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• ASSYRIA

  M. Dandamayev and È. Grantovskiĭ, M. Dandamayev, K. Schippmann

  i. The Kingdom of Assyria and its relations with Iran. ii. Achaemenid Aθurā. iii. Parthian Assur.

• ASSYRIANS IN IRAN

  R. Macuch, A. Ishaya

  Assyrians (Āšūrīs) is the term for the modern, East Syrian Christian communities in Iran. 

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• ASTABED

  M. L. Chaumont

  The word astabid occurs in two Syriac texts as the title of a high-ranking Iranian officer and is applied to three different individuals.

• ĀŠTĀD

  G. Gnoli

  Old Iranian female deity of rectitude and justice.

• ĀŠTĀD YAŠT

  P. O. Skjærvø

  Yt. 18, though dedicated to Aštād, the goddess of rectitude, does not mention her.

• ĀSTĀN-E QODS-E RAŻAWĪ

  ʿA.-Ḥ. Mawlawī, M. T.Moṣṭafawī, and E. Šakūrzāda

  the complex of buildings surrounding the tomb of the Imam ʿAlī al-Reżā at Mašhad.

• ĀSTĀNA

  Eckart Ehlers, Marcel Bazin, and Christian Bromberger

  a township and a district of Lāhīǰān in the province of Gīlān.

• ĀSTĀRĀ

  M. Bazin

  a town and a district in the Ṭāleš region on the Caspian coast.

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• ASTARĀBĀD

  C. E. Bosworth, S. Blair

  (or ESTERĀBĀD), the older Islamic name for the modern town of Gorgān in northeastern Iran, and also the name of an administrative province in Qajar times.

• ASTARĀBĀD BAY

  E. Ehlers

  a lagoon in the extreme southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.