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AḠRĒRAṮ
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
(Av. Aγraēraθa), Turanian warrior and brother of Afrāsīāb in the Avestan yašts and in the the Šāh-nāma.
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AGRICULTURE in Iran
E. Ehlers
The tendency to possess not certain, regionally fixed parts of the land but shares of the total, is made possible by the custom of splitting each property or any part of it into “ideal” or “imaginary” shares or allotments.
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ĀHAK
E. Ehlers, T. S. Kawami
“lime,” a solid, white substance consisting essentially of calcium oxide.
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ĀHAN
V. C. Pigott
With the Tartar conquest of Syria, Tamerlane is said to have deported to Iran the skilled craftsmen he captured. It is suggested that from this point onward Iran supplied itself as well as India and the west with the finest damascene arms and armor, though the steel ingots still originated in India.
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AHAR
ʿA. ʿA. Kārang
the name of a county (šahrestān) and town in Azerbaijan.
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AHAR RIVER
ʿA. ʿA. Kārang
Originating in the mountains of Eškanbar, Sārī Čaman and Qarāǰa-dāḡ, the Ahar river runs from east to west.
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AHARĪ
İ. Aka
(8th/14th cent.), author of Tārīḵ-e Šāh Oways, dedicated to the Jalayerid ruler Oways (757-76/1356-74).
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AHASUREUS
W. S. McCullough
name of a Persian king in pre-Christian Jewish tradition; it appears in the biblical books of Esther (1.1 et passim), Ezra (4.6), and Daniel (9.1) and in the apocryphal book of Tobit (14.15).
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AḤDĀṮ, WOJŪH-E
R. M. Savory
fines collected in Safavid times by the officers of the night watch (aḥdāṯ), who were under the supervision of the dārūḡa.
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ĀHĪ JOḠATĀʾĪ
ʿA. ʿA. Rajāʾī
Chaghatay amir, poet, and companion of Ḡarīb Mīrzā, a son of the Timurid sultan, Ḥosayn Bāyqarā.