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Komló (Hungary)
...for building stone, limestone, and marls for industrial use. The mining of black charcoal and uranium ore also contribute to the economy. Komló, 8 miles (13 km) north of Pécs, developed as a planned coal-mining town in the 1950s. Baranya is also known for thermal......
Komlós Quartet (Hungarian music group)
Hungarian musical ensemble that is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets. It was founded in 1957 as the Komlós Quartet by graduates of the College of Musical Arts in Budapest: first violinist Péter Komlós, second violinist Sándor Devich, violist Géza Németh, and cel...
Kommamur Canal (canal, India)
canal in eastern Andhra Pradesh state and northeastern Tamil Nādu state, southeastern India. It was constructed section by section between 1806 and 1882 along the backwaters of the Coromandel Coast, which extends for a distance of 680 miles (1,10...
Kommanditgesellschaft (business)
To meet the need for larger amounts of capital in industry, limited partnerships became popular. Known as the société en commandite in France and Kommanditgesellschaft in Germany, the limited-partnership arrangement required at least one partner to be totally liable as in a regular partnership (q.v.) and allowed other partners to be liable only for the amounts......
Kommunarsk (Ukraine)
city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the railway from Luhansk to Debaltseve. Alchevsk was founded in 1895 with the establishment of the Donetsko-Yuryevsky ironworks. The plant developed into a large, integrated ironworks and steelworks, which was expanded greatly in the 1950s and ’60s. The city has been a major bituminous-coal mining centre, with coke-chemical and metalwo...
kommuner (Swedish political division)
Local government is allocated to the kommuner (municipalities), each with an elected assembly and the right to levy income taxes and to charge fees for various services. Municipalities have a strong independent position. Streets, sewerage, water......
Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii (political party, Russia)
Russian political party that opposes many of the democratic and economic reforms introduced in Russia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union....
Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza (political party, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991....
Kommunistikon Komma Ellados (political party, Greece)
...Socialist Movement (PASOK) won 36.7% of the vote, while the ruling centre-right New Democracy (ND) party garnered 32.3%. PASOK and the ND secured eight parliamentary seats each. The Communist Party of Greece (KKE), with 8.4% of the vote, earned two seats, as did the right-wing Populist Orthodox Rally (LAOS), with 7.2%. The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and.....
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (political party, Germany)
...left the party to become the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), strenuously rejecting war appropriations and Germany’s war policy. Another group split from the SPD to form the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). The leftists who had withdrawn from the SPD sought a social revolution, while Ebert and his party wanted to establish a German parliamentary democracy. Even in ...
Komnenos family (Byzantine emperors)
Byzantine family from Paphlagonia, members of which occupied the throne of Constantinople for more than a century (1081–1185)....
Komo (African society)
...focuses on agriculture. Its mask uses a headdress representing, in the form of an antelope, the mythical being who taught men how to farm. The Komo is the custodian of tradition and is concerned with all aspects of community life—agriculture, judicial processes, and passage rites. Its masks, which are considered to be enormously......
Komodo (island, Indonesia)
island of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia. The island, which has an area of approximately 200 square miles (520 square km), lies on the Sape Strait between Flores and ...
Komodo dragon (lizard)
largest extant lizard species. The dragon is a monitor lizard of the family Varanidae. It occurs on Komodo Island and a few neighbouring islands of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. The popular interest in the lizard’s large size and predatory habits has allowed this ...
Komoé National Park (park, Côte d’Ivoire)
national park, northeastern Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Originally founded in 1953 as the Bouna-Komoé game reserve, in 1968 it was expanded and established ...
Komoé, Parc National de la (park, Côte d’Ivoire)
national park, northeastern Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Originally founded in 1953 as the Bouna-Komoé game reserve, in 1968 it was expanded and established ...
Komoé River (river, Africa)
river in West Africa, rising 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), and forming part of the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivo...
