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Baghdad (district)
Districts (aqdhiya) of Baghdad Governorate, Iraq: ten second-level administrative units including Al-Karkh, Al-Rusafa, Al-Adhamiyah, Al-Kadhimiya, Al-Mada'in, Mahmoudiya, and First Al-Sadr, with 2024 census populations and development disparities.
Baghdad (بغداد)
Baghdad (بغداد), capital of Iraq on the Tigris, founded 762 CE by Abbasid caliph al-Mansur as the Round City; Abbasid imperial capital until the Mongol conquest of 1258, later Mongol, Turkmen, and Ottoman rule, capital of Iraq since 1921, population about 8 million.
Baghdad Battery
Baghdad Battery, or Parthian Battery: Sasanian/Parthian-era clay jars with copper cylinders and iron rods from Khujut Rabu, Iraq, found 1936; König's 1938 galvanic-cell hypothesis is rejected by most archaeologists, who read them as scroll or ritual vessels.
Baghdad Bounedjah (بغداد بونجاح)
Baghdad Bounedjah (بغداد بونجاح), born 1991 in Oran, Algerian striker for Al Shamal SC and Algeria; AFCON 2019 final goalscorer, ex-Al Sadd record scorer, IFFHS world top scorer 2018.
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate (محافظة بغداد), the capital governorate of central Iraq, holds Iraq's largest population, about 8.1 to 8.8 million people, in 10 districts and 32 sub-districts, and is the country's most urbanized governorate.
Baghdad International Airport (مطار بغداد الدولي)
Baghdad International Airport (مطار بغداد الدولي), formerly Saddam International Airport, is Iraq's largest international airport, opened in 1982 about 20 km west of central Baghdad.
Baghdad Khatun
Baghdad Khatun (بغداد خاتون) was a Chupanid princess, daughter of Amir Chupan, who became the principal wife of the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id and effectively headed the Ilkhanid court until her execution in 1335.
Baghdad Pact (حلف بغداد)
The Baghdad Pact (حلف بغداد) was a 1955 collective defense treaty signed by Turkey and Iraq, joined by the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Iran, and renamed CENTO in 1959.
Baghdad school
The Baghdad school, also called the Arabic or Abbasid school, was a tradition of manuscript illustration that flourished in Abbasid Iraq in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
Baghdad Sulcus
Baghdad Sulcus, a tiger stripe fracture on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the longest of four south-polar sulci at about 175 km, erupting jets of water vapor and ice particles into Enceladus' plume.
Baghead (2023 film)
Baghead (2023) is a supernatural horror film, Alberto Corredor's feature debut, expanded from his 2017 short with Lorcan Reilly. Freya Allan inherits a Berlin pub tied to Baghead, a shape-shifting entity channeling the dead; Shudder released it in 2024.
Bagheera (2024 film)
Bagheera (ಬಘೇರಾ) is a 2024 Kannada vigilante action thriller directed by Dr. Suri from a Prashanth Neel story, produced by Hombale Films, starring Sriimurali as cop-turned-vigilante Vedanth Prabhakar, released 31 October 2024.
Bagheera (बघीरा)
Bagheera (बघीरा, Baghīrā) is the black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895); born in captivity at Oodeypore, he buys Mowgli's life with a bull and mentors him with Baloo, voiced by Sebastian Cabot (1967) and Ben Kingsley (2016).
Baghel Singh
Baghel Singh (ਬਘੇਲ ਸਿੰਘ), 1730–1802, was a Sikh military commander and leader of the Karorsinghia misl who captured Delhi in 1783 and built seven gurdwaras there.
Baghlan
Baghlan (بغلان) is a province of northeastern Afghanistan, capital Pul-e Khumri, created in 1964 from Qataghan; known for the Kunduz River valley, sugar production, the Surkh Kotal fire temple, and recurrent flash floods.
Baghlar Baghi
Baghlar Baghi (باغلارباغی), also Baghlarbaghi, is a 22-hectare recreational complex in Tabriz, Iran, opened in 1994, holding the largest amusement park in Tabriz and northwestern Iran plus a zoo, bird garden, and dolphinarium.
Baghouse
A baghouse, also called a fabric filter, is an air pollution control device that removes dust particles from gas streams by passing them through fabric bags.
Bagirmi
Bagirmi, also spelled Baguirmi, was a Muslim sultanate founded in the early sixteenth century southeast of Lake Chad, with its capital at Massenya in present-day Chad.
Bagistanus (mountain)
Mount Bagistanus, Greek Bagistanon, is the ancient name of Bisotun (Behistun) in western Iran, a sacred mountain with Darius I's trilingual rock inscription and relief, a park of Semiramis, and a Heracles relief.
Bağlama
Bağlama (saz), the most common stringed instrument of Türkiye, an Anatolian long-necked lute with mulberry soundboard, tied frets, La-Re-Mi tuning, and central roles in Alevi ritual and the âşık minstrel tradition.
Baglihar Dam
Baglihar Dam, or Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a 900 MW run-of-the-river dam on the Chenab River in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, commissioned in 2008.
Bagman (2024 film)
Bagman (2024 film) is a supernatural horror film directed by Colm McCarthy. It stars Sam Claflin as a father who must confront a child-snatching creature of folklore.
Bagmati Province
Bagmati Province (बागमती प्रदेश), one of Nepal's seven provinces created by the 2015 constitution, covers 13 central districts including Kathmandu, spans 20,300 km², and has Nepal's lowest multidimensional poverty rate at 7.0 percent.
Bagna càuda
Bagna càuda (bagna caoda), the hot garlic-anchovy-olive oil dipping sauce of Piedmont, served warm in a terracotta fujot with cardoons; canonical 2005 recipe, salt-road history, Bagna Cauda Day festival.
Bagnell Dam
Bagnell Dam, also known as Osage Dam, is a hydroelectric dam on the Osage River in Missouri completed in 1931, creating Lake of the Ozarks.
Bagnères-de-Luchon
Bagnères-de-Luchon (Luchon), Pyrenean spa town in Haute-Garonne, France, at 627 m near Spain; Roman-era thermal springs, revived by d'Étigny from 1759, Thermes Chambert 1857, Superbagnères ski resort, reopened 2025 rail line.
Bagni di Lucca
Bagni di Lucca is a town and spa center in Tuscany, Italy, known for thermal springs that made it one of Europe's most elegant 19th-century spas.
Bagni di Nerone
Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero), Terme di Nerone, Roman bath ruins in Largo Parlascio, Pisa; the only partially standing building of Roman Pisae, built in the late 1st century AD after Nero's death, linked to the Venuleii family.
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio (Terme di Bagnoli) is a Roman villa and bath complex in contrada Bagnoli-San Gregorio near Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, discovered in 1986; six-room hypocaust baths with mosaics, built from the early 3rd century AD, damaged by a late-4th-century earthquake and reused in the Byzantine period.
Bago City
Bago City, a component city in Negros Occidental, Philippines, founded 1575, chartered 1966 under RA 4382; 24 barangays, 191,210 people (2020), rice granary of the province, distinct from Bago in Myanmar.