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Białystok, city, capital of Podlaskie województwo (province), northeastern Poland. It is located in the undulating Podlasie Plain.
Thought to have been founded by Gediminas, grand duke of Lithuania, about 1320, it was first chronicled in 1426 and received town rights in 1749. During the 18th century it prosp... |
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Bight of Biafra, also called Bight of Bonny, bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Africa, extending east, then south, for 370 miles (600 km) from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Cape Lopez (Gabon). The innermost bay of the Gulf of Guinea, it is bounded by southeastern Nigeri... |
8c754a3ddc571a647155aac79b04b843 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bihar | Bihar | Bihar
Bihar, state of eastern India. It is bounded by Nepal to the north and by the Indian states of West Bengal to the northeast and Uttar Pradesh to the west. In November 2000 the new state of Jharkhand was created from Bihar’s southern provinces and now forms the state’s southern and southeastern borders. The capit... |
caec09156ef90a41bc53749806e1a2f7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bilbao | Bilbao | Bilbao
Bilbao, port city, capital of Vizcaya provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of the Basque Country, northern Spain. Bilbao lies along the mouth of the Nervión River, 7 miles (11 km) inland from the Bay of Biscay. It is the largest city in the Basque Country.
Bilbao originated as ... |
9225811eaa4f3a0042c3dc72f597f781 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Billings | Billings | Billings
Billings, city, seat (1883) of Yellowstone county, south-central Montana, U.S., on the Yellowstone River 3,119 feet (951 metres) above sea level. Billings lies at the base of the Rimrock Mountains in the Clark’s Fork Bottom at a point equidistant from Seattle, Washington, and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bannack Indi... |
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Biloxi, city, coseat (with nearby Gulfport) of Harrison county, southern Mississippi, U.S. The city lies on a narrow Gulf Coast peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico (south) and Back Bay of Biloxi (north).
In 1699 the explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville planted the French flag across Biloxi Bay at Old Biloxi (n... |
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Binghamton, city, seat (1806) of Broome county, south-central New York, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers, near the Pennsylvania border, 75 miles (121 km) south of Syracuse. With Johnson City and Endicott, it forms the Triple Cities. Settled in 1787 at the site of an Iroq... |
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Bisbee, city, seat (1929) of Cochise county, southeastern Arizona, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) north of the Mexican border. It is built on steep canyon slopes (east of the Mule Mountains) and was for many years a major copper-producing centre; area mines also produced large quantities of malachite, aurichalcite, and ... |
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Bismarck Sea, section of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, bounded to the southwest by the northeast coast of New Guinea and to the northwest through to the southeast by the Bismarck Archipelago, consisting of the Admiralty Islands (north), New Ireland (east), and New Britain (southeast). With a total surf... |
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Bithur, also spelled Bithoor, town, south-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is located about 12 miles (20 km) north-northwest of Kanpur, on the Ganges (Ganga) River.
Baji Rao II, peshwa (chief minister) of the Marathas, established his court at Bithur after the British deposed him in 1818. In 1857... |
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Bithynia, ancient district in northwestern Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea, thus occupying an important and precarious position between East and West. Late in the 2nd millennium bc, Bithynia was occupied by warlike tribes of Thracian origin who harried Greek settlers a... |
9b28778d0dabb09e21e1d22f1c7399b4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bitola | Bitola | Bitola
Bitola, Serbo-Croatian Bitolj, Turkish Monastir, southernmost city of North Macedonia. It lies on the Dragor River at an elevation of 2,019 feet (615 metres) at the western edge of the Bitola Plain, a few miles from the Greek frontier. Near the Greek-founded settlement Heraclea Lyncestis, later a Roman city, it... |
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Bizerte, also spelled Bizerta or Banzart, town in northern Tunisia. It lies along the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of a channel that links Lake Bizerte with the sea.
