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ARTAXERXES
R. Schmitt
throne name of several Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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ARTAXERXES I
R. Schmitt
a son of Xerxes I and Amestris.
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ARTAXERXES II
R. Schmitt
Achaemenid Great King whose personal name is given as Arsaces.
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ARTAXERXES III
R. Schmitt
throne name of Ochus, Achaemenid king (r. 359-58 to 338-37 B.C.).
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ARTAXIAS I
J. Russell
reigned 189-160 B.C., founder of the Artaxiad dynasty in Greater Armenia.
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ARTAZOSTRE
J. Kellens
a daughter of Darius the Great.
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ARTEMBARĒS
M. A. Dandamayev
Old Iranian proper name * Ṛtam-para-, meaning “who encourages the order.”
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ARTEMISIA
Rüdiger Schmitt
queen of the Achaemenid province of Caria.
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ARTEMITA IN APOLLONIATIS
M. L. Chaumont
city of the Parthian period in eastern Iraq.
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ARTĒŠTĀR
W. Sundermann
a learned calque on and translation of the Avestan raθaēštā.
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ARTĒŠTĀRĀN SĀLĀR
W. Sundermann
“chief of the warriors,” a high-ranking title in Sasanian times.
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ARTHROPODS
ʿA. Aḥmadī and R. G. Tuck, Jr.
or ARTHROPODA, largest and undoubtedly most diverse animal phylum, comprising an estimated seventy-five to eighty percent of all known species in the kingdom; representatives of both major extant subdivisions occur within Iran.
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ARTOXARES
M. Dandamayev
a Paphlagonian eunuch at the court of Artaxerxes I and satrap of Armenia.
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ARTSRUNI
C. Toumanoff
one of the most important princely families of Armenia, an offshoot of the Orontids, Achaemenian satraps and subsequently kings of Armenia, but claiming descent from Sennacherib of Assyria.
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ARTYPHIOS
A. Sh. Shahbazi
or ARTYBIOS, Greek rendering of an Old Persian name.
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ARTYSTONE
R. Schmitt
Persian female personal name.
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ARUKKU
M. Dandamayev
a son of Cyrus I, king of Parsumaš and grandfather of Cyrus the Great.
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ʿARŪSĪ
A. Betteridge
the secular wedding celebration which follows the wedding contract ceremony (ʿaqd).
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ʿARŪŻ
L. P. Elwell-Sutton
the metrical system used by the Arab poets since pre-Islamic times.
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ʿARŪŻĪ, YŪSOF
Z. Safa
rhetorician and poet of the 4th/10th century.