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Berat Luş

Berat Luş is a Turkish footballer, born in 2007, who plays as a forward or midfielder for Galatasaray, spending the 2025–26 season on loan at Esenler Erokspor.

Berau Sultanate

The Berau Sultanate (Kesultanan Berau) was a Malay-Islamic kingdom on the east coast of Borneo, in present-day East Kalimantan, Indonesia, founded around the 14th century.

Berbak-Sembilang Biosphere Reserve

Berbak-Sembilang Biosphere Reserve, a 2018 UNESCO MAB reserve on Sumatra's south-east coast, combines Berbak and Sembilang National Parks and two wildlife reserves across 3,819,837 ha of peat swamp, freshwater swamp, and mangrove, sheltering Sumatran tigers and migratory birds.

Berber carpets

Berber carpets are handwoven rugs made by Amazigh (Berber) women of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria, with geometric motifs carrying symbolic meanings in Amazigh culture.

Berber Christians

Berber Christians are Christians among the Berber (Amazigh) peoples of North Africa, spanning the ancient Latin church of Roman Africa and the modern Kabyle convert movement in Algeria.

Berber Dahir

The Berber Dahir (Arabic: الظهير البربري) was a 1930 decree by the Moroccan sultan, designed by French Protectorate officials, establishing customary courts in Berber tribal areas.

Berber languages

The Berber languages, also called Amazigh or Tamazight, are an Afroasiatic branch of about forty languages spoken by more than forty million people across North Africa.

Sep 23, 2026

Berber Revolt

The Berber Revolt (ثورة البربر) was a Berber tribal uprising against Umayyad rule, begun in Tangier in 740 under Maysara al-Madghari, that ended caliphal control of the western Maghreb.

Berber Spring

The Berber Spring, or Tafsut Imaziɣen, was a period of protests and state repression in Algeria in 1980, sparked when authorities banned Mouloud Mammeri's lecture at Tizi Ouzou.

Berbera

Berbera Port is a seaport in the city of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden in Somaliland, its principal trade gateway, managed by Dubai-based DP World since 2017.

Berberidaceae

Berberidaceae, the barberry family (Berberis, Mahonia), is a Ranunculales family of 13–19 genera and about 769 species of shrubs and herbs with yellow wood, berberine alkaloids, and temperate to tropical-mountain distribution.

Berberine

Berberine, a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid from Coptis chinensis and Berberis plants, is a supplement studied for type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia; meta-analyses show HbA1c reductions near 0.6-0.7 points, under 1% oral bioavailability, and mainly gastrointestinal side effects.

Berberis

Berberis (barberry, zeresh) is a genus of about 600 spiny Berberidaceae shrubs native to temperate and tropical mountains, source of the alkaloid berberine; Japanese barberry B. thunbergii is invasive in North America.

Berberis vulgaris

Berberis vulgaris, common or European barberry, is a spiny Berberidaceae shrub native to Europe to W. and N. Iran, source of berberine, studied for lipid and glycemic effects, and alternate host of wheat stem rust.

Berberism

Berberism, known today as the Amazigh movement, is an ethnocultural and political movement in North Africa seeking official recognition of the Berber (Amazigh) language and identity.

Berbers

Berbers, self-named Amazigh (Imazighen), are the indigenous peoples of North Africa speaking the Afro-Asiatic Berber (Tamazight) languages with the Tifinagh script; the term Berber derives from Greek-Roman barbaros, and Tamazight is official in Morocco (2011) and Algeria (2016).

Berbice

Berbice was a Dutch colony on the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, held from 1627 to 1814 and the scene of a major slave revolt in 1763.

Berbice slave uprising

The Berbice slave uprising was a 1763 slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice, in present-day Guyana, led by the freed slave Coffy and held for over a year.

Oct 15, 2026

Berbigão Oil and Gas Field

Berbigão is a pre-salt oil field in the Santos Basin, about 230 km off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, developed through the FPSO P-68 and operated by Petrobras.

Berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden: Bavarian market town at the Watzmann, founded as an Augustinian abbey in 1102, ruled by prince-provosts until 1803, Bavarian since 1810; salt mined continuously since 1517, with the Obersalzberg, Königssee, and Berchtesgaden National Park nearby.

Oct 20, 2026

Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve

Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve, Germany's only alpine UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1990 and extended 2010; 840 km² in Bavaria, with Berchtesgaden National Park as core and buffer zone.

Berdan rifle (винтовка Бердана)

The Berdan rifle, also known as the винтовка Бердана or Berdan II, was a single-shot breech-loading rifle designed by American Hiram Berdan for the Russian army.

Berdazimer sodium

Berdazimer sodium (ZELSUVMI) is a polymeric nitric oxide-releasing topical gel, 10.3%, FDA-approved January 5, 2024 for molluscum contagiosum in patients 1 year and older; applied once daily for 12 weeks, it cleared lesions in 32.4% versus 19.7% with vehicle in B-SIMPLE4.

Berdi Beg

Berdi Beg, also known as Muhammad Berdi Beg, was khan of the Golden Horde from 1357 to 1359, son and successor of Jani Beg and the last Batuid ruler.

Berdi Kerbabaev

Berdi Kerbabaev, born in 1894, was a Soviet Turkmen writer, poet, and playwright regarded as a founder of Soviet-era Turkmen literature, best known for the historical novel The Decisive Step.

Berdiansk (Бердянськ)

Berdiansk, also spelled Berdyansk, is a port city on the Sea of Azov in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1827 as a grain-exporting seaport and a seaside resort.

Béré

Béré, a region of central-northern Côte d'Ivoire in the Woroba district, capital Mankono; three departments, 13,293 km², 492,151 inhabitants (2021 census), cashew- and cotton-based economy with gold reserves.

Berea College

Berea College, founded 1855 by John G. Fee in Berea, Kentucky, is the South's first interracial, coeducational college, tuition-free since 1892, a federally recognized Work College where all students work 10 hours weekly, serving low-income Appalachian students.

BeReal

BeReal is a French social media app, launched in 2020, that once a day prompts users to post an unedited photo from the front and back cameras within two minutes.