Biri
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Biri, Norway
    Biri, Norway
    Biri is a village in the municipality of GjøvikOppland county, Norway. It was formerly classified as a municipality.The parish of Biri was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . On 1 January 1910, the district Snertingdal was divided from Biri to form a municipality of its own,...

    , a village and former municipality in Norway
  • Biri, Hungary, a village in Hungary
  • Biri, Northern Samar
    Biri, Northern Samar
    Biri is a 5th class municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 8,700 people in 1,661 households...

    , a municipality in the Philippines
  • Biri, India, a village in Jaunpur, India
  • Block Island
    Block Island
    Block Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island, east of Montauk Point on Long Island, and is separated from the Rhode Island mainland by Block Island Sound. The United States Census Bureau defines Block...

    , an island town in Rhode Island, (abbrev. BIRI)

People

  • Kings of the Sayfawa dynasty of the Kanem-Bornu Empire:
    • Bir I of Kanem
      Bir I of Kanem
      Sultan Biri Ibn Dunama was the son of Mai Dunama I, and Fasam from the Kayi ethnic group. Sultan Biri reigned as the king of Kanem, in the early stages of the Kanem EmpireHe was once constricted by his mother for executing a thief....

       (1150–1176)
    • Bir II of Kanem
      Bir II of Kanem
      Kashim Biri was the mai or King of Kanem during the middle of the thirteenth century. During his reign the Maliki school of Law was firmly established and he constructed a Madrashah in the kingdom....

       (1242–1262)
  • Biri Biri
    Biri Biri
    Alhaji Momodo Nije , more commonly known as Biri Biri is a Gambian former football player who used to play for Sevilla FC. He was the first Gambian footballer to play professionally abroad, and was the first African player to play professionally in Denmark...

    , or Alhaji Momodo Nije, a football player

Other

  • Biri, a jellyfish-like enemy from The Legend of Zelda series
  • "Batallon de Infanteria de Reaccion Inmediata" (BIRI), or Immediate Reaction Infantry Battalions, created in the eighties by the government of El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War to fight the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Dissolved after the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992.
  • Another name for Beedi
    Beedi
    A beedi is a thin, South Asian cigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu leaf tied with a string at one end.The word comes from beeda, Marwari for a leaf wrapped in betel nuts, herbs, and condiments....

    , a South Asian leaf-wrapped cigarette
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