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Kuril Islands (Курильские острова)
Kuril Islands (Курильские острова, Chishima Rettō): volcanic chain of about 56 islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka, Russian-administered since 1945; Japan claims the four southern islands as the Northern Territories, blocking a WWII peace treaty.
Kuril Islands dispute
Kuril Islands dispute (Northern Territories, 北方四島): Russia-Japan conflict over Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and Habomai, Soviet-seized in 1945; no WWII peace treaty signed; negotiations broken off in 2022.
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench: a ~2,100 km northwest Pacific subduction trench where the Pacific plate dives beneath the Okhotsk microplate; re-surveyed at 9,604 m, source of the 1952 M9.0 and 2025 M8.8 earthquakes, and host of chemosynthetic hadal communities.
Kurinchippattu
Kurinchippattu (குறிஞ்சிப்பாட்டு, "Song of the Mountains") is a classical Tamil poem of the Sangam era by the poet Kapilar, one of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, naming 99 mountain flowers.
Kurinji Malar
Kurinji Malar (குறிஞ்சி மலர்) is a Tamil social romance novel by Na. Parthasarathy, published in 1960. Set in Madurai, it is regarded as his magnum opus.
Kurinjithen
Kurinjithen (குறிஞ்சித்தேன், "honey from the kurinji") is a 1963 Tamil novel by Rajam Krishnan, a family saga of three Badaga generations in the Nilgiri hills, credited as the first Tamil creative work with a tribal background.
Kurkh Monolith
The Kurkh Monolith is a stone stele of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III found at Kurkh in Turkey, bearing the most detailed account of the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BCE.
KURKKU FIELDS
KURKKU FIELDS (クルックフィールズ) is a sustainable farm and park in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan, opened in 2019 by music producer Takeshi Kobayashi's company, combining organic JAS-certified farming, on-site food production, art by Yayoi Kusama and others, lodging, and education.
Kurkure (कुरकुरे)
Kurkure (कुरकुरे), PepsiCo India's homegrown puffed rice-and-corn snack brand launched in 1999, flagship Masala Munch, about 60% share of the 'bridge' snack segment, Jowar Puffs millet line added in 2025.
Kurma (कूर्म)
Kurma (कूर्म), the tortoise, is the second avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, who took tortoise form to steady Mount Mandarachala during the churning of the ocean.
Kurma Partners
Kurma Partners is a French venture capital firm specializing in biotechnology and healthcare, founded in Paris in 2009, wholly owned by Eurazeo, and managing about €1 billion in assets.
Kurmaičiai
Kurmaičiai: village in Kretinga District, Lithuania (827 inhabitants, 2021), and its archaeological complex: Pilalė hillfort, barrow cemetery (5th–1st c. BC), and flat cemetery on the Akmena River; distinct from the Kurmaičiai-Linksmėnai Semigallian cemetery in Joniškis District.
Kurmanjan Datka
Kurmanjan Datka (Курманжан датка, 1811–1907) was a Kyrgyz stateswoman known as the Queen of Alai, the only woman to hold the title of datka in the Kokand Khanate.
Kurmi (कुर्मी)
Kurmi (कुर्मी), also Kunbi or Kudmi Mahato, is a Hindu agricultural caste of northern and eastern India, classified OBC, prominent in Bihar politics (Triveni Sangh, Nitish Kumar) with a Jharkhand Scheduled Tribe inclusion proposal pending.
Kurmitola Golf Club
Kurmitola Golf Club, also known as Dhaka Golf Club, is a golf course and members' club in Dhaka Cantonment, Bangladesh, operated by the Bangladesh Army.
Kurnool (district)
Kurnool district (కర్నూలు జిల్లా), a Rayalaseema district of Andhra Pradesh headquartered at Kurnool, the state capital 1953-1956; 7,980 sq km, 26 mandals, agrarian economy, limestone deposits, Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers.
Kurnool (కర్నూలు)
Kurnool (కర్నూలు), from Telugu Kandenavolu/Kandanavolu 'town of grease', is a Tungabhadra river city in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh; first capital of Andhra State 1953-56, 2011 population 484,327, Orvakal industrial node and airport.
Kuro Arirang (구로 아리랑)
Kuro Arirang (구로아리랑, Guro Arirang) is a 1989 South Korean drama, Park Jong-won's debut film adapted from Lee Mun-yeol's short story, depicting women sewing workers in Seoul's Guro Industrial Complex; the first commercial labor film after 1987 democratization, censored with about 20 scenes cut.
Kuro Games (库洛游戏)
Kuro Games (库洛游戏) is a Chinese video game developer founded in 2014 and headquartered in Guangzhou, best known for Punishing: Gray Raven (2020) and Wuthering Waves (2024).
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam is a 186 m concrete arch dam on the Kurobe River in Tateyama, Japan, built 1956 to 1963 and the tallest dam in Japan.
Kuroda (company)
Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd. (黒田精工株式会社) is a Japanese precision equipment maker in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, founded in 1925 as Japan's first specialized gauge manufacturer, known for ball screws, press dies, and grinding machines.
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Kuroda Kiyotaka (黒田清隆, 1840–1900) was a Satsuma samurai and Meiji statesman who served as Japan's second prime minister from 1888 to 1889 and directed the colonization of Hokkaidō.
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa (黒田長政, 1568–1623) was a Japanese daimyo who fought for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at Sekigahara in 1600, and founded the Fukuoka Domain.
Kuroda normal form
Kuroda normal form restricts context-sensitive grammar productions to AB→CD, A→BC, and A→a (plus A→ε for type-0 grammars). Named after Sige-Yuki Kuroda, from his 1964 Information and Control paper; every context-sensitive grammar has an equivalent in this form.
Kuroda Seiki
Kuroda Seiki (黒田清輝, 1866 to 1924) was a Japanese Western-style painter who introduced French plein-air painting to Japan, taught at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, and is celebrated as the father of modern Japanese Western-style painting.
Kuroda sōdō
Kuroda sōdō (黒田騒動), also called the Kuriyama Daizen affair, was an early Edo family feud in Japan's Fukuoka domain between lord Kuroda Tadayuki and his retainer Kuriyama Daizen.
Kuroda Tatsuaki
Kuroda Tatsuaki (黒田辰秋, 1904–1982) was a Japanese woodwork and lacquer artist based in Kyoto, active in the mingei folk craft movement, who became the first Living National Treasure in woodworking in 1970.
Kuroda Yoshitaka
Kuroda Yoshitaka (黒田如水), known as Kanbei, was a Japanese strategist of the Sengoku period who served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the wars that unified Japan.
Kurodo-dokoro
The Kurodo-dokoro (蔵人所) was the secretariat of the Japanese emperor, founded by Emperor Saga in 810 outside the ritsuryō codes to transmit edicts and manage palace affairs.
Kurodoko
Kurodoko, also known as Kuromasu, is a Japanese logic puzzle published by Nikoli, first appearing in 1991, where solvers shade cells black so every numbered cell sees exactly that many white cells.