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• ARG-E TEHRĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See TEHRAN.

• ARḠANDĀB

  D. Balland

  the name of two non-contiguous administrative districts (woloswālī) in Afghanistan.

• ARḠANDĀB RIVER

  D. Balland

  a river in the south of Afghanistan, the biggest tributary of the Helmand. The present name, in the form Āb-e Arḡand, is attested from the 7th/13th century.

• ARGBED

  M. L. Chaumont

  a high-ranking title in the Parthian and Sasanian period.

• ARḠŪN

  Cross-Reference

  See ABU’L-QĀSEM SOLṬĀN.

• ARḠŪN ĀQĀ

  P. Jackson

  a Mongol administrator in Iran (d. 1275).

• ARḠŪN KHAN

  P. Jackson

  fourth il-khan of Iran (r.683-90/1284-91).

• ARIA

  R. Schmitt

  region in the eastern part of the Persian empire.

• ARIABIGNES

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  an Achaemenid prince.

• ARIAEUS

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  military commander in the army of Cyrus the Younger.

• ARIARAMNEIA

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  a city in Cappadocia mentioned in an inscription.

• ARIARAMNES

  Cross-Reference

  See ARIYĀRAMNA.

• ARIARATUS

  C. J. Brunner

  one of the three sons of the Achaemenid King Artaxerxes II.

• ARIMANIUS

  Cross-Reference

  Latin form of AHRIMAN.

• ARIOBARZANES

  M. A. Dandamayev, A. Sh. Shahbazi, P. Lecoq

  Old Iranian proper name *Ārya-bṛzāna-, perhaps signifying “exalting the Aryans.”

• ARISTAGORAS

  P. Tozzi

  tyrant of Miletus (late 6th-early 5th centuries B.C.).

• ARIUS

  Cross-Reference

  See HARĪ-RŪD

• ARIYĀRAMNA

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  Old Persian proper name.

• ARIZANTOI

  C. J. Brunner

  one of the six tribes of the Median nation as listed by Herodotus.

• ʿARĪŻĪ, ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  Mughal scholar chiefly famous for his alleged discovery of Malfūẓāt-e Tīmūrī or Wāqeʿāt-e Tīmūrī, an autobiographical account of Tīmūr from the 7th to the 74th year of his life. See ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ ʿARĪŻĪ.