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OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS i. UNDER SULTAN SELIM I AND SHAH ESMĀIL I
The dynamics of Ottoman-Safavid relations during these almost contemporaneous reigns (1512-20 and 1501-24, respectively) are closely connected with the general socio-political and socio-religious conditions in Anatolia, Persia, and the border regions between the two empires since the second half of the 15th century.
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EXCAVATIONS iii. In Central Asia
Archeological and architectural monuments of Central Asia are mentioned in reports from the 18th and early 19th centuries by European and Russian travelers, merchants, and diplomats. Major archaeological work began, however, only after the Russian conquest of the region; at first it was done by amateurs, especially military officers.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Fascicle 1 of Volume XVI
The next fascicle in the print edition of Encyclopædia Iranica will become available by the end of May 2012. This fascicle marks the beginning of the sixteenth volume and continues coverage of letter “K.” It begins with the city of KASHAN and ends with the start of the entry on the Shiʿite biographer KAŠŠI, ABU ʿAMR MOḤAMMAD. Other multi-part entries, in addition to KASHAN, are KASHMIR and AHMAD KASRAVI.
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ZIGGURAT
by Michael Herles
“Tepe Sialk. The ziggurat lies on the southern mound, and dates to the Proto-Elamite Layer IV. It is probably the oldest known ziggurat not only in Iran but worldwide. ... The ziggurat had at least three stages, the lowest of which measured 56 m from east to west and 45 m from north to south of 45 m, and had a height of 4 m. The second stage measured 35 by 35 m, while from the third stage only two courses of mud brick have survived.”
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