) 7216. It is served by the Chicago &
North-Western and the Illinois Central railways, and is connected with
Sterling by an electric line; freight is shipped over the Hennepin
Canal. The city has two parks of 159 and 6 acres respectively, and
there is a Chautauqua Park, where an annual Chautauqua Assembly is held.
Dixon is the seat of the Northern Illinois normal school (incorporated
in 1884), and of the Rock River military academy. The river furnishes
water power for the street railways, electric lighting and a number of
manufacturing establishments. Among the manufactures are condensed milk,
boxes, wire screens and wire cloth, lawn mowers, gas engines, cement,
agricultural implements, shoes and wagons. The place was laid out in
1835 by John Dixon (1784-1876), the first white settler of Lee county. A
bronze tablet in the Howells Building, at the intersection of First and
Peoria Streets, marks the site of his cabin, and in the city cemetery a
granite shaft has been erected to his memory. Dixon was chartered as a
city in 1859.

DIZFUL, or DIZ-PUL ("fort-bridge"), a town of Persia, in the province of
Arabistan, 36 m. N.W. of Shushter, in 32 deg. 25' N., 48 deg. 28' E.
Pop. about 25,000. It has post and telegraph offices. It is situated on
the left bank of the Dizful river, a tributary of the Karun, crossed by
a fine bridge of twenty-two arches, 430 yds. in length, constructed on
ancient foundations. Dizful is the chief place of a small district of
the same name and the residence of the governor of Arabistan during the
winter months. The district has twelve villages and a population of
about 35,000 (5000 Arabs of the Ali i Keth[=i]r tribe), and pays a
yearly tribute of about L6000. The city was formerly known as Andamish,
and in its vicinity are many remains of ancient canals and buildings
which afford conclusive proof of former importance. 16 m. S.W. are the
ruins of Susa, and east of them and half-way between Dizful and Shushter
stood the old city of Junday Shapur.

DJAKOVO (sometimes written _Djakovar_, Hungarian _Diakovar_), a city of
Croatia-Slavonia, Hungary; in the county of Virovitica, 100 m. E. by S.
of Agram. Pop. (1900) 6824. Djakovo is a Roman Catholic episcopal see,
whose occupant bears the title "Bishop of Bosnia, Slavonia and Sirmium."
During the life of Bishop Strossmayer (1815-1905) it was one of the
chief centres of religious and political activity among the Croats. The
cathedral, a vast basi