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Dagon:---ruined capital city of Dagonia on the Isle of Xapur, once ruled by the Yezmite cult. The Yuetshi people sacked Dagon. (Devil in Iron)

Dagonia:---name of an extinct ancient empire once centered about its capital city, Dagon, on the Isle of Xapur. (Devil in Iron)

Dagoth Hill:---a site of pre-human ruins haunted by demons, in Koth. (Scarlet Citadel)

Dagozai:---a mountain tribe of the Himelian Mountains, dwelling south of the Zhaibari. (People of the Black Circle)

Dal Claidh:---a Cimmerian clan. (Conan the Valorous)

Damaos:---an Argossian archonal house. (Conan the Guardian)

Danibos River:---a south and west flowing river in Brythunia, its source is in the snows of Hyperborea. It flows past the northern capital of Sargossa. (Conan the Savage)

Dan-Marcah:---a free city on the northern coast of Shem, near the Argossian border. Bêlit's father was from this small city. (Conan the Rebel)

Daramish:---a large town of eastern Koth. (Conan the Barbarian #252, "Dead of the Living Night", by Roy Thomas)

Darba Hills:---a range of hills northeast of Fort Sikander in Venjipur. The overgrown ruins of an abandoned town lie atop one of the hills. The Turanian army fought a battle here. (Conan the Hero)

Darfar:---a black kingdom of hot, humid jungle lying between Kush and Keshan, south of the Purple Lotus Swamp of central Stygia. It was inhabited by cannibals and raided by slavers from Shem. The men dressed up their hair with mud, building up a hornlike coiffure. Their teeth were filed. The natives of Darfar worship the demon-god Yog. (Hawks over Shem, Shadows in Zamboula, Conan the Buccaneer)

Dark Dreams, Cape of:---the southernmost point of the Hyborian world-continent. The "cape" is actually an island, home to the serpent-men. (Savage Sword #190-193, "Skull on the Sea", by Roy Thomas)

Darkwood:---a deserted, haunted forest in eastern Nemedia, said to be the last remnant of a far vaster pine forest that had flourished during the cycles of prehistory antedating even Acheron. (Ring of Ikribu, Cf. Conan the Barbarian #48, "Episode", by Roy Thomas)

Dead, Swamps of the:---a place beyond Khitai, where grew the insanity-provoking gray lotus. (Rogues in the House)

Dead Elephant Valley:---a valley in the Blacklands where several Lesser Bamula villages and a huge number of elephant bones are located. (Conan at the Demon's Gate)

Deadlands:---an area on the Hyrkanian coast, three days sail north of the Aetolian Isles. The water here is black and foul. (Conan and the Red Brotherhood)

Deadlands, The:---an area of the isle of Ganaku where giant spiders and deadly serpents live. It is said to teem with creatures so vile that only the most evil of gods could have brought them into existence. In the center lies the ruined fortress of Rahamji. (Conan and the Shaman's Curse)

Deadman's Journey:---the caravan route taken by slavers raiding the Blacklands of Punt and Zembabwei. It crosses the Southern Desert from Khauran to the River Styx. (Conan and the Amazon)

Death Island:---a "rampart of rock crowned with a fire-belching volcano" lying due south of the Isle of the Black Ones, deep in the Western Ocean. The wreck of the legendary treasure-ship Phoenix lies amid the deadly coral reefs surrounding the island. (Savage Sword #67, "Plunder of Death Island", by Roy Thomas)

Death, Lake of:---a storm-tossed, freshwater lake located in the Black Kingdoms west of Xuchotl. The island of the Ichiribu tribe lies at the center of this huge lake. To the west lie verdant hills, and beyond that lies the bulk of Thunder Mountain. Beneath the lake lies the underground ruins called the "Stone City". (Conan and the Gods of the Mountains)

Death Mask Mountains:---a rugged range in central Brythunia that has four high peaks, with a hidden valley between them. Dire wolves roam the mountains. (Conan the Defiant)

Demascar:---a large island in the sea south of the Thurian continent. It is the rival of the island of Rikos. It sank shortly after Kull's visit. (Kull the Conqueror #5, "A Kingdom by the Sea", by Gerry Conway)

Dembi:---a ruined castle and village that lay in the north central part of the Border Kingdom. The keep sits atop a rocky hill, while the village lies at the foot of the hill. (Conan the Relentless)

