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• ARVAND GUŠNASP

  D. M. Lang

  Sasanian marzbān of Georgia under Ḵosrow I.

• ARVAND-RŪD

  M. Kasheff

  name given to the river Tigris in some passages in the Mid. Pers. books.

• ARYA

  H. W. Bailey

  an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.

• ARYAMAN

  Cross-Reference

  See AIRYAMAN.

• ĀRYĀMEHR

  Cross-Reference

  See MOḤAMMAD REŻA SHAH PAHLAVI.

• ĀRYĀNĀ

  ʿA. Ḥabībī

  Bulletin of the Historical Society of Afghanistan.  

• ARYANA VAĒJAH

  Cross-Reference

  See ĒRĀN-WĒZ.

• ARYANDES

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  Achaemenid satrap of Egypt.

• ARYANPUR, AMIR-HOSAYN

  MEHRDAD MASHAYEKHI

  noted engagé intellectual, scholar, and educator of the 20th century Iran.

• ARYANS

  R. Schmitt

  self designation of the peoples of Ancient India and Ancient Iran who spoke Aryan languages. Aryan is thus basically a linguistic concept, denoting the closely related Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages .