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Bitola
- - The second largest city of the Republic of Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), population 84,002 (2000). It is also known as city of consuls. The city of Bitola is situated in Pelagonian flat, at the foot of Baba mountain. It was established by Slavs and it was given the slavic name Obitel - Bitola. It is assumed that the city got this name because of the many monasteries being built there. Later, during the rule of Turks, the Turks called it Monastir and it was a significant administrative and military center with 12 consulates. It managed to preserve the primacy of a leading city, especially in the XIX century when it rapidly grew to about 40.000 inhabitants. Bitola developed trading relations with Vienna, Paris, Leipzig, London and Thessalonika to the south. In that time Bitola exceeded Skopje, both in wealth and beauty. During World War II it was destroyed by heavy bombing. Bitola started to grow and develop economically only after liberation in 1945. See a
Blatta
- noun - type genus of the Blattidae: cockroaches infesting buildings worldwide
Bletia
- noun - any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudobulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers
BOCCIA
- unknown - A BALL GAME, SIMILAR TO BOCCE, AND RESEMBLING BOULES OR PETANQUE.
Bodega
- noun - a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries
Bogota
- noun - capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain
Bohria
- noun - a transuranic element
Borgia
- noun - Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507)
- Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519)
- Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy (1378-1458)
- Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503)
Bosnia
- noun - a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims
- the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina