Kalinga
Americannoun
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a member of any of several indigenous peoples of the northern Philippines.
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the multi-dialect language of the Kalinga people.
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Enduring a grueling seven-hour hike in Kalinga, India, a group of researchers came upon 30 Rafflesia banaoana plants blooming near a river.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
It was England’s third straight World Cup semi-final defeat as they struggled to create chances at the Kalinga Stadium.
From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2018
To prove that ancient hominins had lived at Kalinga, de Vos and Ingicco needed to find artifacts that were still buried.
From National Geographic ● May 2, 2018
Tourism in Kalinga Province, where Buscalan is the most popular destination, has increased more than fivefold, from about 30,000 in 2010 to almost 170,000 in 2016.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2017
Kalinga is neither a race nor a tribe name, but a word meaning “enemy” or “outlaw,” as though the hand of the people that bear it had been against everybody’s else.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt
For twenty-nine years after that conquest of the Kalingas, until his death in 233, he reigned in unbroken peace.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
Mahadeva has an image in the country of the Kalingas that is called Vyaghreswara.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
At the end of it a host of Kalingas acclaimed us, as picturesque as the warriors we had met at the stream, and took over the pack.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt
Behold, O slayer of Madhu, the heroic ruler of the Kalingas lying there on the ground with his mighty arms adorned with a couple of angadas.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
Kalingas were the people of the upper part of the Coromandel Coast, well known, in the traditions of the Eastern Archipelago, as Kling.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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