In the green, rain-washed mountains of Spain’s northern coast lives a people whose homeland was once a kingdom and whose story helped shape the whole peninsula. The Asturians, gathered between

Across the wooded savanna where the Nile and the Congo divide, in the borderlands of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, live the

Deep in the equatorial rainforest of southeastern Cameroon and its neighbours live the Baka, one of the forest hunter-gatherer peoples of the Congo Basin once known to outsiders as Pygmies.

In the high Zagros mountains of southwestern Iran live the Bakhtiari, one of the largest and most storied of the country`s tribal peoples, a branch of the Lurs. Nomadic herders

On the small tropical island of Bali, amid volcanoes and cascading rice terraces, live the Balinese, a Hindu people set apart in the worlds most populous Muslim nation. Heirs to

Along the great river Irrawaddy, in the heart of Myanmar, live the Bamar, the largest people of the country and the makers of its dominant language and culture. Devout Buddhists

In the green volcanic highlands of western Cameroon live the Bamileke, the largest people of the country and one of its most dynamic. Rather than a single kingdom they form

In the green highlands of western Cameroon, around the historic town of Foumban, lies the kingdom of the Bamum, one of the most remarkable states in African history. Where their

Spread across the length of the Indian subcontinent, from Rajasthan to the Deccan, live the Banjara, known in the south as the Lambadi or Lambani and to themselves as Gor.

The Banyankole, or Nkole, are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Uganda, the people of the historic kingdom of Ankole. Numbering well over two million, they occupy the rolling grasslands and