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Dyophysite (Christianity)
...in Monophysitism, or the one nature of Christ as God the Son, became extraordinarily popular throughout the provinces of Egypt and Syria. Rome, in the person of Pope Leo I, declared in contrast for Dyophysitism, a creed teaching that two natures, perfect and perfectly distinct, existed in the single person of Christ. At the Council of Chalcedon (451), the latter view triumphed thanks to the......
Dyott, Thomas W. (American glassmaker)
British-born American patent-medicine king, glassmaker, temperance advocate, and reformer. His “picture bottles” have special value as antiques....
DYP (political party, Turkey)
Early in 1996 Erbakan tried but failed to form a coalition government. A centre-right coalition of the True Path (Doğru Yol) and Motherland (Anavatan) parties then held power until internal disagreements brought it down in June. Erbakan was again asked to try to form a coalition, and this time, when Tansu Çiller, head of the True Path Party, agreed to join him, he succeeded....
Dyrrhachium (Albania)
primary seaport of Albania, lying on the Adriatic coast, west of Tiranë....
Dysaphis plantaginea (insect)
The rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea) deforms fruit, producing “aphis apples.” Its feeding activity causes leaves to curl about it, providing some protection from insecticide sprays. The life cycle involves plantain plants as alternate hosts from which the aphid returns to the apple tree to deposit eggs in the fall.....
dysarthria (pathology)
Dysarthria, or difficulty in articulation, usually is caused by an abnormality in the nerves and muscles in and around the mouth or in their connections. Problems in the production of speech sounds, called dysphonia, often indicate a problem affecting the larynx or the nerves and muscles of that structure. Since the cranial nerves supplying these areas originate in the brainstem, neurological......
Dyschoriste (plant genus)
...Beloperone), Stobilanthes (250), Barleria (230), Aphelandra (200), Thunbergia (90), Dicliptera (150), Hypoestes (50), Blepharis (80), Dyschoriste (65), Lepidagathis (100), and Hygrophila (25)....
Dyscolus (work by Menander)
Menander’s nicety of touch and skill at comedy in a light vein is clearly evident in the Dyscolus in the character of the gruff misanthrope Knemon, while the subtle clash and contrast of character and ethical principle in such plays as Perikeiromenē (interesting for its sympathetic treatment of the conventionally boastful soldier) and Second Adelphoe constitute.....
Dyscophinae (amphibian subfamily)
...usually absent; larvae lacking beaks and denticles (except otophrynines and scaphiophrynines) or undergoing direct development; 66 genera, 306 species; 10 subfamilies: Cophylinae (Madagascar), Dyscophinae (Madagascar), Scaphiophryninae (Madagascar), Asterophryinae (New Guinea and Sulu Archipelago), Genyophryninae (Philippines, eastern Indo-Australian archipelago, New Guinea, northern......
dyscrasite (mineral)
Two common antimonides are dyscrasite (Ag3Sb) and stibiopalladinite (Pd5Sb2). Dyscrasite exhibits a distinct orthorhombic symmetry. It is an important silver ore that occurs in deposits of hydrothermal origin associated with intrusive igneous rocks; significant amounts are found at Cobalt, Ont., Can., and at Broken Hill, N.S.W., Australia. Stibiopalladinite......
Dysdercus (Dysdercus)
The genus Dysdercus is one of the most destructive cotton pests in North America and India. This cotton stainer damages cotton plants by sucking the sap and destroys the cotton bolls by staining them with excrement. At one time small piles of sugarcane were put between rows of cotton and orange trees to attract the red bugs; they......
dysentery (pathology)
infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the intestine, abdominal pain, and diarrhea with stools that often contain blood and mucus....
dysexecutive syndrome (psychology)
In terms of brain activity, executive attention seems to involve the frontal lobes. Thus, damage to the frontal lobes, which is associated with a condition called dysexecutive syndrome, can affect the role of executive attention in the control of thought, behaviour, and emotion. Evidenced by a notable reduction in the patient’s abilities to set goals, make plans, and initiate actions,......
dysfunctional uterine bleeding (pathology)
abnormal bleeding from the uterus, which is not related to menstruation. Menstruation is the normal cyclic bleeding that occurs when the egg has been released from the ovary and fertilization has not occurred. Other episodes of bleeding that cannot be considered part of the normal cycle are called dysfuncti...