The town originated as a Phoenician outpost and was known through Carthaginian and Roman times as Hippo Diarrhytus or Hippo Zarytus. Captured... |
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“Bizonia,” the product of an economic merger between the U.S. and British occupation zones, was announced on May 29, 1947, and a new U.S. policy followed on July 11 that ended Germany’s punitive period and aimed at making its economy self-sufficient. When in March 1948…
The resulting unit, called Bizonia, opera... |
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Black Sea, Russian and Bulgarian Chernoye More, Ukrainian Chorne More, Turkish Karadenız, Romanian Marea Neagră, large inland sea situated at the southeastern extremity of Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Roman... |
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The climate of the landlocked Black Sea can be characterized generally as continental (i.e., subject to pronounced seasonal temperature variations), although climatic conditions in some parts of the basin are controlled to a great extent by the shoreline relief. A steppe climate, with cold winters and hot, dry ... |
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Black Warrior River, river in western Alabama, U.S. It is formed by the Locust and Mulberry forks about 20 miles (30 km) west of Birmingham and flows about 180 miles (290 km) southwest to join the Tombigbee River near Demopolis. The river is navigable, and with the Tombigbee it forms a link in the ... |
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Blackfriars Bridge (1860–69) replaced an earlier road bridge that dated to the 1760s. The first structure was paid for by fines and by tolls exacted from its passengers. During the Gordon Riots of 1780 the tollbooths were attacked and looted, and tolls ceased to be…
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Blackpool, town and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Lancashire, England, on the Irish Sea coast. It is one of the largest and most popular resorts in the country.
Blackpool’s growth has been fairly rapid since the late 18th century, when it was transformed from a small hamlet clustered a... |
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Bletchley Park, British government cryptological establishment in operation during World War II. Bletchley Park was where Alan Turing and other agents of the Ultra intelligence project decoded the enemy’s secret messages, most notably those that had been encrypted with the German Enigma and Tunny cipher... |
455bf777f2968aa35816afc944c5b3b1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bloomfield-Connecticut | Bloomfield | Bloomfield
Bloomfield, town (township), Hartford county, north-central Connecticut, U.S., just northwest of Hartford. The site, drained by Wash Brook and the Farmington River, was settled about 1660, and the parish of Wintonbury was organized in 1736 from parts of Windsor, Farmington, and Simsbury. In 1835 Wintonbury ... |
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Bloomington, city, seat (1830) of McLean county, central Illinois, U.S. It is adjacent to Normal (north), about halfway between Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri. The site was settled in 1822 and was known as Keg Grove and later as Blooming Grove for the area’s wildflowers. In 1831 the town was laid out and ... |
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Bloomington, city, seat (1818) of Monroe county, southern Indiana, U.S. It lies 48 miles (77 km) south-southwest of Indianapolis. Laid out in 1818, it is in the centre of the Indiana limestone belt, and extensive stone quarries and mills are nearby. Indiana University (1820), a major element in the city’s ... |
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Bloomington, city, Hennepin county, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It is a suburb of Minneapolis, located south of the city, and lies on the Minnesota River. Sioux Indians lived there when settlers first arrived. It was settled in 1843 by Peter and Louisa Quinn, who taught farming techniques to the local Nat... |
4f5986c21d7e673d150f3c63f288ea68 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bloomsburg | Bloomsburg | Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg, town, seat (1846) of Columbia county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Susquehanna River and Fishing Creek, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Wilkes-Barre.
