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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 ...
Karm Island: island, in the scenic Ryfylke region of Rogaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway. It lies in the North Sea just north of the mouth of Bokna Fjord. With its principal axis ...
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 ...
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 ...
Karmal, Babrak: Afghan politician who, backed by the Soviet Union, was president of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.
Karman, Theodore von: Hungarian-born American research engineer best known for his pioneering work in the use of mathematics and the basic sciences in aeronautics and astronautics. His laboratory at the California Institute of ...
Karmi'el: (Hebrew: "Vineyard of God"), town, northern Israel, in the Valley of Bet Kerem, on the boundary of Upper and Lower Galilee, just off the main east-west highway from 'Akko (Acre) ...
Karnak: village in Qina muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt, which has given its name to the northern half of the ruins of Thebes on the east bank of the Nile River, including ...
Karnal: city, east-central Haryana state, northwestern India. It lies along the west bank of the Yamuna River and is just east of the Western Yamuna Canal. The name is said to ...
Karnal, Battle of: (Feb. 24, 1739), battle between the forces of Nadir Shah, an Iranian adventurer, and Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor of India, at Karnal, 70 miles (110 km) north of Delhi; ...
Karnaphuli River: major watercourse of the Chittagong region, Bangladesh. Rising in the Lushai Hills of Mizoram state, India, it flows 170 miles (270 km) south and southwest through the southeastern arm of ...
Karnataka: linguistic region of the Deccan Plateau, south-central India, generally corresponding to Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state. Of irregular shape, and defined as the area in which Kannada (Kanarese) is spoken, Karnataka ...
Karnataka: state of India, located on the western coast of the subcontinent. It has an area of 74,051 square miles (191,791 square kilometres). It is bounded by the states of Goa ...
Karnataka Coast: coastal lowlands in western Karnataka state, southwestern India, with an area of about 4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km). It is bounded by the Arabian Sea on the west, the ...
Karnataka Plateau: plateau in Karnataka state, southern India. The name of the plateau is derived from Karnad (Land of Black Soil). The plateau has an area of about 73,000 sq mi (189,000 ...
Karnatic temple architecture: style of architecture employed largely in the Karnataka (formerly Mysore) area of southern India. Closely allied to the South Indian style, it developed a distinctive idiom in the mid-12th century ...
Karnten: Bundesland (federal province), southern Austria, bordered by Bundeslander Salzburg (north and east) and Steiermark (Styria; north), on the south by Slovenia and Italy, and on the west by East Tirol. ...
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim: Spanish-born Jewish author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Bet Yosef ("House of Joseph"). Its condensation, the Shulhan 'arukh ("The Prepared Table," or "The Well-Laid Table"), is ...
Karolinska Institute: a Swedish institute for medical education and research, founded in 1810. The primary interest of the institute is research; it has achieved international renown for its biomedical research in particular. ...
Karolyi, Mihaly, Count: Hungarian statesman who before World War I desired a reorientation of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy toward friendship with states other than Germany. He also advocated concessions to Hungary's non-Magyar subjects. After ...
Karonga: town, northern Malawi, situated on the western shore of Lake Nyasa. By 1877 Karonga had become the stronghold of the notorious Arab slaver Mlozi. The modern town was founded, however, ...
Karoo: arid to semiarid geographic region of Eastern, Western Cape, and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa. The Karoo is best defined by its vegetation, which consists of assorted succulents and low ...
Karoo System: geologic system of rocks outcropping over a 1,560,000-square-kilometre (600,000-square-mile) area of Africa from the Equator south to the Cape of Good Hope. The time span of the Karoo System extends ...
Karpathos: island of the Dodecanese group in the Aegean Sea, Greece. The principal town of the 116-square-mile (301-square-kilometre) island is Pigadhia in the south behind Pigadhia Bay. Closely tied to the ...
Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich: Russian chess master who dominated world competition from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. See the table of world chess champions.
