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DunsterforcePeople / groupDunsterforce was a small Allied military mission of picked British and Dominion officers and troops under Major-General Lionel Dunsterville, sent through Persia in 1918…
DunwichPlaceDunwich is a village on the Suffolk coast of England that in the Middle Ages was a major port and one of the largest towns in East Anglia.- Duomi KhaganPersonDuomi Khagan, named Bazhuo, was the last khagan of the Xueyantuo on the Mongolian steppe.
- Duong Tam KhaPersonDuong Tam Kha was a Vietnamese ruler who seized the throne of the Ngo dynasty after the death of his brother-in-law Ngo Quyen in 944, ruling as Duong Binh Vuong.
Duong Van NgaPersonDuong Van Nga was a Vietnamese queen, wife of Dinh Bo Linh, founder of Dai Co Viet.- Dương Đình NghệPersonDương Đình Nghệ was a Vietnamese military leader who expelled the Southern Han forces from the Red River delta in 931 and governed it as an autonomous military governor…
- Duoyou dingWork / monumentThe Duoyou ding is a Western Zhou bronze cauldron, found in 1980 near Xi'an, whose inscription of nearly 280 characters records a campaign against the Xianyun in the…
Dupplin CrossWork / monumentThe Dupplin Cross is a carved stone cross of about 800 that once stood on a hillside near Forteviot in Perthshire, Scotland.- DuqaqPersonDuqaq was the Seljuk ruler of Damascus from 1095 to 1104, a son of Tutush I.
Dur-KurigalzuPlaceDur-Kurigalzu was a royal city founded by the Kassite king Kurigalzu I in the early 14th century BCE, near modern Baghdad.
DurancePlaceThe Durance is a river of south-eastern France, about 323 km long, rising in the Alps near Briançon and flowing south-west through Provence to join the Rhône near…
Durand LinePlaceThe Durand Line is the border of about 2,640 kilometres between Afghanistan and Pakistan, fixed in an 1893 agreement between Emir Abdur Rahman Khan and Sir Mortimer…
Durango (city)PlaceDurango, officially Victoria de Durango, is a city in north-western Mexico, capital of the state of Durango.- DuratiusPersonDuratius was a leader of the Pictones, a Gallic people of the lower Loire and Poitou, who remained loyal to Rome during the Gallic revolts against Julius Caesar.
DurbanPlaceDurban is the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and one of Africa's busiest ports, on the Indian Ocean coast.
DurgaReligion / ideaDurga is a major Hindu goddess, a warrior form of the divine mother who is celebrated for slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura.
Durgadas RathorePersonDurgadas Rathore was a Rathore noble of Marwar who led resistance to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb after the death of Maharaja Jaswant Singh in 1678.- DurgasimhaPersonDurgasimha was a Kannada poet and minister of the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II in the early eleventh century.
Durham CastleWork / monumentDurham Castle is a Norman castle in Durham, north-east England, begun in 1072 on the orders of William the Conqueror.
Durham UniversityInstitutionDurham University is a collegiate university in Durham, north-east England, founded by an act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a royal charter in 1837.
Durham, EnglandPlaceDurham is a city in north-east England on a loop of the River Wear.
Duris of SamosPersonDuris of Samos was a Greek historian and tyrant of his native island in the early third century BCE.- DurlabhavardhanaPersonDurlabhavardhana was the founder of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir, ruling from about 625 to 661.
DurlachPlaceDurlach is a historic town in Baden-Württemberg, part of the city of Karlsruhe since 1938.
Durrani EmpireStateThe Durrani Empire was an Afghan state founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 after the death of Nader Shah of the Afsharid Empire.
DurrësPlaceDurrës is a port city on the Adriatic coast of Albania, founded around 627 BCE by Greek colonists from Corinth and Corcyra under the name Epidamnos.
Durrow AbbeyPlaceDurrow Abbey was a monastery near Tullamore in County Offaly, Ireland, founded by Columba around 553.- DurvinitaPersonDurvinita was a king of the Western Ganga dynasty of southern Karnataka in the 6th century, often regarded as the most notable of its early rulers.
Dušan SimovićPersonDušan Simović was a Yugoslav general and commander of the air force who led the coup of 27 March 1941 that overthrew the regency of Prince Paul after Yugoslavia joined…
Dušan's CodeWork / monumentDušan's Code was the law code of the Serbian Empire, adopted by Stefan Dušan at an assembly in Skopje in 1349 and enlarged in 1354.
DushanbePlaceDushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan, on the Varzob river in the Hisor valley.
DüsseldorfPlaceDüsseldorf is the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Rhine.- DutchPeople / groupThe Dutch are the people of the Netherlands, who became a leading maritime and commercial power in the seventeenth century.
