Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Düden Şelalesi

Düden Şelalesi (Düden Waterfalls), Antalya, Turkey: two falls on one karst river. Upper Düden in Kepez drops about 20 m with a walk-behind cave; Lower Düden (Karpuzkaldıran) drops 40 m off Lara cliffs into the Mediterranean.

Dudhwa National Park

Dudhwa National Park (दुधवा राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), a 490 km² Terai park in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, on the Nepal border; core of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve with tigers, swamp deer, and reintroduced one-horned rhinos.

Duhok Zoo (حديقة الحيوانات دهوك)

Duhok Zoo (Baxçê Giyanewera Dihok, باخچێ گیانهوهرا دهۆک) is a zoo and family park in the Malta area of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, on Zakho Road; known for African lions kept since 2001 and the rescued Persian leopard Batifah.

Dukkan-i Daud

Dukkan-i Daud (دکان داوود, "shop of David") is an Achaemenid-era rock-cut tomb in the Zagros mountains of Iran's Kermanshah province, venerated by the Ahl-e Haqq as a site of David.

Dukorski Maentak

Дукорскі маёнтак (Дукорский маёнтак), Dukorski Maentak, is a museum and ethnocultural complex opened in 2015 in Dukora, Belarus, on the former Osztorp szlachta estate, with an upside-down house, craft street, and distillery.

Dulahazara Safari Park

Dulahazara Safari Park (ডুলাহাজারা সাফারি পার্ক), formally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, is Bangladesh's first safari park, in Chakaria, Cox's Bazar; about 900 ha, roughly 515 animals of 60 species, still operating largely like a zoo.

Dülük

Dülük (ancient Doliche), near Gaziantep, Turkey: ancient city on Keber Tepe and sanctuary of Iuppiter Dolichenus on Dülük Baba Tepesi; Iron Age cult from 10th century BC, city from 3rd century BC, destroyed by Shapur I, excavated by Münster since 2001/2015.

Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks is a Georgetown, Washington, D.C. estate whose Beatrix Farrand gardens were given in 1940 to Harvard (research institute, museum) and to the National Park Service (Dumbarton Oaks Park).

Dún Ailinne

Dún Ailinne (Knockaulin Hill), near Kilcullen, Co. Kildare: Iron Age royal site and ceremonial enclosure of the Kings of Leinster, 13 ha bank-and-internal-ditch henge with White, Rose, and Mauve timber-structure phases, excavated 1968–1975 by Bernard Wailes.

Dún Aonghasa

Dún Aonghasa is a prehistoric stone fort on Inis Mór, the largest of Ireland's Aran Islands, perched on a sea cliff and more than 3,000 years old.

Dun Carloway

Dun Carloway (Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is an Iron Age broch near Carloway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Built around 200 BC, it stands about 9 m tall, is the best-preserved broch in the Western Isles, and is a scheduled monument in Historic Environment Scotland's care.

Dunăreni

Dunăreni, a village in Aliman commune, Constanța County, Romania, beside the Roman auxiliary fort Sacidava on Dealul Muzait; excavated 1969-1979 and since 2014, with the DUNĂRENI 1 coin hoard of AD 378-383.

Dunense Castrum

Dunense Castrum (Dunensis castrum, castellum Dunum): ancient fortified place at Châteaudun, France (Barrington Atlas 11 B4), seat of a short-lived 6th-century bishopric under Gregory of Tours; its late-antique fort is not archaeologically confirmed.

Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark

Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark (敦煌世界地质公园), designated 2015 in Dunhuang, Gansu, China, covers 2,067 km² of yardang, desert, and Gobi landforms, with Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Moon Spring, and the Mogao Grottoes World Heritage site.

Duntocher

Duntocher, a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, near Clydebank, is the westernmost visible point of the Antonine Wall, with a Roman fort, fortlet, and bathhouse on Golden Hill, excavated 1948-51 by Anne Robertson.

Duodea

Duodea (Greek Δυοδέα, Δουώδέα) was a Roman mutatio, a horse-change road station on the Via Egnatia about 13-14 Roman miles east of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, near Lake Koroneia, known from the Peutinger Table and Bordeaux Itinerary.

Durham Castle

Durham Castle is a Norman fortress in Durham, England, begun in the late eleventh century under William the Conqueror and home for centuries to the Prince-Bishops of Durham.

Durham Castle and Cathedral

Durham Castle and Cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Durham, England, inscribed in 1986, home to Norman buildings housing the relics of St Cuthbert and Bede.

Durisdeer

Durisdeer Roman fortlet (SM670), an Antonine-period Roman fortlet in the Lowther Hills pass, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; 18 by 24 m internally, excavated 1938, guarding the Roman road from Crawford into Nithsdale.

Durley Hill

Durley Hill, Keynsham, Somerset: site of a large Romano-British courtyard villa under a Victorian cemetery, excavated 1922-4 by Bulleid and Horne, with rare hexagonal triclinia, mosaics, and 3rd-4th century occupation.

Durmitor

Durmitor: limestone massif in northern Montenegro's Dinaric Alps, also Durmitor National Park (founded 1952), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 with Bobotov Peak 2,525 m, 18 glacial lakes, and the Tara River Gorge, Europe's deepest gorge.

Durnomagus

Durnomagus, Roman cavalry fort (Reiterkastell) at Dormagen on the Lower Germanic Limes, Germania Inferior; garrisoned by the Ala I Noricorum from about 85 AD, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.

Duro(i)coregum

Duro(i)coregum (Duroico Regum), an unlocated Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Peutinger Table route from Cassel to Amiens; name probably corrupt, site proposed near Cramont or Domqueur, France.

Durotincum

Durotincum (Durotingum, Durotinco), Roman Alpine road station in Gallia Narbonensis near La Grave and Villar-d'Arène, Hautes-Alpes, France, on the Peutinger route between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon); distinct from the Lemovices capital of the same name.

Durrington Walls

Durrington Walls, a Later Neolithic henge enclosure near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is Britain's largest henge at about 490 by 468 meters, enclosing a major Grooved Ware settlement with timber circles, later ringed by a 2-km-wide circle of Neolithic shafts.

Durrueli di Realmonte

Roman maritime villa at Realmonte, Agrigento, Sicily, identified as the villa marittima of Publius Annius; discovered 1907 during railway works, excavated by Antonino Salinas and by a University of Tsukuba team under Masanori Aoyagi, with peristyle, mosaics of Neptune and Scilla, and private baths.