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• AΘURĀ

  Cross-Reference

  Achaemenid province. See ASSYRIA.

• ĀΘVIYA

  cross-reference

  in the Avestan Hōm Yast (Y. 9.7) the second mortal to press the haoma and the father of Θraētaona (Ferīdūn).

• AUBERGINE

  Cross-Reference

  See BĀDENJĀN.

• AUDH

  Cross-Reference

  See AVADH.

• AUGUSTINE

  G. Widengren

  prominent Christian theologian and philosopher, born 354 in Thagaste, Numidia.

• AURELIUS VICTOR

  M. L. Chaumont

  born in Africa ca. 325/330, held high positions under Julian and Theodosius.

• AUSTRIA

  Helmut Slaby

  Diplomatic and commercial relations between Austria and Persia have a long history, stretching back to the sixteenth century.

• AUSTRIA ii. IRANIAN STUDIES IN

  X. Tremblay and N. Rastegar

  The present entry is intended as a synthetic history of the organization of Iranian studies (1) up to 1918 in all the Habsburg “hereditary countries,” which included the present Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, also parts of Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, and (2) since 1918 in the Republic of Austria exclusively.

• AUTIYĀRA

  R. Schmitt

  name of a district of the satrapy Armina of the Achaemenid empire.

• AUTOPHRADATES

  M. A. Dandamayev

  name of several Achaemenid officials, especially the satrap of Lydia under the  Artaxerxes II, from 391 B.C. until the late 350s.