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lately, we (hall lay the excellent work of Col. Kirkpa¬ 
trick under heavy-contribution when we reach the article 
Nepaul. 
KHAT'OUN-SER'AI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 
Caramania : twelve miles fouth of Cogni. 
KHA'TRI, the fecond of the four grand cafts into 
which the Hindoos are divided ; according to the Vedas, 
their natural duties are bravery, glory, rectitude, genera¬ 
lity, and princely conduct. For a full account of all the 
Hindoo cafts, both original and mixed, fee the article 
Hindoostan, vol. ix. p. 121, & feq. 
KHAU'AR, or Che'ver, a town of Perfia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Irak, fituated on a mountain which bounds the 
province of Irak towards Mazanderan, and gives name 
to a pafs called the Strait of Khauar: ninety miles north- 
eaft of Com, and 200 north of Ifpahan. 
KHAU'ASH, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan : eighteen 
miles north of Zareng. 
KHAU'LAN, a diftriCI of Arabia, in Yemen : fouth- 
eaft of Sana. 
KHAZA'RES, the name of a bold and powerful Turkifh 
tribe, which firft occupied the ifthmus of Caucafus be¬ 
tween the Cafpian and the Sea of Azof. In the feventh 
century they began to be famous, and till towards the 
middle of the ninth century their ftate was increafing and 
flourifhing. About that time the empire of the Khazares 
extended from the Volga and the Cafpian, acrols the 
Caucafian ifthmps, the peninfula of the Krimea, and what 
is now the fouth of Ruflia, as far as to Moldavia and Wa¬ 
lachia 5 and feveral Sclavonian tribes, particularly the 
Polianes about Kief and on the Dnieper, the Severans on 
the rivers Defna, Sem, and Sula, the Viatitfches on the 
Oka, and the Radimitfches on the Sofha, were tributary 
to them. But, after the year 862, three nations effected 
their downfal? viz. the Ruffians, the Petfchenegrans, and 
the Uzes. The Varagian or Ruffian leaders, Ofkold and 
Dir, ravifhed from them the dominion over the Polianes ; 
Oleg, in 884, reduced the Severans and the Radimitfches 
to his authority. His fucceflbr, in 964, conquered the 
territory of the Viatitfches and the nine Khazarian coun¬ 
tries on the ifthmus of Caucafus. The Khazares loft the 
refidue of their dominion about 1016, to the combined 
forces of the Ruffians and Romans of the eaft. The na¬ 
tion, indeed, continued for fome time longer, but they 
tvere fubmiftive and tributary to the Ruffians. Tooke's 
Mujf. Emp. 
KHAZI'NE, the grand feignior’s treafury. Here are 
kept regifters of receipts, and accounts of provinces, in 
drawers marked with the years and the places’ names ; 
here is alfo kept part of the emperor’s wardrobe. Every 
day of the divan this treafury is opened, either to take 
out or put fomething in 5 and the principal officers, who 
have the charge of it, are all to affift at this opening. 
The tchaouch-bachi, in their prefence, firft breaks the 
wax with which the key-hole had been fealed up, and, 
carrying it to the grand vizir, that minifter firft kilfes it, 
and then draws out of his bofom the grand feignior’s gold 
leal. In the mean time he looks narrowly after the offi¬ 
cer, who, when he has done his bulinefs in the treafury, 
locks and feals up the place, and returns the leal to the 
vizir with the fame ceremony as before. Befides this, 
there are other apartments for the money, where the offi¬ 
cers are never allowed to enter with any clothes that have 
pockets. 
KHEIR, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of Vi- 
fiapour: eighteen miles north of Poonah. 
KFlEIVAN', a town of Arabia, in a diftrifl of the 
fame name, in the extenfive country of Hafchid-u-Bekil, 
Is-remarkable for having been the feat, firft of the Ham- 
jare tnonarchs, and afterwards of the Imams. Ruins of a 
very ancient palace are Hill to be feen there. 
KHEL'LAUT, /. A drefs of honour, prefented in 
Hindooftan, by men of rank, to vifitors of diltindion ; 
But it is generally in pieces, and not made up the num- 
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ber of pieces and their quality are in proportion to the 
rank of the perfon to whom the prefent is made. 