Karppinen, Pertti: Finnish sculler who won gold medals in three consecutive Olympic single sculls events (1976, 1980, 1984). His Olympic success, coupled with world championships in 1979 and 1985, tied him with ...
Karre Mountains: mountain range, western Central African Republic. The range rises to 4,659 feet (1,420 m) at Mount Gaou, the highest point in the nation. The granite hills, split by southwest-northeast fractures, ...
Karrer, Paul: Swiss chemist who investigated the constitution of carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B₂, for which he shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Sir Norman Haworth of Great ...
Kars: city, northeastern Turkey. Kars is situated on a plateau 5,740 feet (1,750 m) above sea level on the Kars River, a tributary of the Aras River, near the border with ...
Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna: Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Michel Fokine's avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe.
Karsh, Yousuf: Turkish-born Canadian photographer known for his portraits of important personages.
Karshi: city, southern Uzbekistan, in the Karshi oasis, on the Kashka River. At least 1,000 years old, it lay on the caravan route from Samarkand and Bukhara to Afghanistan and India; ...
Karsiyaka: town, west-central Turkey, on the north shore of Izmir Gulf, northwest of Izmir city. It is a shipbuilding centre with port facilities and is now part of Izmir balediya (greater ...
karst: terrain usually characterized by barren, rocky ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, and the absence of surface streams and lakes. It results from the excavating effects of underground water on massive ...
Karter: influential high priest of Zoroastrianism, whose aim was to purge Iran of all other religions, especially the eclectic Manichaeism founded by the 3rd-century Persian prophet Mani. What little is known ...
karting: driving and racing miniature, skeleton-frame, rear-engine automobiles called karts, or GoKarts. The sport originated in the United States in the 1950s after the kart had been devised from unwanted lawn-mower ...
Kartini, Raden Adjeng: Javanese noblewoman whose letters made her an important symbol for the Indonesian independence movement and for Indonesian feminists.
Kartvelian languages: family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus.
Karun River: river in southwestern Iran, a tributary of the Shatt al-Arab, which it joins at Khorramshahr. It rises in the Bakhtiari Mountains west of Esfahan and follows a tortuous course trending ...
karuna: in Buddhism, the perfect virtue of compassion. See brahmavihara.
Karuzi: town, central Burundi. The town, located on the Ndurumu River (a tributary to the Ruvubu), is a market centre with a government dispensary and a place of worship for Roman ...
Karve, Dhondo Keshav: Indian social reformer and educator, noted for supporting the education of women and for organizing associations for the remarriage of Hindu widows.
Karvina: mining city, Severomoravsky kraj (region), Czech Republic. The city is situated east of Ostrava, on the eastern bank of the Olse River, near the Polish frontier. In 1949 its municipal ...
Karzai, Hamid: Afghan politician who was the first elected president of Afghanistan (2004- ).
Kasai River: river in central Africa. It is the chief southern tributary of the Congo River, into which, at Kwamouth, Congo (Kinshasa), 125 miles (200 km) above Malebo (Stanley) Pool, it empties ...
Kasanje: historic African kingdom on the upper Kwango River in what is now Angola. It was founded about 1620 by a group from Lunda, led by a warrior named Kasanje. They ...
Kasaoka: city, southwestern Okayama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, facing the Inland Sea. It was an old temple town until its port flourished during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). The opening of a ...
Kasavubu, Joseph: statesman and first president of the independent Congo republic from 1960 to 1965, who shortly after independence in 1960 ousted the Congo's first premier, Patrice Lumumba, after the breakdown of ...
kasb: (Arabic: "acquisition"), a doctrine in Islam adopted by the theologian al-Ash'ari (d. 935) as a mean between predestination and free will. According to al-Ash'ari, all actions, good and evil, are ...
Kaschnitz, Marie Luise: full name Marie Luise Von Kaschnitz-weinberg, nee Von Holzing Berstett German poet and novelist noted for the hopeful and compassionate viewpoint in her numerous writings.
Kasebier, Gertrude: American portrait photographer who was one of the founders of the influential Photo-Secession group and who is best known for her evocative images of women and domestic scenes.
