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Kutaisi GovernorateStateThe Kutaisi Governorate was a province of the Russian Empire in western Georgia, created in 1846 with its capital at Kutaisi.- Kutama BerbersPeople / groupThe Kutama were a Berber tribal confederation of the mountains of eastern Algeria.
Kuthodaw PagodaWork / monumentThe Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Myanmar, built by King Mindon and completed in 1868.
Kutik-InshushinakPersonKutik-Inshushinak (also read Puzur-Inshushinak) was the last king of the Awan dynasty of Elam, ruling around 2100 BCE.- Kutir-NahhuntePersonKutir-Nahhunte was a king of the Shutrukid dynasty of Elam, the son of Shutruk-Nahhunte.
Kutná HoraPlaceKutná Hora is a town in Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, which grew rich from silver mines opened in the late 13th century.
Kuto BesakWork / monumentKuto Besak is a walled brick palace-fortress (kraton) on the Musi River in Palembang, Sumatra, completed in 1797 for the Sultanate of Palembang.- KutrigursPeople / groupThe Kutrigurs were a Turkic nomadic people of the Pontic steppe west of the Don in the 6th century, closely related to the Utigurs to the east.
Kuttamuwa steleWork / monumentThe Kuttamuwa stele is a basalt funerary monument found in 2008 at Zincirli in south-eastern Turkey, ancient Sam'al.- KuvalayamalaWork / monumentThe Kuvalayamala is a Prakrit prose romance by the Jain monk Uddyotana Suri, completed at Jalor in Rajasthan in 778 CE.
KuverPersonKuver was a Bulgar leader of the late 7th century who rebelled against the Avar Khaganate.
KuwanaPlaceKuwana is a city in Mie Prefecture, Japan, at the mouth of the Kiso, Nagara and Ibi rivers on Ise Bay.
KuyaviaPlaceKuyavia is a historical region of central Poland, lying west of the Vistula around Inowrocław, Kruszwica, Brześć Kujawski and Włocławek.- Kuzi-TeshubPersonKuzi-Teshub was a ruler of Carchemish in northern Syria, son of Talmi-Teshub, the last Hittite viceroy there.
Kuzma MininPersonKuzma Minin was a meat trader and elected elder of Nizhny Novgorod who in 1611 called on his fellow townspeople to raise money and an army against the Polish occupation…
Kvarner GulfPlaceThe Kvarner Gulf is a bay of the northern Adriatic Sea in Croatia, between the Istrian peninsula and the mainland coast, with the port of Rijeka at its head.
Kvirike III of KakhetiPersonKvirike III, called the Great, was the ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia who took the title king around 1010, creating the Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti.
KwaBulawayoPlaceKwaBulawayo was the royal capital of the Zulu king Shaka in the 1820s, near modern Eshowe in KwaZulu-Natal.- KwahadiPeople / groupThe Kwahadi, or Antelope Eaters, were a division of the Comanche who lived on the Llano Estacado of the Texas Panhandle.
- KwaioPeople / groupThe Kwaio are a people of the mountains of central Malaita in the Solomon Islands, many of whom have kept their ancestral religion.
- Kwame NkrumahPersonKwame Nkrumah was the leader of the Gold Coast's independence movement and the first prime minister and president of Ghana, which became independent in 1957.
Kwan PhayaoPlaceKwan Phayao is a large freshwater lake beside the town of Phayao in northern Thailand.
Kwando RiverPlaceThe Kwando is a river of southern Africa that rises in the highlands of Angola and flows south-east along the Angola–Zambia border before crossing the Caprivi Strip of…
Kwango RiverPlaceThe Kwango is a river of central Africa, about 1,100 kilometres long, that rises in the highlands of north-eastern Angola and flows north, forming part of the border…
Kwantung ArmyInstitutionThe Kwantung Army was a group of the Imperial Japanese Army stationed in north-east China from the early twentieth century.- Kwantung Government-GeneralInstitutionThe Kwantung Government-General was the Japanese administration of the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong peninsula, set up at Port Arthur in 1906 under General…
Kwanza RiverPlaceThe Kwanza is a river of Angola, about 960 kilometres long, that rises in the central highlands and flows north and west to the Atlantic south of Luanda.
Kwara StatePlaceKwara State is a state in western central Nigeria, created in 1967, with its capital at Ilorin.
KwaZulu-NatalPlaceKwaZulu-Natal is a province on the east coast of South Africa, created in 1994 by merging the province of Natal with the KwaZulu homeland.
Kweneng DistrictPlaceKweneng District is a district of south-eastern Botswana, north-west of the capital Gaborone, whose name means place of the Kwena.
KwidzynPlaceKwidzyn, German Marienwerder, is a town in northern Poland near the lower Vistula.
KyabazingaTermKyabazinga is the title of the king of Busoga, in eastern Uganda.- KyadondoPlaceKyadondo is one of the original core counties of the Kingdom of Buganda, in central Uganda.
