Dayan may refer to:
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Dayan (surname)
Dayan () is a Hebrew surname. It means a Jewish religious judge in a Beth din—a position conferring social prestige in a traditional Jewish community, and therefore one whose memory is likely to be retained as a family's surname even after the pa ...
, Hebrew surname
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Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
Given name
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Dayan Deerh
Dayan may refer to:
People
* Dayan (surname), Hebrew surname
** Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
Given name
* Dayan Deerh
* Dayán Díaz (born 1989), Colombian professional baseball pitcher
* Dayan Jayatil ...
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Dayán Díaz (born 1989), Colombian professional baseball pitcher
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Dayan Jayatilleka
Dayan Jayatilleka ( si, දයාන් ජයතිලක; born 1956) is a leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician.
Early life and family
Jayatilleka was born in 1956. He is the son of Mervyn de Silva and Lakshmi Sylvia Fe ...
, (born 1956), leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician
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Dayan Khan
Dayan Khan ( mn, Даян Хаан; Mongol script: ; ), born Batumöngke ( mn, Батмөнх; ), (1472–1517) was a khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty, reigning from 1479 to 1517. During his rule, he reunited the Mongols under Chinggisid sup ...
, Mongol ruler of Dayan
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Dayan Khan (Khoshut), ruler of the Khoshut Khanate
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Dayan Rajapakse (born 1972), Sri Lankan physician, educator and businessman
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Dayan Téllez (born 2002), Mexican football goalkeeper
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Dayán Viciedo
Dayán Viciedo Pérez (born March 10, 1989) is a Cuban professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox.
Early life
Viciedo ent ...
(born 1989), Cuban professional baseball infielder
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Dayan van der Westhuizen (born 1994), South African rugby union player
Places
* Dayan, or
Old Town of Lijiang
Dayan (), commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang () is the historical center of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, China. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
The town has a history going back more than 1,000 years and was once a confluence for ...
, World Heritage Site in Yunnan, China
* Dayan, in
Evenk Autonomous Banner
Ewenki Autonomous Banner ( Evenki: ; Mongolian: , ''Eveŋki öbertegen jasaqu qosiɣu'', Эвэнк өөртөө засах хошуу; ) is an autonomous banner that lies on the border between northwestern Greater Khingan and Hulun Buir grass ...
, Inner Mongolia, China
* Dayan,
Fenghua District
Fenghua (; ) is a district of the city of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The district and its administrative hinterlands has a population of over 480,000.
Fenghua is most famous for being the hometown of former Presidents Chiang Kai-shek an ...
, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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Dayan Township, in
Jiangyou
Jiangyou () is a Chinese county-level city located in Mianyang, Sichuan. The city proper is subdivided into four urban districts and has jurisdiction over 21 towns, and 19 rural townships. It is the hometown of Li Bai, a leading Tang Dynasty po ...
, Sichuan, China
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Dayan, Iran
Dayan ( fa, دايان, also Romanized as Dāyān) is a village in Keyvan Rural District, in the Central District (Khoda Afarin County), Central District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. According to 2006 census, its populat ...
, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Dayan Lake, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia
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Dayan Town (disambiguation)
Others
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Dayan (rabbinic judge), Jewish religious judge in a Beth din
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Dayan (witch), a witch or vengeful female spirit in Indian culture
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Northern Yuan dynasty
The Northern Yuan () was a dynastic regime ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan based in the Mongolian Plateau. It existed as a rump state after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368 and lasted until its conquest by the Jurchen-led Later Ji ...
, also Dayan in Mongolian
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fift ...
, Dayan in Mongolian
* Dayan, a
Rubik's Cube Company
* ''Dayan'', the smaller drum of the
tabla
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See also
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Dayana
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Dayyán
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