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BOLOD
Bertold Spuler
CHʿENG-HSIANG (Pers. Pūlād Čīnksāng; d. 1313), the representative of the Great Khan Qubilai at the court of the Il-khans of Iran.
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BOLOḠĀN ḴĀTŪN
Charles Melville
(Būlūḡān Ḵātūn), the name of three of the royal wives of the Mongol Il-khans in Iran. Of Mongol origin, the word Boloḡān, variously spelled in the Persian sources, means “sable.”
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BOLŪḠ
cross-reference
See BĀLEḠ.
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BOLŪR
cross-reference
(Ar. ballūr, bellawr) “rock crystal.” See CRYSTAL.
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BOMBAY
John R. Hinnells, Momin Mohiuddin and Ismail K. Poonawala
Persian communities of Bombay.
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BOMBAY PARSI PANCHAYAT
John R. Hinnells
the largest Zoroastrian institution in modern history, originally founded in the 17th century in order to maintain Zoroastrian family and social values at a time of dramatic change, when Parsis were migrating from rural Gujarat to cosmopolitan Bombay.
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BONDĀR RĀZĪ
Zabihollah Safa
(or Pendār), poet in the 10th-11th centuries, named as the author of a small number of surviving poems, some in literary (Darī) Persian, others in his local dialect.
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BONDĀRĪ, FATḤ B. ʿALĪ
Cross-Reference
b. Moḥammad EṢFAHĀNĪ. See SUPPLEMENT.
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BONGĀH-E ḤEMĀYAT-E MĀDARĀN O KŪDAKĀN
EIr
(Institute for the protection of mothers and infants), founded 16 December 1940 on the order of Reżā Shah, originally funded by charitable contributions.
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BONGĀH-E MOSTAQELL-E ĀBYĀRĪ
EIr
(Independent irrigation agency), established by the Majles on 19 May 1943 to improve irrigation in Iran.