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Baekje (백제)
Baekje (백제), ancient Korean kingdom 18 BCE–660 CE, one of the Three Kingdoms with Goguryeo and Silla; capitals at Hanseong, Ungjin (Gongju), and Sabi (Buyeo); fell 660; eight sites UNESCO-listed 2015.
Baekje damdo system
The Baekje damdo system, or damro (담로), was the local governance system of the Korean kingdom of Baekje, dividing the realm into governor-ruled territorial units.
Baekje revival movement
The Baekje revival movement (백제 부흥 운동) was the Baekje loyalist attempt, supported by the Wa, to restore their kingdom after the Silla–Tang conquest of 660, ending in 663.
Baekje–Japan relations
Baekje–Japan relations were the political, military, and cultural ties between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and Yamato Japan from the late 4th century to 660.
Baekje–Wa alliance
The Baekje–Wa alliance was the military partnership between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and the Wa of Japan, from 397 until Baekje's fall in 663.
Baekje's adoption of Buddhism
Baekje's adoption of Buddhism was the Korean kingdom of Baekje's official acceptance of the religion in 384, when the monk Marananta arrived from the Eastern Jin dynasty and was received by King Chimryu.
Baekje's move of capital to Sabi
Baekje's move of capital to Sabi (웅진에서 사비 천도) was King Seong's 538 relocation of the capital from Ungjin to Sabi, modern Buyeo, renaming the state Nambuyeo.
Baekje's move of capital to Ungjin
Baekje's move of capital to Ungjin (웅진천도) transferred the Korean kingdom's seat from Hanseong to Ungjin, present-day Gongju, in 475, after Goguryeo destroyed Hanseong and killed King Gaero.
Baekjo
Baekjo (백조, "White Tide") was a Korean literary magazine founded in 1922, remembered as the flagship journal of early 1920s romanticism despite lasting only three issues.
Bael (demon)
Bael (Baal, Baël) is the first spirit of the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of Solomon: a King of the East with 66 legions, three heads (toad, man, cat), hoarse voice, and power to grant invisibility, first printed in Weyer's 1577 Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.
Bafu (hegemon government) of the Sima clan
The bafu of the Sima clan was the office through which the Sima family ruled Cao Wei in the third century, holding real power while the Wei emperor remained in place.
Bag Mitali
Bag Mitali, born 1976, is an Indian politician from West Bengal who was elected in 2024 as a Trinamool Congress member of the Lok Sabha from Arambag.
Baga (king of Mauretania)
Baga was a king of the Mauri in northwest Africa around 206 BC, known from a single passage of Livy for helping Massinissa return from Spain.
Bagalamukhi (बगलामुखी)
Bagalamukhi, also called Baglamukhi or Pitambara, is a yellow-clad Hindu goddess, the eighth of the ten Mahavidyas, whose stambhana power paralyzes speech and adversaries, sought for victory in disputes.
Bagauda
Bagauda is the traditional founder of the ruling dynasty of Kano, a Hausa city-state in northern Nigeria, credited with conquering the area around 999 and becoming its first king.
Bagdatti
Bagdatti was a governor of the Mannaean province of Uishdish, brother of the Mannean king Ullusunu, who took part in the killing of Aza and was captured by Sargon II in 716 BC.
Bageshwar Dham Balaji Temple
Bageshwar Dham (बागेश्वर धाम) is a Hanuman temple and pilgrimage center in Gadha village, Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India, which grew rapidly after 2019 under Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri.
Baggara Arabs
Baggara Arabs (also Shuwa Arabs) are Arabic-speaking semi-nomadic cattle herders of the Sahel's Baggara Belt, stretching over 2,500 km from Nigeria to Sudan; former camel nomads from Arabia who shifted to cattle by 1800, they speak West Sudanic Arabic and feature in the RSF's Sudan war recruitment.
Baggy Shanker
Baggy Shanker (Bhagat Singh Shanker), Labour and Co-operative MP for Derby South since July 2024, succeeding Margaret Beckett; former Derby City Council leader (2023–2024) and Rolls-Royce engineer.
Bagha Jatin (যতীন্দ্রনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায়)
Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee, 1879–1915) was a Bengali revolutionary, leader of the Jugantar current, and organiser of a 1915 Indo-German arms plot who died of wounds after a September 1915 confrontation at Balasore, Odisha.
Baghandi Saghir
Baghandi Saghir (أبو بكر الباغندي الصغير), or Abu Bakr al-Baghandi, was a hadith hafiz of Baghdad, praised as the hafiz of Iraq but accused of tadlis, who died in 925.
Baghdad Battery
Baghdad Battery, or Parthian Battery: Sasanian/Parthian-era clay jars with copper cylinders and iron rods from Khujut Rabu, Iraq, found 1936; König's 1938 galvanic-cell hypothesis is rejected by most archaeologists, who read them as scroll or ritual vessels.
Baghdad Khatun
Baghdad Khatun (بغداد خاتون) was a Chupanid princess, daughter of Amir Chupan, who became the principal wife of the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id and effectively headed the Ilkhanid court until her execution in 1335.
Baghdad Pact (حلف بغداد)
The Baghdad Pact (حلف بغداد) was a 1955 collective defense treaty signed by Turkey and Iraq, joined by the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Iran, and renamed CENTO in 1959.
Baghel Singh
Baghel Singh (ਬਘੇਲ ਸਿੰਘ), 1730–1802, was a Sikh military commander and leader of the Karorsinghia misl who captured Delhi in 1783 and built seven gurdwaras there.
Bagirmi
Bagirmi, also spelled Baguirmi, was a Muslim sultanate founded in the early sixteenth century southeast of Lake Chad, with its capital at Massenya in present-day Chad.
Bago Myoma Sayadaw
Bago Myoma Sayadaw, known in official records as Bhaddanta Indacara, was a Burmese Theravada monk who served as first Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee from 1980.
Bagoas
Bagoas was a Persian eunuch and chiliarch, the Achaemenid Empire's chief minister, who controlled the court until his death in 336 BC. Greek sources credit him with poisoning two kings.
Bagohi
Bagohi (also Bagavahya, or Bagoas) was the Persian governor of Yehud under Darius II, known from the Elephantine papyri, active around 410 to 407 BCE.
Bagong Pilipinas (campaign)
Bagong Pilipinas ("New Philippines") is the Marcos Jr. administration's official brand of governance and leadership in the Philippines, adopted by memorandum circular in July 2023 and launched publicly on January 28, 2024, covering agency branding, service fairs, digital government apps, and LGU funding programs.