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- DanangombePlaceDanangombe is an archaeological site on the Zimbabwean plateau, known for its dry-stone enclosures.
Dance of ZalongoEventThe Dance of Zalongo is the name given to the mass suicide of Souliote women on Mount Zalongo in Epirus in December 1803, after Ali Pasha of Ioannina had forced Souli…- DandinPersonDandin was a Sanskrit writer of South India, probably active around 700, who is associated with the Pallava court at Kanchipuram.
- DaneburyPlaceDanebury is an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire, England, near Stockbridge.
DanegeldTermDanegeld was a tax raised in Anglo-Saxon England to pay tribute to Viking raiders, above all from 991 under Æthelred the Unready, when large sums were paid to Danish…
DanelawPlaceThe Danelaw was the part of England settled and ruled by Scandinavians in the late 9th and 10th centuries, north and east of a line roughly along Watling Street.
DanesPeople / groupThe Danes are the North Germanic people of Denmark.
DanevirkeWork / monumentThe Danevirke is a system of earthwork defences across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Schleswig, now in northern Germany.- Dang DarbarEventThe Dang Darbar is an annual gathering at Ahwa in the Dangs district of Gujarat, India, held before Holi.
Dang districtPlaceThe Dang district is a hilly, forested district in southern Gujarat, India, bordering Maharashtra, with its headquarters at Ahwa.
Dang Hyang NirarthaPersonDang Hyang Nirartha was a Shaivite priest from Java who came to Bali in the 16th century, during the reign of Dalem Waturenggong of Gelgel.- DangbeReligion / ideaDangbe is the python deity of Ouidah, on the coast of Benin, honoured since the time of the kingdom of Hueda, or Whydah.
DangunPersonDangun is the legendary founder of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.- Daniel CoxePersonDaniel Coxe was an English physician to Charles II and Queen Anne and a speculator in colonial land.
- Daniel de La TouchePersonDaniel de La Touche, seigneur de La Ravardière, was a French Protestant naval officer who explored the coasts of Guiana and northern Brazil.
Daniel DefoePersonDaniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and merchant.
Daniel NoboaPersonDaniel Noboa is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician, the son of the banana magnate Álvaro Noboa.
Daniel O'ConnellPersonDaniel O'Connell was an Irish political leader known as the Liberator.
Daniel OrtegaPersonDaniel Ortega is a Nicaraguan politician, a leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979.
Daniel SalamancaPersonDaniel Salamanca was president of Bolivia from 1931 to 1934.
Daniele ManinPersonDaniele Manin was a Venetian lawyer and patriot who led the Republic of San Marco in 1848–1849.
Danilo I, Metropolitan of CetinjePersonDanilo I was Metropolitan of Cetinje from 1697 and founder of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty, which held the prince-bishopric of Montenegro by succession from uncle to…
Danilo I, Prince of MontenegroPersonDanilo I was the ruler of Montenegro who in 1852 declined consecration as a bishop and made himself secular prince, turning the prince-bishopric into a hereditary…
Danish Asiatic CompanyInstitutionThe Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company chartered in Copenhagen in 1732 with a monopoly of Danish trade with Asia.- Danish CodeWork / monumentThe Danish Code was the law code issued by Christian V of Denmark in 1683, replacing the medieval provincial laws with a single code for the whole kingdom.
Danish East India CompanyInstitutionThe Danish East India Company was a trading company chartered by Christian IV in 1616 to trade with Asia.
Danish West India and Guinea CompanyInstitutionThe Danish West India and Guinea Company was a Danish chartered company founded in 1671 to run colonies in the Caribbean and trade on the Gold Coast of West Africa.
Danishmend GaziPersonDanishmend Gazi was a Turkmen leader who founded the Danishmendid principality in central and north-eastern Anatolia after the Seljuk victory at Manzikert in 1071…
DanishmendidsStateThe Danishmendids were a Turkmen dynasty that ruled north-central and north-eastern Anatolia, from cities such as Sivas, Tokat, Niksar and Malatya, from the late…
DanishmendnameWork / monumentThe Danishmendname is a Turkish epic about the deeds of Danishmend Gazi and his companions in their wars against the Byzantines in Anatolia.- Danishnama-yi Ala'iWork / monumentThe Danishnama-yi Ala'i, "Book of Knowledge for Ala al-Dawla", is a philosophical encyclopaedia written in Persian by Ibn Sina (Avicenna) at Isfahan for his patron, the…
Danish–Hanseatic War (1361–1370)War · 1361–1370The Danish–Hanseatic War of 1361–1370 was fought between Valdemar IV of Denmark and the Hanseatic towns after Valdemar captured Visby on Gotland in 1361.
