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Donghu Square
东湖广场 (Donghu Square, East Lake Square) is the shared name of several Chinese public squares and residential complexes, notably the 2000-opened square at Jiangmen's East Lake Park and the 40,000 m² musical-fountain square in Yangchun, Guangdong.
Dongonab Bay-Marsa Waiai
Dongonab Bay-Marsa Waiai, also spelled Dungonab Bay, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance on Sudan's Red Sea coast, designated in 2009 and known for its dugongs.
Dongwon Folk Village
Dongwon Folk Village (동원민속촌, Dongwonminsokchon) is a theme park in Uichang-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, at 35.23708°N, 128.68362°E, near Yongji-dong civic buildings, distinct from Korea's preserved heritage folk villages.
Donneko Amusement Park
Donneko Amusement Park (돈내코유원지, also Donnaeko) is a free valley recreation area in Sanghyo-dong, Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea, on Hallasan's southern slopes, known for Wonang Falls, cold clear stream water, summer water play, and camping.
Donon
Donon (le Donon, Grand-Donon): 1,009 m sandstone summit of the northern Vosges, Bas-Rhin, France, site of a major Gallo-Roman sanctuary of Mercury at the meeting of three Celtic peoples, with a Napoleon III temple pastiche.
DOORI LAND
Doori Land (두리랜드) is a children's experiential theme park in Yangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, founded in 1990 by actor Im Chae-moo; free admission until 2017, reopened 2020, about 19 billion won invested.
Dorginarti
Dorginarti, an island fortress at the northern end of the Nile's Second Cataract in Lower Nubia, Sudan, occupied from the tenth to sixth centuries BC, linked to Psamtik II's 593 BC campaign, now submerged in Lake Nasser.
Doric temple (Pompei)
Doric Temple (Sanctuary of Athena and Hercules), Pompeii's oldest sanctuary, 6th century BC, in the Triangular Forum; limestone, Oscan inscription to Athena, solstice-oriented, excavated since 1765.
Doric temple of Segesta
Doric temple of Segesta (Tempio di Segesta): unfinished 6x14-column Doric peripteral temple built 430-420 BC by the non-Greek Elymians on Monte Barbaro, Sicily; no cella, roof, fluting, or known dedication; among Europe's best-preserved ancient monuments.
Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve
Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve (Mongolia, designated 2005) protects eastern Mongolian steppe on the Chinese border, 2,428,449 ha, core 570,374 ha, home of Asia's largest Mongolian gazelle herds, threatened by oil and mining.
Dorrigo National Park
Dorrigo National Park, NSW North Coast, Australia: World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests park on the Great Escarpment, established 1967, about 11,900 ha, with the Dorrigo Rainforest Centre, Skywalk, and a $56.4M Great Walk project due 2028.
Dorset Cursus
The Dorset Cursus is the largest Neolithic cursus monument in the British Isles, a roughly 10 km bank-and-ditch enclosure on Cranborne Chase, Dorset, built in two stages (Gussage and Pentridge) around 3610–3380 cal BC.
Dorsten-Holsterhausen
Dorsten-Holsterhausen is a district of Dorsten, Germany, known for traces of up to ten Roman military camps from the campaigns around the turn of the era.
Dort Oba
Dort Oba (Дорт-Оба, also Pastak) is a 4th-century BC Scythian elite kurgan near Simferopol, Crimea, excavated in 1892 by Veselovsky; Artamonov called it the closest match to Herodotus' royal funeral.
Dorticum
Dorticum (Vrav, Bulgaria): early Roman fort and vicus on the Danube in Moesia, Augustan or Tiberian founding, attested in the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary, garrisoned by cohors I Cretum, never excavated and heavily looted.
Douarnenez
Douarnenez, Finistère town in Brittany on Douarnenez Bay; historic Breton sardine port with Roman garum works at Plomarc'h, 40 canneries by 1900, Port-Musée, and kouign-amann origin.
Doumba-Rey Biosphere Reserve
Doumba-Rey Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 2022 in Cameroon's North and Adamaoua Regions, covers 201,624 ha of forest-savannah transition with elephants, over 100 bird species, and about 60 villages.
Douvanli
Douvanli (Duvanlii, Дуванлий), village near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, site of a Thracian tumulus necropolis of about 50 mounds, 5th–4th century BC, first large-scale excavated in Bulgaria (1925–1931) with rich royal grave goods.
Downton
Downton, Wiltshire: an Avon-valley village near Salisbury, unrelated to the TV series Downton Abbey, known for its Roman villa and mosaic excavated by Philip Rahtz in 1955-56, Mesolithic and Beaker finds, The Moot ringwork, medieval borough, tannery, and 1884 rail crash.
Dowth
Dowth (Dubhadh, "darkness") is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, one of the three great mounds of Brú na Bóinne with Newgrange and Knowth, aligned on winter solstice sunset, damaged by 1847 digging, with a second tomb found under Dowth Hall in 2017.
Dracaena Collection
Dracaena Collection (龙血树园), the dragon blood tree garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China; established 2002 on 16 mu, holding 78 species and varieties including 31 Dracaena taxa conserved for Dragon's Blood medicine.
Dragon Gate (龙门) (Sweden)
Dragon Gate (龙门, Lóngmén) is an unfinished Chinese-themed hotel and culture complex on the E4 in Älvkarleby, Sweden, built from 2004 by mosquito-repellent billionaire Jingchun Li; its hotel never opened despite 200 million kronor invested, fines, and repeated ownership changes.
Dragon Park
Dragon Park names several leisure sites: a 1.98-hectare Jiang-nan-style garden park in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong (opened 2007); Dragon Park Halong in Vietnam; a dragon-sculpture playground in Lewisville, Texas; and a TANZA Egypt zone.
Dragon track
Dragon track (مضمار التنين) is a small theme park in Tiaret Province, Algeria, at 35.3867° N, 1.30728° E, near Game 10 and Pendulum Swing Ride, 3.5 km from Ahmed Kaïd Stadium.
Dragoncello
Dragoncello: frazione of Rome (Municipio X) between Acilia and Ostia Antica, notable for Roman rustic villas including Villa A (late Republican, wine-producing), excavated since 2016 by the University of Milan.
Dragonera
Dragonera names two Mediterranean places: Sa Dragonera, a 288-hectare protected island and marine reserve off Mallorca's west coast, and Dragonera in Istria, Croatia, site of two Roman coastal villas excavated in 2003–2004, praised as two pearls by Cassiodorus.
Drajna de Sus
Drajna de Sus, a Roman fort (castrum) at Grădiște, Prahova County, Romania, occupied about 101-118 AD; garrison of legions I Italica, V Macedonica, XI Claudia, with hypocaust praetorium, now an archaeological park under restoration.
Drayton
Drayton is a common English place name borne by several English villages, many notable for Roman-period archaeology, including Roman villas in Somerset, Oxfordshire, and Leicestershire.
Drayton Manor Resort
Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park and zoo in Fazeley, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, opened in 1950 and known for Thomas Land, Europe's only Thomas & Friends themed zone.
Drayton Roman fort
Drayton Roman fort: unexcavated Roman auxiliary fort near Shifnal, Shropshire, England, established about AD 47 during the Claudian advance; rectangular with triangular annex, about 155 by 205 m, four ditches, garrison of 500 infantry, Scheduled Monument 1020283.