Search Results for “Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province”

• KOROSH i. The Korosh people

  Maryam Nourzaei, Erik Anonby, and Carina Jahani

  Korosh communities are found in villages near large towns and cities, and in the suburbs of these cities, across southwestern Iran. Their traditional livelihood is based on camel and goat husbandry.

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• BEHBAHAN

  Multiple Authors

  a city and sub-province in Khuzestan province.

• KHORRAMABAD

  Multiple Authors

  sub-province and capital city of Lorestan Province.

• BIRJAND

  Multiple Authors

  the capital and a sub-province in Khorasan-e Jonubi Province.

• ASTARA

  Multiple Authors

  a town and sub-province in the province of Ardabil, northern Iran.

• BORUJERD

  Multiple Authors

  town and sub-province in Lorestan Province in western Iran.

• AΘURĀ

  Cross-Reference

  Achaemenid province. See ASSYRIA.

• DEZFUL

  Multiple Authors

  a town and sub-province in northern Khuzestan province.

• ILĀM

  Multiple Author

  a province, sub-province, and town in western Iran.

• GOLESTĀN PROVINCE

  Cross-Reference

  See GORGĀN.

• HORMOZGĀN PROVINCE

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• AḤMAD, NEẒĀM-AL-DIN

  Erika Glassen

  vizier and amir under the Timurids (d. 912/1507).

• Ebādī Aḥmad

  music sample

• LURISTAN

  Multiple Authors

  major province in Iran

• KABUL

  Multiple Authors

  (Kābol), capital of Afghanistan, also the name of its province and a river.

• FĀRS

  Multiple Authors

  province in southern Persia.

• ASFAND

  H. Gaube

  a medieval district (kūra) of the quarter (robʿ) of Nīšāpūr of Khorasan province.

• ĀTAŠ, AḤMAD

  cross-reference

  See  ATEŞ, AHMED.

• KASHAN

  Multiple Authors

  historical city and a sub-province of the province of Isfahan on the north-south axial route of central Iran.

• ḴᵛĀNSĀR

  Multiple Authors

  historical district and town in Isfahan province.

• ASTAUENE

  Cross-Reference

  Parthian province to the north of Hyrcania (Gorgān). See OSTOVĀ.

• ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Ērān, glory of Yazdegerd"; Sasanian province probably created by Yazdegerd II (438-457).

• KARAJ

  Multiple Authors

  a town in Tehran province, located 36 km west of the city of Tehran on the western bank of the Karaj River (lat 35° 46ʹ N, long 50° 49ʹ E; elev., 1,360 m).

• FASĀ

  Multiple Authors

  a sub-province and a city in Fārs.

• AḤMAD-E ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ.

• KAZERUN

  Multiple Authors

  city and sub-province in the province of Fars, west of Shiraz. This entry is divided into the following three sections: i. Geography. ii. History. iii. Old Kazerun dialect.

• ʿALAWĪ, AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.

• GĀNDHĀRĪ LANGUAGE

  Richard Salomon

  The language of ancient Gandhāra, the area around the Peshawar Valley in the modern North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, lying near the border of the Indian and Iranian linguistic areas.

• KERMANSHAH

  Multiple Authors

  a province in western Iran; also the name of its principal city and capital.

• JĀMI

  Multiple Authors

  ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN NUR-AL-DIN b. Neẓām-al-Din Aḥmad-e Dašti, Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi (1414-1492).

• GOMIŠĀN

  Cross-Reference

  a district in Golestān Province. See GORGĀN.

• JIROFT

  Multiple Authors

  sub-province (šahrestān), town, and dam in Kerman Province. i. Geography. ii. Human geography and environment. iii. General survey of excavations. iv. Iconography of chlorite artifacts.

• AḤMAD B. QODĀM

  C. E. Bosworth

  a military adventurer who temporarily held power in Sīstān during the confused years following the collapse of the first Saffarid amirate and the military empire of ʿAmr b. Layṯ in 287/900.

• ĀBĀDĀN

  Multiple Authors

  island and city in the ostān (province) of Ḵūzestān at the head of the Persian Gulf.

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• HAMADĀN

  Multiple Authors

  province, governorship, and city located in the Zagros region of western Persia.

• BOČĀQČĪ

  Pierre Oberling

  a Turkic tribe of Sīrjān in Kermān province.

• AFŠĀR, AḤMAD SOLṬĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD SOLṬĀN.

• GILĀN

  Multiple Authors

  or Ḡelān; province at the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea. 

• ʿABDALLĀH MĪRZĀ DĀRĀ

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  Son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah and governor of Ḵamsa province (1796-1846).

• AḤMAD B. SAHL B. HĀŠEM

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor in Khorasan during the confused struggles for supremacy there between the Saffarids, Samanids, and various military adventures in the late 3rd/9th and early 4th/10th century, d. 307/920. 

• BANDAR-E ʿABBAS(I)

  Multiple Authors

  a port city and capital of Hormozgan province on the Persian Gulf.

• KUHPĀYA

  Multiple Authors

  piedmont district east of Isfahan province, historically known as Vir.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See EBN AL-BAYṬĀR.

• AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. ṬĀHER

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor in Ḵᵛārazm and son of the last Tahirid governor in Khorasan. 

• ABU’L-ḤOSAYN KĀTEB

  C. E. Bosworth

  official of the Buyids and writer in Arabic of the 4th/10th century. 

• BALḴĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD

  cross-reference

  B. AḤMAD. See ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD BALḴĪ.

• FAŻL, b. AḤMAD ESFARĀʾENĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ESFARĀʾENĪ, FAŻL B. AḤMAD.

• GOVĀḴARZ

  Cross-Reference

  a district in the medieval province of Qohestān in Khorasan. See BĀKARZ.

• RĀNEKUH

  Cross-Reference

  old district encompassing eastern Gilān in the 19th century. It became a part of Lāhijān sub-province (šahrestān) in 1937 and was divided between the sub-provinces of Langarud and Rudsar in the 1960s.

• ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀ

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Kawād[has] arranged Ērān"; name of a Sasanian province (šahrestān) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531) in his reorganization of the empire.