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for all goods exported or imported from Denmark ; ail 
advantage which count John III. procured in 1321, from 
Chriftopher II. king of Denmark: forty-feven miles north 
of Hamburg, and thirty-fix north-weft of Lubec. Lat. 54. 
20. N. Ion. 10. 6. E. 
KIEL, a lake of Norway, in the province of Chriftian- 
fand : fixteen miles north of Chriitianfand. 
KIEL'CE, or Kiel'tze, a town of Auftrian Poland, 
in the palatinate of Sandomirz, the fee of a bifhop : twenty- 
four miles ealt of Malagocz. 
KI'ELDRECHT, a town of Flanders: five miles eaft 
of Hulft. 
KIE'LE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
thirty-five miles north-eaft of Sultania. 
KIEL'MY, a town of Samogitia: fourteen miles north- 
weft of Rofienne. 
KIE'MI. See KEMr. 
KI'EN, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of Ceram, 
one of the Molucca Illands. 
KEEN-NHING', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Fo-kien : fifty miles louth-weft of 
Chao-ou. 
- KI'EN-NING', or Kien-nging, a city of China, of 
the firft rank, in the province of Fo-kien. Eight towns 
of the third order are under the jurifdidtion of this city, 
which is fituated on the river Minho ; it is a place of 
plentiful trade, becaufe all commodities that are carried 
up and down the river pafs through it. At the time 
when the Tartars conquered China, Kien-ning fuftained 
two fieges, and ftill refufed to fubmit to the Tartarian 
government; but at length, after the fecond fiege, which 
iafted a long time, the Tartars took apd entirely burnt it, 
and'put all the inhabitants to the fword. The greatelt 
part of the houfeshave been rebuilt, but lefs magnificently 
than before : 780 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 27. 5. N. 
Ion. 117. 2. E. 
ICEEN-OU'EI, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : twenty-two miles fouth-eaft 
of Kiating. 
KEEN-PIN 7 , a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan : twenty-two miles north-eaft 
of Ning-k-oue. 
KEEN-SI', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in the 
province of Koei-tcheou : 950 miles fouth-fouth-well of 
Peking. Lat. 27. 56. N. Ion. 105. 96. E. 
KI'EN TCHANG', a city of China, of the firft rank, 
In the province of Iviang-fi. This city is fituated on the 
borders of Fo-kien, in a fertile country. The common 
rice is employed to make wine; and a reddifti fort made 
ufe of by the richer people for food : 630 miles fouth of 
Peking. Lat. 27. 35. N. Ion. 118. 20. E. 
KIEN-TCHANG', a town .of China, of the third 
rank, in the province of Kiang-fi-. twenty-feven miles 
north of Nan-lchang. 
KEEN-TCHANG-OU'Er, a town of China, in the 
province of Se-tchuen ; eighty-feven miles weft-north- 
weft of Ou-rnong. 
KEEN-TCHI', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : twenty-leven miles fouth of 
Koei-tcheou. 
KI'EN-TCHU'EN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
in the province of Yun-nan: 1189 miles fouth-weft of 
Peking. Lat. 26. 35. N. Ion 99.44. E. 
KEEN-TE', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan : twenty-two miles fouth of 
Ngan-kiang. 
KEEN-YANG', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Chen-fi : fifteen miles north-weft of 
Fong-tlang. 
KEEN-YANG', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Fo-kien : twenty-five miles north-north- 
weft of Kien-nliing. 
KIEN'ERING, a town of Auftria : one mile north- 
welt of Engenberg. 
KEENG-HEEVER, a town of Porfia, ia the province 
Vgl. IX.-No. 789. 
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of Irak : thirty-nine miles fouth-fouth-weft of Rama¬ 
dan. 
KEENSHEIM, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine: fix miles north-north-weft of Colmar.. 
KIEOU', a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chan-tong : forty miles north-weft of Tong r 
tchan. 
KIEOU'-CAR'POU, a town of Corea: 500 miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Peking. 
KIEOU'-KIANG', a city of China, of the firft rank, 
in the province of Kiang-fi, on the lake of Po-yang. It 
is the rendezvous of all the barks which go and come 
from the other cities of this province, and the provinces 
of Kiang-nan and Hou-quang. Although it is three 
hundred miles diftant from the fea, they take in the 
river which walhes its walls, falmon, dolphins, and ftur- 
geon; it ebbs and flows every new and full moon, and its 
waters glide fo flowly from the city to the fea, that its 
current is fcarcely perceivable: 615 miles fouth of Peking, 
Lat. 29. 53. N. Ion. 115.41. E. 
KIEOU'-LAN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Yun-nan: 1187 miles fouth-weft of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 26. 34. N. Ion. 99. 26. E. 
KIEOU'-LI-PO', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Qtiang-fi: thirty miles north-north-eaft 
of Nan-tan. 
KIEOU'-PI', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan : 350 miles ibuth-fbuth-eaft of 
Peking. Lat. 34. 38. N. Ion. 117. 44. E. 
KIEOU'-TONG'-LAN', a town of China, in the pro¬ 
vince of Quang-fi : twenty miles eaft of Tong-lan. 
KIER A'DY, a town of liindooftan, in Benares: fifteen 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chunar. 
KIERA'LI, a town of Turkifli Armenia, on the coaft 
of the Black Sea, at the mouth of a river of the fame 
name: thirty miles fouth-weft of Trebifond. 
KIE'RE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
twenty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Cafbin. 
KIERNOW', a town of Ruffian Lithuania : twenty 
miles north-weft of VVilna. 
. KIERTEMIN'DE, a feaport town of Denmark, in the 
ifland of Funen, on the fide of a large bay: merchants of 
Odenfee have warehoufes in this town : eight miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Odenfee. Lat. 55. 22. N. Ion. 10.40. E. 
KIETA'I, a town of the county of Tyrol: fix miles 
fouth of Stambs. 
KEEV, Kiov, or Kiow, a city of Ruffia, and capital 
of a government to which it gives name, on the Dnieper. 
In the year 1037, the great duke Jaroflaw, declared it the 
capital of Ruifia, and it continued to be the refidence of 
the great dukes till the twelfth century. Afterwards it 
fell into the hands of the Poles ; but at the treaty of An- 
druffow they gave it up, in 1667, to the Ruffians, fora 
certain term of years, and in 1686 ceded it to Rulfia for 
ever. It confifts properly of three finall towns: namely, 
the caftle of Petiheriky, with its fuburbs ; the whole city 
of Kiev; and the town of Podol, that lies below the lat¬ 
ter ; which are partly incloled with a common fortifica¬ 
tion, and in other parts have a communication by a large 
entrenchment, carried on as the inequality of the moun¬ 
tains would permit. The caftle of Petllieriky Hands on 
an eminence, facing the fouth ; and, betides barracks for 
thegarrifon, magazines,officers’ houfes,and fome churches, 
includes that rich and ftately monaftery, which wag 
founded in the eleventh century, and called Petfherfky, 
becaufe the monks formerly lived in a petihera, i. e. a ca¬ 
vern, on the mountain where the convent now ftands. 
In its fubterraneous vaults, which referable a labyrinth, 
and confift of cells, chapels, &c. are found great numbers 
of undecayed bodies, iuppoled to be the remains of faints 
and martyrs. The old city of Kiev ftands on an emi¬ 
nence facing the north, and is fortified according to the 
mountainous nature of the country, with horn-works, 
&cc. Here ftands the cathedral. Podol lies below Old 
Kiev in the plain, on the banks of the Dnieper} and, ex- 
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