Susquehannock (Susquehanna) peoples inhabited the area when settlers began arriving in the mid-18th century. The settlement was laid out ... |
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Bloomsbury, residential and academic area in the borough of Camden, London. Bloomsbury is the site of the main administrative buildings of the University of London (notably the imposing Senate House), as well as the British Museum and the British Medical Association. Also located there are the Royal Academy... |
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Bluefield, city, Mercer county, extreme southern tip of West Virginia, U.S., lying in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is adjacent to the town of Bluefield in Tazewell county, Virginia. Situated at the foot of East River Mountain, it is one of the highest cities (elevation 2,612 feet [796 metres]) in the United ... |
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Bnei Brak, also spelled Bene Beraq, city, northeastern suburb of Tel Aviv–Yafo, west-central Israel, in the southern Plain of Sharon. In Assyrian texts, Bnei Brak is listed as a city that fell to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in 701 bce. It is also mentioned in the Bible (Joshua 19) and was a well-known scho... |
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Boca Raton, city, Palm Beach county, southeastern Florida, U.S. It is located about 15 miles (25 km) north of Fort Lauderdale on the Atlantic Ocean. Although the Spanish occasionally used Boca Raton’s harbour, the first settlers arrived in the area about 1895, around the same time as the Florida East Coast ... |
85be4d7f427572e6cf0ed4ccfcfd533f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bogalusa | Bogalusa | Bogalusa
Bogalusa, city, Washington parish, southeastern Louisiana, U.S., at the northern terminus of the Pearl River Navigation Canal, 60 miles (97 km) north-northeast of New Orleans, near the Mississippi border. Founded in 1906 by the Great Southern Lumber Company and named for a local creek called Bogue Lusa (Choct... |
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Bogor, formerly Buitenzorg, kota (city), West Java (Jawa Barat) propinsi (or provinsi; province), Indonesia. It lies at an elevation of 870 feet (265 metres) above sea level in the foothills of Mounts Gede and Salak Satu, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Jakarta. The city, established by the Dutch in 1745, is fam... |
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Boise, capital and largest city of Idaho, U.S., and the seat (1864) of Ada county. It lies along the Boise River in the southwestern part of the state. Because mountains to the north protect it from Canadian blizzards, Boise has relatively mild winters, as well as hot, dry summers.
Boise was named by early 19th-... |
fb26a61488589ba0660b601b9b2596a2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boke | Boké | Boké
Boké, town and port located in western Guinea. It lies along the Nuñez River, near the Atlantic coast. The country’s most important bauxite-producing area lies north of Sangarédi, 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Boké, where an international consortium began to exploit bauxite in 1973.
Once a collecting point f... |
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Boksburg, town and diversified industrial and mining centre, Gauteng province, South Africa, 5 miles (8 km) east of Johannesburg. Established in 1887 as the administrative centre of the East Rand with the discovery of gold and coal in the area, it has become one of the most important gold-producing towns on t... |
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Bolān Pass, important natural gateway through the Central Brāhui Range in Balochistān province, Pakistan, connecting Sibi with Quetta by road and railway. For centuries it has been a route for traders, invaders, and nomadic tribes between India and higher Asia. It comprises a series of long, narrow valleys... |
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The Liberal victory was also closely associated with a basic shift in the Altiplano mining economy. As the world silver market began to decline in the 1880s and early ’90s, mining operations began shifting to tin, which is found in association with silver, because tin was suddenly in demand by al... |
8f2e93513f16f84f18932ab7a34309f0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bolivia/Languages-and-religion | Languages and religion | Languages and religion
Spanish and 36 indigenous languages are official in Bolivia per the 2009 constitution. Previously only Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua were official languages of the country. Many Indians, particularly in the cities, market towns, and new colonies, speak or understand Spanish.
The proportion of Roma... |
f9c500d65f1b3489bb288ea12609527e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bolzano-province-Italy | Bolzano | Bolzano
…comprising the province (provinces) of Bolzano-Bozen (north) and Trento (south). Historically, the region includes the area of the medieval ecclesiastical principalities of Trento (Trent) and Bressanone (Brixen), which were later contested between the counts of Tirol and Venice. Passing to Italy after World Wa... |