dysgrammatism (pathology)
Marked delays of language development are often followed by a period of inability to learn the rules of grammar and syntax at the usual age (dysgrammatism). Though this is often a sign of inherited language disability, it may reflect mental retardation or other types of brain damage....
dyslalia (pathology)
...difficulties in mastering the patterns of articulation of their mother tongue and are said to manifest articulatory immaturity (infantile dyslalia). If no organic cause can be found, the probable cause may be delayed maturation of psychomotor skills....
dyslexia (pathology)
an inability or pronounced difficulty to learn to read or spell, despite otherwise normal intellectual functions. Dyslexia is a chronic neurological disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to recognize and process graphic symbols, particularly those pertaining to language. Primary symptoms include extremely poor reading skills owing to no apparent cause, a tendency to r...
dysmenorrhea (pathology)
pain or painful cramps felt before or during menstruation. Dysmenorrhea may be primary or secondary. Primary dysmenorrhea is caused by specific imbalances in the woman’s endocrine system during the menstrual cycle. Secondary dysmenorrhea denotes menstrual cramps caused by some other distinct organic...
dysmenorrhoea (pathology)
pain or painful cramps felt before or during menstruation. Dysmenorrhea may be primary or secondary. Primary dysmenorrhea is caused by specific imbalances in the woman’s endocrine system during the menstrual cycle. Secondary dysmenorrhea denotes menstrual cramps caused by some other distinct organic...
Dysnomia (astronomy)
...in a highly tilted, elliptical orbit. From its spectrum its surface appears to be coated with white methane ice. Eris has at least one moon, Dysnomia, about one-eighth its size, with an orbital period about two weeks long....
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences (college, New York, United States)
...1906 by the brothers Homer and Charles Pace. Originally named the Pace Institute, it was first a business school. In 1948 the institute founded Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, thus expanding the school’s curriculum, and the name was changed to Pace College. University status was achieved in 1973. The school’s research faci...
Dyson, Freeman (American physicist)
British-born American physicist and educator best known for his speculative work on extraterrestrial civilizations....
Dyson, Freeman John (American physicist)
British-born American physicist and educator best known for his speculative work on extraterrestrial civilizations....
Dyson, Kevin (American football player)
...a point with 16 seconds remaining, the Titans fielded a short kickoff, and tight end Frank Wycheck threw a lateral across the field to receiver Kevin Dyson, who easily scored a game-winning 75-yard touchdown in a play that became known as the “Music City Miracle.” The Titans then won two additional road play-off games to earn ...
Dyson, Sir Frank (British astronomer)
British astronomer who in 1919 organized observations of stars seen near the Sun during a solar eclipse, which provided evidence supporting Einstein’s prediction in the theory of general relativity of the bending of light in a gravitational field....
Dyson, Sir Frank Watson (British astronomer)
British astronomer who in 1919 organized observations of stars seen near the Sun during a solar eclipse, which provided evidence supporting Einstein’s prediction in the theory of general relativity of the bending of light in a gravitational field....
Dysoxylum (plant genus)
...and tropical Australia; Trichilia (85 species), which occur commonly as understory trees in lowland forests from Mexico to the West Indies, tropical South America, and tropical Africa; Dysoxylum (80 species) from Indo-Malaysia to the islands of the Pacific; Turraea (60 species) in tropical and southern Africa to Australia; Chisocheton (50 species) in......
dyspareunia (pathology)
painful or difficult sexual intercourse in the female. Disorders are generally physical rather than psychological. Dyspareunia may be caused by inflammation or infection of the vagina, vaginismus (voluntary or involuntary contraction of the lower vaginal muscles), remnants of the hymen, insufficient lubrication of the vagina, infection, endometriosis, tumours...
dyspepsia (pathology)
any or all of the symptoms—abdominal discomfort, belching, flatulence, aversion to eating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, heartburn—associated with the malfunctioning of the digestive system. Indigestion may be caused by disease, but it primarily occurs because of stress, improper eating habits, excessive smoking, exor...
