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• ASII

  F. Thordarson

  (or ASIANI), an ancient nomadic people of Central Asia, who about 130 B.C. put an end to Greek rule in Bactria.

• ASINAEUS AND ANILAEUS

  M. Smith

  figure in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities.

• ASĪR EṢFAHĀNĪ

  K. Amīrī Fīrūzkūhī

  a poet of the 11th/17th century (d. 1049/1639).

• ĀŠIRVĀD

  M. F. Kanga

  “blessing, benediction,” a set of prayers and admonitions recited by the two officiating Parsi priests in the Zoroastrian marriage ceremony.

• ʿASJADĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

   a poet of the first half of the 5th/11th century.

• ASK SPRINGS

  E. Ehlers

  Situated at the foot of Damāvand (5,670 m) in the valley of the Harāz-rūd, Ask is one of a number of places in the Alborz where one finds thermal mineral springs.

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• ĀŠKĀBĀD

  Cross-Reference

  See ASHKHABAD.

• ĀŠKĀNĪĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ARSACIDS.

• ʿASKAR MOKRAM

  C. E. Bosworth

  a town of the medieval Islamic province of Ahvāz (Ḵūzestān) and also the name of the district of which it was the administrative center.

• ʿASKARĀN

  KAMRAN EKBAL

  village in Qarābāḡ about seven miles northeast of Stepanakert in the eastern Caucasus, where peace negotiations between Russia and Persia took place in 1225/1810.