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- Turkmen dynasty (c. 1300-60) that ruled in the Balikesir-Canakkale region of western Anatolia. [2 Related Articles]
- Karasu, Bilge
- (from the article "Turkish literature") Beginning with Troya'da olum vardi (1963; Death in Troy), Bilge Karasu created works that display a sophisticated narrative style. Among his novels and novellas are Uzun surmus ...
- Karasuk culture
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") Dating from about 1200 to about 70 BC-the dawn of the Iron and historical age-the Karasuk culture was located in the Minusinsk Basin, on the Yenisey River and on the ...
- karat
- a measure of the fineness (i.e., purity) of gold. It is spelled carat outside the United States but should not be confused with the unit used to measure the weight ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karat, Prakash
- (from the article "India") ...was the fact that the Left Front had been trying to create a "Third Front," a new coalition led by itself and including a clutch of regional parties. These attempts ...
- Karatas-Semayuk
- (from the article "Anatolia") Fortified sites-whether single buildings, villages, towns, or palaces-were the norm. A single building at Karatas-Semayuk was defended by a ditch, a plastered rampart, and an enclosure wall. Villages such as ...
- karate
- unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs. Emphasis is on concentrating as much of the body's power as possible at the point and instant ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karatepe
- (Turkish: "Black Hill"), site of a Late Hittite fortress city, located in the piedmont country of the Taurus Mountains in south-central Turkey. The city, dating from the 8th century BC, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Karatkyevich, Vladimir
- (from the article "Belarus") ...and Arkadi Kulyashov and the prose writers Yanka Bryl, Ivan Shamyakin, and Ivan Melezh. The 1960s marked the tentative beginnings of yet another national revival with the novels of Vasil ...
- Karatsu
- city, Saga ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan. Located about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Fukuoka, it faces Karatsu Bay. Its name is derived from the Japanese ...
- Karatsu ware
- Japanese ceramic ware of Korean origin produced in Kyushu. The actual date of production is thought to be sometime during the first half of the 16th century, in the late ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karatygin, Vasily
- (from the article "Mochalov, Pavel Stepanovich") The preponderance of Mochalov's career was spent at Moscow's Maly Theatre, and he was invariably compared to his St. Petersburg rival, Vasily Karatygin (1802-53). Where Mochalov enacted emotional tirades and ...
- Karavelov, Lyuben Stoychev
- Bulgarian writer and revolutionary who contributed to the national reawakening of Bulgaria. [1 Related Articles]
- Karavelov, Petko
- (from the article "Bulgaria") ...opponents, dismissed the Russians, restored the constitution, and accepted a Conservative-Liberal coalition government, but the coalition was soon supplanted by an entirely Liberal government under Petko Karavelov.
- Karawanken
- mountain range of the Eastern Alps, extending eastward along the Slovenian-Austrian border for 50 miles (80 km) from the town of Tarvisio in Italy. The range lies between the Drava ...
- Karay Beg
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...Mongols (13th-14th centuries CE), most of the territory was part of the ulus ("polity") of Chagatai. About 1465, under the leadership of Karay and Jani Beg, some ...
- Karay, Refik Halid
- (from the article "Turkish literature") Refik Halid Karay was a journalist who became one of the leading short-story writers in Turkey. His political columns, mainly of a satirical nature, appeared between 1910 and 1913 in ...
- Karayazici Abdulhalim
- (from the article "Jelali Revolts") In 1598 a sekban leader, Karayazici Abdulhalim ('Abd al-Halim), united the dissatisfied groups in Anatolia, forcing the towns to pay tribute and dominating the Sivas and Dulkadir provinces in central ...
- Karayev, Kara
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...widely attended. Some of Azerbaijan's composers, notably Uzeir Hajjibekov (the operas Ker-Ogly and Leyli and Mejnun and the operetta Arshin Mal 'Alan) and Kara Karayev (the ballets Seven Beauties and ...
