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Bar-sur-AubePlaceBar-sur-Aube is a small town on the Aube in the Champagne region of north-eastern France.- Bara ImambaraWork / monumentThe Bara Imambara is a large Shia congregation hall in Lucknow, India, built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula from 1784, partly to provide work during a famine.
Bara Sona MosqueWork / monumentThe Bara Sona Mosque, the Great Golden Mosque, is a ruined mosque at Gaur in West Bengal, India, the largest surviving monument of the city.
Barack ObamaPersonBarack Obama is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, the first African American to hold the office.
BaracoaPlaceBaracoa is a town on the north-eastern coast of Cuba, founded in 1511 by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar as the first Spanish settlement on the island.
Barakah nuclear power plantWork / monumentThe Barakah nuclear power plant, in the Al Dhafra region of western Abu Dhabi, is the first nuclear power station in the Arab world.- Barakzai dynastyStateThe Barakzai dynasty was the ruling family of Afghanistan from the nineteenth century, whose most notable early figure was Dost Mohammad Khan.
- BaranjaPlaceBaranja is a historical region in the Pannonian Plain between the Danube and the Drava, divided since 1920 between Hungary and Croatia.
- BaranyaPlaceBaranya is a region between the Danube and the Drava, centred on the city of Pécs.
- Baraq HajibPersonBaraq Hajib was a Qara Khitai officer who had served the Khwarazmian Empire and founded the Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty of Kerman in southern Iran.
BaraqishPlaceBaraqish, ancient Yathill, is a walled ruined city in the al-Jawf region of Yemen, north-east of Sanaa.
Barasoain ChurchWork / monumentBarasoain Church is a Catholic church in Malolos, Bulacan, in the Philippines.
BarattarnaPersonBarattarna was an early king of Mitanni around 1500 BCE.- Barbados Labour PartyPeople / groupThe Barbados Labour Party is one of the two main political parties of Barbados, founded in 1938 by Grantley Adams and others after the labour riots of 1937.
- Barbados Slave CodeWork / monumentThe Barbados Slave Code of 1661, formally An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law passed by the colonial assembly of Barbados to regulate…
Barbar TemplePlaceBarbar Temple is an archaeological site in northern Bahrain with a series of temples built one above another in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia BCE.- Barbara of MatambaPersonBarbara, born Kambu or Mukambu Mbande, was queen of Ndongo and Matamba from 1663 to 1666, succeeding her sister Njinga.
Barbara SanseverinoPersonBarbara Sanseverino, Countess of Sala, was an Italian noblewoman celebrated for her beauty and culture at the court of Parma, praised by poets including Torquato Tasso.
BarbarikonPlaceBarbarikon was an ancient seaport in the Indus delta, near modern Karachi in Pakistan.
Barbary CoastPlaceThe Barbary Coast was the name used by Europeans from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, from Morocco through Algiers…
BarbastroPlaceBarbastro is a city in the province of Huesca, Aragon, on the Vero river.
BarbudaPlaceBarbuda is a flat coral island in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, about 45 kilometres north of Antigua.
BarcelonaPlaceBarcelona is the capital of Catalonia and the second-largest city of Spain, on the Mediterranean coast between the Llobregat and Besòs rivers.
Barcelona May DaysCrisis · 1937The Barcelona May Days were street fighting in Barcelona from 3 to 8 May 1937 between anarchists and the POUM on one side and Republican and Communist forces on the…
Barcelos, AmazonasPlaceBarcelos is a town on the middle Rio Negro in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.- Barchuq Art TeginPersonBarchuq Art Tegin was the idiqut, or ruler, of the Uyghur Kingdom of Qocho in the Turfan region.
Barcid familyStateThe Barcid family was a leading Carthaginian family of the third century BCE, including Hamilcar Barca and his sons Hannibal, Hasdrubal and Mago.- BarcinoPlaceBarcino was the Roman colony founded under Augustus around 15–10 BCE on the site of modern Barcelona, in north-eastern Spain.
- BardaPlaceBarda is a town in central Azerbaijan near the Kura river, the ancient Partav, which replaced Kabala as the capital of Caucasian Albania in the 5th century.
Bardas SklerosPersonBardas Skleros was a Byzantine general who rebelled against Emperor Basil II in 976 and took much of Anatolia.
Bardi familyPeople / groupThe Bardi were a Florentine family of merchant-bankers whose company was one of the largest in 14th-century Europe, with branches from London to the Levant.- Bardo National MuseumInstitutionThe Bardo National Museum in Tunis, opened in 1888 in a former palace of the Husainid beys, is the national archaeological museum of Tunisia.
