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Khor Mor Oil and Gas Field
Khor Mor, also spelled Kor Mor, is a natural gas field in Sulaymaniyah governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, operated by Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum since 2008.
Khor Shingawi
Khor Shingawi is an archaeological site on the Nile in Sudan's fourth-cataract region, containing a roughly 20-room building of different shape and function that has never been excavated.
Khoramrud
Khoramrud (Khorramrud, Khuramrud) is a Parthian-period cemetery site in the Dailaman district, Gilan, Iran, excavated in 1960 by Tokyo University's expedition under Namio Egami; 17 looted tombs in Area A, one unlooted tomb, published in Dailaman II (1966).
Khorana score
The Khorana score is a five-variable risk-prediction model estimating the risk of venous thromboembolism in ambulatory cancer patients starting chemotherapy, introduced by Alok Khorana and colleagues in 2008 and endorsed by major guidelines.
Khorasan Fossa
Khorasan Fossa is a 290 km IAU-approved fossa (trough) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, centered at 19°S, 236.87°W, named for a province in the Arabian Nights tale Ali Shar and Zumurrud.
Khorasan school of metalwork
The Khorasan school of metalwork produced bronze and brass wares inlaid with silver, copper, or gold in eastern Iran, mainly at Herat, until the Mongol invasion of 1219.
Khorasan wheat
Khorasan wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum, Kamut brand wheat) is a tetraploid ancient wheat from the Persian province of Khorasan, marketed under the KAMUT trademark and studied in clinical trials versus modern wheat.
Khorasani style
The Khorasani style (sabk-e Khorasani) is the first school of classical Persian poetry, arising in eastern Iran, Sistan, and Transoxiana with simple language, few Arabic words, and poets like Ferdowsi.
Khorat Plateau
Khorat Plateau (ที่ราบสูงโคราช), also called Isan when within Thailand, is a saucer-shaped lowland basin in northeast Thailand extending into Laos and Cambodia; Mesozoic Khorat Group rocks, Mun-Chi drainage, two basins split by the Phu Phan Range.
Khorat Plateau (Mekong)
Khorat Plateau (Mekong), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 727 in Thailand and Laos: the 155,000 km2 Khorat Plateau drained by the Mun River into the Mekong, with nearly 50 endemic fish species and critically endangered Mekong giant catfish.
Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark
Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark (Thailand's second UGGp, designated 2023) in Nakhon Ratchasima Province: 3,167.38 km² of cuestas and Khorat Group red beds, famed for dinosaur, ancient elephant, and petrified wood fossils and Home-Temple-School community management.
Khorchin Mongols
The Khorchin Mongols (Хорчин) are a Mongol people of Inner Mongolia, China, descended from Khasar, a brother of Chinggis Khan, and among the first Mongols to ally with the Manchus.
Khorev
Khorev (Хорев) is a five-act tragedy by Aleksandr Sumarokov, published in 1747 and set in legendary Kiev under Prince Kii; it was the first classicist tragedy in Russian literature.
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic was a formally independent state in Central Asia from 1920 to 1924, created by the Bolsheviks from the former Khanate of Khiva.
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Khorloogiin Choibalsan (Хорлоогийн Чойбалсан, 1895–1952) was a Mongolian revolutionary and communist leader who ruled the Mongolian People's Republic as premier from 1939, overseeing the Stalinist purges of 1937 to 1939.
Khoroshiv Raion
Khoroshiv Raion (Khoroshivskyi raion), formerly Volodarsk-Volynskyi Raion, a district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, 1923-2020; center Khoroshiv; abolished 17 July 2020, territory to Zhytomyr Raion; known for Volyn pegmatites and ilmenite.
Khorramabad, Lorestan Province
Khorramabad (خرمآباد, Luri Khormuve), capital of Lorestan Province, Iran, in the Central Zagros; 373,415 people (2016 census), Falak al-aflak citadel, and 2025 UNESCO World Heritage prehistoric cave sites.
Khorramshahr
Khorramshahr (خرمشهر), formerly Mohammara, is a port city in Khuzestan, Iran, at the Karun-Shatt al-Arab confluence. Iran's leading commercial harbor by the 1960s, it was destroyed and occupied by Iraq in 1980 and retaken in May 1982.
Khorsabad Annals
The Khorsabad Annals, also called the Annals of Sargon II, are annalistic royal inscriptions engraved on wall slabs of Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq.
Khorsabad Palace F
Khorsabad Palace F: Neo-Assyrian arsenal of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin, Iraq, south of the city, crossing the wall on an elevated terrace; its throne room is the type example of the Assyrian reception suite.
Khorsabad Residence J
Khorsabad Residence J: one of four dignitaries' residences (K, L, J, M) at the foot of Sargon II's palace on the Dur-Sharrukin citadel; simplified two-apartment plan, single bathroom, tentatively occupied by senior eunuchs.
Khorsabad Residence K
Khorsabad Residence K, a dignitary's palace-residence on the western citadel of Dur-Sharrukin, built under Sargon II (721-705 BC), excavated by the Oriental Institute 1929-1935, famed for a 13-metre royal wall painting found in 1934.
Khorsabad Residence L
Khorsabad Residence L: a large dignitary's residence at Dur-Sharrukin, at the foot of Sargon II's palace on the citadel, identified by a pavement slab inscription as the house of Sîn-aḫu-uṣur, grand vizier and brother of Sargon II.
Khorsabad Residence M
Khorsabad Residence M, one of four dignitaries' residences (K, L, J, M) on the citadel of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's capital; three suites, hilani-style wings, possible harem areas, likely male royals or courtiers.
Khorsabad ziggurat
Khorsabad ziggurat: temple-tower of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's Assyrian capital near Mosul, founded 717 BCE. Four stories painted white, black, red, blue; 43-meter square base; disputed spiral stair.
Khosedem Fossae
Khosedem Fossae is an IAU-approved fossa (long, narrow depression) on Venus, 1,800 km across, centered at 13°S, 303°E, named in 1997 for a Ket (Yenisey River) evil goddess.
Khoshut conquest of Tibet
Khoshut conquest of Tibet: 1637–1642 campaigns by Güshi Khan of the Oirat Khoshuts, defeating Chogtu Taiji, the Beri chieftain, and the Tsangpa king Karma Tenkyong, establishing the Khoshut Khanate and Ganden Phodrang government under the Fifth Dalai Lama.
Khoshut Khanate
Khoshut Khanate (Хошууд), Oirat Mongol khanate on the Tibetan Plateau, 1642–1717. Founded by Güshi Khan after his 1637–1642 campaign for the Gelug school; its kings ruled Tibet while the Fifth Dalai Lama held spiritual authority, until the 1717 Dzungar conquest killed Lhazang Khan and Qing annexation followed in 1720–1723.
Khosla Ka Ghosla (खोसला का घोसला)
Khosla Ka Ghosla (खोसला का घोसला) is Dibakar Banerjee's 2006 Hindi comedy-drama debut, written by Jaideep Sahni, in which Anupam Kher's Delhi family cons land shark Boman Irani to reclaim their plot; it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla in Menlo Park, California, known for early investments in OpenAI, DoorDash, and Block.