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• 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.

• ARJĀN TOMB

  Javier Alvarez-Mon

  the late Neo-Elamite elite burial near Behbahan in southwestern Iran contains a coffin and a few artifacts and may shed new light on the discussion of Persian heritage as related to the Elamites.

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• ARJĀSP

  A. Tafażżolī

  a chief of the Iranian tribe of the Xyōns and an enemy of Kay Goštāsp, patron of Zoroaster.

• ARJOMAND, Ḵalil

  Rava Azeredo da Silveira

  At the age of 21, in Grenoble, Kalil Arjomand devised an innovative mechanism for graded motorcar acceleration. This achievement, which prefigures his later creativity, was singled out by Esmaʿil Merʾāt, then supervisor of the Iranian students in France and later Minister of Education, in his reports to Iranian authorities.

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• ARLEZ

  J. Russell

  Armenian term for a supernatural creature.