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Dublin Bay Biosphere Reserve
Dublin Bay Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Ireland, designated 1981 and extended in 2015 to cover all of Dublin Bay, including parts of Dublin.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a government complex and major state ceremonial site in central Dublin, built from 1204 on the orders of King John of England on a former Viking settlement site.
Dublin Core
Dublin Core is a metadata standard of fifteen descriptive elements, such as Title, Creator, and Date, developed at a 1995 workshop in Dublin, Ohio and standardized as ISO 15836.
Dublin GAA
Dublin GAA is the county board administering Gaelic games in Dublin, Ireland, based at Parnell Park. It holds 31 football and 6 hurling All-Ireland titles, won six-in-a-row, and manages 5,500 teams amid urban population growth.
Dublin Guardians
Dublin Guardians: Dublin-based T20 cricket franchise in the European T20 Premier League (ETPL), owned by Rahul Dravid's Indian consortium, captained by Ravichandran Ashwin; launched 2026, finished last in inaugural season.
Dublin Murders
Dublin Murders is a 2019 eight-part BBC, RTÉ, and Starz crime drama, also called The Dublin Murders, adapting Tana French's In the Woods and The Likeness into one story, starring Killian Scott and Sarah Greene as Garda detectives in 2006 Celtic Tiger Ireland.
Dublin Regulation
Dublin Regulation (Dublin III, Regulation (EU) No 604/2013) was the EU rule assigning each asylum application to one responsible Member State, mainly the country of first entry; adopted 2013, in force 2014, replaced by the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation in 2026.
Dublin Review
Dublin Review is the name of two Irish-connected periodicals: a Catholic quarterly founded in 1836, and a Dublin magazine of essays and fiction founded in 2000.
Dublin Zoo
Dublin Zoo, also called the Zoological Gardens, is a conservation charity in Phoenix Park, Dublin, opened 1 September 1831; 28 hectares, 400+ animals, 70 species, over one million annual visitors.
Dublin, California
Dublin, California is a city in Alameda County in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated in 1982 and home to 72,589 people at the 2020 census.
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Ohio is a Columbus-area city founded in 1810 by John Sells and named by surveyor John Shields after Dublin, Ireland. Population 49,328 (2020); home to Cardinal Health, Muirfield Village, and the Dublin Irish Festival.
Dubliners
Dubliners is James Joyce's 1914 collection of fifteen short stories about Dublin life, written 1904–1907, known for paralysis, epiphanies, 'scrupulous meanness' style, and a ten-year censorship-plagued path to publication.
Dubnium
Dubnium, formerly known as unnilpentium, is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Db and atomic number 105, first reported in 1967 and named after Dubna, Russia.
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
dubnobasswithmyheadman is Underworld's third album, released 24 January 1994 on Junior Boy's Own and the first with DJ Darren Emerson, fusing house, techno, and art rock with Karl Hyde's cut-up lyrics.
Dubois brothers
Dubois brothers (frères Dubois), nine siblings from Saint-Henri, Montreal, who ran Quebec's dominant criminal gang from the 1950s to the 1980s; rivals of the McSween gang and Devil's Disciples, undone by the televised 1975-1976 CECO organized crime inquiry.
Dubonnet
Dubonnet (quinquina Dubonnet): French sweet aromatised quinquina aperitif created in 1846 by Parisian chemist Joseph Dubonnet to mask quinine's bitterness for Foreign Legion soldiers; later famous as Queen Elizabeth II's 2:1 gin and Dubonnet pre-lunch drink.
DuBose Heyward
DuBose Heyward (Edwin DuBose Heyward, 1885-1940), Charleston novelist, poet, and playwright, author of the 1925 novel Porgy, source of the play Porgy (1927) and Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935); also wrote Mamba's Daughters and co-founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina.
DuBose Porter
DuBose Porter (born 1953) is a Dublin, Georgia newspaper publisher, lawyer, and Democratic politician; Georgia House member 1982-2011, House Minority Leader from 2005, 2010 gubernatorial candidate, and chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia 2013-2019.
Dubowitz syndrome
Dubowitz syndrome, a rare genetic disorder first described by Victor Dubowitz in 1965, features microcephaly, short stature, eczema, intellectual disability, and distinctive facies; no single gene explains it, and genomic studies find many alternative diagnoses.
Dubravka
Dubravka is a pastoral drama with allegorical meaning by the Dubrovnik Baroque poet Ivan Gundulić, first performed in 1628 and counted among the greatest achievements of Croatian literature.
Dubravka Bošnjak
Dubravka Bošnjak is a Bosnian politician serving as Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, known for work on organ transplantation, medical cannabis, and demining legislation.
Dubravka Đedović
Dubravka Đedović, also known as Dubravka Đedović Handanović, is a Serbian politician who has served as Minister of Mining and Energy since October 2022.
Dubravka Šuica
Dubravka Šuica is a Croatian HDZ politician serving as European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, after serving as Vice-President for Democracy and Demography from 2019 to 2024.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), Croatian novelist, essayist, and scholar of the Russian avant-garde; postmodern patchwork fiction, exile after 1993, Neustadt Prize 2016, died in Amsterdam.
Dubravko Simenc
Dubravko Šimenc, born 1966 in Zagreb, is a Croatian water polo player who won Olympic gold for Yugoslavia in 1988 and silver for Croatia in 1996, plus World Championship golds in 1986 and 1991.
Dubréka
Dubréka is a town and prefecture in Maritime Guinea, immediately north of Conakry in the Grand Conakry conurbation, with a city population estimated at 352,859 in 2016.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatian Adriatic city whose walled Old City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979; famed for 1,940-metre walls, the 1667 earthquake, the 1991-92 siege, and its Respect the City overtourism management.
Dubrovnik Airport
Dubrovnik Airport, also known as Čilipi Airport and officially Ruđer Bošković Airport since 2023, serves Dubrovnik, Croatia, from near the village of Čilipi. Opened in 1962, it is the country's third-busiest airport.
Dubrovnik Renaissance literature
Dubrovnik Renaissance literature is the poetry, drama, and prose written in the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) during the 15th and 16th centuries, led by Marin Držić.
Dubrovsky
Dubrovsky (Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and 1833, about a young nobleman who becomes a robber after a corrupt court takes his father's estate.