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Djehutymose (Viceroy of Kush)
Djehutymose was an Egyptian official of the Eighteenth Dynasty who served as deputy viceroy of Wawat in Nubia under Amenhotep III, and probably became Viceroy of Kush under Akhenaten.
Djehutynakht (ancient Egyptian nomarch)
Djehutynakht was a provincial governor (nomarch) of the Hare nome in Middle Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, buried in Tomb 10A at Deir el-Bersha, discovered in 1915.
Djehutynefer
Djehutynefer, also called Seshu, was an Egyptian royal scribe of Dynasty 18, known from funerary cones and a stamped brick from his tomb-chapel at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.
Djelfa
Djelfa (الجلفة), Algeria: capital of Djelfa wilaya on the High Plateaus, 300 km south of Algiers. Founded as a French military post in 1852, formalized 1861; steppe sheep-farming and administrative center.
Djelfa Province
Djelfa Province (ولاية الجلفة, Wilaya de Djelfa) is an Algerian wilaya created in 1974, capital Djelfa, 300 km south of Algiers; 12 dairas, 36 communes, about 1.97 million people (2024), a semi-arid steppe economy based on sheep farming.
Djellaba (جلابة)
Djellaba (جلابة, also jellaba) is a long, loose, hooded North African robe with a pointed hood (qob), worn by men and women in Morocco and the Maghreb; distinct from the hoodless caftan, galabeya, and draped burnous.
Djemal Pasha
Djemal Pasha (جمال پاشا), born Ahmed Cemal, was an Ottoman army officer and Minister of the Navy who commanded the Fourth Army in Syria during World War I.
Djembe
Djembe (jembe, jenbe, dyembe): goblet-shaped rope-tuned hand drum of the Mandé peoples of Mali and Guinea, carved from lenke wood, played bare-handed for bass, tone, and slap, with dunun ensembles and rhythms like Dundunba, Soli, and Kassa.
Djémila
Djémila (ancient Cuicul) is a Roman colonial city in Sétif province, Algeria, founded under Nerva (96–98 AD) at 900 m altitude, with theater, Severan temples, Arch of Caracalla, Christian basilicas, and UNESCO listing since 1982.
Djenné
Djenné, an ancient mud-brick trading city in Mali's Inner Niger Delta, inhabited since 250 B.C. and a trans-Saharan gold trade hub; home of the Great Mosque of Djenné, the world's largest adobe building, replastered annually in the crépissage festival.
Djenné terracottas
The Jenne-Jeno terracottas are fired-clay human and animal sculptures from the Inland Niger Delta in present-day Mali, among the earliest figural art of sub-Saharan Africa.
Djenné-Djenno
Djenné-Djenno, also written Jenné-jeno, meaning "Old Djenné," is an ancient settlement mound in Mali's Inland Niger Delta, occupied from about 250 BC to 1400 AD.
Djenny
Djenny is an Austrian/Bulgarian psytrance producer and DJ on Bliss Bless Records whose 2024 debut album Confluence topped the Beatport psytrance album charts, with festival sets at Ozora and Fusion.
Djent
Djent ('gent'): heavy metal style and onomatopoeic guitar sound from palm-muted low-string riffing, associated with Meshuggah, Periphery, and TesseracT; formed online, contested as a genre.
Djer
Djer, probably the king-list name Iti, was the third king of Egypt's First Dynasty, buried in Tomb O at the Umm el-Qaab necropolis at Abydos.
Djer's campaign to Nubia
Djer's campaign to Nubia was a First Dynasty Egyptian military expedition into Lower Nubia around 3000 BC, known from a rock relief at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman.
Djerba (جربة)
Djerba (جربة) is a 514 km² Tunisian Mediterranean island, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023 for its dispersed menzel-houma settlement pattern, defensive mosques, and Ibadi and Jewish communities.
Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory
Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory (Djerba : témoignage d'un mode d'occupation d'un territoire insulaire) is a Tunisian UNESCO World Heritage serial property, inscribed 2023 under criterion (v), covering a dispersed 9th–18th-century menzel-houma settlement system with defensive mosques across seven sites.
Djeseretnebti
Djeseretnebti is a name of disputed reading and gender on an ivory tablet found in Sekhemkhet's unfinished pyramid at Saqqara, sometimes identified as a Third Dynasty queen consort.
Djet
Djet, also Wadj, was a pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty who reigned around 3000–2990 BCE between Djer and Den, buried in Tomb Z at Abydos with about 174 retainers.
DJI
DJI (大疆创新, Dajiang Innovations), Shenzhen-based private company founded 2006 by Frank Wang, is the world's largest drone maker with over 70% global market share, maker of Phantom, Mavic, Matrice, AGRAS, and Osmo products.
DJI Air
DJI Air, originally Mavic Air, is a series of folding camera drones made by DJI, running from the 2018 Mavic Air to the Air 3S of 2024.
DJI Air 3
The DJI Air 3 is a folding consumer camera drone made by DJI, announced in 2023 as the first Air Series model with a dual camera system.
DJI Air series
The DJI Air series is a line of folding consumer camera drones made by DJI, sitting between the Mini and Mavic series with larger sensors and dual-camera zoom.
DJI Dock
DJI Dock is a family of automated drone-in-a-box base stations made by DJI, first announced in 2022, that houses, launches, and recharges compatible Matrice drones for remote missions.
DJI Flame Wheel F450
The DJI Flame Wheel F450 is a 450 mm quadcopter frame kit from DJI, sold almost-ready-to-fly with motors, ESCs, and propellers; production stopped in May 2017.
DJI FlyCart
DJI FlyCart 30 is a heavy-lift cargo drone by DJI, launched globally in 2024, carrying 30 kg payloads and first flown for delivery on Mount Everest.
DJI Focus
DJI Focus is a wireless follow focus system released by DJI in 2015, combining a handheld remote controller with a motor that turns a camera lens's focus ring.
DJI Inspire
The DJI Inspire is a series of professional ready-to-fly cinema drones made by DJI for film and television production, released in 2014, 2016, and 2023.
DJI Inspire 3
The DJI Inspire 3 is a professional cinema drone announced by DJI in 2023, the third in its Inspire line, with a full-frame 8K gimbal camera and RTK positioning.