- Karbala'
- city, capital of Karbala' muhafazah (governorate), central Iraq. One of Shi'ite Islam's foremost holy cities, it lies 55 miles (88 km) southwest of Baghdad, with which it ... [7 Related Articles]
- Karbala', Battle of
- (Oct. 10, 680 [10th of Muharram, AH 61]), brief military engagement in which a small party led by al-Husayn ibn 'Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and son of 'Ali, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Karbaschi, Gholamhussein
- (from the article "Tehran") ...following the end of the war, largely owing to economic and political reform under Pres. Hashemi Rafsanjani and Pres. Mohammad Khatami. The 1990s saw radical improvements to the city itself ...
- Karbi language
- (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...also Chairel) in Manipur, India, and adjacent Myanmar resemble Kachin; Nung (including Rawang and Trung) in Kachin state in Myanmar and in Yunnan province, China, has similarities with Kachin; and ...
- Kardar, Abdul Hafeez
- Indian-born Pakistani cricketer and politician who played three Test matches for India and led Pakistan in 23 Tests after partition (1947); he retired from the game in 1957 with a ...
- Kardelj, Edvard
- Yugoslav revolutionary and politician, a close colleague and chosen successor of Josip Broz Tito. He was the chief ideological theoretician of Yugoslav Marxism, or Titoism. [2 Related Articles]
- Kardiner, Abram
- (from the article "international relations") ...relations studies after World War II. Harold D. Lasswell, for example, explored the relationships between world politics and the psychological realm of symbols, perceptions, and images; Abram Kardiner and his ...
- kare sansui
- (from the article "Soami") ...(compiled in 1476). As a landscape gardener, he designed two of the most celebrated Zen temple gardens in Japan: the Ryoan Temple garden, in Kyoto, an outstanding example of kare ...
- Kare, Susan
- (from the article "graphic design") Software for Apple's 1984 Macintosh computer, such as the MacPaint™ program by computer programmer Bill Atkinson and graphic designer Susan Kare, had a revolutionary human interface. Tool icons controlled by ...
- Karekin I, Catholicos
- patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church who was credited with reinvigorating his church after the fall of the Soviet Union and with improving its relationship with the Roman Catholic Church; ...
- Karel of Minstrberk
- (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...intending to heighten the royal authority. With the help of loyal lords, he relieved Zdenek Lev of Rozmital of the office of supreme burgrave in February 1523 and appointed Karel ...
- Karelia
- respublika (republic), far northwestern Russia. It is bordered to the north by Nenets, to the east by the White Sea, to the south by Lake Ladoga, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Karelian
- (from the article "Finland") ...the Hamalaiset (Tavastians, or Tavastlanders), the people of southern and western Finland (especially the historic region of Hame); those who entered from the southeast were the Karelians. Scandinavian peoples occupied ...
- Karelian Isthmus
- neck of land lying between Lake Ladoga (east; in Saint Petersburg oblast [province]) and the Gulf of Finland (west; part of the Baltic Sea). The isthmus shows evidence of ancient ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karelian language
- member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, spoken in Karelia republic of northwestern Russia and by emigrants in neighbouring Finland. There are two dialects of Karelian-Karelian proper ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kareline, Aleksandr
- Russian Greco-Roman wrestler revered for his extraordinary strength and unprecedented success in international competition. [2 Related Articles]
- Karen
- variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma), speaking languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. They are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, differing linguistically, religiously, and economically. One ... [7 Related Articles]
- Karen languages
- languages spoken in lower Myanmar (Burma) and on the borders of Thailand. The Karen languages are usually divided into three groups: northern (including Taungthu), central (including Bwe and Geba), and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karen National Liberation Army
- (from the article "Military Affairs") The armed forces of Myanmar (Burma) launched a major offensive against the separatist Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in 2006. For more than 50 years, the KNLA had waged a ...
- Karenga, Maulana Ron
- (from the article "Afrocentrism") Equally important to Afrocentrism were figures such as the African American scholar Maulana Karenga, whose work resulted in the creation of the Afrocentric holiday of Kwanzaa in 1966; the Senegalese ...