dysphagia (pathology)
difficulty or pain in swallowing, caused by lesions or stricture of the upper digestive tract, obstruction of the upper digestive tract by tumours or foreign bodies, or disturbances in the nervous or muscular control of swallowing. Obstruction of the esophagus is the most common cause of ...
dysphasia (pathology)
defect in the expression and comprehension of language caused by damage to the temporal and the frontal lobes of the brain. Aphasia can be caused by a head injury, a tumour, a stroke, or an infection. Symptoms vary with the location and extent of the brain tissues involved....
dysphemia (speech disorder)
speech defect affecting the rhythm and fluency of speech and characterized by involuntary repetition of sounds or syllables and the intermittent blocking or prolongation of sounds, syllables, and words....
dysphonia (pathology)
In international terminology, disorders of the voice are described as dysphonia. Depending on the underlying cause, the various types of dysphonia are subdivided by the specifying adjective. Thus, a vocal disorder stemming from paralysis of the larynx is a paralytic dysphonia; injury (trauma) of the larynx may produce traumatic dysphonia; endocrine dysphonia reflects the voice changes resulting......
dysphrenia (pathology)
...same extent as it does intellectual capacity; this language disorder has been described as dyslogia. Mental disturbances can also manifest themselves in linguistic symptoms, such as in the peculiar (dysphrenic) mode of speech among sufferers of schizophrenia. Hearing loss dating from early childhood leads to a typical distortion of the speech pattern for which various names have been coined,......
dysplasia (pathology)
malformation of a bodily structure or tissue; the term most commonly denotes a malformation of bone....
dyspnea (medical disorder)
...severe enough, pressure on this swelling results in a temporary crater or pit (pitting edema). Similarly, edema may occur in the pulmonary circulation (pulmonary edema). The symptoms may vary from shortness of breath on very little exertion to a medical emergency in which the patients feel as though they are suffocating. Congestive symptoms may also result in enlargement of the liver and......
dysprosium (chemical element)
(Dy), chemical element, rare-earth metal of the lanthanoid series of the periodic table. A relatively hard and very reactive metal, it is oxidized by air and by water. Its high melting point...
dysrhythmia (pathology)
variation from the normal rate or regularity of the heartbeat, usually resulting from irregularities within the conduction system of the heart. Arrhythmias occur in both normal and diseased hearts and have no medical significance in and of themselves, although they may endanger heart function when coupled with other cardiac abnormalities....
dysthymia (psychology)
Dysthmic disorder, or depressive neurosis, may occur on its own but more commonly appears along with other neurotic symptoms such as anxiety, phobia, and hypochondriasis. It includes some, but not all, of the symptoms of depression. Where there are clear external grounds for a person’s unhappiness, a dysthymic disorder is considered to be present when the depressed mood is disproportionatel...
dysthymic disorder (psychology)
Dysthmic disorder, or depressive neurosis, may occur on its own but more commonly appears along with other neurotic symptoms such as anxiety, phobia, and hypochondriasis. It includes some, but not all, of the symptoms of depression. Where there are clear external grounds for a person’s unhappiness, a dysthymic disorder is considered to be present when the depressed mood is disproportionatel...
dystonia (pathology)
movement disorder characterized by the involuntary and repetitive contraction of muscle groups, resulting in twisting movements, unusual postures, and possible tremor of the involved muscles. As the disorder persists, movement may affect other muscle groups. Although dystonias may occur in families or sporadically, many are secondary to other disorders as reactions to medications; for example, one...
dystopian novel (literary genre)
...world war, mass murder, and totalitarianism. At least two modern literary genres, the prison camp novel and the dystopian novel (works such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four), derive from his wri...
dystrophia myotonica (pathology)
Myotonic dystrophy is the most common of the myotonic disorders. It is an autosomal dominant disorder affecting many systems of the body in addition to muscle. Symptoms include premature balding, cataract formation, mental impairment, gonadal atrophy, endocrine deficiencies, gastrointestinal tract dysfunction, and muscle fibre degeneration.......
dystrophin (protein)
...the disease but have a 50 percent probability of transmitting the gene to their sons and their daughters (who themselves become carriers). Muscle degeneration is due to the lack of a protein called dystrophin, which causes a disruption of the membrane covering the muscle fibre; the results are the entry of excess amounts of calcium ions into...
dysuria (pathology)
...inflammation of the lower urinary tract, commonly due to infection but rarely caused by chemical irritants in the urine; and from mechanical irritation by tumour or during the passage of stones. Dysuria is commonly, but not necessarily, associated with frequency of urination. This in turn may represent either an irritable or contracted bladder; or the actual amount of urine formed may be......
