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Austro-Prussian War
History; World history

(the Seven Weeks War)(June-August 1866) War fought by Prussia and Italy against Austria and several smaller German states. Effective use of railroads and the electric telegraph by ...

Austro-Asiatic peoples
History; World history

Ancestral peoples of mainland southeast Asia, especially Cambodia and Vietnam. They were rice farmers who settled the region before 2000 BC.

Austrian Netherlands
History; World history

Area of northwest Europe, comprising modern Belgium and Luxembourg. Transferred from Spain to Austria under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Austrian rule was ended by the French ...

Baghdad Railroad
History; World history

Railroad from Constantinople to Baghdad, agreed by German financiers and the Ottoman empire in 1899, linking with the Orient Express. A small section of line was finished by 1914 ...

Bahadur Shah
History; World history

Mughal emperor (r.1707-12), second son and heir of Aurangzeb. He drove the rebellious Sikhs into the hills of the Punjab but did little to rejuvenate the empire.

Bahmani sultanate
History; World history

Muslim sultanate of the Deccan region of India, founded in 1347 by Hasan Gungu, governor of the Deccan, following his rebellion against Muhammad ibn Tughluk, sultan of Delhi. The ...

Ba'ath Party
History; World history

('Renaissance') A pan-Arabic socialist party founded in Syria. It held its first congress in 1947 and united with the Arab Socialist Party in 1953. It has been in power in Iraq ...

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