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Dyula people
The Dyula, also spelled Dioula, Jula, or Juula, are Mande-speaking Muslim trader communities of West Africa whose name means "trader" in Manding, referring specifically to a professional trader.
dyvahh
dyvahh (다이바) is the working name of Noh Joo-hwan (노주환), a South Korean lyricist and composer who wrote GFRIEND's 'Trust' and songs for ILLIT under HYBE.
DZ Bank
DZ Bank, based in Frankfurt am Main, is the central institution of Germany's cooperative Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken network and the second-largest commercial bank in Germany, owned by the cooperative banks.
Dzalarhons Mons
Dzalarhons Mons is a 120-km-wide shield volcano on Venus at 0.5N, 34E, named for a Haida volcano goddess; a domical, 3-km-high edifice with a strong low radar emissivity anomaly.
Džanan Musa
Džanan Musa, Bosnian small forward born 1999 in Bihać; 2018 NBA first-round pick (29th, Brooklyn Nets), later EuroLeague champion with Anadolu Efes and Real Madrid, ACB MVP 2022, now with Dubai Basketball.
Dzata
Dzata is a stone-walled ruin site in the Nzhelele valley of Limpopo, South Africa, which served as the capital of the united Venda kingdom in the 18th century.
Džej Ramadanovski
Dzej Ramadanovski (1964–2020) was a Serbian folk and turbo-folk singer of Romani ethnicity from Belgrade, known for melancholy ballads like 'Nedelja' and enormously popular across the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Dzejas dienas
Dzejas dienas, or Poetry Days, is an international contemporary poetry festival held each September in Rīga and across Latvia, founded in 1965 for the centenary of poet Jānis Rainis.
Dzeko
Dzeko is a Canadian DJ and producer from Toronto, formerly half of Dzeko & Torres, known for the 2018 platinum hit "Jackie Chan" with Tiësto.
Dzenzursky
Dzenzursky (Dzenzur, Igorevsky Volcano), eroded Pleistocene compound stratovolcano, 2,285 m, Eastern Kamchatka, Russia; no confirmed historical eruptions, only fumarolic and hydrothermal activity; Volcano Number 300110.
Dzerassa Planitia
Dzerassa Planitia is a 2,800 km wide lowland plain on Venus at 15S, 295E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Ossetian epic heroine, cut by a rift and hosting the corona Iweridd.
Dzerzhinovo
Дзяржынава (Dzierżynowo, Дзержиново), formerly Oziembłowo, is a manor-museum in Stowbtsy district, Minsk region, Belarus, birthplace of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), burned in 1943 and rebuilt as a memorial complex.
Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Dzerzhinsk (Дзержинск), formerly Rastyapino, is Russia's second city of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a planned Soviet chemical-industry city chartered 30 March 1930, a WWII munitions hub, and a site of major chemical-waste remediation.
Dzhamal Otarsultanov
Dzhamal Otarsultanov (Джамал Султанович Отарсултанов), born 1987 in Dagestan, is a Russian freestyle wrestler, Chechen ethnic, who won 55 kg gold at London 2012 without ever wrestling a senior World Championship.
Dzhan
Dzhan (Джан), also translated as Soul, is a novella by the Soviet writer Andrey Platonov, written in 1935 about an economist sent to save a destitute desert people.
Dzhigan
Dzhigan (Джиган), born Denis Alexandrovich Ustimenko-Vainstein in Odessa in 1985, is a Russian rapper known for pop-rap duets, seven studio albums, and his years on Timati's Black Star label.
Dzhokhar Dudayev (Джохар Мусаевич Дудаев)
Dzhokhar Dudayev (Джохар Мусаевич Дудаев), Soviet Air Force major general, first president of self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; declared independence 1 November 1991, ruled de facto independent Chechnya 1991–1996, killed in Russian airstrike 1996.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Джохар Анзорович Царнаев)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Джохар Анзорович Царнаев), born 1993, is the surviving Boston Marathon bomber who with brother Tamerlan detonated pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013, killing three; convicted on 30 counts, sentenced to death in 2015, reinstated by the Supreme Court in 2022.
Dzhugdzhur Mountains
Dzhugdzhur Mountains (Джугджур), a 700–900 km mountain system in Khabarovsk Krai on the northwest Sea of Okhotsk coast; highest point Mount Topko 1,906 m; Arctic-Pacific watershed with Dzhugdzhursky reserve.
Dziady
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is the Slavic pre-Christian ancestor rite, held autumn and spring, feeding returning souls with kutia, bread, honey, and fires; known chiefly through Adam Mickiewicz's drama.
Dziady (poem)
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is Adam Mickiewicz's four-part romantic drama cycle, written 1820-1832 and built on a folk All Souls rite for summoning ancestral spirits; Parts II and IV appeared in 1823, Part III in 1832, and its 1968 ban in communist Poland sparked mass protests.
Dzianis Maroz
Dzianis Maroz, in Russian-language sources Denis Moroz, is a Belarusian politician serving as Minister of Energy, who has spoken on the 2026–2030 energy program and energy cooperation with Russia.
Dzibanche
Dzibanche (Dzibanché), Maya city in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico; Early Classic capital of the Kaanu'l (Snake) dynasty before the court moved to Calakmul in the AD 630s; four monumental groups, sacbeob, over 40 km2.
Dzibilchaltun
Dzibilchaltún (Dzibilchaltun) is a large Maya archaeological site 7.5 miles north of Mérida, Yucatán, occupied about 2,000 years, known for the equinox-aligned Temple of the Seven Dolls, Cenote Xlacah, sacbeob causeways, and a sixteenth-century Franciscan open chapel.
Dzibilnocac
Dzibilnocac is a Maya archaeological site in the Chenes region of Campeche, Mexico, near Vicente Guerrero, Hopelchén, meaning "painted vault". Known for Structure A1, a 74 m tripartite temple-palace with zoomorphic facades and three towers, occupied from the Middle Preclassic and abandoned by the eleventh century.
Dziejaslou
Dziejaslou (Belarusian: Дзеяслоў, "the verb") was an independent Belarusian-language literary and artistic journal founded in Minsk in 2002 by writer Barys Piatrovich, reaching 127 issues before ending print in 2023.
Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов)
Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов), born Denis Kaufman (1896–1954), Soviet documentary director and theorist of the kino-eye; creator of Kino-Pravda and Man with a Movie Camera (1929), ranked 9th in the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll.
Dzígai Vallis
Dzígai Vallis (Dzigai Vallis) is a 326-km IAU-approved valley on Mars, named 1991 from the Navajo word for valley, draining south into the Argyre basin alongside Surius and Nia Valles.
Dzików Confederation
The Dzików Confederation (Konfederacja dzikowska) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble confederation formed on 5 November 1734 at Dzików, near Tarnobrzeg, to defend Stanisław Leszczyński's election against August III.
Dzinara Alimbekava
Dzinara Alimbekava (Dinara Alimbekova, Динара Алимбекова; married name Smolskaya), Belarusian biathlete born 1996 in Kazakhstan; 2018 Olympic relay gold, 2020/21 U25 World Cup winner, first win Hochfilzen sprint 2020.