KyansitthaPersonKyansittha was king of Pagan from 1084 to about 1112, one of the most celebrated rulers of the Pagan Kingdom.
Kyaswa of PaganPersonKyaswa was king of Pagan from 1235 to 1251, the son and successor of Htilominlo.
KyauksePlaceKyaukse is a town and district south of Mandalay in central Myanmar, on a plain watered by the Zawgyi and Panlaung rivers.- KyauktawPlaceKyauktaw is a town in Rakhine State, western Myanmar, on the Kaladan river north of Sittwe.
Kyawswa I of PinyaPersonKyawswa I was king of Pinya in central Burma from 1344 to 1350, a son of Thihathu, founder of the kingdom.- Kyawswa of PaganPersonKyawswa was king of Pagan in Burma from 1289 to 1297.
- KyebiPlaceKyebi, also spelled Kibi, is a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana, the capital of the Akyem Abuakwa state and seat of its paramount chief, the Okyenhene.
KyebogyiStateKyebogyi was one of the Karenni States in the hills of eastern Burma, a small chiefdom ruled by a hereditary saopha.
Kyi, Shchek and KhoryvPersonKyi, Shchek and Khoryv are three legendary brothers who, with their sister Lybid, are credited in the Primary Chronicle with founding Kiev on the hills above the Dnieper.
Kyide NyimagonPersonKyide Nyimagon was a descendant of the royal line of the Tibetan Empire, usually considered a great-grandson of Langdarma, who moved to western Tibet in the 10th…- KyirongPlaceKyirong (Gyirong) is a county in Shigatse prefecture of Tibet, China, on the border with Nepal.
- KyivPlaceKyiv is the capital of Ukraine, on the Dnieper river.
- Kyiv Pechersk LavraInstitutionThe Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves, is an Orthodox monastery in Kyiv founded in 1051 by the monks Anthony and Theodosius in caves above the Dnieper.
- Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyInstitutionThe Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was a school of higher learning in Kyiv, formed in 1632 when Metropolitan Petro Mohyla merged the Kyiv Brotherhood school with his monastery…
- Kyk-over-alPlaceKyk-over-al is a small island in the Essequibo River in Guyana, near its confluence with the Mazaruni and Cuyuni rivers.
Kyle, AyrshirePlaceKyle is a historic district of central Ayrshire in south-west Scotland, lying between the rivers Irvine and Doon.
Kyōgoku clanPeople / groupThe Kyōgoku clan was a Japanese warrior family, a branch of the Sasaki of Ōmi province.- Kyōhō reformsEventThe Kyōhō reforms were measures introduced by the eighth Tokugawa shogun, Yoshimune, named after the Kyōhō era of 1716–1736, to restore the shogunate's finances and…
KyotoPlaceKyoto is a city in central Japan that served as the imperial capital for over a thousand years.- Kyōtoku WarWar · 1454–1482The Kyōtoku War was a long conflict in the Kantō region of eastern Japan that began when the Kamakura kubo Ashikaga Shigeuji murdered the Kantō deputy Uesugi Noritada…
KyparissiaPlaceKyparissia is a town on the west coast of Messenia in the Peloponnese, Greece, on the site of an ancient town of the same name.
KyrburgPlaceKyrburg is a ruined castle on a hill above the town of Kirn on the Nahe in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Kyrgyz peoplePeople / groupThe Kyrgyz are a Turkic people of Central Asia who form the majority of the population of Kyrgyzstan and also live in China, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.- Kyriakos of MakuriaPersonKyriakos was a king of Makuria in Nubia in the mid-8th century.
Kyrylo RozumovskyPersonKyrylo Rozumovsky was the last Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, from 1750 to 1764.
KythiraPlaceKythira is a Greek island off the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese, at the meeting of the Ionian and Aegean seas.
KyushuPlaceKyushu is the third-largest of Japan's main islands, lying south-west of Honshu and closest to Korea and China.
KyustendilPlaceKyustendil is a town in western Bulgaria near the borders with Serbia and North Macedonia, known for its hot springs.- KyzylPlaceKyzyl is the capital of the Republic of Tuva in southern Siberia, Russia, on the upper Yenisei river.
KyzylordaPlaceKyzylorda is a city on the Syr Darya in southern Kazakhstan.- KızıldağPlaceKızıldağ is a rocky hill on the Konya plain in south-central Turkey, once an island in a lake that has since dried up.
- KızılırmakPlaceThe Kızılırmak, the ancient Halys, is the longest river wholly within Turkey, flowing about 1,350 km in a wide arc across central Anatolia to the Black Sea near Bafra.
KłodzkoPlaceKłodzko, in German Glatz, is a town in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland, on the Nysa Kłodzka at the centre of a basin enclosed by the Sudetes.