Dytiscidae (insect)
any of more than 4,000 species of carnivorous, aquatic beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that prey on organisms ranging from other insects to fish larger than themselves. Diving beetles are oval and flat and range in length from 1.5 mm to more than 35 mm (0.06 to more than 1.4 inches). They are well adapted to an aquatic environment. The hind pair of legs is long, flattened, and fringed to provide...
Dyula (people)
people of western Africa who speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo language family. Most are Muslims, and they have long been noted as commercial traders....
Dyula language
...western and eastern groups. The larger western group of 27 languages includes several estimated as having more than a million speakers: Bambara (which has four million), Malinke, Maninka, Mende, Dyula (which is used as a trade language by four million people in northern Côte d’Ivoire and western Burkina Faso), Soninke, and Susu. The smaller eastern group consists of 13 languages, ...
Dyushambe (Tajikistan)
city and capital of Tajikistan. It lies along the Varzob (Dushanbinka) River in the Gissar valley, in the southwest of the republic. It was built in the Soviet period on the site of three former settlements, of which the largest was named Dyushambe (Tajik dush, meaning “Monday,” its bazaar day). Dyushambe was for long a part of the khanate of Bukhar...
DZ Bank (German bank)
The cooperative banks are headed by the DZ Bank (Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, or “German Central Cooperative Bank”), which serves as a central bank for some 1,500 industrial and agricultural credit cooperatives.There are also public and private mortgage banks, installment......
DZ twin
...evidence for the inheritance of behaviour comes from comparison of identical and fraternal twins reared apart. Identical twins come from a single egg and are genetically identical, whereas fraternal twins develop from separate eggs and share only half their genes by common inheritance. When raised in separate homes, identical twins are far more similar to each other than are fraternal......
Džalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan)
city, western Kyrgyzstan. Though made a city in 1877, it remained essentially a large village. Given city status again in 1927, it now is a regional centre for food processing and other light industries and has a theatre and a museum. Pop. (2006 est.) ...
Dzalamo (people)
a people who reside in the area surrounding Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania, and comprise the major ethnic component in the city. The Zaramo are considered to be part of the cluster of Swahili peoples on the coast of East Africa who have incorporated elements from many diverse ethnic backgrounds but who are unified in the Isl...
Džambul (Kazakhstan)
city, southern Kazakhstan. It lies at the junction of the Talas River and the Turk-Sib Railway. Taraz is one of the oldest towns of Kazakhstan. It stands on the site of the ancient city of Taraz, which flourished as a stop along the Silk Road until it was destroyed by Mongol armies in the 13th century. A ...
Dzaudzhikau (Russia)
city and capital of North Ossetia republic, southwestern Russia. It lies along the Terek River and on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. Founded in 1784, Vladikavkaz was designed as the key fortress to ...
Dzavhan River (river, Mongolia)
...run latitudinally across the eastern part of the country. The largest rivers draining into the interior are the Hovd (Kobdo), which rises from the glaciers of the Mongolian Altai Mountains, and the Dzavhan, which drains the southern slopes of the Hangayn Mountains; both flow into the Great Lakes region. A series of other rivers east of the Dzavhan run down from the southern flanks of the......
DZero (scientific experiment)
...announced tentative evidence for the top quark. This was confirmed the following year, when not only the CDF team but also an independent team working on a second experiment at Fermilab, code-named DZero, or D0, published more convincing evidence. The results indicated that the top quark has a mass between 170 and 190 gigaelectron volts (GeV; 109 eV). This is almost as heavy as a......
Dzerzhinsk (Russia)
city, Nizhegorod oblast (province), western Russia. Dzerzhinsk lies along the Oka River upstream from its confluence with the Volga River at Nizhny Novgorod. Part of the Nizhny Novgorod ...
