• Look up bab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bab or BAB can refer to: Bab (toponymy), a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "gate" Set (mythology)...
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    The Báb (born ʿAlí Muḥammad; /ˈæli moʊˈhæməd/; Persian: علی محمد; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was an Iranian religious leader who was the founder of...
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    other symbols. Bábism (Persian: بابیه, romanized: Babiyye), also known as the Bábi Faith, is a monotheistic religion founded in 1844 by the Báb (b. 'Ali Muhammad)...
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    The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Lamentation', Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, is a strait between...
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  • Babs or BABS may refer to: Nickname of Barbara Windsor (1937-2020), British actress Babs McMillan, Australian actress Babs Olusanmokun, American actor...
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  • Bab Tuma (Arabic: بَابُ تُومَا, romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is a neighborhood located in the Old city of Damascus in Syria. It is one...
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    Bab Mansur al-'Alj or Bab Mansour (also variously spelled as Bab Mansour al-'Ilj, Bab Mansour al-Eulj, Bab el-Mansour, Bab Mansur, etc.) is a monumental...
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    Bab al-Saghir (Arabic: باب الصغير, romanized: Bāb al-Ṣaghīr, lit. 'Small Gate') may refer to one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus, and street...
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  • "Bab." may be an abbreviation for: Charles Babington, an English botanist The Babylonian Talmud Bab (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Bab Zuweila or Bab Zuwayla (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of three remaining gates in the city walls of historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also known as Bawabat...
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    Bab edh-Dhra (Bâb edh-DhrâʿArabic: باب الذراع) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak with...
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    Bab El Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. As of 2008, the population of the commune...
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  • Bab Ezzouar (/bɑːb ɛzwɑːr/; Arabic: باب الزوار) is a suburb of the city of Algiers in northern Algeria. It is one of Algiers fastest growing municipalities...
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    Bab Oudaya (also spelled Bab Oudaia or Bab Udaya; Arabic: باب الوداية, romanized: gate of the Udayas), also known as Bab Lakbir or Bab al-Kabir (Arabic:...
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  • Bab Sebta (English: Door of Ceuta) is a Portuguese 2008 documentary film. Beginning with the 2005 violence at the Melilla and Ceuta border fences, Bab...
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    The Shrine of the Báb is a structure on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner...
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    Bab Doukkala (Arabic: باب دكالة, lit. 'gate of the Doukkala') is the main northwestern gate of the medina (historic walled city) of Marrakesh, Morocco...
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  • morning of July 9, 1850 in Tabriz, a 30-year-old Persian merchant known as the Báb was charged with apostasy and shot by order of the Prime Minister of the...
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    Sublime Porte (redirect from Bab-ı Ali)
    High Porte (Ottoman Turkish: باب عالی, romanized: Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali, from Arabic: باب, romanized: bāb, lit. 'gate' and عالي, alī, lit. 'high'), was a...
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    10°45′44″E / 34.734766°N 10.762225°E / 34.734766; 10.762225 Bab Diwan (Arabic: باب الديوان) or Bab Bhar (Door of the sea) (Arabic: باب بحر) is one of the gates...
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  • Bab Mareaa (Arabic: باب مارع), is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. In 1838, Eli Smith noted Bab Mari'a...
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    Al-Bab (Arabic: الْبَاب / ALA-LC: al-Bāb) is a city, de jure administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate of the Syrian Arab Republic. As of December...
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    countries and territories. The Baháʼí Faith has three central figures: the Báb (1819–1850), executed for heresy, who taught that a prophet similar to Jesus...
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    The Battle of al-Bab was a battle for the city of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate that included a military offensive launched by Syrian rebel groups...
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  • Bayán (redirect from Bayan (Báb))
    In Bábism, Bayán (Arabic: بیان), or exposition, denotes the whole body of the works of the Báb. It also refers more specifically to a set of two books...
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    Bab Ftouh (also spelled Bab Fetouh) is the main southeastern gate of Fes el-Bali, the old walled city of Fes, Morocco. The name Bab (al-)Ftouh means literally...
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    The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), illustrated with his own comic drawings. The poems take their name from Gilbert’s...
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    Bab Ksiba (Arabic: باب القصيبة, Bāb al-Quṣayyabah) is a gate in Marrakech, Morocco. Bab Ksiba and another more famous gate further north, Bab Agnaou,...
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    Bab al-Saghir Cemetery (Arabic: مقبرة الباب الصغير, romanized: Maqbarat al-Bāb al-Ṣaghīr) is an Islamic cemetery in Damascus, Syria. It is about 200 meters...
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    Bab Al Bahrain (Arabic: باب البحرين, translitered Bāb al-Baḥrayn meaning Gateway of Bahrain) is a historical building located in the Customs Square in...
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