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Bonners Ferry, city, seat (1915) of Boundary county, northern Idaho, U.S. Located 27 miles (43 km) south of the Canadian border on the Kootenai River, the city developed around a trading post and ferry established in the early 1870s by pioneer Edwin Bonner. A Great Northern Railway line connected the cit... |
8e7b9a1e005245d455805d2a1df77525 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boone-Iowa | Boone | Boone
Boone, city, Boone county, central Iowa, U.S., just east of the Des Moines River, 15 miles (25 km) west of Ames. Founded in 1865, it was originally called Montana but was renamed (1871) to honour Captain Nathan Boone, son of frontiersman Daniel Boone. The railroad arrived in 1866 and contributed to the town’s gr... |
0ec7750498141a2659e6582fa095c65e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boone-North-Carolina | Boone | Boone
Boone, town, seat of Watauga county, northwestern North Carolina, U.S. It is situated atop the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 3,266 feet (995 metres) near the Tennessee border. On the Daniel Boone Trail at the fork of the Wilderness Road, the settlement was incorporated in 1871 and named for Boone, the ... |
4c851e21c172b6fb82e2af06630a38dc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boonesborough | Boonesborough | Boonesborough
Boonesborough, also spelled Boonesboro, resort village, Madison county, east-central Kentucky, U.S., on the Kentucky River, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Lexington. It is the site of Fort Boonesborough, built about 1775 by frontiersman Daniel Boone and a company of North Carolina men under pioneer Colone... |
919cc113787e304bcbf35e37166f9acf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boonville-Missouri | Boonville | Boonville
Boonville, city, seat (1818) of Cooper county, central Missouri, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River, 27 miles (43 km) west of Columbia. Settled in 1810 (by Kentuckians, among others) and named for Daniel Boone, Boonville was enlarged as a fort during the War of 1812 and became an important trading post on... |
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Boothbay Harbor, town, Lincoln county, southern Maine, U.S. It lies on a peninsula of the Atlantic coast between the Sheepscot and Damariscotta rivers, 59 miles (95 km) east-northeast of Portland. The town includes the communities of Boothbay Harbor, Bayville, and West Boothbay Harbor. Originally part ... |
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Bordighera, town, Liguria regione, northwestern Italy. It lies along the Riviera di Ponente coast between Ventimiglia and San Remo. The Institute of Ligurian Studies, formerly the Bicknell Museum, displays a unique collection of the flora of the Riviera. A leading winter resort, Bordighera exports flowers, ... |
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Børge Mountains National Park, Norwegian Børgefjell Nasjonalpark, national park occupying an area of 420 square miles (1,087 square km) in northern Norway.
Designated a national park in 1970, the site consists mostly of granitic mountains with an alpine terrain of cirques and steep-walled... |
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Borinage, coal-mining and industrial region of southwestern Belgium, Hainaut province, southwest of Mons. Borinage’s development was based on coal extracted from the area since the Middle Ages. The mines are no longer operative; the principal industries are metallurgy (in the town of Jemappes) and glassmakin... |
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…high-rise buildings, topped by the Borj-e Mīlād (Milad Tower); completed in the early 21st century, the tower rises 1,427 feet (435 metres) above the city. The Āzādī Tower, completed in 1971, greets visitors at the western entrance to the city. For those looking to enjoy Tehrān’s natural beauty, the pedes... |
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Zhoucun, Zichuan, and Boshan. Each is now a district of the municipality. Zhangdian, in the north-central part of the municipality, is its administrative seat. Linzi constitutes the eastern district and Zhoucun the western. Stretching to the south are Zichuan and Boshan; the name Zibo was coined by combining…
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, country situated in the western Balkan Peninsula of Europe. The larger region of Bosnia occupies the northern and central parts of the country, and Herzegovina occupies the south and southwest. These historical regions do not correspond with the two autonomous political e... |
d43283cb8331ea2661c017944b71791d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/People | People | People
Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to members of numerous ethnic groups. The three largest are the Bosniaks, the Serbs, and the Croats. Continuing efforts by the international community to promote the return of persons forcibly displaced during the Bosnian conflict (1992–95) to their original homes, as well as domes... |
