dayton

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Определение dayton в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A city in Ohio, United States; An English surname, variant of Deighton; Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824), an early American politician; {i} city in Ohio (USA); name of a number of cities in the United States; City (pop., 2000: 166,179), southwestern Ohio, U.S. Settled on the Miami River in 1796 by a group of Revolutionary War veterans, it developed as a river port shipping agricultural produce. The 1829 opening of the Miami and Erie Canal between Dayton and Cincinnati and the 1851 arrival of the railroad stimulated its industrial growth. It was home to Wilbur and Orville Wright and is also their place of burial. The city is a market and distribution centre. It is the site of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (established 1946) and the Air Force Institute of Technology (1947). Home to several colleges and universities, it also has an art institute and a symphony orchestra; a city in southwest Ohio; manufacturing center
Dayton Accords: the political agreements made in 1995 in Dayton, Ohio, in the US, between Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to end the fighting between them and decide where the new borders would be between them