BardylisPersonBardylis was an Illyrian king who in the early 4th century BCE built a powerful state on the north-western borders of Macedon.
Barebone's ParliamentInstitutionBarebone's Parliament was an assembly of 140 members nominated by Oliver Cromwell and the army officers, which sat from July to December 1653 after the expulsion of the…
BareillyPlaceBareilly is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the Ramganga River, and the main city of the Rohilkhand region.- Barentu OromoPeople / groupThe Barentu Oromo are one of the two main branches of the Oromo people of Ethiopia.
BarfleurPlaceBarfleur is a small port on the north-east coast of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy.
BargalPlaceBargal is a coastal town in the Bari region of Puntland in north-eastern Somalia, on the Indian Ocean south of Cape Guardafui.
Barghash bin SaidPersonBarghash bin Said was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Said bin Sultan.
Barha TeginPersonBarha Tegin is named by the eleventh-century scholar al-Biruni as the founder of the Turk Shahi dynasty, which replaced the Nezak rulers of Kabul and Kapisa around 665.
BariPlaceBari is a port city on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy and the capital of Apulia.- BaribaPeople / groupThe Bariba are a people of Borgu, in present-day northern Benin and western Nigeria.
- Barid Shahi dynastyPeople / groupThe Barid Shahi dynasty ruled the Bidar Sultanate in the Deccan after the break-up of the Bahmani Sultanate.
- Barings BankInstitutionBarings Bank, founded in London in 1762, was one of Britain's oldest merchant banks and a leading lender to governments in the nineteenth century, helping to finance…
BaripadaPlaceBaripada is a city in northern Odisha, India, and the headquarters of Mayurbhanj district.
Barisan NasionalPeople / groupBarisan Nasional (National Front) is a Malaysian coalition of parties formed in 1973 as the successor of the Alliance, led by the United Malays National Organisation…- Barisan of IbelinPersonBarisan of Ibelin was the founder of the Ibelin family, one of the most powerful noble houses of the crusader states.
Barisone II of ArboreaPersonBarisone II of Arborea was judge, or ruler, of the Judicate of Arborea in western Sardinia from 1146.
Barito RiverPlaceThe Barito is the largest river of southern Borneo, flowing some 900 kilometres from the Müller Mountains to the Java Sea through Indonesia's Central and South…
BarkurPlaceBarkur is a village in the Udupi district of coastal Karnataka, India, once a major town and the later capital of the Alupa dynasty.
Bârlad RiverPlaceThe Bârlad is a river in eastern Romania, about 207 kilometres long, a left tributary of the Siret.- BarlasPeople / groupThe Barlas were a Mongol tribe that settled in Transoxiana and became largely Turkic in language and Muslim in faith.
- BarmakidsPeople / groupThe Barmakids were a family of Iranian origin, from Balkh, who served as viziers and administrators to the early Abbasid caliphs.
BarmenPlaceBarmen is a former industrial town in the Wupper valley of western Germany, since 1929 part of the city of Wuppertal.
BarmstedtPlaceBarmstedt is a small town in the Pinneberg district of Schleswig-Holstein, north-west of Hamburg.
Barnim I, Duke of PomeraniaPersonBarnim I was duke of Pomerania of the Griffin dynasty from 1220 until 1278.- BarolongPeople / groupThe Barolong are a Tswana-speaking people of southern Africa, among the oldest Tswana groups, traditionally settled in the southern Kalahari margins and the Molopo…
- Barom KagyuReligion / ideaThe Barom Kagyu is a school of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, founded in the 12th century by Barom Darma Wangchuk, a disciple of Gampopa.
BaroqueReligion / ideaBaroque is the style of art, architecture and music that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to the mid-18th century.- Barotseland Agreement 1964Treaty · 1964The Barotseland Agreement 1964 was signed in May 1964 by Kenneth Kaunda for Northern Rhodesia, the Litunga Mwanawina III and the British government.
BarquqPersonBarquq was a Circassian Mamluk who became sultan of Egypt and Syria in 1382, founding the Burji line of sultans.- Barra WarWar · 1831–1832The Barra War was a conflict in 1831–32 between the British colony at Bathurst (Banjul) and the Mandinka kingdom of Niumi, also called Barra, on the north bank of the…
- Barrak ibn GhurayrPersonBarrak ibn Ghurayr was chief of the Banu Khalid, the leading tribal confederation of eastern Arabia.
- Barrier Treaty (1715)Treaty · 1715The Barrier Treaty of 15 November 1715, signed at Antwerp by Austria and the Dutch Republic with British mediation, settled the status of the Southern Netherlands after…
BarsbayPersonBarsbay was Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1422 to 1438.- BartatuaPersonBartatua was a Scythian king of the 7th century BCE known from Assyrian texts and usually identified with Protothyes, named by Herodotus as the father of Madyes.