Dzerzhinskaya Mountain (mountain, Belarus)
...Belarus and then swings northeast. Its total length is 320 miles (520 km). The ridge, covered by marine sands and clays, is in reality a series of separate uplands, of which the highest point is Dzerzhinskaya Mountain, at 1,132 feet (345 m), in the Minsk Upland. To the south of the ridge lie the extensive Pripet Marshes....
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich (Russian revolutionary)
Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization....
Dzerzhinsky Mountain (mountain, Belarus)
...Belarus and then swings northeast. Its total length is 320 miles (520 km). The ridge, covered by marine sands and clays, is in reality a series of separate uplands, of which the highest point is Dzerzhinskaya Mountain, at 1,132 feet (345 m), in the Minsk Upland. To the south of the ridge lie the extensive Pripet Marshes....
Dzeržinsk (Russia)
city, Nizhegorod oblast (province), western Russia. Dzerzhinsk lies along the Oka River upstream from its confluence with the Volga River at Nizhny Novgorod. Part of the Nizhny Novgorod ...
Dzhadzh (Uzbekistan)
capital of Uzbekistan and the largest city in Central Asia. Tashkent lies in the northeastern part of the country. It is situated at an elevation of 1,475 to 1,575 feet (450 to 480 metres) in the Chirchiq River valley west of the Chatkal Mountains and is intersected by a series of canals from the Chirchiq ...
Dzhalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan)
city, western Kyrgyzstan. Though made a city in 1877, it remained essentially a large village. Given city status again in 1927, it now is a regional centre for food processing and other light industries and has a theatre and a museum. Pop. (2006 est.) ...
dzhalman (rodent)
a rarely seen or captured small rodent of Central Asia. Weighing less than 28 grams (1 ounce), the desert dormouse has a stout rounded body 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 inches) long and a slightly shorter fine-haired tail of 6 to 8 cm. Its gray fur is long, soft, and dense, and its underside i...
Dzhambul (Kazakhstan)
city, southern Kazakhstan. It lies at the junction of the Talas River and the Turk-Sib Railway. Taraz is one of the oldest towns of Kazakhstan. It stands on the site of the ancient city of Taraz, which flourished as a stop along the Silk Road until it was destroyed by Mongol armies in the 13th century. A ...
Dzhavakhet Range (mountains, Caucasia, Asia)
The structures of the Lesser Caucasus, the Talish Mountains, the Dzhavakhet Range, and the Armenian Highland likewise originated from folds uplifted from the Alpine geosyncline. Whereas the western sector of the Lesser Caucasus and the Talish in the far southeast are formed chiefly of deposits laid down about 50 million years ago during the downwarp episode of the geosyncline, the central and......
Dzhetym Range (mountains, Asia)
...to 15,000 feet (3,000 to 4,600 metres), while the elevations of the depressions that separate them vary from 6,000 to 10,500 feet (1,800 to 3,200 metres). The most important ranges are Borkoldoy, Dzhetym, At-Bashy, and the Kakshaal (Kokshaal-Tau) Range, in which Dankova Peak reaches a height of 19,626 feet (5,982 metres)....
Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan)
city, central Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kara-Kengir River. The city was created in 1938 in connection with the exploitation of the rich local copper deposits. In 1973 a large mining and metallurgical complex was constructed to the southeast to smelt the copper that until then had been sent elsewhere for processing. The city has a rail link with Qaraghandy...
Dzhirgalantu (Mongolia)
town, administrative headquarters of Hovd aymag (province), western Mongolia, in the northern foothills of the Mongol Altayn Nuruu (Mongolian Altai Mountains) at an elevation of 4,260 ft (1,300 m). Har Us Nuur (lake) lies to the east and is fed by the Hovd Gol (river)....
Dzhizak (Uzbekistan)
city, eastern Uzbekistan. The city is located in a small oasis irrigated by the Sanzar River, northeast of Samarkand. One of the most ancient settlements of Uzbekistan, it was situated on the trade routes to the Mediterranean near Tamerlane’s Gates, the only convenient passage through the Nuratau Mountains to the Zeravshan River...
