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Dedoplistskaro Biosphere Reserve

Dedoplistskaro Biosphere Reserve (დედოფლისწყაროს ბიოსფერული რეზერვატი), Georgia's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated June 2022 in Kakheti near Azerbaijan; arid steppe and semi-desert around Takhti-Tepha mud volcanoes, leopard and gazelle habitat, GAZELLE dryland restoration project.

Deer enclosure (Czechia)

Deer enclosure (Czechia): fenced deer keeping as obora under the 2001 hunting act, MZe farm welfare standards (0.5-15 deer/ha), Šumava NP winter enclosures, and display enclosures such as Kvilda and Žleby.

Deer Forest

Deer Forest (Yaar Haayalim, יער האיילים) is a deer park and holiday village at Moshav Odem in the northern Golan Heights, founded in 1995 by Moshe Amitai, with 80 deer, petting corner, pony rides, camping, and cabins; 25 NIS adult, 50 NIS child entry.

Deer Garden

Deer Garden names a small zoo in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan (鹿園), the Hong Kong-founded fish soup noodle chain Deer Garden Signatures (鹿園魚湯米線), Shanghai's Michelin-starred Lu Yuan, and deer enclosures in Chinese parks.

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites: UNESCO World Heritage serial property in central Mongolia, inscribed 2023, four complexes of deer stones (1200-600 BCE) with khirgisüür burial mounds.

Deer zoo

Deer zoo (Вольєр №1 для тимчасового утримання та розведення оленя благородного) is a small red deer enclosure and zoo near Morshyn, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, used since 2001 to breed red deer for release into the wild.

Deh-i No/Sakavand

Deh-i No/Sakavand, also called Deh-e Now, is an archaeological site in Kermanshah province, western Iran, with four rock-cut tombs of the 4th to 3rd centuries B.C.E. near Bisotun.

Dehas

Dehas is an ancient place cited as BAtlas 25 I2 Dehas in the Pleiades gazetteer, attested in Mauretania Caesariensis; the Dehás or Balkh river lies east of the Oxus.

Deir Abou Makar

Deir Abou Makar (دير الأنبا مقار), the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, is a Coptic Orthodox monastery in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, founded in the fourth century, residence of the Coptic patriarchs, with about 120 monks today.

Deir Amba Baramos

Deir Amba Baramos (Dayr al-Baramus, Paromeos Monastery) is a Coptic Orthodox monastery in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, traditionally the oldest Scetis foundation, with a seventh-century Virgin Mary church, medieval wall paintings, and six Coptic patriarchs among its monks.

Deir Apa Jeremiah

Deir Apa Jeremiah (Dayr Apa Jeremiah) was a Coptic cenobitic monastery at Saqqara, Egypt, founded around 470, excavated by Quibell 1906-1910, and abandoned by the ninth century.

Deir el-Atrash

Deir el-Atrash (دير الأطرش), a Roman fortlet in Egypt's Eastern Desert on the Nile-to-Mons Porphyrites road, 8 km north of Ghozza; excavated by MAFDO in 2020, with a wall painting signed by Valerius.

Dekeleia

Dekeleia (Δεκέλεια, Decelea, Tatoi), ancient Attic deme in North East Attica on the former royal Tatoi estate; Palaiokastro fort of the Dekeleian War, over 100 attested Dekeleians, phratry decrees IG II² 1237.

Delaware Water Gap

Delaware Water Gap is a deep gap where the Delaware River cuts through Kittatinny Mountain on the New Jersey–Pennsylvania border, flanked by Mount Minsi and Mount Tammany.

Della Adventure

Della Adventure is an extreme adventure park in Kunegaon, Lonavala, Maharashtra, India, opened in 2009 by Jimmy Mistry and described as India's largest, with more than 70 activities.

Delos (Δήλος)

Delos (Δήλος), a small Cycladic island in the Aegean, is the mythological birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, a major Pan-Hellenic sanctuary, seat of the Delian League treasury, and after 167 BC a tax-free Roman-era free port, now a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site.

Delphi

Delphi (Delfoi), the pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Apollo and its Pythia oracle on Mt. Parnassus, Phocis, Greece; the omphalos of the Greek world, UNESCO-listed in 1987, excavated by France from 1892.

Delphinion

Delphinion: sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios at Miletus, Turkey, founded 6th century BCE, destroyed 494 BCE and rebuilt; city archive, prytaneion seat, and start of the Sacred Way procession to Didyma.

Delta del Orinoco Biosphere Reserve

Delta del Orinoco Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Delta del Orinoco), a UNESCO MAB site in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela, created 1991, covering 1,125,000 ha of Orinoco delta wetlands with Warao communities and endemic species.

Delta del Paraná Biosphere Reserve

Delta del Paraná Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, protecting 89,624 ha of freshwater tidal wetland in the Lower Paraná Delta near Buenos Aires.

Delta du Fleuve Senegal Biosphere Reserve

Transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve (2005) in the Senegal River delta spanning Senegal and Mauritania, covering 641,768 ha with over 350 bird species and 3 million migratory birds.

Delta du Saloum Biosphere Reserve

Delta du Saloum Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de Biosphère du Delta du Saloum), Senegal: UNESCO MAB site since 1980, Ramsar 1984, World Heritage 2011; 408,906 ha of mangroves, royal terns, and shell mounds.

Deltas del Estero Real y Llanos de Apacunca

Deltas del Estero Real y Llanos de Apacunca, Ramsar site no. 1136 (2001), an 81,700-ha estuarine mangrove and delta wetland in Chinandega, Nicaragua, part of the Gulf of Fonseca system, protecting endemic wild maize Zea luxurians.

Dema House

Dema House: an excavated classical Greek country house in Attica, beside the Dema Wall near Athens; dug 1958–1960 by Jones, Sackett, and Graham, published BSA 57 (1962), with pithoi storage and an andron.

Dema wall

Dema wall (Τείχος Δέμα): 4th-century BC Athenian fortification, about 4.3 km long, across the Aigaleos-Parnes pass in Attica to delay invaders from the west; distinct from a Hellenistic Dema Wall near Butrint, Albania.

Demeter Sanctuary (Eleusis)

Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (Ἐλευσίς), Attic sanctuary 22 km west of Athens, home of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Telesterion; Mycenaean origins, Athenian incorporation, destroyed AD 395.

Democracy Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย)

Democracy Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย, Anusawari Prachathipatai), Bangkok monument on Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue inaugurated 24 June 1940, commemorating the 1932 end of absolute monarchy; designed by M.L. Pum Malakul with sculptures by Silpa Bhirasri.

Demolition of the Jannat al-Mu'alla tombs

Demolition of the Jannat al-Mu'alla tombs (جنة المعلى): 1925-1926 Wahhabi Ikhwan destruction of about 75 domed tombs at Mecca's oldest cemetery, including Khadijah's tomb, under Ibn Saud, alongside Jannat al-Baqi.

Denali National Park and Preserve

Denali National Park and Preserve, originally Mount McKinley National Park, is an Alaska park established in 1917 and expanded in 1980 around Denali, North America's highest peak.

Denali State Park

Denali State Park is a 325,240-acre Alaska state park created in 1970 along the George Parks Highway, south of Denali National Park, known for the 37-mile Kesugi Ridge Trail and close views of Denali.