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Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi

Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi (دیوانِ نظیر اکبرآبادی) is the printed collection of the poetry of Nazeer Akbarabadi, with about 13,000 couplets on seasons, festivals, and ordinary life; the standard edition was edited by Mirza Farhatullah Beg in 1942.

Diwan-e-Wali

Diwan-e-Wali (دیوانِ ولی) is the collected divan of the Deccani Urdu poet Wali Deccani, whose arrival in Delhi in 1720 brought Urdu poetry recognition there.

Diwan-i Ariz

The Diwan-i Ariz (دیوانِ عرض) was the military department of the Delhi Sultanate, which recruited, paid, reviewed, and kept records for the Sultan's army, inherited from Ghaznavid practice.

Diwan-i Arz

The Diwan-i Arz (دیوان ارز) was the army ministry of the Delhi Sultanate and earlier Ghaznavid and Ghurid states, handling soldiers' recruitment, pay, training, and periodic review.

Diwan-i Insha

The Diwan-i Insha (دیوان انشا) was the chancery of the Delhi Sultanate, drafting royal orders and diplomatic letters; its head bore the title dabir al-mamalik.

Sep 24, 2026

Diwan-i Istifa

The Diwan-i Istifa (دیوان استیفا) was the financial chancery of the Islamic states of Iran, registering state revenues and controlling financial affairs from the Samanid era to the Qajars.

Diwan-i Qaza

The Diwan-i Qaza (دیوان قضا) was the Delhi Sultanate's judicial department, established in 1206 by Qutb al-Din Aibak, which administered Islamic law under the Qazi, the chief judge.

Diwan-i Risalat

Diwan-i Risalat (دیوان رسالت) was the chancellery of official and diplomatic correspondence in Persianate India, prominent under the Ghaznavids and the Delhi Sultanate, whose head was the dabir-e kashsh.

Diwan-i Riyasat

Diwan-i Riyasat (دیوان ریاست) was a department of Sultan Alauddin Khalji of Delhi that fixed commodity prices at low levels to support a large standing army against Mongol attacks.

Diwan-i Wizarat

The Diwan-i Wizarat (دیوان وزارت) was the central ministry of the wazir, the chief minister over civil administration and finance, in the Ghaznavid state and under the Delhi Sultanate.

Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa

The Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (دیوانی) was the 1765 grant by Emperor Shah Alam II giving the East India Company revenue authority over three provinces.

Diwani ya Muyaka

Diwani ya Muyaka is the collected edition of the Swahili poems of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, a poet of Mombasa active from about 1810 to 1840.

Diwani ya Shaaban Robert

Diwani ya Shaaban Robert is a 14-volume collected-works series in Swahili of the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, first published by Evans in London in 1966.

Diwu Qi

Diwu Qi (第五琦, 713–782) was a Tang dynasty fiscal official and chancellor who created the state salt monopoly, raising revenue without added taxes on the people.

Dix Pour Cent (film)

Dix pour cent: Le film (Call My Agent! The Movie) is a 2026 French comedy-drama directed by Émilie Noblet, released on Netflix 10 September 2026, reuniting the ASK agency cast with George Clooney and Eva Longoria cameos.

Dix–Hallpike test

Dix–Hallpike test (also Dix-Hallpike maneuver, Hallpike-Dix test): bedside head-positioning test introduced by Dix and Hallpike in 1952; gold standard for diagnosing posterior canal BPPV via provoked positional nystagmus resolving within 60 seconds.

Dixie

Dixie is a nickname for the American South, popularized by Dan Emmett's 1859 blackface minstrel song and adopted as the Confederacy's de facto anthem; its use has declined since 2020.

Dixie (song)

Dixie, also Dixie's Land or I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land, is an 1859 blackface minstrel song by Daniel Decatur Emmett, written in New York for Bryant's Minstrels and later adopted as the Confederacy's unofficial Civil War anthem.

Dixie Carter

Dixie Virginia Carter (1939–2010), American actress and cabaret singer; starred as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women (1986–1993), later Family Law and an Emmy-nominated Desperate Housewives role; married to Hal Holbrook.

Dixie Carter (wrestling)

Dixie Carter (born 1964, Dallas) is the former president and chairman of TNA/Impact Wrestling (2003-2017), who brought in her family's Panda Energy as majority owner, led TNA's Spike TV peak and decline, and sold to Anthem in 2017.

Dixie D'Amelio

Dixie D'Amelio (Dixie Jane D'Amelio), born 2001 in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American TikTok creator turned pop singer known for "Be Happy", the 2022 album a letter to me, and The D'Amelio Show on Hulu.

Dixie Dean

Dixie Dean (William Ralph Dean, 1907–1980), English centre forward for Tranmere Rovers, Everton, and England; record 60 League goals in 1927/28, 383 goals in 433 Everton games, 16 England caps, 18 goals.

Oct 15, 2026

Dixie Fire

The Dixie Fire was a 2021 wildfire in the northern Sierra Nevada, ignited by a tree contacting a PG&E line, that burned 963,309 acres and destroyed Greenville.

Oct 15, 2026

Dixie Highway

The Dixie Highway was a network of parallel north-south auto trails, conceived by Carl Fisher in 1915, linking the Midwest and Great Lakes with Florida.

Dixie Lee

Dixie Lee, born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, was an American actress, dancer, and singer in early Fox musical films and the first wife of Bing Crosby.

Dixie Mafia

Dixie Mafia: a loose confederation of white Southern criminals active from the 1960s, based in Biloxi, Mississippi, with no formal hierarchy or ties to La Cosa Nostra; known for Gulf Coast corruption and the 1987 Sherry murders.