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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: DAM
Damascus - falls to Persians in AD 613
- taken by Arabs in 635
- capital of Umayyad caliphs
- the Umayyad mosque
- captured by Abbasids in 750
- and the second crusade
- and Ayub
- and Saladin
- taken by Mongols in 1259
- taken by Timur
- Ottoman provincial capital
- captured in 1918
Damasus - commissions the Vulgate
Dam Busters - raid on the Ruhr in 1943
- brief account
Damietta - and the fifth crusade
- and the seventh crusade
Danby, Francis - and Bristol
DANCE
- tour through time
Dance, Frederick - Mount Stewart
dancing dervishes - and Sufism
Dan Dare
Dandie Dinmont - terrier
Dandy
Danegeld - from AD 991
- brief account
Danelaw - principle agreed in 886
- and the Danes
Danes (in Britain)
Daniell, Thomas
- Sezincote
d'Annunzio, Gabriele - seizes Fiume
Dante Alighieri
Danton
- and the club of the Cordeliers
- in the Paris commune
Danubian principalities - and Russia
Dan-yr-Ogof
Danzig - seized by Teutonic knights
- German claims in 1938
Daodejing - anthology of Daoism
Daoism
- and Buddhism in China
Daoists - and alchemy
- and gunpowder
Daoist texts - printed in China
Daoist tomb guardians - non-exclusive
Daphni - Greek Orthodox church
Da Ponte, Lorenzo - and Mozart
Darby, Abraham I - and smelting
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