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Baté Empire
The Baté Empire, or Batyé, meaning "between the rivers," was a Muslim Mandinka confederation of trading villages centered on Kankan, in Upper Guinea, founded in the late seventeenth century.
Bateren tsuihorei
Bateren tsuihorei (伴天連追放令) is the five-article edict issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at Hakata in 1587, after his pacification of Kyushu, expelling Christian missionaries while permitting Portuguese trade.
Bates College
Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, founded in 1855 as the Maine State Seminary and renamed for Benjamin E. Bates in 1864; New England's first coeducational college, it is accredited by NECHE and led by president Garry W. Jenkins.
Batetela rebellions
The Batetela rebellions were mutinies among Tetela soldiers of the Congo Free State's Force Publique, sparked in 1895 by the execution of Gongo Lutete and last suppressed in 1901.
Bath School disaster
The Bath School disaster (May 18, 1927) was Andrew Kehoe's bombing of Bath Consolidated School, Michigan, killing 38 children and adults; still the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University (BSU) is a UK public university in Bath, Somerset, founded as the Bath School of Art in 1852 and granted university status in 2005. Known for art, design, education, and creative writing; main campus Newton Park; TEF Silver; Guardian 2027 rank 59th.
Bathe family (Irish judicial dynasty)
The Bathe (Bath) family, an Anglo-Norman Irish judicial dynasty of Drumcondra and Meath, supplied James Bathe (chief baron 1535) and John Bathe (solicitor general 1551, chief justice of common pleas 1554, exchequer chancellor 1577), allied by marriage to the Prestons and Dillons, and produced the Jesuit William Bathe and courtier Sir John Bathe (d. 1630).
Bathoen I
Bathoen I (1845–1910) was kgosi of the Ngwaketse in Bechuanaland, now Botswana, and one of three chiefs whose 1895 London mission saved the Protectorate from Cecil Rhodes.
Bathroom bill
Bathroom bills are US state laws requiring restroom use by sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity; about 21 states have them, from North Carolina's 2016 HB2 to Idaho's 2026 criminal ban, with active litigation and documented health effects.
Baths of Caracalla
The Baths of Caracalla (Thermae Antonianae), Rome's huge imperial thermae built 212-216 AD on the Piccolo Aventino by Emperor Caracalla: 1,600 bathers at a time, Aqua Antoniniana supply, libraries and palaestrae, in use until 537 AD.
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע)
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Bat Sheva) is a biblical figure in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, the wife of Uriah the Hittite who became King David's wife and the mother of King Solomon.
Bati del Wambara
Bati del Wambara was a sixteenth-century noblewoman of the Adal Sultanate who married and influenced the two leaders of the Muslim conquest of Ethiopia, Ahmad Gran and Nur ibn Mujahid.
Batista regime
The Batista regime was the government of Cuba under Fulgencio Batista from his 1952 coup until Fidel Castro's revolution drove him from the island on January 1, 1959.
Batista's flight from Cuba
Batista's flight from Cuba was the pre-dawn departure of President Fulgencio Batista from Havana on 1 January 1959, ending his dictatorship as Castro's rebels advanced.
Batla House encounter case
The Batla House encounter (Batla House encounter case), a 19 September 2008 Delhi Police Special Cell raid on Flat 108, L-18, Jamia Nagar after the 13 September Delhi bombings, killed Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and two Indian Mujahideen suspects, drew fake-encounter allegations, an NHRC clean chit, and murder convictions.
Batley and Spen (UK Parliament constituency)
Batley and Spen was a Labour-held borough constituency in Yorkshire, seat of Jo Cox and Tracy Brabin, abolished in 2024 and split between Spen Valley and Dewsbury and Batley.
Batllers
Batllers is a casino in Mbeya City, Tanzania, mapped in OpenStreetMap in the Sisimba/Maendeleo area near Mbeya Post Office and Equity Bank; it is not named on the Gaming Board of Tanzania's licensed casino register.
Batllism
Batllism (batllismo) is the reformist political current of Uruguay's Colorado Party initiated by José Batlle y Ordóñez, president from 1903 to 1907 and 1911 to 1915.
Batman (military)
Batman (military): a soldier assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant, also called an orderly; from French bât, pack-saddle, attested 1755; phased out after World War II; unrelated to the 1939 superhero.
Batnoam sarcophagus
The Batnoam sarcophagus, or Sarcophagus of Batno'am, is a white marble sarcophagus from Byblos bearing a Phoenician inscription for Batno'am, mother of King 'Ozba'al, from the early 4th century BCE.
Bato (website)
Bato (bato.to, xbato.com, Mangapark) was a user-uploaded scanlation manga piracy network in 50+ languages; CODA called it the world's largest, with 350 million May 2025 visits; it shut down January 2026 after a Chinese criminal investigation.
Bats language
Bats language, also known as Tsova-Tush, is a severely endangered Nakh language spoken in Zemo Alvani, eastern Georgia. It has no written form and is classified as moribund.
Battal Rukabi
Battal Rukabi, in full Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Batal al-Rukabi, was a Yemeni scholar who wrote a commentary on the rare vocabulary of al-Muhadhdhab.
Battalion
Battalion: a military unit of a headquarters plus several companies, typically infantry, 430 to 900 strong, commanded by a lieutenant colonel, and generally the smallest unit capable of independent operations.
Battalion tactical group (бatal'onnaya)
The battalion tactical group (батальонная тактическая группа, BTG) was a combined-arms formation of the Russian Army, its principal unit of action from the mid-2010s until 2022.
Battelle Developmental Inventory
The Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI) is a standardized assessment of developmental skills in children from birth through age 7, used for early intervention and special education eligibility.
Battenberg family
Battenberg family: morganatic branch of the House of Hesse founded by Prince Alexander of Hesse and Julia von Hauke in 1851; anglicized to Mountbatten in 1917; linked to British, Spanish, Bulgarian, and Swedish royalty.
Battered woman syndrome
Battered woman syndrome (BWS), or battered person syndrome, is a psychological pattern from persistent intimate partner violence, introduced by Lenore Walker in 1979; used in self-defense and duress defenses but absent from the DSM.
Battersea Shield
The Battersea Shield is an Iron Age bronze shield facing in La Tène Celtic style, dredged from the Thames at Battersea in 1857 and held by the British Museum.
Battery (crime)
Battery (crime): intentional harmful or offensive physical contact without consent, an intentional tort and general-intent crime; distinct from assault, merged into assault in 28 US states, six-month summary offense in England and Wales.