Banco
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Banco may refer to:
- Banco (album)Banco (album)Banco is a 1975 album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. The album was originally released on the Manticore Records label launched by Emerson, Lake & Palmer with whom the band shared a firm stylistic similarity. A lively and inventive collection of songs and instrumentals...
, an album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso; - Banco (novel)Banco (novel)Banco is a 1973 novel by Henri Charrière, it is a sequel to his previous novel Papillon. It documents Charrière's life in Venezuela, where he arrived after his escape from the penal colony on Devil's Island....
by Henri Charrière; - Banco (typeface)Banco (typeface)Banco is an inclined titling typeface. It was designed by Roger Excoffon for the Fonderie Olive foundry in 1951. Excoffon did not design a matching lower case alphabet for the capitals....
, A decorative typeface; - Banco (building material); fermented mud; made by fermenting mud with rice husks
- Banco de GaiaBanco de GaiaBanco de Gaia is an electronic music band from England, formed in 1989 by Toby Marks .The music of Banco de Gaia is best categorized as ambient dub, but Marks works to cross genres, often using Arabic and Middle Eastern samples against a bass heavy reggae, rock, or trance rhythm to produce deeply...
, A British electronic band; - Banco del Mutuo SoccorsoBanco del Mutuo SoccorsoBanco del Mutuo Soccorso is an Italian rock band. A popular progressive rock band in the 1970s, they continued making music in the 1980s and 1990s...
, an Italian progressive rock band; - Banco, a historical reference to the Bank of Sweden and Swedish coinage;
- Banco architecture, a West African type of mudbrick, and the architecture made with it;
- Banco, a lotteryLotteryA lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...
played in QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
; - Banco, another name for the parlor game, BuncoBuncoBunco is a parlour game played in teams with three dice.-History:Bunco was originally "8-Dice cloth" according to the a dice game in 18th-century England. It was imported to San Francisco as a gambling activity in 1855, where it gave its name to gambling parlors, or Bunco parlors, and more...
; - Banco, part of the nomenclatureNomenclatureNomenclature is a term that applies to either a list of names or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming - which is the assigning of a word or phrase to a particular object or property...
of the game known commonly as BaccaratBaccaratBaccarat is a card game, played at casinos and by gamblers. It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of King Charles VIII , and it is similar to Faro and Basset...
. - Banko, GuineaBanko, GuineaBanko is a town and sub-prefecture in the Dabola Prefecture in the Faranah Region of Guinea.-References:...
; - Banko, MaliBanko, MaliBanko is a rural commune and village in the Cercle of Dioïla in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The village sits on the Banifing River. The commune contains 31 villages....
; - BANCO, The Swiss Asset Management Magazine