Bund


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Bund, BUND, or the Bund may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Der Bund, a German-language newspaper published in Bern, Switzerland
  • Shanghai Bund (TV series), a 2007 Chinese television remake of the 1980 Hong Kong television series The Bund produced by TVB
  • The Bund (TV series), a 1980 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB
  • The Bund, a fictional refuge for vampires in the manga series Dance in the Vampire Bund
  • The Bund II, a 1980 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB
  • The Bund III, a 1980–1981 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB

Organizations

  • Bund: Gemeinschaft für ein sozialistisches Leben, a communitarian group of Germans resisting the Nazis, 1924–1968
  • Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland or Friends of the Earth Germany, one of Germany's largest environmental protection organisations
  • General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, a political party founded in the Russian Empire
  • General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, a political party founded in Poland
  • German American Bund, a pro-Nazi pre-World War II organization
  • International Jewish Labor Bund, New York-based international Jewish socialist organization
  • The Deutscher Bund (German Confederation), an association of 39 German-speaking states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries

People with the name

  • Károly Bund (1869–1931), Hungarian forestry engineer and early environmentalist
  • Lisa Bund (born 1988), German pop singer

Places

  • Old Bund, a waterfront area in Ningbo, China
  • The Bund, a waterfront area in Shanghai, China

Other uses

  • Bundesanleihe, German government-issued bonds, commonly referred to as "the Bund" or "Bunds"
  • Bunding, a structure designed to prevent inundation or breaches in construction
  • Bundism, a Jewish socialist and secular movement founded in the Russian Empire in 1897
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