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- DeiotarusPersonDeiotarus was a Galatian tetrarch who became king of Galatia in the 1st century BCE as a loyal ally of Rome.
- Deiotarus PhiladelphusPersonDeiotarus Philadelphus was the last king of Paphlagonia, a Roman client ruler in northern Anatolia.
Deir al-QamarPlaceDeir al-Qamar is a town in the Chouf mountains of Lebanon, south-east of Beirut.
Deir el-BahariPlaceDeir el-Bahari is a bay of cliffs on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, site of the mortuary temples of Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty and of Hatshepsut…- Deir el-BershaPlaceDeir el-Bersha is an ancient cemetery on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, opposite Mallawi.
DeisterPlaceThe Deister is a wooded ridge in Lower Saxony, Germany, south-west of Hanover, rising to about 405 metres.- Dejan (sebastokrator)PersonDejan was a Serbian magnate of the 14th century who married Teodora, a sister of Stefan Dušan, and received the rank of sebastokrator.
DejimaPlaceDejima was a small artificial island in the harbour of Nagasaki.
Del CarrettoPeople / groupThe Del Carretto were a Ligurian and Piedmontese noble family descended from the Aleramici marquises of Savona.
Delagoa BayPlaceDelagoa Bay, now Maputo Bay, is a large natural harbour on the coast of southern Mozambique.
Delaware RiverPlaceThe Delaware River flows about 480 km from the Catskill Mountains to Delaware Bay, forming parts of the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Delcy RodríguezPersonDelcy Rodríguez is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the daughter of the left-wing leader Jorge Antonio Rodríguez.- DeldoPersonDeldo was a king of the Bastarnae who led raids across the lower Danube into Thrace and Moesia.
DelftPlaceDelft is a city in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, between Rotterdam and The Hague, which received town rights in 1246.
DelhiPlaceDelhi is a city in northern India and one of the most important political centres of South Asian history.
Delhi DurbarEventThe Delhi Durbars were imperial assemblies held at Delhi to mark the accession of British monarchs as rulers of India.
Delhi SultanateStateThe Delhi Sultanate was a series of Muslim dynasties that ruled much of northern India from Delhi between the early thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries.- Delian LeagueInstitutionThe Delian League was an alliance of Greek city-states founded in 478 BCE under Athenian leadership to continue the war against Persia, with its treasury first on the…
della GherardescaPeople / groupThe della Gherardesca were a powerful noble family of Pisa, counts of Donoratico in Tuscany.
Della RoverePeople / groupThe della Rovere were a family from Savona in Liguria that rose through the Church.
DelminiumPlaceDelminium was the chief stronghold of the Delmatae, near modern Tomislavgrad in western Bosnia and Herzegovina.
DelosPlaceDelos is a small island in the Cyclades, revered in antiquity as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis and one of the greatest sanctuaries of the Greek world.- Delphic AmphictyonyInstitutionThe Delphic Amphictyony was a religious league of twelve peoples of central and northern Greece that met at Anthela near Thermopylae and at Delphi.
The DelugeWar · 1655–1660The Deluge refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1655 and 1660, alongside wider wars with Russia and others.
Demak SultanateStateThe Demak Sultanate was the first major Muslim state on Java, based on the island's north coast.- Demaratus of CorinthPersonDemaratus of Corinth was, according to Roman tradition, a nobleman of the Bacchiad family who fled Corinth in the 7th century BCE and settled at the Etruscan city of…
DemchugdongrubPersonDemchugdongrub, known as Prince De (De Wang), was an Inner Mongolian prince who led a movement for Mongol autonomy from China in the 1930s.
DemeterReligion / ideaDemeter was the Greek goddess of grain, agriculture and the fertility of the earth, and mother of Persephone.
DemetriasPlaceDemetrias was a Greek city on the Pagasetic Gulf in Thessaly, near modern Volos, founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes around 293 BCE by merging the populations of nearby…- Demetrios Angelos DoukasPersonDemetrios Angelos Doukas was the last independent ruler of Thessalonica, a son of Theodore Komnenos Doukas.
- Demetrios ChomatenosPersonDemetrios Chomatenos was archbishop of Ohrid from 1216 until the 1230s and a leading canon lawyer of the Orthodox Church, whose rulings survive in a large collection.
Demetrios PalaiologosPersonDemetrios Palaiologos was a younger brother of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, and despot of the Morea from 1449 to 1460.
Demetrios YpsilantisPersonDemetrios Ypsilantis was a Greek army officer of the War of Independence from a Phanariot family; his brother Alexandros led the rising of 1821 in the Danubian…
Demetrius I of MacedonPersonDemetrius I, called Poliorcetes, 'the Besieger', was a Macedonian general, son of Antigonus I.
