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Banswara State
Banswara State (बांसवाड़ा रियासत) was a princely state in southern Rajputana founded in 1527, ruled by a Sisodia Rajput line, and merged into Rajasthan in 1949.
Bantamweight
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports, most prominently boxing, where fighters weigh no more than 118 pounds, with a heavier 135-pound division in the UFC.
Banteay Meanchey
Banteay Meanchey (បន្ទាយមានជ័យ), a northwestern Cambodian province bordering Thailand, ISO code KH-1, capital Sisophon. Covers 6,679 km², nine districts and municipalities, and handles the bulk of Cambodia-Thailand cross-border trade.
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei, meaning Citadel of Women, is a 10th-century Hindu temple of pink sandstone northeast of Angkor in Cambodia, dedicated to Shiva and called a jewel of Khmer art.
Banteay Srei style
Banteay Srei style is a period of Angkorian Khmer art, 967 to about 1000 CE, defined by the temple's pink sandstone and finely carved decoration.
Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre
Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre (BBC), Siem Reap, Cambodia: butterfly farm and exhibit founded 2008 by Ben Hayes, 25 km north of Siem Reap, with thousands of free-flying native butterflies and 35 farmed species.
Banten Lontar power station
Banten Lontar power station (PLTU Banten 3 Lontar) is a 945 MW coal-fired power plant in Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia, operated by PT Indonesia Power.
Banten succession crisis and VOC intervention (1682)
The Banten succession crisis was a civil war in western Java from 1680, in which the VOC backed Sultan Haji against his father, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa.
Banten Suralaya power station
The Banten Suralaya power station is a coal-fired power plant complex in Cilegon, Banten, on Java, Indonesia, with eight units totaling 4,025 MW built from 1985 to 2011.
Banteng
The banteng, also called tembadau, is an endangered wild cattle species of Southeast Asia and the ancestor of Bali cattle, domesticated around 3500 years BC.
Bantha
Bantha: fictional shaggy horned mammal of Star Wars, native to Tatooine, mount of Tusken Raiders, source of blue milk; first played on screen by the elephant Mardji in A New Hope (1977).
Bantimurung Bulusaraung - MA'RUPANNE Biosphere Reserve
Bantimurung Bulusaraung - MA'RUPANNE (Cagar Biosfer Ma'rupanne) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, designated 14 June 2023; 723,669 ha, 1.5 million people, Maros-Pangkep tower karst, and a butterfly-rich national park core.
Banting murders
The Banting murders, also called the Sosilawati Lawiya murders, killed four people at a Banting, Selangor farm on August 30, 2010; three men retain final Malaysian death sentences, one was acquitted.
Bantry Oil and Gas Field
The Bantry Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in southeastern Alberta, Canada, about 6 kilometers east of Duchess, discovered in 1904.
Bantu Authorities Act, 1951
The Bantu Authorities Act, 1951, later the Black Authorities Act, was a South African apartheid statute making chiefs and headmen agents of the white government in the reserves.
Bantu Education Act, 1953
Bantu Education Act, 1953 (Act No. 47 of 1953, later Black Education Act): South African apartheid law transferring native education from provinces to the Department of Native Affairs, based on the Eiselen Commission, effective 1 January 1954, repealed 1980.
Bantu expansion
The Bantu expansion was the demic spread of Bantu languages and speakers from the Nigeria-Cameroon Grassfields homeland across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa roughly 5,000 to 1,500 years ago, carrying pottery, farming, and metallurgy, distinct from later Bantu-language dispersals.
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 was an apartheid-era South African law assigning black South Africans citizenship of ethnic homelands, later renamed the Black States Citizenship Act.
Bantu languages
Bantu languages: about 450 closely related Niger-Congo languages of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, descended from Proto-Bantu. Known for noun class systems with 15-18 classes, Guthrie's lettered zone classification, and the ~4000-year Bantu expansion from the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
Bantu peoples
Bantu peoples are African populations speaking over 500 Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo family, about 350 million people. They descend from an expansion from the Nigeria-Cameroon border region 6,000-4,000 years ago, supported by genetic demic-diffusion evidence.
Bantu World
Bantu World was a national weekly newspaper for Black South African readers, founded in Johannesburg in April 1932 by B. G. Paver and banned by the apartheid government in 1976.
Bantustan
Bantustans, or homelands, were ten ethnically designated territories created by apartheid South Africa for its Black population, four nominally independent but unrecognized, stripped of citizenship, and dissolved on 27 April 1994.
Bantustan legislative elections
Bantustan legislative elections were the parliamentary elections held between 1963 and the early 1990s in the ten homelands apartheid South Africa created for its Black population.
Banu Abs
Banu Abs (بنو عبس) was an Arab tribe of northern Najd, one of the two main branches of the Ghatafan confederation, famous for the pre-Islamic war of Dahis and al-Ghabra.
Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a
Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a (بنو عامر بن صعصعة) was a large tribal confederation of nomadic herders in western central Arabia, first attested in a sixth-century inscription.
Banu Amir of Valencia
The Banu Amir of Valencia (بنو عامر) were an Arab dynasty of the Banu Abi Amir family that ruled the taifa kingdom of Valencia in eastern al-Andalus from 1021 to 1085.
Banu Ammar
Banu Ammar (بنو عمار) were an Arab dynasty of qadis who ruled the principality of Tripoli from 1070 until its fall to the Crusaders in 1109, making the city a center of Shia learning.
Banu Aws
Banu Aws (بنو أوس) was an Arab tribe of Yemeni origin that settled in Yathrib, later Medina, where it rivaled its brother tribe the Khazraj until both became the Ansar.
Banu Ghaniya
Banu Ghaniya (بنو غانية) was a dynasty of Almoravid descent that ruled Majorca, Minorca, and Ibiza from 1126, then fought the Almohads in North Africa into the 1230s.
Banu Hamdun
Banu Hamdun (بنو حمدون) were an Arab family of Yemeni origin who served the Fatimid caliphate as governors and soldiers in the central Maghrib before defecting to the Umayyads of al-Andalus in the 10th century.