Dan or DAN may refer to:
People
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Dan (name)
Dan is a name in various cultures. As a given name it is often short for Daniel (given name), Daniel. It is also a surname with multiple origins.
Given name
Origins as a given name
Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several dispute ...
, including a list of people with the name
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Dan (king)
Dan (or Halfdan) is the name of one or more of the legendary earliest kings of the Danes and Denmark, as mentioned in medieval Scandinavian texts.
The ''Lejre Chronicle''
The ''Chronicle of Lejre'' ('' Chronicon Lethrense''), written around 1170, ...
, several kings of Denmark
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Dan people
The Dan or Mano-Dan are a Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighbouring Liberia. There are approximately members of the group and their largest settlement is Man, Ivory Coast. Neighboring peoples include the Krahn, Kpelle ...
, an ethnic group located in West Africa
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Dan language
Dan is a Southern Mande language spoken primarily in Ivory Coast (~800,000 speakers) and Liberia (150,000–200,000 speakers). There is also a population of about 800 speakers in Guinea. Dan is a tonal language, with 9 to 11 contour and reg ...
, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
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Dan (son of Jacob)
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (, ''Dān'', "judgment" or "he judged") was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Gen ...
, one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible
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Tribe of Dan
The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim and Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin on the ...
, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
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Danel
Danel (, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, " El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria.
Tale of Aqhat
The text in ''Corpus Ta ...
, the hero figure of
Ugarit
Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its height it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Latakia Governorate. It was discovered by accident in 19 ...
who inspired stories of the biblical figure
* Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China
Places
* Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
* Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
* Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand
* Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Dan River (disambiguation)
* Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
* Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel
Organizations
*Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
*Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
*Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
*Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute
*Direct Action Network (DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
*Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
*Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Science
* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton (unit), newton
* DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
* Dorsal attention network (DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain
* Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN), a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover
Other
* ''Dan'', a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
* Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Chinese opera
* Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
* Dan (newspaper), ''Dan'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
* Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
* English corruption of the title Dominus (title), Dominus
* Do Anything Now (DAN), a ChatGPT#Jailbreaking, jailbreak for ChatGPT
* Dan (volume), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
* Dan (weight), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight
* Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, a ''Billboard'' chart with the shortcut "DAN"
See also
* Daniel (disambiguation)
* Danny (disambiguation)
* List of people named Dan, people with the given name Dan
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