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Basil BoioannesPersonBasil Boioannes was the Byzantine catepan, or governor, of Italy from 1017 to 1027.
Basil IPersonBasil I was Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886 and founder of the Macedonian dynasty, which ruled for nearly two centuries.
Basil IIPersonBasil II was Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025, one of the most successful rulers of the empire.
BasilanPlaceBasilan is an island in the southern Philippines, lying between the Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago.
BasileusInstitutionBasileus is a Greek word for king.
Basilica of Bom JesusWork / monumentThe Basilica of Bom Jesus is a Jesuit church in Old Goa, India, completed in 1605 in the Baroque style.
Basilica of Saint-DenisWork / monumentThe Basilica of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, began as the church of a royal abbey built over the tomb of Saint Denis, the 3rd-century first bishop of Paris.
Basilica of Saint-SerninWork / monumentThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse is a large Romanesque church built from about 1080 over the tomb of Saint Saturninus, the city's first bishop.
Basilica of San IsidoroWork / monumentThe Basilica of San Isidoro is a Romanesque church in León, Spain, built to house the relics of Isidore of Seville, brought there in 1063, and consecrated in its…
Basilica of San NicolaWork / monumentThe Basilica of San Nicola is a church in Bari in southern Italy, built from 1087 to house the relics of Saint Nicholas, which sailors from Bari had taken from Myra in…
Basilica of San ZenoWork / monumentThe Basilica of San Zeno in Verona is a Romanesque church built mainly in the 12th century over the tomb of Verona's patron saint, Bishop Zeno.
Basilica of Sant'Andrea, VercelliWork / monumentThe Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli, Piedmont, was built from 1219 to 1227 for an abbey founded by Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, endowed with English revenues from his…
Basilica of SupergaWork / monumentThe Basilica of Superga is a baroque church on a hill east of Turin, designed by Filippo Juvarra and built in 1717–1731.
BasilicataPlaceBasilicata is a mountainous region of southern Italy between Campania, Apulia and Calabria, with short coastlines on the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas.- Basilike choraInstitutionThe basilike chora, meaning 'royal land', was land held directly by the king in the Hellenistic kingdoms.
Baška tabletWork / monumentThe Baška tablet is a stone slab from the church of St Lucy at Jurandvor near Baška, on the island of Krk in Croatia, dated to around 1100.- BasmylsPeople / groupThe Basmyls were a Turkic tribe of Central Asia.
- BasorunInstitutionThe Basorun was the head of the Oyo Mesi, the council of seven hereditary chiefs in the Oyo Empire.
- Basorun GaaPersonBasorun Gaa was the head of the Oyo Mesi council who dominated the Oyo Empire from around the 1740s until he was executed c. 1774.
- Basorun Gaa crisisEventThe Basorun Gaa crisis was the period of c. 1745–1774 when the Basorun Gaa, head of the Oyo Mesi council, dominated the Oyo Empire and several Alaafins were compelled…
Basotho Congress PartyPeople / groupThe Basotho Congress Party is a political party in Lesotho, founded in 1952 as the Basutoland African Congress by Ntsu Mokhehle and renamed the Basutoland Congress Party.
Basotho National PartyPeople / groupThe Basotho National Party is a political party in Lesotho, founded in 1959 by Leabua Jonathan.
Basque Nationalist PartyPeople / groupThe Basque Nationalist Party is a Christian democratic party founded in 1895 by Sabino Arana to defend Basque identity and self-government.- BasquesPeople / groupThe Basques are a people of the western Pyrenees, in northern Spain and south-western France, with a distinct language unrelated to other European languages.
BasraPlaceBasra is a port city in southern Iraq, founded around 636 as a garrison town of the Rashidun Caliphate.
Bassa people (Liberia)People / groupThe Bassa are a Kru-speaking people of central Liberia, living mostly in Grand Bassa and neighbouring counties along the coast and inland.
Basse Santa SuPlaceBasse Santa Su is a town on the south bank of the upper Gambia River and the chief town of the Upper River Region of the Gambia.
