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Dour can refer to: Places. Dour, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium; River Dour, a river in England; Ad-Dawr (also known as Al-Dour), a town in Iraq; Ed-Dur (also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour), archeological site in the United Arab Emirates; Other. dour, a personality type characterized by excessive seriousness; Dour (TV serial), Pakistani ...
The Ribeira (meaning riverside). Its tall, colourful-building terraces is the main part of the river bank in the major city of Porto; it attracts numerous tourists These reaches of the Douro have a mesoclimate [ specify ] allowing for cultivation of olives , almonds , and especially grapes , which are important for making port .
In English legal history, there were originally five kinds of dower: [1] [2] Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, was the closest to modern meaning of dower. It was the property secured by law, in bride's name at the church porch (where marriages used to take place). This was optional.
Dour (French pronunciation:; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km 2 , giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km 2 .
The prospect that the dour, stern Syrian leader would live forever was a source of dark humor for many of my Syrian friends when I lived and worked in Aleppo in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The same element is present in the town's French name Douvres and the name of the river, Dour, which is also evident in other English towns such as Wendover. However, the modern Modern Welsh name Dofr is an adaptation of the English name Dover. [9]
Shajar al-Durr (Arabic: شجر الدر, lit. 'Tree of Pearls'), also Shajarat al-Durr (شجرة الدر), [a] whose royal name was al-Malika ʿAṣmat ad-Dīn ʾUmm-Khalīl Shajar ad-Durr (الملكة عصمة الدين أم خليل شجر الدر; [b] died 28 April 1257), was a ruler of Egypt.
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