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Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg, known in German as Kolberg, is a seaside town and health resort in West Pomerania, Poland, at the mouth of the Parsęta River on the Baltic Sea.
Kologrivsky Forest Biosphere Reserve
Kologrivsky Forest Biosphere Reserve (Биосферный резерват «Кологривский лес»), a UNESCO MAB site since 2020 in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, protecting old-growth southern taiga around the Kologrivsky Forest State Nature Reserve, established 2006 and named after M.G. Sinitsyn.
Kololo migration
The Kololo migration was the northward movement of a Sotho-speaking people led by Sebetwane from South Africa across Botswana to the upper Zambezi, conquering the Lozi kingdom around 1838.
Kololo people
The Kololo, also rendered Makololo or baKololo, were a Sotho-speaking people who under Sebetwane conquered the Lozi kingdom of Bulozi and ruled it from about 1840 to 1864.
Koloma
Koloma is a Denver-based natural hydrogen exploration company founded in 2021, targeting hydrogen gas generated and trapped underground rather than manufactured, and raised $245 million in early 2024.
Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser, known as Kolo Moser, was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession in 1897 and the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903.
Kolombangara Island
Kolombangara Island (Nduke), Solomon Islands: a near-circular extinct Pleistocene stratovolcano in Western Province, about 30 km across, 1,760 m high, with a 20,000 ha protected area above 400 m and endemic birds.
Kolombo (musician)
Kolombo, real name Olivier Grégoire, is a Belgian house producer and DJ from Namur, known for the 2012 track "My Own Business" and his label Loulou Records.
Kolomna
Kolomna (Коломна), an ancient city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, at the Moskva-Oka confluence, first recorded 1177; known for its 1525–1531 Kremlin, locomotive industry, 132,000 residents, and distinct from the Saint Petersburg municipal okrug of the same name.
Kolomyya Raion
Kolomyya Raion (Коломийський район), a district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Kolomyia; created 17 July 2020 by resolution 807-IX, 190 settlements, 13 hromadas, area about 2477 km², population about 277,700.
Kolon Industries
Kolon Industries (코오롱인더스트리) is a South Korean chemical and materials company founded in 1957 as Korea Nylon, headquartered in Seoul and known for its Heracron aramid fiber.
Kolona
Kolona (Κολώνα), also Kolonna, is the archaeological site of Aegina's main settlement on a Saronic Gulf promontory: a Bronze Age trade center, earliest ranked society outside Crete, later sanctuary of Apollo with one surviving column.
Kolonai (Greece)
Kolonai (Κολωναί), ancient Greek coastal settlement in the Troad on Besiktepe hill near Ezine, Turkey; Archaic to Hellenistic, minted its own coinage, mythic seat of Kyknos, absorbed by Alexandreia Troas.
Kolonos
Kolonos (Κολωνός) names two Athenian hills: Kolonos Agoraios, the Agora hill bearing the Hephaisteion, and Kolonos Hippios, Poseidon's sacred grove, setting of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and site of the 411 BC oligarchic assembly.
Kolors
Kolors is a large-scale text-to-image generation model based on latent diffusion, developed by Kuaishou, bilingual in Chinese and English, released as open weights on 6 July 2024.
Kolpak-20 helmet
The Kolpak-20 is a Russian ballistic helmet made since 2022 by NPO Spetsmaterialov in St. Petersburg from old SSh-40 and SSh-60 steel shells reinforced with UHMWPE.
Kolpino
Kolpino (Колпино) is an industrial satellite city in southeastern Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1722 around the Izhora Admiralty plants; town status 1912, about 144,000 residents, home of the Izhora Plants.
Kolportageroman
A Kolportageroman was a long German-language novel of the 19th century, sold in installments of 16 to 48 pages by peddlers and read mainly by factory workers and domestic servants.
Kolsai Kolderi Biosphere Reserve
Kolsai Kolderi (Көлсай көлдері) is a 242,085-ha UNESCO biosphere reserve in the northern Tien Shan of Kazakhstan, designated 2021 around the Kolsai lakes, Lake Kaindy, Schrenk's spruce forests and snow leopard habitat.
Kölsch (beer)
Kölsch is Cologne's pale, top-fermented, hop-accented full beer, about 4.8% alcohol, served in 0.2-liter Stange glasses; protected by the 1985/1986 Kölsch-Konvention and an EU protected geographical indication.
Kölsch (musician)
Kölsch is the main alias of Rune Reilly Kölsch, a Danish melodic techno producer known for the 2003 hit 'Calabria' and the albums 1977, 1983, and 1989.
Kolten Wong
Kolten Wong (Kolten Kaha Wong), born 1990 in Hilo, Hawaii, is an MLB second baseman for the Cardinals, Brewers, Mariners, and Dodgers; two-time Gold Glove winner (2019-20), drafted 22nd overall in 2011, career .256 with 973 hits.
Kolter
Kolter, formerly known as DJOKO, is the alias of Johannes Kolter, a German house DJ and producer from Cologne who founded the label Koltrax and co-founded Hoove.
Kolubara B Coal Mine
The Kolubara B Coal Mine was a lignite open pit in Serbia's Kolubara basin, opened in 1952 and operated by Electric Power Industry of Serbia.
Kolubara D & E Coal Mine
The Kolubara D & E Coal Mine is an operating surface lignite mine near Lazarevac in central Serbia, owned by state utility Elektroprivreda Srbije, with reserves of 400 million tonnes.
Kolumbowie
Kolumbowie (full title Kolumbowie. Rocznik 20) is a 1957 three-volume novel by Roman Bratny about young Home Army soldiers under occupation and in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Kolusu Parthasarathy
Kolusu Parthasarathy is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh and a Telugu Desam Party minister holding the Housing and Information and Public Relations portfolios since 2024.
Kolwezi
Kolwezi is a mining city in southeastern DR Congo, capital of Lualaba province since 2015. Founded in 1938 by Union Minière du Haut Katanga, it is a world center of copper and cobalt mining, site of the 1978 Battle of Kolwezi, and terminal of the Inga-Shaba power line.
Kolya
Kolya (Kolja) is a 1996 Czech-British-French comedy-drama directed by Jan Svěrák from a screenplay by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who stars as cellist František Louka. It won the 1997 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kolybrassos
Kolybrassos (Colybrassus, Susuz Ayasofya), ancient city of Cilicia Trachea near Alanya, Turkey; Hellenistic founding, Roman garrison with Legio Pontica, Medusa-decorated rock tomb, Byzantine bishopric, abandoned after 1199.