Kōmoku (Hindu and Buddhist mythology)
...also referred to as Vaiśravaṇa, is common to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The other Buddhist lokapālas are Dhṛtarāṣṭra (east), Virūḍhaka (south), and Virūpākṣa (west)....
komondor (breed of dog)
large Hungarian sheepdog breed taken to Europe in the 9th century by the Magyars, who kept it primarily to protect, rather than to herd, their flocks. A powerful, heavy-boned dog, the male komondor stands at least 27.5 inches (69.9 cm) and weighs 100 pounds (45 kg) or more; the female is somewhat smaller. When an adult, the dog is covered from head to tail in heavy, tassel-like ...
komondorok (breed of dog)
large Hungarian sheepdog breed taken to Europe in the 9th century by the Magyars, who kept it primarily to protect, rather than to herd, their flocks. A powerful, heavy-boned dog, the male komondor stands at least 27.5 inches (69.9 cm) and weighs 100 pounds (45 kg) or more; the female is somewhat smaller. When an adult, the dog is covered from head to tail in heavy, tassel-like ...
Komorn (Slovakia)
town, southwestern Slovakia. It lies at the confluence of the Vah and Nitra rivers with the Danube River below Bratislava, at the Hungarian border. The town of Komárom, part of Hungary, lies on the south bank of the Danube across from Komárno....
Komornicy (work by Orkan)
...the poverty-stricken lives of the highlanders set against a natural landscape of great beauty. In his first volume, Nowele (1898; “Short Stories”), as well as in Komornicy (1900; “Tenant Farmers”), Orkan gives a naturalistic account of highlander-peasant life in his native Tatra region. Later, influenced by the literary and political......
Komotau (Czech Republic)
city, northwestern Czech Republic. It lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory) near the German border, northwest of Prague. Probably Czech in origin, Chomutov was a command post of the Teutonic Knights in the...
Komparu Zempō (Japanese nō dramatist)
nō dramatist and actor, grandson of nō actor and dramatist Komparu Zenchiku....
Komparu Zenchiku (Japanese nō dramatist)
nō actor and playwright who also wrote critical works on drama. Zenchiku, who married a daughter of the actor Zeami Motokiyo, was trained in drama by Zeami and Zeami’s son Motomasa....
Kompong Cham (Cambodia)
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies on the right bank of the Mekong River and is an important river port about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Phnom Penh, the national capital. It has an airfield, a cotton-textile mill, a rice mill, and agricultu...
Kompong Chhnang (Cambodia)
town, central Cambodia. Kâmpóng Chhnăng is located just west of the Sab River and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway route and railway....
Kompong Som (Cambodia)
town, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand. The port is connected with Phnom Penh, the national capital, by two major highways. It was first opened to ocean traffic in 1956; i...
Kompong Speu (Cambodia)
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaôt River at the foot of the Dâmrei (“Elephant”) Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with Kâmpóng Saôm, the country’s principal seaport....
Komsomol (Soviet youth organization)
in the history of the Soviet Union, organization for young people aged 14 to 28 that was primarily a political organ for spreading Communist teachings and preparing future members of the Communist Party. Closely associated with this organization were the Pioneers (All-Union Lenin Pioneer Organization, esta...
Komsomolsk-na-Amure (Russia)
city in Khabarovsk kray (territory), far eastern Russia, on the Amur River. Founded in 1932 on the site of the small village of Permskoye, the town was built by members of the Komsomol (Young Communist League), from which it derives its name. It rapidly developed into a major industrial...
Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Russia)
city in Khabarovsk kray (territory), far eastern Russia, on the Amur River. Founded in 1932 on the site of the small village of Permskoye, the town was built by members of the Komsomol (Young Communist League), from which it derives its name. It rapidly developed into a major industrial...
Komsomolskaya Pravda (Soviet newspaper)
(Russian: “Young Communist League Truth”), morning daily newspaper published in Moscow that was the official voice of the Central Council of the Komsomol, or Communist youth league for young people aged 14 to 28. Founded in 1925, Komsomolskaya Pravda historically had its main offices in Moscow, with those of Pravda, the Communist Party daily newspape...
kŏmungo (musical instrument)
Korean long board zither that originated in the 7th century. The kŏmungo is about 150 cm (5 feet) long and has three movable bridges and 16 convex frets supporting six silk strings. The front plate of the instrument is made of paulownia wood and the back plate is made of chestnut wood. Various pentatonic tunings ar...