Demetrius II AetolicusPersonDemetrius II Aetolicus was king of Macedon from 239 to 229 BCE, the son of Antigonus II Gonatas.
Demetrius II NicatorPersonDemetrius II Nicator was a king of the Seleucid Empire in the second century BCE.
Demetrius of PhalerumPersonDemetrius of Phalerum was an Athenian statesman and Peripatetic philosopher, a pupil of Theophrastus.- Demetrius of PharosPersonDemetrius of Pharos was a Greek ruler of the Adriatic island of Pharos who served the Illyrian queen Teuta and then went over to Rome in the First Illyrian War of 229…
- Demetrius the FairPersonDemetrius the Fair was a Macedonian prince, son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes and half-brother of Antigonus II Gonatas.
Demetrius ZvonimirPersonDemetrius Zvonimir was king of Croatia from 1076 to 1089, having earlier been ban of Slavonia.
Demir KapijaPlaceDemir Kapija, Turkish for 'iron gate', is a gorge of the Vardar river and a small town at its mouth in south-eastern North Macedonia.
DemocedesPersonDemocedes of Croton was a Greek physician of the 6th century BCE.- Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)InstitutionThe Democratic Labour Party is a political party of Barbados, founded in 1955 by Errol Barrow and other dissidents from Grantley Adams's Barbados Labour Party.
Democratic Party (Uganda)People / groupThe Democratic Party is a Ugandan political party founded in 1954, which drew much of its support from Catholics, particularly in Buganda.- Democratic Party (United States)People / groupThe Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States, organised in the 1820s around supporters of Andrew Jackson and descended from…
Democratic Party of AlbaniaPeople / groupThe Democratic Party of Albania is a centre-right party founded in December 1990, the first opposition party allowed under the communist regime.- Democratic Party of Socialists of MontenegroPeople / groupThe Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro is a political party founded in 1991 as the successor of the League of Communists of Montenegro.
- Democratic Progressive PartyPeople / groupThe Democratic Progressive Party is a Taiwanese political party founded on 28 September 1986, while martial law was still in force, by opponents of Kuomintang one-party…
Democratic Republic of the CongoPlaceThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is a large country in Central Africa.
Democratic Republic of YemenStateThe Democratic Republic of Yemen was a breakaway state proclaimed in Aden on 21 May 1994 by Ali Salim al-Beidh, the former leader of South Yemen, during the civil war…
Democratic Revolutionary PartyPeople / groupThe Democratic Revolutionary Party is a Panamanian political party founded in 1979 by Omar Torrijos as the political arm of his military regime.
Democratic-Republican PartyPeople / groupThe Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in opposition to Alexander Hamilton's…
DemocritusPersonDemocritus was a Greek philosopher from Abdera in Thrace, active in the later 5th and early 4th centuries BCE.- Demonax of MantineaPersonDemonax of Mantinea was a Greek lawgiver invited to Cyrene around the middle of the 6th century BCE, on the advice of the Delphic oracle, to end civil strife there.
DemosthenesPersonDemosthenes was an Athenian statesman and the greatest orator of ancient Greece.- Demosthenes (general)PersonDemosthenes was an Athenian general of the Peloponnesian War.
DenariusTermThe denarius was the standard silver coin of the Roman Empire for several centuries.
DenbighPlaceDenbigh is a market town in north-east Wales, above the Vale of Clwyd, in the medieval cantref of Rhufoniog.
DenbighshirePlaceDenbighshire is a county in north-east Wales, stretching from the coast at Rhyl and Prestatyn to the hills around Corwen, with its administrative centre at Ruthin.
Dendera Temple complexWork / monumentThe Dendera Temple complex lies on the west bank of the Nile near Qena in Upper Egypt.- DendiPlaceDendi is a region along the Niger River in the south-east of present-day Niger and northern Benin.
Dénes BerinkeyPersonDénes Berinkey was a Hungarian lawyer and politician who served as prime minister of the Hungarian Democratic Republic from January to March 1919, under President…
Deng AiPersonDeng Ai was a general of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Deng XiaopingPersonDeng Xiaoping was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until the early 1990s.- DengizichPersonDengizich was a son of Attila who tried to restore Hun power after the empire broke up following his father's death in 453 and the defeat at the Nedao in 454.
- DengzhouPlaceDengzhou was a prefecture and port on the northern coast of the Shandong peninsula in China, at modern Penglai, facing the Bohai Strait.
