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Beylerbeyi Palace

Beylerbeyi Palace (Beylerbeyi Sarayı) is a former Ottoman summer palace on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, built between 1861 and 1865 for Sultan Abdülaziz.

Beylik of Aydın

The Beylik of Aydın, or Aydınoğulları, was a Turkoman emirate in western Anatolia, founded by Mehmed Bey in 1308 and absorbed by the Ottomans in 1425.

Beylik of Constantine

The Beylik of Constantine was the eastern province of Ottoman Regency of Algiers, ruled by a bey from Constantine until the French took the city in 1837.

Beylik of Germiyan

The Beylik of Germiyan (Germiyanoğulları) was a Turkmen principality centered at Kutahya in western Anatolia, founded by Yakub Bey I around 1300 and absorbed by the Ottomans in 1429.

Beylik of Karasi

The Beylik of Karasi (Karesioğulları) was an independent Turkish principality of western Anatolia centered on Balikesir, Bergama, and Chanakkale, absorbed by Orhan Bey of the Ottomans.

Beylik of Menteshe

The Beylik of Menteshe (Mentesheoghullari) was a Turkish principality in southwest Anatolia, founded by Menteshe Bey around 1261 and finally annexed by the Ottomans in 1424.

Beylik of Oran

The Beylik of Oran, or Beylik of the West (بايلك الغرب), was the westernmost of the three provinces of Ottoman Algeria, governed by a bey under the Regency of Algiers until 1830.

Beylik of Sahib Ata

The Beylik of Sahib Ata (Sahib Ataoghullari) was an Anatolian Turkish principality centered on Afyonkarahisar, founded in 1275 by descendants of the Seljuk vizier Sahib Ata Fahreddin Ali.

Beylik of Titteri

The Beylik of Titteri was the central province of Ottoman-era Algiers, governed from Médéa. It was founded in 1548 by Hassan Pacha and fell in 1830.

Beylikduzu

Beylikdüzü (formerly Kavaklı, earlier Gardan) is a district on Istanbul's European side along the Sea of Marmara, made an independent ilçe in 2008; population 422,988 (2025), home to Ambarlı Port and the Metrobus western terminus.

Beymelek Lagoon

Beymelek Lagoon (Beymelek Lagünü), a 255 ha brackish coastal lagoon in Demre, Antalya, Turkey, the only natural lagoon on the country's western Mediterranean coast, fed by karst springs, with a state seabass and seabream hatchery and protected wetland status.

Beyoncé

Beyoncé (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, born 1981, Houston) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, formerly of Destiny's Child, whose solo albums from Dangerously in Love (2003) to Cowboy Carter (2024) made her the most-awarded artist in Grammy history.

Beyoncé (album)

Beyoncé (BEYONCÉ), also called Self-Titled, is Beyoncé's fifth studio album, surprise-released on iTunes December 13, 2013: 14 songs, 17 videos, first visual album, 830,000 downloads in three days.

Beyond (American TV series)

Beyond is a Freeform supernatural drama (2017-2018) created by Adam Nussdorf, starring Burkely Duffield as Holden Matthews, who wakes from a 12-year coma with powers; canceled after two seasons.

Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary is a 1963 book by C. L. R. James combining memoir of a Trinidadian boyhood with a social history of West Indian cricket.

Beyond All Reason

Beyond All Reason (BAR), free open-source large-scale RTS on the Recoil engine (SpringRTS fork), forked from Balanced Annihilation in 2019; Total Annihilation-inspired, two factions plus Legion, Hooded Horse Steam release announced 2026.

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is a Fox paranormal anthology (1997–2002, created by Lynn Lehmann) presenting five stories per episode; viewers guess which are true. James Brolin, then Jonathan Frakes, hosted; a German revival followed.

Beyond Borders (film)

Beyond Borders is a 2003 Paramount romantic drama directed by Martin Campbell, starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen as aid workers in Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Chechnya; it earned 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and $4.4 million.

Beyond budgeting

Beyond budgeting is a management model replacing the fixed annual budget with rolling forecasts, relative targets, and decentralized decisions, introduced by Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser in the late 1990s.

Beyond Evil (TV series)

Beyond Evil (괴물, Goemul) is a 2021 JTBC South Korean crime thriller, 16 episodes, directed by Shim Na-yeon, written by Kim Su-jin, starring Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo as policemen hunting a cold-case serial killer; it won three Baeksang Awards. Distinct from the 2026 Tubi documentary of the same name.

Beyond Good & Evil (video game)

Beyond Good & Evil is a 2003 action-adventure game by Ubisoft, directed by Michel Ancel, in which the reporter Jade investigates a government conspiracy on the planet Hillys.

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Böse) is Friedrich Nietzsche's 1886 book, subtitled Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, critiquing morality through slave versus master morality, the free spirit, and the will to power.

Beyond Good and Evil 2

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is Ubisoft Montpellier's in-development action-adventure prequel to the 2003 cult classic, announced 2008, re-revealed at E3 2017, set in System 3, and now the longest-developing game ever, surpassing Duke Nukem Forever.

Beyond Goodbye (さよならのつづき)

Beyond Goodbye (さよならのつづき) is a 2024 Japanese romance drama series directed by Hiroshi Kurosaki for Netflix, starring Kasumi Arimura, Kentaro Sakaguchi, and Toma Ikuta in eight episodes.

Beyond left and right (political thesis)

"Beyond left and right" is the political thesis, most associated with Anthony Giddens's 1994 book, that globalization has made traditional Left–Right debates obsolete, a claim later taken up by Blair's New Labour.

Beyond Meat

Beyond Meat, Inc. is an American plant-based protein company founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown in El Segundo, California, known for the Beyond Burger and rebranded as Beyond in 2026.

Beyond Outrage (アウトレイジ ビヨンド)

Beyond Outrage (アウトレイジ ビヨンド, Outrage Beyond) is Takeshi Kitano's 2012 yakuza sequel to Outrage: police free presumed-dead boss Otomo to spark a Sanno-Hanabishi war; Venice competition, 1.45 billion yen Japanese gross.

Beyond Paradise (TV series)

Beyond Paradise is a BBC One comedy crime drama, a Death in Paradise spin-off starring Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman and Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, set in fictional Shipton Abbott, Devon, and filmed mainly in Looe, Cornwall, since February 2023.

Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) is Caroline Link's 1996 German drama debut about Lara, a hearing daughter of deaf parents who becomes a clarinetist; Oscar-nominated 1998, Tokyo Grand Prix winner.

Beyond Skyline

Beyond Skyline (2017) is a sci-fi action sequel to Skyline (2010), directed by Liam O'Donnell, starring Frank Grillo, Iko Uwais, and Bojana Novakovic; a detective boards an alien ship to rescue his son, which crashes in Southeast Asia.