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- Kala WewaWork / monumentKala Wewa is a large ancient reservoir in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka, built by King Dhatusena in the 5th century.
- KalabshaPlaceKalabsha, ancient Talmis, was a town in Lower Nubia south of Aswan, known for its large temple of the Nubian god Mandulis built under the emperor Augustus.
- KalaburagiPlaceGulbarga, officially Kalaburagi since 2014, is a city in northern Karnataka, India.
- Kalachuri-Chedi eraTermThe Kalachuri-Chedi era is a calendar era of ancient India whose first year began in 248 or 249 CE.
- KalahomInstitutionThe Kalahom was one of the two great ministries of the Siamese state from the Ayutthaya period, headed by the Samuha Kalahom and responsible originally for military…
KalākauaPersonKalākaua was king of Hawaii from 1874 to 1891.- Kalala IlungaPersonKalala Ilunga is the figure credited in oral tradition with founding the Second Luba Dynasty around 1585.
KalamataPlaceKalamata is a port city in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, and the capital of Messenia.
KalamukhaReligion / ideaThe Kalamukhas were a Shaiva ascetic sect of medieval India, closely related to the Pashupatas, that flourished especially in Karnataka between the ninth and thirteenth…- KalanikūpulePersonKalanikūpule was the last independent ruler of Oʻahu, a son of Kahekili II of Maui.
KalaniʻōpuʻuPersonKalaniʻōpuʻu (c. 1729–1782) was ruler (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaiʻi from the 1750s until his death.
KalapiPersonKalapi was the pen name of Sursinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil, ruler of the princely state of Lathi in Saurashtra, India, and a leading Gujarati poet.- Kalapino KekaravWork / monumentKalapino Kekarav, 'the cry of Kalapi', is the collected poetry of the Gujarati poet Kalapi, ruler of Lathi, published after his death in 1900.
KalasasayaWork / monumentThe Kalasasaya is a large rectangular platform enclosure at Tiwanaku, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, bounded by walls of tall upright stone pillars.- KalashokaPersonKalashoka was a king of Magadha of the Shishunaga dynasty in the 4th century BCE, called Kakavarna in the Puranas.
Kalb Ali KhanPersonKalb Ali Khan was Nawab of Rampur in northern India from 1865 to 1887.- Kalbali KhanPersonKalbali Khan was a khan of Nakhichevan of the Kangarlu tribe in the late eighteenth century.
Kalbid dynastyPeople / groupThe Kalbid dynasty were Arab emirs who ruled Sicily from Palermo between 948 and 1053, first as governors for the Fatimid caliphs and later largely independently.- Kale AktePlaceKale Akte, Latin Calacte, was an ancient town on the north coast of Sicily, at modern Caronia.
KalebPersonKaleb was a king of Aksum who reigned c. 514–542 CE.- Kaleb's Yemen campaignCampaignKaleb's Yemen campaign was the Aksumite military expedition to South Arabia in the sixth century CE under King Kaleb.
- KalengaPlaceKalenga was the fortified capital of the Hehe chief Mkwawa in the southern highlands of present-day Tanzania, near Iringa.
- Kalenjin peoplePeople / groupThe Kalenjin are a group of related Nilotic-speaking peoples of the highlands of western Kenya's Rift Valley, among them the Nandi, Kipsigis, Keiyo, Marakwet and Tugen.
- Kalervo ObergPersonKalervo Oberg was a Canadian anthropologist, best known for coining the term "culture shock".
KalevalaWork / monumentThe Kalevala is the Finnish national epic, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from oral folk poetry he collected in Finland and Karelia.
KalfunPersonKalfun was the leader of the Arab and Berber soldiers, probably from North Africa, who seized the southern Italian port of Bari around 847.
KalgoorliePlaceKalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields of Western Australia, founded after Paddy Hannan found gold there in June 1893.- KalhanaPersonKalhana was a Kashmiri Brahmin poet and historian who wrote the Rajatarangini, 'River of Kings', in Sanskrit verse in 1148–1150.
Kalhora dynastyStateThe Kalhora dynasty ruled Sindh from about 1701 to 1783, first as governors under the Mughals and later as tributaries of Nader Shah and the Durrani rulers.
Kali Gandaki RiverPlaceThe Kali Gandaki is a river of Nepal that rises near the Tibetan border in Mustang and flows south between the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna massifs through one of the…
KaliakraPlaceKaliakra is a long, narrow headland on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Bulgaria, near Kavarna, with cliffs up to 70 metres high.
KalidasaPersonKalidasa was a classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the language.- KalijatiPlaceKalijati is an airfield in Subang regency, West Java, Indonesia.
- Kaliman Asen IPersonKaliman Asen I was tsar of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246, succeeding his father Ivan Asen II as a boy of about seven.