abee6135317164e7bb4539f8c725c7df | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boston/Cultural-life | Cultural life | Cultural life
Boston has a rich and varied cultural life, and the love of music attracts many Bostonians throughout the year. The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), founded in 1881, is one of the foremost orchestras in the world. The BSO performs at Symphony Hall during the winter months and at the Tanglewood Music Festi... |
cfa49df043628539bae1c42dbb890319 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Boston/Economy | Economy | Economy
During the 19th century, industrial textile mills and shipbuilding concerns augmented the shipping and commerce that had dominated Boston’s colonial economy. Investments in banking and railroads provided additional sources of wealth, while shipping lost importance during the mid-19th century. Railroad investmen... |
fae854e8ab1886f32e8ce96706ab5db5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bostra | Bostra | Bostra
Bostra, also called Bozrah, Latin Bostra, Greek Bosorra, or Bosora, modern (Arabic) Buṣrā al-Shām, ruined Syrian city, 67 miles (108 km) south of Damascus. First a Nabataean city, it was conquered by the Roman emperor Trajan, made the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, and served as a key Roman fortress e... |
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, and Vaucluse. Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur is bounded by the régions of Occitanie to the west and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the north. Other boundaries include Italy to the east and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The région is nearly coextensive with the... |
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Boulder City, city, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S., overlooking Lake Mead, which is impounded by the Hoover Dam. Lying above the deep, narrow Black and Boulder canyons of the Colorado River on the Nevada-Arizona border, it was established in 1931 by the federal government as a residential communi... |
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Bound Brook, borough, Somerset county, north-central New Jersey, U.S., on the Raritan River, 31 miles (50 km) southwest of New York City. The area was settled in 1681 soon after it was deeded by the Delaware Indians to Philip Carteret (colonial governor) and other men. The Staats Homestead in South Bound B... |
c6c55c7528d0dd58a9e921b4fd270e61 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bountiful | Bountiful | Bountiful
Bountiful, city, Davis county, northern Utah, U.S., between the Wasatch Range and Great Salt Lake, just north of Salt Lake City. The second Mormon settlement (after Salt Lake City) in Utah, the city was originally called Sessions’ Settlement (for Perrigrine Sessions, a Mormon pioneer who arrived in 1847). It... |
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Bourges, city, capital of Cher département, Centre région, almost exactly in the centre of France. It lies on the Canal du Berry, at the confluence of the Yèvre and Auron rivers, in marshy country watered by the Cher, southeast of Orléans.
As ancient Avaricum, capital of the Bituriges, it was defended valiantl... |
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Bourne, town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies at the northeastern end of Buzzards Bay, at the base of the Cape Cod peninsula. It is composed of nine villages—Bourne Village, Buzzards Bay, Cataumet, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, Sagamore Beach, Gray Gables, and Bourne... |
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Bow River, river in southern Alberta, Canada, the main headstream of the South Saskatchewan River. It rises in the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Banff National Park at the foot of Mount Gordon and flows from glacial Bow Lake southeastward through the park in a lush montane ecoregion that runs past the communit... |
b0a7cacf783da00b3db64296040d4327 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bowie-Maryland | Bowie | Bowie
Bowie, city, Prince George’s county, central Maryland, U.S., an eastern suburb of Washington, D.C. The first significant settlement at the site was Belair, an estate built about 1745 for Governor Samuel Ogle. A small farming community called Huntington developed there. In the 1870s the site was chosen as a major... |
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Bradford-on-Avon, town (parish), administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southwestern England. It is situated on the River Avon (Lower, or Bristol, Avon), just northwest of Trowbridge.
Its limestone houses rise up the steep side of a valley, and the river is spanned by a medieval bridge compl... |
e883e0534a7240c602862146e7923978 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Braga-city-Portugal | Braga | Braga
Braga, city and concelha (municipality), northern Portugal. It lies at the head of the railway from Porto.
