All articles starting with K

Kamayuq

Kamayuq, also spelled kamayoq or camayoc, is a Quechua term for a specialist with expert knowledge, used from Inka times to the present in the Andes.

Kamaz (КАМАЗ)

Kamaz (КАМАЗ, from the Kama Automobile Plant) is a Russian heavy truck and diesel engine manufacturer in Naberezhnye Chelny, founded in 1969, with over 2.25 million trucks built.

Kamaz Typhoon (КамАЗ Тайфун)

The Kamaz Typhoon (КамАЗ Тайфун) is a family of Russian armored, mine-resistant trucks built by KamAZ, with the 6x6 KamAZ-63968 Typhoon-K as its main variant.

Kamba Ramayanam

Kamba Ramayanam (கம்பராமாயணம்), properly titled Irāmāvatāram, is a Tamil epic by the poet Kampan, traditionally dated to the 12th century, retelling the Rama story in Tamil.

Kambakkht Ishq (Damn Love) is a 2009 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Sabbir Khan, starring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor, notable as the first Bollywood film shot at Universal Studios with Stallone, Richards, and Routh cameos.

Kambalny

Kambalny (Камбальный, Kambalnaya Sopka), southernmost stratovolcano of Kamchatka, Russia, 2,116 m; long dormant, it produced its first historical phreatic eruption in March 2017, VEI 3, with ash plumes to 7 km drifting 2,000 km.

Kamban

Kamban (கம்பர்) was a Tamil poet, honored as Kavichakravarthi, emperor of poetry, who wrote the Iramavataram, the Tamil Ramayana, most likely in the 12th century.

Kambhampati Hari Babu (కంభంపాటి హరి బాబు)

Kambhampati Hari Babu (కంభంపాటి హరి బాబు), born 1953, is an Indian BJP politician, former Andhra University professor, former Visakhapatnam MP (2014–2019), 22nd Governor of Mizoram (2021–2025), and Governor-designate of Odisha.

Kamboja

Kamboja (कंबोज) was an ancient people and polity on the northwestern frontier of the Indian subcontinent, near Gandhara, known from Vedic literature and Ashoka's edicts for its prized war horses.

Kamboja dynasty of Bengal

The Kamboja dynasty of Bengal (কম্বোজ), also called the Kamboja-Pala dynasty, was a short-lived ruling house in 10th and 11th century Bengal founded by king Rajyapala.

Kamboja mahajanapada

The Kamboja mahajanapada (कंबोज जनपद) was one of the sixteen great states of the Buddha's time, a northwestern frontier polity near the Hindu Kush, known above all for its horses.

Kambuja Surya

Kambuja Surya (កម្ពុជសុរិយា, "Cambodian Sun") is a Khmer-language scholarly journal published by the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Penh since 1926, considered Cambodia's first Khmer-language journal. It covers Buddhism, culture, and history.

Oct 3, 2026

Kamchatka

Kamchatka: primarily the 2002 Argentine-Spanish drama by Marcelo Piñeyro about a family hiding from Argentina's 1976 dictatorship, seen through ten-year-old Harry; also a 2013 Polish film, documentaries, and a Catalan theatre company.

Kamchatka & Northern Kurils

Kamchatka & Northern Kurils, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 613, covers southern Kamchatka, the Commander Islands, and Kurils north of Bussol Strait; volcanic rivers, salmon runs, lake-endemic Salvelinus chars, no native cypriniforms.

Kamchatka Gulf

Kamchatka Gulf (Камчатский залив), gulf of the Pacific on eastern Kamchatka, Russia; northernmost Pacific-coast gulf, about 148 km long, 74 km wide, up to 2000 m deep at the entrance, near the Kamchatka River mouth.

Kamchatka Krai (Камчатский край)

Kamchatka Krai (Камчатский край), a Russian federal subject formed 1 July 2007 from Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug; capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 464,275 km², about 288,000 people, 29 active volcanoes, fishing-led economy.

Kamchatka Peninsula (Полуостров Камчатка)

Kamchatka Peninsula (Полуостров Камчатка), a 1,200-km peninsula in the Russian Far East between the Pacific and Sea of Okhotsk; ~300 volcanoes (29 active), Klyuchevskaya Sopka 4,750 m, major salmon runs, UNESCO Volcanoes of Kamchatka site, and the 2025 M8.8 earthquake.

Kameda-shi

Kameda-shi (亀田町) was a town in Niigata Prefecture southeast of Niigata City; population 32,061, area 16.82 km2; merged into Niigata City on March 21, 2005 with twelve other municipalities.

Kamegaoka Square

Kamegaoka Square (亀ヶ岡広場) is a public plaza near the summit of Enoshima island, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, with Sagami Bay views, a wood deck, restaurant, kiosk, and access via the Enoshima Escar.

Kamehameha I

Kamehameha I (Kamehameha the Great, birth name Paiʻea, c. 1758–1819) was the Hawaiian ruling chief who united the main Hawaiian Islands into one kingdom by 1810 through warfare, Western firearms, and diplomacy, dying at Kailua-Kona in May 1819.

Kamehameha II

Kamehameha II, also known as Liholiho, was the second king of the unified Hawaiian Kingdom, reigning from 1819 to 1824. He abolished the kapu system and admitted the first missionaries.

Kamehameha III

Kamehameha III (Kauikeaouli, ca. 1813–1854) reigned 29 years over the Hawaiian Kingdom, longest of any monarch; he promulgated the 1840 and 1852 constitutions, carried out the 1848 Great Mahele land division, survived the 1843 Paulet cession, and won recognition of Hawaiian independence from Britain, France, and the United States.

Kamehameha IV

Kamehameha IV (Alexander Liholiho ʻIolani), 1834–1863, fourth king of Hawaii, reigned 1855–1863; opposed US annexation, favored Britain, founded Queen's Hospital with Queen Emma, brought Anglicanism to Hawaii.

Kamehameha Schools

Kamehameha Schools is a private Hawaiian charitable trust founded in 1887 by the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, with a $15 billion endowment, whose admissions policy prefers Native Hawaiian applicants and has been upheld and challenged in federal court.

Kamehameha V

Kamehameha V (Lot Kapuāiwa, 1830–1872), fifth and last Kamehameha king of Hawaiʻi, reigned 1863–1872, proclaimed the royalist 1864 Constitution, and died on his 42nd birthday without an heir, forcing the kingdom's first royal election.

Sep 24, 2026

Kamei Katsuichirō

Kamei Katsuichirō (亀井勝一郎) was a Japanese literary critic born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, who moved from Marxism through prison and conversion to co-found the Japan Romantic School in 1935.

Kamelot

Kamelot is an American symphonic power metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 1991 by guitarist Thomas Youngblood. Known for the Faust-based Epica and The Black Halo, singers Roy Khan and Tommy Karevik, and fourteen albums through Dark Asylum (2026).