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Bukavu crisis

The Bukavu crisis of June 2004 saw dissident commanders Laurent Nkunda and Jules Mutebutsi seize the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu, shaking the country's transitional government.

Bukayo Saka, born 2001 in Ealing, London, is an English right winger for Arsenal and England. Hale End graduate, 2025-26 Premier League champion, England Player of the Year 2022 and 2023, new Arsenal contract to 2031.

Buke

Buke (武家) is the Japanese term for the warrior houses and, by extension, the warrior class, set against the kuge, the court nobility of Kyoto.

Buke densō

Buke densō (武家伝奏) was a Japanese court office handling liaison between the imperial court and the warrior government, held by two court nobles and abolished in 1867.

Buke hō

Buke hō (武家法) is the body of law developed by Japan's warrior class and warrior governments from the late twelfth century, first written as the Goseibai shikimoku of 1232.

Bukē Sandai Gochō (Edicts of 1862)

The Bukē Sandai Gochō were 1862 measures by the Tokugawa shogunate, acting under imperial edict, that arranged Princess Kazu's marriage to Shogun Iemochi and relaxed the sankin kōtai attendance system.

Buke Shohatto

Buke Shohatto (武家諸法度) was the Tokugawa shogunate's basic law for the daimyo of Japan, first promulgated in 1615 after the fall of the Toyotomi clan.

Buket Kömür

Buket Kömür (born 1998, also spelled Buket Komur) is a British actress of Turkish heritage from Camden, London. Known for Banaz Mahmod in Honour (2020), Kelly in Channel 4's Generation Z (2024), and Nora in Bookish (2025).

Bukey Horde

The Bukey Horde, also called the Inner Horde, was a vassal Kazakh khanate founded in 1801 between the Volga and Ural rivers and abolished in 1876.

Bukey Khan

Bukey Khan (Бөкей хан) was a Kazakh sultan, son of Nuraly Khan and grandson of Abulkhair Khan, who founded the Bukey Horde between the Ural and Volga rivers in 1801.

Bukhak

Bukhak (북학, "Northern Learning") was a late Joseon Korean reform current, a branch of Silhak, urging adoption of Qing technology and institutions to reform agriculture, commerce, and government.

Bukhakpa

Bukhakpa (북학파) was a late Joseon Korean scholarly current, including Hong Dae-yong, Park Ji-won, and Park Je-ga, that advocated adopting Qing learning and institutions to reform Joseon.

Bukhar Khudahs

The Bukhar Khudahs were the native Sogdian dynasty that ruled the oasis of Bukhara in the Zarafshan valley until its Arab conquest in the early 8th century.

Bukhara

Bukhara (Buxoro), Uzbekistan: 2,000-year-old Silk Road city, capital of Bukhara Region, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 1993, famed for the Ismail Samani tomb and Poi-Kalyan minaret.

Bukhara Region

Bukhara Region (Buxoro viloyati) is a southwestern Uzbekistan region of 40,320 km2 with capital Bukhara city, about 2.09 million people, an irrigated cotton-wheat oasis economy, petrochemicals, and growing solar, wind, and tourism sectors.

Bukhara Revolution

The Bukhara Revolution was the 1920 overthrow of the Emirate of Bukhara by Young Bukharans, communists, and the Red Army, which replaced the emirate with the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.

Bukhara slave trade

Bukhara slave trade: the traffic in enslaved people centered on the Emirate of Bukhara, a principal Central Asian slave market from medieval times to the late 19th century, supplied mainly by Turkmen raids on Iranian Shi'ites and ended under the Russian protectorate.

Oct 15, 2026

Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty Gas Pipeline

The Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty Gas Pipeline (Russian: БГР-ТБА) is a natural gas pipeline from Uzbekistan's Bukhara gas region through Tashkent and Bishkek to Almaty, built between 1967 and 1971.

Oct 15, 2026

Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline

The Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline (Газопровод Бухара-Урал) is a Soviet natural gas pipeline carrying gas from the Gazli field near Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to the Urals and western Kazakhstan, commissioned in 1963 and 1965.

Bukharan Jews

Bukharan Jews, also called Bukharian Jews, are the Jews of Central Asia whose native language is Judeo-Tajik, or Bukhori; most now live in Israel and New York.

Bukharan People's Soviet Republic

The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was a Central Asian state from 1920 to 1924, established on the former Emirate of Bukhara after the Red Army overthrew Emir Alim Khan.

Bukharinism

Bukharinism is the political-economic tendency of Nikolai Bukharin, favoring continued NEP market mechanisms, a worker-peasant alliance, and gradual industrialization. It defines the Soviet Right Opposition of 1928-1929 against Stalin's collectivization turn.

Sep 23, 2026

Bukhtishu II

Bukhtishu II (بختيشوع) was a Nestorian physician of the Bukhtishu family of Jundishapur who served the Abbasid caliphs at Baghdad, was exiled by al-Mutawakkil, and died in 870.

Bukhungu Stadium

Bukhungu Stadium is a football stadium in Kakamega, Kenya, opened in 1957 and home to Kakamega Homeboyz, listed at 12,000 capacity before an upgrade targeting December 2026 for AFCON 2027.

Buki

Buki, or Bukidomino (Sechser-Domino), is a four-player Austrian banking domino game from early 20th-century Vienna, played with 36 tiles from a double-eight set, officially prohibited as gambling per Beck 1960.

Buki Landscape and Temple Complex

Buki landscape and temple complex (Ландшафтно-храмовий комплекс "Буки"), a private park in Buki village, Kyiv Oblast, founded 1996 by Ivan Suslov on a former dump; temple complex by architect Yuriy Babych won the 2007 State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture.

Bukidnon

Bukidnon: landlocked plateau province in Northern Mindanao, Philippines; capital Malaybalay City; 10,498.59 km2, fourth-largest province; population 1,541,308 (2020); top agricultural producer, home of the Kaamulan festival and Mount Kitanglad.

Bukin

Bukin (북인, 北人; "Northerners") was a hard-line political faction of Korea's Joseon dynasty, dominant under King Gwanghaegun from 1608 until its fall in the 1623 Injo Restoration.

Bukit Brown Cemetery

Bukit Brown Cemetery, also known as Kopi Sua, is a Chinese municipal cemetery in Singapore, opened in 1922 and closed to burials in 1973 with over 100,000 graves.