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Kariba Dam: concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Completed in 1959, the structure is 420 feet (128 m) high with a crest 1,899 feet (579 m) in length and a volume ...
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 miles (400 km) below Victoria Falls. After 1960 the hydroelectric ...
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 regions in the vicinity of Port Hedland and part of ...
Karim Khan Zand: first Zand ruler of Iran. He restored peace to the kingdom after the strife following the collapse of the Safavid dynasty.
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 of Uganda and the Turkana of neighbouring Kenya. They speak ...
Karina, Anna: Danish beauty prominently featured in French films of the 1960s, notably in those directed by her husband Jean-Luc Godard.
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 km) northeast of Goma, Congo, in the Virunga National Park. ...
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 during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). The city became a station ...
Karkar: ancient fortress on the Orontes River, northwest of Hamah, in western Syria. It was the site of two ancient battles.
Karkavitsas, Andreas: Greek novelist and short-story writer whose subject was village life.
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 Mountains, which extend in a roughly east-west direction between the ...
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 compounds from the patterns formed when X rays are diffracted ...
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 part because of his position as secretary to the Swedish ...
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.
Karloff, Boris: English actor who became internationally famous for his sympathetic and chilling portrayal of the monster in the classic horror film Frankenstein (1931).
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. An important railway and road junction, Karlovac has a considerable ...
Karlovy Vary: spa city, Zapadocesky kraj (region), 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 surrounding highland areas were once subject to ...
Karlskoga: town, in the lan (county) of Orebro, south-central Sweden, at the north end of Mockeln (lake). Karlskoga is a modern industrial town that was incorporated in 1940. With the exception of the church (c. 1400), most of its important buildings ...
Karlskrona: town and port, capital of the lan (county) of Blekinge, southern Sweden, on the Baltic coast. Founded by Charles XI in 1679 as a Baltic base, it has been Sweden's chief naval base ever since. Karlskrona was carefully planned as ...
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 River. It was once the capital of the former Baden ...
Karlsruhe: Regierungsbezirk (administrative district), northwestern Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. Karlsruhe is bordered by France and Rhineland-Palatinate Land to the west, the Lander of Hesse and Bavaria to the north, and the Regierungsbezirke of Stuttgart and Tubingen to the east and ...
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 called Tingvalla after the ting, or meetings of the legislature, ...
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 running north-south, Karm Island is about 19 miles (31 km) ...
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 with his religious sensibility exemplify the former; his fondness for ...
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 in a chain of lives (samsara) and that it is ...
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 its Third Cataract. An American expedition from Harvard University carried ...
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 Technology later became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...
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) to Zefat (Safed). One of Israel's development towns, Karmi'el is ...
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 the ruins of the Great Temple of Amon.
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 be derived from that of Karna, a warrior in the ...
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; the Mughals suffered a decisive defeat. Nadir led about 55,000 ...
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 Bangladesh to empty into the Bay of Bengal, 12 miles ...
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 and Maharashtra to the north, Andhra Pradesh to the east, ...
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 was unified during the Vijayanagar kingdom (c. 1300-1600) until successive ...
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 Western Ghats on the east, Konkan on the north, and ...
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 sq km) and an average elevation of about 2,600 ft ...
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 under the Hoysala dynasty.
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. Drained by the Drava (Drau), Gail, Moll, Gurk, and Lavant ...
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 still authoritative for Orthodox Jewry.
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. As a centre of medical education, the Karolinska Institute trains ...
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 the war, as president of the Hungarian Democratic Republic in ...
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, with the opening of a British trading post there in ...
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 scrub bushes spaced from one foot to several feet apart. ...
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 from the Permian or Carboniferous Period (about 286 million years ...
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 island of Rhodes in antiquity and the Middle Ages, 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 Peter-Michael Kolbe of Germany as the only five-time single sculls ...
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, extend westward across the border into Cameroon. Their southward and ...