- Kareson, Asmund
- (from the article "Angby Stone") 11th-century memorial stone found in Uppland, Swed., bearing a runic inscription carved by Asmund Kareson (Osmundus), earliest known professional rune carver in Uppland. The stone is inscribed with a Maltese ...
- Karff, Mona May Ratner
- American chess player who reigned as the national women's chess champion seven times between 1938 and 1974 and was one of the first four Americans to qualify for the rank ...
- Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
- organist and composer, one of the principal German composers for organ of his generation.
- Karhuhas
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...9th centuries BC-of the Syro-Hittite world in the west on Assyria to the east-has been proposed. The principal deities of Carchemish were the Luwian storm god Tarhunt (Tarhunzas); Karhuhas, protector ...
- kari
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...with crisscross lines drawn around the eyes. A white flower sits on his nose, and peacock feathers closely woven into a cylinder rise above his head. He carries a bow, ...
- Kari, Mosque of
- (from the article "Istanbul") ...Ayasofya (Little Sophia) and can be considered an architectural parent of Justinian's reconstruction of Hagia Sophia. The church of the Saviour in Chora, which was converted into the Kariye Mosque, ...
- Kariba
- town, northern Zimbabwe. Situated on the south bank of the Zambezi River and built on the twin hills of Botererkwa overlooking the Kariba Gorge and the man-made Lake Kariba (one ...
- Kariba Dam
- concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Construction of the dam began on Nov. 6, 1956, and was completed in ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kariba Gorge
- (from the article "Africa") ...the most spectacular of which is the Victoria Falls. After these falls, the river winds through a number of deep gorges cut out of basalt and, after flowing through a ...
- Kariba'il Watar
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") From the early historic period one ruler, named Karib'il Watar, has left a long epigraphic record of victories over peoples throughout the major part of Yemen, most importantly the Awsanian ...
- Kariba, Lake
- lake in central Africa, between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was formed by damming the Zambezi River in the Kariba Gorge, where the river narrows between hills of hard rock 250 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kariera
- Aboriginal tribe of Western Australia that became one of the type groups for the study of Aboriginal social organization and religion. The Kariera originally occupied the coastal and neighbouring inland ...
- kariginu
- (from the article "shozoku") ...silk saifuku. Over the saifuku is worn the ho, coloured black, red, or light blue. Less formal are the joe, a robe of white silk, and the varicoloured kariginu (which ...
- Karikal
- (from the article "India") ...The company was reconstituted, and over the next 20 years its trade was expanded, and new stations were opened. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius was finally settled in 1721; ...
- Karikalan
- (from the article "India") ...in the context of Gajabahu's rule in Sri Lanka, which can be dated to either the first or last quarter of the 2nd century CE, depending on whether he was ...
- Karim Khan Zand (Mohammad)
- first Zand ruler of Iran. He restored peace to the kingdom after the strife following the collapse of the Safavid dynasty. [3 Related Articles]
- Karim Shahir
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") At Karim Shahir, a site that cannot be accurately tied chronologically to Shanidar, clear proof was obtained both of the knowledge of grain cultivation, in the form of sickle blades ...
- Karim Shahir culture
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...northern Syrian and southern Turkish portions of the natural-habitat zone has been essentially untested by modern field research. Both of the available complexes of materials, the Natufian and the Karim ...
- Karimabad
- town in the Northern Areas of the Pakistani-administered portion of the Kashmir region, in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. Formerly a small principality under the hereditary ruler known ...
- Karimis
- (from the article "Egypt") ...was able to maintain order in Egypt), trade was heavy with Mediterranean and Black sea ports and with India. The Oriental trade was controlled largely by a group of Muslim ...
- Karimnagar
- city, northern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. The city is an agricultural (millet, rice, oilseeds, and cotton) centre and road junction.