Basse-TerrePlaceBasse-Terre is the capital of the French overseas region of Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean, on the south-west coast of the island of Basse-Terre.
Basses-PyrénéesPlaceBasses-Pyrénées was a department of south-western France created in 1790 from Béarn, Lower Navarre, Labourd and Soule, with Pau as its capital.
BasseterrePlaceBasseterre is the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis, on the south-west coast of the island of Saint Kitts.
BastamPlaceBastam is the site of a large Urartian fortress in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, north of Khoy, built by Rusa II in the seventh century BCE.
Bastar DussehraEventBastar Dussehra is a festival held each year in Jagdalpur and across the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India, lasting about 75 days.- Basti (Iberia)PlaceBasti was the chief town of the Bastetani, an Iberian people of south-eastern Spain, on the hill of Cerro Cepero near modern Baza in the province of Granada.
BastiaPlaceBastia is a port city in north-eastern Corsica, France, founded by the Genoese around 1380 around a fortress (bastiglia) that gave it its name.- Basutoland National CouncilInstitutionThe Basutoland National Council was a body of chiefs and nominated members created in 1903 to advise the British administration of Basutoland, presided over by the…
BatakPeople / groupThe Batak are a group of related peoples of the highlands of North Sumatra in Indonesia, centred on Lake Toba.
Batán GrandePlaceBatán Grande is an archaeological complex in the La Leche valley of Lambayeque on the north coast of Peru, now within the Pómac Forest sanctuary.
BatanaeaPlaceBatanaea was a region east of the Sea of Galilee and north of the Yarmuk River, in present-day southern Syria, corresponding to part of biblical Bashan.
Batang Hari RiverPlaceThe Batang Hari is the longest river of Sumatra, flowing about 800 kilometres from the Minangkabau highlands past Jambi to the Strait of Malacca.
BatangasPlaceBatangas is a province of the Philippines in southern Luzon, south of Manila, with its capital at Batangas City and Taal Volcano within its borders.- BataviaPlaceBatavia, now Jakarta, was a city on the north-west coast of Java founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1619.
Batavian RepublicStateThe Batavian Republic was the state that replaced the Dutch Republic in 1795 after French revolutionary forces occupied the Netherlands.- BatavodurumPlaceBatavodurum was the chief settlement of the Batavi on the site of modern Nijmegen in the Netherlands, mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy.
- BatembuziPeople / groupThe Batembuzi are the first, legendary dynasty of the kingdom of Kitara in the traditions of Bunyoro and its neighbours.
- Bateshwar Hindu templesWork / monumentThe Bateshwar Hindu temples are a group of about 200 sandstone temples dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu near Morena in Madhya Pradesh, built mainly between the eighth and…
BathPlaceBath is a city in Somerset, south-west England, built around natural hot springs.
Bathoen IPersonBathoen I was chief of the Bangwaketse, a Tswana people of southern Botswana, from 1889 until his death in 1910, ruling from Kanye.
BathshebaPersonBathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite who, according to the Hebrew Bible, became the wife of King David after he committed adultery with her and arranged Uriah's…- BatisPersonBatis was the commander of Gaza for the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 332 BCE.
- Bato of DardaniaPersonBato was a king of the Dardani, son of King Longarus, who ruled in the late 3rd century BCE.
Bato the BreucianPersonBato the Breucian was a leader of the Breuci, a Pannonian people of the Sava valley, in the Great Illyrian Revolt against Rome that began in 6 CE.
Bato the DaesitiatePersonBato the Daesitiate was a leader of the Daesitiates of central Bosnia and the principal commander of the Great Illyrian Revolt against Rome in 6–9 CE.
BatochePlaceBatoche is a Métis settlement on the South Saskatchewan River in present-day Saskatchewan, Canada, founded in the early 1870s.
Baton RougePlaceBaton Rouge is a city on the Mississippi River and the capital of the US state of Louisiana.