Danish–Icelandic Act of UnionTreaty · 1918The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union was an agreement between Denmark and Iceland that took effect on 1 December 1918, recognising Iceland as a fully sovereign kingdom in…- Daniyal BekPersonDaniyal Bek was the last sultan of Elisu, a small Muslim principality on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus.
Dankwarderode CastlePlaceDankwarderode Castle is a castle in the centre of Brunswick, Germany, built by Henry the Lion from about 1160 as his residence.- Dano-Swedish warsWarThe Dano-Swedish wars were a long series of conflicts between Denmark-Norway and Sweden for control of Scandinavia and the Baltic.
Danse Macabre (Notke)Work / monumentThe Danse Macabre by Bernt Notke is a painting on canvas showing figures of every rank, from pope and emperor downwards, being led away by dancing skeletons.- DantapuraPlaceDantapura was an ancient city named in Buddhist and Jain texts and in the Mahabharata as a capital of Kalinga on India's east coast.
Dante AlighieriPersonDante Alighieri was a Florentine poet and politician, author of the Divine Comedy.
DanteshwariReligion / ideaDanteshwari is a Hindu goddess, a form of Durga, worshipped as the patron deity of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India.
DantewadaPlaceDantewada is a town in southern Chhattisgarh, India, the headquarters of Dantewada district, at the confluence of the Shankhini and Dankini rivers.
DantidurgaPersonDantidurga was the founder of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, ruling in the northern Deccan from about 735 to 756.
Danton's DeathWork / monumentDanton's Death is a play by Georg Büchner, written in 1835 while he was hiding from the Hessian police after publishing a revolutionary pamphlet.
DanubePlaceThe Danube is one of Europe's great rivers, flowing from southern Germany to the Black Sea.
Danube SwabiansPeople / groupThe Danube Swabians are German-speaking people descended from settlers who moved into the Kingdom of Hungary, especially the Banat, Bačka and the region around Buda…
DanzantesWork / monumentThe Danzantes, 'dancers', are some three hundred carved stone slabs at Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico, made in the city's earliest period, about 500 to 200 BCE.- Daochus IIPersonDaochus II was a nobleman of Pharsalus in Thessaly who served Philip II of Macedon as tetrarch of Thessaly and represented the Thessalians on the Amphictyonic Council…
DaodejingWork / monumentThe Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) is the founding text of Daoism, a short collection of about 81 sections of verse traditionally attributed to the sage Laozi.
DaorsonPlaceDaorson was the fortified hilltop centre of the Illyrian Daorsi at Ošanići, near Stolac in Herzegovina.
Dar es SalaamPlaceDar es Salaam is the largest city and chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean coast.- Dar FertitPlaceDar Fertit, the land of the Fertit, was the name given in Darfur to the country south of the sultanate, in what is now western South Sudan and the north-east of the…
- Dar ul-FununInstitutionDar ul-Funun was a college in Tehran opened in 1851 on the initiative of the Qajar chief minister Amir Kabir, the first modern institution of higher learning in Iran.
Dara ShikohPersonDara Shikoh was the eldest son and favoured heir of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
DarabPlaceDarab is a city in the east of Fars province in southern Iran.- DarangenWork / monumentThe Darangen is the epic of the Maranao people of the Lake Lanao region on Mindanao in the Philippines.
- Darb el-Arba'inTermDarb el-Arba'in, the 'forty-day road', was a caravan route linking Darfur to Asyut in Upper Egypt.
- DardaniansPeople / groupThe Dardanians were an ancient people of the central Balkans, living in the region of present-day Kosovo, southern Serbia and north-western North Macedonia.
- DardanusPersonIn Greek mythology Dardanus was a son of Zeus and Electra, the founder of Dardania in the Troad and ancestor of the kings of Troy.
DardsPeople / groupThe Dards are the peoples of the mountains of north-west Kashmir and northern Pakistan, including Gilgit, Chitral and Kohistan, who speak Dardic languages such as Shina…
Darfur SultanateStateThe Darfur Sultanate was a Muslim state of the Fur people in what is now western Sudan, which flourished from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.- DarginsPeople / groupThe Dargins, or Dargwa, are a Northeast Caucasian people of central Dagestan in the North Caucasus, speaking the Dargwa language.
Daria Daulat BaghWork / monumentDaria Daulat Bagh is the summer palace of Tipu Sultan at Srirangapatna in Karnataka, India, built in 1784 in the Indo-Islamic style and set in a large garden.
Darial PassPlaceThe Darial Pass is a gorge of the Terek River through the central Greater Caucasus, on the border between Georgia and Russia.- DaricTermThe daric was a gold coin of the Achaemenid Empire, introduced under Darius I.
Darius IPersonDarius I, also known as Darius the Great, was king of the Achaemenid Empire (r. 522–486 BCE).
Darius IIPersonDarius II was a king of the Achaemenid Empire in the later fifth century BCE.
