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Banque Centrale Populaire
Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) is a Moroccan bank, listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange since 2004 and the listed central entity of the Crédit Populaire du Maroc group.
Banque du Liban
Banque du Liban (BDL) is the central bank of Lebanon, which financed the state and set the exchange rate until the banking system collapsed in 2019.
Banque Générale
Banque Générale was a private bank founded by John Law in 1716, the first central bank in France; it became the Banque Royale in 1718, whose paper money drove the Mississippi bubble that collapsed in 1720.
Banque Saudi Fransi
Banque Saudi Fransi is a Saudi joint-stock universal bank headquartered in Riyadh, founded by royal decree in 1977 from French bank branches, with corporate banking making up about 80% of its loan book.
Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II was the ten-day inaugural feast the Assyrian king held at his rebuilt capital Kalhu in 879 BCE, feeding 69,574 guests, as recorded on his Banquet Stele.
Banquet of Chestnuts
Banquet of Chestnuts (Ballo delle castagne): alleged orgy arranged by Cesare Borgia in the Apostolic Palace, Rome, 30-31 October 1501 with Pope Alexander VI; described mainly in Burchard's Liber Notarum and historically disputed.
Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II, also called Banquet Stela, is a sandstone stele from Nimrud recording a ten-day banquet for 69,574 guests around 879 BC.
Bans on circus animals
Bans on circus animals: legal prohibitions or restrictions on animals, especially wild animals, in circuses, adopted in 51 countries including nationwide bans in most of Europe and Latin America, with no US federal ban.
Bansha no goku
Bansha no goku (蛮社の獄) was the 1839 persecution in Edo of Western-studies scholars, including Watanabe Kazan and Takano Chōei, who criticized the shogunate's expulsion of foreign ships.
Banshee
Banshee (bean sí, "woman of the fairy mound") is the keening female death-messenger of Irish folklore, attached to old Gaelic families, studied by Patricia Lysaght (1986), with the Scottish bean nighe as counterpart.
Banshilal Gurjar
Banshilal Gurjar is an Indian BJP politician from Madhya Pradesh, elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2024 and appointed national president of the BJP Kisan Morcha in 2026.
Bansho Shirabesho
Bansho Shirabesho (蕃書調所), the Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books, was the shogunate's institute for Western learning in Edo, founded in 1856 and a forerunner of the University of Tokyo.
Banskhera and Madhainagar copper-plate inscriptions of Harsha
The Banskhera and Madhainagar (Madhuban) copper-plate inscriptions are two royal charters of Emperor Harshavardhana recording land grants to Brahmin beneficiaries, dated circa 628 and 631 CE and counted among the principal sources for his biography.
Bansuri Swaraj
Bansuri Swaraj, born 1984, is an Indian BJP politician and lawyer, daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, representing New Delhi in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Banswara State
Banswara State (बांसवाड़ा रियासत) was a princely state in southern Rajputana founded in 1527, ruled by a Sisodia Rajput line, and merged into Rajasthan in 1949.
Banten succession crisis and VOC intervention (1682)
The Banten succession crisis was a civil war in western Java from 1680, in which the VOC backed Sultan Haji against his father, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa.
Banting murders
The Banting murders, also called the Sosilawati Lawiya murders, killed four people at a Banting, Selangor farm on August 30, 2010; three men retain final Malaysian death sentences, one was acquitted.
Bantu Authorities Act, 1951
The Bantu Authorities Act, 1951, later the Black Authorities Act, was a South African apartheid statute making chiefs and headmen agents of the white government in the reserves.
Bantu Education Act, 1953
Bantu Education Act, 1953 (Act No. 47 of 1953, later Black Education Act): South African apartheid law transferring native education from provinces to the Department of Native Affairs, based on the Eiselen Commission, effective 1 January 1954, repealed 1980.
Bantu expansion
The Bantu expansion was the demic spread of Bantu languages and speakers from the Nigeria-Cameroon Grassfields homeland across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa roughly 5,000 to 1,500 years ago, carrying pottery, farming, and metallurgy, distinct from later Bantu-language dispersals.
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 was an apartheid-era South African law assigning black South Africans citizenship of ethnic homelands, later renamed the Black States Citizenship Act.
Bantu languages
Bantu languages: about 450 closely related Niger-Congo languages of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, descended from Proto-Bantu. Known for noun class systems with 15-18 classes, Guthrie's lettered zone classification, and the ~4000-year Bantu expansion from the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
Bantu peoples
Bantu peoples are African populations speaking over 500 Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo family, about 350 million people. They descend from an expansion from the Nigeria-Cameroon border region 6,000-4,000 years ago, supported by genetic demic-diffusion evidence.
Bantu World
Bantu World was a national weekly newspaper for Black South African readers, founded in Johannesburg in April 1932 by B. G. Paver and banned by the apartheid government in 1976.
Bantustan legislative elections
Bantustan legislative elections were the parliamentary elections held between 1963 and the early 1990s in the ten homelands apartheid South Africa created for its Black population.
Banu Abs
Banu Abs (بنو عبس) was an Arab tribe of northern Najd, one of the two main branches of the Ghatafan confederation, famous for the pre-Islamic war of Dahis and al-Ghabra.
Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a
Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a (بنو عامر بن صعصعة) was a large tribal confederation of nomadic herders in western central Arabia, first attested in a sixth-century inscription.
Banu Amir of Valencia
The Banu Amir of Valencia (بنو عامر) were an Arab dynasty of the Banu Abi Amir family that ruled the taifa kingdom of Valencia in eastern al-Andalus from 1021 to 1085.
Banu Ammar
Banu Ammar (بنو عمار) were an Arab dynasty of qadis who ruled the principality of Tripoli from 1070 until its fall to the Crusaders in 1109, making the city a center of Shia learning.
Banu Aws
Banu Aws (بنو أوس) was an Arab tribe of Yemeni origin that settled in Yathrib, later Medina, where it rivaled its brother tribe the Khazraj until both became the Ansar.