city, Hessen Land (state), central Germany. It lies along the Fulda River, which is a navigable tributary of the Weser River, 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Frankfurt am Main.
member of an ancient people known primarily for establishing the second, or middle, Babylonian dynasty; they were believed (perhaps wrongly) to have originated in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. First mentioned in Elamite texts of the late 3rd millennium BC, ...
city, north-central Turkey. It is situated near the Gok (ancient Amnias) River. It lies in a sparsely populated high basin south of the densely populated Black Sea coastal plain. As Castamon, it was on the northern trunk route to the ...
one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Kastanozems are humus-rich soils that were originally covered with early-maturing native grassland vegetation, which produces a characteristic brown surface layer. They are found ...
easternmost of the Dodecanese (q.v.) group of islands in the Aegean Sea, Greece, just off the southwestern coast of Turkey. Kastellorizon has an area of 3 square miles (7.3 square km). Its present name is a corruption of Chateau-Roux (Red ...
French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966 for his discovery and development of methods for observing Hertzian resonances within atoms.
German satirist, poet, and novelist who is especially known for his children's books. He was the most durable practitioner of the style of witty, laconic writing associated with the highbrow cabaret, the Berlin weekly Die Weltbuhne ("The World Stage"), and ...
town, capital of the nomos (department) of Kastoria, Macedonia, northern Greece. The town stands on a promontory reaching out from the western shore of Lake Kastorias. The lake is formed in a deep hollow that is surrounded by limestone mountains. ...
city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies just northeast of Nagoya, the prefectural capital. Army arsenals were constructed nearby in 1939, and many of their workers were moved into the city. By 1945 the population of Kasugai had reached ...
town, central Malawi. The economy of Kasungu depends mainly on tobacco production, and tourism in the city has developed with the opening of the nearly 914-square-mile (2,367-square-km) Kasungu National Park (1970). The town is situated near the farm where the ...
city, eastern Punjab province, Pakistan. It lies on the border of India about 30 miles (50 km) south of Lahore. Traditionally it is said to have been founded by Kusa, son of the legendary Hindu figure Rama. During the Mughal ...
wind that blows down a slope because of gravity. It occurs at night, when the highlands radiate heat and are cooled. The air in contact with these highlands is thus also cooled, and it becomes denser than the air at ...
town and traditional emirate, Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, on the north bank of the Jamaare River (a tributary of the Hadejia). It was the seat of an emirate founded c. 1809 by Ibrahim Zakiyul Kalbi (also known as Malam [Scholar] ...
highest point (5,269 feet [1,606 metres]) in Maine, U.S. It lies in Baxter State Park, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Millinocket, in Piscataquis county, in the east-central part of the state. This rugged mountain consists of a group of ...
historical region in southeastern Congo (Kinshasa), bordering Lake Tanganyika to the east, Zambia to the south, and Angola to the west. It is coextensive with modern Katanga province. The name Shaba, the region's name during the Zairean period, comes from ...
major division of late Precambrian rocks (the Precambrian era began about 3.8 billion years ago and ended 540 million years ago) in central Africa, especially in Katanga province, Congo (Kinshasa). The Katangan Complex is a complicated array of diverse sedimentary ...
town, southwestern Western Australia. Laid out in 1898, it probably derives its name from the Aboriginal term kartannin ("meeting place"). A market and service centre for the grain and sheep (merino stud and wool) raised on the surrounding Wheat Belt ...
a Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 or 19 syllables arranged in three lines of either 5, 7, and 5 or 5, 7, and 7 syllables. The form was used for poems addressed to a lover, and a single ...
