Yuman: people, the Diegueño and the Kamia (now known as the Tipai and Ipai), lived in what are now southern California and northern Baja California. The Kiliwa and Paipai still live in northern Baja California.

Izumo: …everywhere else in Japan and Kamiarizuki (“Month with Gods”) in the Izumo area. Pop. (2010) 171,485; (2015) 171,938.

kamidana, (Japanese: “god-shelf”), in the Shintō religion of Japan, a miniature shrine, the centre of daily worship in a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf on which are displayed articles of veneration and daily offerings. At the centre of the shrine

Józef Czechowicz: His first collection of poems, Kamień (1927; “Stone”), was followed by Dzień jak codzień (1930; “A Day Like Every Day”), Ballada z tamtej strony (1932; “A Ballad from Beyond”), W błyskawicy (1934; “In Lightning”), Nic więcej (1936; “Nothing More”), and Nuta człowiecza (1939; “A Human Note”).

Kam’yanets-Podilskyy, city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at a superbly defensible site where the river forms a loop, it was long a frontier fortress and centre of the Podolia

Tadeusz Borowski: … (1948; “Farewell to Maria”) and Kamienny świat (1948; “The World of Stone”), that explored the depths of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. (Both collections appear in the English translation This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories [1967].)

South Africa: Relief of South Africa: …vicinity of Mount Bokkeveld and Mount Kamies (5,600 feet [1,700 meters]), the escarpment is not well defined.

Japan: Languages: …a vigorous influx of the Kamigata (Kinai) subdialect, which was the foundation of standard Japanese. Among the Western subdialects, the Kinki version was long the standard language of Japan, although the present Kamigata subdialect of the Kyōto-Ōsaka region is of relatively recent origin. The Kyushu subdialects have been placed outside…

kamikaze, any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The practice was most prevalent from theBattle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944, to the end of the war. The word kamikaze

Eminem: Later albums and projects: …reviews for Revival (2017), and Kamikaze (2018) was described by many critics as somewhat curmudgeonly in tone. Such criticism had little impact on sales, however, and in 2020 Music to Be Murdered By became his 10th consecutive album to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.

kamikaze: …was given the nickname “Baka” by the Allies from the Japanese word for fool. The pilot had no means of getting out once the missile was fastened to the aircraft that would launch it. Dropped usually from an altitude of over 25,000 feet (7,500 metres) and more than 50…

kamikaze of 1274 and 1281, (1274, 1281), a pair of massive typhoons (tropical cyclones) that each wrecked a Mongol fleet attempting to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281. The storms destroyed most of the Mongol ships and dispersed the rest, forcing the attackers to abandon their plans and fortuitously

Ibn al-Athīr: …history of the world, al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh (“The Complete History”), starting with the creation of Adam. Long a standard work, this history has been criticized in the 20th century for being somewhat derivative. He also wrote a history of the atabegs (former Seljuq army officers who founded dynasties) of…

Mehmed Kâmil Paşa was a Turkish army officer who served four times as Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister). Trained as a military officer in Cairo, Kâmil held a succession of government posts until he became grand vizier in 1885–91 and again in 1895. Sultan Abdülhamid II dismissed him because he

al-Mubarrad: …and literary scholar whose Al-Kāmil (“The Perfect One”) is a storehouse of linguistic knowledge.

al-Malik al-Kāmil was a sultan (from 1218) of the Ayyūbid line, who ruled Egypt, Palestine, and Syria during the Fifth and Sixth crusades. On his accession to the sultanate, al-Kāmil engaged the armies of the Fifth Crusade and eventually negotiated their withdrawal from Egypt in 1221. During this

ʿAbbās II: His uncle Ḥusayn Kāmil (reigned 1914–17) replaced him and assumed the title of sultan. In 1922, when Egypt was declared independent, ʿAbbās lost all rights to the throne. He passed the rest of his life in exile, mainly in Switzerland.

