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Batu Balong
Batu Balong (usually spelled Batu Bolong) is a beach and beginner-friendly beach-break surf spot in Canggu, Bali, at the foot of Jalan Pantai Batu Bolong, with Pura Batu Bolong temple on a holed rock, soft longboard waves best at mid to high tide, and very crowded lineups.
Batu Caves
Batu Caves (Gua Batu), a 329 m limestone karst hill 12 km from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, houses Hindu Murugan shrines and hosts the Thaipusam festival, drawing over 2.5 million devotees, with 366 vascular plant species on the hill.
Batu Khan
Batu Khan (Бат хаан), grandson of Genghis Khan through Jochi, led the 1236–1242 western campaign conquering Rus and defeating Hungary at Mohi, then founded the Golden Horde with its capital Sarai on the lower Volga.
Batu Khasikov
Batu Khasikov is a Russian politician and former multiple world kickboxing champion, co-founder of Fight Nights Global, who has served as Head of the Republic of Kalmykia since 2019.
Batu Lintang camp
Batu Lintang camp, also called Lintang Barracks or Kuching POW camp, was a Japanese-run POW and civilian internment camp at Kuching, Sarawak, in Borneo, 1942 to 1945.
Batu's invasion of North-Eastern Rus
Batu's invasion of North-Eastern Rus (Батыево нашествие) was the Mongol conquest of the Russian principalities in 1237–1240, led by Batu, which destroyed Ryazan, Vladimir, and Kiev and began Horde rule.
Batuhan Akcaoglu
Batuhan Akcaoglu (Batuhan Akçaoğlu), Turkish compound archer for Türkiye, world ranking 11 in compound men, career-best 714 at 50 m; team golds at 2026 World Cup Shanghai, 2022 Europeans, and 2025 Universiade.
Batukeshwar Dutt (বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত)
Batukeshwar Dutt (বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত), 1910–1965, Indian revolutionary and HSRA member; with Bhagat Singh bombed the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929, underwent a 63-day hunger strike, served the Cellular Jail, later joined Quit India.
Batum Oblast
Batum Oblast (Батумская область) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire on the eastern Black Sea coast, created in 1878 from Ottoman territory after the Russo-Turkish War.
Batumi
Batumi (ბათუმი) is Georgia's Black Sea port city and the capital of Adjara; a deep-water harbor since 1878 handling 7.3 million tonnes of cargo in 2025, and a subtropical seaside resort known for Batumi Boulevard and its botanical garden.
Batumi Botanical Garden
Batumi Botanical Garden (Georgian: ბათუმის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is a 108-hectare garden on the Black Sea coast 9 km north of Batumi, Georgia, founded in 1912 by the botanist Andrey Krasnov.
Batumi Central Park
Batumi Central Park (ბათუმის ცენტრალური პარკი), formerly 6 May Park, is Batumi's first civil garden, created from 1881 around Lake Nurigeli, with dolphinarium, aquarium, and zoo.
Batumi Dolphinarium
Batumi Dolphinarium (ბათუმის დელფინარიუმი), Batumi, Georgia: first demonstration dolphinarium in the USSR, opened 1975, closed early 1990s, rebuilt and reopened May 6, 2011; amphitheater for 795-887 spectators, Georgian and English dolphin shows.
Batumi Zoo
Batumi Zoo (ბათუმის ზოოპარკი), also called the Batumi zoological corner, is a small zoo in 6 May Park on Nurigeli Lake, Batumi, Georgia; animal keeping on the site dates to 1898, with a 2006-2007 reconstruction into three sectors.
Batura Sar I
Batura Sar I (Batura I, Batura Sar) is a 7,795 m peak in the Batura Muztagh, westernmost Karakoram, Pakistan; 25th-highest on Earth, first climbed in 1976 by Bleicher and Oberhofer. Not the asthma trial, company, or person named Batura.
Baturiya Wetland
Baturiya Wetland, also called Hadejia-Nguru Wetland Game Reserve, is a Ramsar site (no. 1752, 2008) in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a 1985 game reserve on the Kafin Hausa River floodplain, important for waterbirds and Palearctic migrants.
Batushka (БАТЮШКА)
Batushka (БАТЮШКА), Polish black metal band formed 2015 by Krzysztof Drabikowski and Bartłomiej Krysiuk; debut Litourgiya fused black metal with Orthodox chant. A 2024 Warsaw court ruling left the name with Drabikowski; Krysiuk's version became Patriarkh.
Batwara 1947
Batwara 1947, formerly Lahore 1947, is a 2026 Hindi Partition drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, produced by Aamir Khan, starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, and Shabana Azmi, adapted from Asghar Wajahat's play, released 14 August 2026.
Batwing (DC Comics)
Batwing (DC Comics) is a Batman-family superhero identity held by David Zavimbe (2011) and Luke Fox (2013), created under Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated, with a 35-issue New 52 series and appearances in Batman: Bad Blood and Batwoman.
Batwoman
Batwoman is a DC Comics superheroine of Gotham City: Kathy Kane debuted in Detective Comics #233 (1956) as a rebuttal to Wertham, and Kate Kane, Batman's lesbian cousin, debuted in 52 (2006), starring in solo comics and the CW series.
Batwoman (TV series)
Batwoman (2019-2022) is a CW Arrowverse superhero series, also called Kate Kane's show, starring Ruby Rose then Javicia Leslie as the first gay lead superhero on TV, 3 seasons, 51 episodes.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon, American journalist and author, former opinion editor of The Forward and deputy opinion editor of Newsweek; wrote Bad News (2021) and Second Class (2024); hosts NewsNation's Batya!; self-described MAGA lefty.
Bau
Bau, born Rufino Almeida in 1962 in Mindelo, Cape Verde, is a morna multi-instrumentalist who played cavaquinho in Cesária Évora's orchestra and led it from 1996 to 1999.
Bau (crater on Ganymede)
Bau is a 77 km diameter impact crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at 23.05°N, 48.67°W in Nineveh Sulcus, IAU-named in 1988 for the Assyro-Babylonian life goddess, imaged by Juno in 2021.
Bau Corona
Bau Corona is a 355 km diameter corona on Venus at 52.8°N, 259.3°E, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for a Sumerian fertility goddess, mapped in the Metis Mons quadrangle.
Bau uprising
The Bau uprising was an 1857 attack by Hakka Chinese gold miners of Bau, Sarawak, led by Liu Shan Bang, against the government of Rajah James Brooke in Kuching.
Bauchi (city)
Bauchi is a city in northeastern Nigeria and the capital of Bauchi State, founded around 1809 on the northern edge of the Jos Plateau and named for a hunter, Baushe.
Bauchi (district)
Bauchi (district) is the local government area and ADM2 district of Bauchi State, Nigeria, seat of the state capital Bauchi city. 3,687 km², 493,810 residents (2006 census), 20 sub-districts, postal code 740.
Bauchi Emirate
Bauchi Emirate is a traditional emirate in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, founded in the early nineteenth century as one of the eastern emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Baud
The baud (Bd), also called the baudrate, is the unit of modulation rate in telecommunication, equal to one signal state change, or symbol, per second.