KHEMLA'SA, a large walled town of Hindooftan, 
adjoining to which is a fort built upon a hill. It belongs 
to the diftrid of Sagur, which is diftant about feventeen 
cols to the fouth ealtward. 
KHI, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Pe-tche- 
li: 100 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 38. 26. N. 
Ion. 114. 56. E. 
KHI, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Pe-tche- 
li : 145 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 37. 38. N. Ion. 115. 
16. E. 
KHI-TCHE', a town of China, of the third rank, m 
Pe-tche-li: twenty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chun-te. 
KHIE'VA, a country of Alia, bounded on the north 
by Charafm, on the eaft by Grand Bukharia, on the fouth 
by Chorafan, and on the weft by the Cafpian Sea. The 
territories are of fmall extent, as a perfon may ride through 
them in three days. It has five walled towns, ali within 
a day’s journey of each other. The khan is abfolute,and 
perfectly independent. 
KHIE'VA, a city of Afia, and capital of a country of 
the fame name, fituated on a riling ground, weft of the 
Gihon. It has three gates, and is furrounded with a 
thick wall, and a deep ditch of water. It is a large place, 
but the houfes are low and mean : fixty miles louth of 
Urkonge, and 260 north-weft of Samarcand. Lat.41.30.N- 
Ion-58.25. E. 
KHIL'LI, a cape on the north-eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Negropont. Lat. 38. 3 6. N. Ion. 24. 4. E. 
KHIL'LIS, a town of Syria, governed by an aga. It 
was, years ago, ereCted into a pachalic, to reftrain the 
Curds 5 but, the pacha being defeated by them, he was 
removed, and it was again put under an aga. It is fitu¬ 
ated at the foot of Mount Taurus; and is a celebrated 
market for cotton ; twenty-eight miles north-north-weft: 
of Aleppo, and fifty north-eaft of Antioch. 
KHIRTIPOO'R, a town of Nepaul, the reduCiion of 
which coft Ghoorkhali fo much trouble, that, in refent- 
ment of the refiftance made by the inhabitants, he cut oft* 
all the men’s nofes. Colonel Kirkpatrick, at the diftance 
of twenty-three years, was reminded of this act of barba¬ 
rity, by oblerving that a great proportion of the people 
appointed to tranfport his baggage acrofs the hills were 
deprived of their nofes. To perpetuate this exploit, the 
lovereign ordered the name of the place to be changed to 
Nafkatapoor, which lignifies “the town of the men with¬ 
out nofes.” Edinburgh Review. 
KHO'LENBRUNN, a town of Auftria: eight miles 
fouth-weft of Ziftersdorf. 
KHONDEMI'R, the furname of a celebrated Perfian 
hiftorian, whom fome writers call Emirkhond, and others 
Emir Khouand Shah. He appears to have been a native of 
Herat, the capital of Chorafan, and to have flourifhed un¬ 
der the reign of fultan Hoftain Behadir Khan, a grandfon of 
the famous Tamerlane. From an early age Khondemir 
applied himfelf to the ftudy of hiftory, general and par¬ 
ticular ; and, having happily obtained the patronage of 
the emir Ali Shir, a lover and protestor of men of letters, 
he infpired that nobleman with a paffion for his own fa¬ 
vourite purfuit, and with a defire to form a collection of 
the principal writers in this clafs of fcience. He was at 
confiderable expence, both of trouble and money, in gra¬ 
tifying this vviffi 5 and in the year 904 of the Hegira had 
become mafter of an excellent library, the care and fuper- 
intendence of which he committed to Khondemir, who 
was indefatigable in profiting from the valuable depofit. 
His grand objeCt was to facilitate the itudy of hiftory, by 
drawing it up in a more methodical order, and with l'efs 
diffufenefs of ftyle, than had been the charaCteriftics of 
preceding writers ; and the refult of his labours was a ju¬ 
dicious compendium of oriental hiftory, from the creation 
of the world to the year 875 of the Hegira, or the year cf- 
Chrift 1470, under the title of KhelaJ'at Alakhar fiVeian 
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