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Burma
History; World history

Asian republic. A province of British India, then a Crown Colony from 1937, it was occupied by Japan in 1942 and recaptured by the Allies in 1944-45. Independent from 1948, it was ...

Bulgar khanate
History; World history

Khanate on the Danube, founded in about 679 by a group of Bulgars, a Turkic people from central Asia who converted to Orthodox Christianity in 864 and gradually became more ...

Buganda
History; World history

Former African kingdom, now in Uganda. It had a long tradition of centralized government. Threatened by the rise of Bunyoro, it was saved by the arrival of the British. A ...

Buddhism
History; World history

Religious philosophy that emerged in India in the 5th century BC, following the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. In its pure form Buddhism rejects belief in the gods, ...

Bubonic plague
History; World history

Life-threatening disease transmitted by fleas of the black rat, causing swelling of the lymph nodes (called buboes).

Bruttians
History; World history

An Italic people known from the 4th century BC in the mountains of modern Calabria, southern Italy. They ousted the Lucanians and became independent in about 356 BC. In the 4th ...

Brunei
History; World history

Independent sultanate in northeast Borneo. It was an important South China Sea state before the 15th century. The sultan ceded Labuan to Britain in 1847 and it became a British ...

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