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ARIOBARZANES
M. A. Dandamayev, A. Sh. Shahbazi, P. Lecoq
Old Iranian proper name *Ārya-bṛzāna-, perhaps signifying “exalting the Aryans.”
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ARISTAGORAS
P. Tozzi
tyrant of Miletus (late 6th-early 5th centuries B.C.).
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ARIUS
Cross-Reference
See HARĪ-RŪD
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ARIYĀRAMNA
A. Sh. Shahbazi
Old Persian proper name.
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ARIZANTOI
C. J. Brunner
one of the six tribes of the Median nation as listed by Herodotus.
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ʿARĪŻĪ, ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ
Cross-Reference
Mughal scholar chiefly famous for his alleged discovery of Malfūẓāt-e Tīmūrī or Wāqeʿāt-e Tīmūrī, an autobiographical account of Tīmūr from the 7th to the 74th year of his life. See ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ ʿARĪŻĪ.
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ARJĀN TOMB
Javier Alvarez-Mon
the late Neo-Elamite elite burial near Behbahan in southwestern Iran contains a coffin and a few artifacts and may shed new light on the discussion of Persian heritage as related to the Elamites.
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ARJĀSP
A. Tafażżolī
a chief of the Iranian tribe of the Xyōns and an enemy of Kay Goštāsp, patron of Zoroaster.
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ARJOMAND, Ḵalil
Rava Azeredo da Silveira
At the age of 21, in Grenoble, Kalil Arjomand devised an innovative mechanism for graded motorcar acceleration. This achievement, which prefigures his later creativity, was singled out by Esmaʿil Merʾāt, then supervisor of the Iranian students in France and later Minister of Education, in his reports to Iranian authorities.
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ARLEZ
J. Russell
Armenian term for a supernatural creature.
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ARMAḠĀN
L. P. Elwell-Sutton
a monthly literary magazine founded in 1919.
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ARMĀʾĪL
Jes P. Asmussen
legendary figure in the myth of Ẓaḥḥāk.
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ARMAITI
M. Boyce
one of the six great Aməša Spəntas in Zoroastrianism.
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ARMAVIR
R. H. Hewsen
one of the capitals of ancient Armenia.
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ARMAZI
D. M. Lang
(or ARMAZ-TSIKHE), an important royal city of Georgia.
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ARMENIA i. IMAGE OF PERSIANS IN
Robert Thomson
In the Sasanian period Armenians developed a self-awareness as Christians against the background of their earlier Iranian social and religious culture.
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ARMENIA ii. ARMENIAN WOMEN IN THE LATE 19TH- AND EARLY 20TH-CENTURY PERSIA
Houri Berberian
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Iranian Armenians were concentrated in Azerbaijan and Isfahan. When demographic studies included the numbers of women, these were noticeably smaller than those for men, most likely because male heads of families were less apt to report about female family members.
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ARMENIA AND IRAN
Multiple Authors
series of articles that covers Irano-Armenian relations in pre-modern times.
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ARMENIA and IRAN i. Armina, Achaemenid province
R. Schmitt
a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid empire; the inhabitants are called Arminiya- “Armenian.”
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ARMENIA AND IRAN ii. The pre-Islamic period
M. L. Chaumont
under Darius and Xerxes had much narrower boundaries than the future Armenia of the Artaxiads and the Arsacids.