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Beira Corridor
The Beira Corridor is a road and rail trade route in southeastern Africa, linking landlocked Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and DR Congo to the Port of Beira in Mozambique.
Beira mar
SC Beira-Mar (Sport Clube Beira-Mar), Portuguese multi-sport club from Aveiro founded 1 January 1922; won the 1998/99 Taça de Portugal, played 27 top-flight seasons, now in Campeonato de Portugal after 2017 insolvency.
Beira, Mozambique
Beira is the port capital of Sofala Province, central Mozambique, the country's second most populous city. Founded in 1887, it serves Zimbabwe's trade via the Beira railway and is highly exposed to Cyclone Idai-style coastal flooding.
Beirut (band)
Beirut is an American indie band formed in 2006 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the solo project of Zach Condon, blending Balkan brass and French chanson; albums include Gulag Orkestar, The Rip Tide, Hadsel, and A Study of Losses.
Beirut (film)
Beirut (2018) is an American political thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Tony Gilroy, starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike. A diplomat returns to 1982 civil-war Beirut to negotiate a hostage release; shot in Tangier, loosely based on the William Buckley kidnapping.
Beirut (بيروت)
Beirut (بيروت), capital of Lebanon: ancient Roman law school, civil war division by the Green Line, Solidere downtown reconstruction, 2020 port blast damages of $3.8–4.6 billion, and a projected 6.4% GDP contraction in 2026.
Beirut Holidays
Beirut Holidays, also called Beirut Holidays Festival, is an annual summer music festival in Beirut, Lebanon, launched in 2012, mixing Arab and international headliners on waterfront stages.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت)
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت) is Lebanon's main commercial airport, opened in 1954 and renamed in 2005 for assassinated Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
Beisen (北森)
Beisen (北森), or Beisen Holding Limited, is a Chinese cloud-based human capital management software company founded in 2002, and in 2023 it became the first HR SaaS company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Beishanling–Maoming Oil Pipeline
The Beishanling–Maoming Oil Pipeline (北茂输油管道), also called the Zhanjiang–Maoming oil pipeline, is a 115 km crude oil pipeline in Guangdong, China, built from 1975 to 1979 as the first underground oil pipeline in southern China.
Beishi
The Beishi (History of the Northern Dynasties) is a Chinese official history in 100 juan by Li Yanshou, completed in 659, covering the Northern Dynasties and Sui from 386 to 618.
BEiT
BEiT, short for Bidirectional Encoder representation from Image Transformers, is a self-supervised model that pretrains vision Transformers via masked image modeling, proposed by Microsoft researchers in 2021.
Beit el-Wali
Beit el-Wali is a rock-cut temple built under Ramesses II in Lower Nubia, whose reliefs depict his early military campaigns against Nubians, Libyans, and Asiatics.
Beit Jala (بيت جالا)
Beit Jala (بيت جالا), a Palestinian city on a hill west of Bethlehem in the West Bank, about 2 km from the Church of the Nativity; Aramaic name meaning "carpet of grass," predominantly Christian, municipality since 1912, mayor Vladimir Kharoufeh.
Beit She'an
Beit She'an, also known as Beisan, is a major tell in the Jordan Valley occupied from the Neolithic period, best known as a center of Egyptian administration in Canaan.
Beitang shuchao
Beitang shuchao (北堂书钞, "Book excerpts from the Northern Hall") is a Chinese classified encyclopedia of quotations compiled by Yu Shinan during the Sui dynasty, preserving many lost works.
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. (מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים)
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. (בית"ר ירושלים), also briefly Beitar Trump Jerusalem, is an Israeli Premier League club founded 1936, playing at Teddy Stadium, with six championships and the far-right La Familia ultras.
Beiting Protectorate
The Beiting Protectorate (北庭都护府) was the Tang dynasty protectorate governing the lands north of the Tianshan mountains, founded in 702 and centered at today's Jimsar County, Xinjiang.
Beitou District (北投区)
Beitou District (北投区) is Taipei City's northernmost district, famed for its hot springs. Commercial development began in 1896; the 1913 public bathhouse is now the Beitou Hot Spring Museum.
Beiwa Technology
Beiwa Technology, formally Suzhou Beiwa Technology Co. (苏州贝瓦科技), is a Chinese company founded in 2021 in Suzhou making residential and commercial energy-storage inverters, batteries, and systems.
Beiwe Corona
Beiwe Corona is a large corona, a quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature on Venus about 600 km across in the Lakshmi Planum quadrangle, named in 1994 for a Saami fertility goddess.
Beixue
Beixue (碑学, "stele learning") is a Chinese calligraphy school that takes ancient stele inscriptions as its models, opposed to tiexue, and rose to dominance in the Qing dynasty.
Beiyang Army (北洋军)
Beiyang Army (北洋军), Yuan Shikai's Western-modeled Chinese army founded at Xiaozhan in 1895, six divisions by 1906, over 20 divisions by 1914; it dominated the early Republic, split into Anhui, Zhili, and Fengtian cliques after 1916, and ended in 1928.
Beiyang Fleet
The Beiyang Fleet (北洋水师) was the Qing dynasty's northern-sea navy, organized in 1888 under Li Hongzhang and destroyed at Weihaiwei in February 1895 during the First Sino-Japanese War.
Beiyang government
Beiyang government (北洋政府), also Beijing government: Republic of China central government in Beijing, 1912–1928, controlled successively by Yuan Shikai and the Anhui, Zhili, and Fengtian cliques until the Northern Expedition.
Beizhou Gucheng Yizhi
贝州故城遗址 (Beizhou Ancient City Site), Song-era prefectural city remains in Gexianzhuang town, Qinghe County, Xingtai, Hebei; a Grand Canal trade hub called 天下北库, renamed Enzhou in 1048, national key cultural relics protection unit 8-0003-1-003 since 2019.
Béja
Béja (ancient Vaga, Arabic باجة) is a city in northern Tunisia on the site of ancient Vaga, a Numidian commercial town that was Jugurtha's base and later a Roman colony.
Beja kingdoms
The Beja kingdoms, known to ancient writers as the Blemmyes, were political formations of the nomadic Beja people of the Eastern Desert of Sudan and Egypt.
Beja people
The Beja (Bidhaawyeet speakers) are a Muslim Cushitic-speaking nomadic pastoralist people of eastern Sudan, Egypt, and Eritrea, resident for over 4,000 years, descended from the ancient Medjay and Blemmyes, and speaking the only North Cushitic language.
Béjaïa
Béjaïa (Bougie), Algerian Mediterranean port city and wilaya capital 230 km east of Algiers; founded as Roman Saldae, medieval Hammadid capital, Fibonacci's city, now a major port with oil pipeline terminal and refinery.