DENISON

denison, a city of grayson county, texas, u.s.a., about 21⁄2 m. from the s. bank of the red river, about 70 m. n. of dallas. pop. (1890) 10,958; (1900) 11,807, of whom 2251 were negroes; (1910 census) 13,632. it is served by the houston & texas central, the missouri, kansas & texas, the texas & pacific, and the st louis & san francisco ('frisco system) railways, and is connected with sherman, texas, by an electric line. denison is the seat of the gate city business college (generally known as harshaw academy), and of st xavier's academy (roman catholic). it is chiefly important as a railway centre, as a collecting and distributing point for the fruit, vegetables, hogs and poultry, and general farming products of the surrounding region, and as a wholesale and jobbing market for the upper red river valley. it has railway repair shops, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton, machinery and foundry products, flour, wooden-ware, and dairy products. in 1905 its factory products were valued at $1,234,956, 47.0% more than in 1900. denison was settled by northerners at the time of the construction of the missouri, kansas & texas railway to this point in 1872, and was named in honour of george denison (1822-1876), a director of the railway; it became a city in 1891, and in 1907 adopted the commission form of government. denizen (derived through the fr. from lat. _de intus_, "from within," i.e. as opposed to "foreign"), an alien who obtains by letters patent (_ex donatione regis_) certain of the privileges of a british subject. he cannot be a member of the privy council or of parliament, or hold any civil or military office of trust, or take a grant of land from the crown. the naturalization act 1870 provides that nothing therein contained shall affect the grant of any letters of denization by the sovereign. denizli (anc. _laodicea (q.v.) ad lycum_), chief town of a sanjak of the aidin vilayet of asia minor, altitude 1167 ft. pop. about 17,000. it is beautifully situated at the foot of baba dagh (mt. salbacus), on a tributary of the churuk su (lycus), and is connected by a branch line with the station of gonjeli on the smyrna-dineir railway. it took the place of laodicea when that town was deserted during the wars between the byzantines and seljuk turks, probably between 1158 and 1174. it had become a fine moslem city in the 14th century, and was then called ladik, being famous for the woven and embroidered products of its greek inhabitants. the delightful gardens of denizli have obtained for it the name of the "damascus of anatolia."