Komunyakaa, Yusef (American writer)
...for their work during this time. Seven years after Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Thomas and Beulah (1986), her tribute to her maternal grandparents, Yusef Komunyakaa won the same prize for Neon Vernacular (1993), a collage of new and collected poems from seven previous volumes, ranging from Dien Cai......
Komura Jutarō (Japanese diplomat)
Japanese diplomat of the Meiji period and negotiator of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance....
Komura Jutarō, Kōshaku (Japanese diplomat)
Japanese diplomat of the Meiji period and negotiator of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance....
komusō (Japanese priest)
...instrument, but the best-known form of the shakuhachi is the one developed in the Tokugawa period. The instrument was used by komusō, priests who begged or sometimes spied while wandering through the streets playing the flute incognito, their heads covered by a special wicker basket hat. With the changes......
komuz (musical instrument)
...singers still recite the lengthy verse epic Manas and other heroic and lyric poetry, often to the accompaniment of the three-stringed komuz, which is plucked like a lute....
Komuz languages
a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family formed by a group of related languages spoken in the border area that separates Ethiopia from The Sudan. The Komuz group consists of Koma, Twampa (Uduk), Kwama, and Opo (Opo-Shita). Another variety of Komuz, known as Gule (Anej), may be extinct because its speakers have shifted to (Sudanese) Arabi...
Kon Tum (Vietnam)
town in the central highlands, south-central Vietnam. In 1851 French Roman Catholic missionaries established the first Vietnamese settlement near Kon Tum, at a site 140 miles (225 km) south-southeast of Hue. Lying at an elevation of 1,720 feet (524 metres), the town is a traditional trading centre for hides, horses, and sesame, and it ranks with Pleiku as one of the two most important highland cen...
Kon-Tiki (work by Heyerdahl)
...three and a half months later demonstrated the possibility that the Polynesians may have originated in South America. The story of the voyage was related in Heyerdahl’s book Kon-Tiki (1950) and in a documentary motion picture of the same name....
Kon-Tiki (raft)
raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east of Tahiti. Heyerdahl was interested in demonstrating the possibility that ancient people from the Americas could have colonized Polynesia; to do so, he constru...
Kona (resort area, Hawaii, United States)
resort area, Hawaii county, on the west-central coast of Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. The western coast of the island of Hawaii is known as Kona, and Kailua is its largest town, hence the name Kailua-Kona for the entire region....
Konahuanui (mountain peak, Hawaii, United States)
...(“cliff”), that rises abruptly on its eastern side and reaches varying heights (500 to 2,500 feet [150 to 750 metres]) 2 miles (3 km) from the sea. The highest point in the range is Konahuanui, which is actually two peaks (3,150 feet and 3,105 feet [960 metres and 946 metres]) and lies at the head of the Nuuanu Valley. Two cliff passes—Nuuanu and Waimanalo ......
Konakry (Guinea)
national capital, largest city, and chief Atlantic port, western Guinea. Conakry lies on Tombo (Tumbo) Island and the Kaloum Peninsula. Founded by the French in 1884, it derived its name from a local village inhabited by the Susu (Soussou) people. Subsequently it became capital of the protectorate of Rivières du Sud (1891), of the colony of French Guinea (1893), and of in...
Kōnan (Japan)
city, Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Kiso River, in the northern part of the Owari plain. Kōnan has been a centre of sericulture (silk-production) since the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867) and includes Kochina, the oldest commercial centre in the district. After ...
Konar River (river, Asia)
...where valleys follow two contrasting directions—northeast to southwest and roughly east to west. Most of the rivers, such as the Panjshēr (Panjshīr), the Alīngār, the Konar, and the Panjkora, follow the northeast-to-southwest direction and are then suddenly deflected toward the east-west axis by the Kābul River, into which they flow. The Yarkhun and Ghi...
Konarak (India)
historic village, east-central Orissa state, eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal coast. It is famous for its 13th-century Surya Deula (or Surya Deul), popularly known as the Sun Temple....
Konare, Alpha Oumar (president of Mali)
...led by Amadou Toumani Touré, promised a quick return to civilian rule and held a national conference attended by major associations and unions. Elections were held in 1992, and Alpha Konaré, a prominent civilian intellectual, won the presidency....
Konark (India)
historic village, east-central Orissa state, eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal coast. It is famous for its 13th-century Surya Deula (or Surya Deul), popularly known as the Sun Temple....