- Denhardt brothersPeople / groupClemens and Gustav Denhardt were German brothers who explored the Tana River region of East Africa in the 1870s.
DéniaPlaceDénia is a port town on the Mediterranean coast of the province of Alicante, Spain.
Denis DiderotPersonDenis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer, a leading figure of the Enlightenment.
Denis of PortugalPersonDenis (Dinis) was king of Portugal from 1279 to 1325.
Denis RapontchomboPersonDenis Rapontchombo, born Antchouwé Kowe Rapontchombo and known to Europeans as King Denis, was a Mpongwe ruler on the south bank of the Gabon estuary.
DenizliPlaceDenizli is a city in south-western Turkey, near the ruins of ancient Laodicea on the Lycus.
DenkyiraStateDenkyira was an Akan state in what is now southern Ghana that dominated the region in the seventeenth century, holding the Asante as tributaries.
DenmarkPlaceDenmark is a Scandinavian kingdom that, as Denmark-Norway, was Sweden's principal rival for control of the Baltic in the early modern period.
DenpasarPlaceDenpasar is the capital of the Indonesian province of Bali, in the south of the island.- DensatilPlaceDensatil was a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Lhoka region of central Tibet, founded in 1158 by Phagmo Drupa Dorje Gyalpo, a disciple of Gampopa.
Denzil DouglasPersonDenzil Douglas is a Kittitian physician and politician who led the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and was prime minister from 1995 to 2015, the longest tenure in…
Deo Van LongPersonDeo Van Long was a White Tai chief from Lai Châu in north-western Vietnam who allied with the French against the Viet Minh.- DeodhaiPeople / groupThe Deodhais were one of the hereditary priestly groups of the Ahom people of Assam, alongside the Bailungs and the Mohans.
Deodoro da FonsecaPersonDeodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian army officer who led the military coup of 15 November 1889 that overthrew Emperor Pedro II.- Deogarh, OdishaPlaceDeogarh, also called Debagarh, is a town in western Odisha, India, the headquarters of Deogarh district.
DépartementInstitutionA département is an administrative division of France created in 1790 to replace the old provinces with uniform units.
Département des ForêtsPlaceThe Département des Forêts was a department of the French Republic and Empire from 1795 to 1814, formed from most of the former Duchy of Luxembourg after its annexation…- Department of State AffairsInstitutionThe Department of State Affairs was one of the three departments in the Tang Dynasty's 'three departments and six ministries' system of government.
- Dependence on a single rulerHistorical factorDependence on a single ruler describes the vulnerability of states whose power rested on the personal ability of one leader rather than on durable institutions.
- Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act 1719Work / monumentThe Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act, known as the Declaratory Act, was passed by the British Parliament in 1720.
- Depopulation and demographic collapseHistorical factorDepopulation and demographic collapse refers to sharp falls in population caused by epidemic disease, war, famine or slave raiding, which undermined the economic and…
DeportationTermDeportation refers to the forced removal of people from their homes to other places.- Deportation and population transferHistorical factorDeportation and population transfer describes the recurring imperial practice of forcibly moving conquered populations to suppress resistance, resettle land and supply…
- Deportation of Armenians to New JulfaEventThe deportation of Armenians to New Julfa was the forced relocation of Armenians from Julfa and other districts by Shah Abbas I of the Safavid Empire in 1604–1605.
Der Blaue ReiterPeople / groupDer Blaue Reiter, "the Blue Rider", was a group of artists formed in Munich in 1911 by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, joined by painters such as August Macke…
Der Hessische LandboteWork / monumentDer Hessische Landbote was a revolutionary pamphlet written by Georg Büchner and edited by Friedrich Ludwig Weidig, secretly printed and distributed in the Grand Duchy…
Der SpiegelInstitutionDer Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine founded in Hanover in 1947 and published in Hamburg since 1952, led for decades by Rudolf Augstein.
Derawar FortWork / monumentDerawar Fort is a large square fortress in the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan's Punjab, south of Bahawalpur, whose forty massive bastions are visible from far across the…
DerbentPlaceDerbent is a city in Dagestan, Russia, on a narrow strip of land between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains.- DerbforgaillPersonDerbforgaill was an Irish noblewoman, daughter of Murchad Ua Máel Sechlainn, king of Mide, and wife of Tigernán Ua Ruairc, king of Breifne.
DerbyPlaceDerby is a city in the East Midlands of England on the River Derwent.
DerbyshirePlaceDerbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, including much of the Peak District.
Derek WalcottPersonDerek Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright, born in Castries in 1930 when the island was a British colony.
DergInstitutionThe Derg was the military committee that seized power in Ethiopia, formed in 1974.