Muṣṭafā Kāmil was a lawyer, journalist, and Egyptian nationalist who was a founder of the National Party. Muṣṭafā Kāmil, the son of an army officer, studied law in Cairo and in Toulouse, France, obtaining a law degree in 1894. Muṣṭafā Kāmil strongly opposed the British occupation of Egypt and, with

Chagatai literature: For example, the Kokandian princess Mahlarayim (Māhilar), writing in the 19th century, created a Chagatai divan under the makhlaṣ (or takhalluṣ; pen name) Nādira and a Persian divan under the name Maknüna; she also used the name Kāmila in her Chagatai works. In her Persian divan she included mukhammas (imitative…

Kamina, town, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is an important centre on the Lubumbashi-Ilebo rail line at the junction of branch lines northward to Kindu and to Kalemie, a port with connections to eastern Africa. The town has air services to Lubumbashi, Kolwezi, and Kananga.

Kaminaljuyú, historical centre of the highland Maya, located near modern Guatemala City, Guatemala. The site was inhabited from the Formative Period (1500 bce– 100 ce) until its decline after the Late Classic Period (c. 600–900 ce). About 200 burial sites from the Late Formative Period (300 bce–

Vishal Bhardwaj: Other films: …Charlie, in the crime drama Kaminey (2009; “Scoundrels”). Priyanka Chopra was cast as Sweety, Guddu’s girlfriend in Kaminey. She played the lead role of femme fatale Susanna, who kills a series of wayward husbands in Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf (2011; “Seven Murders Forgiven”), also starring Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma,…

Kaministiquia River, river, western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 miles (95 km), empties into Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. It has many rapids and cataracts, notably the wide Kakabeka Falls (154 feet [47 m] high), site of a major hydroelectric station.

Kaministiquia River, river, western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 miles (95 km), empties into Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. It has many rapids and cataracts, notably the wide Kakabeka Falls (154 feet [47 m] high), site of a major hydroelectric station.

Simone Signoret was a French actress known for her portrayal of fallen romantic heroines and headstrong older women. Her tumultuous marriage to actor Yves Montand and the couple’s championing of several left-wing causes often provoked controversy and brought her notoriety. Born in Germany to French

Ida Kaminska was a Polish-born Yiddish performer and theatre manager who achieved international stature. The daughter of the well-known Yiddish actors Abraham Isaac and Ester Rachel Kaminski, she appeared for the first time onstage at age five. Her true debut was in Warsaw (1916) with the theatre

Danny Kaye was an energetic, multitalented American actor and comedian who later became known for his involvement with humanitarian causes. The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Kaye began his performing career in the 1930s as a comic entertainer in hotels in the Catskill Mountains and in nightclubs

Danny Kaye was an energetic, multitalented American actor and comedian who later became known for his involvement with humanitarian causes. The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Kaye began his performing career in the 1930s as a comic entertainer in hotels in the Catskill Mountains and in nightclubs

Mel Brooks is an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor whose motion pictures elevated outrageousness and vulgarity to high comic art. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Brooks was an accomplished mimic, pianist, and drummer by the time he

Koshiba Masatoshi: Called Kamiokande II, it was an enormous water tank surrounded by electronic detectors to sense flashes of light produced when neutrinos interacted with atomic nuclei in water molecules. Koshiba was able to confirm Davis’s results—that the Sun produces neutrinos and that fewer neutrinos were found than…

Warsaw: Foundation and early development: …were taken over successively by Kamion (c. 1065) and Jazdow (first recorded in 1262). About the end of the 13th century, Jazdow was moved about two miles to the north, to a village named Warszowa (Warsaw), and the community was strengthened by the protection of a castle. From 1339, authority…

dress: Japan: …later the samurai adopted the kamishimo, a striking jumperlike garment, with extended shoulders and pleated skirt-trousers, which was worn over the hitatare. This costume probably inspired a later fashion of wearing skirt-trousers (hakama) over a full-length black kimono, which, together with the short black haori coat, was until fairly recently…

Austria: Allied occupation: …spring of 1953 and had Reinhard Kamitz appointed minister of finance. The subsequent economic reconstruction and the advance to a prosperity unknown to Austrians since the years before World War I is generally identified with the so-called Raab-Kamitz course, which was based on a modified free-market economy. The nationalized steel…

