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Doha, the capital city and economic center of Qatar, is located on the Persian Gulf. The name Doha comes from the Arabic meaning “big tree”.

Founded in 1825, Doha was little more than a small village known as Al Bida in the nineteenth century.

Dresden, situated in a valley on the River Elbe, in the Germany state of Saxony, was the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony.

Known as the “Jewel Box” for its Baroque and Rococo archictecture, Dresden was bombed by the Allies near the end of WWII, destroying the historic city center and not the military installations surrounding the city. The author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was witness to the raid as a POW and the novel Slaughterhouse-Five is based on the experience.

Notable people associated with Dresden include Edith Hamilton.

Dubai is both a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates.

Dubai's first recorded mention is in 1095, and the earliest settlement known as Dubai town dates from 1799 with formal establishment in 1833 by Sheikh Maktoum bin Buti al Maktoum.

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Dublin, the capital and most populous city of Ireland, situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey.

Dublin was originally founded as a Viking colony in the 9th century though there were human living around the bay since prehistoric times.

The name Dublin is from the Irish name Dubh Linn, meaning “black pool”.

Notable people associated with Dublin include Samuel Beckett, Edmund Burke, Bono, Bob Geldof, Oliver Goldsmith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Maureen O'Hara, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Villiers Stanford, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, J. M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats.

Durban, the busiest African port on the Indian Ocean coast of Africa, is the third largest city in the nation of South Africa.

It has a subtropical climate and beautiful beaches, making it a major tourism center.

The area around Durban has evidence of human habition by communities of hunter-gatherers since 100,000 BC. Vasco de Gama called the geography area Natal, Portugese for Christmas, when he sailed parallel to the coast at Christmastide 1497 while searching for a route from Europe to India.

Notable people associated with Durban include: Gandhi, Jan Christian Smuts, Albert John Luthuli.

Dusseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is centrally located in the lower Rhine River basin on the Dussel River delta confluence with the Rhine. Its location in the middle of the industrial Rhine-Ruhr region makes it an important international business and financial center known for its fashion and trade fairs.

Dusseldorf also has the largest Rhenish fair in Germany.

Notable people associated with Dusseldorf include Jurgen Habermas, Luise Rainer, Clara & Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy