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Deseret

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Deseret may refer to:

Places

  • Deseret, Utah, an unincorporated community
    • Fort Deseret, a fortification erected by Mormon settlers during the Utah Black Hawk War
  • Deseret Ranches, 470-square-mile (1,200 km2) Mormon cattle ranch in central Florida
  • State of Deseret, a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Mormon settlers in Salt Lake City
  • Utah Territory or Territory of Deseret

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Deseret, a fictional state in The Folk of the Fringe (1989) by Orson Scott Card
  • Deseret, a fictional breakaway state in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series
  • Deseret News, a daily newspaper in Utah

Other uses

  • Deseret (Book of Mormon), a term used in the Book of Mormon meaning "honeybee"
  • Deseret alphabet, a phonetic alphabet developed in the 19th century for English
  • Deseret (Unicode block), a block of Deseret characters in Unicode
  • Deseret Test Center, a U.S. Army-operated project designed to test chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s
  • University of Deseret, founded in 1850 and later renamed the University of Utah
  • Deseret Nation, a loosely-affiliated alt-right group of Mormons centered around the #DezNat hashtag on Twitter

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Deseret
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