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Bahamas (musician)
Bahamas is the indie folk-rock project of Toronto-born, Finnish-descent singer-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, formerly a sideman for Feist; Juno-winning albums include Bahamas Is Afie, Earthtones, Sad Hunk, and Bootcut.
Bahamian cuisine
Bahamian cuisine is the cooking tradition of The Bahamas, centered on queen conch and seafood, with dishes like conch salad, cracked conch, peas and rice, and chicken souse.
Bahamian dollar
The Bahamian dollar is the currency of The Bahamas, issued by the Central Bank of The Bahamas and fixed at one-to-one parity with the US dollar since 1973.
Bahamian majority rule
Bahamian majority rule was the transfer of power from a white mercantile minority to the Black majority, won in the general election of 10 January 1967.
Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons)
Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, is the Dungeons & Dragons dragon god of good, king of metallic dragons and eternal adversary of Tiamat. Introduced 1975 in Greyhawk, named in the 1977 Monster Manual; lawful good, domains Life and War, Mount Celestia.
Bahamut (بهموت)
Bahamut (بهموت), from Hebrew Behemoth, is the colossal fish of medieval Arabic cosmography bearing the earth, so vast the seas would be a mustard seed in its nostril.
Bahar (TV series)
Turkish medical comedy-drama (Show TV, MF Yapım), adaptation of Korean series Doctor Cha. Aired 13 February 2024 to 28 December 2025; 3 seasons, 64 episodes starring Demet Evgâr, Buğra Gülsoy, Mehmet Yılmaz Ak.
Bahar Biller
Bahar Biller is an industrial engineer and operations researcher specializing in stochastic simulation for manufacturing and supply chains; she won a 2006 PECASE award at Carnegie Mellon and works at SAS Institute.
Bahar-i Danish
Bahar-i Danish (بهار دانش, "Spring of Knowledge") is a Persian collection of romantic tales compiled in 1651 by the Mughal writer ʻInayat Allah Kamboh for Shah Jahan's court.
Baharat (بهارات)
Baharat (بهارات), the Arabic word for spices, is a warm ground blend central to Middle Eastern cooking, sold in the Levant as sabaa baharat, seven spices, and used on kofta, kebabs, stews, and rice.
Baharistan
Baharistan (بهارستان) is an anecdotal Persian work in prose and verse by Jami, completed in 1487 and written as a textbook for his son in imitation of Sadi's Golestan.
Baharistan-i Ghaybi
The Baharistan-i Ghaybi (بحرستانِ غیبی) is a Persian chronicle of Mughal Bengal by the general Mirza Nathan, covering its wars and governance from 1608 to 1624.
Baharistan-i-Shahi
Baharistan-i-Shahi is an anonymous Persian manuscript chronicle of Kashmir, completed in 1614 and perhaps by Muhammad Ali Kashmiri, recounting the Shah Mir and Chak sultans up to Akbar's 1587 annexation.
Bahariya Oasis (Late Period tombs)
The Late Period tombs of Bahariya Oasis are rock-cut and shaft tombs at el-Bawiti in Egypt's Western Desert, holding governors, priests, and wealthy merchants of the 26th Dynasty.
Bahariye
Bahariye (bahâriyye) is the name in Ottoman and Persian classical poetry for qasidas whose opening teşbîb section depicts spring, usually to prepare praise of a dignitary.
Baharul Islam (actor)
Baharul Islam (বাহাৰুল ইছলাম), Assamese theatre and film actor, director, playwright, NSD graduate (1987–1990), founder of Seagull Theatre (1990), Heer Ranjha with TARA ART London, Best Actor for Alifa.
Bahati
Bahati, born Kevin Mbuvi Kioko in 1994, is a Kenyan singer who rose to fame as a gospel artist in Nairobi before crossing to secular Afro-pop.
Bahauddin Zakariya
Bahauddin Zakariya (بہاؤ الدین زکریا) was a thirteenth-century Sufi shaikh of Multan who founded the Suhrawardi order in the Indian subcontinent and served the Delhi Sultanate.
Bahāwalnagar District
Bahawalnagar District (ضلع بہاولنگر), Punjab, Pakistan, between the Sutlej and the Indian border; capital Bahawalnagar city; five tehsils; 8,878 km²; 3,550,342 people (2023 census); agricultural, partly Cholistan desert.
Bahawalpur (بہاولپور)
Bahawalpur (بہاولپور) is a city in southern Punjab, Pakistan, on the Sutlej River; founded 1748, capital of the former Abbasi princely state that acceded to Pakistan in 1947, population 762,111 (2017).
Bahāwalpur District
Bahāwalpur District (ضلع بہاولپور), Punjab, Pakistan; headquarters Bahawalpur City; 24,830 km², two-thirds Cholistan Desert; 4,284,964 people (2023 census); successor of the Abbasi Nawabs' princely state, merged into West Pakistan in 1955.
Bahawalpur Zoo
Bahawalpur Zoo (Sher Bagh), a 25-acre zoo in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, founded 1942 by Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi; fourth largest in Pakistan, known for lion breeding, under a Rs 3,479.820 million revamp.
Baháʼí calendar
The Baháʼí calendar is the solar calendar of the Baháʼí Faith, introduced by the Báb in 1844, with 19 months of 19 days plus intercalary days called Ayyám-i-Há.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is an independent universalist religion founded in 19th-century Iran by Baháʼu'lláh, teaching the unity of all religions; it has 5 to 8 million adherents.
Baháʼu'lláh (بهاءالله)
Baháʼu'lláh, born Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, was an Iranian religious leader who announced in 1863 that he was the Bāb's promised messianic figure and founded the Baháʼí Faith.
Bahçelievler, Istanbul
Bahçelievler is a densely populated Istanbul district on the European side, split from Bakırköy by law 3806 on 25 August 1992; 539,035 residents (2025) on 16.7 km², mayor Hakan Bahadır (AK Party), known for large-scale urban transformation.
Bahdi-Lim
Bahdi-Lim (Bahdī-Lim) was prefect of the palace of Mari, administering the city for King Zimri-Lim around 1775–1761 BCE; his 80 letters were published in 1954.
Bahia
Bahia (BA, code 29) is a state in Northeast Brazil with capital Salvador; fifth largest state, 564,763.876 km², 14.1 million people (2022), longest Brazilian coastline, 95% of national cocoa processing, and leading Caatinga deforestation.
Bahia Bakari
Bahia Bakari, known as "the miracle girl" (la miraculée), is the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed near Moroni, Comoros, in 2009, killing 152 people.
Bahía Blanca
Bahía Blanca: Atlantic port city in southwest Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, founded 1828 as Fortaleza Protectora Argentina; 301,572 inhabitants (2010), deep-water port, UNS university, devastated by March 2025 flood.