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ORONTES
Rüdiger Schmitt
Old Iranian name, attested only in Greek forms, carried by several personages of the Achaemenid period.
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OŠNUYA
C. Edmund Bosworth
(now OŠNAVIYA), a small town of southwestern Azerbaijan, on the historic route from the Urmia basin toward the plains of northern Iraq.
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OSRUŠANA
C. Edmund Bosworth
a district of medieval Islamic Transoxania lying to the east of Samarqand (q.v.) on the upper reaches of the Zarafšān river or Nahr-e Ṣogd.
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OSSETIC LANGUAGE i. History and description
Fridrik Thordarson
According to the 1989 Soviet census, Ossetic is spoken by about 500,000 people; of these, about 330,000 live in North Ossetia and 125,000 in Georgia. These figures should, however, be regarded with some caution as a large part of the Ossetic population is bilingual, also speaking Kabardian, Ingush, or Karachay-Balkar.
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OSSETIC LANGUAGE ii. Ossetic Loanwords in Hungarian
J.T.L. Cheung
One of the features of Ossetic is the number of lexical traces that show ancient contacts with many, often very diverse, ethnic groups.
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OSTANES
Morton Smith
legendary mage in classical and medieval literature.
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OSTOVĀ
C. Edmund Bosworth
rural district (rostāq) of northern Khorasan, considered in medieval Islamic times to be an administrative dependency of Nišāpur.
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OTANES
Rüdiger Schmitt
Greek form (Otánēs) of the name OPers. Utāna(DB IV 83 u-t-a-n, rendered as Elam. Hu-ud-da-na, Bab. Ú-mi-it-ta-na-na-ʾ), which often is interpreted as “having good descendants”.
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ʿOTBI
C. E. Bosworth
the family name of two viziers of the Samanids of Transoxiana and Khorasan.
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ʿOTBI, ABU NAṢR MOḤAMMED
Ali Anooshahr
(ca. 961-1036 or 1040), secretary, courtier, and author of the Arabic al-Kitāb al-Yamini, an important dynastic history of the Ghaznavids.