Pakistan: Daily life and social customs: … combination—a long knee-length shirt (kamiz, camise) over loose-fitting pants (shalwar)—is the most common traditional form of attire. As a more formal overgarment, men wear a knee-length coat known as a sherwani; women frequently wear a light shawl called a dupatta. Among conservative Muslim communities, women sometimes wear the burqa,…

William Kamkwamba is a Malawian inventor and author who worked on projects to improve the lives of his family and the residents of Masitala, the rural village in Malawi where he grew up. As a teenager, he made a windmill out of scrap materials that provided electricity to his family’s house. He

Kamloops, city, southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies astride the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers near their expansion into Kamloops Lake and adjacent to the Kamloops Indian Reserve, 220 miles (355 km) by road northeast of Vancouver. It originated as a trading settlement,

oxytocin: The discovery of oxytocin: …team of scientists led by Oliver Kamm at Parke-Davis and Company, who in 1928 reported having successfully separated oxytocin from a second active substance in the posterior pituitary, vasopressin (or antidiuretic hormone); the Parke-Davis scientists coined the terms oxytocin and vasopressin. In the early 1950s, American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud

karma, in Indian religion and philosophy, the universal causal law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual’s existence. Karma represents the ethical dimension of the process of rebirth (samsara), belief in which is generally shared among the religious traditions of

kammatthana, in Theravada Buddhist tradition, one of the objects of mental concentration or a stage of meditation employing it. According to Visuddhi-magga (a 5th-century ce Pali text by Buddhaghosa), there are 40 kammatthanas; an individual should choose the object of mental concentration that is

Greece: Greece’s debt crisis: …the matter imminent, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, the leader of the Independent Greeks, resigned his office in protest, and his party withdrew from the ruling coalition, erasing Tsipras’s razor-thin majority. Facing near-certain rejection of the agreement by the opposition ND, Tsipras chose to call for a vote of confidence in…

art market: Northern Europe and the Austrian Empire: Collections (also referred to as cabinets) were formed that were far more wide ranging than those of the 15th-century studiolo and whose purposes were more scientific than humanistic. North of the Alps these were known as Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern, from Kunst (“man-made objects”), Wunder (“natural curiosities”), and Kammern (“chambers, rooms”).

Paul Kammerer was an Austrian biologist who claimed to have produced experimental evidence that acquired traits could be inherited. The results of Kammerer’s experiments with salamanders and other amphibians were widely published in technical papers and books, the first of these appearing in 1904

Reichskammergericht: The Kammergericht (the king’s personal court) had appeared side by side with the Hofgericht in 1415 and replaced it after the Hofgericht’s sittings had terminated. The king or his deputy presided in the Kammergericht. After the creation of the imperial Aulic Council, which was formed in…

Paul Hindemith: His Kammermusik series—for small, unconventional, astringent groups of instruments—is outstanding. He also produced such works as the Violin Concerto (1939), the Cello Concerto (1940), the Symphonic Metamorphoses After Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1946), and the operas Die Harmonie der Welt (1957; “The Harmony of…

Berlin: The city layout: The Hall for Chamber Music (Kammermusiksaal), a companion facility to Philharmonic Hall, opened in 1987. The Charlottenburg Palace, dating from the late 17th century, is perhaps the city’s most outstanding example of Baroque design.

Max Reinhardt: Career in full flower: …in theatre with the word Kammerspiele, “chamber plays.”

pitch: …new, or Baroque, pitch, called Kammerton (“chamber pitch”) in Germany, was one tone below the old Renaissance woodwind pitch, or Chorton (“choir pitch”).

Kammu was the 50th emperor of Japan, who established the Japanese capital at Heian-kyō, where it remained until 1868. His accomplishments laid the basis for the Heian period (794–1185). Enthroned in 781 as the emperor Kammu, he was one of the strongest rulers Japan had known for several centuries.

