Dosso
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Dosso might refer to either:
- Dosso in Niger:
- Dosso Region, a region in Niger
- Dosso (department)Dosso (department)Dosso is an administrative Region of the Republic of Niger; see its eponymous capital Dosso for history.The region has an area of 31,002 km². Its population was 693,207 in the census of 1977; by 1988 it had increased to 1,018,895, and by 2001 it had reached 1,479,095.-Divisions and borders:Dosso is...
, a département in Niger - Dosso, NigerDosso, NigerDosso is a town in the south-west corner of Niger. It lies 130–140 km south-east of the capital Niamey at the junction of the main routes to Zinder and Benin. The seventh most populous town in Niger and the largest in Dosso Region, it had an official population during the 2001 census of 43,561...
, a town, capital of the Dosso département - Dosso KingdomDosso KingdomThe Dosso Kingdom is a precolonial state in what is now southwest Niger which has survived in a ceremonial role to the modern day.-Early history:...
, the pre-colonial and modern ceremonial power in Dosso. - the Dosso meteorite of 1962, which fell in Dosso, Niger (see meteorite fallsMeteorite fallsMeteorite falls, also called observed falls, are those meteorites that were witnessed by people or automated devices as they moved through the atmosphere or hit the Earth, and were subsequently collected. All other meteorites are called "finds"...
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- Dosso DossiDosso DossiDosso Dossi , real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting.-Biography:Dossi was born in San Giovanni del Dosso a village in the province of Mantua...
(c. 1490–1542), an Italian High Renaissance painter