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Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Karai is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, a Foot Clan leader created by Eastman, Laird, and Lawson, debuting unnamed in Mirage's TMNT #53 (1992) and named in #55; later versions tie her to the Shredder.
Karaikkal Ammaiyar
Karaikkal Ammaiyar (காரைக்காள் அம்மையார்), born Punitavati, was a Shaiva saint-poet of Karaikkal, dated to about 550 CE, and the only woman among the sixty-three Nayanar saints.
Karaikudi (காரைக்குடி)
Kāraikkudi (காரைக்குடி), also spelled Karaikudi, is a city in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu, capital of the Chettinad region of the Nattukottai Chettiars, known for limestone mansions, Chettinad cuisine, Alagappa University, and CECRI.
Karaim language
Karaim, also called Karaitic or Northwest Karaim, is a critically endangered Kipchak Turkic language of the Crimean Karaites, once spoken in three dialects (Trakai, Halych-Lutsk, Crimean), today surviving only in Trakai with roughly 30 speakers.
Karaindash
Karaindaš was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late fifteenth century BC, known for a boundary treaty with Assyria and for introducing the title king of Karduniash.
Karaiskakis Stadium (Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης)
Karaiskakis Stadium (Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), Piraeus home of Olympiacos FC; 33,505 seats, UEFA 5-star, built 1895 velodrome, rebuilt 2004 for Athens Olympics, Gate 7 disaster 1981.
Karaite Judaism (יהדות קראית)
Karaite Judaism, also known as Caraism, is a Jewish movement that recognizes only the Hebrew Bible as authority, rejecting the rabbinic Oral Torah; it emerged in the ninth century.
Karaj (city)
Karaj (کرج), capital of Alborz Province, Iran, 36 km west of Tehran on the Karaj River; grew from 14,526 people in 1956 to about 1.6 million in 2016, Iran's fourth-largest city, an industrial and commuter metropolis.
Karaj (district)
Karaj (کرج) district: administrative district and county seat in Alborz Province, Iran, capital since 2010; major industrial suburb of Tehran whose city grew from 44,000 in 1966 to over 1.3 million by 2006.
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was the only autonomous republic in Soviet Central Asia, existing from 1932 to 1991 and succeeded by the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
Karakalpak confederation
The Karakalpak confederation was the tribal organization of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic people of the Aral Sea region, from the sixteenth century until the 1920s.
Karakalpakstan (Қарақалпақстан)
Karakalpakstan (Қарақалпақстан, Qaraqalpaqstan) is Uzbekistan's western autonomous republic, capital Nukus, with a constitutional secession clause removed after deadly July 2022 protests and an economy burdened by the Aral Sea crisis.
Karakhanid conquest of Bukhara and fall of the Samanids
The Karakhanid conquest of Bukhara was the capture of the Samanid capital by the Turkic Karakhanids under Ilig Nasr ibn Ali in October 999, ending Samanid rule in Transoxiana.
Karakhanid conquest of Transoxiana
The Karakhanid conquest of Transoxiana (فتح ماوراءالنهر به دست قراخانیان) was the Karakhanid takeover of the Samanid emirate's lands, completed by 1005, with Khorasan going to the Ghaznavids.
Karakhanid dynasty
The Karakhanid dynasty (قراخانیان) was a Turkic Muslim dynasty that ruled Central Asia for over 200 years, took Transoxiana from the Samanids in 999, and was the first Muslim state of the Turkic peoples.
Karakia
Karakia are the ritual chants of the Māori people of New Zealand, often translated as incantation, chant, spell, or prayer, recited to obtain benefit or avert trouble.
Karakkam
Karakkam (കറക്കം) is a 2026 Malayalam musical horror comedy directed by Subhash Lalitha Subrahmanian, starring Sreenath Bhasi, Femina George, and Praveen T. J.; two youths uproot five grave crosses on New Year's Eve and are haunted by five ghosts. Released 28 May 2026; streamed on SonyLIV from 3 July 2026.
Karakoram
Karakoram: Central Asian mountain range spanning China, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, known for the Karakoram anomaly of stable glaciers, the Karakoram Fault, and the 1,300 km Karakoram Highway.
Karakoram Highway (喀喇昆仑公路)
The Karakoram Highway (喀喇昆仑公路), also National Highway N-35, links northern Pakistan with Kashgar in Xinjiang, China, over the Khunjerab Pass; it was completed in 1978.
Karakorum (Хархорум)
Karakorum (Хархорум, Kharkhorin), capital of the Mongol Empire in the Orkhon Valley from 1235 to 1260, founded as a city by Ögedei Khan, excavated since 1999 by the Mongolian-German expedition, abandoned in the early 15th century.
Karakuduk Oil and Gas Field
Karakuduk Oil and Gas Field (Kazakh: Қаракұдык, "black shaft") is an onshore field in Mangistau Region, southwestern Kazakhstan, discovered in 1972 and commercially developed from 1998.
Karakum Canal
The Karakum Canal (Russian: Каракумский канал) is a large irrigation canal in Turkmenistan carrying Amu Darya water across the Karakum Desert, built from 1954 to 1988.
Karakum Desert
The Karakum Desert (Turkmen: Garagum, "black sand") is a Central Asian sand desert of about 300,000 square kilometers that covers more than 80 percent of Turkmenistan.
Karakuri Circus (からくりサーカス)
Karakuri Circus (からくりサーカス) is Kazuhiro Fujita's 1997-2006 shonen manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday: 43 volumes, 15 million copies, heir Masaru, Zonaha-afflicted Narumi, and puppeteer Shirogane versus Automata; Studio VOLN's 36-episode 2018-2019 anime.
Karakurt
Karakurt, also known as the Karakurt Team, is a cybercrime group that steals data and extorts organizations by threatening to release it, active since 2021.
Karakurt-class corvette
The Karakurt-class corvette (Project 22800, Каракурт) is a Russian missile corvette designed by Almaz in St. Petersburg, armed with Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles for coastal strike.
Karakuş Tumulus
Karakuş Tumulus (Karakuş Tümülüsü), first-century BC royal burial mound in Kâhta, Adıyaman, Turkey, built by Commagene king Mithridates II for royal women including his mother Isias; about 110 m wide, eagle column, damaged for Cendere Bridge.
Karakuwa
Karakuwa (唐桑町) was a fishing town on the Karakuwa Peninsula in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi, Japan; founded 1955, merged into Kesennuma City on March 31, 2006, and heavily struck by the 2011 tsunami.
Karam (2025 film)
Karam (കരം) is a 2025 Malayalam action thriller directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan, written by and starring Noble Babu Thomas as ex-army officer Dev Mahendran. Released September 25, 2025; earned ₹1.25 crore India gross; streamed on Manorama Max and Prime Video from November 7, 2025.
Karam Gaber
Karam Gaber is an Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler who won 96 kg gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 84 kg silver at the 2012 London Olympics.