Demon's Tooth Mountain:---an eminence in Brythunia. (Savage Sword of Conan #8, "Sorcerer's Summit", by Bruce Jones)

Demons, Valley of the:---an alpine valley, high in the foothills of the Ilbars Mountains, that lies below the "Lord of the Wind" peak. (Conan the Valiant)

Denizkenar:---a port city of southern Iranistan nearby the Mountains of Gold. (Conan and the Shaman's Curse)

Desperation, Mountains of:---a near-vertical range of mountains in the Southern Desert that lies directly north of the city-state of Qjara. The range lies south of the border kingdoms of eastern Koth. Several caravan routes cross the mountains, except in the winter season when the mountain passes are blocked by snow and ice. (Conan the Outcast)

Devil's Thumb:---a peak on the westernmost edge of the Mountains of Fire. (Conan and the Grim Grey God)

Dewa:---a city-state of Khitai. (Savage Sword #184, "Disciple", by Larry Yakata)

Didymion Hills:---a series of low hills lying between Messantia and the Plain of Pallos in central Argos. (Conan the Liberator)

Dimmorz:---twin Hyrkanian city (with Razadan) near Makkalet on the eastern shore of the Vilayet Sea. (Conan the Barbarian #36, "Beware of Hyrkanians Bearing Gifts", by Roy Thomas)

Dinander:---a Nemedian, baronial city-state that lies to the southwest of the Varakiel. The province lies amid farm and grainlands, with neither mountains nor rivers to protect it. (Conan the Warlord)

Diva, Gorge of:---a canyon in the Colchian Mountains running parallel to the Akrim River valley, eventually merging with it at the Diva waterfall. (Road of Eagles)

Djafur:---a freeport in the Aetolian island chain on the Vilayet Sea. It is the chief port of the pirates of the "Red Brotherhood". (Conan - Scourge of the Bloody Coast, Conan and the Red Brotherhood)

Djemal:---a small Turanian trading-city lying on the road between Fort Ghori and the Zaporoska River. (Savage Sword #37, "Sons of the White Wolf", by Roy Thomas)

Djubala Oasis:---a waterhole of the Kharamun Desert. (Conan the Barbarian #158, "Night of the Wolf", by Michael Fleisher)

Dniri Kozaki:---one of the many Kozak bands. (Conan the Marauder)

Dodligian Road:---the road leading across the Dodligian plain to Castle Slott in Corinthia. (Conan the Fearless)

Dodligia Plain:---a vast, bare plain, dotted by buttes and rocky ridges. It lies to the north of the Bloddolk forest in Corinthia. A large, lonely mountain rises from the center of the plain. (Conan the Fearless)

Donar Pass:---a narrow mountain road that runs south through the Karpash Mountain range from eastern Corinthia to Zamora. (Conan the Freelance)

Dragon Hills:---a long range of interwoven hills located between Arenjun and Zamboula. From a distance the rocky, barren hills appear as a great, gray sleeping dragon. Two days ride south of the hills is a large oasis. (Conan and the Sorcerer)

Dragon's Beak:---a distinctive, rocky headland on the eastern Vilayet Sea north of the Aetolian Isles. (Conan and the Red Brotherhood)

Dragon's Spine:---a ridge of small peaks off the main caravan route in eastern Stygia. It lay to the southwest of Pteion and south of the Dune Sea. (Conan and the Emerald Lotus)

Drakken Hills:---a line of hills on the south and east borders of Tantusium province in Koth. (Conan the Renegade)

Drujistan:---a "land of demons" situated in the remote heights of the Ilbars Mountains south of Kushaf. (Flame Knife)

Duali:---a Zuagir tribe of the Turanian desert, near Fort Wakla. The people have a village at an oasis. (Return of Conan)

Dune Sea:---an accursed, demon-haunted wasteland in Stygia, west of Pteion. (Conan and the Emerald Lotus)

Duthil:---the village where Conan grew up. Located in the southern regions of Cimmeria, Duthil was destroyed by the Aquilonians shortly before the fall of Venarium. (Conan of Venarium)

Dying Place of the Elephants:---a legend in the Blacklands, it is said the great, gray beasts go there to end their days. A fortune in ivory could be found there. This possibly refers to Dead Elephant Valley in Bamula Territory. (Conan and the Gods of the Mountains)

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Finally, I claim the copyright on this gazetteer's compilation. But only on the compilation, not on the people or locations; as I said, I'm not challenging the copyright.

10/25/03

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