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Bananas in Pyjamas
Bananas in Pyjamas: Australian ABC children's franchise about banana twins B1 and B2 and teddy bears on Cuddles Avenue; live-action series 1992 to 2001, animated revival from 2010/2011, 2026 live-action reboot by Windmill.
Banaphool
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, best known by his pen name Banaphool, was an Indian Bengali writer and physician who wrote hundreds of short stories, novels, and plays.
Banaras Hindu University (बनारस हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय)
Banaras Hindu University (BHU, काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय) is a central university in Varanasi, India, founded 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya under the BHU Act 1915; largest residential university in Asia, NIRF 2025 university rank 6.
Banaras Locomotive Works
Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) is a government-owned electric locomotive manufacturer in Varanasi, India. Founded in 1961 as the Diesel Locomotive Works, it was renamed in 2020 and exports locomotives.
Banarasi brocade
Banarasi brocade is a zari-ornamented silk fabric woven in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, whose motifs are built into the cloth on the loom; the name has been Geographically Indication protected since 2009.
Banarasi saree
The Banarasi saree is a silk sari woven in Varanasi, India, known for its brocade patterns with zari and shaped under Mughal patronage in the 16th century.
Banarasidas
Banarasidas (बनारसीदास, 1586–1643) was a Jain merchant of the Shrimal clan, born in Jaunpur and settled in Agra, who completed the Ardhakathanak in 1641, possibly the earliest autobiography in an Indian language.
Banās Kāntha
Banās Kāntha (બનાસકાંઠા), or Banaskantha, is a northern Gujarat district, India, headquartered at Palanpur, named for the Banas River, formed 1 May 1960, home to Banas Dairy and Ambaji temple, bifurcated in 2025 to create Vav-Tharad district.
Banasa
Banasa (Colonia Iulia Valentia Banasa), Roman colony in Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco, founded by Octavian 33–27 BC on the Sebou River in the Gharb plain; veterans of Augustus, 2nd-century AD forum, Venus mosaic, baths, abandoned by Rome c. 285 AD.
Banasthali Vidyapith (बनस्थली विद्यापीठ)
Banasthali Vidyapith (बनस्थली विद्यापीठ), also called Banasthali University, is a fully residential women-only deemed university in Tonk district, Rajasthan, founded in 1935 by Ratan and Hiralal Shastri, offering primary-to-Ph.D. education under the Panchmukhi Shiksha five-fold model.
Banastre Tarleton
Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British cavalry commander of the Loyalist British Legion in the American Revolution's southern campaign; nicknamed "Bloody Ban" after the Waxhaws, defeated at Cowpens, later MP and author.
Banat
Banat: historical region in southeastern Europe bounded by the Danube, Tisza, Mureș, and South Carpathians, divided since 1920 among Romania, Serbia, and Hungary; capital Timișoara.
Banat of Severin
The Banat of Severin (Szörényi Banat) was a frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary on the Lower Danube, organized around 1230 and lost to the Ottomans in 1524.
Banat of Temeswar
The Banat of Temeswar was a Habsburg crown domain in southeastern Hungary, existing from 1718 to 1778, with its capital at Temeswar (today Timișoara, Romania).
Banat Su'ad
Banat Su'ad (بانت سعاد), also known as Qaṣīdat al-Burda, is a classical Arabic ode in praise of the Prophet Muhammad by the poet Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr.
Banat-un-Nash
Banat-un-Nash (بنات النعش), translated as Daughters of the Bier, is an 1872 Urdu novel by Deputy Nazir Ahmad, the sequel to his Mirat-ul-Uroos, written to promote the education of Muslim girls.
Banate of Belgrade
The Banate of Belgrade was a Hungarian border military district, established in 1459 after the fall of the Serbian Despotate and ended when Suleiman the Magnificent captured Belgrade in 1521.
Banate of Bosnia
The Banate of Bosnia (Bosanska banovina) was a medieval Balkan state ruled by a ban, becoming the Kingdom of Bosnia when Tvrtko I was crowned in 1377.
Banate of Craiova
The Banate of Craiova (Romanian: Banatul Craiovei) was the institution governing Oltenia, Wallachia west of the Olt River, under a ban from the late Middle Ages until its abolition in 1831.
Banate of Croatia
The Banate of Croatia, or Banovina Hrvatska, is a territory governed by a ban, Croatia's highest official, spanning the medieval banate and the 1939–1941 autonomous unit in Yugoslavia.
Banate of Jajce
The Banate of Jajce (Jajačka banovina) was a military-administrative unit of the Croatian-Hungarian Kingdom from 1463 to 1527, organized by Matthias Corvinus on retaken Bosnian territory around Jajce as a bulwark against the Ottomans.
Banate of Lika
The Banate of Lika was a medieval administrative unit in southwest Croatia, first recorded in the 10th century, uniting the counties of Lika, Gacka, and Krbava under a ban.
Banate of Mačva
The Banate of Mačva was a frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in present-day northwestern Serbia, named for the region south of the Sava River.
Banaue Rice Terraces
The Banaue Rice Terraces (Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue) are irrigated rice paddies carved into mountainsides in Ifugao province, northern Luzon, Philippines, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Banavasi province
Banavasi province was an administrative division of early medieval Karnataka centered on the town of Banavasi, governed in succession by the Kadambas, Badami Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, and Kalyana Chalukyas.
Banawali
Banawali is a Harappan archaeological site in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India, on the dry bed of the ancient Sarasvati river, excavated from 1974 to 1977.
Banba Corona
Banba Corona is a 110 km wide corona on Venus at 47.20° S, 209.20° E in quadrangle V-50, named after an Irish earth goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Banbury
Banbury is a market town in Cherwell district, northern Oxfordshire, England, the county's largest town with about 60,000 people. Known for Banbury Cross, Banbury cakes, the Oxford Canal, Tooley's Boatyard, and its Civil War castle sieges.
Banc d'Arguin National Park
Banc d'Arguin National Park (Parc national du Banc d'Arguin), Mauritania's Atlantic desert-coast park created in 1976, a Ramsar site since 1982 and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1989, famed for over two million migratory waders and West Africa's largest fish nursery.
Banca Mediolanum
Banca Mediolanum is an Italian retail bank near Milan that distributes banking, insurance, and savings products through its Family Banker advisor network rather than branches.