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Derby (Municipal and parliamentary)

a municipal and parliamentary borough in England, capital of Derbyshire, on the Derwent, here crossed by an elegant bridge of three arches, 115 miles N. N. W. of London. It is pleasantly situated in a wide and fertile valley open to the S., and is well and regularly built in the modern quarter. It has some fine public buildings, among which are the churches (All Saints, St. Alkmund, and St. Werburch, the county hall, school of art, infirmary, etc. There is also a very handsome free library and museum.

The principal manufactures are silk, cotton, paper, articles in Derbyshire spar, castings, and porcelain, etc. Derby is one of the oldest towns in the kingdom, and is supposed to owe its origin to a Roman station, Derventio, situated at Little Chester, on the opposite side of the river.

Under the Danes it took the name of Deoraby. Richardson, the novelist, was a native of the town. Pop. (1919) 123,- DERBEND (der-bend'), or DER- BENT (der-bent') ("gateway"), a port and capital of the former Russian district of Daghestan, on the W. shore of the Caspian, 140 miles N. W. of Baku. It is charmingly situated among vineyards and orchards and fields of maize and madder, on the declivity of a branch of the Caucasus, which here approaches