Society and history

Basel II

Basel II, the second Basel Accord, is a 2004 framework setting minimum bank capital requirements around three pillars: minimum capital, supervisory review, and market discipline.

Basel III

Basel III is a set of international bank regulation standards developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision after the 2007–09 financial crisis, covering capital, leverage, and liquidity.

Baselios Cleemis

Baselios Cleemis, born Isaac Thottunkal in 1959, is an Indian cardinal who has led the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church since 2007 and became its first cardinal in 2012.

Baselios Marthoma Mathews III

Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, also known as Mathews Mar Severios, is the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, enthroned in 2021.

Baselios Yeldo

Baselios Yeldo, also spelled Yeldho and known as Yeldo Mar Baselios, was a 17th-century West Syrian Maphrian who reached Malankara, India, in 1685 and is venerated as a saint.

Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina

Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina is an 1852 political essay by Juan Bautista Alberdi, written in exile in Chile.

Bashar al-Assad (بشار الأسد), president of Syria 2000–2024, succeeded his father Hafez after brother Bassel's 1994 death; ruled through a security-dominated Baath regime, survived civil war via Russian and Iranian intervention, and was ousted December 8, 2024, fleeing to Russia.

Bashir Jumblatt

Bashir Jumblatt (بشير جنبلاط), born around 1775, was a Druze sheikh of Mount Lebanon and head of the Jumblatt family at Mukhtara, executed in Acre in 1825 after revolting against Emir Bashir II.

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Bashir Sfar

Bashir Sfar (البشير صفر, 1865–1917) was a Tunisian reformist administrator, educator, and journalist who founded the Khalduniyya association, co-launched Le Tunisien, and served as governor of Sousse.

Bashir Shihab II

Bashir Shihab II (بشير شهاب الثاني) was the emir of Mount Lebanon from 1788 to 1840, first under Ottoman and later Egyptian suzerainty, dying in exile in Istanbul in 1850.

Bashir Zaib

Bashir Zaib (Bashir Zeb, بشیر زیب), Baloch militant from Nushki, Muhammad Hasni tribe; former BSO-Azad chairman who leads the Balochistan Liberation Army since 2018, behind the Majeed Brigade and the 2025 Jaffar Express hijacking.

Bashkir revolts (1705–1711, 1735–1740)

The Bashkir revolts (Башкирские восстания) were two Bashkir uprisings against Russian rule, caused by new taxes in 1704 and land seizure under the Orenburg Expedition.

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Bashkir uprising (1662–1664)

The Bashkir uprising of 1662–1664 (Bashkir: Башҡорт ихтилалы) was one of the first large Bashkir rebellions against Muscovite rule, driven by land seizures, Kalmyk encroachment, and fiscal oppression; it ended in 1664 with promised government concessions.

Bashkirs (башҡорттар)

The Bashkirs (башҡорттар) are a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people of the southern Urals and the middle Volga region, the titular population of Bashkortostan in Russia, with 1,571,879 counted in the 2021 census.

Bashorun Gaa

Bashorun Gaa, also written Gaha or Ga'a, was head of the Oyo Mesi council of the Oyo Empire, dominant from about 1750 until Alaafin Abiodun had him executed in 1774.

Bashshar ibn Burd

Bashshar ibn Burd (بشار بن برد) was a blind Persian-descent poet of Basra, called the last of the ancients and first of the moderns, who died in 784.

Bashtak

Bashtak (بشتك), full name Amir Sayf al-Din Bashtak al-Nasiri, was a Mamluk amir of Egypt who served Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and built a palace in Cairo.

Basic English

Basic English, also called Ogden's Basic, is a simplified English of 850 words and few grammar rules devised by C. K. Ogden with I. A. Richards around 1930 as an international auxiliary language and English-teaching system.

Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (GG), the constitution of Germany; drafted 1948-1949 by the 65-member Parliamentary Council, promulgated 23 May 1949, extended to all of Germany on 3 October 1990; includes the eternity clause of Article 79(3).

Basic National Policy Outline

The Basic National Policy Outline (基本国策要綱) was a Japanese cabinet policy statement of 26 July 1940 calling for a new order in Greater East Asia.

Basic needs

Basic needs are the minimum requirements for a decent human existence, such as food, shelter, and health care; the ILO made the basic needs approach a development strategy in 1976.

Basic structure doctrine

Basic structure doctrine: Indian judicial principle from Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala (24 April 1973, 7-6, 13 judges) barring Parliament from altering the Constitution's essential features via Article 368 amendments, developed through Indira Nehru Gandhi, Minerva Mills, Waman Rao, NJAC.