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Karaburun (tomb)
The Karaburun Tumulus is a painted limestone chamber tomb on Karaburun hill near Elmalı, Antalya Province, Turkey, built for a Milyas lord in the early 5th century BC.
Karaca Dag
Karaca Dag (Karacadağ, Karacalidag), a broad basaltic shield volcano in SE Turkey near the Syrian border, 1,957 m, ~10,000 km², active since ~11 Ma with Siverek, Karacadağ, and Ovabağ stages; largest circum-Mediterranean anorogenic shield volcano.
Karacaoğlan
Karacaoğlan is the pen name of a celebrated Turkish folk poet, probably of the 17th century in southern Anatolia, about 500 of whose poems are sung as folk songs.
Karaçelebizâde Abdülaziz Efendi
Karaçelebizâde Abdülaziz Efendi (c. 1591–1658) was an Ottoman ulema statesman who served as şeyhülislâm for four months in 1651 and wrote the universal history Ravzatü'l-ebrâr.
Karachaganak Field
The Karachaganak field is a giant oil and gas condensate field in northwest Kazakhstan, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1984; it is one of the largest gas condensate fields in the world.
Karachaganak-Atyrau Oil Pipeline
The Karachaganak-Atyrau Oil Pipeline, also known as KATS, is a 635-km crude oil export pipeline in Kazakhstan, opened in 2003 to carry Karachaganak field oil to Atyrau on the Caspian Sea.
Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесия)
Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесия), a mountainous republic in Russia's North Caucasus Federal District, capital Cherkessk; formed 1922, five state languages, resorts Dombay and Arkhyz, population about 468,600.
Karachi (کراچی)
Karachi (کراچی) is Pakistan's largest city and the capital of Sindh, on the Arabian Sea coast. It is the country's largest port and financial center, with about 20.3 million people per the 2023 census.
Karachi beks
The Karachi beks, the begs of four leading clans, shared power with the Giray khans of the Crimean Khanate from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
Karachi Central District
Karachi Central District (District Central, ضلع وسطی کراچی) is one of seven districts of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Census 2023: 3,822,325 people on 69 km², Pakistan's densest district (55,396/km²), 100% urban, 83.55% literacy.
Karachi District
Karachi District (Karachi South District) is a district of Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan, created in 1843 and renamed Karachi in 2024; 2,329,764 people (Census 2023), 122 km2, 100% urban, subdivisions Lyari, Saddar, Garden, Civil Lines, Aram Bagh.
Karachi East District
Karachi East District, an administrative district of Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan; population 3,950,031 (Census 2023), 100% urban, density about 28,214 per km2, growth 5.45%, five towns since 2022.
Karachi Kings (کراچی کنگز)
Karachi Kings (کراچی کنگز) is a Pakistan Super League T20 cricket franchise from Karachi, founded 2015, owned by Salman Iqbal, captained by David Warner, and the 2020 HBL PSL champion.
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is a nuclear power station at Paradise Point in Sindh, Pakistan, about 25 km west of Karachi, operated by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
Karada Sagashi (カラダ探し)
Karada Sagashi (カラダ探し) is a Japanese horror franchise by Welzard: a novel series, a 17-volume Shonen Jump+ manga by Katsutoshi Murase, a web anime, and live-action films starring Kanna Hashimoto, about students finding a disembodied classmate while evading the Red Person.
Karadeniz Holding
Karadeniz Holding is a Turkish family-owned energy conglomerate headquartered in Istanbul, best known for its Karpowership subsidiary, which operates the world's largest fleet of floating power plants.
Karađorđe (Карађорђе)
Karađorđe (Карађорђе), born Đorđe Petrović (c. 1766–1817), led the First Serbian Uprising 1804–1813 against the Ottomans, ruled as Supreme Vožd from Topola, founded the Karađorđević dynasty, and was killed in 1817.
Karaeng Karunrung
Karaeng Karunrung, also known as Abdul Hamid, was a Gowa noble, chief adviser to Sultan Hasanuddin, and military leader who led Makassarese resistance to the Dutch VOC after the 1667 Bongaya Treaty.
Karaeng Matoaya
Karaeng Matoaya (I Mallingkaang Daeng Mannyonriq) was the ruler of Talloq from 1593 to 1623 who led the Makassarese conversion to Islam in 1605 and Makassar's rise as a major trading power.
Karaftu
Karaftu, known locally as Qaleh Karaftoo, is a rock-cut chamber complex in Kordestan Province, Iran, bearing a Greek inscription naming Herakles from the 3rd century BCE.
Karafuto Prefecture
Karafuto Prefecture (樺太庁, Karafuto-cho) was Japan's colonial government for southern Sakhalin, 1907–1945, seated at Toyohara, incorporated into the interior in 1943, and ended by the 1945 Soviet invasion and 1949 formal abolition.
Karaganda (Қарағанды)
Karaganda (Қарағанды) is a city in central Kazakhstan, center of Karaganda Region, built over the country's largest coal basin. City since 1934; about 536,000 residents in 2026; major coal mining and industrial center.
Karaganda coal basin
The Karaganda coal basin (Қарағанды көмір бассейні) is a major hard-coal mining region around the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan, covering about 3,600 square kilometers and producing mainly coking coal for steelmaking.
Karagar
Karagar (কারাগার), also known as Cell 145, is a 2022 Bengali thriller web series directed by Syed Ahmed Shawki, streaming on Hoichoi in two seasons.
Karagattakaran (கரகாட்டக்காரன்)
Karagattakaran (கரகாட்டக்காரன்), also spelled Karakattakkaran, is a 1989 Tamil romantic comedy dance film directed by Gangai Amaran with Ilaiyaraaja's music, starring Ramarajan and Kanaka as folk dancers; a blockbuster with a 485-day Madurai run.
Karaginsky Island
Ostrov Karaginskiy, also known as Karaginsky Island, is an uninhabited island in the Karaginsky Gulf of the western Bering Sea off northeastern Kamchatka, from which the Litke Strait separates it.
Karagöz (magazine)
Karagöz was a Turkish-language satirical illustrated magazine founded in Istanbul on 10 August 1908 by Ali Fuad Bey, named after the Ottoman shadow theater's trickster hero.
Karagumruk
Fatih Karagümrük Spor Kulübü (Karagümrük), Turkish football club founded 1926 in Istanbul's Karagümrük neighborhood as Karagümrük İdman Yurdu; red-black tulumbacı colors, 1942-46 closure, Süper Lig member.
Karagündüz inscriptions
The Karagündüz inscriptions are two Urartian royal basalt stelae from Karagündüz on Lake Erçek near Van, Turkey, dedicated to the god Haldi and held in the Van Museum.
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant
The Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, officially the Fljótsdalur Power Station, is a 690 MW hydroelectric plant in eastern Iceland commissioned in 2007, the largest in Iceland.