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Balthasar Seña
Balthasar Seña was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and philologist, born in Barcelona about 1590, who worked among the Guaraní and Itatín peoples of Paraguay and died at Guarambare in 1614.
Balthasar van der Pol
Balthasar van der Pol was a Dutch physicist at Philips whose analysis of nonlinear circuits produced the van der Pol equation and the concept of relaxation oscillation.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a French TF1 crime thriller (2018–2023, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Clélia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin, starring Tomer Sisley as eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar and Hélène de Fougerolles as Commander Hélène Bach.
Balthazar (magus)
Balthazar, also spelled Balthasar, is one of the three Magi of Western Christian tradition, traditionally the king of Arabia or Ethiopia who brought myrrh to the infant Jesus.
Balthazar & JackRock
Balthazar & JackRock are a techno and tech-trance DJ duo from Sofia, Bulgaria, producing together since 2004, releasing on Drumcode and KNTXT, and running their own label, Renesanz.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty (Paul Balthazar Getty, born 1975) is an American actor, musician, and fashion designer, great-grandson of J. Paul Getty; known for Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, and Brothers & Sisters.
Balthus
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908–2001), French figurative painter of adolescent girls, street scenes, and interiors; self-taught, Piero della Francesca-influenced, Villa Medici director 1961–1976, Praemium Imperiale 1991.
Balti (film)
Balti (ബൾട്ടി) is a 2025 Malayalam sports action drama, Unni Sivalingam's directorial debut starring Shane Nigam as kabaddi player Udhayan drawn into crime in border-town Velampalayam; released 26 September 2025, music by Sai Abhyankkar, streaming on SonyLIV.
Balti (بالٹی) (food)
Balti (بالٹی) is a curry style invented in Birmingham in the mid-1970s, credited to Mohammed Arif of Adil's, cooked in about 10 minutes in a pressed carbon-steel balti bowl with vegetable oil and served sizzling in the same bowl.
Balti language
Balti (སྦལ་འཐུས་, بلتی), ISO 639-3 bft, is a Western Archaic Tibetic language of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and Ladakh, retaining Old Tibetan consonant clusters without tone, written in Tibetan Yige and Nastaliq scripts, with four dialects.
Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm
Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm is Germany's first commercial offshore wind farm, 21 Siemens turbines totaling 48.3 MW in the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, commissioned in 2011.
Baltic amber
Baltic amber, also called succinite, is fossilized tree resin from Eocene forests of northern Europe, found around the Baltic Sea and the richest source of fossil insects of any age.
Baltic Assembly
The Baltic Assembly (BA) is an inter-parliamentary cooperation organization of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established in Tallinn in 1991 with its Secretariat in Riga.
Baltic Defence College
The Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL) is a NATO-accredited professional military education institution in Tartu, Estonia, founded in 1999 by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to train officers, non-commissioned officers, and civil servants.
Baltic Defence Line
Baltic Defence Line (BDL): joint Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania fortification and anti-mobility program agreed January 2024 along their ~1,500 km borders with Russia and Belarus, linked to Poland's East Shield, layered up to 50 km deep.
Baltic Dry Index
The Baltic Dry Index, also called the Baltic Freight Index, is a daily Baltic Exchange index of dry bulk shipping rates, widely watched as a gauge of world trade.
Baltic Eagle
Baltic Eagle is a 476 MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, northeast of Rügen, developed by Iberdrola and Masdar and fully operational in 2025.
Baltic Entente
The Baltic Entente was a political and diplomatic union of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established by the Treaty of Understanding and Cooperation, signed in Geneva in 1934 and annulled under Soviet occupation in 1940.
Baltic Exchange (building)
The Baltic Exchange building, 24-28 St Mary Axe, City of London: 1903 Smith and Wimble neo-classical Grade II exchange hall, bombed by the IRA in 1992, demolished 1998 for the Gherkin.
Baltic Exchange Clean Tanker Index
The Baltic Exchange Clean Tanker Index (BCTI) is a daily freight index tracking spot rates for shipping refined products like gasoline and diesel on clean tanker routes.
Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index
The Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index (BDTI) is a daily index of spot freight rates for tankers carrying crude oil, published since 2001 and used to settle freight derivatives.
Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот)
Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот), Russia's Baltic Sea naval formation founded 1702 under Peter I, headquartered in Kaliningrad with main base Baltiysk and Kronstadt; smallest but most modern Russian fleet, constrained by NATO enlargement since 2023–2024.
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten, Balten) were the ethnically German ruling class of present-day Estonia and Latvia for nearly 700 years from the 13th century, losing their status in 1918 and leaving in the 1939 resettlement.
Baltic German resettlement
The Baltic German resettlement was the organized 1939 and 1941 transfer of Estonia's and Latvia's ethnic German minority to the German Reich under German-Soviet treaties.
Baltic Germans
Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten) were the German-speaking elite minority of Estonia and Latvia from the 12th century to 1939, ruling as nobles, merchants, and academics before 1918 and resettling under the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
Baltic Governorates
Baltic Governorates (Ostsee governorates): Estland, Livland, and Courland, the Russian Empire's three Baltic provinces, acquired 1710 and 1795, ruled through Baltic German elites, abolished with 1917 collapse.
Baltic Ice Lake
Baltic Ice Lake, a large ice-dammed freshwater lake filling the Baltic basin during the last deglaciation, drained catastrophically about 25 m through central Sweden before the Yoldia Sea formed.
Baltic Landeswehr
The Baltic Landeswehr was a mostly Baltic German volunteer force formed in Riga in November 1918 to fight the Bolsheviks, defeated at Cēsis in 1919.
Baltic languages
Baltic languages: an Indo-European branch with the living East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and extinct West Baltic Old Prussian, closely related to Slavic as Balto-Slavic, conservative in phonology and morphology.
Baltic Pipeline System 1
Baltic Pipeline System 1 (BPS-1) is a Russian crude oil export pipeline operated by Transneft, running from Western Siberia to the Primorsk terminal, opened in 2001.