Dzhruchi, Gospels of (Georgian manuscript)
...in Georgia from the 6th century onward, and numerous examples survive from all periods. Characteristic of the early works are two Gospel books, the Adishi Gospels (897) and the first set of Gospels of Dzhruchi (936–940). These are distinguished by their decorative treatment of draperies and their excellent drawing....
Dzhugashvili, Ioseb (prime minister of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Soviet politician and dictator....
Dzhugashvili, Ioseb (Stalin, Joseph)
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Dzhugdzhur Mountains (mountains, Russia)
...mountain belt on Mesozoic structures (i.e., from 250 to 65 million years ago) extends from the Chukchi Peninsula at the eastern extremity of Asia through the Kolyma, Dzhugdzhur, and Stanovoy ranges to the mountains of southern Siberia (the Sayans and the Altai) and to the Tien Shan and Gissar-Alay. The Chersky and Verkhoyansk ranges are the western spurs of this......
Dzhugdzhur Range (mountains, Russia)
...mountain belt on Mesozoic structures (i.e., from 250 to 65 million years ago) extends from the Chukchi Peninsula at the eastern extremity of Asia through the Kolyma, Dzhugdzhur, and Stanovoy ranges to the mountains of southern Siberia (the Sayans and the Altai) and to the Tien Shan and Gissar-Alay. The Chersky and Verkhoyansk ranges are the western spurs of this......
Dzhuma-Mechet Mosque (mosque, Gäncä, Azerbaijan)
...centre of a rich farming area, it processes agricultural products and makes cotton textiles and carpets. Gäncä has agricultural and teacher-training institutes. Notable buildings include Dzhuma-Mechet Mosque (built 1620) and the modern mausoleum of the 12th-century Persian poet Neẓāmī Ganjavī. Pop. (2007 est.) 307,500....
Dzhumaya (Bulgaria)
town, southwestern Bulgaria, in the Struma River valley. An ancient Thracian settlement, Scaptopara, existed around its warm mineral springs, which still function as a spa. During the Turkish occupation (1396–1878), the town was called Dzhumaya (Džumaja), later Gorna Dzhumaya; it was renamed ...
Dzhungar (people)
people of Central Asia, so called because they formed the left wing (dson, “left”; gar, “hand”) of the Mongol army. A western Mongol people whose home was the Ili River valley and ...
Dzhungarian hamster (rodent)
...small, furry ears, short, stocky legs, and wide feet. Their thick, long fur ranges from grayish to reddish brown, depending upon the species; underparts are white to shades of gray and black. The Dzhungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus) and the striped dwarf hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) have a dark stripe down the middle of the back......
dziady (Slavic religion)
in Slavic religion, all the dead ancestors of a family, the rites that are performed in their memory, and the day on which those rites are performed. Dziady take place three or four times a year; though the dates vary in different localities, dziady are generally celebrated in the winter before the beginning o...
“Dziady” (work by Mickiewicz)
...transplant them to Polish literature. The second volume of Poezye (1823) contained parts two and four of his Dziady (Forefather’s Eve), in which he combined elements of folklore with a story of tragic love to ...
Dzieje Polski (work by Bobrzyński)
Professor of legal history at the University of Kraków (1877), Bobrzyński studied (1873–85) the social history of medieval Poland, published his politically influential Dzieje Polski (“History of Poland”) in 1879, and became the chief exponent of the “pessimistic” (or Kraków) school of Polish historiography, which sharply......
Dzienniki (work by Dąbrowska)
...Przygody człowieka myślącego (“Adventures of a Thinker”), a novel she left unfinished at her death, was published in 1970. Her diaries—Dzienniki, 7 vol. (1999), covering the years 1914–65—provide vital comments on Dąbrowska’s intellectual life and her work, as well as on the social and political scen...
Dzierżoń, Jan (Polish priest)
...pledged the town to Bohemia (1335), whence it passed to the Habsburgs. In 1742 it was surrendered, with Silesia, to Prussia; it returned to Poland in 1945 and was renamed for the Polish priest Jan Dzierżoń. The economy of Dzierżoniów was long based on heavy industry, though this activity had fallen into decline.....
Dzierżoniów (Poland)
city, Dolnośląskie województwo (province), southwestern Poland, on the Piława River in Lower Silesia. The community was founded as Reichenbach in the 12th century and received town rights in the 13th. The duke of Ziębice (Münsterberg) pledged th...
