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Khizr Khoja
Khizr Khoja, also written Khizir Khwaja Khan, was khan of Moghulistan from about 1389 to 1399 who conquered Turfan and Kara-Khoja and converted their inhabitants to Islam.
KHJ (AM)
KHJ is a 930 kHz AM radio station in Los Angeles, licensed in 1922 and best known for the Boss Radio Top 40 format it launched in 1965.
Khleo Thomas
Khleo Thomas (born Khaleed Leon Thomas, 1989, Anchorage, Alaska) is the American actor who played Zero in Holes (2003); later Walking Tall, Roll Bounce, Shameless, plus rapper, Twitch streamer, and Slick Living brand founder.
Khloé Kardashian
Khloé Kardashian (Khloé Alexandra Kardashian), American reality TV star, entrepreneur, and executive producer of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Kardashians on Hulu, Good American, and The Girls.
Khlong
Khlong (โคลง) is a Thai verse form, one of the five principal Thai poetic meters, of native origin, used since the early Ayutthaya period and defined by required tones at fixed positions.
Khlysts
The Khlysts, or Khristovery (Christ Believers), were members of a Russian mystical sect that emerged in the seventeenth century and survived persecution into the twentieth.
Khmeimim Air Base (قاعدة حميميم الجوية)
Khmeimim Air Base (قاعدة حميميم الجوية), also called Hmeymim Air Base, is a Syrian air base near Latakia that hosted Russia's air campaign in Syria from 2015.
Khmelnytsky pogroms
Khmelnytsky pogroms: massacres of Jewish communities during Bohdan Khmelnytsky's 1648-1649 Cossack uprising in Ukraine, known in Jewish memory as Gzerot Takh-ve-Tat; distinct from the 1919 Proskuriv pogrom in the city later renamed Khmelnytsky.
Khmelnytsky Uprising
Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648), Cossack revolt led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, creating the Cossack Hetmanate, with major battles at Korsun, Zboriv, and Berestechko and the 1654 Pereiaslav agreement with Muscovy.
Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький)
Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький), formerly Proskuriv and Ploskiriv, is a western Ukrainian city and oblast center on the Southern Buh, first recorded in 1431, renamed in 1954 for Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, with about 270,000 residents.
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Хмельницька область), a western-central Ukrainian oblast created 22 September 1937 as Kamianets-Podilska and renamed 1954; area 20.6 thousand km², population about 1.23 million, center Khmelnytskyi.
Khmelnytskyy Raion
Khmelnytskyy Raion (Хмельницький район), an enlarged district of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, created 19 July 2020; center Khmelnytskyi; 10,768.3 km², 27 hromadas, about 672,000 residents, distinct from the smaller pre-2020 raion of the same name.
Khmer bronze casting
Khmer bronze casting is the tradition of casting copper-alloy sculpture and ritual objects in Cambodia and neighboring regions, from prehistoric times through the Angkorian empire, using the lost-wax method.
Khmer conquest of Champa
The Khmer conquest of Champa was the seizure of the Cham kingdom of central and southern Vietnam by the Khmer Empire under King Jayavarman VII, between 1190 and 1203.
Khmer Empire
Khmer Empire: Southeast Asian state, 802–1431 CE, ruled from capitals at Angkor (Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom) and Koh Ker; distinguished by temple-mountain architecture, a 1,000+ km2 hydraulic network, and a climate-linked, gradual decline from the 14th century.
Khmer inscriptions of Angkor
The Khmer inscriptions of Angkor are a corpus of about 1,400 Sanskrit and Old Khmer stone inscriptions from fifth- to fourteenth-century Cambodia, the only surviving written documents of the era.
Khmer invasion of Champa under Jayavarman VII (1190–1220)
The Khmer invasion of Champa under Jayavarman VII was the conquest of the Cham kingdom by the Khmer Empire from 1190, ending with the Khmer withdrawal in 1220.
Khmer Issarak
Khmer Issarak, meaning "Independent Khmer" or "Free Khmer," was a loose movement of anti-French guerrilla bands, backed by Thailand and the Viet Minh, that fought for Cambodian independence from the mid-1940s until France withdrew in 1954.
Khmer Krom
The Khmer Krom (ខ្មែរក្រោម, "lower Khmer") are the ethnic Khmer minority of southern Vietnam, living in the Mekong Delta, speaking Khmer, and practicing Theravada Buddhism.
Khmer language
Khmer, also known as Cambodian (ភាសាខ្មែរ), is the national language of Cambodia and, with Vietnamese, one of the two national languages of the Austroasiatic family.
Khmer National Armed Forces
The Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) were the military forces of the Khmer Republic in Cambodia from 1970 to 1975, defeated by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975.
Khmer novel
The Khmer novel (ប្រលោមលោកខ្មែរ) is the prose fiction tradition of Cambodia written in Khmer, beginning with Rim Kin's Sophat, written in 1938 and published in 1942.
Khmer people
Khmer people: Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group of Cambodia, heirs of the 9th–15th century Khmer Empire of Angkor; 95.8% of Cambodia's population; Theravada Buddhist; Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam; large Thai labor migrant and US diaspora populations.
Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces
The Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces (KPNLAF) was the military wing of Son Sann's non-communist Khmer resistance, formed in 1979 and demobilized after the 1991 Paris peace agreement.
Khmer People's National Liberation Front
The Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) was a noncommunist Cambodian resistance organization founded in October 1979 by former prime minister Son Sann to oppose Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia.
Khmer Republic (សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ)
Khmer Republic (សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ), the Cambodian state of 1970–1975 proclaimed after Lon Nol's coup deposed Sihanouk; ruled by Lon Nol, fought the civil war, and fell to the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975.
Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម)
The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម, Red Khmers) was the Communist Party of Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia as Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 under Pol Pot.
Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, formally the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), was a hybrid Cambodian-UN court that tried senior Khmer Rouge leaders, convicting Duch, Nuon Chea, and Khieu Samphan for 1975–1979 crimes.
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ), also known as the Cambodian alphabet, is an abugida descended from the Brahmi script of South India, first attested at Angkor Borei in 611 A.D.
Khmer Serei
The Khmer Serei (ខ្មែរសេរី, "Free Khmer") was an anti-communist, anti-monarchist guerrilla movement founded by Sơn Ngọc Thành in the late 1950s to overthrow Prince Sihanouk's government, dissolving in 1970.