[Kola], a small town, the most northerly in Russia, on a peninsula of the same name, with a capacious harbour.
[Kolin], a Bohemian town on the Elbe, 40 m. SE. of Prague, where Frederick the Great was defeated by Marshal Daun in 1757.
[Kölliker], an eminent embryologist, born at Zurich; professor of Anatomy at Würzburg; b. 1817.
[Köln], the German name for [Cologne] (q. v.).
[König, Friedrich], German mechanician, born in Eisleben; bred a printer, and invented the steam-press, or printing by machinery (1774-1833).
[Königgrätz] (16), a Bohemian town 60 m. E. of Prague; was the scene of a terrible battle called Sa'dowa, in Austria, where the Germans defeated the Austrians in 1866.
[Königsberg] (161), the capital of E. Prussia, on the Pregel, with several manufactures and an extensive trade; has a famous university, and is the birthplace of Kant, where also he lived and died.
[Korân] (i. e. book to be read), the Bible of the Mohammedans, accepted among them as "the standard of all law and all practice; thing to be gone upon in speculation and life; it is read through in the mosques daily, and some of their doctors have read it 70,000 times, and hard reading it is"; it contains the teaching of Mahomet, collected by his disciples after his death, and arranged the longest chapters first and the shortest, which were the earliest, last; a confused book.
[Kordofan] (280), an Egyptian Soudanese province on the W. bank of the Nile; an undulating dry country, furnishing crops of millet, and exporting gums, hides, and ivory; was lost in the Mahdist revolt of 1883, but recovered by Lord Kitchener's expedition in 1898; El Obeid (30), the capital is 230 m. SW. of Khartoum.
[Koreish], the chief tribe among the Arabs in Mahomet's time, and to which his family belonged.