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- Dial DiopPersonDial Diop was a Lebou Muslim leader of the Cape Verde peninsula, in present-day Senegal, who led the revolt against the kingdom of Cayor in the 1790s.
- Dialogue of a Man and His BaWork / monumentThe Dialogue of a Man and His Ba is an Egyptian literary text of the Middle Kingdom, preserved on a single papyrus now in Berlin.
DiamantinaPlaceDiamantina is a colonial town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, formerly the Arraial do Tijuco.- Diamond Sutra of DunhuangWork / monumentThe Diamond Sutra of Dunhuang is a Chinese woodblock-printed copy of the Diamond Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist scripture, dated to 868 in the Tang dynasty.
Diana (mythology)Religion / ideaDiana was the Roman goddess of hunting, wild animals, the moon and childbirth, later identified with the Greek Artemis.
Diane de PoitiersPersonDiane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and the mistress of King Henry II, who was nearly twenty years her junior.- Diarmait mac Máel na mBóPersonDiarmait mac Máel na mBó was king of Leinster from about 1042 and one of the most powerful rulers in Ireland until his death in 1072.
- Diarmait Mac MurchadaPersonDiarmait Mac Murchada was King of Leinster of the Uí Chennselaig dynasty.
- DiawaraPeople / groupThe Diawara are a Soninke clan of the western Sahel, found mainly in western Mali around Nioro and Kayes.
- DibërPlaceDibër is a mountainous region of eastern Albania along the Black Drin, bordering North Macedonia.
- DicalydonesPeople / groupThe Dicalydones were one of the two peoples into which the Picts were divided according to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing of the 360s, the other…
Dick KingPersonDick King was an English-born settler in Natal, famous for his ride in 1842 to bring help to the British garrison besieged by the Boers at Port Natal after the Battle…- Dickon MitchellPersonDickon Mitchell is a Grenadian lawyer and politician, leader of the National Democratic Congress.
Dictionnaire de TrévouxWork / monumentThe Dictionnaire de Trévoux was a French dictionary and encyclopaedia first published in 1704 at Trévoux, in the Dombes, by Jesuit scholars.
DicuilPersonDicuil was an Irish monk and scholar who worked at the Carolingian court in the early 9th century.
DiddaPersonDidda was the ruler of Kashmir from 980 to 1003, after governing as regent for her son and grandsons from 958.
Didessa RiverPlaceThe Didessa is a river in western Ethiopia and a major tributary of the Abay, the Blue Nile.- DidoPersonDido, also called Elissa, was the legendary queen from Tyre who is said to have founded Carthage.
DidymaPlaceDidyma was a sanctuary of Apollo on the west coast of Asia Minor, about 16 kilometres south of Miletus, which controlled it and was linked to it by a Sacred Way.- Die ZeitInstitutionDie Zeit is a German weekly newspaper founded in Hamburg in 1946.
Die, DrômePlaceDie is a small town in the Drôme valley in south-eastern France.
Diego ColumbusPersonDiego Columbus was the eldest son of Christopher Columbus and governor of the Indies at Santo Domingo from 1509.
Diego de AlmagroPersonDiego de Almagro was a Spanish conquistador and partner of Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru.
Diego de Almagro the YoungerPersonDiego de Almagro the Younger was the son of the conquistador Diego de Almagro and an Indigenous woman of Panama.
Diego de LandaPersonDiego de Landa was a Spanish Franciscan friar and later Bishop of Yucatán.
Diego de LosadaPersonDiego de Losada was a Spanish conquistador who founded Santiago de León de Caracas in 1567, after campaigning against the Indigenous peoples of the valley.
Diego de MontemayorPersonDiego de Montemayor was a Spanish settler and official who founded the city of Monterrey on 20 September 1596.
Diego de VargasPersonDiego de Vargas was a Spanish governor of New Mexico who led its reconquest after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
Diego GelmírezPersonDiego Gelmírez was bishop and from 1120 the first archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, and the most powerful churchman in Galicia.
Diego López V de HaroPersonDiego López V de Haro was lord of Biscay and one of the leading nobles of the Crown of Castile, a member of the powerful Haro family.
Diego Luis de San VitoresPersonDiego Luis de San Vitores was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first permanent Catholic mission in the Mariana Islands, landing on Guam in 1668.
Diego PortalesPersonDiego Portales was a Chilean merchant and minister who dominated the conservative governments of the 1830s.
Diego RiveraPersonDiego Rivera was a Mexican painter and a leading figure of the Mexican mural movement.
