Society and history

Dadu-Hepa

Dadu-Hepa, also written Tadu-Hepa, was a Hittite queen holding the title Tawananna as the second wife of King Tudhaliya III, mother of Henti and Tudhaliya the Younger.

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Dadupanth

Dadupanth (दादूपंथ) is a North Indian nirgun bhakti sect devoted to the formless divine, founded by the saint-poet Dadu Dayal in Rajasthan in the late sixteenth century.

Dadusha

Dadusha (Dāduša) was a king of Eshnunna in the early Old Babylonian period, son of Ipiq-Adad, known for his victory stele and the Laws of Eshnunna.

DAE 11

DAE 11, also numbered RIÉ 189, is a Gəʿəz royal inscription of King ʿEzana of Aksum from the mid-4th century celebrating his victory over the Noba and Kasu.

DAE 4

DAE 4 is a Greek royal inscription of King Ezana of Aksum recording his victory over the Beja, carved while he was still pagan and set up near Aksum.

DAE 6

DAE 6, or Deutsche Aksum-Expedition inscription 6, is the pseudo-Sabaic version of King ʿEzānā of Aksum's 4th-century victory inscription in early Geʿəz, recording his campaign against the Beja.

Dae Do-su

Dae Do-su (대도수) was an early Goryeo military official and general who defeated the Khitan at Anyungjin in 993 and fought them at the Western Capital in 1010.

Dae Gwang-hyeon

Dae Gwang-hyeon (대광현) was a Balhae prince who, after the kingdom fell to the Khitan in 926, led tens of thousands of refugee households into Goryeo.

Dae Joyeong

Dae Joyeong (대조영, Chinese form 大祚榮) was a former Goguryeo general who defeated a Tang army at Tianmenling, founded Balhae in 698, and ruled until his death in 719.

Daedaero

The Daedaero (대대로, 大對盧) was the highest office of Goguryeo during the Three Kingdoms period, a chancellor elected by nobles rather than appointed by the king.

Daedalean AG is a Swiss artificial-intelligence avionics company founded in Zürich in 2016 that builds camera-and-neural-network systems for flight guidance and navigation, acquired by Destinus in 2026.

Daedalus

Daedalus (Δαίδαλος), mythical Greek master craftsman of Athens and Crete, builder of the Labyrinth for Minos, father of Icarus, and emblem of the artist in later literature.

Daedong implementation edicts of Gwanghaegun

The Daedong implementation edicts of Gwanghaegun (대동법 시행령) were the 1608 royal orders putting the Daedong tax law into force in Gyeonggi province, on Yi Won-ik's recommendation.

Daedong Law

The Daedong Law (대동법) was the tax reform of late Joseon Korea that replaced tribute with a fixed tax on land, first applied in Gyeonggi Province in 1608.

Daedong Law nationwide implementation

The Daedong Law nationwide implementation (대동법 전국 시행) was the 1708 completion of Joseon Korea's Daedong reform, replacing tribute in kind with fixed rice payments.

Daedong Yeojido

Daedong Yeojido (대동여지도, 大東輿地圖) is a woodblock-printed map of all of Korea in 22 folded sheets, compiled by the Joseon geographer Kim Jeongho in 1861 and regarded as the finest old Korean map.

Daedongbeop

Daedongbeop (대동법, 大同法) was a tax reform of late Joseon Korea that replaced tribute goods with payments in rice, cloth, or money, first enforced in Gyeonggi Province in 1608.

Daedongcheong

The Daedongcheong (대동청) were the provincial offices of late Joseon Korea that administered the Daedong Law, which replaced tribute payments in kind with rice, cloth, or coin.

Daegaya

Daegaya (대가야, "Great Gaya") was a Gaya polity centered at Goryeong in present-day South Korea that dominated the later Gaya confederacy until its destruction by Silla in 562.

Daegu October 1 Incident

The Daegu October 1 Incident (대구 십일사건) was a 1946 uprising against the US military government that began when police fired on demonstrators in Daegu.

Daejeon Hoetong

Daejeon Hoetong (대전회통, "Comprehensive Collection of the Great Code") is the last unified legal code of Korea's Joseon dynasty, compiled in 1865 by consolidating three earlier great codes.

Daejeon prison massacre

The Daejeon prison massacre (Daejeon Sannae Golryeonggol massacre) was the killing of 1,800 to 7,000 prison inmates and National Guidance League members by South Korean forces near Daejeon in 1950.

Daejonggyo

Daejonggyo (대종교), also called Dangunism, is a Korean ethnic religion founded by Na Cheol in 1909 that worships Dangun, the legendary first ruler of Korea, as a divine ancestor.

Daemonologie

Daemonologie is a treatise on witchcraft and demonology written by James VI of Scotland and printed in Edinburgh in 1597, shaped by his role in the North Berwick witch trials.

Daemusin of Goguryeo

Daemusin of Goguryeo, personal name Muhyul, was the third king of Goguryeo who reigned from 18 to 44 CE, defeating Buyeo and conquering the Nangnang commandery.

Daemyeongnyul jikhae

Daemyeongnyul jikhae (대명률직해) is a Korean idu gloss of the Great Ming Code, commissioned by King Taejo and printed in 1395, serving as Joseon's criminal law until 1905.

Daeng Cellak

Daeng Cellak (died 19 May 1745) was the second Yang Dipertuan Muda, or Bugis underking, of the Johor-Riau kingdom, holding office from 1728 until his death.

Daeng Parani

Daeng Parani was an 18th-century Bugis prince of Luwu descent, eldest of the five Opu Bugis brothers who led the 1721 Bugis campaign that restored Raja Sulaiman to the Johor throne.

Daeva

Daeva (Avestan daēuua-, Old Persian daiva-) is the Indo-Iranian word for god that Zoroastrianism reclassified as demon, inverting the Vedic deva; attested in the Gathas and Xerxes' daiva inscription.