See GERMANY: A. D. 1125-1152.
KURUCS, Insurrection of the.
See HUNGARY: A. D. 1487-1526.
KUSAN FAMILY, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: KUSAN FAMILY.
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KUSH.
KUSHITES.
See CUSH.—CUSHITES.
KUTAYAH, Peace of (1833).
See TURKS: A. D. 1831-1840.
KUTCHINS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ATHAPASCAN FAMILY.
KUTSCHUK KAINARDJI, Battle and Treaty of (1774).
See TURKS: A. D. 1768-1774.
KYLON, Conspiracy of.
See ATHENS: B. C. 612-595.
KYMRY, OR CYMRY, The.
The name which the Britons of Wales and Cumberland gave to
themselves during their struggle with the Angles and Saxons,
meaning "Cym-bro (Combrox) or the compatriot, the native of
the country, the rightful owner of the soil. … From the
occupation by the English of the plain of the Dee and the
Mersey, the Kymry dwelt in two lands, known in quasi-Latin as
Cambria, in Welsh Cymru, which denotes the Principality of
Wales, and Cumbria, or the kingdom of Cumberland. … Kambria
was regularly used for Wales by such writers as Giraldus in
the twelfth century, … but the fashion was not yet
established of distinguishing between Cambria and Cumbria as
we do."
_J. Rhys,
Celtic Britain,
chapter 4._
The term Cymry or Kymry is sometimes used in a larger sense to
denote the whole Brythonic branch of the Celtic race, as
distinguished from the Goidelic, or Gaelic; but that use of it
does not seem to be justified. On the question whether the
name Kymry, or Cymry, bears any relation to that of the
ancient Cimbri.
See CIMBRI AND TEUTONES.
KYNOSSEMA, Battle of.
See CYNOSSEMA.
KYNURIANS, OR CYNURIANS, The.
One of the three races of people who inhabited the
Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece before the Dorian
conquest,—the other two races being the Arcadians and the
Achæans. "They were never (so far as history knows them) an
independent population. They occupied the larger portion of
the territory of Argolis, from Orneæ, near the northern or
Phliasian border, to Thyrea and the Thyreatis, on the Laconian
border: and though belonging originally (as Herodotus imagines
rather than asserts) to the Ionic race—they had been so long
subjects of Argos in his time that almost all evidence of
their ante-Dorian condition had vanished."
_G. Grote,
History of Greece,
part 2, chapter 4._