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Bazaar

A bazaar, also known as a souq (بازار), is a clustered marketplace of shops and stalls central to commerce and social life in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Oct 15, 2026

Bazalt

Bazalt (НПО «Базальт») is a Russian state-owned munitions designer in Moscow, founded in 1938 and best known for the RPG-7 grenade launcher, of which over 9 million have been produced.

Bazar de la Charité: Paris Catholic charity bazaar institution whose 4 May 1897 sale on rue Jean-Goujon ended in a fire ignited by ether vapours of a Lumière Cinématographe lamp, killing about 117-130, mostly aristocratic women, including Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Alençon.

Bazaruto Facula

Bazaruto Facula is a 215-km-wide bright spot (facula) on Titan at 11.6°N, 16.1°W, IAU-named in 2006 for a Mozambique island, centered on the dark 80-km Sinlap impact crater imaged by Cassini in 2005.

Bazaya

Bazaya (Akkadian Bāzāia) was an early Old Assyrian ruler of the city of Aššur, listed fifty-second in the Assyrian King List as son of Iptar-Sin, with a recorded 28-year reign.

Bazball

Bazball is the informal name for England men's Test cricket's aggressive style under coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes from 2022. Coined by ESPN Cricinfo's Andrew Miller, added to Collins dictionary in 2023; era ended with McCullum's dismissal as Test coach.

Bazedoxifene

Bazedoxifene (Conbriza, Duavee) is a third-generation SERM approved in the EU and Japan for postmenopausal osteoporosis, reducing vertebral fractures about 35-40% over 5 years; in the US it is sold only with conjugated estrogens.

Bazen of Axum

Bazen of Axum is an early king of Aksum in the Ethiopian king lists, traditionally reigning when Christ was born in the eighth year of his rule.

Bazex syndrome

Bazex syndrome (acrokeratosis paraneoplastica) is a rare paraneoplastic dermatosis with acral psoriasiform lesions and nail dystrophy, usually preceding upper aerodigestive squamous cell carcinoma; distinct from Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome.

Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome

Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome (BDCS, follicular atrophoderma and basal cell carcinomas) is a rare X-linked dominant genodermatosis first described in 1964, causing hypotrichosis, milia, hypohidrosis, follicular atrophoderma, and early-onset basal cell carcinomas, mapped to Xq24-q27.1.

Oct 22, 2026

Bazgasht-e adabi

Bazgasht-e adabi (بازگشت ادبی, "literary return") was a neoclassical movement in Persian poetry that revived the older Khorasani and Iraqi styles against the Indian style.

Oct 15, 2026

Bazhenov Formation

The Bazhenov Formation (баженовская свита) is an organic-rich siliceous marine shale covering over 1 million km² in the West Siberian Basin as the world's largest shale oil resource.

Bazhong

Bazhong (巴中), a prefecture-level city in northeastern Sichuan, China, at the southern foot of Micang Mountain; capital of the 1930s Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base, home to the Guangwushan-Nuoshuihe UNESCO Global Geopark, 2.61 million people, and 12,300 square kilometers.

Bazhuayu Online Travel (八爪鱼在线旅游发展有限公司) (八爪鱼在线旅游)

Bazhuayu Online Travel is a Chinese B2B online travel distribution platform founded by Yuan Dong in December 2011 and headquartered in the China–Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park.

Bazi (king of Mari)

Bazi is a legendary early ruler of Mari on the Euphrates, listed in the Sumerian King List as a leather worker who reigned 30 years.

Bazi dynasty

The Bazi dynasty, also the Bit-Bazi dynasty, was the sixth dynasty of Babylon, a short line of three kings who ruled Babylonia from about 1005 to 986 BC.

Bazino

Bazino (بازینو) names an 8-floor indoor amusement and commercial complex in Karaj, Iran, founded 1389 with 120+ machines, plus several smaller Iranian parks, shops, and a VR brand.

Oct 22, 2026

Bazmavep

Bazmavep (Բազմավէպ) is the Armenian-language scholarly and literary journal of the Mkhitarist Congregation in Venice, founded in 1843 at the monastery of San Lazzaro and regarded as the first Armenian academic journal.

Bazooka

The bazooka is the popular name for the American M-series shoulder-fired rocket launchers of World War II and the Korean War, named for a comic musical instrument played by Bob Burns.

Bazooka (film)

Bazooka (ബസൂക്ക), 2025 Malayalam action crime thriller, directorial debut of Deeno Dennis, starring Mammootty and Gautham Vasudev Menon hunting a videogame-obsessed serial killer; released 10 April 2025, mixed reviews, ₹27 crore worldwide gross.

Bazooka (song)

Bazooka (song) covers several unrelated songs of that title: GWSN's 2020 K-pop single "BAZOOKA!" from the Keys EP, Miami XO's viral 2025 trap track, and releases by Nephew, Krisko, MVP, and Sojaa.

Bazoumana Touré

Bazoumana Touré, Ivorian left winger born 2006 in Bouaké; ASEC Mimosas, Hammarby IF, TSG Hoffenheim, then Newcastle United from July 2026; Côte d'Ivoire international, 2026 World Cup squad member.

Bazovyy minimum (Базовый минимум")

«Базовый минимум» is a 2025 Russian-language duet by SABI and MIA BOYKA. Its relationship-themed hook became popular in short videos, and the song topped VK and Yandex Music charts.

Bazurto All Stars

Bazurto All Stars is a seven-member champeta group from Cartagena, Colombia, formed in 2009, known for fusing champeta with Caribbean, African, electronic, and symphonic elements.

Bazzania

Bazzania, also called whipworts, is the largest genus of leafy liverworts in Lepidoziaceae, with about 258 species worldwide; known for Bazzania-type oil bodies, vitta leaf cells, and chemically rich species such as Bazzania trilobata.

Bazzi (singer)

Bazzi (Andrew Bazzi) is a Michigan-born Lebanese-American pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer, distinct from other artists named Bazzi, known for the 2018 viral hit "Mine" (No. 11 Hot 100, 2x platinum) and albums COSMIC, Soul Searching, and Infinite Dream.