- Karimojong
- eastern Nilotic pastoral people of northeastern Uganda. The Karimojong are the largest of a cluster of culturally and historically related peoples, including the Jie, Teso, Dodoth (or Dodos), and Labwor ... [1 Related Articles]
- Karimov, Islam Abduganiyevich
- (from the article "Uzbekistan") Area: 447,400 sq km (172,700 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 27,372,000 | Capital: Tashkent | Chief of state and head of government: President Islam Karimov, assisted by Prime Minister ...
- Karina, Anna
- Danish beauty prominently featured in French films of the 1960s, notably in those directed by her husband Jean-Luc Godard. [1 Related Articles]
- Kariotakis, Kostas
- Greek poet influenced by the 19th-century French Symbolist poets.
- Karisimbi, Mount
- highest peak (14,787 feet [4,507 m]) in the volcanic Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. It lies on the border of the republics of Congo (Kinshasa) and Rwanda, 18 miles (29 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kariuki, Josiah Mwangi
- (from the article "Kenya") ...1974 by new regulations that forbade the candidacy of anyone who had not been a member of KANU for the previous three years. The challenge to Kenyatta was then taken ...
- Kariya
- city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, southeast of Nagoya. It was founded as a small castle town in 1533 by the Mizuno clan and was passed to various daimyo families ...
- Kariye Museum
- (from the article "mosaic") ...which, when covered with mosaics, produces reflections of light that expand like rays from the central medallion toward the figures surrounding it, was preferred. Such domes are preserved in Kariye ...
- Karkar
- (from the article "Papua New Guinea") ...volcanic fringe contains some of the most fertile soils of the islands. Thus, despite the hazards of volcanic activity and frequent earth tremors, the area is generally well-populated. The island ...
- Karkar
- ancient fortress on the Orontes River, northwest of Hamah, in western Syria. It was the site of two ancient battles. [1 Related Articles]
- Karkaraly Mountains
- (from the article "Kazak Uplands") ...and there are extensive depressions occupied by saline Lake Tengiz and other lakes. Isolated mountain massifs, the result of more recent earth movements, rise in the centrally located Karkaraly Mountains ...
- Karkavitsas, Andreas
- Greek novelist and short-story writer whose subject was village life. [1 Related Articles]
- Karkh, Al-
- (from the article "Baghdad") The city extends along both banks of the Tigris. The east-bank settlement is known as Rusafah, the west-bank as Al-Karkh. A series of bridges, including one railroad trestle, link the ...
- Karl Marx Peak
- mountain peak in the extreme southwestern Pamirs in Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous oblast (province) of Tajikistan. At an elevation of 22,067 feet (6,726 m), it is the highest summit of the Shakhdarin ... [1 Related Articles]
- Karl Wilhelm
- (from the article "Karlsruhe") ...miles from the Rhine River. It was once the capital of the former Baden state, and it is now the seat of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht). It originated in ...
- Karl, T. R.
- (from the article "climate") ...effect of spring leafing on the buildup of humidity in the lower atmosphere has received the attention of researchers in recent years. In the late 1980s, American climatologists M.D. Schwartz ...
- Karle, Jerome
- American crystallographer who, along with Herbert A. Hauptman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1985 for their development of mathematical methods for deducing the molecular structure of chemical ... [1 Related Articles]
- Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
- Swedish poet whose essentially regional, tradition-bound poetry was extremely popular and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918, at least in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Karlgren, Bernhard
- (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") The vowel system of Old Chinese as reconstructed (1940) by the linguist Bernhard Karlgren to account especially for the language of the Shijing, an anthology of Chinese poetry compiled in ...
- Karli
- village, Maharashtra state, west-central India, situated about 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Pune and noted for its rock-cut chaitya, or Buddhist sanctuary.
- Karli
- (from the article "caitya") An outstanding example of a classical caitya is the magnificent Karli caitya-hall from the late 1st century BC near Pune (Poona), in western India.
