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National Bank of Romania
The National Bank of Romania (Banca Națională a României, NBR) is Romania's central bank, founded in 1880, which conducts inflation-targeting monetary policy and manages international reserves of EUR 70.5 billion.
National Bank of Rwanda
The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) is the central bank of Rwanda, established in 1964 to issue the Rwandan franc and charged with price stability and monetary policy.
National Bank of Serbia
The National Bank of Serbia is the constitutionally independent central bank of the Republic of Serbia, accountable to the National Assembly and targeting inflation since 1 January 2009.
National Bank of Slovakia
The National Bank of Slovakia (Národná banka Slovenska, NBS) is the central bank of Slovakia, which has pursued price stability through the ECB's monetary policy since 2009.
National Bank of Tajikistan
The National Bank of Tajikistan is the central bank of Tajikistan, a state-owned issuing and reserve bank in Dushanbe that pursues price stability and supervises 65 credit institutions.
National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic is the central bank of Kyrgyzstan, issuing the som, managing international reserves, and targeting inflation of 5 to 7 percent.
National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) is the central bank of Belarus and a government agency in Minsk, formally independent but accountable to the President.
National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia
The National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia is the country's independent central bank, which has held the denar in a de facto euro peg since 2002.
National Bank of Ukraine
The National Bank of Ukraine (Національний банк України) is the central bank of Ukraine, responsible for monetary policy, gold and foreign exchange reserves, and banking supervision.
National Bank of Yugoslavia
The National Bank of Yugoslavia was the central bank of Yugoslavia, founded in 1883 as Serbia's national bank and continued as Serbia's central bank from 2003.
National Bank Regulations
The National Bank Regulations (国立銀行条例), Japan's first banking legislation, were enacted in 1872 on the American model, creating chartered note-issuing banks; 153 national banks were founded before the system ended by 1899.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY; nonprofit museum opened June 12, 1939 during baseball's centennial; honors inductees elected by BBWAA (75 percent threshold) and Era Committees; holds 40,000-plus artifacts.
National Basketball Association
The NBA is a 30-team North American men's professional basketball league founded in 1946. Covers its soft salary cap and second apron, $76B media deals, franchise valuations, play-in, and NBA-vs-FIBA rules.
National Basketball League (Australia)
National Basketball League (NBL), Australia's top-tier men's professional basketball league. Founded 1979 by John Raschke; ten clubs including Perth Wildcats (10 titles) and Tasmania JackJumpers; revived under Larry Kestelman's ownership.
National Basketball League (United States)
The National Basketball League (NBL) was an American basketball league founded in 1937 in the Midwest that merged into the NBA in 1949; the name was revived in 2019.
National Basketball League of Canada
The National Basketball League of Canada, known as NBL Canada, was a minor-league men's basketball league founded in 2011, peaking at 10 teams in 2016 before dissolving in 2023.
National Bestseller Prize
The National Bestseller Prize (Нацбест) is an annual Russian literary prize for the best prose work written in Russian, founded in Saint Petersburg in 2001.
National Bible Bee
National Bible Bee: annual Scripture memorization and study program for ages 5–18 run by the Shelby Kennedy Foundation since 2009, with a 10-week Summer Study, Discovery Journal, and a fall national competition awarding over $135,000.
National Biodiversity Institute
National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rican private non-profit founded 1989; national biodiversity inventory, parataxonomists, Merck bioprospecting deal; collections moved to Museo Nacional; ceased 2015-2016. Distinct from Portugal's InBIO and the Virginia allergen lab InBio.
National Biosafety Management Agency
National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Nigeria's regulator of modern biotechnology and GMOs under the 2015 Act (amended 2019); 21-day public displays, NBC/technical committee review, DG/CEO approval power, HQ in Abuja.
National Black Theatre (Redfern)
The National Black Theatre was an Aboriginal theater company and cultural center in Redfern, Sydney, that operated from 1972 to 1977 and pioneered all-Indigenous theater in Australia.
National Blue Ribbon Schools Program
The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program was a U.S. Department of Education recognition program, begun in 1982 and discontinued in 2025, honoring schools for academic excellence or progress in closing achievement gaps.
National Board of Health
National Board of Health (Sundhedsstyrelsen) is Denmark's national health authority, established 30 May 1909, replacing Sundhedskollegiet; agency under the Ministry of the Interior and Health, led by Jonas Egebart since 2023.
National Board of Health and Welfare
The National Board of Health and Welfare (Swedish: Socialstyrelsen) is a Swedish government agency established in 1968 that licenses healthcare professions and publishes national health statistics.
National Board of Review
National Board of Review (NBR), founded 1909 in New York as a film censorship-review board, is a film honors organization best known for its December awards and January gala; its Best Film pick rarely matches the Oscar winner.
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films, now titled Top Films, is the NBR's annual alphabetical ten-film year-end list, running since 1930 alongside a separate Best Film award and parallel independent, international, and documentary lists.
National Bolshevik Party (Национал-большевистская партия)
National Bolshevik Party (Национал-большевистская партия, NBP), also called Nazbols, was a Russian radical red-brown party founded 1993–94 by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, known for its Limonka newspaper, provocations, ban by Russian courts, and successor Other Russia.
National Bolshevism
National Bolshevism (Nationalbolschewismus, национал-большевизм) is a radical ideology fusing class struggle and nationalization with extreme state chauvinism, arising in 1919 Hamburg, flourishing under Ernst Niekisch in Weimar Germany, and revived in Limonov and Dugin's 1990s Russian National-Bolshevik Party.
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are annual American literary prizes established in 1950. They are open only to US-based authors and are judged by fellow practitioners.
National Book Award for Fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction, given by the National Book Foundation since 1950, honors the best US-published fiction annually; first won by Nelson Algren, judged by five-member panels, with a $10,000 prize.