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Kumemura
Kumemura (久米村) was a settlement of Chinese immigrants near Naha in the Ryukyu Kingdom, its center of Chinese learning and diplomacy from the late fourteenth century.
Kumeyaay
The Kumeyaay (Diegueño) are a Yuman-speaking Indigenous people of San Diego County, California and northern Baja California, organized in bands including Campo, Viejas, and Sycuan, with 13 US reservations, a language of 140 to 150 speakers, and territory split by the US-Mexico border since 1854.
Kumeyaay bird songs
Kumeyaay bird songs are an allegorical song cycle, about 300 pieces, of the Kumeyaay people of San Diego County and Baja California, sung at ceremonies.
Kumhar (कुम्हार)
Kumhar (कुम्हार, Kumbhakar) is an Indian and Pakistani potter caste, also called Prajapati or Kumbhar, traditionally making earthen vessels; genetically close to Kerala's Kurchas and classified OBC in states like Uttar Pradesh.
Kumho Petrochemical
Kumho Petrochemical (금호석유화학) is a South Korean petrochemical company headquartered in Seoul. Founded in 1970, it is among the world's largest synthetic rubber producers, with about 900,000 tons of annual capacity.
Kumho Tire (금호타이어)
Kumho Tire (금호타이어) is a South Korean tire manufacturer headquartered in Gwangju, founded in 1960 and among the world's top ten tire makers since 1992.
Kumiho
Kumiho (구미호), the nine-tailed fox of Korean folklore, a shapeshifting fox spirit usually in beautiful female form that eats livers and seeks to become human, distinct from the huli jing and kitsune.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (トレジャーハンター・クミコ), 2014 American drama by David and Nathan Zellner starring Rinko Kikuchi as a Tokyo office worker who believes the buried money in Fargo is real; inspired by the Takako Konishi urban legend, Sundance 2014.
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga (組曲『ニコニコ動画』) is a 2007 medley video by Nico Nico Douga user Shimo, linking 33 popular anime and game songs into a 10-minute DTM track that spawned the Nico Nico Medley genre.
Kumina
Kumina, also spelt Cumina, is an Afro-Jamaican musico-religious tradition centered on ancestral spirits, brought by free Central African immigrants after Emancipation and practiced most strongly in St Thomas.
Kumis
Kumis (kymyz, koumiss, qymyz) is a Central Asian fermented mare's milk drink made by lactic-acid and yeast fermentation, mildly alcoholic at about 0.7–2.5%, churned in leather vessels and central to Kazakh and Kyrgyz nomadic culture.
Kumite (组手)
Kumite (組手) is karate sparring, from prearranged drills to free sparring; WKF sport kumite uses controlled contact, yuko/waza-ari/ippon scoring to eight points, on an 8 m tatami.
Kumitoga (crater on Ceres)
Kumitoga is a 96-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 10.09S, 178.83E, named for a Polynesian plant goddess; a topographically relaxed crater with possible brine-related bright spots.
Kumki (கும்கி) (film)
Kumki (கும்கி), 2012 Tamil romantic adventure drama by Prabu Solomon; debut of Vikram Prabhu as mahout Bomman with Lakshmi Menon and elephant Manikkam; released 14 December 2012, Telugu as Gajaraju; sequel Kumki 2 in 2025.
Kumki 2
Kumki 2 (கும்கி 2) is Prabu Solomon's 2025 Tamil adventure drama, a standalone sequel to the 2012 hit Kumki, starring debutant Mathi as Bhoomi opposite elephant Nila, released 14 November 2025 to poor reviews and ₹1.66 crore worldwide gross.
Kumkol North Oil and Gas Field
Kumkol North is the northern operating area of the Kumkol oil field in Kazakhstan's South Turgai basin, licensed separately since 1995 and operated by the joint venture Turgai Petroleum.
Kumkol-Karakoin Oil Pipeline
The Kumkol-Karakoin Oil Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline in Kazakhstan running from the Kumkol oil field to Karakoin, where it links to pipelines toward Russia and China.
Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan
Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan (कुमकुम एक प्यारा सा बंधन), Star Plus Hindi serial 2002–2009, 1449 episodes, Juhi Parmar and Hussain Kuwajerwala; widow remarries her devar Sumit after Jatin's brain-tumour death. Not Ekta Kapoor's Kumkum Bhagya.
Kumkum Bhagya (कुमकुम भाग्य)
Kumkum Bhagya (कुमकुम भाग्य), an Indian Hindi romantic drama by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms, premiered 15 April 2014 on Zee TV, adapted Sense and Sensibility, starred Sriti Jha and Shabir Ahluwalia, ran 11 years to 2025, and spawned Kundali Bhagya and Bhagya Lakshmi.
Kumkuma (कुमकुम)
Kumkuma (कुमकुम), also called kumkum or roli, is a red powder used as tilak and bindi in Hindu ritual and as a mark of marriage; classically the Sanskrit word means saffron (Crocus sativus), while the common powder is turmeric with slaked lime.
Kumkumapoovu (കുങ്കുമപ്പൂവ്)
Kumkumapoovu (കുങ്കുമപ്പൂവ്) is a Malayalam Asianet family serial aired 31 January 2011 to 1 February 2014 in 785 episodes, starring Asha Sarath as Professor Jayanthi, with Shalini as her illegitimate daughter, remade in four languages.
Kumma
Kumma, also called Semna East, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortress on the Nile's east bank at the Second Cataract in northern Sudan, built under Senusret III.
Kummanni
Kummanni (Kummani) was the principal city of the Bronze Age kingdom of Kizzuwatna in south-eastern Anatolia, roughly modern Cilicia, a cult center of the storm god annexed by the Hittites in the mid-14th century BCE.
Kumme
Kumme (Hurrian Kummiya) was a Hurrian city east of the Tigris, cult center of the storm god Teššub, attested from Mari archives into the Neo-Assyrian period.
Kummer theory
Kummer theory, created by Ernst Eduard Kummer, classifies cyclic extensions of a field obtained by adjoining nth roots of elements, assuming the field contains roots of unity.
Kummuh
Kummuh, also Kummuhu, was a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates in later Commagene, with its capital at Samosata, annexed by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Kumo no Mine
Kumo no Mine (雲の峰) is a Japanese summer kigo, or season word, for clouds towering like a mountain peak, best known from Matsuo Bashō's famous haiku.
Kumo Xi people
The Kumo Xi (奚族) were a nomadic people of the Liao River basin who submitted to the Tang dynasty in 648 and were absorbed by the Khitan in the early tenth century.
Kumon
Kumon (公文式) is a Japanese franchised after-school program of individualized, worksheet-based self-learning in math and reading, founded by Toru Kumon in 1950s Osaka, with 23,200 centers and 3.51 million enrollments in 61 countries as of 2026.
Kumpfmühl
Kumpfmühl, a Regensburg district, hosts a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus founded about 80 AD, garrisoned by cohors III Britannorum and cohors II Aquitanorum, destroyed around 170 AD in the Marcomannic Wars, with the 1989 Kumpfmühler Schatz coin hoard; UNESCO Danube Limes site since 2021.