Darius IIIPersonDarius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire.- Darius's Scythian campaignCampaign · 513 BCEDarius's Scythian campaign was a military expedition led by Darius I of the Achaemenid Empire against the Scythians north of the Black Sea in 513 BCE.
DarmstadtPlaceDarmstadt is a city in southern Hesse, Germany, south of Frankfurt.
Darmstadt Artists' ColonyInstitutionThe Darmstadt Artists' Colony was founded in 1899 by Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt to promote modern art and design.
DarocaPlaceDaroca is a historic town in the province of Zaragoza in Aragon, on the Jiloca river.
DarodPeople / groupThe Darod are one of the major clan families of the Somali people, tracing descent from the ancestor Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, known as Darod.
DartmoorPlaceDartmoor is an upland area of granite moorland in Devon, south-west England, protected as a national park since 1951.
Darul Islam (Indonesia)People / groupDarul Islam was an Islamist rebel movement that fought to establish an Islamic State of Indonesia.
Darwin, Northern TerritoryPlaceDarwin is the capital of Australia's Northern Territory, on the Timor Sea.
Darya-i-NoorWork / monumentThe Darya-i-Noor ('Sea of Light') is a large pale pink diamond, among the most famous gems in the world.
DarzalasReligion / ideaDarzalas was a Thracian god worshipped as the Great God at the Greek colony of Odessos, modern Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.
DarłowoPlaceDarłowo (German: Rügenwalde) is a small town on the Baltic coast in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland, near the mouth of the Wieprza.- Dashavatara CaveWork / monumentThe Dashavatara Cave, Cave 15 at Ellora in Maharashtra, is a two-storeyed rock-cut Hindu temple of the eighth century, named after its sculptures of the ten avatars of…
Dasht-i QipchaqPlaceThe Dasht-i Qipchaq, "the Kipchak steppe", was the Persian name for the great grassland stretching from the Black Sea across the Volga and Ural rivers to the Irtysh and…- DassaretaePeople / groupThe Dassaretae were an ancient people living around Lake Ohrid and the upper valleys to its west, in present-day North Macedonia and Albania.
DatamesPersonDatames was a Carian-born Persian satrap of Cappadocia and one of the ablest generals of the Achaemenid Empire in the 4th century BCE.
Date HarumunePersonDate Harumune was a Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period and head of the Date clan of southern Mutsu.
Date HidemunePersonDate Hidemune was the eldest son of Date Masamune and the first lord of the Uwajima Domain on Shikoku.
Date MasamunePersonDate Masamune was a daimyo of north-eastern Japan, known as the 'one-eyed dragon'.
Date MunenariPersonDate Munenari was lord of the Uwajima Domain from 1844 to 1858 and one of the 'four wise lords' of the late Edo period.
Date TanemunePersonDate Tanemune was head of the Date clan in southern Mutsu in the early 16th century and the first of his family appointed military governor of Mutsu.
Datia PalaceWork / monumentThe Datia Palace, also called the Bir Singh Palace, is a seven-storey palace on a rock above the town of Datia in Madhya Pradesh, India.- Dato BahamanPersonDato Bahaman was a Malay chief of the Semantan district of Pahang who led the Pahang uprising against British rule from 1891 to 1895.
- Dato MogolPersonDato Mogol was a Muslim leader, said to be of Persian or Malay origin, who around 1605 founded a fortified port at Singora, present-day Songkhla, on the east coast of…
DatongPlaceDatong is a city in northern Shanxi province, China, near the Great Wall.- Datu PagbuayaPersonDatu Pagbuaya was a 16th-century chief of the Bohol coast in the central Philippines.
- Datu PutiPersonDatu Puti is the leader of the ten Bornean datus in the Maragtas legend of the Visayas in the Philippines.
Datu UtoPersonDatu Uto was the ruler of Buayan on the upper Pulangi River in Mindanao and the most powerful Maguindanao leader of the later 19th century.- Daud al-FataniPersonDaud al-Fatani was a Malay Islamic scholar from Pattani who spent most of his life in Mecca, where he taught and wrote.
Daud Khan KarraniPersonDaud Khan Karrani was the last Afghan sultan of Bengal, of the Karrani dynasty, ruling from 1572.
Daudi Chwa IIPersonDaudi Chwa II was kabaka of Buganda from 1897 until his death in 1939.- DaudpotaPeople / groupThe Daudpota, or Daudpotra, are a tribe from Sindh whose chiefs claim descent from the Abbasid caliphs and therefore use the family name Abbasi.
DaugavpilsPlaceDaugavpils is the second largest city of Latvia, on the Daugava river in the south-eastern region of Latgale.
Daulat Khan LodiPersonDaulat Khan Lodi was the governor of the Punjab under the Delhi sultan Ibrahim Lodi.