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D. S. SenanayakePersonD.- Da Cruz familyStateThe Da Cruz family were an Afro-Portuguese dynasty of prazo holders on the Zambezi in Mozambique.
Da LatPlaceDa Lat is a city on the Lang Biang plateau in Vietnam's Central Highlands, founded by the French in the 1890s as a hill station on the recommendation of Alexandre Yersin.- Da Monzon DiarraPersonDa Monzon Diarra was a king of the Bambara Empire of Ségou, ruling from 1808 to 1827, under whom the state reached the height of its power.
Da NangPlaceDa Nang is a port city in central Vietnam, on a sheltered bay south of the Hai Van Pass.
Da Polenta familyPeople / groupThe da Polenta were a family that ruled Ravenna from 1275 to 1441, and at times Cervia and other towns of Romagna.- Da'iInstitutionA da'i, meaning "summoner", was a missionary and propagandist of the Ismaili movement.
Da'waInstitutionThe da'wa ('summons' or 'mission') was the missionary and propaganda organisation of Ismaili Islam.
DabholPlaceDabhol is a historic port on the Konkan coast of western India.- DabiranInstitutionThe dabiran were the class of scribes and administrators in the Sasanian Empire.
- DabuyaPersonDabuya was a ruler in Tabaristan, northern Iran, in the 7th century, a son of Gil Gavbara and the figure from whom the Dabuyid dynasty took its name.
Dachau concentration campPlaceDachau concentration camp, near Munich, was the first regular Nazi concentration camp, opened in March 1933 for political prisoners.
DaciaPlaceDacia was an ancient region north of the lower Danube, roughly corresponding to present-day Romania.
DaciansPeople / groupThe Dacians were an ancient people of the Carpathian region and the lower Danube, in what is now Romania and neighbouring lands, closely related to the Thracians and…
DadaReligion / ideaDada was an avant-garde art movement founded in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich by artists who had taken refuge in neutral Switzerland during the First World War.
Dadabhai NaorojiPersonDadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, economist and scholar from a Parsi family of Bombay.- Dadda IIPersonDadda II was a king of the Gurjara dynasty of Nandipuri, in southern Gujarat, in the first half of the 7th century.
- DaduPlaceDadu, also called Khanbaliq, was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, built by Kublai Khan on the site of present-day Beijing.
DadushaPersonDadusha was a king of Eshnunna in the Diyala region of Mesopotamia in the early 18th century BCE, the brother of Naram-Sin and son of Ipiq-Adad II.- Dae Gwang-hyeonPersonDae Gwang-hyeon was the crown prince of Balhae, a descendant of its founder Dae Joyeong, who led a large body of refugees to Goryeo after the Khitan Liao dynasty…
- Dae IjinPersonDae Ijin was the eleventh king of Balhae, reigning from 830 to 857, and grandson of King Seon, under whom the kingdom had reached its greatest extent.
- Dae InseonPersonDae Inseon was the fifteenth and last king of Balhae, reigning from about 906 to 926.
- Dae JoyeongPersonDae Joyeong was the founder of Balhae, a kingdom of Manchuria and northern Korea.
- Dae Jung-sangPersonDae Jung-sang was a leader of Goguryeo refugees in the Yingzhou region of Tang China and the father of Dae Joyeong, founder of Balhae.
- Dae MunyePersonDae Munye was a prince of Balhae, younger brother of King Mu, who had lived as a hostage at the Tang court.
- Dae Yeon-rimPersonDae Yeon-rim was a descendant of Dae Joyeong, founder of Balhae, and an officer of the Khitan Liao dynasty at Dongjing, modern Liaoyang.
DaedalusReligion / ideaDaedalus is a craftsman and inventor of Greek mythology, said to have built the Labyrinth at Knossos for King Minos to hold the Minotaur.- DaeguPlaceDaegu is one of the largest cities of South Korea, in the south-east of the peninsula in the basin of the Nakdong river system.
- Daemusin of GoguryeoPersonDaemusin was the third king of Goguryeo, reigning from 18 to 44 CE according to the Samguk sagi.
- Daeng ChelakPersonDaeng Chelak was one of five Bugis brothers from Sulawesi who won great influence in the Malay world in the early 18th century.
- Daeseong-dong TumuliPlaceThe Daeseong-dong Tumuli are a cemetery of the 1st to 5th centuries CE in Gimhae, South Korea, regarded as the royal burial ground of Geumgwan Gaya.
DaesitiatesPeople / groupThe Daesitiates were an Illyrian people of central Bosnia, in the hills around the upper Bosna valley.- DaesoPersonDaeso was the last king of Eastern Buyeo, an early state in Manchuria, according to the Korean chronicle Samguk sagi.
