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  • DARVĪŠ, ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ.

  • DARYĀ

    Xavier de Planhol

    sea or river.

  • DĀRYĀ

    Nassereddin Parvin

    a Tehran morning daily of news and politics, published with a number of interruptions from May 1944 to March 1951.

  • DARYĀ-YE ḴAZAR

    Cross-Reference

    See CASPIAN SEA.

  • DARYĀ-YE MĀZANDARĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See CASPIAN SEA.

  • DARYĀ-YE NŪR

    Yaḥyā Ḏokāʾ

    lit., “sea of light”; one of the largest diamonds in the world, kept and exhibited in the Jewel museum of the Central bank of Persia (Bānk-e markazī-e Īrān).

  • DARYĀ-YE ʿOMĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿOMĀN, SEA OF.

  • DARYĀ-YE SĪĀH

    Cross-Reference

    See BLACK SEA.

  • DARYĀBEYGĪ

    Guity Nashat

    lit. "sea lord"; originally an Ottoman naval title dating from the 15th century.

  • DARYĀČA

    Cross-Reference

    For individual lakes, see entries under the respective names.

  • DĀRZĪN

    Mehrdad Shokoohy

    village on the road between Kermān and Bam on the site of a large, early medieval town. Ruins of  buildings of different periods still stand. The earliest are probably three small forts of similar form, built of straw-tempered rectangular mud bricks, which may date from the 8th or 9th century.

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  • DĀŠ ĀKOL

    SOHILA SAREMI

    a story in the first collection of short stories by Sadeq Hedayat.

  • DASĀTĪN

    Jean During

    the term for modes in early musical theory, translated into Arabic as aṣābeʿ (fingers) and sometimes also as mawājeb “obligations, laws.”

  • DASĀTĪR

    Fatḥ-Allāh Mojtabaʾī

    the most important tract of the Āḏar Kayvānī sect, almost certainly the work of its founder, Āḏar Kayvān.

  • DASCYLIUM

    Michael Weiskopf

    Achaemenid satrapy in northwestern Anatolia, part of the Persian empire until the 330s BCE. The borders varied, extending as far south as the Mysian plain and the southern Troad and east into the land of the Bithynian peoples; some satraps controlled both sides of the Hellespont.

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  • DASKARA(T AL- MALEK)

    Cross-reference

    or DASKARAT AL-MALEK. See DASTGERD.

  • DAŠLĪ

    Pierre Amiet

    or Dashly; oasis situated south of the Āmū Daryā, on the desert plain of northern Afghanistan, ancient Bactria, now in the province of Jūzjān ca 35 km northeast of Āqča.

  • DAŠNAK

    ARAM ARKUN

    short name for Hay Yełapʿoxakan Dašnakcʿutʿiwn (Armenian revolutionary federation [A.R.F.]) or its members.

  • DAŠT

    Eckart Ehlers

    lit. "plain, open ground"; Persian term for a very specific type of landscape, the extended gravel piedmonts and plains that are almost ubiquitous in arid central Persia.

  • DAŠT-E ARŽAN

    Sayyed ʿAlī Āl-e Dāwūd

    (also Arjan, Arzan, lit., “plain of the mountain or bitter almond”), a mountain basin ca. 14 x 5-6 km situated 1,500 m above sea level on the road from Shiraz to Kāzerūn.