Probably founded in 296 bce by Carthaginians, Braga was called Bracara Augusta by the Romans. It served as capital of the Callaici Bracarii, a Celtic tribe, and was a meeting place for five strategic milita... |
6e1402887a758ab7933b31bacafaaa99 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Braila-county-Romania | Brăila | Brăila
Brăila, județ (county), southeastern Romania, occupying an area of 2,071 square mi (5,363 square km). Consisting mostly of lowlands, the county contains the Bărăgan Plain in the west. The Siret River, which flows southwestward; is the northern border of the county. The Danube and its tributary, the Dunărea Vech... |
84b66634e98c68c8c521e02165a34053 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Braila-Romania | Brăila | Brăila
Brăila, city, capital of Brăila județ (county), southeastern Romania. On the Danube River, 105 mi (170 km) from its mouth, it is the country’s second largest port. First mentioned by the name of Drinago in a Spanish geographical work of 1350, it was referred to as Brayla in 1368 in a transportation and trade li... |
bd32a4c7413095663edbeb1e8c947e95 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brakpan | Brakpan | Brakpan
Brakpan, town, Gauteng province, South Africa, east of Johannesburg. It is part of the mining and industrial complex of the East Rand area within the Witwatersrand. The area, first named in 1886, grew rapidly after the discovery of coal (in 1888) and gold (in 1905). Brakpan officially became a town in 1919, an... |
d5a2ea095243b6bcc1f6c273e8cf308c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brandenburg-historical-margravate-Germany | Brandenburg | Brandenburg
Brandenburg, margravate, or mark, then an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the nucleus of the dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded. After World War I it was a province of the Land (state) of Prussia in Germany. After World Wa... |
d415207ca05321111d20953e10350ac9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bratan-Mountain | Bratan Mountain | Bratan Mountain
…m) at the summit of Bratan (formerly Morozov), then dwindles eastward to the confluence of the Tundzha and Mochuritsa rivers. This section extends 85 miles (137 km) east-west.
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4f71a5a2f00ceef48dd3c7f49ae43157 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bratislava | Bratislava | Bratislava
Bratislava, German Pressburg, Hungarian Pozsony, city, capital of Slovakia. It lies in the extreme southwestern part of the country, along the Danube where that river has cut a gorge in the Little Carpathian Mountains near the meeting point of the frontiers of Slovakia, Austria, and Hungary. Vienna is 35 mi... |
4403c2383a83203b002ee943cb0d792d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Braunau | Braunau | Braunau
Braunau, also called Braunau Am Inn, town, northern Austria, on the Inn River, opposite the Bavarian town of Simbach and north of Salzburg. The name is derived from Brunnenau, meaning a “place with many springs.” Originally a possession of the dukes of Bavaria, it was chartered in 1260; it was strongly fortifi... |
64183589d754a85cccf8b01da21c650b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brazil | Brazil | Brazil
Brazil, officially Federative Republic of Brazil, Portuguese República Federativa do Brasil, country of South America that occupies half the continent’s landmass. It is the fifth largest country in the world, exceeded in size only by Russia, Canada, China, and the United States, though its area is greater than ... |
5da7f837b90e81bbad29e47cd2353f26 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brazil/Cultural-life | Cultural life | Cultural life
The cultures of the indigenous Indians, Africans, and Portuguese have together formed the modern Brazilian way of life. The Portuguese culture is by far the dominant of these influences; from it Brazilians acquired their language, their main religion, and most of their customs. The Indian population is no... |
5f4ce667286dedc5d45ad64ae7198d89 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brazilian-Highlands | Brazilian Highlands | Brazilian Highlands
Brazilian Highlands, Portuguese Planalto Central, eroded plateau region of central and southeastern Brazil. Comprising more than half of the country’s landmass, the highlands are located mainly in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Goiás, and Mato Grosso estados (states).
