Dey
a title formerly assumed by the rulers (under the Turkish Sultan) of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis. The name was also formerly given to elderly people, especially among the Janizaries; hence came to be commonly applied at Algiers to the commanding officers of that corps, who frequently became afterward a pasha or regent of that province.
DHALAK (dha-lak'), an archipelago of the Red Sea, off the coast of Abyssinia.
It contains nearly 100 rocks and islets, mostly uninhabited, clustering round the island of Dhalak el-Kebir, which is about 35 miles long by 30 broad. This island possesses a pearl fishery. the