Kammu was the 50th emperor of Japan, who established the Japanese capital at Heian-kyō, where it remained until 1868. His accomplishments laid the basis for the Heian period (794–1185). Enthroned in 781 as the emperor Kammu, he was one of the strongest rulers Japan had known for several centuries.

Kammu was the 50th emperor of Japan, who established the Japanese capital at Heian-kyō, where it remained until 1868. His accomplishments laid the basis for the Heian period (794–1185). Enthroned in 781 as the emperor Kammu, he was one of the strongest rulers Japan had known for several centuries.

dress: Japan: …of black lacquered silk (the kammuri), which includes an upright pennon decorated with the imperial chrysanthemum crest. The voluminous outer robe (ho) is cut in the style of the Chinese pao but is given a distinctively Japanese look by being tucked up at the waist so that the skirt ends…

Chūgoku Range: The Kammuri Mountains to the west of the gorge are sometimes considered to be an independent unit. Only a few peaks of the Chūgoku Range exceed 3,300 feet (1,000 m); the Kammuri block, however, rises to 4,393 feet (1,339 m).

Amitāyur-dhyāna-sūtra, (Sanskrit: “Discourse Concerning Meditation on Amitāyus”), one of three texts basic to Pure Land Buddhism. Together with the larger and smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha-sūtras (Sanskrit: “Description of the Western Paradise Sutras”), this text envisions rebirth in the celestial Pure

Armenia: Settlement patterns: (now Yerevan), Alexandropol (Gyumri), Kamo, and Goris—accounted for about one-tenth of the total population. Two-thirds of the population are now urbanized.

Kyōto: The city site: The Kamo and Katsura rivers—before joining the Yodo-gawa (Yodo River) to the south—were, respectively, the original eastern and western boundaries. But the attraction of the eastern hills kept the city from filling out to its original western border until after World War II. Kyōto is actually…

Kamo Chōmei was a poet and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry, one of the major figures in the history of Japanese poetics. He is best known as a classic example of the man of sensibility turned recluse and as the author of Hōjō-ki (1212; The Ten Foot Square Hut), a description of his life in

Kamo Mabuchi was one of the earliest advocates of Kokugaku (“National Learning”), a movement to restore the true Japanese spirit by a return to ancient traditions and culture. The movement was revived in World War II in connection with resurgent nationalism. Mabuchi was born into a branch of the

Kamo Chōmei was a poet and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry, one of the major figures in the history of Japanese poetics. He is best known as a classic example of the man of sensibility turned recluse and as the author of Hōjō-ki (1212; The Ten Foot Square Hut), a description of his life in

Oceanic art and architecture: The southwestern coast: …Frederik Hendrik Island are the Mimika (Kamoro) to the west and the Asmat to the east. Their styles have much in common.

Nicobar Islands: …islands of Car Nicobar (north), Camorta (Kamorta) and Nancowry (central group), and Great Nicobar (south).

Kamose was the last king of the 17th dynasty (c. 1630–1540 bce; see ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate period) of ancient Egypt, who conducted hostilities against the Hyksos, the west Semitic settlers who had seized the northern part of Egypt. Following the death of his father, Seqenenre,

Kairouan: …of the Byzantine fortress of Kamouinia. The town served as the camp from which the offensive was launched that resulted in the Islamic political and religious subjugation of the Maghrib (northwest Africa). It was chosen as the capital of the Maghrib by the first Aghlabid ruler about 800. The Maliki…

Anne Hébert: Kamouraska; filmed 1973), is a tightly woven masterpiece of suspense that won France’s Prix de Libraires. Les Enfants du sabbat (1975; Children of the Black Sabbath), which won Hébert a second Governor General’s Award, is a tale of witchcraft and sorcery. The supernatural was a…

primate: Miocene: >Kamoypithecus, and others) have been added to the family. The location of the actual ancestors of living hominoids remained mysterious until previously known specimens from the Moroto District, in eastern Uganda, were reexamined and fresh material was discovered. In 1997 the description of a new…