Diego Rodríguez PorcelosPersonDiego Rodríguez Porcelos was count of Castile from about 873 to 885, son of Count Rodrigo, under the kings of Asturias.- Diego SilangPersonDiego Silang was the leader of a revolt in the Ilocos region of northern Luzon against Spanish rule during the British occupation of Manila.
Diego VelázquezPersonDiego Velázquez was a Spanish painter, court painter to Philip IV and a leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Diego Velázquez de CuéllarPersonDiego Velázquez de Cuéllar was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of Cuba from 1511 and became its first governor.
Dieric BoutsPersonDieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter, born in Haarlem around 1415, who worked in Leuven from the 1440s and became its official city painter in 1468.
DiessenhofenPlaceDiessenhofen is a small town in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on the south bank of the Rhine, between Schaffhausen and Stein am Rhein.
Diet of PorvooEventThe Diet of Porvoo was the assembly of the four estates of Finland that met at Porvoo in 1809, during the Finnish War.- Diet of Schwäbisch HallEventThe Diet of Schwäbisch Hall was an imperial assembly held in 1190 at Schwäbisch Hall in Swabia under King Henry VI.
- Diet of TreptowEventThe Diet of Treptow was an assembly of the Pomeranian estates held at Treptow an der Rega (Trzebiatów) in December 1534, at which Dukes Barnim IX and Philip I…
Diet of WormsEventThe Diet of Worms was the imperial assembly held in 1521 by the young Emperor Charles V at Worms.
Diet of Worms (1495)EventThe Diet of Worms of 1495, held under Maximilian I, launched the Imperial Reform of the Holy Roman Empire.
Dietrich KlaggesPersonDietrich Klagges was a German Nazi politician who served as interior minister of the Free State of Brunswick from 1931 and as its minister-president from 1933 to 1945.- Dietrich of HaldenslebenPersonDietrich of Haldensleben was a Saxon count who became the first margrave of the Northern March in 965, ruling lands east of the Elbe over the Hevelli and Lutician Slavs.
- Dietrich von FürstenbergPersonDietrich von Fürstenberg was prince-bishop of Paderborn from 1585 to 1618.
DieuzePlaceDieuze is a small town in the Moselle department of north-eastern France, on the Seille.- DiezPlaceDiez is a small town on the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
DigambaraReligion / ideaDigambara, meaning 'sky-clad', is one of the two main traditions of Jainism, alongside the Svetambara.- Digest (Justinian)Work / monumentThe Digest is a compilation of extracts from the writings of classical Roman jurists, issued in 533 under Emperor Justinian I.
DigvijaysinhjiPersonDigvijaysinhji was the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar from 1933, nephew and successor of the cricketer Ranjitsinhji.- DihqanPeople / groupThe dihqans were the Persian landed gentry of the Sasanian era, who managed villages and collected taxes.
DihyaPersonDihya, called al-Kahina, the prophetess, by Arab writers, was a Berber queen and war leader of the Aurès mountains in the late 7th century.
DijonPlaceDijon is a city in eastern France and the historic capital of Burgundy.
Dikhow RiverPlaceThe Dikhow is a river of Upper Assam in north-east India, a south-bank tributary of the Brahmaputra.- Diktaean ZeusReligion / ideaDiktaean Zeus was a form of Zeus worshipped in eastern Crete, linked with the myth of the god's birth and upbringing in a Cretan cave.
DikwaPlaceDikwa is a town in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, south of Lake Chad.- Dil Na'odPersonDil Na'od is remembered as the last king of the Aksumite dynasty.
- Dilawar Khan GhuriPersonDilawar Khan Ghuri was the founder of the Malwa Sultanate in central India.
DiliPlaceDili is the capital and largest city of East Timor, on the north coast of the island of Timor.- Dilip Singh JudeoPersonDilip Singh Judeo was an Indian politician from the former royal family of Jashpur in Chhattisgarh.
DillenburgPlaceDillenburg is a town in central Hesse, Germany, on the Dill.
Dillingen an der DonauPlaceDillingen an der Donau is a town in Bavarian Swabia, Germany, on the Danube.- Dilma RousseffPersonDilma Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who was president of Brazil from 2011 to 2016, the first woman to hold the office.
DilmunPlaceDilmun was an ancient trading land in the Persian Gulf, generally identified with Bahrain and the adjacent coast.
Dilmun Burial MoundsPlaceThe Dilmun Burial Mounds are the tens of thousands of earth and stone tumuli built across northern Bahrain mainly between about 2050 and 1750 BCE, in the Early Dilmun…- Dilwara TemplesWork / monumentThe Dilwara Temples are a group of five Jain temples at Mount Abu in Rajasthan, India, famed for their intricately carved white marble interiors.
Dima HasaoPlaceDima Hasao, until 2010 called the North Cachar Hills, is a hill district of Assam, India, with its headquarters at Haflong.