BattambangPlaceBattambang is the second-largest city of Cambodia, on the Sangkae River in the north-west, and capital of Battambang Province.
Battenberg familyPeople / groupThe Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the grand ducal house of Hesse, founded when Prince Alexander of Hesse married Countess Julia Hauke, who was created…- Battering ramTermA battering ram is a siege weapon consisting of a heavy beam used to break down gates and walls.
- Battiad dynastyPeople / groupThe Battiad dynasty ruled the Greek city of Cyrene in Libya for about two centuries, from its foundation around 631 BCE by Battus I, a colonist from Thera.
BatticaloaPlaceBatticaloa is a city on the east coast of Sri Lanka, built around a large lagoon in the Eastern Province.- Battle of AbéchéBattle · 1909The Battle of Abéché was the French capture of Abéché, capital of the Wadai Empire, in 1909.
- Battle of AbydosBattle · 411 BCEThe Battle of Abydos was a naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 411 BCE in the Hellespont off the city of Abydos.
Battle of AchelousBattle · 917The Battle of Achelous was fought on 20 August 917 by the river Achelous, near Anchialus on the Black Sea coast of present-day Bulgaria.
Battle of AckiaBattle · 1736The Battle of Ackia was fought on 26 May 1736 near modern Tupelo, Mississippi, when a French army under Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, governor of Louisiana, with…- Battle of AcleaBattle · 851The Battle of Aclea was fought in 851 between the West Saxons under King Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald and a large Viking army that had sacked Canterbury and London.
Battle of ActiumBattle · 31 BCEThe Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought in 31 BCE off western Greece between Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII.- Battle of Ad DecimumBattle · 533The Battle of Ad Decimum was fought on 13 September 533 at the tenth milestone south of Carthage, where the Byzantine general Belisarius defeated the Vandal army of…
- Battle of AdiboBattle · 1896The Battle of Adibo was fought in 1896 near Yendi, in what is now northern Ghana, between German colonial forces advancing from Togo and the army of the Dagomba kingdom…
Battle of AdrianopleBattle · 378 CEThe Battle of Adrianople was fought in 378 CE in Thrace between the Roman army under the eastern emperor Valens and Gothic forces.
Battle of AdwaBattle · 1896The Battle of Adwa was fought in 1896 in northern Ethiopia between the forces of Emperor Menelik II and an invading Italian army.- Battle of AegospotamiBattle · 405 BCEThe Battle of Aegospotami was a naval battle in 405 BCE on the Hellespont, near Sestos.
Battle of AfabetBattle · 1988The Battle of Afabet was fought in March 1988 around the town of Afabet in northern Eritrea, where the Eritrean People's Liberation Front overran the headquarters of…
Battle of Ager SanguinisBattle · 1119The Battle of Ager Sanguinis, the 'Field of Blood', was fought on 28 June 1119 near Sarmada, west of Aleppo.
Battle of AgincourtBattle · 1415The Battle of Agincourt was fought on 25 October 1415 in northern France, where Henry V of England's small, exhausted army, made up largely of longbowmen, defeated a…
Battle of AgnadelloBattle · 1509The Battle of Agnadello was fought on 14 May 1509 in Lombardy, when the French army of Louis XII routed the Venetian army.
Battle of Ain JalutBattle · 1260The Battle of Ain Jalut was fought in 1260 in Palestine between the Mamluk Sultanate and a Mongol army of the Ilkhanate.- Battle of Al WajbahBattle · 1893The Battle of Al Wajbah was fought in March 1893 near Doha between Qatari forces under Jassim bin Muhammad Al Thani and an Ottoman expedition led by the governor of…
- Battle of al-BuhayraBattle · 1130The Battle of al-Buhayra was fought in 1130 near Marrakesh between the early Almohad movement and the Almoravids.
- Battle of al-MansurahBattle · 1250The Battle of al-Mansurah was fought in February 1250 in the Nile Delta of Egypt during the Seventh Crusade led by Louis IX of France.