Dutch conquest of the Banda IslandsCampaign · 1621The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands was the seizure of these nutmeg-producing islands in 1621 by the Dutch East India Company under Jan Pieterszoon Coen.
Dutch East India CompanyInstitutionThe Dutch East India Company (VOC) was a chartered trading company founded in 1602, with powers to wage war, make treaties and govern territory in Asia.
Dutch EmpireStateThe Dutch Empire was the overseas colonial and commercial empire of the Netherlands, built mainly from the seventeenth century by the Dutch East India Company and the…- Dutch Golden AgeReligion / ideaThe Dutch Golden Age was the period, roughly the seventeenth century, when the Dutch Republic was among the richest and most powerful states in Europe.
Dutch Reformed ChurchInstitutionThe Dutch Reformed Church was the main Calvinist church of the Netherlands and the established church of the Dutch Republic.
Dutch RepublicStateThe Dutch Republic was the federal state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands that emerged from the revolt against Spain in the late sixteenth century.
Dutch RevoltRevolt · WarThe Dutch Revolt was the uprising of the Netherlands against Spanish Habsburg rule that began in the 1560s and led to the independence of the Dutch Republic.
Dutch Water LineWork / monumentThe Dutch Water Line was a defensive line of fortified towns and low land that could be deliberately flooded, protecting the heartland of Holland on its eastern side.
Dutch West India CompanyInstitutionThe Dutch West India Company was a chartered company established in 1621 to conduct Dutch trade and warfare in the Atlantic.
Dutch–Hanseatic WarWar · 1438–1441The Dutch–Hanseatic War was a naval and trade war from 1438 to 1441 between the Wendish towns of the Hanseatic League, led by Lübeck, and the towns of Holland and…
Dutch–Indonesian Round Table ConferenceTreaty · Peace · 1949The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference met in The Hague from August to November 1949, bringing together the Netherlands, the Republic of Indonesia and the federal…
Dutch–Portuguese WarWar · 1598–1663The Dutch–Portuguese War was a largely colonial conflict fought from 1598 to 1663 between the Dutch Republic and the Portuguese Empire, which shared its king with Spain…
DutugemunuPersonDutugemunu was a Sinhalese king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom who reigned from about 161 to 137 BCE.- DuwaPersonDuwa was a khan of the Chagatai Khanate in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
Duy TânPersonDuy Tân was emperor of Vietnam of the Nguyễn dynasty from 1907 to 1916.
Dvaita VedantaReligion / ideaDvaita Vedanta is a dualist school of Hindu philosophy founded by Madhvacharya in the 13th century in coastal Karnataka.- DvinPlaceDvin was an ancient city of Armenia on the Ararat plain, south of modern Yerevan.
- DvoryanstvoPeople / groupThe dvoryanstvo was the hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire.
DwarasamudraPlaceDwarasamudra, modern Halebidu in Karnataka, was the capital of the Hoysala kingdom in southern India.
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Dyah PitalokaPersonDyah Pitaloka was a princess of the Sunda Kingdom, daughter of King Linggabuana.
Dying GaulWork / monumentThe Dying Gaul is an ancient marble statue of a wounded Celtic warrior, now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.- DylePlaceThe Dyle (Dijle in Dutch) is a river in central Belgium, rising in Walloon Brabant and flowing north through Leuven and Mechelen to join the Nete and form the Rupel.
Dynamis (Bosporan queen)PersonDynamis was queen of the Bosporan Kingdom in the late first century BCE, a daughter of Pharnaces II and granddaughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
DzaoudziPlaceDzaoudzi is a town on Petite-Terre, a small island off the east coast of Mayotte in the Comoros archipelago.- DzataPlaceDzata is the site of the stone-walled capital of the Venda kingdom in the Nzhelele valley of Limpopo province, South Africa, traditionally founded by the Singo dynasty…
- DzhengutaiPlaceDzhengutai is a village in the Buynaksky district of Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus, in the foothills between the Kumyk plain and the Avar mountains.
DzibanchePlaceDzibanche is a Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, occupied from the late Preclassic period.- DzudTermDzud is a Mongolian term for a catastrophic winter, when heavy snow, ice or extreme cold prevents livestock from grazing and causes mass deaths of animals.
Dzungar genocideEventThe Dzungar genocide was the mass killing of the Dzungar Oirat Mongols by Qing forces in 1755–1757 under the Qianlong Emperor.
DzungariaPlaceDzungaria is a region of northern Xinjiang in north-western China, between the Altai and Tianshan mountains.- DzungarsPeople / groupThe Dzungars were a confederation of Oirat Mongol tribes who formed the last great nomadic empire of Inner Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Dzungar–Qing WarsWar · 1687–1757The Dzungar–Qing Wars were a series of conflicts from 1687 to 1757 between the Qing dynasty of China and the Dzungar Khanate of the western Mongols.