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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…- Dutty BoukmanPersonDutty Boukman was a leader of the Haitian Revolution, born to a Muslim family in Senegambia in about 1767 and enslaved first in Jamaica and then in Saint-Domingue.
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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPersonDwight D. Eisenhower was a US general and President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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.
DynamiteTermDynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, an absorbent such as clay or diatomaceous earth, and stabilisers, invented in 1866 by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel…- DynatoiPeople / groupThe dynatoi, "the powerful", were in Byzantine law the senior ranks of civil, military and church officialdom, usually also holding considerable fortunes and landed…
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.