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Daf Yomi (דף יומי)
Daf Yomi (דף יומי) is a daily Talmud study regimen, proposed by Rabbi Meir Shapiro in 1923, completing all 2,711 pages in about seven and a half years.
Dafabet
Dafabet (Dafa Bet) is an online gambling brand founded in 2004, offering sports betting and casino games via dafabet.com under Osmila N.V. (Curaçao), with separate UK, Spanish, and Kenyan licenses and long-running Celtic FC shirt sponsorship.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), Swedish economist and diplomat, second UN Secretary-General 1953–1961, creator of UN peacekeeping (UNEF, ONUC), posthumous 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, killed in the unexplained Ndola plane crash during the Congo crisis.
Dag Heward-Mills
Dag Heward-Mills, born in London in 1963, is a Ghanaian evangelical bishop and author who founded Lighthouse Chapel International in Accra and now leads the United Denominations.
Dag Prawitz
Dag Prawitz, born in Stockholm in 1936, is a Swedish philosopher and logician whose 1965 monograph Natural Deduction revived natural deduction and founded general proof theory.
Dagen H
Dagen H (Högertrafikomläggningen): Sweden's 3 September 1967 switch from left- to right-hand driving, with overnight traffic stoppage, a national information campaign, and a short-lived crash reduction.
Daggubati Purandeswari
Daggubati Purandeswari (దగ్గుబాటి పురందేశ్వరీ), BJP MP from Rajahmundry since 2024 and N.T. Rama Rao's daughter; former Congress Union minister of state, Andhra Pradesh BJP president from 2023.
Daggumalla Prasada Rao
Daggumalla Prasada Rao, born in 1962, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician and Lok Sabha member representing the Chittoor constituency of Andhra Pradesh since 2024.
Dagh Dehlvi
Dagh Dehlvi (داغ دہلوی), born Nawab Mirza Khan (1831–1905), was a leading Urdu ghazal poet who served as court poet to the Nizam of Hyderabad and taught Iqbal.
Dagi (vizier)
Dagi was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, serving as treasurer and vizier under Mentuhotep II and Mentuhotep III around 2010–1988 BC, and buried in tomb TT 103 at Thebes.
Dağıstanlı Ömer Hulûsi Efendi
Dağıstanlı Ömer Hulûsi Efendi was a Dagestani-born Ottoman religious scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam from 15 October to 8 November 1918, and briefly as Minister of Evkaf in 1920.
Dagohoy Rebellion
The Dagohoy Rebellion (Rebelyon ni Dagohoy) was an uprising on Bohol island in the Spanish Philippines, led by Francisco Dagohoy from 1744 to 1829, the longest revolt against Spanish rule.
Dagomba people
Dagomba (Dagbamba): ethnic group of northern Ghana in the traditional kingdom of Dagbon, speaking Dagbani, a Gur language. Patrilineal clans, Ya-Na paramount chief, predominantly Muslim, farming livelihoods, fifteenth-century kingdom.
Dagome iudex
Dagome iudex is the name of a regest of a lost Latin act, made around 991–992, in which Mieszko I of Poland placed his realm under the protection of the papacy.
Dagon
Dagon (Hebrew דגון, Dāgōn; earlier Dagan) was a major god of ancient Syria and Mesopotamia, known from the Hebrew Bible as the Philistines' god with temples at Gaza and Ashdod.
Dagon Magazine
Dagon Magazine (ဒဂုန်မဂ္ဂဇင်း), a Burmese-language literary magazine founded in 1920, published short stories, poetry, and essays and became a leading platform of colonial-era Burmese popular literature.
Dahae
The Dahae were a nomadic tribal confederacy of the Central Asian steppes east of the Caspian Sea, known to the Greeks as one of the great Scythian peoples.
Dahir
Dahir (راجا داهر) was the last Hindu king of Sindh, ruling from Alor, who resisted the Umayyad invasion under Muhammad bin Qasim and died at Rawar in 712.
Dahis and Ghabra War
The Dahis and Ghabra War (حرب داحس والغبراء) was a pre-Islamic Arabian tribal war between Banu Abs and Banu Dhubyan, sparked by a horse race.
Dahlak Sultanate
The Dahlak Sultanate was a small medieval Muslim kingdom centered on the Dahlak Archipelago off the Eritrean coast, attested from 1093 until Ottoman occupation in 1557.
Dahomean royal army
The Dahomean royal army (Danxome asogun) was the standing army of Dahomey, unusual in West Africa for staying uniformed year round, with a famed corps of women soldiers.
Dahomey
Dahomey, also known as the Kingdom of Dahomey or Danhomè, was a West African kingdom of the Fon, with its capital at Abomey, that fell to France in 1894.
Dahomey Amazons
Dahomey Amazons (Agojie, Agodjie, Mino, Gbeto) were the all-female warrior corps of the Kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin, first recorded in 1729, expanded under King Ghezo, and ended by the French in 1892.
Dahomey bas-reliefs
The Abomey royal bas-reliefs are polychrome earthen relief sculptures on the walls of the Royal Palaces of Abomey in Benin, recording the reigns, victories, and symbols of twelve Dahomey kings.
Dahomey's conquest of Whydah
Dahomey's conquest of Whydah (Hweda) was the destruction of the coastal kingdom of Whydah and its capital, Savi, by the army of King Agaja of Dahomey in March 1727.
Dahra caves massacre
The Dahra caves massacre (French: les enfumades du Dahra) was the killing of several hundred to a thousand Algerian civilians by French troops in June 1845.
Dahshur (دهشور)
Dahshur (دهشور, Dashur) is an Egyptian pyramid field 35 km south of Cairo, part of the Memphis necropolis, known for Sneferu's Bent and Red Pyramids and Middle Kingdom pyramids of Amenemhat II, Senwosret III, and Amenemhat III.
Dahshur boats
The Dahshur boats are full-size wooden funerary boats buried beside pharaoh Senwosret III's pyramid complex at Dahshur, Egypt, during the Twelfth Dynasty in the 19th century BC.
Dahui Zonggao
Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) was a Song dynasty Chan Buddhist monk, abbot of Jingshan monastery, exiled in 1141 over political ties, who created the kan huatou method.
Dai Hong Dan incident
Dai Hong Dan incident: Somali pirates seized the North Korean cargo ship Dai Hong Dan (대홍단호) off Mogadishu on 29 October 2007; its crew recaptured the vessel with USS James E. Williams assistance.