- Dafydd ap GruffyddPersonDafydd ap Gruffydd was a Welsh prince, brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, who repeatedly changed sides between his brother and Edward I of England.
Dag HammarskjöldPersonDag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961.- DaganReligion / ideaDagon was a god worshipped in ancient Syria and Mesopotamia, attested from the 3rd millennium BCE at Ebla and Mari and associated with grain and fertility.
DagestanPlaceDagestan is a mountainous region on the western shore of the Caspian Sea in the northeastern Caucasus.
Dagestan OblastStateThe Dagestan Oblast was a province of the Russian Empire in the eastern Caucasus, created in 1860 after the defeat of Imam Shamil.
Dagobert IPersonDagobert I was a Merovingian king of the Franks, made king of Austrasia in 623 and ruler of all the Frankish kingdoms from 629 until his death in 639.
Dagobert of PisaPersonDagobert of Pisa, also called Daimbert, was Archbishop of Pisa and the first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Dagomba peoplePeople / groupThe Dagomba, or Dagbamba, are a people of northern Ghana who speak Dagbani, a Gur language.
Dagome iudexWork / monumentDagome iudex is a summary, preserved in an 11th-century papal register, of a document from around 991 by which Duke Mieszko I of Poland, his wife Oda and their sons…- DahabshiilInstitutionDahabshiil is a money-transfer and banking company founded in 1970 by Mohamed Said Duale in Burao, in what is now Somaliland.
Dahir Riyale KahinPersonDahir Riyale Kahin is a Somaliland politician who was president of Somaliland from 2002 to 2010.
Dahlak KebirPlaceDahlak Kebir is the largest island of the Dahlak Archipelago in the Red Sea, off the coast of Eritrea near Massawa.
DahodPlaceDahod is a city in eastern Gujarat, India, near the borders of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and the headquarters of Dahod district, created in 1997 from part of…
Dahomey AmazonsPeople / groupThe Dahomey Amazons were the corps of women soldiers of the Kingdom of Dahomey, known locally as ahosi, "king's wives", or mino, "our mothers".
DahraPlaceThe Dahra is a coastal mountain range in north-western Algeria, between the Chelif valley and the Mediterranean.
DahshurPlaceDahshur is a royal necropolis on the west bank of the Nile south of Saqqara in Egypt.
Dai NihonshiWork / monumentThe Dai Nihonshi, 'Great History of Japan', is a history of Japan in classical Chinese begun in 1657 by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, lord of the Mito domain, and completed only…
Daifang CommanderyPlaceDaifang was a Chinese commandery in north-western Korea, in the area of modern Hwanghae, carved out of Lelang by the warlord Gongsun Kang around 204.
Daijō-kanInstitutionThe Daijō-kan, or Great Council of State, was the supreme organ of government in ritsuryō Japan, set up under the Taihō Code of 701 and earlier codes.- DaikPlaceDaik is a town on Lingga Island in the Riau Islands of Indonesia.
Dáil ÉireannInstitutionDáil Éireann is the lower house of the Irish parliament.
Daimler-Motoren-GesellschaftInstitutionDaimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was a German engine and car maker founded in 1890 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach at Cannstatt near Stuttgart.
DaimyoInstitutionThe daimyo were the great feudal lords of Japan who ruled domains and commanded samurai retainers.
DaingeanPlaceDaingean is a village in County Offaly in the Irish midlands, once the chief stronghold of the O'Connor Faly lords.- Dairatul Maarifil OsmaniaInstitutionThe Dairatul Maarifil Osmania is a learned society and press in Hyderabad, founded in 1888 under the patronage of the Nizam, that edits and publishes classical Arabic…
DajiPersonDaji was the favourite consort of Di Xin, last king of the Shang dynasty, in traditional Chinese histories.- Dakar (Adal)PlaceDakar, or Dakkar, was a town in the Horn of Africa that served as a capital of the Adal Sultanate.
- Dakar (Senegal)PlaceDakar is a port city on the Cap-Vert peninsula and the capital of present-day Senegal.
Dakar–Niger RailwayWork / monumentThe Dakar–Niger Railway is a line of about 1,290 km linking Dakar in Senegal with Koulikoro on the Niger River in Mali.
Dakhil DarwazaWork / monumentThe Dakhil Darwaza is the monumental brick gateway of the citadel of Gaur, in Malda district, West Bengal, India.
DakhlaPlaceDakhla is a city on a long peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara.
