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Kongo–Portuguese War (1665–1670)
The Kongo–Portuguese War of 1665–1670 began with Portugal's victory at Mbwila, killing King António I, and ended with Soyo crushing a Portuguese invasion at Kitombo.
Kongōbu-ji
Kongōbu-ji (金剛峯寺) is the head temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect of Esoteric Buddhism, established on Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan by the monk Kūkai in 816.
Kongos (band)
Kongos, also styled KONGOS, is an American alternative rock band of four brothers, sons of singer John Kongos, based in Phoenix, Arizona. Known for the 2014 platinum number-one Billboard Alternative hit "Come with Me Now" and albums Lunatic, Egomaniac, and 1929.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace is a Norwegian defense company, the largest division of Kongsberg Gruppen, known for the NASAMS air defense system and Naval Strike Missile.
Kongsberg Gruppen
Kongsberg Gruppen is a Norwegian technology group, majority state owned, that develops defense systems, missiles, and sensors; it was founded as an arms factory in 1814.
Kongsberg Maritime
Kongsberg Maritime is a Norwegian maritime technology company supplying propulsion, automation, navigation, and dynamic positioning systems; it was demerged from Kongsberg Gruppen and listed on Euronext Oslo Børs in April 2026.
Kongsvinger
Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball (KIL), Norwegian football club founded 1892, plays at Gjemselund Stadium in the OBOS-ligaen; 17 top-flight seasons 1982-1999, silver 1992, UEFA Cup vs Juventus 1993.
Kongu Chera dynasty
The Kongu Chera dynasty (கொங்கு சேரர்) was a line of rulers of the Kongu country in western Tamil Nadu, ruling under Chola overlordship from the mid-10th century for nearly 300 years.
Kongu Nadu
Kongu Nadu (கொங்கு நாடு), informal name for western Tamil Nadu around Coimbatore, Erode, Tiruppur, Salem, Namakkal, Karur; ancient Chera land, later Kongu Cholas; 2021 BJP minister-list naming sparked bifurcation debate the Centre denied.
Kongur Shan
Kongur Shan (Kongur Tagh, Gongge'er Feng), highest peak of the Pamirs in Xinjiang, China; 7,649 or 7,719 m, prominence 3,585 m; first climbed 12 July 1981 by Bonington, Boardman, Rouse, and Tasker.
Kongyin Case
The Kongyin Case (空印案) was a purge of Ming provincial officials by the Hongwu Emperor for using pre-stamped blank documents in tax reporting, probably in 1376.
Kongzi Jiayu
Kongzi Jiayu (孔子家語, "School Sayings of Confucius") is a traditional Chinese collection of sayings, dialogues, and anecdotes of Confucius and his disciples, transmitted in ten juan and forty-four chapters.
Koni Ghil Meros
Koni Ghil Meros (Konigil Meros) is a tourist village and water-powered paper mill near Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where the Mukhtarov brothers revived medieval Samarkand mulberry-bark papermaking in the late 1990s; it also hosts craft workshops and post-COVID rural tourism research.
Konica Minolta (コニカミノルタ)
Konica Minolta is a Japanese technology company in Tokyo, formed in 2003 by the merger of camera makers Konica and Minolta, now making office and production printers.
Kőnig's theorem (graph theory)
Kőnig's theorem, also called the König–Egerváry theorem, states that in every bipartite graph the maximum matching size equals the minimum vertex cover size, first proved by Dénes Kőnig in 1931.
König's theorem (set theory)
König's theorem is a result in cardinal arithmetic stating that if κᵢ < λᵢ for all i, then the sum of the κᵢ is strictly less than the product of the λᵢ.
Königsberg
Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, was a German city in East Prussia founded in 1255 by the Teutonic Order with King Ottokar II of Bohemia; Prussian capital, Kant's city, captured by the USSR in 1945 and renamed 1946.
Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
The Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track (Kunsteisbahn Königssee) is a refrigerated ice track in Bavaria, Germany, built in 1968 as the world's first artificial one.
Königstein Fortress
Königstein Fortress, German Festung Königstein, is a hilltop fortress in Saxon Switzerland above the River Elbe near Dresden, Saxony's most important state prison for centuries.
Königswinter-Drachenfels
Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock) at Königswinter: 321 m trachyte hill in the Siebengebirge on the Rhine, with a 1140 castle ruin, Roman-to-modern trachyte quarries, Cologne Cathedral stone, 1836 Prussian protection, and the 1883 Drachenfelsbahn rack railway.
Konijeti Rosaiah
Konijeti Rosaiah (కొణిజేటి రోశయ్య), 1933–2021, Indian National Congress leader: 15th Chief Minister of unified Andhra Pradesh 2009–2010, Governor of Tamil Nadu 2011–2016, and long-serving state finance minister who presented the budget 15–16 times.
Kōnin Kyaku-shiki
Kōnin Kyaku-shiki (弘仁格抄) is the collective name for the Kōnin Kyaku and Kōnin Shiki, the first Japanese compilations of decrees and administrative regulations, submitted in 820 under Emperor Saga.
Kōnin Shiki
The Kōnin Shiki (弘仁式) was a Japanese legal code of 40 scrolls collecting the implementation regulations of the ritsuryō law system, completed in 820 and enforced in 830.
Kōnin-Jōgan culture
Kōnin-Jōgan culture (弘仁・貞観文化) is the culture of Japan's early Heian period, marked by Chinese-style court letters, the rise of esoteric Buddhism, and the foundation of native kokufu culture.
Kōnin-Tenchō no chi
Kōnin-Tenchō no chi (弘仁・天長の治) is the name historians give to about three decades of political stability in early Heian Japan, from 810 to 842, under Emperors Saga and Junna.
Kōnin-Tenryaku no chi
Kōnin-Tenryaku no chi (弘仁天暦の治) is a Japanese label pairing the Kōnin era under Emperor Saga with the Tenryaku era under Emperor Murakami as model reigns of good governance.
Koningsdag
Koningsdag (King's Day), the Dutch national holiday on 27 April since 2014, celebrating King Willem-Alexander's birthday with a royal visit to a host municipality; successor of Koninginnedag on 30 April, begun as Prinsessedag in 1885.
Koninklijke Hoogovens
Koninklijke Hoogovens, formally Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken, was a Dutch integrated iron, steel, and aluminum producer based at IJmuiden, founded in 1918 and merged with British Steel in 1999 to form Corus.
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (KNMEP) was a Dutch oil company founded in The Hague in 1890 to exploit petroleum concessions in the Dutch East Indies.
Koniocellular cell
Koniocellular (K) cells are the smallest relay neurons of the primate lateral geniculate nucleus, forming thin calbindin-rich layers between M and P layers; a heterogeneous third visual channel carrying blue-yellow color and other signals to V1 blobs, extrastriate cortex, and blindsight-related routes.