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Balti (بالٹی) (food)

Balti (بالٹی) is a curry style invented in Birmingham in the mid-1970s, credited to Mohammed Arif of Adil's, cooked in about 10 minutes in a pressed carbon-steel balti bowl with vegetable oil and served sizzling in the same bowl.

Balti language

Balti (སྦལ་འཐུས་, بلتی), ISO 639-3 bft, is a Western Archaic Tibetic language of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and Ladakh, retaining Old Tibetan consonant clusters without tone, written in Tibetan Yige and Nastaliq scripts, with four dialects.

Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm

Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm is Germany's first commercial offshore wind farm, 21 Siemens turbines totaling 48.3 MW in the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, commissioned in 2011.

Baltic amber

Baltic amber, also called succinite, is fossilized tree resin from Eocene forests of northern Europe, found around the Baltic Sea and the richest source of fossil insects of any age.

Baltic Assembly

The Baltic Assembly (BA) is an inter-parliamentary cooperation organization of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established in Tallinn in 1991 with its Secretariat in Riga.

Baltic Defence College

The Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL) is a NATO-accredited professional military education institution in Tartu, Estonia, founded in 1999 by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to train officers, non-commissioned officers, and civil servants.

Baltic Defence Line

Baltic Defence Line (BDL): joint Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania fortification and anti-mobility program agreed January 2024 along their ~1,500 km borders with Russia and Belarus, linked to Poland's East Shield, layered up to 50 km deep.

Baltic Dry Index

The Baltic Dry Index, also called the Baltic Freight Index, is a daily Baltic Exchange index of dry bulk shipping rates, widely watched as a gauge of world trade.

Baltic Eagle

Baltic Eagle is a 476 MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, northeast of Rügen, developed by Iberdrola and Masdar and fully operational in 2025.

Baltic Entente

The Baltic Entente was a political and diplomatic union of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established by the Treaty of Understanding and Cooperation, signed in Geneva in 1934 and annulled under Soviet occupation in 1940.

Baltic Exchange (building)

The Baltic Exchange building, 24-28 St Mary Axe, City of London: 1903 Smith and Wimble neo-classical Grade II exchange hall, bombed by the IRA in 1992, demolished 1998 for the Gherkin.

Baltic Exchange Clean Tanker Index

The Baltic Exchange Clean Tanker Index (BCTI) is a daily freight index tracking spot rates for shipping refined products like gasoline and diesel on clean tanker routes.

Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index

The Baltic Exchange Dirty Tanker Index (BDTI) is a daily index of spot freight rates for tankers carrying crude oil, published since 2001 and used to settle freight derivatives.

Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот)

Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот), Russia's Baltic Sea naval formation founded 1702 under Peter I, headquartered in Kaliningrad with main base Baltiysk and Kronstadt; smallest but most modern Russian fleet, constrained by NATO enlargement since 2023–2024.

Baltic German

Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten, Balten) were the ethnically German ruling class of present-day Estonia and Latvia for nearly 700 years from the 13th century, losing their status in 1918 and leaving in the 1939 resettlement.

Baltic German resettlement

The Baltic German resettlement was the organized 1939 and 1941 transfer of Estonia's and Latvia's ethnic German minority to the German Reich under German-Soviet treaties.

Baltic Germans

Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten) were the German-speaking elite minority of Estonia and Latvia from the 12th century to 1939, ruling as nobles, merchants, and academics before 1918 and resettling under the Hitler-Stalin Pact.

Baltic Governorates

Baltic Governorates (Ostsee governorates): Estland, Livland, and Courland, the Russian Empire's three Baltic provinces, acquired 1710 and 1795, ruled through Baltic German elites, abolished with 1917 collapse.

Baltic Ice Lake

Baltic Ice Lake, a large ice-dammed freshwater lake filling the Baltic basin during the last deglaciation, drained catastrophically about 25 m through central Sweden before the Yoldia Sea formed.

Baltic Landeswehr

The Baltic Landeswehr was a mostly Baltic German volunteer force formed in Riga in November 1918 to fight the Bolsheviks, defeated at Cēsis in 1919.

Baltic languages

Baltic languages: an Indo-European branch with the living East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and extinct West Baltic Old Prussian, closely related to Slavic as Balto-Slavic, conservative in phonology and morphology.

Baltic Pipeline System 1

Baltic Pipeline System 1 (BPS-1) is a Russian crude oil export pipeline operated by Transneft, running from Western Siberia to the Primorsk terminal, opened in 2001.

Baltic Pipeline System 2

Baltic Pipeline System 2 (БТС-2) is a Russian crude oil pipeline, operated by Transneft, running from Unecha to the Ust-Luga terminal on the Baltic Sea.

Baltic region

Baltic region: northern Europe around the Baltic Sea, defined as the sea and its drainage basin spanning nine riparian countries. Distinguished by brackish water, CBSS and EUSBSR cooperation, and post-2022 NATO security integration.

Baltic Sea (Балтийское море)

Baltic Sea (Балтийское море): shallow, semi-enclosed brackish sea in northern Europe, 420,000 km², max depth 459 m, salinity 0–18 psu, slow 30-year water exchange, severe eutrophication and hypoxia.

Baltic Sea anomaly

The Baltic Sea anomaly, also called the Baltic Sea UFO, is a roughly 60-meter circular feature on the Baltic seabed recorded by Swedish divers in 2011.

Baltic states

Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania on the eastern Baltic Sea; independent 1918, Soviet-occupied 1940-1991, restored independence 1990-1991; now EU and NATO members using the euro.

Baltic Way

The Baltic Way (Balti kett, Baltijas ceļš, Baltijos kelias) was a peaceful human chain of about two million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians on August 23, 1989, linking Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to demand restored independence from the Soviet Union.