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Kalat

American  
[kuh-laht] / kəˈlɑt /
Or Khelat

noun

  1. a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.


Kalat British  
/ kəˈlɑːt /

noun

  1. a region of SW Pakistan, in S Baluchistan: formerly a princely state ruled by the Khan of Kalat, which joined Pakistan in 1948

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A. This would explain Coach Cal climbing the steps to the Taung Kalat monastery in Burma the day after the Kansas State loss.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2018

“This is a very big achievement,” said the Khan of Kalat, Suleman Daud, an exiled Baluch tribal leader who helped Mr. Rohrabacher draft his resolution, speaking from his home in Cardiff, Wales.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2012

When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shah Shuja was publicly installed upon the throne; numerous chiefs tendered him their allegiance; Kalat, Qandhar, and Ghazni fell into the hands of his British allies, before the Amir himself gave sign of life.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various