Kashan: city, west-central Iran. It lies in a desert at the eastern foot of the Central Iranian Range, on a once-important caravan route. It is also on the southeastern branch of ...
Kashan carpet: floor covering of wool or silk handwoven in or near the Iranian city of Kashan, long known for its excellent textiles.
kashf: (Arabic: "uncovering," "revelation"), in Sufism (i.e., Islamic mysticism), the privileged inner knowledge that mystics acquire through personal experience and direct vision of God. The truths revealed through kashf cannot be ...
Kashgar: oasis city in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China. Kashgar lies at the far western end of the Tarim Basin, in a fertile oasis of loess (silt deposited by ...
Kashgar rug: floor covering handwoven at Kashgar (Kashi) in Chinese Turkistan (now the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang). The Kashgar rugs are difficult to distinguish from the similar ones of Khotan (Hotan) ...
Kashi, al-: ranks among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in the Islamic world.
Kashihara: city, Nara Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, in the southern corner of Nara-bonchi (Nara Basin). Of cultural importance since prehistoric times, the city is important to Japanese archaeology. The Kashihara palace ...
Kashiwa: city, Chiba Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, on the Joban Line (railway), northeast of Tokyo city. It was formed in 1954 by the merger of the towns of Kashiwa and Kogane ...
Kashiwazaki: city, Niigata Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, in the Kashiwazaki plain, facing the Sea of Japan. During the Tokugawa era (1603-1867), it was a post town on the Hokuriku-kaido (Hokuriku Highway), ...
Kashkadarya: oblast (province), southern Uzbekistan. Created in 1964, it has an area of 10,950 sq mi (28,400 sq km) and consists largely of the Karshi Steppe, an extensive foothill plain intersected ...
Kashmir: region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. It is bounded to the northeast by the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang and to the east by the Tibet Autonomous Region (both parts ...
Kashmir Saivism: (Sanskrit: Recognition), an important religio-philosophical system of India that worships Lord Siva as the supreme reality. The school is idealistic and monistic, as contrasted with the realistic and dualistic school ...
kashmir shawl: type of woolen shawl woven in Kashmir. According to tradition, the founder of the industry was Zayn-ul-'Abidin, a 15th-century ruler of Kashmir who introduced weavers from Turkistan. Although woolen shawls ...
Kashmir, Vale of: scenic intermontane valley between the main Himalayan ranges (northeast) and the Pir Panjal Range (southwest), in northwestern India. The valley is an ancient lake basin 85 mi (140 km) long, ...
Kashmiri language: language spoken in the Vale of Kashmir and the surrounding hills. By origin it is a Dardic language, but it has become predominantly Indo-Aryan in character. Reflecting the history of ...
kashruth: in Judaism, regulations that prohibit the eating of certain foods and require that other foods be prepared in a specified manner. The term also denotes the state of being kosher ...
Kaska: member of an ancient Anatolian people who inhabited the remote valleys between the northern border of the Hittite kingdom and the Black Sea. The Kaskans did not have a written ...
Kaskaskia: village, Randolph county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It is situated on Kaskaskia Island in the Mississippi River, just west of Chester. Kaskaskia Island is the only portion of Illinois located west ...
Kaskaskia River: partly navigable stream in central and southern Illinois, U.S. It rises in Champaign county near Urbana and flows southwest to enter the Mississippi River north of Chester, in Randolph county, ...
Kaslik, Vaclav: Czech composer and conductor who produced operas for theatre and television.
Kasparov, Garry: Russian chess master who became the world chess champion in 1985. See the table of world chess champions.
Kasperle: most prominent puppet character in Germany and Austria, where Kasperltheater became synonymous with puppet theatre. The character developed in late 17th-century Austria from Hanswurst, the cunning peasant servant of the ...
Kasprowicz, Jan: Polish poet and translator who made an enormous range of classical and modern European literature available to Polish readers.
Kassak, Lajos: poet and novelist, the first important Hungarian working-class writer.