- Kalimullah ShahPersonKalimullah Shah was the last sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate, a puppet of the Barid family at Bidar.
Kalina peoplePeople / groupThe Kalina, also called Caribs or Galibi, are an Indigenous people of the coastal Guianas and Venezuela who speak a Cariban language.
KalinagoPeople / groupThe Kalinago, also known as the Island Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles, who lived on islands such as Dominica, Saint Vincent, Guadeloupe and…
Kalinago TerritoryPlaceThe Kalinago Territory is a district on the east coast of Dominica set aside in 1903 for the island's indigenous Kalinago, or Island Caribs, and known until 2015 as the…- KalingaPlaceKalinga was an ancient region on the eastern coast of India, roughly corresponding to present-day Odisha.
- Kalinga MaghaPersonKalinga Magha was an invader from Kalinga, in eastern India, who conquered northern Sri Lanka and ruled from Polonnaruwa from 1215 to about 1236.
Kalinga WarWar · 261 BCEThe Kalinga War was the Maurya Empire's conquest of Kalinga under Ashoka, dated on the site to 261 BCE.
Kaliningrad OblastPlaceKaliningrad Oblast is a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, centred on the city of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg.
Kalinjar FortPlaceKalinjar Fort is a hill fortress in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India, on the edge of the Vindhya range in Bundelkhand.
KaliszPlaceKalisz is a city in Greater Poland on the Prosna river, often regarded as the oldest town in Poland and identified with the Calisia mentioned by Ptolemy.
KalkaPlaceKalka is a town in the Panchkula district of Haryana, India, at the foot of the Shivalik Hills.
KalkarPlaceKalkar is a town on the lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded by the counts of Cleves in 1230.
Kalka–Shimla RailwayWork / monumentThe Kalka–Shimla Railway is a narrow-gauge mountain railway in northern India, opened in 1903 to link Kalka on the plains with Shimla, the summer capital of British…
Kallanai DamWork / monumentThe Kallanai, or Grand Anicut, is an ancient dam across the Kaveri River near Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India.- KallarPersonKallar was a Brahmin minister of the last Turk Shahi king of Kabul who, according to the 11th-century scholar al-Biruni, overthrew his master and founded the Hindu…
Kallergis familyPeople / groupThe Kallergis were a powerful Greek noble family of Crete under Venetian rule, claiming descent from Byzantine aristocracy.
KallinikosPersonKallinikos was a Greek-speaking architect or engineer from Heliopolis in Syria who, according to the chronicler Theophanes, fled to Constantinople and introduced Greek…
Kálmán TiszaPersonKálmán Tisza was prime minister of Hungary from 1875 to 1890, the longest tenure under the Dual Monarchy.
KalmarPlaceKalmar is a city on the south-east coast of Sweden, facing the island of Öland across the Kalmar Strait.
Kalmar NyckelWork / monumentThe Kalmar Nyckel was a Dutch-built armed merchant ship that carried the first Swedish colonists to North America.
Kalmar UnionStateThe Kalmar Union was the personal union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden under a single monarch, created through the work of Queen Margaret I and sealed by the coronation…
Kalmar WarWar · 1611–1613The Kalmar War was fought between Denmark-Norway and Sweden from 1611 to 1613.
KalmyksPeople / groupThe Kalmyks are a Mongolic people descended from Oirats, chiefly Torghuts, who migrated from Dzungaria to the lower Volga in the early 17th century and founded the…
KalocsaPlaceKalocsa is a town in southern Hungary on the plain east of the Danube.
KalomoPlaceKalomo is a town in Southern Province, Zambia, on the railway between Livingstone and Lusaka.- Kalonga MasulaPersonKalonga Masula was a ruler of the Maravi confederacy, in what is now Malawi, in the early 17th century.
- Kaloyan of BulgariaPersonKaloyan was tsar of Bulgaria from 1197 to 1207.
KalyanPlaceKalyan is a city in Thane district, Maharashtra, India, on the Ulhas river north-east of Mumbai.- Kalyan ChandPersonKalyan Chand was a raja of the Chand dynasty of Kumaon in the central Himalaya.
Kalyan MinaretWork / monumentThe Kalyan Minaret is a brick minaret in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, built in 1127 by the Kara-Khanid ruler Arslan Khan Muhammad.- Kama RiverPlaceThe Kama is the largest left-bank tributary of the Volga, about 1,800 km long, rising in the uplands of Udmurtia in Russia and flowing past Perm to join the Volga below…
- KamabolonWork / monumentThe Kamabolon is a sacred house at Kangaba in southern Mali, associated with the Keita clan, the royal lineage of the Mali Empire.
