DURBAN 



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DURER 



but extensive ruins attest its 

 former greatness. Founded 621 

 B.C. by Corinthian and Corcyrean 

 colonists under the name of Epi- 

 damnos, it was renamed Dyrrha- 

 chium by the Romans, who made 

 it the port opposite Brundisium on 

 the W. side of the Adriatic, and 

 later constructed from it the high- 

 way across the Balkans to Byzan- 

 tium. In 1501 it passed to the 

 Turks, who held it until 1913. 

 It is a port whose trade in oil, tim- 

 ber, and fruit is capable of much 

 development. Pop. 5,000. > 



Durban. Commercial capital of 

 Natal, S. Africa. It is situated on 

 the S. shore of a land-locked bay. 



Laid out by the 



Dutch in 1834, 

 it was occupied 

 by the British 

 under Sir Ben- 

 jamin D' Urban 

 in 1842. There 

 are a fine town 

 hall (opened in 



the more famous 

 are the Bonn 

 D u rchmusterung, 

 which enumerates 

 324,189 stars 

 (Argelander), and 

 the Cape Durch- 

 musterung (Schon- 

 feld and Gill), 

 comprising 

 454,875 stars. See 

 Stars. 



Dtiren. Town 

 of Germany, in 



Durban arms 



1910), public gardens and parks, 

 racecourse, public library, and 

 museum. It is connected by rly. with 

 Pietermaritzburg and the Trans- 

 vaal. It is the headquarters of a 

 whaling industry established in 

 1908. Distance from Southampton, 

 6,790 m. via Cape Town ; 8,501 m. 

 via Suez. Pop. (whites), 48,475. 



Durban. 



Town Hall of the capital of Natal. Above, 

 view of the bay from the promenade 



the Rhine prov. It stands on the 

 river Roer, 20 m. E. of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle. Its industries are chiefly 

 textile manufactures, including 



school of Michael 

 Wohlgemuth. In 

 1490 he set out on 

 a tour abroad. He 

 was at Colmar in 

 1492, where he 

 made the acquain- 

 tance of Martin 

 Schongauer's three 

 brothers, at Basel 

 in 1492-94, and at 

 Strasbourg in 1494. 

 In May, 1494, he 

 returned to Nu- 

 remberg, to find 

 that a, marriage 

 had been arranged 

 for him with the daughter of Hans 

 Frey. The marriage was celebrated 

 on July 7, 1494. The story told by 

 Pirkheimer,Durer's intimate friend, 

 as to the greedy, idle, and passion- 

 ately jealous disposition of his 

 wife Agnes is neither borne out nor 

 contradicted by Diirer's silence in 

 regard to his married life. 



In the winter of 1494-95 Durer 

 made his first journey to Venice, 

 which appears to have been un- 

 fruitful. His second visit was 

 undertaken late in 1505, at the 

 invitation of the Nuremberg mer- 

 chants established in the city, who 



Durban. Plan of the commercial 



South Africa 



Durbar (Pers. dar, door ; bar, 

 admittance, court). Term used in 

 India for the court, council, or 

 council chamber of a native ruler, 

 for an official reception or audience, 

 or for a great state ceremony. 

 Specially magnificent durbars were 

 held at Delhi on the proclamation 

 of Queen Victoria as empress of 

 India in 1877 and of Edward VII 

 and George V as emperor in 1903 

 and 1911 respectively. 



Durchmusterung (Ger., ex- 

 amination). Name for the modern 

 telescopic star catalogues. Among 



cloth, carpets, etc., but paper and 

 iron goods are also made. It has 

 been a chartered town since about 

 1300 and was of importance much 

 earlier. It was part of the duchy 

 of Jiilich, and became Prussian in 

 1815. Pop. 32,511. 



Durer, ALBERT OB ALBBECHT 

 (1471-1528). German painter and 

 engraver. He was born at Nurem- 

 berg, May 20, 1471, the third of 

 eighteen children of a goldsmith, 

 Albert the Elder. He was brought 

 up to the goldsmith's business, but 

 in 1486 was allowed to enter the 



From a ielf -portrait in the Pinakolhek, 

 Munich 