Konarka (India)
historic village, east-central Orissa state, eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal coast. It is famous for its 13th-century Surya Deula (or Surya Deul), popularly known as the Sun Temple....
“Konarmiya” (work by Babel)
...jobs over the next seven years. Perhaps his most significant experience was as a soldier in the war with Poland. Out of that campaign came the group of stories known as Konarmiya (1926; Red Cavalry). These stories present different aspects of war through the eyes of an inexperienced, intellectual young Jew who reports everything graphically and with naive precision. Though......
Konarski, Stanisław (Polish priest)
Roman Catholic priest and political writer, who influenced the reform of education in Poland....
Konaté, Sékouba (Guinean military officer)
Area: 245,836 sq km (94,918 sq mi) | Population (2009 est.): 10,069,000 | Capital: Conakry | Head of state and government: Presidents Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara and, from December 5, Sékouba Konaté; assisted by Prime Ministers Ahmed Tidiane Souaré and, from January 2, Kabiné Komara | ...
Konbaung Dynasty (Myanmar dynasty)
the last ruling dynasty (1752–1885) of Myanmar (Burma). The dynasty’s collapse in the face of British imperial might marked the end of Myanmar sovereignty for more than 60 years. (Some authorities limit the name Konbaung dynasty to the period beginning with King Bodawpaya in 1782 and continuing to 1885.) The Alaungpaya dynasty led Myanmar in an era of expansionism ...
Konchalovsky, Andrey (Russian filmmaker)
...Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt by the Sun (1994)—received the Academy Awards for best foreign-language film. The work of Andrey Konchalovsky, who has plied his craft in Russia as well as in Europe and the United States with features such as Runaway Train (1985) and Ho...
Kond (people)
people of the hills and jungles of Orissa state, India. Their numbers are estimated to exceed 800,000, of which about 550,000 speak Kui and its southern dialect, Kuwi, of the Dravidian language family. Most Khond are now rice cultivators, but there are still groups, such as the Kuttia Khond, who practice slash-and-burn agric...
Konda River (river, Russia)
river in western Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (region), Russia. It rises amid swamps and flows about 715 miles (1,097 km) generally west and east and eventually northeast to join the Irtysh River at Repolovo....
Kondakov, Ivan (Russian chemist)
...a compound similar to isoprene, as the basis for a synthetic product. Several significant contributions came from Russia. In 1901 Ivan Kondakov discovered that dimethyl butadiene, when heated with potash, produced a rubberlike substance, and in 1910 S.V. Lebedev polymerized butadiene, which he obtained from ethyl alcohol.......
Kondane (India)
The cave temple at Kondane has, above the entrance hall, four beautiful panels depicting pairs of dancers. The forms retain the robust and full modelling of the more developed sculpture at Pītalkhorā, but to this is added an ease of movement and considerable rhythmic grace. Traces of the terra-cotta tradition are now totally......
Kondavīdu (historical kingdom, India)
...able to emerge victorious. Continuing instability, however, coupled with the involvement of Vijayanagar and the Bahmanī sultanate as backers of different claimants to the throne of Kondavidu, led to further confrontation between the two powers (each joined by various of the rivalrous Telugu chiefs). Sultan Fīrūz Shah Bahmanī supported a Reddi attack on......
Kondh (people)
people of the hills and jungles of Orissa state, India. Their numbers are estimated to exceed 800,000, of which about 550,000 speak Kui and its southern dialect, Kuwi, of the Dravidian language family. Most Khond are now rice cultivators, but there are still groups, such as the Kuttia Khond, who practice slash-and-burn agric...
Kondílis, Geórgios (Greek general)
Greek general, one of a number of army officers who repeatedly intervened in, and disrupted the course of, parliamentary politics in Greece. Although a supporter of the republic when it was proclaimed in 1924, Kondílis was largely instrumental in securing the restoration of King George II in 1935....
kondō (religious architecture)
...such as a pagoda (a form derived from the Indian stupa that served the dual functions of cosmological diagram and reliquary of important personages) and a main hall (kondō), both used for worship. Support buildings, such as lecture halls, a belfry, and living quarters, lay outside and to the north of the inner cloister. True to the continental......
