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Baku oil boom
The Baku oil boom was the petroleum-led growth of Baku, Azerbaijan, in two periods: a first boom from the 1870s to around 1920 and a second from the late 1990s.
Baku Stock Exchange
The Baku Stock Exchange, a closed joint stock company and Azerbaijan's only licensed stock exchange, was incorporated in 1997 and began trading in 2000 with Central Bank support, dominated by repo and government securities.
Baku Zoo
Baku Zoo (Bakı Zooloji Parkı) is the zoological park of Baku, Azerbaijan, and the oldest in the country, established in 1942 and reopened in 2021 after reconstruction.
Bakufu direct rule of Ezo
Bakufu direct rule of Ezo (蝦夷地直轄) was the Tokugawa shogunate's direct administration of Ezochi, prompted by Russian pressure, from 1799 to 1821 and again from 1855.
Bakuhan taisei
Bakuhan taisei (幕藩体制) was the political order of Tokugawa Japan, in which the shogun's central government and about 250 daimyo domains together governed the country from 1603 to 1867.
Bakul Joshi
Bakul Joshi is a business executive in Fremont, California, president of Multiple Access CA. Corporation and a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley who ran its operations.
Bakumatsu (幕末)
Bakumatsu (幕末) is the final phase of Tokugawa rule, 1853–1868, from Perry's arrival through the unequal treaties, sonnō jōi turmoil, and military reform to the Meiji Restoration and Boshin War.
Bakunawa
Bakunawa is the moon-eating serpent or dragon of Visayan and Bicolano Philippine mythology, blamed for eclipses; also called laho in Tagalog. People banged pots and drums during eclipses to scare it into releasing the moon; the seven-moons tale comes from Fernando Buyser's 1913 story.
Bakwena
The Bakwena, known in academic writing as the Kwena, are a Tswana people of Botswana and South Africa named for their crocodile totem, first settled in Botswana around 1720.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (केशव गंगाधर तिलक)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, Lokmanya, 1856–1920) was an Indian nationalist leader, Kesari editor, and Swaraj advocate; led Congress Extremists in the Lal-Bal-Pal trio and endured three sedition trials.
Bal Shastri Jambhekar
Bal Shastri Jambhekar (बाळ शास्त्री जांभेकर) was a Marathi scholar and journalist of British-ruled Bombay, remembered as the father of Marathi journalism for founding Darpan, the first Marathi newspaper, in 1832.
Bal Thackeray (बाळ केशव ठाकरे)
Bal Keshav Thackeray (बाळ केशव ठाकरे), 1926 or 1927 to 17 November 2012, was an Indian cartoonist who founded the Shiv Sena in 1966, led it on Marathi and then Hindutva politics, and left a legacy contested after the 2022 party split.
Bal'arab ibn Sultan
Bal'arab ibn Sultan (بلعرب بن سلطان) was the third imam of the Ya'ariba dynasty of Oman, who ruled from 1680 and died in 1692 during a civil war with his brother Sayf.
Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed
Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed (born 1958) is a Nigerian politician serving as Governor of Bauchi State since 2019, previously a senator and Federal Capital Territory minister.
Bala taxation
The bala, Sumerian for 'rotation', was the Ur III tax system in which southern Mesopotamian provinces paid rotating monthly dues of grain, livestock, and labor.
Balaam (בִּלְעָם)
Balaam (בִּלְעָם, Bil'am) is a non-Israelite diviner, son of Beor from Pethor, hired by Balak of Moab to curse Israel in Numbers 22–24 and famous for his talking donkey.
Balaam Barugahara
Balaam Barugahara Ateenyi, Ugandan politician and Minister of Local Government in Museveni's 2026 cabinet, formerly State Minister for Youth; known for his nationwide 2026 anti-corruption inspection crackdown with Justine Nameere.
Balabhadra Majhi
Balabhadra Majhi, born 1961, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who represents Nabarangpur, Odisha in the Lok Sabha, after earlier serving from 2014 to 2019.
Balaiada
The Balaiada, also known as the Guerra dos Bem-te-vis, was a popular rebellion in Maranhão, Brazil, spreading into Piauí and parts of Ceará, from 1838 to 1841, at the end of the Regency period.
Balaji Avji Chitnis
Balaji Avji Chitnis (बाळाजी आवजी चिटणीस) was the chitnis, or state secretary, of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha state, and helped organize his 1674 coronation.
Balaji Baji Rao
Balaji Baji Rao, also called Nana Saheb, third Peshwa of the Marathas (1740–1761). Son of Baji Rao I, he moved the capital to Poona, extended Maratha power from the Indus to Kanyakumari, and died in 1761 after the Third Battle of Panipat.
Balaji Vishwanath
Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (1662–1720) was the first of the hereditary Peshwas of the Maratha Empire, serving as chief minister to Chhatrapati Shahu from 1713 to 1720.
Balak ibn Bahram
Balak ibn Bahram (بلك بن بهرام), also rendered Belek, was an Artuqid Turkmen chief based at Harput who captured Joscelin of Edessa in 1122 and Baldwin II of Jerusalem in 1123.
Balak Ram (बालक राम) (idol)
Balak Ram, also known as Ram Lalla, is the 51-inch black-stone idol of the child Rama consecrated at the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, India, in 2024.
Balakrishna Balasubramanian
Balakrishna Balasubramanian is an Indian software entrepreneur who co-founded Fieldproxy, a Chennai-based no-code SaaS platform for managing field teams, in 2020, and serves as its technical co-founder.
Balance of payments
The balance of payments, or BOP, is a statistical statement of all transactions between a country's residents and nonresidents, organized into current, capital, and financial accounts.
Balance of power (international relations)
Balance of power (international relations): realist theory that states act to prevent any state or coalition from dominating; includes balancing, bandwagoning, buck-passing, binding, hedging; associated with Morgenthau and Waltz, contrasted with power transition theory.
Balance of trade
The balance of trade, also known as the trade balance, net exports, or commercial balance, is the difference between a country's exports and imports of goods and services.
Balance Point Capital Partners
Balance Point Capital Partners is a Westport, Connecticut firm managing private credit and equity funds for US lower-middle-market companies, with about $2 billion in assets.
Balance sheet
A balance sheet, also called a statement of financial position, is a financial statement reporting a company's assets, liabilities, and owners' equity at a point in time.