See BŒOTIA.
KADMONITES, The.
See SARACENS.
KAFIRS.
KAFIR WARS.
See SOUTH AFRICA: ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS,
and A. D. 1811-1868;
also, AFRICA: THE INHABITING RACES.
KAGHUL, Battle of (1770).
See TURKS: A. D. 1768-1774.
KAH-KWAS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: HURONS, &c.
KAINARDJI, OR
KUTSCHUK KAINARDJI, Treaty of (1774).
See TURKS: A. D. 1768-1774.
KAIRWAN, The founding of.
Acbah, the first of the Moslem conquerors of Northern Africa
who penetrated as far westward as the domain of ancient
Carthage, but who did not take that city, secured his footing
in the region [A. D. 670-675] by founding a new city,
thirty-three leagues southeast of Carthage and twelve leagues
from the sea. The site chosen was a wild, thickly wooded
valley, in the midst of which the Arab leader is said to have
cleared a space, erected walls around it, and then, planting
his lance in the center, cried to his followers: "This is your
Caravan." Hence the name, Kairwan or Caerwan, or Cairoan.
Fixing his seat of government at Kairwan, building mosques and
opening markets, Acbah and his successors soon made the new
city a populous and important capital.
_W. Irving,
Mahomet and his Successors,
volume 2, chapter 44._
ALSO IN:
_E. Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
chapter 51._
_A. A. Boddy,
Kairwan the Holy._