[Dinan] (10), an old town in the dep. of Côtes du Nord, France, 14 m. S. of St. Malo; most picturesquely situated on the top of a steep hill, amid romantic scenery, of great archæological interest; the birthplace of Duclos.
[Dinant], an old town on the Meuse, 14 m. S. of Namur, Belgium; noted for its gingerbread, and formerly for its copper wares, called Dinanderie.
[Dinapur] (44), a town and military station on the right bank of the Ganges, 12 m. NW. of Patna.
[Dinarchus], an orator of the Phocion party in Athens, born at Corinth.
[Dinaric Alps], a range of the Eastern Alps in Austria, runs SE. and parallel with the Adriatic, connecting the Julian Alps with the Balkans.
[Dindorf, Wilhelm], a German philologist, born at Leipzig; devoted his life to the study of the ancient Greek classics, particularly the dramatists, and edited the chief of them, as well as the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of Homer, with notes; was joint-editor with his brothers Ludwig and Hase of the "Thesaurus Græcæ Linguæ" of Stephanus (1802-1883).
[Dingelstedt], a German poet, novelist, and essayist, born near Marburg; was the Duke of Würtemberg's librarian at Stuttgart, and theatre superintendent at Münich, Weimar, and Vienna successively; his poems show delicacy of sentiment and graphic power (1814-1881).
[Dingwall], the county town of Ross-shire, at the head of the Cromarty Firth.
[Dinkas], an African pastoral people occupying a flat country traversed by the White Nile; of good stature, clean habits; of semi-civilised manners, and ferocious in war.
[Dinmont, Dandie], a jovial, honest-hearted store-farmer in Scott's "Guy Mannering."