- Kamachat AslamiePersonKamachat Aslamie was the paramount chief of the Middag chiefdom of Taiwan's west-central plains, known from Dutch East India Company records as the King of Middag.
Kamakhya TempleWork / monumentThe Kamakhya Temple is a Hindu temple to the mother goddess Kamakhya on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, Assam.
KamakuraPlaceKamakura is a coastal city south of Tokyo in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Kamāl ud-Dīn BehzādPersonKamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, or Bihzad, was a Persian painter of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the most celebrated master of the Herat school.- Kamala DeviPersonKamala Devi was the queen of Karna, the last Vaghela king of Gujarat.
Kamares wareWork / monumentKamares ware is a fine Minoan pottery of the Protopalatial period on Crete, named after the Kamares cave on Mount Ida where it was first found.
Kamehameha IPersonKamehameha I was a chief of Hawaiʻi Island who conquered Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu in a series of campaigns, winning the decisive Battle of Nuʻuanu in 1795.
Kamehameha IIIPersonKamehameha III was king of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854, the longest reign of the monarchy.
KamenzPlaceKamenz is a town in Upper Lusatia in Saxony, Germany, near the Sorbian-speaking area.- Kameshwar ThakurPersonKameshwar Thakur was a Maithil Brahmin of the Oinwar family who received Mithila from the Tughluq rulers of the Delhi Sultanate after they overthrew the Karnat dynasty…
Kamianets-PodilskyiPlaceKamianets-Podilskyi is a city in western Ukraine, in the historical region of Podolia, built on a rocky island in a loop of the Smotrych river.
Kamień PomorskiPlaceKamień Pomorski, in German Cammin, is a town near the mouth of the Oder in north-western Poland.- KamikazeReligion / ideaKamikaze, meaning divine wind, is the Japanese name for the typhoons that destroyed the Mongol invasion fleets sent against Japan by the Yuan Dynasty in the late…
al-KamilPersonAl-Kamil was an Ayyubid sultan of Egypt who reigned from 1218 to 1238, a nephew of Saladin.- al-Kamil Muhammad of MayyafariqinPersonal-Kamil Muhammad was the last Ayyubid ruler of Mayyafariqin in the Jazira, son of al-Muzaffar Ghazi.
- Kamil Pasha al-QudsiPersonKamil Pasha al-Qudsi was an Aleppine notable who served as the first governor of the State of Aleppo, created by the French Mandate authorities in 1920.
- Kamla Persad-BissessarPersonKamla Persad-Bissessar is a Trinidadian lawyer and politician who became the first woman prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago in 2010, at the head of the People's…
- Kamnaskires IPersonKamnaskires I was a local ruler of Elymais in south-western Iran who around 147 BCE took advantage of Seleucid weakness to seize Susa and issue coins as king.
KamosePersonKamose was the last king of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling from Thebes.
KampalaPlaceKampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, near the northern shore of Lake Victoria.- KampenPlaceKampen is a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel, near the mouth of the IJssel.
Kamphaeng PhetPlaceKamphaeng Phet is a town on the Ping River in north-central Thailand, known in the fourteenth century as Chakangrao.- KampilyaPlaceKampilya was an ancient city of northern India, described in the Mahabharata as the capital of southern Panchala and the seat of King Drupada.
Kampong AyerPlaceKampong Ayer is the water village of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, made up of houses, schools and mosques built on stilts over the Brunei River and linked…
Kampuchean United Front for National SalvationPeople / groupThe Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation was a movement of Cambodian communists opposed to the Khmer Rouge, founded under Vietnamese sponsorship in December…
Kamran Shah DurraniPersonKamran Shah Durrani was a Sadozai prince, son of Mahmud Shah Durrani.- KamrupPlaceKamrup is the historical region of western Assam around Guwahati, in the lower Brahmaputra valley of north-east India.
- KamurasiPersonKamurasi was omukama of Bunyoro from around 1852 until his death in 1869.
- Kan BozhouPersonKan Bozhou was a Chinese noble whom the Rouran Khaganate installed as king of Gaochang in the Turfan oasis in 460, after destroying the Northern Liang remnant there.
- Kan MaaxPersonKan Maax was the last known king of the Maya city of Cancuén in Guatemala, son of Taj Chan Ahk.
Kanagawa PrefecturePlaceKanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan on the south-west side of Tokyo Bay, with its capital at Yokohama.
Kanak peoplePeople / groupThe Kanak are the indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia, making up about 40 per cent of its population.
KanaraPlaceKanara, or Canara, is the coastal region of Karnataka, south-western India, between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.
Kanaung MinthaPersonThe Kanaung Prince, or Kanaung Mintha, was a Burmese prince, younger brother and heir of King Mindon and the leading reformer of his court.