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BOZ
Jean-Pierre Digard
the domestic goat. The earliest evidence for domestication of the goat has been found in Iran (ca. 10,000 B.C.), as have the largest number of prehistoric sites (ca. 7000 B.C.) showing traces of the systematic breeding of this animal.
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BOZBĀŠ
Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar
Azeri Turkish name for an Iranian dish usually called ābgūšt-e sabzī (green vegetable stew).
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BOZGŪŠ
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
the traditional reading of the name of a mythical tribe in Māzandarān mentioned in the Šāh-nāma.
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BOZKAŠĪ
G. Whitney Azoy
(lit. “goat-dragging”), an equestrian folk game played by Turkic groups in Central Asia. Its origins are obscure; quite probably the game first developed as a recreational extension of livestock raiding.
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BOZORG
Jean During
one of the modes in traditional Iranian and Arabic music, mentioned for the first time by Ṣafī-al-Dīn ʿOrmavī among the twelve šodūd, later on called maqāmāt.
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BOZORG, MĪRZĀ
cross-reference
See QĀʾEMMAQĀM, MĪRZĀ BOZORG.
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BOZORG-OMĪD, KĪĀ
Wilferd Madelung
the second Ismaʿili ruler of Alamūt (1124-38). He was of Deylami origin from the region of Rūdbār.
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BOZORGĀN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
the third class-rank of the four or five divisions of the early Sasanian aristocracy, namely šahryār “landholders,” wispuhr “princes” or members of the royal house, wuzurg “grandees,” āzād “nobles,” and kadag-xwadāy “householders.”
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BOZORGMEHR-E BOḴTAGĀN
Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh
identified in literature and legend as a vizier of Ḵosrow I Anōšīravān (r. 531-78). According to Persian and Arabic sources, he was characterized by exceptional wisdom and sage counsels.
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BOZPAR
Louis Vanden Berghe
a valley situated about 100 km southwest of Kāzerūn and 11 km by donkey path through the mountains from Sar Mašhad, Fārs. The most important ruin in the Bozpār valley is the building known locally as Gūr-e Doḵtar.
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