Barthélemy BogandaPersonBarthélemy Boganda was the first Catholic priest from Ubangi-Shari and the leading nationalist politician of French Equatorial Africa.
Bartholomäus ZiegenbalgPersonBartholomäus Ziegenbalg was a German Lutheran missionary, one of the first Protestant missionaries in India.
Bartle FrerePersonSir Bartle Frere was a British colonial administrator.
Bartolomé de las CasasPersonBartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish Dominican friar of the sixteenth century who became a leading critic of the treatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas.- Bartolomé de MedinaPersonBartolomé de Medina was a Spanish merchant who in the 1550s at Pachuca in New Spain developed the patio process, which extracted silver from ore by mixing it with…
Bartolomé Esteban MurilloPersonBartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter from Seville, where he spent almost his entire career.
Bartolomé MitrePersonBartolomé Mitre was an Argentine general, historian and statesman.
Bartolomé RuizPersonBartolomé Ruiz was a Spanish pilot from Moguer who served on Francisco Pizarro's early expeditions down the Pacific coast of South America.
Bartolomeo ColleoniPersonBartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian condottiere from Bergamo who served both Venice and Milan before becoming captain-general of the Venetian army for life in 1455.
Bartolomeu Bueno da SilvaPersonBartolomeu Bueno da Silva was a Paulista bandeirante, son of the explorer of the same name known as Anhanguera.
Bartolomeu DiasPersonBartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese navigator who in 1488 became the first European known to sail around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope.
BartoszycePlaceBartoszyce, German Bartenstein, is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of north-eastern Poland, on the Łyna river near the Russian border.
Baruch SpinozaPersonBaruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher from Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community, which expelled him in 1656.
Barwick-in-ElmetPlaceBarwick-in-Elmet is a village in West Yorkshire, England, east of Leeds.
Bas-RhinPlaceBas-Rhin is a department of eastern France covering northern Alsace, with Strasbourg as its prefecture.
Basarab IPersonBasarab I was the first independent ruler of Wallachia, first recorded in 1324, who united the Romanian lands between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube.
BasavaPersonBasava, also called Basavanna, was a 12th-century Kannada poet, philosopher and social reformer and a minister at the court of the Kalachuri ruler Bijjala II at Kalyani.
BasavakalyanPlaceBasavakalyan, historically Kalyani, is a town in Bidar district, Karnataka, India.
BasayPeople / groupThe Basay were an Austronesian indigenous people of northern Taiwan, living around the harbours of Keelung and Tamsui and along the north-east coast.
BaschurchPlaceBaschurch is a village in Shropshire, England, north-west of Shrewsbury.
Basdeo PandayPersonBasdeo Panday was a Trinidadian trade unionist and politician who led the sugar workers' union and founded the United National Congress.- Basel-LandschaftPlaceBasel-Landschaft is a canton of north-western Switzerland, with its capital at Liestal.
Basel-StadtPlaceBasel-Stadt is a canton of north-western Switzerland made up of the city of Basel and the two small communes of Riehen and Bettingen, on the Rhine where Switzerland…
BasentoPlaceThe Basento is a river of Basilicata in southern Italy.- Bases OrgánicasWork / monumentThe Bases Orgánicas were a centralist constitution of Mexico, drafted by a junta of notables under Antonio López de Santa Anna and promulgated on 12 June 1843.
BASFWork / monumentBASF is a German chemical company founded in 1865.
Bashar al-AssadPersonBashar al-Assad was president of Syria from 2000, succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad.
Bashir Shihab IIPersonBashir Shihab II was emir of Mount Lebanon from 1789 to 1840, the most powerful ruler of the Shihab dynasty.- Bashir Shihab IIIPersonBashir Shihab III was the last emir of Mount Lebanon from the Shihab family, appointed by the Ottomans in 1840 after the exile of his kinsman Bashir II.
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicStateThe Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of Soviet Russia in the southern Urals, recognised in March 1919 as the first autonomous…
BashkirsPeople / groupThe Bashkirs are a Turkic people of the southern Ural Mountains and adjacent plains in Russia, most of whom live in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
BashkortostanPlaceBashkortostan is a republic of the Russian Federation in the southern Urals and the plains to their west, with its capital at Ufa.
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of GermanyWork / monumentThe Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is the German constitution, drafted by a parliamentary council of the western states and in force from 23 May 1949.- Basic Statute of OmanWork / monumentThe Basic Statute of Oman is the country's constitutional document, issued by royal decree of Sultan Qaboos bin Said in November 1996.