- Karlik Mountains
- (from the article "Tien Shan") ...is the Hami (Qomul) Basin; both basins are bounded to the north by the Bogda Mountains, with elevations of up to 17,864 feet (5,445 metres), and by the eastern extremity ...
- Karlin, Fred
- (from the article "1970: Other Winners") ...Francis Lai for Love StoryOriginal Song Score: The Beatles for Let It BeSong Original for the Picture: "For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers; music by Fred Karlin, ...
- Karloff, Boris
- English actor who became internationally famous for his sympathetic and chilling portrayal of the monster in the classic horror film Frankenstein (1931). [1 Related Articles]
- Karlovac
- city in Croatia, southwest of Zagreb at the confluence of the Korana and Kupa rivers. It has Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic cathedrals and the oldest public library in Croatia. ...
- Karlovci, Synod of
- (from the article "Eastern Orthodoxy") ...sees in Russia, retreating with the White armies, and who had found refuge in Sremski-Karlovci as guests of the Serbian Church. Despite several attempts at reconciliation, the "Synod" of Karlovci, ...
- Karlovitz, B.
- (from the article "magnetohydrodynamic power generator") Faraday soon turned his attention to other aspects of electromagnetic induction, and MHD power generation received little attention until the 1920s and '30s, when Bela Karlovitz, a Hungarian-born engineer, first ...
- Karlovy Vary
- spa city, western Czech Republic. The city lies along the Tepla River where it flows into the valley of the Ohre River, 70 miles (113 km) west of Prague. The ... [2 Related Articles]
- Karlskrona
- town and port, capital of the lan (county) of Blekinge, southern Sweden, on the Baltic coast. Founded by Charles XI in 1680 as a Baltic base, it has been Sweden's ...
- Karlsruhe
- city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies at the northern edge of the Black Forest, northwest of Stuttgart and just a few miles from the Rhine ...
- Karlsruhe, University of
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...for so-called invisibility cloaks. Previously available materials with a negative refractive index worked only in the infrared region of the spectrum, but Gunner Dolling and colleagues of the University of ...
- Karlstad
- city and capital of Varmland lan (county), southwest-central Sweden, on the island of Tingvalla and on the northern shore of Lake Vanern, at the mouth of the Klar River. Originally ... [1 Related Articles]
- Karlstejn Castle
- (from the article "Bohemian school") The major architectural monuments of the Bohemian school are Charles's palace (Karlstejn Castle) and the St. Vitus' Cathedral, both in Prague. The cathedral and parts of Karlstejn Castle were begun ...
- Karlton, Lawrence
- (from the article "Religion") ...The decision, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said the law "alleviates exceptional government-created burdens on private religious exercise." In September U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled in Sacramento that ...
- Karm Island
- island, southwestern Norway. It lies in the North Sea just north of the mouth of Bokna Fjord. With its principal axis running north-south, Karm Island is about 19 miles (31 ...
- Karm, Dun
- Malta's national poet, sometimes called "the bard of Malta," or "the Chaucer of Malta." His work has both romantic and classical affinities. His love of nature and his motherland together ...
- karma
- in Indian philosophy, the influence of an individual's past actions on his future lives, or reincarnations. The doctrine of karma reflects the Hindu conviction that this life is but one ... [21 Related Articles]
- karma-marga
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord"; c. 100 CE), an extremely influential Hindu text, presents three paths to salvation: the karma-marga ("path of duties"), the ...
- Karma-pa
- (from the article "Bka'-brgyud-pa") ...Sgam-po-pa, whose own disciples established six separate schools of Bka'-brgyud-pa thought, known for the most part by the names of their monasteries but differing little in doctrine. Of these, the ...
- Karmah
- archaeological site, northern Sudan. It is located near the town of Karmah al-Nuzul, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Dunqulah (Dongola) on the right bank of the Nile above ... [3 Related Articles]
- Karmal, Babrak
- Afghan politician who, backed by the Soviet Union, was president of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986. [3 Related Articles]
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