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Dius of Tyre

Dius of Tyre was a Phoenician historian writing in Greek around the 2nd century BC, whose single surviving fragment on King Hiram I survives only in Josephus.

Div (mythology)

Div (دیو) is the demon, ogre, and giant of Iranian mythology, derived from the demonized Avestan daeva, opposed to the Indian deva. Rulers of epic Mazandaran, blamed in folklore for insanity, and slain by Rostam, notably the White Div.

Diva

Diva, from Italian and Latin for "goddess", is a celebrated female opera singer or prima donna; the term, first attested in English in 1864, now also describes any talented, commanding female performer and, pejoratively, a temperamental or demanding woman.

Diva (1981 film)

Diva is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 French debut thriller about a postman whose bootleg opera recording entangles him with pirates and corrupt police; it won four Césars and launched the cinéma du look movement.

Diva Boy

Diva Boy (Sam Smith Diva Boy) is Sam Smith's unreleased 2008 debut album, recorded at age 16 for London indie Flipbook Music; ten tracks, 34 minutes, single "Momentarily Mine", 2016 release attempt and 2018 lawsuit. Distinct from Pseudo's 2024 single and the AGT contestant.

Diva Zappa

Diva Zappa (Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa, born 1979) is an American artist, actress, and tarot reader in Los Angeles, youngest child of Frank Zappa, known for the mile-long knitted scarf Emilio and the 2011 exhibition Bruce.

Divacancy in silicon carbide

The divacancy in silicon carbide is a point defect of neighboring missing silicon and carbon atoms whose spin-1 state serves as a qubit and quantum sensor with near-infrared emission.

DivaGurl

DivaGurl (also Diva Gurl) is an American R&B girl group formed around Keke Palmer, who performs as Keyana, with Sadé, LaShay, and Monét. Debut single "S.O.B." (2024), EP DivaGurl: A Story By Keke Palmer (2025), tied to the mockumentary The Rise & Fall of DivaGurl.

Divākara

Divākara (दिवाकर), or Siddhasena Divākara, is a Śvetāmbara Jaina logician placed around the 6th century, traditionally credited with the Nyāyāvatāra and the Sanmati-tarka-prakaraṇa, though scholars dispute whether one or several authors bore the name.

Divakarapandita

Divakarapandita was a Brahmin priest of the Khmer court, royal guru of King Suryavarman II, presiding at his 1113 coronation and credited with urging the construction of Angkor Wat.

Divakarasena

Divakarasena (दिवाकरसेन) was crown prince of the Vakataka dynasty's Nandivardhana line, eldest son of Rudrasena II and the Gupta princess Prabhavatigupta, who likely died before reigning.

Divalent metal transporter 1

Divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1, SLC11A2, Nramp2, DCT1) is a proton-coupled mammalian iron transporter, discovered in 1997, that imports dietary non-heme iron in the duodenum and releases iron from endosomes in the transferrin cycle.

Divalia Fossae

Divalia Fossae, also Divalia Fossa, is a Grand Canyon-sized system of equatorial troughs on asteroid 4 Vesta found by NASA's Dawn mission; its origin, from Rheasilvia impact tectonics to jointing, secondary cratering, or spin reorientation, is debated.

Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr

The Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (دیوان ابوسعید ابوالخیر) is a collection of Persian mystical quatrains attributed to the Khorasani Sufi master Abu Sa'id (967–1049).

Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani

The Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani is the collected Persian poetry of the Qajar court poet Adib al-Mamalik Farahani, about 22,000 couplets, first printed in 1933.

Divan of Ahmad Shamlu

The Divan of Ahmad Shamlu (دیوان احمد شاملو) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000), pioneer of meterless Persian free verse, written from 1947 to 2000.

Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i

The Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i is the lyric poetry collections of Alisher Navoi (1441–1501), the Chagatai Turkic poet of the Timurid court in Herat, in Turkic and Persian.

Divan of Alisher Navoi

The Divan of Alisher Navoi is the collected lyric poetry of Navoi (1441–1501), the Timurid statesman of Herat regarded as the founder of classical Chagatai literature.

Divan of Amir Khusrau

The Divan of Amir Khusrau (ديوان امير حسرو) is the five collections of lyric poetry that the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusrau Dehlavi assembled during his lifetime.

Divan of Anvari

The Divan of Anvari (دیوان انوری) is the collected poetical works of Awhad al-Din Anvari of Abivard, the leading Persian panegyrist of the 12th-century Saljuq court.

Divan of Attar

The Divan of Attar (دیوان عطار) is the collected lyric poetry of the Persian Sufi poet Farid-al-Din Attar of Nishapur, comprising ghazals, qasidas, and tarji'-bands, assembled by the poet himself.

Divan of Baba Tahir

The Divan of Baba Tahir is the collected poetry, mostly short do-bayti quatrains, attributed to Baba Tahir, a dervish poet of Hamadan in western Iran.

Divan of Babur

The Divan of Babur is the collected poetry of Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, written mostly in Chagatai Turkic and counted a classic of Chagatai literature.

Divan of Bahar

The Divan of Bahar (دیوان بهار) is the collected Persian poetry of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, about 40,000 verses of political and social poems from Iran's Constitutional Revolution era.

Divan of Bedil

The Divan of Bidil Dehlavi (دیوانِ بیدل) is the collected lyric poetry of Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644–1720), the Mughal Indian master of the Persian Indian Style.

Divan of Fayzi

The Divan of Fayzi (دیوان فیضی) is the collected Persian poetry of Fayzi, poet laureate at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar and a leading Indo-Persian poet.

Divan of Forugh Farrokhzad

The Divan of Forugh Farrokhzad (دیوان اشعار فروغ فرخزاد) collects the poetry of Iranian modernist Forugh Farrokhzad (1934 or 1935 to 1967), tracing her path from romantic verse to free-form modernism.

Divan of Forughi Bastami

The Divan of Forughi Bastami (دیوان فروغی بسطامی) is the collected poetry of Mirza Abbas Forughi Bastami, a leading Qajar-era ghazal poet, first published in 1857 with about 5,000 verses.

Divan of Hafez

The Divan of Hafez (دیوان حافظ) is the collection of lyric ghazals by Hafez of Shiraz, the most popular of Persian poets, who lived from about 1315 to 1390.

Divan of Houshang Ebtehaj

The Divan of Houshang Ebtehaj (دیوان هوشنگ ابتهاج) is the collected poetry of the Iranian poet H. E. Sayeh (1928 to 2022), a leading modern writer of the ghazal.