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Banque Centrale Populaire
Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) is a Moroccan bank, listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange since 2004 and the listed central entity of the Crédit Populaire du Maroc group.
Banque du Liban
Banque du Liban (BDL) is the central bank of Lebanon, which financed the state and set the exchange rate until the banking system collapsed in 2019.
Banque Générale
Banque Générale was a private bank founded by John Law in 1716, the first central bank in France; it became the Banque Royale in 1718, whose paper money drove the Mississippi bubble that collapsed in 1720.
Banque Saudi Fransi
Banque Saudi Fransi is a Saudi joint-stock universal bank headquartered in Riyadh, founded by royal decree in 1977 from French bank branches, with corporate banking making up about 80% of its loan book.
Banquet
Banquet: a formal, elaborate meal for many people on a special occasion; from French banc (bench), once meaning a sweet course; spans Roman convivium, Joseon royal feasts, and modern plated or buffet catering.
Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II was the ten-day inaugural feast the Assyrian king held at his rebuilt capital Kalhu in 879 BCE, feeding 69,574 guests, as recorded on his Banquet Stele.
Banquet of Chestnuts
Banquet of Chestnuts (Ballo delle castagne): alleged orgy arranged by Cesare Borgia in the Apostolic Palace, Rome, 30-31 October 1501 with Pope Alexander VI; described mainly in Burchard's Liber Notarum and historically disputed.
Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II, also called Banquet Stela, is a sandstone stele from Nimrud recording a ten-day banquet for 69,574 guests around 879 BC.
Banquo
Banquo is a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a Scottish general and Thane of Lochaber, Macbeth's friend turned victim. Prophecy says his descendants will be kings; murdered by Macbeth, he haunts the banquet as a ghost and was recast from Holinshed's accomplice to flatter James I.
Banrock Station Wetland Complex
Banrock Station Wetland Complex: 1,375 ha Ramsar wetland (listed 21 October 2002) on the Murray River floodplain, Riverland, South Australia; first SA Ramsar site entirely on private land, managed by Accolade Wines, restored through wet-dry cycling.
Bans on circus animals
Bans on circus animals: legal prohibitions or restrictions on animals, especially wild animals, in circuses, adopted in 51 countries including nationwide bans in most of Europe and Latin America, with no US federal ban.
Bansha no goku
Bansha no goku (蛮社の獄) was the 1839 persecution in Edo of Western-studies scholars, including Watanabe Kazan and Takano Chōei, who criticized the shogunate's expulsion of foreign ships.
Banshee
Banshee (bean sí, "woman of the fairy mound") is the keening female death-messenger of Irish folklore, attached to old Gaelic families, studied by Patricia Lysaght (1986), with the Scottish bean nighe as counterpart.
Banshee (film)
Banshee (2006) is an American Oxygen TV action-thriller directed by Kari Skogland, written by Kirsten Elms, starring Taryn Manning as car thief Sage hunted by a DJ serial killer (Christian Campbell); 96 min, R, distinct from the 2003 UK Banshee.
Banshee (TV series)
Banshee (Cinemax, 2013–2016) is an American action crime drama created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, starring Antony Starr as ex-con thief Lucas Hood posing as a Pennsylvania sheriff; four seasons, 90% Rotten Tomatoes.
Banshilal Gurjar
Banshilal Gurjar is an Indian BJP politician from Madhya Pradesh, elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2024 and appointed national president of the BJP Kisan Morcha in 2026.
Bansho Shirabesho
Bansho Shirabesho (蕃書調所), the Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books, was the shogunate's institute for Western learning in Edo, founded in 1856 and a forerunner of the University of Tokyo.
Banska Bystrica
Banská Bystrica (Neusohl, Besztercebánya) is a central Slovak city chartered by Bela IV in 1255, a copper-mining hub under the Thurzo-Fugger company, center of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising, with about 72,500 residents.
Banskhera and Madhainagar copper-plate inscriptions of Harsha
The Banskhera and Madhainagar (Madhuban) copper-plate inscriptions are two royal charters of Emperor Harshavardhana recording land grants to Brahmin beneficiaries, dated circa 628 and 631 CE and counted among the principal sources for his biography.
Bansko (Банско)
Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria at the foot of the Pirin mountains, 150 km from Sofia, transformed by a 2003 gondola lift into the country's flagship ski resort.
Bansuri (बाँसुरी)
Bansuri (बाँसुरी), North Indian keyless side-blown bamboo flute with six or seven holes, 30–100 cm long; adapted for Hindustani classical music by Pannalal Ghosh and associated with Krishna.
Bansuri Swaraj
Bansuri Swaraj, born 1984, is an Indian BJP politician and lawyer, daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, representing New Delhi in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Banswara State
Banswara State (बांसवाड़ा रियासत) was a princely state in southern Rajputana founded in 1527, ruled by a Sisodia Rajput line, and merged into Rajasthan in 1949.
Bantamweight
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports, most prominently boxing, where fighters weigh no more than 118 pounds, with a heavier 135-pound division in the UFC.
Banteay Meanchey
Banteay Meanchey (បន្ទាយមានជ័យ), a northwestern Cambodian province bordering Thailand, ISO code KH-1, capital Sisophon. Covers 6,679 km², nine districts and municipalities, and handles the bulk of Cambodia-Thailand cross-border trade.
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei, meaning Citadel of Women, is a 10th-century Hindu temple of pink sandstone northeast of Angkor in Cambodia, dedicated to Shiva and called a jewel of Khmer art.
Banteay Srei style
Banteay Srei style is a period of Angkorian Khmer art, 967 to about 1000 CE, defined by the temple's pink sandstone and finely carved decoration.
Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre
Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre (BBC), Siem Reap, Cambodia: butterfly farm and exhibit founded 2008 by Ben Hayes, 25 km north of Siem Reap, with thousands of free-flying native butterflies and 35 farmed species.
Banten Lontar power station
Banten Lontar power station (PLTU Banten 3 Lontar) is a 945 MW coal-fired power plant in Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia, operated by PT Indonesia Power.
Banten succession crisis and VOC intervention (1682)
The Banten succession crisis was a civil war in western Java from 1680, in which the VOC backed Sultan Haji against his father, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa.