / ideaThe Byzantine commonwealth is a term used by historians for the community of Orthodox Christian peoples and states culturally shaped by Byzantium, including Russia…
Byzantine conquest of BulgariaWar · 968–1018The Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria was the series of wars from 968 to 1018 in which the Byzantine Empire destroyed the First Bulgarian Empire.
Byzantine EmpireStateThe Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, ruled from Constantinople from the fourth century until the city fell to the…
Byzantine IconoclasmEventByzantine Iconoclasm refers to two periods, 730–787 CE and 815–843 CE, during which Byzantine emperors banned the veneration of religious images and destroyed many icons.
Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896War · 894–896The Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896 was fought between the Bulgarian Empire under Simeon I and the Byzantine Empire of Leo VI, after the Bulgarian market in…- Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927War · 913–927The Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927 was fought between the Bulgarian Empire under Simeon I and the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine–Ottoman warsWar · 1265–1479The Byzantine–Ottoman wars were the conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the rising Ottoman Turks from the late 13th century to the late 15th.
Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628War · 602–628 CEThe Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602–628 CE was the last and most destructive war between the Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian Empire.
Byzantine–Seljuk warsWar · 1048–1308The Byzantine–Seljuk wars were the conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks, from Seljuk raids into Armenia in the mid-11th century to the end of the…
ByzantionPlaceByzantion was an ancient Greek city on the European shore of the Bosphorus, founded by colonists from Megara.
ByzasPersonByzas was the legendary founder of Byzantium, the Greek city on the Bosporus that later became Constantinople and Istanbul.