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Khirbet el-Ein

Khirbet el-Ein is an archaeological site in the Judean Shephelah, known for a hewn burial cave of the first century CE, in use during the Bar Kokhba Revolt.

Khirbet el-Kithara (خربة كثارة, Qasr el-Kithara) is a small Roman fort, about 0.12 ha, on the via nova Traiana in Wadi Yutm, southern Jordan, 20 km north of Aqaba, with Nabataean to Byzantine occupation and a 112 CE Trajanic milestone.

Khirbet el-Qirana

Khirbet el-Qirana (Khirbat el-Qirana), southern Jordan archaeological site 18 km southeast of Es Sadaqa: a roughly 120 x 80 m rectangular fortified enclosure with corner and mid-wall towers, first to second century AD ceramics, possibly the Notitia Dignitatum site Sabure sive Veterocariae.

Khirbet el-Qom inscription

The Khirbet el-Qom inscription is an 8th-century BC Hebrew votive graffito from a burial cave in Judah, blessing a man named Uriyahu by Yahweh and his asherah.

Khirbet el-Qutt

Khirbet el-Qutt is a hilltop archaeological site in southern Samaria, in the West Bank, whose settlement peaked in the Second Temple period, ending with the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Khirbet er-Ra'i

Khirbet er-Ra'i, also known as Khirbet al-Ra'i, is an archaeological site in the Judean Shephelah near Tel Lachish, proposed as the biblical town of Ziklag.

Khirbet et-Tannur

Khirbet et-Tannur is a Nabataean hilltop temple complex in Jordan, southeast of the Dead Sea, in use from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD.

Khirbet ez-Zona

Khirbet ez-Zona (Khirbat az-Zuna) is a small late Roman castellum, about 40 x 36 m with corner towers, in Amman Governorate, Jordan, on the Limes Arabicus, occupied about AD 300 to the early 7th century and possibly garrisoned by the Cohors VIII Voluntariorum.

Khirbet Kerak

Khirbet Kerak, also known as Beth Yerah or Khirbet el-Kerak, is an Early Bronze Age tell on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.

Khirbet Mudayna as-Saliya

Khirbet Mudayna as-Saliya is a fortress site on an isolated promontory near the eastern end of the Wadi Mujib in central Jordan, peaking in the late Hellenistic–early Roman period.

Oct 20, 2026

Khirbet Qazone

Khirbet Qazone, also known as Khirbat Qazun, is a large ancient cemetery on the southeastern shore of the Dead Sea in Jordan, serving a Nabataean community.

Khirbet Qeiyafa

Khirbet Qeiyafa, also known as Horvat Qeiyafa or the Elah Fortress, is a fortified early 10th-century BCE hilltop city in the Elah Valley, excavated from 2007 to 2013.

Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon

The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a five-line ink inscription on a pottery sherd, dated to about 1000 BC and found at the fortified site of Khirbet Qeiyafa in Israel.

Khirer Putul

Khirer Putul (ক্ষীরের পুতুল, "The Doll of Condensed Milk") is a Bengali children's fairy tale by Abanindranath Tagore, first published in 1896 and regarded as an early landmark of Bengali children's literature.

Khirsara

Khirsara, also spelled Khirasara, is a fortified Mature Harappan settlement in Kachchh district, Gujarat, India, about 85 km from Bhuj, excavated by the ASI from 2009 as a major industrial and trading center.

Sep 27, 2026

Khiru Mahto

Khiru Mahto is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician who represents Bihar in the Rajya Sabha for the 2022 to 2028 term, after serving in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly.

Khisht tepe

Khisht tepe (Khisht Tepe, Khishttepa) names several archaeological sites: an Afghan site with doubtful Kushan-script inscriptions, and a Buddhist temple in Tajikistan's Ancient Khuttal UNESCO property, inscribed 2025.

Khit San

Khit San, meaning "testing the times," was a literary movement that arose among Rangoon University students in 1930s colonial Burma and laid the foundation of modern Burmese literature.

Khita of Awan

Khita, also written Hita, was a ruler of Awan in ancient western Iran around 2250 BC, known as the Elamite partner in an alliance with Naram-Sin of Akkad.

Sep 17, 2026

Khitan (ختان) (circumcision)

Khitan (ختان), also known as Khatna or Sünnet, is the Arabic term for male circumcision in Islam, a near-universal practice whose obligation varies by school of law.

Sep 24, 2026

Khitan destruction of the Later Jin

The Khitan destruction of the Later Jin (契丹灭后晋) was the war in which Yelü Deguang's Khitan army invaded the Later Jin dynasty after Shi Chonggui refused subjection.

Khitan large script

The Khitan large script (契丹大字) is a writing system for the Khitan language, created under Emperor Taizu of Liao around 920 from adapted Chinese characters.

Sep 17, 2026

Khitan people

Khitan (契丹, Хятан), Mongolic-speaking nomads of Manchuria who founded the Liao empire (907-1125), fell to the Jurchen Jin, left the partially deciphered Khitan scripts, and gave China the name Cathay; modern Daur descent debated.

Sep 25, 2026

Khitan proclamation of Abaoji as emperor

The Khitan proclamation of Abaoji as emperor was his transformation of the Khitan tribal confederacy into a monarchical state, becoming khan in 907 and proclaiming emperor in 916.

Sep 24, 2026

Khitan rebellion of 696

The Khitan rebellion of 696 (契丹之亂) was a Khitan uprising under Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong against Empress Wu's Zhou dynasty, which destroyed two Chinese armies.

Khitat of al-Maqrizi

The Khitat of al-Maqrizi, full title al-Mawaiz wa-l-itibar, is a topographical and historical encyclopedia of Egypt and its capital Cairo, written by the Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi.

Khitsan movement

The Khitsan movement (ခေတ်စမ်း, "testing the age") was a 1930s Burmese literary movement of Rangoon University students that replaced ornate court prose with colloquial writing about everyday life.

Khivan Revolution

The Khivan Revolution was the 1919 to 1920 overthrow of the Khanate of Khiva by Young Khivan reformers, communists, and Turkmen leaders backed by the Red Army, which replaced it with the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic.

Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana

Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana (1900–1975) was premier of colonial Punjab from 1942 to 1947, leading the Unionist Party and opposing Jinnah's Pakistan movement before resigning in March 1947.