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Khufukhaf II

Khufukhaf II, also written Khafkhufu II, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian official buried in mastaba G 7150 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza, near Khufukhaf I.

Khui (pharaoh)

Khui was a pharaoh of Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2160 BC, known almost solely from one inscribed block and a large mudbrick monument at Dara, Middle Egypt.

Khuit I

Khuit I was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, whose precise standing among the late Fifth Dynasty royal women is still debated by scholars.

Khuit II

Khuit II was a queen consort of Teti, first king of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, known from her small pyramid at Saqqara, which Zahi Hawass's excavations showed she was Teti's primary wife.

Khuld-i Barin

Khuld-i Barin, the universal history completed in 1667–68 by Valeh-e Isfahani, is considered the leading general history of the Safavid period, covering its rise and fall.

Khumarawayh

Khumarawayh (خمارويه بن أحمد بن طولون) was a Tulunid ruler of Egypt and Syria from 884 to 896 who won caliphal recognition of his dynasty's hereditary rule.

Khun Chang Khun Phaen

Khun Chang Khun Phaen (ขุนช้างขุนแผน) is a Thai narrative poem telling a love triangle among Khun Chang, Khun Phaen, and Nang Wanthong, begun in oral tradition around 1600.

Khun Lo dynasty

The Khun Lo dynasty (ລາຊະວົງຂຸນລໍ) is the traditional line of Lao rulers descended from Khun Lo, historically founded by Fa Ngum, who proclaimed Lan Xang in 1353.

Khunes

Khunes was a high official and governor of Elephantine, Egypt's southern frontier, in the late Old Kingdom, buried in the largest tomb complex at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.

Khunza Humayun

Khunza Humayun (خونزا ہمایوں) was the wife of Sultan Husain Nizam Shah I and regent of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, ruling for her son from 1565 until the nobility deposed and imprisoned her around 1571.

Khurda kingdom

The Khurda kingdom (ଖୋର୍ଧା) was a kingdom in coastal Odisha founded by Ramachandra Deva of the Bhoi dynasty after the fall of the Gajapati empire.

Khurshid of Tabaristan

Khurshid (خورشید) was the last Dabuyid ispahbad of Tabaristan, who reigned from 741 and died by suicide in 761 after the Abbasid conquest of his kingdom.

Khushhal Khan Khattak

Khushhal Khan Khattak (خوشحال خان خٹک), born 1613, was a Pashtun poet, warrior, and hereditary chief of the Khattak tribe who led a revolt against Mughal rule in the Khyber region.

Khushqadam

Khushqadam (خشقدم) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt who reigned from 1461 to 1467, the first sultan of Rumi, or Anatolian and Greek, origin, after deposing al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad.

Khusrau II's flight to and restoration by Maurice

Khusrau II's flight to and restoration by Maurice (خسرو پرویز) was the escape of the Sasanian king Khusrau II from usurper Bahram Chobin to Emperor Maurice in 590.

Khusrau Malik

Khusrau Malik (خسرو ملک) was the last sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from Lahore over the Punjab from about 1160 until the Ghurid capture of the city in 1186.

Khusrau-Shah

Khusrau-Shah (خسروشاه) was the penultimate sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from about 1157 to 1160, during which the Ghaznavids lost southeastern Afghanistan to the Ghurids.

Khusrau's rebellion

Khusrau's rebellion (खुसरो का विद्रोह) was the 1606 revolt of Prince Khusrau Mirza, son of Mughal emperor Jahangir, who raised supporters in the Punjab and was defeated within a month, captured, and blinded.

Khusraw Pasha

Khusraw Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who directed the empire's military reform for roughly nine years as serasker from 1827, and was trusted by Sultan Mahmud II.

Khutughtu Khan Kusala

Khutughtu Khan Kusala (忽都笃汗), also known as Borjigin Heshila or Emperor Mingzong, was the ninth Yuan emperor, reigning about eight months in 1329 before his sudden death.

Khwab-nama of Tipu Sultan

The Khwab-nama (خواب‌نامہ), or Register of Dreams, is a Persian manuscript in which Tipu Sultan of Mysore recorded 37 of his own dreams, dated 1785 to 1798.

Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh

Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh (খ্বৈরাকপম চৌবা সিংহ) was a Manipuri poet, novelist, and critic born at Imphal, remembered as a pioneer of modern Manipuri literature whose historical novel Lavangalata (1939) is a landmark of Manipuri prose.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid

Khwaja Ghulam Farid (خواجہ غلام فرید) was a Chishti Sufi poet of the middle Indus Valley who wrote in Siraiki, born in 1845 and died in 1901.

Khwaja Mir Dard

Khwaja Mir Dard (خواجہ میر درد) was a Delhi Sufi of the Naqshbandi line and a major 18th-century Urdu ghazal poet who lived his whole life in Delhi.

Khwaja Ni'matullah Harawi

Khwaja Ni'matullah Harawi (خواجه نعمت‌الله هروی) was a Persian chronicler at the Mughal courts of Akbar and Jahangir, author of the Tarikh-i Khan Jahani wa Makhzan-i Afghani.

Khwaju Kirmani

Khwaju Kirmani (خواجوی کرمانی) was a fourteenth-century Persian poet and mystic, born in Kerman and settled in Shiraz, best known for his mathnawi Homay o Homayun.

Khwandamir

Khwandamir (خواند میر) was a Persian historian and administrator, born in Herat around 1475, who served the Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal dynasties and ended his career under Humayun.

Khwarazmian Empire

Khwarazmian Empire, or Anushteginid Khwarazmshah state, was a Turko-Persian empire (1097-1231) centered on Khwarazm; vassals of the Seljuqs and Qara Khitai, it peaked under Ala al-Din Muhammad and was destroyed by the Mongol invasion of 1219-1231.

Khwarazmshah Muhammad's march on Baghdad

Khwarazmshah Muhammad's march on Baghdad (خصومة خوارزمشاه مع الخليفة) was the 1217–1218 campaign of Khwarazmshah Ala' al-Din Muhammad to overthrow the Abbasid caliphate, ending in disaster.

Khwarazmshah–Abbasid conflict

The Khwarazmshah–Abbasid conflict was Sultan Muhammad II of Khwarazm's 1217 campaign against Caliph al-Nasir, aborted when a snowstorm destroyed his army in the Zagros mountains.