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Bâloise Group
Bâloise Group was a Basel-headquartered European insurance group selling life, non-life, and investment-type products in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg until merging with Helvetia in 2025 to form Helvetia Baloise.
Balopwe
Balopwe is the term for sacred kingship among the Luba people of Central Africa, the plural of mulopwe, the title of the Luba sacred king.
Balor
Balor (Balor Birugderc, "Balor of the piercing eye") is the Fomorian king of Irish mythology whose poisoned destroying eye levels armies; he is killed by his prophesied grandson Lugh at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, the central tale of Cath Maige Tuired.
Balram Bharwani
Balram Bharwani is an Indian stock-market investor whose disclosed holdings in about ten listed small-cap Indian companies, tracked as Balram Bharwani & Associates, total roughly Rs 230 million (Rs 23 crore).
Balram Naik
Balram Naik is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Mahabubabad in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier serving from 2009 to 2014.
Balrog
Balrog (Quenya Valaraukar): fiery demon of shadow and flame in Tolkien's Middle-earth, a corrupted Maia serving Morgoth; famous as Durin's Bane, slain by Gandalf in Moria.
Balša I
Balša I (Балша I) was a 14th-century nobleman in Zeta, in present-day Montenegro, who seized power after Emperor Dušan's death in 1355 and founded the Balšić dynasty.
Balša II
Balša II Balšić was a Balkan nobleman who ruled Zeta, roughly modern Montenegro, from 1378 to 1385, gaining southern Albania by marriage before dying in battle.
Balta Group (LSF9 Balta Issuer S.à r.l.)
Balta Group, now Belysse Group, is a Belgian textile flooring manufacturer founded in 1964 that sold its rugs and Balta brand to Victoria PLC in 2022.
Baltacı Mehmed Pasha
Baltacı Mehmed Pasha (بلطجي محمد پاشا) was an Ottoman statesman who served twice as grand vizier under Sultan Ahmed III, from 1704 to 1706 and 1710 to 1711.
Baltasar Garzón
Baltasar Garzón, Spanish ex-magistrate of the Audiencia Nacional known as the 'superjuez'; ordered Pinochet's 1998 London arrest under universal jurisdiction; convicted and disqualified in the 2012 Gürtel wiretap case, later ruled arbitrary by the UN Human Rights Committee; now a lawyer and FIBGAR president.
Balthasar Bekker
Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698) was a Dutch Reformed minister and Cartesian philosopher whose 1691 book The World Bewitched denied witchcraft and cost him his Amsterdam pulpit.
Balthasar Seña
Balthasar Seña was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and philologist, born in Barcelona about 1590, who worked among the Guaraní and Itatín peoples of Paraguay and died at Guarambare in 1614.
Balthazar (magus)
Balthazar, also spelled Balthasar, is one of the three Magi of Western Christian tradition, traditionally the king of Arabia or Ethiopia who brought myrrh to the infant Jesus.
Balti language
Balti (སྦལ་འཐུས་, بلتی), ISO 639-3 bft, is a Western Archaic Tibetic language of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and Ladakh, retaining Old Tibetan consonant clusters without tone, written in Tibetan Yige and Nastaliq scripts, with four dialects.
Baltic Assembly
The Baltic Assembly (BA) is an inter-parliamentary cooperation organization of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established in Tallinn in 1991 with its Secretariat in Riga.
Baltic Defence College
The Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL) is a NATO-accredited professional military education institution in Tartu, Estonia, founded in 1999 by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to train officers, non-commissioned officers, and civil servants.
Baltic Defence Line
Baltic Defence Line (BDL): joint Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania fortification and anti-mobility program agreed January 2024 along their ~1,500 km borders with Russia and Belarus, linked to Poland's East Shield, layered up to 50 km deep.
Baltic Entente
The Baltic Entente was a political and diplomatic union of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, established by the Treaty of Understanding and Cooperation, signed in Geneva in 1934 and annulled under Soviet occupation in 1940.
Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот)
Baltic Fleet (Балтийский флот), Russia's Baltic Sea naval formation founded 1702 under Peter I, headquartered in Kaliningrad with main base Baltiysk and Kronstadt; smallest but most modern Russian fleet, constrained by NATO enlargement since 2023–2024.
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten, Balten) were the ethnically German ruling class of present-day Estonia and Latvia for nearly 700 years from the 13th century, losing their status in 1918 and leaving in the 1939 resettlement.
Baltic German resettlement
The Baltic German resettlement was the organized 1939 and 1941 transfer of Estonia's and Latvia's ethnic German minority to the German Reich under German-Soviet treaties.
Baltic Germans
Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten) were the German-speaking elite minority of Estonia and Latvia from the 12th century to 1939, ruling as nobles, merchants, and academics before 1918 and resettling under the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
Baltic Landeswehr
The Baltic Landeswehr was a mostly Baltic German volunteer force formed in Riga in November 1918 to fight the Bolsheviks, defeated at Cēsis in 1919.
Baltic languages
Baltic languages: an Indo-European branch with the living East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and extinct West Baltic Old Prussian, closely related to Slavic as Balto-Slavic, conservative in phonology and morphology.
Baltic Way
The Baltic Way (Balti kett, Baltijas ceļš, Baltijos kelias) was a peaceful human chain of about two million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians on August 23, 1989, linking Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to demand restored independence from the Soviet Union.
Baltimore accent
Baltimore accent, or Baltimore English (Balmerese), the regional speech of Baltimore, Maryland: Mid-Atlantic variety near Philadelphia with fronted GOOSE/GOAT vowels, distinct Black and white working-class (Hon) varieties, and roots in West Country, Scottish, Irish, German, and Southern settlement.
Baltimore City College
Baltimore City College, also known as the City College of Baltimore, is a public college-preparatory magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1839 and the third oldest public high school in the United States.
Baltimore Police Department
Baltimore Police Department (BPD), municipal police agency of Baltimore, Maryland, with over 2,000 sworn members, under a 2017 federal consent decree mandating reforms after a 2016 DOJ civil rights findings report.
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), founded 1883 as the Baltimore Manual Training School, is a competitive citywide STEM magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, integrated in 1952, coeducational since 1974, ranked No. 6 in Maryland by U.S. News in 2026.