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Basil III
Basil III (Βασίλειος Γ´), born Vasileios Georgiadis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1925 until his death in 1929, leading the Patriarchate after the Greco-Turkish population exchange.
Basil L. Plumley
Basil L. Plumley (1920–2012), US Army command sergeant major of three wars, sergeant major of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at Ia Drang, portrayed by Sam Elliott in We Were Soldiers.
Basil O'Connor
Basil O'Connor (1892–1972) was an American lawyer and philanthropist, Franklin D. Roosevelt's law partner and longtime president of the March of Dimes, which funded the Salk polio vaccine.
Basil of Caesarea
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was a bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (c. 330–379) who shaped Eastern monasticism and Trinitarian theology.
Basil of Seleucia
Basil of Seleucia (Greek: Βασίλειος) was a fifth-century bishop and metropolitan of Seleucia in Isauria and a prolific homilist, known for reversing his christological votes between 448 and 451.
Basileus (βασιλεύς)
Basileus (βασιλεύς, Mycenaean qa-si-re-u): the Greek word for king, from a subordinate chieftain under the wanax to Homer's many basilē̂es, the Athenian archon basileus, and the official title of Heraclius and Byzantine emperors.
Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit
The Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit, also known as Ste. Anne de Detroit, is a Catholic minor basilica in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 1701.
Basilika
The Basilika (Τὰ Βασιλικά) is a Greek-language codification of Roman law in sixty books, promulgated by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise on Christmas Day 888.
Basilikos grammateus
The basilikos grammateus (βασιλικὸς γραμματεύς), the royal scribe, was the highest-ranking Egyptian official in each nome of Ptolemaic Egypt, handling records, land surveys, and fiscal transactions from 263 BC into the Roman period.
Basilios
Basilios, born Gebre Giyorgis in 1891, was an Ethiopian monk of Debre Libanos who became the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's first Ethiopian-born archbishop in 1951 and first patriarch in 1959.
Basilisk
Basilisk (Greek basiliskos, Latin regulus), legendary king of serpents from Pliny's Natural History, a small Cyrenaican snake killing by gaze and breath; later fused with the cockatrice, a rooster-serpent hybrid hatched from a cock's egg.
Basiret
Basiret (Basîret; بصيرت) was an Ottoman Turkish newspaper published in Istanbul by Basiretçi Ali Efendi from 1870 to 1878, and briefly after 1908, becoming one of the late Ottoman press's most widely read publications.
Basis point
A basis point (bp), or per ten thousand, is a finance unit equal to 0.01% of a percentage point, used to quote bond yields, spreads, and fund fees.
Basis swap
A basis swap is an interest rate swap in which both legs float, exchanging payments on two different reference rates with one quoted as a spread over the other.
Baskak system
The baskak system was the Golden Horde's rule over the Russian principalities from the mid-13th century through resident officials, the baskaks, who collected tribute, took censuses, and commanded military detachments until the 14th century.
Baskakeren
Baskakeren was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, assigned a reign of 405 to 404 BC and burial in pyramid Nu. 17 at Nuri, Sudan.
Basket of deplorables
Basket of deplorables is Hillary Clinton's September 9, 2016 fundraiser phrase describing half of Trump supporters; retracted, made into a Trump ad, and adopted by supporters as a badge.
Basler Kantonalbank
Basler Kantonalbank (BKB, Banque Cantonale de Bâle) is the cantonal bank of Basel-Stadt, founded in 1899, majority owned by the canton and among Switzerland's ten largest banks.
Basmachi movement
The Basmachi movement (Басмачество) was an armed anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia, strongest in the Fergana Valley in 1918–1920 and led at its height by Enver Pasha.
Basmala (بسملة)
The Basmala (بسملة), also Bismillahir rahmanir rahim, is the Arabic invocation "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate", opening all but one surah of the Quran.
Basmyls
The Basmyls, also spelled Basmils and known in Chinese as Baximi (拔悉密), were a Turkic-speaking nomadic tribal confederation of the early medieval eastern steppe and Dzungaria.
Basotho migrant labour
Basotho migrant labour is the system by which men from Lesotho have worked as contract laborers, above all in South Africa's Witwatersrand gold mines, since the late 19th century.
Basqaq system
The Basqaq system (баскаки) was the Mongol khans' network of officials, called baskaks, stationed in the Russian principalities from the mid-13th century to collect tribute and keep the princes obedient.
Basque conflict
The Basque conflict was the armed struggle between Spain and ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), formed in 1959 under Franco, which killed about 840 people before its 2011 ceasefire, 2017 disarmament, and 2018 dissolution.
Basque dialects
Basque dialects (euskalkiak): regional varieties of Basque across the Basque Country, Navarre and the French Basque Country; five current dialects per Zuazo, eight in Bonaparte's 1869 map, plus Standard Basque (batua).
Basque language
Basque (euskara) is the only living language isolate of Europe, spoken by about 806,000 people in the western Pyrenees; ergative, agglutinating, SOV, vigesimal; its only established relative is ancient Aquitanian.
Basque Nationalist Party
Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea – Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV), the Basque Nationalist Party, founded 31 July 1895 by Sabino de Arana y Goiri; moderate Christian democratic Basque nationalist party, dominant in Basque elections and governing via lehendakaris and coalitions.
Basque peace process
The Basque peace process is the sequence of truces, civil-society initiatives, and international facilitation that ended ETA's armed campaign without a negotiated settlement, ending in its 2018 dissolution.
Basque–Icelandic pidgin
Basque–Icelandic pidgin: an extinct 17th-century trade pidgin between Basque whalers and Icelandic traders, also called Icelandic-Basque pidgin. Known only from glossaries totaling about 900 entries published by Nicolaas Deen in 1937; mostly Basque lexicon with Romance, English, and other words, classified extinct.
Basques
Basques: people of Euskal Herria across Spain and France, defined by Euskara, a language isolate. Seven territories, Iron Age genetic continuity, fueros, autonomy since 1979, large Latin American diaspora.