Dzierżyński, Feliks (Russian revolutionary)
Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization....
Dzil Ligai (mountain, Arizona, United States)
summit (11,403 feet [3,476 metres]) in the White Mountains, Apache county, eastern Arizona, U.S. Springs on the mountain’s northern slope form the headwaters of the Little Colorado River. Also called Dzil Ligai (Apache: ...
Dziubin, Eduard Georgiyevich (Soviet poet)
Soviet poet known for his revolutionary verses and for carrying on the romantic tradition in the Soviet period....
Dziurdziowie (novel by Orzeszkowa)
Orzeszkowa’s well-known peasant novels include Dziurdziowie (1885; “The Dziurdzia Family”), which presented a shocking picture of the ignorance and superstition of poor farmers, and Cham (1888; “The Boor”), the tragic story of a humble fisherman’s love for a neurotic and sophisticated city girl. Considered Orzeszkowa’s mast...
Dzkek language
...Lezgi (with 240,000 speakers in Dagestan and about 170,000 in Azerbaijan); Tabasaran (about 90,000); Agul (about 12,000); Rutul (about 15,000); Tsakhur (about 11,000); Archi (fewer than 1,000); Kryz (about 6,000); Budukh (about 2,000); Khinalug (about 1,500); and Udi (about 3,700). The majority of Lezgi languages are spoken in southern Dagestan, but some of them (Kryz, Budukh, Khinalug,......
dzong (Bhutanese fort)
...region and the Lesser Himalayan valleys the architecture is typically Tibetan. Especially in the Himalayan regions, a notable feature of Bhutan’s settlements is the dzong, or fortress-monastery. The dzong served as a stronghold against enemies in the past, and it now plays an important role as a combined......
Dzungar (people)
people of Central Asia, so called because they formed the left wing (dson, “left”; gar, “hand”) of the Mongol army. A western Mongol people whose home was the Ili River valley and ...
Dzungarian Alataū Range (mountains, Asia)
...by valleys. The Altai mountain complex to the east sends three ridges into the republic, and, farther south, the Tarbagatay Range is an offshoot of the Naryn-Kolbin complex. Another range, the Dzungarian Alatau, penetrates the country to the south of the depression containing Lake Balkhash. The Tien Shan peaks rise along the southern......
Dzungarian Basin (basin, China)
extensive basin in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China....
Dzungarian Gate (mountain pass, Asia)
The main pass through the western ranges is the so-called Dzungarian Gate (Junggar Men), which leads to Lake Alaköl and Lake Balqash in Kazakhstan. In the far north the Irtysh (Ertix) River drains into Lake Zaysan across the Kazakhstan border. Otherwise, the Junggar Basin is an......
Dzungarian Gobi (region, Asia)
The Junggar Gobi is north of the Gaxun Gobi, in the Junggar Basin between the eastern spurs of the Mongolian Altai and the eastern extremity of the Tien Shan. It resembles the Trans-Altai Gobi, and its edges are fractured by ravines, alternating with residual hills and low mountain ridges....
Dzvina (river, Europe)
major river of Latvia and northern Belarus. It rises in the Valdai Hills and flows 632 miles (1,020 km) in a great arc south and southwest through Russia and Belarus and then turns northwest prior to crossing Latvia. It discharges into the Gulf of Riga...
Dzyarzhinskaya Mountain (mountain, Belarus)
...Belarus and then swings northeast. Its total length is 320 miles (520 km). The ridge, covered by marine sands and clays, is in reality a series of separate uplands, of which the highest point is Dzerzhinskaya Mountain, at 1,132 feet (345 m), in the Minsk Upland. To the south of the ridge lie the extensive Pripet Marshes....
Dzyarzhynsk Mountain (mountain, Belarus)
...Belarus and then swings northeast. Its total length is 320 miles (520 km). The ridge, covered by marine sands and clays, is in reality a series of separate uplands, of which the highest point is Dzerzhinskaya Mountain, at 1,132 feet (345 m), in the Minsk Upland. To the south of the ridge lie the extensive Pripet Marshes....

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