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• ULUḠZĀDA, SĀTIM

  Keith Hitchins

  (1911-1997), Tajik novelist, dramatist, and critic.

• URARTU IN IRAN

  Wolfram Kleiss

  The territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and the Republic of Armenia. Its center was the Armenian highland between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan. It s first mentioned as “Nairi countries” in Assyrian sources in the time of Salmanasser I, 1274 BCE.

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• URDU

  David Matthews

  National language (qaumī zabān) of Pakistan and one of the fifteen officially recognized languages of India. It is spoken, according to recent censuses made in India and Pakistan, by an estimated 53 million people in the South Asian subcontinent.

• URGUT

  Alexei Savchenko

  town ca. 30 km southeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, containing monuments of  significance. Urgut is first mentioned as the location of a monastery of the Church of the East. Finds include wearable crosses of iron, ceramic wares with Christian motifs, a bronze censer,  and fragments of stucco decoration.

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• URMIA ORTHODOKSETA

  Lina Yakubova

  a monthly periodical published in Urmia by the Russian Orthodox Church Mission from 1904 to 1914, with one interruption.

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• Urmia, Lake

  Eckhart Ehlers

  Fluctuations of Lake Urmia’s size and oscillations of its water table are closely connected with the geographical environment of its basin.  Like so many other drainage basins in Iran, Lake Urmia is the center of an internal drainage basin and distinctly separated from other basins by a high mountain environment on all sides. 

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• URSHAN, ANDREŌS BAR DĀWĪD

  Stephen A. Schmidt

  (1884-1967), known as the “Persian Evangelist,” Assyrian evangelist and author, born in the village of Ābājālui, Azerbaijan; he attended the American Presbyterian College of Urmia, where he had a ‘born again’ experience in 1900.

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• UXII

  Cross-Reference

  (Greek Uxioi) “Uxians.”  See IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic.

• U~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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  list of all the figure and plate images in the U entries