Milky Way Galaxy: Space motions: …on the Dutch-born American astronomer Peter van de Kamp’s table of stars within 17 light-years, excluding the star of greatest anomalous velocity, reveal that dispersions in the V direction and the W direction are approximately half the size of the dispersion in the U direction. This is an indication of…

kampaku, (Japanese: “white barrier”), in Japanese history, office of chief councillor or regent to an adult emperor. The post was created in the Heian period (794–1185) and was thereafter customarily held by members of the Fujiwara clan. Officially serving on behalf of the emperor, regents often

Kampala, capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 meters) and is situated in the southern part of the country, just north of Lake Victoria. Kampala lies just north of Mengo, the capital of the kingdom of Buganda in the 19th

Kampan was sometimes called the finest Tamil poet, whose principal achievement is the epic Irāmāvatāram (Rama’s Incarnation). Little is known about Kampan’s life. That he was a masterful poet and knowledgeable about Tamil and Sanskrit literary traditions is evident from his Irāmāvatāram. Based on

Kampen, gemeente (municipality) and port, north-central Netherlands. It is situated on the southwest side of the IJssel River near its influx into Lake Ketel. First mentioned in 1227, Kampen was a member of the Hanseatic League and a leading commercial centre until it was supplanted by Amsterdam in

Watertown, city, seat (1878) of Codington county, eastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Big Sioux River, between Lakes Kampeska and Pelican, about 95 miles (155 km) north of Sioux Falls. It was laid out in 1878 following the extension of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad (now part of the Union

children’s literature: War and beyond: Der Kampf der Tertia (1927; “The Third-Form Struggle”), by Wilhelm Speyer, was Germany’s excellent contribution to the genre of the school story. Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humor and sympathy, but…

Stefan Zweig: …Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. His stories include those in Verwirrung…

Felix Dahn: He won great acclaim for Ein Kampf um Rom, 4 vol. (1876–78; “A Struggle for Rome”), in which he reconstructed the decline and fall of the Ostrogothic empire in Italy.

Danshaku Katō Hiroyuki: …from the 1893 German publication of his Der Kampf ums Recht des Stärkeren und seine Entwickelung (1893; “War, Right of the Strongest, and Evolution”).

tree: Tree lines: …as tree height decreases (the kampf zone). This zone gives way to a region of low twisted and stunted trees called the krummholz. Together, the kampf zone and the krummholz constitute the transition zone. The end of the krummholz marks the tree line.

Levi ben Gershom: …wrote (1317–29) his major work, Sefer milḥamot Adonai (“The Book of the Wars of the Lord”; partial trans. Die Kämpfe Gottes, 2 vol.). Divided into six parts, the work treats exhaustively of the immortality of the soul; dreams, divination, and prophecy; divine knowledge; providence; celestial spheres and separate intellects and…

Engelbert Kämpfer was a German traveler whose writings are a valuable source of information on 17th-century Iran and Japan. At Uppsala, Swed., Kämpfer joined a trade mission to Russia and Iran and then went on to visit Batavia, Java (now Jakarta), where in 1690 he joined a Dutch trade mission to

Kamphaeng Phet, town, western Thailand. It lies along the Ping River and is an old walled settlement with notable ruins and temples and a museum. Rice cultivation is the main economic activity in the surrounding area, and teak is cut in the forested highlands to the west. Pop. (2000)

Farrukhabad-cum-Fatehgarh: The town of Kampil, northwest of the municipality, is mentioned in epics of the 2nd century bce and earlier; it has numerous ancient temples. Sankisa (ancient Samkashya), to the west, was a famous Buddhist pilgrimage centre and has several mounds that are the remains of Buddhist stupas. Pop.…

Mazowieckie: Geography: Kampinos National Park is one of Poland’s largest national parks and is popular with tourists making day trips from Warsaw to hike among the park’s primeval forests, sand dunes, and marshland. The main cultural centre of the province, and, alongside Krakow, in all of Poland,…

Javanese: …their counterparts in the countryside—kampongs (villages). Rural Javanese villages are compact groups of single-family houses, traditionally built of bamboo, surrounding a central square. Though rice is the main food crop, a variety of others are produced, including corn (maize), cassava, peanuts (groundnuts), and soybeans.