Rising to an average elevation of 3,... |
abc150b217586c07507d306f61636109 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brazosport | Brazosport | Brazosport
Brazosport, industrial complex, Brazoria county, southeastern Texas, U.S., comprising the cities of Freeport, Lake Jackson, Clute, Lake Barbara, Brazoria, Richwood, and other communities. Located at the mouth of the Brazos River on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, 50 miles (80 km) south of Houston, Brazospor... |
373d3cbb22d86d1ba90eddaad9ac5dc2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bremen-state-Germany | Bremen | Bremen
…comprises the German cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. Bremen, the capital, is situated on the Weser River some 43 miles (70 km) from the North Sea. It is one of the largest ports of Germany and also one of the major industrial cities of northern Europe. Together with the port…
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6453d72b428c604d4de0728b8636dfe2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brikama | Brikama | Brikama
Brikama, town, western Gambia, on the road from Banjul (formerly Bathurst) to Mansa Konko. An agricultural trade centre (peanuts [groundnuts], palm oil, and kernels) among the Muslim Malinke (Mandingo) and Dyola (Diola or Jola) peoples, it is also the focus for the country’s incipient forest industry (teak and... |
712c927ecd5395d8c550f01f68b34da2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brody-city-Ukraine | Brody | Brody
Brody, city, western Ukraine, near the Styr River, east of Lviv. The settlement has existed since at least the 12th century; in the 17th century it became the site of a heavily fortified castle. Its importance as a trade centre increased in the 19th century, as its location made it a transit point for goods pass... |
ea8cb082c45b5f6f63a1877e7eb30ba1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bronx-borough-New-York-City | Bronx | Bronx
Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Bronx county, formed in 1912. The Bronx is the northernmost of the city’s boroughs. It is separated from Manhattan (to the south and west) by the narrow Harlem River and is further bordered by Westchester county (nort... |
bc5eddb681acf4a74f7943c99a2e8e8a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bronx-Zoo | Bronx Zoo | Bronx Zoo
Bronx Zoo, in full Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park, formally (until 1993) New York Zoological Park, zoo in New York City that is one of the finest in the world with over 5,000 animals of more than 700 species. When it opened in 1899 the wooded 265-acre (107-hectare) grounds, in the northwestern area ... |
c755a6d7e2cc2c2159284468f6dfed54 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brookline | Brookline | Brookline
Brookline, town (township), an exclave of Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies between Suffolk and Middlesex counties and is almost surrounded by Boston. Settled in 1638 as part of Boston, it was called Muddy River until incorporated as a town of Suffolk county in 1705. Named for a small brook... |
5e852fcf111d8669db266ad6bb293427 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brooklyn-borough-New-York-City | Brooklyn | Brooklyn
Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and is bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), the Atlantic Ocean (south), and the borough of Queens (north ... |
8b89aac41d0f06373c7be5215a5ffaed | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brooks | Brooks | Brooks
Brooks, city, southern Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway, 116 miles (187 km) southeast of Calgary and 67 miles (108 km) northwest of Medicine Hat. The community originated in the late 19th century as a Canadian Pacific Railway flag stop for cattle shipping and was named for Noel Edgell ... |
085cc54881290d27264c67f390955b49 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Broome-county-New-York | Broome | Broome
Broome, county, south-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly upland region bordered by Pennsylvania to the south. It is drained principally by the Susquehanna River (which crosses the southern part of the county twice) and by the Tioughnioga, Otselic, and Chenango rivers. Parklands are located at Chen... |
6f430494aca2fcda4f7c6b877922ae6a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brownsville-Texas | Brownsville | Brownsville
Brownsville, city, seat (1848) of Cameron county, extreme southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande opposite Matamoros, Mexico, 22 miles (35 km) from the river’s mouth. With Harlingen and San Benito it forms an industrial, agribusiness, and port complex.
On March 28, 1846, General Zachary Taylor pl... |
dbca8411197a902df528bcd1864949e2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bruce-Woodbury-Beltway | Bruce Woodbury Beltway | Bruce Woodbury Beltway
…centrepiece of which is the Bruce Woodbury Beltway, constructed as a joint venture with other municipalities in the metropolitan area. The basic road was completed in 2003, and work has continued on converting its entire 53 miles (85 km) into a limited-access highway. The city maintains an exten... |
e886c8948d11eacd467337cf29a9602b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brugge | Brugge | Brugge
Brugge, French Bruges, city, Flanders Region, northwestern Belgium, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Zeebrugge, its port on the North Sea. Originally a landing place on the Zwijn estuary, into which the Reie River flowed, it was mentioned in the 7th century as the Municipium Brugense (a name derived from a Roman... |
2dc1825357e5a913cc65c5782c911e93 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Brunei | Brunei | Brunei
Brunei, independent Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is bounded to the north by the South China Sea and on all other sides by the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, which also divides the state into two disconnected segments of unequal size. The western segment... |
76c4f6edd993257bf55223c10bbdebda | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bryce-Canyon-National-Park | Bryce Canyon National Park | Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park, area of spectacular rock formations in southern Utah, U.S., roughly 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Zion National Park. The park actually is a series of natural amphitheatres rather than a canyon, below which stands an array of white, pink, and orange limestone and ... |
45b52a667389f5293d93da14e61787b0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bucharest | Bucharest | Bucharest
Bucharest, Romanian București, city and municipality, the economic, administrative, and cultural centre of Romania. It lies in the middle of the Romanian plain, on the banks of the Dâmbovița, a small northern tributary of the Danube.
