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Balinese people

The Balinese are Bali's dominant ethnic group, about 1% of Indonesia's population, mostly Hindu (83.5% of Bali, 2010 census), shaped by Majapahit Javanese influence, caste-stratified village institutions, and the modern construction of agama Hindu.

Balinese temple architecture

Balinese temple architecture is the tradition of building Hindu temples, called pura, on Bali, Indonesia, with split gates, odd-numbered tiered meru shrines, and courtyards graded toward greater sanctity.

Balinese wood carving

Balinese wood carving, known as ukir kayu, is the traditional craft of carving wood in Bali, Indonesia, centered on the village of Mas near Ubud since the 1930s.

Baling Talks

The Baling Talks (Rundingan Baling) were peace negotiations held in Baling, Kedah, on 28 and 29 December 1955 between the Malayan government and the Malayan Communist Party, ending without agreement.

Balingen

Balingen, seat of the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, is documented here through TSG Balingen von 1848 e.V., its >1250-member sports club, the Bizerba Arena football ground, and the town's 28 Kitas.

Oct 15, 2026

Balingian New power station

Balingian New power station is a 600 MW coal-fired power station in Balingian, Sarawak, Malaysia, commissioned in 2019 with two 300 MW lignite-fired units owned by Sarawak Energy.

Bálint Balassi

Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Hungarian nobleman, soldier, and poet, considered the first great classic of Hungarian-language poetry, known for love and religious verse and the nine-line Balassi stanza.

Bálint Ruff

Bálint Ruff (Ruff Bálint György, born 1981), Hungarian lawyer, Partizán Vétó host, and opposition adviser; since May 2026 minister heading the Prime Minister's Office under Péter Magyar.

Balint syndrome

Balint syndrome (Balint-Holmes syndrome), first described by Rezső Bálint in 1909, is a rare visual disorder from bilateral parieto-occipital lesions, marked by simultanagnosia, optic ataxia, and oculomotor apraxia.

Balirajgarh Mound

Balirajgarh Mound (Raja Bali ka Garh): large fortified archaeological mound in Babubarhi, Madhubani district, Bihar, near the India-Nepal border. ASI-protected since 1938; fort built 2nd century BCE, used to the Pala period; five excavations, the fifth ongoing since 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Balis (Syria)

Balis, in Arabic Bālis (بالىس), is an ancient city site on the Euphrates in Syria, occupied as Emar and Barbalissos before abandonment in the 13th century.

Balistidae

Balistidae, the triggerfishes, is a family of about 42 species of marine ray-finned fishes named for a dorsal spine that locks upright like a trigger.

Balitung

Balitung, full title Sri Maharaja Rakai Watukura Dyah Balitung, was a king of the Medang kingdom in Central Java who reigned from about 899 to 910.

Balixafortide

Balixafortide (POL6326, SPX6326) is a 14-amino-acid cyclic peptide CXCR4 antagonist developed by Polyphor/Spexis via protein epitope mimetic technology; it mobilizes hematopoietic stem cells, but its phase 3 FORTRESS trial with eribulin in HER2-negative breast cancer missed its endpoints.

Oct 10, 2026

Bâlîzâde Mustafa Efendi

Bâlîzâde Mustafa Efendi (died 1662) was an Ottoman Hanafi jurist who served as şeyhülislam for six months in 1656 and 1657 before dismissal by Köprülü Mehmed Paşa.

Balıkesir (city)

Balıkesir, provincial capital in western Turkey's Marmara Region, inland plain city at 130 m elevation in ancient Mysia; center of the Karesi Beyliği, Ottoman from the 14th century, province since 1926.

Balıkesir (district)

Balıkesir (district): central district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey, split since 2013 into Karesi and Altıeylül under Law No. 6360; seat of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality, 2025 populations 189,444 and 188,858.

Sep 23, 2026

Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri

Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri (بلج بن بشر القشيري) was a Syrian army commander and de facto governor of al-Andalus from 741 to 742, who deposed Governor Abd al-Malik ibn Qatan.

Sep 27, 2026

Baljit Kaur

Baljit Kaur is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician, a Punjab cabinet minister and MLA from Malout, and the only woman in the 2022 cabinet.

Sep 20, 2026

Baljit Khakh

Baljit S. Khakh is a molecular and cellular neuroscientist at UCLA known for work on P2X receptors and astrocytes, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2025.

Balk

Balk: an illegal, deceptive pitching motion in baseball with runners on base; runners advance one base. 13 listed acts, 1898 origin, 1988's 924-balk season, and MLB's 2023 two-disengagement limit.

Balkan campaign (World War II)

The Balkan campaign of World War II was the Axis conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece in April and May 1941, ending with the capture of Crete.

Balkan Communist Federation

The Balkan Communist Federation (Балканска комунистическа федерация) was a Comintern section founded in Sofia in 1920 to coordinate the Balkan communist parties; it dissolved in 1934.

Balkan cuisine

Balkan cuisine: the shared food tradition of the Balkan Peninsula (ajvar, sarma, baklava, burek), shaped by Byzantine, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian influences, distinct from Mediterranean and Slavic cuisines.

Balkan League

The Balkan League was an alliance of Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria formed in 1912 with Russian backing to drive the Ottoman Empire from Europe.

Balkan Mountains (Стара планина)

Balkan Mountains (Стара планина, Stara Planina, "Old Mountain"), also called Haemus in antiquity: a 530 km west-east range across Bulgaria to Cape Emine, highest peak Botev 2,376 m, home of Central Balkan National Park.

Balkan nephropathy

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), also called Balkan nephropathy, is a chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease of rural Danube-basin villages in the Balkans, caused by aristolochic acid and linked to upper urothelial cancer.

Balkan Pact (1934)

The Balkan Pact, also called the Balkan Entente, was an alliance signed at Athens on 9 February 1934 by Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia, which mutually guaranteed their Balkan frontiers.

Balkan slave trade

Balkan slave trade: trafficking of enslaved people from southeastern Europe, mainly by Venetians and later Ottomans; fed Ragusa's domestic market and Mediterranean buyers; source of the word "slave" via Slavic captives.