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Belarusians

Belarusians are an East Slavic people of Belarus, also called Biełaruśians. Known for late-forming, ambivalent national identity, Baltic-Slavic ethnogenesis, Russian-language dominance, and a 300,000–500,000 strong post-2020 exile diaspora.

Belas Knap Longbarrow

Belas Knap Longbarrow, a Neolithic Cotswold-Severn chambered long barrow near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, with a false northern entrance, four side chambers, 31 excavated burials, and Ministry of Works restoration in 1929-31.

Belasica

FK Belasica (ФК Беласица Струмица), nicknamed Kenguri, is a football club from Strumica, North Macedonia, founded 13 August 1922; twice First League vice-champion (2001/02, 2002/03) with UEFA Cup play, now in the Second League.

Belaswitch study

Belaswitch (NCT05316038), also called the belatacept conversion study, is a prospective single-center cohort study at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital tracking metabolic and infectious complications in kidney transplant recipients switched from tacrolimus to belatacept, each patient as their own control.

Belatacept

Belatacept (Nulojix) is an intravenous T-cell costimulation blocker approved in 2011 to prevent kidney transplant rejection, offering better graft function and metabolic outcomes than calcineurin inhibitors but higher acute rejection risk than tacrolimus.

Belattha

Belattha (बेलट्ठ) is the father of Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, one of the six sectarian teachers contemporary with the Buddha in the 6th century BCE, known only through the patronymic in his son's name.

Belatthanika Thera

Belatthanika Thera is an arahant monk of the Buddha's time, a brahmin of Sāvatthī known from one Theragāthā verse in which the Buddha compares him to a fattened hog.

Belatthasisa

Belatthasisa was a brahmin of Savatthi who tended the sacred fire under Uruvela-Kassapa, converted with the Buddha's thousand disciples, attained arahantship, and became the tutor of Ananda.

Belavia

Belavia Belarusian Airlines is the state-owned national flag carrier of Belarus, founded in 1996 and flying from its Minsk National Airport hub to Russia, Asia, and the Middle East.

Belawan-Sei Mangkai Gas Pipeline

The Belawan-Sei Mangkai Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in North Sumatra, Indonesia, carrying regasified LNG from Belawan near Medan to the Sei Mangkei Special Economic Zone.

Oct 22, 2026

Belay Zeleke

Belay Zeleke (በላይ ዘለቀ, horse name Abba Koster) was an Ethiopian commander who led the Arbegnoch resistance in Gojjam against Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941.

Belaya (Белая) (air base)

Belaya (Белая) is a Russian Long-Range Aviation air base in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, hosting heavy bomber regiments with Tu-22M3, Tu-95MS, and Tu-160 aircraft, struck by Ukrainian drones in June 2025.

Belaya Polosa (Белая Полоса)

Belaya Polosa (Белая Полоса, "White Stripe") is the fourth album by Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma, released September 6, 2024 on Sacred Bones; 10 songs, 48 minutes, Metascore 78, first album since Monument (2020), recorded after the band moved to Los Angeles.

Belayim Land Oil and Gas Field

Belayim Land is a giant onshore oil field on Egypt's Sinai coast on the central Gulf of Suez, discovered in the mid-1950s and operated by Petrobel, the Eni–EGPC joint venture.

Belaying

Belaying: the climbing technique of holding, feeding, and arresting a rope to protect a climber. Covers friction vs assisted-braking devices (ATC, GriGri), PBUS technique, force figures in kN, failure modes, and 2024 auto-belay recall.

Belayneh Densimo

Belayneh Densimo (also Dinsamo), Ethiopian marathon runner born 1965, set the marathon world record 2:06:50 at Rotterdam on 17 April 1988; it stood until 1998, and he won Rotterdam four times.

BelAZ

BelAZ (БелАЗ) is a Belarusian mining dump truck manufacturer in Zhodino, founded in 1948, maker of the 450-tonne BelAZ-75710, the world's largest series-production haul truck.

Belca

Belca: ancient Gallic roadside settlement of the Carnutes in Gallia Lugdunensis, on the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary; identified with Beauche/Biauche at Dampierre-en-Burly, Loiret, France, on the Cenabum–Augustodunum road.

Bełchatów Power Station

Bełchatów Power Station (Elektrownia Bełchatów) is a lignite-fired, mine-mouth power station near Bełchatów in central Poland, the largest of its kind in Europe at about 5,300 MW.

Oct 20, 2026

Belcher Islands

Belcher Islands (ᓴᓪᓚᔪᒐᐃᑦ): about 1,500 islands in southeastern Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada, with only Sanikiluaq as settlement; folded Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group rocks, stromatolites, oldest known cyanobacteria, and the Qikiqtait MPA.

Belching

Belching, also called eructation or burping, is the audible escape of air from the esophagus or stomach into the pharynx, usually normal but a disorder when excessive.

Belcourt Castle

Belcourt Castle is the popular nickname for Belcourt, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and built from 1891 to 1895.

Belden

Belden Inc. is an American manufacturer of wire, cable, and networking products based in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1902 to make magnet wire for telephone switchboards.

Belding Hibbard Scribner

Belding Hibbard Scribner (1921–2003) was an American physician at the University of Washington whose 1960 arteriovenous shunt made long-term dialysis possible, prompting the Seattle 'God Committee' that helped begin modern bioethics.

Beldore Capital

Beldore Capital Fund LLC is a Delaware-domiciled pooled private equity fund created in 2007 and managed by Eaton Vance Management of Boston, Massachusetts, which raised about $3.6 billion.

Oct 22, 2026

Bélé

Bélé (also spelled bèlè) is a Caribbean tradition of drummed music and dance rooted in practices of enslaved Africans, best documented in Martinique and Dominica.

Bele(g)ia/Veleia

Bele(g)ia/Veleia: two ancient places of this name. Veleia (Velleia), a Roman municipium at Lugagnano Val d'Arda, Piacenza, home of the Trajanic Tabula Alimentaria; and Veleia/Beleia/Belegia, a Caristii oppidum in Álava, Spain, identified with Iruña.

Belectric

Belectric, or BELECTRIC GmbH, is a German solar energy company founded in 2001 in Kolitzheim, which has installed more than 5.9 GW of photovoltaic capacity worldwide.

Belek-Turkmenbashi Oil Pipeline

The Belek-Turkmenbashi Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод "Белек-Туркменбаши") is an 82 km crude oil pipeline in western Turkmenistan, commissioned in 1960 and the largest of the country's six trunk oil pipelines.