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Kaffirs (both: k f´ rz) (KEY) [Arab.,=infidel], name applied by European settlers to the Xhosa branch of the Bantu-speaking people of S Africa. Orig...
Carmathians (kärm ´th nz) (KEY) , a Muslim sect of the 9th and 10th cent., similar to the Assassin sect. They were part of a movement for social re...
(kä´ny n) (KEY) , peninsula, N European Russia, projecting into the Barents Sea between the White Sea (in the west) and Chesha (Cheshskaya) Bay (in ...
(v k st fä´nôvich kä´räj ch) (KEY) , 1787–1864, Serbian philologist and folklorist, of Moldavian descent. During his lifetime Karad i publish...
(ly f b r ´s v ch kä´m ny f) (KEY) , 1883–1936, Soviet Communist leader. His original name was Rosenfeld. He joined (1901) the Social Democratic ...
Karoo (both: k r ´, kä–) (KEY) , the semiarid plateaus of South Africa. The Little Karroo, in Western Cape, is located N of the Langeberg and Oute...