BCE

bce B.C.E. BĊE все всё English Alternative forms en B.C.E. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-BCE.wav Southern England Adverb - en chronology en Before the Common Era,Before the Current Era,Before the Christian Era. en Socrates was tried and executed in the year 399 BCE. en w:BioWare Mass Effect: Andromeda Science Fiction Redwood City Electronic Arts 2017 PC Angara: History Codex entry 1261299044 We now know that circa 1600 BCE, the angara were created and seeded across Heleus by the Jardaan. Records of this process are less substantial than ancient angaran history, but it was apparently in service of a grand experiment. en 2017 Mark Littmann; w:Fred Espenak Ancient Efforts to Understand Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024 https://archive.org/details/totalitygreatame0000litt_t6d7/ w:Oxford University Press 978-0-19-879569-8 2016947984 958481088 38 https://archive.org/details/totalitygreatame0000litt_t6d7/page/38/ The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE. en 2023-09-07 Alastair Gill The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy w:BBC Travel https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230906-the-ancient-civilisation-that-inspired-us-democracy The ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the forebears of the Lycians, the Trm̃mili, "sprang originally from Crete", though modern-day scholars believe they were an Anatolian people who became Hellenised after Alexander the Great seized the region from the Persians in 333 BCE. Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation. https://web.archive.org/web/20261007070926/https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230906-the-ancient-civilisation-that-inspired-us-democracy 7 October 2026 Usage notes Often written in small caps. Synonyms en BC Antonyms en CE Translations secularized form of BC BC Albanian: sq para erës sonë Bulgarian: bg пр.н.е. (преди новата ера=pred novata era) Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 公元前 gōngyuán qián Cornish: kw KOK Czech: cs př. n. l. před naším letopočtem Danish: da f.v.t. før vor tidsregning Dutch: nl onze jaartelling, nl gewone tijdrekening Finnish: fi eaa. French: fr av. n. è. (avant notre ère); fr AEC, fr AÈC, fr av. è. c. avant l'ère commune Georgian: ka ჩვ. წ.-მდე, ka ახ. წ.–მდე, ka ჩვენს წელთაღრიცხვამდე, ka ახალ წელთაღრიცხვამდე German: de v. u. Z. (vor unserer Zeitrechnung); de v. d. Z. (vor der Zeitrechnung/vor der Zeitenwende) Greek: el π.Κ.Ε. Hungarian: hu i. e. időszámításunk előtt Kazakh: kk б. з. д. (біздің заманымызға дейін) Korean: ko 기원전 (紀元前) Latin: la ante aer. vulg., la ante aer. comm. Lithuanian: lt pr. m. e. rieš mūsų erą Macedonian: mk п.н.е. (пред нашата ера=pred nášata éra) Odia: or ଖ୍ରୀ.ପୂ. Polish: pl p.n.e. przed naszą erą Romanian: ro î.e.n. (înainte de eră noastră) Russian: ru до н. э., ru до на́шей э́ры Slovak: sk pred n. l., sk p.n.l. (pred naším letopočtom) Slovene: sl pr. n. št. (pred našim štetjem) Spanish: es antes de la era común Swedish: sv f.v.t., sv fvt (före vår tideräkning) Ukrainian: uk до н. е. до нашої ери Vietnamese: vi TCN (trước Công Nguyên, 𠓀公元) Further reading Common Era Anagrams en bce CBE EBC ECB en Calendar French Pronunciation bé-cé-eu Proper noun f fr Banque centrale européenne ECB, European Central Bank Anagrams fr bec Irish Proper noun ga proper noun m ga Banc Ceannais Eorpach ECB, European Central Bank Italian Alternative forms it bce Proper noun f it Banca Centrale Europea ECB, European Central Bank Portuguese Etymology pt Banco Central Europeu. Pronunciation bê cê é Proper noun m ECB, European Central Bank pt European Union Spanish es: Proper noun m es Banco Central Europeo ECB, European Central Bank