Battle of al-QadisiyyahBattle · 636 or 637 CEThe Battle of al-Qadisiyyah was fought in 636 or 637 CE in southern Iraq between the armies of the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sasanian Empire.- Battle of al-UqhuwanaBattle · 1029The Battle of al-Uqhuwana was fought in 1029 near Lake Tiberias in Palestine, where a Fatimid army under Anushtakin al-Dizbari defeated an alliance of the Jarrahids and…
- Battle of AlamanceBattle · 16 May 1771The Battle of Alamance was fought on 16 May 1771 in North Carolina, where Governor William Tryon's militia defeated about 2,000 Regulators, backcountry farmers…
- Battle of AlangeBattle · 1230The Battle of Alange was fought in 1230 near Alange, in modern Extremadura, between the army of Alfonso IX of León and the forces of Ibn Hud, ruler of Murcia and much…
Battle of AlarcosBattle · 1195The Battle of Alarcos was fought in 1195 in central Spain between the Almohad caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur and King Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Battle of AlbeldaBattle · 859The Battle of Albelda was fought in 859 near Albelda in La Rioja, northern Spain, where King Ordoño I of Asturias defeated Musa ibn Musa of the Banu Qasi, the dominant…
Battle of AlbulenaBattle · 1457The Battle of Albulena was fought on 2 September 1457 in central Albania, when Skanderbeg defeated a large Ottoman army under Isa Bey Evrenos.
Battle of Alcácer QuibirBattle · 1578The Battle of Alcácer Quibir, also called the Battle of the Three Kings, was fought in northern Morocco in 1578.
Battle of Alcântara (1580)Battle · 1580The Battle of Alcântara was fought on 25 August 1580 near Lisbon, where a Spanish army under the Duke of Alba defeated the forces of António, Prior of Crato, the…
Battle of AlcorazBattle · 1096The Battle of Alcoraz was fought in November 1096 near Huesca, where Peter I of Aragon and Navarre defeated the army of the taifa of Zaragoza, which had Castilian…
Battle of AlesiaBattle · Siege · 52 BCEThe Battle of Alesia was the decisive siege of the Gallic Wars, fought in 52 BCE at the hill-fort of the Mandubii, probably at Alise-Sainte-Reine in Burgundy.- Battle of AlgiersBattle · 1956–1957The Battle of Algiers was the campaign of 1956–1957 in which the FLN waged a bombing and assassination offensive in Algiers and French paratroopers under General…
- The Battle of Algiers (film)Work / monumentThe Battle of Algiers is a 1966 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, recreating the struggle between the FLN and French paratroopers in Algiers in 1956–1957.
Battle of AliwalBattle · 1846The Battle of Aliwal was fought on 28 January 1846 near the Sutlej River in Punjab during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Battle of AljubarrotaBattle · 1385The Battle of Aljubarrota was fought on 14 August 1385 in central Portugal, between the army of John I of Portugal, with English archers, and the larger army of John I…- Battle of AlkalawaBattle · 1808The Battle of Alkalawa was the capture in 1808 of Alkalawa, the capital of the Hausa kingdom of Gobir, by the forces of Usman dan Fodio's jihad.
Battle of AlmansaBattle · 1707The Battle of Almansa was fought on 25 April 1707 near Almansa in south-eastern Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Battle of Almenar (1082)Battle · 1082The Battle of Almenar was fought in 1082 near Almenar, north of Lleida in Catalonia.- Battle of AmalindeBattle · 1818The Battle of Amalinde was fought in 1818 in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, between rival Xhosa forces.
- Battle of Amba SelBattle · 1531The Battle of Amba Sel was fought in 1531 in the Ethiopian highlands between the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal and the army of the Ethiopian emperor…
Battle of AmeixialBattle · 1663The Battle of Ameixial was fought on 8 June 1663 near Estremoz in the Alentejo, during the Portuguese Restoration War.
Battle of AmoafulBattle · 1874The Battle of Amoaful was fought on 31 January 1874 in the forest south of Kumasi, when a British expedition under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeated a large Asante army.