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Barrington Tops National Park
Barrington Tops National Park, NSW, Australia: World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests park rising to over 1,500 m, with large temperate rainforest, sub-alpine swamps, seasonal 4WD closures, and 1080 baiting.
Barsakelmes Biosphere Reserve
Barsakelmes Biosphere Reserve (Kazakh: Барсакелмес), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve in Kazakhstan designated in 2016, protects a former Aral Sea island nature reserve established in 1939, covering 407,135 ha of Turanian desert and dried seabed.
Barsova Gora
Barsova Gora (Барсова гора, "Lynx Hill") is a tract on the Ob River near Surgut in Siberia, holding more than 400 archaeological sites from the Neolithic onward.
Bartae
Bartae, an otherwise unattested road station of ancient Pontos on the Tabula Peutingeriana, 38 miles from Neocaesarea toward Polemonium, tentatively placed near Aşağı or Yukarı Yaylacık, Turkey, and conjecturally Ptolemy's Barbánissa.
Bartlow Hills
Bartlow Hills: a group of large Romano-British burial mounds at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire/Essex, late 1st to early 2nd century AD, excavated 1832–1840, finds lost in an 1847 fire, now a scheduled monument.
Barton (remains of)
Barton (remains of), NHLE 1006310, is a scheduled monument in Abingdon on Thames, Oxfordshire: the ruin of the Abbot of Abingdon's mansion at Barton Farm, burnt in 1327, rebuilt by Thomas Reade in 1554, and destroyed in the Civil War.
Barton Court Farm
Barton Court Farm, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: multiperiod archaeological site with a 1st-century BC Iron Age enclosure, a 3rd-4th century Roman villa in a 125m x 145m compound, and an Anglo-Saxon settlement of grubenhauser, occupied into the 5th century.
Barton Farm
Barton Farm, a Roman winged-corridor villa near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, findspot of the Orpheus Mosaic now in the Corinium Museum; distinct from Barton in Fabis villa and Barton Farm Winchester.
Barutel Roman Quarry
Barutel Roman Quarry (Carrière romaine de Barutel): Gallo-Roman limestone quarry on the Route d'Alès near Nîmes, France; escoude tool traces, inscribed Monument historique 1991 (PA30000097), stone supplier of the Arènes, Temple de Diane, and Maison Carrée.
Bas Ogooué
Bas Ogooué (lower Ogooué) is Gabon's largest Ramsar Site (no. 1851, designated 2009), a 1,370,000-ha alluvial wetland plain of the Ogooué River with flooded forest, threatened wildlife, and community-led fisheries management on Lake Oguemoué.
Basarabi
Basarabi: Romanian name for the Murfatlar rock-cut monastery in Dobruja (discovered 1957, 10th century, six chalk churches, 500+ graffiti), the Early Iron Age Basarabi culture of the lower Danube, and a Dolj village near Calafat.
Bashkirskiyi Ural Biosphere Reserve
Bashkirskiyi Ural (Башкирский Урал) is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve designated in 2012 in Bashkortostan, Russia, covering 345,700 ha across five protected areas, notable for the Burzyan wild-hive bee and Kapova cave Paleolithic art.
Basilica and convent of S. Ippolito
Basilica and convent of S. Ippolito (Complesso di Sant'Ippolito), Fiumicino, Italy: early Christian 4th-century funerary basilica of martyr Hippolytus, Roman cisterns, medieval Conventino, Romanesque bell tower, Leo III ciborium, Antiquarium, patronal feast 5 October.
Basilica Argentaria
Basilica Argentaria, Roman commercial building in Region VIII of Rome beside the Forum of Caesar on the Clivus Argentarius; a Trajanic two-aisled vaulted portico, named in the 4th-century Regionary Catalogues, used by money-changers or metalware dealers, later a school.
Basilica Damous el-Karita
Basilica Damous el-Karita (داموس الكريطة), a large nine-aisled Christian cemetery and pilgrimage basilica outside the walls of Roman Carthage, Tunisia, with baptistery, annex hall, and subterranean rotunda, possibly the Basilica Fausti.
Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore names two Italian churches: a late-4th-century central-plan paleo-Christian basilica in Milan, and a 13th-century Angevin Gothic Franciscan basilica in Naples built over the Roman macellum.
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana, also called Santa Maria Nova, is a Roman Forum basilica atop the Temple of Venus and Roma, burial place of St. Francesca Romana (died 1440), renamed after her 1608 canonization, with Olivetan Benedictines since 1352.
Basilica di Santo Stefano in via Latina
Basilica di Santo Stefano in via Latina was a fifth-century Christian basilica in Rome, built at the third mile of the ancient Via Latina; only foundations survive.
Basilica Hilariana
Basilica Hilariana: 2nd-century AD collegial seat of the dendrophori on Rome's Caelian Hill, tied to the cult of Cybele and Attis, named after pearl merchant Poblicius Hilarus, famous for its apotropaic eye-and-animals mosaic.
Basilica Noniana
The Basilica Noniana was, perhaps, the civic basilica of the Roman town of Herculaneum, built by its patron Marcus Nonius Balbus and still buried since the AD 79 eruption.
Basilica of Constantine (Ostia)
Basilica of Constantine (Ostia), the Constantinian episcopal cathedral of Ostia Antica, founded c. 330 AD by Constantine and Gallicanus; earliest known standard basilica, only unaltered Constantinian church foundation, under excavation since 2023.
Basilica of Cresconius
Basilica of Cresconius: paleochristian five-aisled basilica (39.50 × 28 m) at Cuicul (Djémila), Algeria, named for Bishop Cresconius, known from a metrical mosaic dedication inscription; dating disputed, 5th to 6th century.
Basilica of Lechaion
Basilica of Lechaion (Λέχαιον basilica), Early Christian church at Corinth's western harbor, dedicated to Leonides and seven martyrs; 180-223 m long, built after mid-5th century, destroyed by the 551/552 AD earthquake.
Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains
Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains (Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains), late 4th-century Roman hall in Metz, France, converted to a Benedictine nunnery church around 620, later a military warehouse, now a Cité musicale-Metz concert hall.
Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano
Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano (Basilica di San Clemente), a minor basilica near Rome's Colosseum: a 12th-century church over a 4th-century basilica over 1st-century Roman buildings, a Mithraeum, and an imperial mint, rediscovered by Mullooly in 1857.
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
The Basilica of San Lorenzo, also called Basilica di San Lorenzo, is a Renaissance church in Florence, Italy, rebuilt by Brunelleschi as the Medici family's parish and burial church.
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe (Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe): 6th-century Early Christian basilica near Ravenna, Italy, consecrated 9 May 549 by Bishop Maximian, built over the tomb of Apollinaris, first bishop of Ravenna; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, titular minor basilica in Rome's Trastevere district; founded 4th century under Julius I, rebuilt by Innocent II from 1140, with Cavallini's Life of the Virgin mosaics and a Domenichino ceiling.
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana (Basilica di Santa Pudenziana), a 4th-century titular basilica on Via Urbana, Rome, near Santa Maria Maggiore, built over the Titulus Pudentis domus ecclesiae and holding the oldest surviving apse mosaic in a Christian church, dated 410-417.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, America's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.: largest Roman Catholic church in North America, Romanesque-Byzantine style, begun 1920, over 80 chapels, Trinity Dome mosaic dedicated 2017.