Soviet novelist and playwright whose lighthearted, satirical treatment of postrevolutionary social conditions rose above the generally uninspired official Soviet style.
town and capital of the nomos (department) of Pieria, Macedonia, northern Greece. It is an agricultural and tobacco centre on the plain of Pieria. Its port on the Gulf of Thermai, Paralia, is one of the few landing places along ...
one of the main forms of classical dance-drama of India, other major ones being bharata-natya, kathakali, manipuri, kuchipudi, and orissi. Kathak is indigenous to northern India and developed under the influence of both Hindu and Muslim cultures. Kathak is characterized ...
one of the main forms of classical dance-drama of India, other major ones being bharata-natya, kathak, manipuri, kuchipudi, and orissi. It is indigenous to southwestern India (Kerala) and is a dance-drama based on subject matter from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, ...
a "purist" variety of modern Greek, which until 1976 was the official written language of Greece. Katharevusa was used in government and judiciary documents as well as in most newspapers and technical publications. In 1976 it was replaced by Demotic ...
town, north-central Northern Territory, Australia. It lies along the Katherine River and on the Stuart Highway, 165 miles (266 km) southeast of Darwin. The river was explored in 1862 by John McDouall Stuart and named by him for the daughter ...
peninsula in southwestern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is bounded by the Little Rann (marsh) of Kachchh (Kutch; north), the Gulf of Cambay (east), the Arabian Sea (southwest), and the Gulf of Kachchh (northwest). From the northeast an ancient sandstone ...
former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, in the inland Hadhramaut region now included in Yemen. The sultanate, with its capital at Saywun (Say'un), once extended from the Wadi Hadramawt, an intermittent stream, northward to the Rub' al-Khali, the ...
capital of Nepal. It lies near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers, at an elevation of 4,344 feet (1,324 metres) above sea level. It was founded in 723 by Raja Gunakamadeva. Its early name was Manju-Patan; the present ...
town, northeastern Bihar state, northeastern India. Katihar is situated east of the Saura River, a tributary of the Ganges. It is a major road and rail junction with railway workshops and is engaged in agricultural trade. Industries include rice, jute, ...
town, central Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Katiola is situated along the road and railroad running from Abidjan, the national capital, to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). A traditional trade centre (yams, tobacco, cattle, and sheep) among the Baule (Baoule), ...
("Supreme Worshipful Association of the Sons of the People"), Filipino nationalist organization founded in 1892 to oppose Spanish rule. The organization numbered anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 members. The Filipino nationalist Emilio Aguinaldo was the leader of this group, which ...
Russian journalist who exercised a high degree of influence in government circles during the reigns of Alexander II (reigned 1855-81) and Alexander III (reigned 1881-94).
large area of wilderness and unique geologic features in southwestern Alaska, U.S., at the head of the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait. Katmai was designated a national monument in 1918 after the violent eruption of Novarupta Volcano there in 1912. ...
ancient Syrian city, Syria. It prospered especially during the 2nd millennium BC and was frequently named as Qatanum in the royal archives of Mari on the Euphrates. Excavations there in 1924-29 revealed a temple dedicated to the Sumerian goddess Nin-E-Gal. ...
(Baron) Japanese writer, educator, and political theorist who was influential in introducing Western ideas into 19th-century Japan. After the fall of the shogunate in 1868, he served as one of the primary formulators of Japan's administrative policy.
Japanese military leader who helped both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu in their attempts to unify Japan. As an ardent Buddhist, he also led the struggle to ban Christianity from Japan.
state, north-central Nigeria. It was formed from the northern half of Kaduna state in 1987. Katsina is bordered by the Republic of Niger to the north and by the Nigerian states of Yobe and Kano to the east, Kaduna to ...
historic kingdom and emirate in northern Nigeria. According to tradition, the kingdom, one of the Hausa Bakwai ("Seven True Hausa States"), was founded in the 10th or 11th century. Islam was introduced in the 1450s, and Muhammad Korau (reigned late ...
town, capital of Katsina state, northern Nigeria, near the Niger border. Probably founded about 1100 near Ambuttai, which was the residence of Katsina's Hausa kings and the annual meeting place for the rulers of nearby Durbi, the town was named ...
Japanese naval officer who reformed his country's navy and played a mediatory role in the Meiji Restoration-the overthrow in 1868 of the shogun (hereditary military dictator of Japan) and restoration of power to the emperor. He was one of the ...
Japanese actor whose portrayal of Zatoichi, a blind master swordsman, in a series of motion pictures and on television brought him fame and influenced similar films in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
group of buildings located in the southwest suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. The complex was originally built as a princely estate in the early 17th century and lies on the bank of the Katsura River, which supplies the water for its ...