Brunei: Settlement patterns: …is an older part called Kampong Ayer, where Brunei Malays live in houses built on stilts along inlets of the river. The area surrounding the cities of Kuala Belait and Seria, both in the oil-rich zone of the southwestern coast, is the country’s next most densely settled region.

Kampong Cham, 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 agricultural-machinery and vehicle-repair

Kampong Cham, 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 agricultural-machinery and vehicle-repair

Kampong Chhnang, town, central Cambodia. Kampong Chhnang is located just west of the Sap River (the outlet for the Tonle Sap) and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway route and railway. The surrounding area is occupied by Khmer peoples,

Kampong Chhnang, town, central Cambodia. Kampong Chhnang is located just west of the Sap River (the outlet for the Tonle Sap) and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway route and railway. The surrounding area is occupied by Khmer peoples,

Sihanoukville, city, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand. It is the capital of Preah Sihanouk province in southwestern Cambodia. Formerly known as Kampong Saom (Khmer: “Port of the Moon” or “Port of Shiva”), the city was

Kampong Speu, town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaot River at the foot of the Dâmrei (“Elephant”) Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with Sihanoukville, the country’s principal seaport. The surrounding area supports rice,

Kampong Thom, town, north-central Cambodia. Kampong Thom lies along the San River and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by highways. Major agricultural products of the surrounding area include rice, corn (maize), rubber, and cotton. Bananas, potatoes, beans, sugarcane, tobacco, jute,

Kampong Thom, town, north-central Cambodia. Kampong Thom lies along the San River and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by highways. Major agricultural products of the surrounding area include rice, corn (maize), rubber, and cotton. Bananas, potatoes, beans, sugarcane, tobacco, jute,

Kampot, city in southern Cambodia that is the capital of Kampot province. Kampot is located near the mouth of the Koh Sla River. In the 19th century it was the country’s chief port, but this function was taken over in the 1950s by Sihanoukville. Kampot is connected to Phnom Penh, the national

Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer in the early 21st century. Kamprad displayed entrepreneurial skills as a boy when he began selling matches to neighbours. In 1943, at age 17, he founded a company called IKEA, the name of

entoproct, any member of the phylum Entoprocta, a group of aquatic invertebrate animals composed of about 150 species and subdivided into four families. Entoprocts occur throughout the world, primarily in marine habitats, although one genus, Urnatella, is a freshwater form. Entoprocts may either

Cambodia: Political process: …from the pro-Vietnam and communist Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party that was founded in 1951. The CPP was long the dominant party in national politics. The CNRP was formed in 2012 through the merger of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the smaller Human Rights Party (founded 2007). The SRP, founded…

Cambodia, country in mainland Southeast Asia. Cambodia is largely a land of plains and great rivers and lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia. The influences of many Asian cultures, alongside those of France and the United States, can be seen

Khmer, any member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia. Smaller numbers of Khmer also live in southeastern Thailand and the Mekong River delta of southern Vietnam. The Khmer language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family, itself a part of the Austroasiatic

Afghanistan: The rise of the Bārakzay: …situation incited the jealousy of Kāmrān, Maḥmūd’s eldest son, who seized and blinded Fatḥ Khan. Later Shah Maḥmūd had him cut to pieces.

Kamarupa, ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam, in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent territorial boundaries. Kamarupa was ruled by at least three dynasties from about

Krishna: …who was the sister of Kamsa, the wicked king of Mathura (in modern Uttar Pradesh). Kamsa, hearing a prophecy that he would be destroyed by Devaki’s child, tried to slay her children, but Krishna was smuggled across the Yamuna River to Gokula (or Vraja, modern Gokul), where he was raised…

Jimmu, legendary first emperor of Japan and founder of the imperial dynasty. Japanese chronicles record Jimmu’s expedition eastward from Hyuga in 607 bc along Japan’s Inland Sea, subduing tribes as he went and ending in Yamato, where he established his centre of power. Although modern historians do