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Bagrat III of Georgia
Bagrat III of Georgia (ბაგრატ III; c. 960–1014) of the Bagrationi dynasty was the first king of a unified Georgia, becoming King of the Georgians in 1008.
Bagrat IV of Georgia
Bagrat IV (ბაგრატ IV) was a Bagrationi king who reigned over the united Georgian kingdom from 1027 to 1072, defending it against Byzantium and Seljuk invaders.
Bagrat V of Georgia
Bagrat V, called Bagrat the Great, was King of Georgia from 1360 until his death in 1393 or 1395, facing Timur's first invasions of the kingdom.
Bagrationi dynasty (ბაგრატიონი)
Bagrationi (ბაგრატიონი), Georgian branch of the Bagratid dynasty, ruled Georgia from 888 and a united kingdom from 1008 until the 1801 Russian annexation; Davidic-origin legend; Mukhraneli and Gruzinsky branches survive.
Bagratuni dynasty
The Bagratuni dynasty (Բագրատունի), also called the Bagratids, was an Armenian princely house that ruled a restored Armenian kingdom from 885 to 1045 and produced the royal line of Georgia.
Bagua (八卦)
Bagua (八卦, "eight trigrams") is the Chinese system of eight three-line yin-yang figures underlying the I Ching, feng shui, and BaZi, arranged in Earlier Heaven (Fuxi) and Later Heaven (King Wen) sequences.
Baguazo
The Baguazo was a violent 2009 confrontation between Peruvian police and indigenous protesters in the Amazonas region of northern Peru, leaving 33 dead and about 200 injured.
Bagyidaw
Bagyidaw (ဘကြီးတော်), also known as Sagaing Min, was the seventh king of Burma's Konbaung dynasty, reigning 1819 to 1837, and lost Burma's western empire in the First Anglo-Burmese War.
Bah Oury
Bah Oury (Amadou Oury Bah, born 1958, Pita) is Guinea's prime minister, appointed 27 February 2024 by transitional president Mamadi Doumbouya and reappointed January 2026; former UFDG co-founder, 2008 reconciliation minister, exiled 2011-2015.
Baha al-Dawla
Baha al-Dawla (بهاء الدولة), son of 'Adud al-Dawla, was a Buyid ruler of Iraq and Fars from 989 to 1012, succeeded by his son Sultan al-Dawla.
Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad
Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad (ابن شداد) was a Shafii jurist and historian of Mosul who served Saladin as army judge from 1188 and wrote an authoritative biography of him.
Baha al-Din Walad
Baha al-Din Walad (بهاءالدین ولد) was a Persian Sufi, preacher, and mufti of Balkh, best known as the father of the poet Rumi, dying in 1231.
Baha al-Din Zuhayr
Baha al-Din Zuhayr (بهاء الدين زهير) was an Arab poet of the Ayyubid period who served Sultan al-Salih Ayyub of Egypt as head of the chancery.
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (بهاء الدين العاملي), known in Iran as Shaykh Baha'i, was a Twelver Shi'i scholar, jurist, mathematician, and poet of Safavid Iran who died in 1621.
Baha' al-Din Naqshband
Baha' al-Din Naqshband (بهاءالدین نقشبند) was a Sufi master of Bukhara who lived from 1318 to 1389 and became the eponym of the Naqshbandi order.
Baha' al-Din Qaraqush
Baha' al-Din Qaraqush (بهاء الدين قراقوش) was a eunuch military commander who served Saladin, built the Citadel of Cairo, governed Acre, and died in 1201.
Baha'i community of Iran
The Baha'i community of Iran (بهائیان ایران) is the religious community that formed in Iran in the 1860s and 1870s around Baha'ullah, growing from the Babi movement after the Bab's execution in 1850.
Bahá'í views of marriage
In Bahá'í teaching, marriage is a spiritual bond requiring the couple's consent, that of all living natural parents, and a simple ceremony with no officiant.
Bahadur Nizam Shah
Bahadur Nizam Shah (बहादुर निज़ाम शाह) was a child sultan of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Ahmadnagar, reigned 1596 to 1600, and was succeeded after the Mughal capture of Ahmadnagar.
Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول)
Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول), born Muhammad Mu'azzam, also Shah Alam I, seventh Mughal emperor (r. 1707–1712). Eldest son of Aurangzeb, took the throne at 63 by defeating Azam Shah at Jajau; settled with Rajputs and Marathas, fought Banda Bahadur, died at Lahore 1712.
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat (بہادر شاہ) was sultan of Gujarat from 1526 to 1537, the last important ruler of the independent sultanate, who conquered Malwa in 1531.
Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر)
Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر), last Mughal emperor (r. 1837–1857), Urdu ghazal poet, tried for treason in 1858, exiled to Rangoon, died 1862; tomb rediscovered 1991 in Yangon.
Bahai
Bahai (巴海) was a Qing dynasty general who served the Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors as commander of the Ningguta frontier and organized the tribal resettlement known as the New Manchus.
Bahai community
The Bahai community (بهاییان) is the body of followers of Baha' Allah, a religion founded in 1863 in Ottoman Baghdad that grew in Iran out of the Babi movement.
Bahâî Mehmed Efendi
Bahâî Mehmed Efendi (died 1654) was an Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and composer who served twice as şeyhülislam, the chief mufti of the Ottoman state.
Bahamian dollar
The Bahamian dollar is the currency of The Bahamas, issued by the Central Bank of The Bahamas and fixed at one-to-one parity with the US dollar since 1973.
Bahamian majority rule
Bahamian majority rule was the transfer of power from a white mercantile minority to the Black majority, won in the general election of 10 January 1967.
Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons)
Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, is the Dungeons & Dragons dragon god of good, king of metallic dragons and eternal adversary of Tiamat. Introduced 1975 in Greyhawk, named in the 1977 Monster Manual; lawful good, domains Life and War, Mount Celestia.
Bahamut (بهموت)
Bahamut (بهموت), from Hebrew Behemoth, is the colossal fish of medieval Arabic cosmography bearing the earth, so vast the seas would be a mustard seed in its nostril.
Baharistan-i Ghaybi
The Baharistan-i Ghaybi (بحرستانِ غیبی) is a Persian chronicle of Mughal Bengal by the general Mirza Nathan, covering its wars and governance from 1608 to 1624.