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Kakawin

Kakawin is a genre of classical narrative poetry in Old Javanese, composed in Java from the ninth through the fifteenth centuries and continued in Bali, where the tradition remains alive.

Kakawin Arjunawijaya is an Old Javanese court poem composed by the Majapahit poet Mpu Tantular in the late 14th century, retelling the war between King Arjuna Sahasrabahu and the rakshasa king Rawana.

Kakawin Arjunawiwaha

Kakawin Arjunawiwaha, meaning "the marriage of Arjuna", is an Old Javanese court poem composed by Mpu Kanwa around 1030 during King Airlangga's reign in East Java.

Kakawin Bharatayuddha

Kakawin Bharatayuddha, meaning "The War of the Bharatas," is an Old Javanese court epic retelling the Mahabharata war, begun in 1157 at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri.

Kakawin Hariwangsa

Kakawin Hariwangsa is an Old Javanese poem by Mpu Panuluh, written at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri around 1135 to 1157, telling of Krishna's abduction of Rukmini.

Kakawin Parthayajna

Kakawin Parthayadnya, also known as Parthayana, is an Old Javanese court poem telling of Arjuna's journey to Mount Indrakīla, traditionally attributed to Mpu Tantular of fourteenth-century Majapahit.

Kakawin Ramayana

The Kakawin Ramayana (Kakawin Rāmāyaṇa) is an Old Javanese verse retelling of the Rama story, generally regarded as the earliest surviving Old Javanese kakawin, composed around the 9th or 10th century and used to teach statesmanship.

Kakawin Sutasoma

The Kakawin Sutasoma is an Old Javanese court poem by Mpu Tantular, written in Majapahit in the late 14th century and source of Indonesia's motto.

Kake, Alaska

Kake, Alaska: a first-class Tlingit city on Kupreanof Island's northwest coast, 95 air miles southwest of Juneau. Incorporated 1912; population about 624; home to a 132-foot totem pole and the Kake Cannery National Historic Landmark.

Kakegurui (賭ケグルイ) (2017 TV series)

Kakegurui (賭ケグルイ), the 2017 MAPPA TV anime of Kawamoto and Naomura's gambling manga, aired 12 episodes from July 1, 2017, directed by Yuichiro Hayashi, distinct from the 2018 live-action drama and the 2019 season Kakegurui××.

Kakemono

Kakemono, also called kakejiku, is a Japanese hanging scroll bearing a painting or calligraphy on paper or silk; of Chinese origin, it reached Japan in the sixth century with Buddhism.

Oct 10, 2026

Kakenya Ntaiya

Kakenya Ntaiya is a Kenyan Maasai educator and advocate who founded the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a network of girls' boarding schools in Narok County, Kenya.

Kakeya conjecture

The Kakeya conjecture is a mathematical conjecture stating that sets containing a line segment in every direction have full dimension, proved in the plane and in 3D in 2025.

Kakeya problem over finite fields

The Kakeya problem over finite fields asks how small a set containing a line in every direction must be; Zeev Dvir proved in 2008 it must have size on the order of q^n.

Kakha Kaladze

Kakha Kaladze (Kakhaber Kaladze), born 1978, Georgian defender for Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan (two Champions Leagues), and Genoa; 83 Georgia caps; now Georgian Dream politician and mayor of Tbilisi since 2017.

Kakheti uprising of 1812

The Kakheti uprising of 1812 (კახეთის აჯანყება) was a rebellion against Russian rule in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, begun in January 1812 and claiming over 5,000 lives.

Kakhovka Dam (Каховская ГЭС)

Kakhovka Dam, also known as the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, was a dam on the Dnipro River in Ukraine, destroyed in an explosion on 6 June 2023.

Oct 21, 2026

Kakhovka Raion

Kakhovka Raion is a district of the Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, formed in 2020 and administered from the city of Kakhovka.

Kakhovka Reservoir (Каховське водосховище)

Kakhovka Reservoir, also known as Kakhovka Lake (Каховське водосховище), was one of six large Dnipro River reservoirs in Ukraine, created in the 1950s and destroyed in 2023.

Kaki

Kaki (กากี) is a Thai verse narrative about Queen Kaki, whose beauty draws three men into rivalry and ends with her set adrift at sea.

Kakiemon

Kakiemon (柿右衛門) is the hereditary name of a family of Arita potters in Japan, active since the 17th century, known for red-decorated overglaze enamel porcelain.

Kakinada (కాకినాడ)

Kakinada (కాకినాడ), also historically Cocanada, is a port and industrial city in Andhra Pradesh, India, headquarters of Kakinada district, known for its anchorage and deep-water ports, KG-Basin gas industry, fertilizer plants, and Smart Cities projects.