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Limestone, when pulverized, forms ... Khabarov, Yerofey P. (from the article "Amur River") Early Russian exploration of the Amur basin was by the adventurers Vasily Poyarkov, who visited ... Khabarovsk kray (region), far eastern Russia. The kray includes the Yevreyskaya (Jewish) autonomous oblast (province). Its ... Khabarovsk city and administrative centre of Khabarovsk kray (region), far eastern Russia. Khabarovsk lies along the ... [4 Related Articles] Khabbash (from the article "Egypt, ancient") ...acquired rich booty in its determination to prevent Egypt from further rebelling. After the murder ... Khabul Khan (from the article "Mongolia") ...about 1162 (the date favoured by contemporary Mongol scholars, though others cite 1155 or 1167). ... Khabur River river, an important tributary of the Euphrates River. It rises in the mountains of southeastern ... 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[4 Related Articles] Khafre (from the article "Giza, Pyramids of") ...original heights because they have been almost entirely stripped of their outer casings of smooth ... khagan (from the article "Khazar") Although basically Turkic, the Khazar state bore little resemblance to the other Turkic empires of ... Khai Dinh emperor of Vietnam in 1916-25 and an advocate of cooperation with the colonial power, France. khair (from the article "Nepal") The natural vegetation of Nepal follows the pattern of climate and altitude. A tropical, moist ... Khair-Eddine, Mohammed French-language poet and novelist who was a leader among postindependence Moroccan writers seeking a new ... Khairpur city, Sindh province, south-central Pakistan. The city lies along the Khairpur East Canal, 11 miles ... Khaishan Kulug (from the article "Montecorvino, Giovanni da") ...Peking and patriarch of the Orient and to consecrate and assist him sent seven bishops, ... 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Khalaf, Salah Palestinian political activist who was a founding member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine ... Khalaj (from the article "Ghilzay") ...Pashto-speaking tribes in Afghanistan, whose traditional territory extended from Ghazni and Kalat-i-Ghilzai eastward into the ... Khalaj language (from the article "Turkic languages") Two strongly deviant branches exhibit both archaic features and innovations: Chuvash, originating in Volga-Bolgar, is ... khalam (from the article "African music") ...string and resembles a set of musical bows fixed at one end to a sounding ... Khalandriani (from the article "Aegean civilizations") ...Age onward. Chamber tombs cut in the rock at Phylakopi appear to go back to ... Khaldey, Yevgeny Ukrainian photographer best known for his World War II images, most notably one of Soviet ... Khaled Beyond the borders of its Algerian birthplace, the exotic sounds of rai music continued to ... 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He refused to pay the Egyptian tribute, and in 1837 an Egyptian expeditionary ... Khalid, Rashid (from the article "South Africa") ...a Russian (or Soviet) head of state to South Africa. The first India-Brazil-South Africa summit ... Khalifa ibn Harub (from the article "Tanzania") Khalifa ibn Harub became sultan in 1911. He was the leading Muslim prince in East ... Khalifa, Haya Rashid Al- (from the article "Bahrain") In the realm of women's affairs, some progress was made. On March 28 Bahraini lawyer ... Khalifah family (from the article "Qatar") ...of Bedouin nomads and there were only a few small fishing villages. Qatar's modern history ... Khalifah, Hamad ibn 'Isa Al- (from the article "Bahrain") Area: 728 sq km (281 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 749,000 | Capital: ... Khalifah, Khalifah ibn Sulman al- (from the article "Bahrain") Area: 728 sq km (281 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 749,000 | Capital: ... Khalifah, Sheikh Isa ibn Sulman al- Bahraini chief of state (b. June 3, 1933, Manama, Bahrain-d. March 6, 1999, Manama), served ... [1 Related Articles] Khalifeh, Sahar (from the article "Literature") ...TV's Inspector Colombo, Chraibi ridiculed the West's obsession with al-Qaeda and its founder. In her ... Khalil ibn Ahmad, al- Arab philologist who compiled the first Arabic dictionary and is credited with the formulation of ... [2 Related Articles] Khalil, al-Ashraf Salah ad-Din Mamluk sultan of Egypt who completed his father Qala'un's campaign to drive the Franks from ... Khalil, Mustafa Egyptian politician as Egypt's prime minister (1978-80) and foreign minister (1979-80), helped to secure the ... Khalil, Subhi (from the article "Israel") ...against Hamas, assassinating most of its top leaders-cofounder Sheik Ahmed Yassin (see Khalilzad, Zalmay (from the article "Afghanistan") ...house of Afghanistan's National Assembly, and provincial and local councils across the country. That process ... khalisah (from the article "India") ...of each locality by measuring the land. A set of officers in each iqta', separate ... Khalistan (from the article "India") By the early 1980s some Sikhs were calling for more than mere separate provincial statehood, ... Khalji Dynasty (1290-1320), the second ruling family of the Muslim sultanate of Delhi. This dynasty, like the ... [3 Related Articles] Khalji, 'Ala'-ud-Din (from the article "Gujarat") ...kings; the famous writer Hemacandra flourished during this period (12th century). Karnadeva Vaghela, of the ... Khalji, Ghiyas-ud-Din 'Iwaz (from the article "India") In the east in 1225, Iltutmish launched a successful campaign against Ghiyath al-Din 'Iwaz Khalji, ... Khalji, Ikhtiyar-ud-Din Muhammad Bakhtiyar (from the article "Deoghar") ...Deoghar has a hospital, tuberculosis clinic, and leper asylum and houses several colleges (including a ... Khalji, Jalal-ud-Din Firuz (from the article "India") ...were unable to manage either the administration or the factional conflicts between the old Turkish ... Khalkha (from the article "Mongol language") ...group (a branch of the Altaic family), spoken by some 7 million people in Mongolia ... Khalkha largest group of the Mongol peoples, constituting more than 80 percent of the population of ... [5 Related Articles] Khalkhali, Sadeq Iranian cleric and judge (b. July 27, 1926, Givi, Azerbaijani S.S.R., U.S.S.R. [now in Azerbaijan]-d. ... khalq (from the article "kasb") Al-Ash'ari chose the term kasb to avoid attributing khalq (creation) to anyone but God. His ... Khalsa the purified and reconstituted Sikh community instituted by Guru Gobind Singh on March 30, 1699 ... [3 Related Articles] Khalwatiyah (from the article "Suhrawardiyah") The main order became concentrated in Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent, while other branches moved ... 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