DimapurPlaceDimapur is the largest city of Nagaland in north-east India, on the Dhansiri river.- Dimasa KingdomStateThe Dimasa Kingdom, often called the Kachari kingdom, was a state of the Dimasa people in present-day Assam and Nagaland, India.
Dimasa peoplePeople / groupThe Dimasa, also called Dimasa Kacharis, are a Tibeto-Burman people of north-east India, living mainly in the Dima Hasao, Karbi Anglong and Cachar districts of Assam…
Dimitrie CantemirPersonDimitrie Cantemir was prince of Moldavia in 1693 and from 1710 to 1711, and a leading scholar.
Dimitrov ConstitutionWork / monumentThe Dimitrov Constitution was the constitution of the People's Republic of Bulgaria adopted on 4 December 1947 and named after the communist leader Georgi Dimitrov.
Din EidynPlaceDin Eidyn was the Brittonic name of the fortress on the rock of Edinburgh, the chief stronghold of the post-Roman kingdom of Gododdin.
Dina BoluartePersonDina Boluarte is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who became Peru's first woman president in December 2022, when as vice-president she succeeded Pedro Castillo after…
DinantPlaceDinant is a town on the Meuse in the province of Namur, Belgium.- DinarTermThe dinar was the gold coin of the Islamic world, first issued in the Umayyad period.
- DinavarPlaceDinavar was a medieval city in western Iran, north-east of Kermanshah, whose ruins lie near the modern village of the same name.
Dinder RiverPlaceThe Dinder River is a seasonal tributary of the Blue Nile that rises in the Ethiopian highlands west of Lake Tana and joins the Blue Nile in eastern Sudan below Sennar.
Dinefwr CastleWork / monumentDinefwr Castle stands on a ridge above the river Tywi near Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.- Dinga CisséPersonDinga Cissé is a figure of Soninke oral tradition credited with unifying the clans that formed the Ghana Empire, known as Wagadou.
DinganePersonDingane was king of the Zulu from 1828 to 1840, after taking part in the assassination of his half-brother Shaka.- DingiswayoPersonDingiswayo was the paramount chief of the Mthethwa in present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from about 1795 until 1818.
- DinglingPeople / groupThe Dingling were an ancient people of the steppes south of Lake Baikal, recorded in Chinese sources from the third century BCE, when they were subdued by the Xiongnu.
- Dingtao DistrictPlaceDingtao is a district of Heze in south-western Shandong province, China.
DinguirayePlaceDinguiraye is a town in north-eastern Guinea, on the edge of the Futa Jallon highlands.
DingzhouPlaceDingzhou is a city in Hebei province, northern China, south-west of Beijing.
Dinh Phe DePersonDinh Phe De, born Dinh Toan, was the second and last emperor of the Dinh dynasty in Vietnam, put on the throne as a child after his father Dinh Tien Hoang was murdered…
Dinmukhamed KunaevPersonDinmukhamed Kunaev was a Kazakh Communist leader who headed the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1960 to 1962 and again from 1964 to 1986, and sat on the Soviet…- Dinoyo inscriptionWork / monumentThe Dinoyo inscription is a Sanskrit inscription of 760 found at Dinoyo near Malang in East Java, Indonesia, the earliest dated inscription from East Java.
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayoPersonDinuzulu kaCetshwayo was king of the Zulu from 1884 to 1913, the son of Cetshwayo.- Diocese of Bolzano-BrixenInstitutionThe Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen is the Catholic diocese of South Tyrol in northern Italy.
Diocese of Dresden-MeissenInstitutionThe Diocese of Dresden-Meissen is the Catholic diocese of Saxony, Germany, with its seat at Dresden.
Diocese of HispaniaPlaceThe Diocese of Hispania, or Diocese of the Spains, was a civil administrative unit of the late Roman Empire created by Diocletian's reforms around 300.- Diocese of TurkuInstitutionThe Diocese of Turku is the oldest diocese in Finland, established in the 13th century, with its seat at Turku from about 1300.
- Diocles of CarystusPersonDiocles of Carystus was a Greek physician of the 4th century BCE from Karystos in Euboea, regarded in antiquity as second only to Hippocrates.
DiocletianPersonDiocletian was Roman emperor (r. 284–305 CE) who ended the third-century crisis.
Diodorus SiculusPersonDiodorus Siculus was a Greek historian from Agyrium in Sicily who wrote the Bibliotheca historica, a universal history in forty books from mythical times to about 60 BCE.
Diodotus IPersonDiodotus I was the Seleucid satrap of Bactria who broke away from the Seleucid Empire in the mid-3rd century BCE and founded the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.