Kondo effect (physics)
Magnetic ions have interesting properties when they are found as impurities in nonmagnetic crystals. They usually retain their magnetic moment, so small magnets are distributed randomly throughout the crystal. If the host crystal is a metal, the magnetic impurities make an interesting contribution to the electrical resistivity. The conduction electrons scatter from the magnetic impurity. Since......
Kondo temperature (physics)
...after the Japanese theoretical physicist Jun Kondo, who first explained the increase in resistivity resulting from magnetic impurities. There is a characteristic temperature, called the Kondo temperature, which depends on the impurity and on the metallic host. The resistivity increases at low temperature, starting near the Kondo temperature. A typical example of a Kondo system is......
Kondratieff cycle (economics)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratieff, Nikolai D. (Russian economist)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratieff wave (economics)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratiev cycle (economics)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratyev cycle (economics)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratyev, Nikolay D. (Russian economist)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondratyev, Nikolay Dmitriyevich (Russian economist)
Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles—the so-called Kondratieff waves....
Kondylis, Georgios (Greek general)
Greek general, one of a number of army officers who repeatedly intervened in, and disrupted the course of, parliamentary politics in Greece. Although a supporter of the republic when it was proclaimed in 1924, Kondílis was largely instrumental in securing the restoration of King George II in 1935....
Koner, Pauline (American choreographer)
American dancer and choreographer (b. 1912, New York, N.Y.—d. Feb. 8, 2001, New York), created works for stage shows at New York City’s Roxy Theater, for ice shows, and for television programs and from 1946 to 1960 performed with the José Limón Dance Company. Sh...
Konev, Ivan Stepanovich (Soviet general)
one of the outstanding Soviet generals in World War II, who was a leader of the offensive against the Germans....
“Konferenz der Tiere, Die” (work by Kästner)
...Tom Sawyer, Detective [1896] may be ignored). Kästner, the dean of German writers for children, won an international audience with a long series of stories of which the thesis-fable Die Konferenz der Tiere (1949; Eng. trans. The Animals’ Conference, 1949) is perhaps the funniest as well as the most serious....
Kong (historical kingdom, Africa)
Important kingdoms flourished in the precolonial period. In the savanna country, towns developed around communities of Dyula traders. Kong existed for several centuries before Sekou Ouattara and his sons established a new dynasty there in the early 18th century. Kong lasted until 1897, when it was destroyed by Samory Touré, who was in the process of creating a new Muslim empire that......
Kong family (Chinese family)
Inside the town of Qufu but lying outside the temple enclosure is an elaborate complex of buildings that was the residence of Confucius’s descendants, the Kong family. Through the centuries the Kongs were the guardians of the temple complex and the administrators of the town of Qufu; the 76th lineal descendant of Confucius lived in the town before ......
Kong Ji (Chinese philosopher)
Chinese philosopher and grandson of Confucius (551–479 bce). Varying traditional accounts state that Zisi, who studied under Confucius’s pupil Zengzi, taught either Mencius (Mengzi)—the “second sage” of Confucianism—or Mencius’s teacher. Texts dating to about t...
Kong Le (Laotian military officer)
...two Vietnams. When a new, assertive Laotian government sent troops to enforce its authority over the provinces in 1958–59, civil war appeared inevitable. A military coup d’état led by Kong Le briefly returned Souvanna to power, but when Kong Le was in turn driven out in December 1960, he joined forces with the Pathet Lao in their strategic stronghold in the Plain of Jarres....
Kong, Leslie (Jamaican businessman)
...most innovative of the bunch were Studio One’s founder, Coxsone Dodd, and his eccentric in-house engineer, Lee Perry, who produced important tracks by Bob Marley. But Chinese-Jamaican businessman Leslie Kong, a former restaurateur, with his Beverley’s label, was initially more successful. His productions dominated the movie The Harder They Come (1972), and he organized Paul...
Kong Midas (work by Heiberg)
...Collett Vogt, who produced some of the best lyrics of the 1890s. In drama Gunnar Heiberg, who combined a sharply satirical wit with a lyric deftness, expressed the new spirit in Kong Midas (1890), Gerts have (1894; “Gert’s Garden”), Balkonen (1894; The Balcony), a...
