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Ba Trieu
Ba Trieu, also known as Trieu Thi Trinh, was a Vietnamese woman who in 248 CE led an armed uprising against Eastern Wu rule in present-day Vietnam.
Ba'ath Party
Ba'ath Party (Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party, Hizb al-Ba'ath al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki), founded in Damascus in 1947 by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, is a pan-Arab nationalist and socialist party whose motto was Unity, Freedom, Socialism and whose rival Syrian and Iraqi branches ruled Syria from 1963 and Iraq from 1968 until the party was banned in Iraq in 2003 and dissolved in Syria in 2025.
Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)
Iraqi-dominated faction of the pan-Arab Ba'ath movement, also called the Iraq Region branch; ruled Iraq 1968-2003, split bitterly from the Syrian Ba'ath, dissolved and banned after the 2003 invasion.
Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)
The Syrian-dominated faction of the Ba'ath Party, also called the pro-Syrian Baath, ruled Syria from 1963 after the 1966 split with the Iraqi wing, was recognized by the 1973 constitution as leader of state and society, and was dissolved on 29 January 2025.
Ba'athism (البعثية)
Ba'athism (البعثية), from Arabic ba'th meaning resurrection, is the pan-Arab nationalist ideology of "Unity, Freedom, Socialism" founded by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, whose Ba'ath parties ruled Syria 1963–2024 and Iraq 1968–2003 before dissolution and de-Baathification.
Ba'athist Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq, or Iraq under Ba'ath Party rule, was the Iraqi state ruled by the Ba'ath Party from 1968 to 2003, under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and then Saddam Hussein.
Ba'athist Syria
Ba'athist Syria: the Syrian Arab Republic under the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, 8 March 1963 to 8 December 2024. One-party military rule, 1973 constitution naming Ba'ath leader of state and society, Assad family rule from 1970, ended by the December 2024 rebel offensive.
Ba'athist Syrian Captagon industry
The Ba'athist Syrian Captagon industry was the Assad regime's state-sponsored captagon (fenethylline) production and trafficking apparatus, supplying about 80 percent of Middle East seizures and billions of dollars in revenue until the regime's fall in December 2024.
Baal
Baal (Hebrew בעל, 'Lord') is the title of several Northwest Semitic gods, chiefly Baal Hadad, the Canaanite storm and rain god. Known from the six-tablet Ugarit Baal Cycle (excavated from 1929) and as Yahweh's biblical rival, later demonized as Beelzebub.
Baal Cycle
The Baal Cycle, also called the Baal Epic, is a group of six Ugaritic mythological tablets from Ugarit telling of Baal's combats with Yamm and Mot.
Baal Hammon
Baal Hammon (Baʿal Ḥamōn, 𐤁𐤏𐤋 𐤇𐤌𐤍) was the chief male god of Carthage, consort of Tanit, first attested around 825 BC, later equated with Kronos and Saturn across Roman North Africa.
Baal I (king of Sidon)
Baal I, also written Ba'al I, was a king of Tyre on the Phoenician coast who reigned from about 680 BC as a vassal of the Neo-Assyrian kings.
Baal Lebanon inscription
The Baal Lebanon inscription is a Phoenician dedication on fragments of bronze bowls, made about 739–730 BC by a governor of Qarthadašt, servant of Hiram king of the Sidonians, to Baal of Lebanon.
Baal Shem Tov
The Baal Shem Tov, also called the Besht, was Yisroel ben Eliezer, a Jewish mystic and healer who lived in Medzhybizh, Podolia, and founded Hasidism.
Baal with Thunderbolt
The Baal with Thunderbolt (Baal au foudre) is a limestone stele from Ugarit, found in 1932, showing the storm god Baal with a mace and thunderbolt, now in the Louvre.
Baal-Eser II
Baal-Eser II, rendered Ba'lmanezer in Assyrian records, was a king of Tyre known from Josephus's king list and from an Assyrian inscription recording his tribute to Shalmaneser III in 841 BC.
Baal-Ezer II
Baal-Ezer II, also rendered Badezorus, was a king of Tyre who reigned six years and died around 841 BC, son of Ithobaal I and father of Mattan I.
Baal-hanan
Baal-hanan (בַּעַל חָנָן) is an Edomite king in the Hebrew Bible's Genesis 36 list, the seventh of eight rulers who reigned before Israel had kings; he was the son of Achbor.
Baalat Gebal
Baalat Gebal (bʿlt gbl, Lady of Byblos), chief goddess of Byblos; her temple on the acropolis dates to about the 29th century BC; identified with Hathor by Egypt and with Aphrodite by the Greeks.
Baalis
Ba'alis was an early 6th-century BC king of the Ammonites, known from Jeremiah 40:14 and two seals, who sent the assassin that killed Gedaliah, Babylon's governor of Judah, after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Baalmilk I (king of Kition)
Baalmilk I, also rendered Baalmelek, was the first named king of the Phoenician dynasty of Kition on Cyprus, reigning in the early fifth century BC and known from his coinage, dated 475–450 BC.
Baalmilk II (king of Kition)
Baalmilk II, also rendered Baalmelek II, was a Phoenician king of Kition and Idalion on Cyprus, known from a dedication to Anat and silver coins dated 425–400 BC.
Baalshamem inscription
The Baalshamem inscription, also known as the Baalshamin inscription, is a Phoenician votive text (KAI 18) from Hammon, dated 133/2 BC, dedicating a gate to Baʿal-shamem.
Baalshillem I (king of Sidon)
Baalshillem I (Phoenician Bʿlšlm) was a king of Sidon in the fifth century BC, reigning from about 450 to 426 BC as the first ruler of the dynasty bearing his name.
Baalshillem II (king of Sidon)
Baalshillem II (Ba'lshillem II) was king of the Sidonians from about 401 to 366 BC under Achaemenid Persian rule, known from the KAI 281 inscription and his silver coinage.
Baalshillem Temple Boy
The Baalshillem Temple Boy is a marble votive statuette of a boy dedicated to the healing god Eshmun near Sidon, dated to the mid-fifth century BC.
Baasha (king of Ammon)
Baasha, son of Ruhubi, was king of Ammon, a small kingdom in Transjordan, who led troops against Shalmaneser III of Assyria at Qarqar in 853 BC.
Baasha (king of Israel)
Baasha, son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 24 years after assassinating King Nadab at Gibbethon.
Báb
The Báb, born Siyyid Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad Shirazi, was a Persian merchant who announced a religious mission in Shiraz in 1844, founded the Bábí movement, and was executed in Tabríz in 1850.
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, born in 1950, is a Cameroonian businessman who founded and solely owns the Baba Ahmadou Group, a family holding active in tea, flour, livestock, and telecoms.