Table of Contents
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BARZĪN
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
(from Pahlavi Burzēn), the name of several figures in the Šāh-nāma.
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BAŠĀKERD
B. Spooner
a roughly rectangular mountainous district (dehestān) east of Mīnāb and north of Jāsk. The topography and the natural conditions are similar to Makrān to the immediate east.
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BASAWAL
Sh. Kuwayama
the site of a Buddhist cave temple complex in eastern Afghanistan. The caves, 150 in all, are partly hewn out in two rows and arranged in seven groups, which presumably correspond to the seven monastic institutions of Buddhist times.
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BĀṢERĪ
F. Barth
a pastoral nomadic tribe of Fārs belonging to the Ḵamsa confederacy. The nomads keep sheep, intermingled with 10-20 percent goats, and use donkeys for transport.
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BĀŠGĀH-E AFSARĀN
M. Ṣāneʿī
(Officers’ Club), an impressive building in Tehran, built in 1939.
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BĀŠGĀH-E ARĀMENA
ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
(the Armenian Club), a non-profit, non-political social club, founded 1 January 1918 by Armenians in Tehran.
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BĀŠGĀH-E MEHRAGĀN
Ḥ. Maḥmūdī
(Mehragān Club), an organization of the Iran Teachers Association open to teachers, students, and other intellectuals in Tehran and eventually in the provinces, 1952-62.
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BASIL
Hušang Aʿlam
Ocimum L. ssp. (fam. Labiatae), now commonly called rayḥān in Persian, an aromatic plant. Ocimum basilicum L., sweet basil or basil royal, is named šāh-esparam “the royal herb.”
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BASILIUS OF CAESAREA
J. P. Asmussen
or Basilius the Great (ca. A.D. 330-79), bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 370, after Eusebius, who wrote regarding the Magi.
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BAŠKARDI
P. O. Skjærvø
(Bašākerdī), collective designation for numerous dialects spoken in southeastern Iran from Bandar-e ʿAbbās eastward, forming a transition from the dialects spoken in Fārs and Lārestān to Baluchi.