DakodonouPersonDakodonou is remembered in the traditions of Dahomey as an early ruler of the Fon on the Abomey plateau, who reigned in the first half of the seventeenth century before…- Dakota peoplePeople / groupThe Dakota are a Siouan-speaking Indigenous people, one of the main divisions of the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, often called the Sioux.
Dakshina KosalaPlaceDakshina Kosala, 'southern Kosala', was the historical name of the upper Mahanadi valley in what is now Chhattisgarh and western Odisha.
DakshinapathaPlaceDakshinapatha, the southern road, was the ancient Indian name for the trade route running from the Ganges plain south-west to the Deccan, and for the southern lands it…
Dál gCaisPeople / groupThe Dál gCais were an Irish dynasty of north Munster, with lands in modern County Clare and Limerick.- Dal KhalsaPeople / groupThe Dal Khalsa was the combined army of the Sikh misls, organised at Amritsar in 1748 under the overall command of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.
Dál RiataStateDál Riata was a Gaelic kingdom that spanned the western seaboard of Scotland, centred on Argyll, and part of County Antrim in Ireland, from about the sixth to the ninth…
Dala HillPlaceDala Hill is a rocky hill inside the old city of Kano in northern Nigeria.
Dalai LamaInstitutionThe Dalai Lama is the title of the leading figure of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, later the head of the Tibetan government.- Dalem WaturenggongPersonDalem Waturenggong was king of Gelgel in Bali in the 16th century, under whom the kingdom reached its height.
- DaleminziaPlaceDaleminzia, or Glomaci, was a Slavic tribal territory on the middle Elbe around Lommatzsch in present-day Saxony, inhabited by a Sorbian tribe.
Dali KingdomStateThe Dali Kingdom was a state in present-day Yunnan in southwestern China, which lasted from the tenth to the thirteenth century.
Dalia GrybauskaitėPersonDalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who was president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019, the first woman in the office and the first to be re-elected for a…
DalianPlaceDalian is a port city in Liaoning province, China, near the southern tip of the Liaodong peninsula.
DalmatiaPlaceDalmatia is a historical region along the eastern Adriatic coast, in present-day Croatia.
Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa ColomaPersonDalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma, was a Catalan noble who served as viceroy of Catalonia for Philip IV.- Dalpat ShahPersonDalpat Shah was a Gond king of Garha-Mandla in central India, the son of Sangram Shah.
- DaltaPersonDalta was a king of Ellipi, a kingdom in the central Zagros mountains of western Iran, in the late 8th century BCE.
Damaji Rao GaekwadPersonDamaji Rao Gaekwad was a Maratha commander and ruler, son of Pilaji Rao Gaekwad, who led the family from 1732 to 1768.- DamanPlaceDaman is a coastal town in western India, at the mouth of the Gulf of Khambhat.
- DamanyimaPlaceDamanyima is a place named in Luba oral tradition as the northern limit of the early expansion of the Luba state.
DamarasPeople / groupThe Damaras were a class of landholding gentry in medieval Kashmir who rose to power in the 11th and 12th centuries, controlling rural estates and armed retainers.
DamascusPlaceDamascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, now the capital of Syria.
DamavandPlaceDamavand is a town and district in the central Alborz mountains of northern Iran, east of Tehran, at the foot of Mount Damavand.
DambalPlaceDambal is a village in Gadag district, Karnataka, India, known for the Doddabasappa temple, a twelfth-century Western Chalukya temple with an unusual star-shaped plan…- DambararePlaceDambarare was a Portuguese trading settlement on the Zimbabwe plateau in the seventeenth century.
DamelTermDamel was the title of the kings of Cayor, a Wolof kingdom on the coast of Senegal.
DamghanPlaceDamghan is a city in Semnan province, northern Iran, on the old road from Tehran to Khorasan.
Damian Hugo Philipp von SchönbornPersonDamian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn was a German churchman of the powerful Schönborn family, made a cardinal in 1715.
DamjingPersonDamjing was a Buddhist monk from Goguryeo who went to Japan in 610 together with another monk.
DamkinaReligion / ideaDamkina, also called Damgalnuna, was a Mesopotamian mother goddess, the wife of the god Ea (Enki), lord of fresh water and wisdom.
DammamPlaceDammam is a city on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia and the capital of its Eastern Province.
DammePlaceDamme is a small town in West Flanders, Belgium, north-east of Bruges.
Damrong RajanubhabPersonPrince Damrong Rajanubhab was a son of King Mongkut and the leading administrator of Chulalongkorn's reforms in Siam.- Dan KassawaPersonDan Kassawa was a leader of the Hausa ruling family of Katsina who, after the Fulani jihad of Usman dan Fodio drove them from Katsina, led the exiles to Maradi in the…