Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
DeKalb is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 2,375 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 2,434 at the 2010 census. The town is named after American general Baron de Kalb , a German officer serving under George Washington .
Persepolis is derived from the Greek Περσέπολις, Persepolis, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις, together meaning "the Persian city" or "the city of the Persians"). To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which is also the word for the region of Persia. [6] [7]
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, [4] [5] and in the 1990–2000's as the DeKalb County International Village district, [6] is a community northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebrated for its ethnic diversity and spanning multiple counties including Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.
DeKalb–Peachtree Airport (PDK), Chamblee, DeKalb County, Georgia; DeKalb School of the Arts, a magnet school in DeKalb County, Georgia near Atlanta; DeKalb receptor, a fictional device in the science fiction story "Waldo" by Robert A. Heinlein; DeKalb Genetics Corporation, a hybrid corn seed producer
Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL
Decatur (/ d ə ˈ k eɪ t ər /) is a city and the county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.With a population of 24,928 in the 2020 census, [4] the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple ZIP Codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear Decatur as the address.
DeKalb County may refer to one of several counties in the United States, all of which were named for Baron Johann de Kalb: DeKalb County, Alabama; DeKalb County, Georgia;