It is well known that an integral domain D is a Dedekind domain if and only if D is a Noetherian almost Dedekind domain. In this paper, we show that an integral domain D is a Dedekind domain if and only if D is an almost Dedekind domain such that Max(D) is a Noetherian topological space as a subspace of Spec(D) with respect to the Zariski topology. We also give a new characterization of ZPI-rings.

Keywords: Dedekind domain, almost Dedekind domain, ZPI-ring