“Kong René’s datter” (work by Hertz)
...Dyring’s House”), about the woman protagonist’s failed battle to express her eroticism in a repressive society; and Kong Renés datter (1845; King René’s Daughter), based on Provençal folklore. He was also a prolific writer of many kinds of verse. Unfortunately he often felt compelled to conform to...
Kong River (river, Southeast Asia)
...streams that flow through narrow valleys before entering the lowlands bordering the Mekong. The Mekong’s most important tributaries in this region are the Kading, the Bangfai, the Banghiang, and the Kong—which, with its affluent the San, drains a large area of southern Laos, central Vietnam, and eastern Cambodia. Forest degradation, which has resulted from lumbering, shifting cult...
Kŏng, Tônlé (river, Southeast Asia)
...streams that flow through narrow valleys before entering the lowlands bordering the Mekong. The Mekong’s most important tributaries in this region are the Kading, the Bangfai, the Banghiang, and the Kong—which, with its affluent the San, drains a large area of southern Laos, central Vietnam, and eastern Cambodia. Forest degradation, which has resulted from lumbering, shifting cult...
Kong, Xe (river, Southeast Asia)
...streams that flow through narrow valleys before entering the lowlands bordering the Mekong. The Mekong’s most important tributaries in this region are the Kading, the Bangfai, the Banghiang, and the Kong—which, with its affluent the San, drains a large area of southern Laos, central Vietnam, and eastern Cambodia. Forest degradation, which has resulted from lumbering, shifting cult...
Kong Xiangxi (Chinese businessman and statesman)
banker and businessman who was a major figure in the Chinese Nationalist government between 1928 and 1945....
Konganivarman (Ganga ruler)
The first ruler of the Western Gangas, Konganivarman, carved out a kingdom by conquest, but his successors, Madhava I and Harivarman, expanded their influence by marital and military alliances with the Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Kadambas. By the end of the 8th century a dynastic dispute weakened the Gangas, but Butuga II (c. 937–960) obtained extensive territories between the......
Kongeglimen (play by Kamban)
...expeditions to Greenland and America. Kamban’s first plays—Hadda Padda (1914; Eng. trans. Hadda Padda; filmed 1924) and Kongeglimen (1915; “Wrestling Before the King”)—are about the problems of love. In his subsequent plays, Marmor (1918; “Marble”)...
Kongelige Teater, Det (theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark)
The first Danish-speaking theatre was opened in Copenhagen in 1722; it was followed in 1748 by the Royal Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater), which remained under court patronage for a century. In 1848 it was taken over by the state, and it is now administered by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Besides a relatively large number of classical and modern Danish plays, the repertoire includes much that......
Kongens Nytorv (square, Copenhagen, Denmark)
The heart of the city is the Rådhuspladsen (“Town Hall Square”). From the square, an old crooked shopping street leads northeast to the former centre of the city, Kongens Nytorv (“King’s New Square”), laid out in the 17th century. Buildings there include the Thott Palace (now the French Embassy) and the Charlottenborg Palace (now the Royal Academy of Fine ...
Kongeriget Danmark
Country, north-central Europe....
Kongeriket Norge
Country, western Scandinavian Peninsula, northern Europe....
Kongfuzi (Chinese philosopher)
China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, whose ideas have influenced the civilization of East Asia....
konghou (musical instrument)
Chinese multistringed, plucked instrument of the harp family. The sound box of a konghou resembles that of a pipa. On each side of the sound box is a row of bridges over which 36 to 44 strings are stretched. A device that is fixed to the bridges coordinates the two g...
Kongi’s Harvest (play by Soyinka)
...1960; published 1963) and Jero’s Metamorphosis (1973). But his more serious plays, such as The Strong Breed (1963), Kongi’s Harvest (opened the first Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, 1966; published 1967), The Road (1965), From Zia, with Love ...
Kongming (Chinese adviser)
celebrated adviser to Liu Bei, founder of the Shu-Han dynasty (221–263/264)....
Kongmoon (China)
city in central Guangdong sheng (province), China. The city is situated on the west bank of the main channel of the Xi River, at the southwest corner of the Pearl (Zhu) River Delta, some 45 miles (70 km) from Guangzhou (Canton). It has excellent waterway communications and is the chi...

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