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Belgisch olympisch en interfederaal comite
Belgisch Olympisch en Interfederaal Comité (BOIC, COIB), Belgium's National Olympic Committee, founded 1906, IOC-recognized, umbrella of 86 federations, president Jean-Michel Saive, merging with Paralympic committee in 2027.
Belgium
Belgium: federal constitutional monarchy in western Europe, independent since 1830, capital Brussels. Three Communities and three Regions formed by six state reforms (1970-2014); 30,688 km2, 11.87 million people, founding NATO member.
Belgium in World War I
Belgium in World War I: the 1914 German invasion of neutral Belgium, the 1914-1918 occupation, forced labor deportations, Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, and the Yser front.
Belgium in World War II
Belgium in World War II: German invasion 10 May 1940, 18-day campaign, Leopold III's surrender versus the Pierlot government in exile in London, occupation, ~100,000 collaborators, ~150,000 resistance members, liberation September 1944, and the Royal Question that made Belgium's WWII memory 'divided'.
Belgium national football team
Belgium national football team, the Red Devils (Rode Duivels), RBFA-run men's team; 1920 Olympic gold, 2018 World Cup third place, 15 World Cups, former FIFA No. 1, 2026 quarter-finalists.
Belgonucléaire
Belgonucléaire, the Société belge pour l'industrie nucléaire, was a Belgian company founded in 1957 that fabricated more than 600 tonnes of MOX fuel at Dessel from 1973 to 2006.
Belgorod
Belgorod (Белгород) is a Russian city of about 340,000 on the Seversky Donets, founded as a 1596 fortress, capital of Belgorod Oblast, 40 km from Ukraine, and since 2022 regularly struck in the war.
Belgorod Line
The Belgorod Line (Белгородская черта) was a fortified defensive line built by Russia from 1635 to 1658 to block Crimean and Nogai Tatar raids on its southern frontier.
Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast (Белгородская область), Russian federal subject formed 6 January 1954 from Kursk and Voronezh districts; capital Belgorod, 540 km Ukraine border, KMA iron ore, war-affected since 2022.
Belgorod razriad
The Belgorod razriad (Белгородский разряд) was a Russian military-administrative district created in 1658 in the southwest, uniting southern towns under a voivode who commanded the Belgorod field regiment until Peter I's reforms.
Belgrade (Београд)
Belgrade, also known as Beograd or Белград, is the capital of Serbia, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, with about 1.68 million people.
Belgrade Beer Fest
The Belgrade Beer Fest is a large annual beer-and-music festival in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2022, Skymusic has organized the event, claiming it is the largest in southeastern Europe.
Belgrade Declaration
The Belgrade Declaration was a joint Soviet–Yugoslav statement signed on 2 June 1955 that normalized relations after the 1948 split, recognizing sovereignty, equality, and non-interference.
Belgrade Fortress (Београдска тврђава)
Belgrade Fortress, also known as Kalemegdan Fortress, is a fortified complex above the confluence of the Sava and Danube in Belgrade, Serbia, built and rebuilt from the 1st to the 18th century.
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (Аеродром Никола Тесла Београд)
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (Аеродром Никола Тесла Београд) is Serbia's largest and busiest airport, 18 km west of Belgrade and home hub of Air Serbia.
Belgrade Offensive
The Belgrade Offensive (Београдска операција) was a joint operation of Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army that liberated Belgrade from German occupation in October 1944.
Belgrade school shooting
Belgrade school shooting, 3 May 2023 at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School, Serbia's first mass school shooting; 13-year-old Kosta Kecmanovic killed nine and wounded six, prompting a two-year gun-permit moratorium, weapons handover, and trials of his parents.
Belgrano
Club Atlético Belgrano, El Pirata, a Córdoba football club founded 19 March 1905, plays at El Gigante de Alberdi, won its first Argentine top-flight title, the 2026 Apertura, against River Plate.
Belgrano, Buenos Aires
Belgrano is a northern barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded as a town in 1855 and named for flag creator Manuel Belgrano. It was briefly the national capital in 1880, joined the city in 1887, and is known for Barrancas de Belgrano, Barrio Chino, and the Iglesia Redonda.
Belgravia
Belgravia is a wealthy residential district of central London, developed in the 1820s and 1830s on the Grosvenor family's land south-west of Mayfair, known for its cream stucco terraces.
Belgravia (TV series)
Belgravia is a 2020 six-part British period drama by Julian Fellowes, adapted from his 2016 novel, airing on ITV and Epix; it follows the Trenchard and Bellasis families and a Waterloo-era secret, with a 2024 sequel, The Next Chapter.
BelHealth Investment Partners
BelHealth Investment Partners is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida healthcare private equity firm founded by Harold Blue in 2011, acquiring majority stakes in lower middle market healthcare companies.
Beli (app)
Beli is a social restaurant-ranking mobile app launched in 2021 by Beli Technologies of New York, letting users rank restaurants through head-to-head comparisons instead of star ratings.
Beli dvor
Beli dvor (White Palace), royal classicist residence in Dedinje, Belgrade, part of the Royal Compound. Built 1934–1937 by architect Aleksandar Đorđević for King Alexander I's three sons; later Prince Regent Paul's and Tito's residence.
Belial (בְלִיַּעַל)
Belial (בְלִיַּעַל, also Beliar) is a Hebrew word meaning worthlessness, later the name of a powerful demon in Jewish and Christian texts and Western demonology.
Beliandrum
Beliandrum is a road station in the Roman province of Noricum, in present-day Austria, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana on the road toward Virunum; its exact site remains debated, with Feldkirchen a leading candidate.
Belidae
Belidae, primitive weevils with straight antennae, is an early-branching family of Curculionoidea with about 360 species in 40 genera and two subfamilies, Belinae and Oxycoryninae; it originated in Gondwana around 138 Ma on conifer hosts and later shifted to angiosperms and cycads.
Belief
Belief, also called dispositional belief, is the mental attitude of taking something to be true, a propositional attitude central to epistemology, where knowledge is traditionally analyzed as justified true belief.
Belief propagation
Belief propagation, also known as the sum-product algorithm, is a message-passing algorithm introduced by Judea Pearl in 1988 for computing marginal probabilities on graphical models.
Belief revision
Belief revision is an artificial intelligence method for changing a logical knowledge base when new information arrives, keeping it consistent while retaining as much old knowledge as possible.