Although archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of settlements d... |
60a955d4961fd2d5354519631a9e89fc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Buckhannon | Buckhannon | Buckhannon
Buckhannon, city, seat (1851) of Upshur county, north-central West Virginia, U.S., on the Buckhannon River. Settled in 1770, it was named for a local Delaware Indian chief, Buck-on-ge-ha-non, or Buckongahelas. The town site was platted in 1815 by Colonel Edward Jackson, grandfather of Confederate general Th... |
7372a56b35a7897608ba8bb796605674 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Budapest | Budapest | Budapest
Budapest, city, capital of Hungary, and seat of Pest megye (county). The city is the political, administrative, industrial, and commercial centre of Hungary. The site has been continuously settled since prehistoric times and is now the home of about one-fifth of the country’s population. Area city, 203 square... |
e77bd9822a058bd716950619b081b388 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Buenos-Aires-province-Argentina | Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, provincia (province), eastern Argentina. It lies south of the Paraná River and southeast of the Río de la Plata (which forms the border with Uruguay) and extends westward from the Atlantic Ocean to include the major part of the humid Argentine Pampas, a vast grass-covered plain. The province... |
989fef5ddd067db2c3a0a8c67d945b7e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Builth-Wells | Builth Wells | Builth Wells
Builth Wells, Welsh Llanfair ym Muallt, market town, Powys county, historic county of Brecknockshire (Sir Frycheiniog), central Wales. It is located in the upper River Wye valley.
The Normans made the surrounding district of Buellt a marcher lordship (i.e., part of the political buffer zone between Wales ... |
22e5a06e9aeca4169715c502b22747bb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bukhara | Bukhara | Bukhara
Bukhara, Uzbek Bukhoro or Buxoro, also spelled Buchara or Bokhara, city, south-central Uzbekistan, located about 140 miles (225 km) west of Samarkand. The city lies on the Shakhrud Canal in the delta of the Zeravshan River, at the centre of Bukhara oasis. Founded not later than the 1st century ce (and possibly... |
0a633c73eccff8f8dd6bf46a9feaa81c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bukk-Mountains | Bükk Mountains | Bükk Mountains
Bükk Mountains, a southward-projecting spur of the Carpathian Mountains, in northeastern Hungary. It comprises a forested highland area extending some 30 miles (50 km) from the Tarna River on the west to the Sajó River in the east and 20 miles (32 km) from north to south. Maximum elevation is reached a... |
a4517dc2084eedfc0938222bfdc253c6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulandshahr | Bulandshahr | Bulandshahr
Bulandshahr, city, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Delhi, on the Kali River.
The city was formerly called Baran. Its present name, which means “Elevated Town,” refers to its location on high ground. The area passed from a Hindu raja to Maḥmūd of Ghaz... |
2d9c31cd271fa2a52a345325a86e1e73 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulawayo | Bulawayo | Bulawayo
Bulawayo, second largest city in Zimbabwe and the chief city of Matabeleland (i.e., the Ndebele-dominated western third of the country). The city lies along the Matsheumlope River in the southwestern part of the country, 4,405 feet (1,341 metres) above sea level in undulating savanna terrain. The original sit... |
be785f2f183018af4a4fa9a26321f3b4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulgaria/History | History | History
Evidence of human habitation in the area of Bulgaria dates from sometime within the Middle Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age; 100,000 to 40,000 bce). Agricultural communities, though, appeared in the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), and in the Bronze Age the lands were inhabited by Thracian tribes. The Thracia... |
e643358a2c4e269095e2e1af773fae26 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulgaria/Postwar-politics-and-government | Postwar politics and government | Postwar politics and government
Defeat and the hardships of war broke the hold of Bulgaria’s traditional parties on the government. In the first two postwar elections, the Agrarians, communists, and socialists together polled first 59 percent and then 65 percent of the ballots. These parties were not united, however, a... |
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