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Kowat al rami

Kowat al rami (قوة الرمي, "Power of the Throw") is an Arabian martial art and combat sport founded in 1980 by Dr. Walid Kassas, combining striking, grappling, and throws, governed by the WFKA and practiced across Arab, Asian, European, and African countries.

Kowloon (九龙)

Kowloon (九龙) is the mainland part of Hong Kong north of Victoria Harbour, with five districts (Kowloon City, Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin, Yau Tsim Mong). Ceded in 1860, it includes the demolished Kowloon Walled City and the Kai Tak redevelopment.

Kowloon City

Kowloon City (九龙城) is a district in Kowloon, Hong Kong, near the former Kai Tak Airport, known for its low-rise pre-1998 buildings, Kowloon Walled City Park, Thai and Chiu Chow food culture, and the 320-hectare Kai Tak Development; population about 412,500 in 2024.

Kowloon Walled City (九龙寨城)

Kowloon Walled City (九龙寨城) was a dense, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong, built on a Qing garrison site excluded from the 1898 New Territories lease; it grew to about 35,000-60,000 residents in 6.4 acres of 14-storey blocks before demolition in 1993-1994 and conversion into a park.

Kowloon Walled City Park (九龙寨城公园)

Kowloon Walled City Park (九龍寨城公園), a 31,000 sq m Jiangnan-style garden in Kowloon City, Hong Kong, opened 22 December 1995 on the demolished Walled City site, preserving the declared-monument Yamen and South Gate relics.

Kowtow (磕头)

Kowtow (磕头, 叩頭, ketou/koutou, Cantonese kautau): the Chinese ritual of kneeling and touching the head to the ground; grand form is three kneelings and nine kowtows; English word borrowed 1804, figurative sense 1826; Macartney 1793.

Koxinga (国姓爷)

Koxinga, also known as Zheng Chenggong, was a Ming loyalist general who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan in 1661. He ruled the island as the Kingdom of Tungning until 1683.

Sep 25, 2026

Koxinga's 1659 Yangzi expedition

Koxinga's 1659 Yangzi expedition (郑成功北伐) was the 1659 campaign in which Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong sailed up the Yangzi, took Zhenjiang, and besieged Nanjing before Qing forces broke the siege.

Köy Edebiyatı

Köy Edebiyatı, or village literature, is a socially critical realist movement in Turkish literature that became dominant in the 1950s through writers trained at the Village Institutes, beginning with Mahmut Makal's Bizim Köy (1950).

Köy romanı

Köy romanı (village novel) is a Turkish literature genre for novels treating village life and peasants' hardships, led by Mahmut Makal's Bizim Köy (1950) and widespread until about 1980.

Koya Kingdom

The Kingdom of Koya was a pre-colonial Temne polity in what is now northern and western Sierra Leone, founded around 1451, trading with the Portuguese, and including the Freetown peninsula.

Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, 1982 wordless documentary by Godfrey Reggio, shot by Ron Fricke, scored by Philip Glass; Hopi for 'life out of balance'; first of the Qatsi trilogy, presented by Francis Ford Coppola.

Kōyasan campaign

The Kōyasan campaign (高野攻め, Kōya-zeme) was Oda Nobunaga's attempt to conquer the Shingon headquarters on Mount Kōya from 1581 to 1582, ended by his death at the Honnō-ji Incident.

Koykamou Catena

Koykamou Catena is a 110-km crater chain on Saturn's moon Rhea, centered at 70 S, 244 W, IAU-approved in 2010 and named for a Nganasan mythical mountain range.

Koyla (कोयला)

Koyla (कोयला) is a 1997 Hindi revenge drama directed by Rakesh Roshan, starring Shah Rukh Khan as the mute Shankar, Madhuri Dixit as Gauri, and Amrish Puri as Raja Saab, with music by Rajesh Roshan.

Koyna Dam

The Koyna Dam is a gravity dam on the Koyna River in Satara district, Maharashtra, completed in 1961 to anchor a 1,960 MW hydroelectric project.

Oct 15, 2026

Koyna Hydroelectric Project

The Koyna Hydroelectric Project is a four-stage, 1,920 MW hydroelectric scheme on the Koyna River in Maharashtra, India, with underground power houses near Pophali, commissioned from 1962 and known for the 1967 earthquake.

Koyo Aoyagi

Koyo Aoyagi (青柳晃洋), born 1993 in Yokohama, is a Japanese sidearm right-handed pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows; a three-time NPB All-Star with Hanshin, 2022 Central League ERA/wins leader, and 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist.

Koyo Zom

Koyo Zom (کویو زوم), 6,872 m, is the highest peak of Pakistan's Hindu Raj range between the Hindu Kush and Karakoram; first climbed 1968 by Austrians, third ascent 2019 via the northwest face.

Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴)

Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴) is the anonymous Japanese manga artist, shown as a bespectacled alligator avatar, who created Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2016-2020 across 23 volumes with over 220 million copies in circulation.