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Bosnian Uprising (1831–1832)

The Bosnian Uprising (1831–1832) was a revolt in Ottoman Bosnia led by Husein-kapetan Gradaščević, the "Dragon of Bosnia", against the sultan's abolishing of the ayan system.

The Bosnian War (1992-1995), also called the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was fought after Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia; over 100,000 died, Srebrenica genocide occurred, and the Dayton Agreement ended it.

Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising

The Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising (Босанско-херцеговачки устанак) was a revolt of Orthodox Christian peasants against Muslim landowners and Ottoman rule that began in eastern Herzegovina in July 1875.

Bosnians

Bosnians are the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the civic term Bosnian (Bosanac) differs from Bosniak (Bošnjak), the Muslim ethnic group, alongside Bosnian Serbs and Croats, censuses, and post-Dayton politics.

Oct 10, 2026

Boso

Boso (died 970) was a Benedictine monk of Regensburg who became the first bishop of Merseburg, consecrated in 968, and a missionary among the Sorbs.

Bosom Buddies

Bosom Buddies, the ABC sitcom (1980-1982) starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari as ad men Kip and Henry, who pose as women Buffy and Hildegarde to live in a women-only hotel.

Boson

A boson, or Bose particle, is a particle with whole-number quantum spin, the counterpart of fermions, named after physicist Satyendra Nath Bose and his 1920s work with Albert Einstein.

Oct 15, 2026

Boson peak

The boson peak is an excess of vibrational states in glasses and other amorphous solids over the Debye prediction, appearing as a peak at terahertz frequencies; its microscopic origin is still debated.

Sep 29, 2026

Boson sampling

Boson sampling is a quantum sampling task in which identical photons pass through a linear optical network, proposed by Aaronson and Arkhipov in 2010 to demonstrate quantum advantage.

Oct 15, 2026

Boson star

A boson star is a hypothetical compact object made of self-gravitating bosonic particles, with no event horizon, proposed as a dark matter or black hole mimicker.

Bosonic and Gaussian channel capacity

Bosonic and Gaussian channel capacity is the study of how much classical, quantum, or secret-key information can be reliably transmitted per use of lossy light channels.

Bosonic error correction

Bosonic error correction is a quantum error correction strategy that encodes logical qubits in a bosonic mode, such as a microwave cavity, instead of many physical qubits.

Bosonic quantum computing

Bosonic quantum computing is an approach to quantum computation that stores information in bosonic modes of light or microwave oscillators, defined by Seth Lloyd and Samuel Braunstein in 1999.

Bosonic rotation codes

Bosonic rotation codes are quantum error-correcting codes, introduced by Grimsmo, Combes, and Baragiola in 2020, that encode a qubit in a harmonic oscillator using rotation symmetry, including cat and binomial codes.

Oct 15, 2026

Bosonic string theory

Bosonic string theory is the earliest and simplest formulation of string theory, with only bosonic vibrational modes, consistent only in 26 dimensions and containing a tachyon signaling vacuum instability.

Sep 29, 2026

Bosonization

Bosonization is a mathematical technique that maps a fermionic quantum system, including its states and operators, into an auxiliary bosonic one, and works best in one spatial dimension.

Bōsōzoku (暴走族)

Bōsōzoku (暴走族, "running-out-of-control tribe") is a Japanese youth subculture of motorcycle and car gangs that ride in loud convoys, peaking in the 1970s and 1980s before sharp decline.

Bosphorus Bridge

The Bosphorus Bridge, officially the 15 July Martyrs Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Istanbul, opened in 1973 as the first spanning Europe and Asia.

Bosphorus Regio

Bosphorus Regio is the largest named regio on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, a bright roughly circular region about 1,607 km across centered near Emakong Patera, IAU-approved in 1997 and named from Greek myth as the 'Ford of the Cow' on Io's wanderings.

Bosporan Kingdom

Bosporan Kingdom, also Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus: ancient Greco-Scythian state at the Straits of Kerch, capital Panticapaeum; ruled by the Spartocids from 438 BC, then Mithridates VI and Roman client kings, ending in the 4th century AD.

Bosporos Planum

Bosporos Planum (Bosporus Planum), a roughly 700 km-wide volcanic plateau in Mars' southern hemisphere southwest of Hellas, IAU-named 1979; smooth lava plains with salt deposits recording water as recent as 2 billion years ago.

Bosporos Rupes

Bosporos Rupes, a 507-km IAU-named lobate scarp in Aonia Terra, Mars, near the NW rim of the Argyre basin; thrust-fault landform with two segments, 308 and 232 km, approved 1976 as a classical albedo name.

Bosporus

Bosporus (İstanbul Boğazı), the 30 km Turkish strait linking the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara through Istanbul; two-layer exchange flow, ~35 m sill, fluvial-faulting origin, Montreux Convention regime, three bridges.

Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve

Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera del Bosque Mbaracayú), Paraguay's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2000), centers on a 64,405.7-ha private Atlantic Forest reserve in Canindeyú created in 1991 and managed by Fundación Moisés Bertoni.

Bosque Seco Biosphere Reserve

Bosque Seco Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site (2014) of 501,040 ha of tropical dry forest in Loja and El Oro, Ecuador; since 2017 part of the Bosques de Paz transboundary reserve with Peru.

Bosques de Neblina - Selva Central Biosphere Reserve

Bosques de Neblina - Selva Central Biosphere Reserve, Peru's sixth UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 26 November 2020 in Junín region; 857,400 ha of Andean-Amazon cloud forest, core zones Pampa Hermosa and Pui Pui, Quechua and Ashaninka communities.