Bantam or Bantams may refer to: *

Bantam (poultry) A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or domestic duck, duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most o ...

, any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck

Businesses

* Bantam Books, an American publishing house * Bantam Cider, an American cider company * Bantam Press, a British publishing imprint * American Bantam, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company

Military

* Bantam (military), a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War ** 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF ** 216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF * Bantam (missile), a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft * Northrop X-4 Bantam, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber

Places

* Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town on island of

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Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

in the

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islands ** Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813 **

Banten Banten (, , Pegon alphabet, Pegon: بنتن) is the westernmost Provinces of Indonesia, province on the island of Java, Indonesia. Its capital city is Serang and its largest city is Tangerang. The province borders West Java and the Special Capi ...

, current province of

on territory of the former sultanate * Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands * Bantam, Connecticut, U.S.A. * Bantam, Ohio, U.S.A. * Bantam River,

Connecticut Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...

, U.S.A.

Sports

* Bantam, U15 age category in

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* Bradford City A.F.C., nicknamed The Bantams, an English football club * Trinity College Bantams, the varsity and club athletic teams of Trinity College (Connecticut) * SC United Bantams, a soccer team in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. *

Bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class ...

, a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting.

Transportation

* Micro Aviation B22 Bantam, a New Zealand microlight aircraft * Warwick W-3 Bantam, an American homebuilt aircraft design * Bantam (car), a 1913 British cyclecar * American Bantam, name adopted by the former American Austin Car Company in 1935 until 1956 * Ford Bantam, a South African pickup truck from 1983 * BSA Bantam, a British motorcycle 1948–1971 * HNLMS ''Bantam'' (1938), a Dutch ship * MS ''Bantam'' (1939), a Dutch ship * SS ''Bantam'' (1930), a Dutch ship

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