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• CHINKARA

  Khushal Habibi

  or CHIKARA (Gazella bennetti, Indian gazelle), a small antelope of slender build; its tawny coat has poorly marked facial and body stripes.

• CHIONITES

  Wolfgang Felix

  a tribe of probable Iranian origin that was prominent in Bactria and Transoxania in late antiquity.

• CHITON

  Cross-Reference

  See CLOTHING i. Median and Achaemenid periods, iii. Sasanian period.

• CHITRAL

  Nigel J. R. Allan, Georg Buddruss

  (Čitrāl), river valley in the upper Indus system.

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• CHLORITE

  Philip Kohl

  a mineral consist­ing of a group of closely related hydrous magnesium aluminum silicates of exceedingly varied chemical com­positions owing to isomorphous substitutions.

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• CHOAMANI

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  name of an eastern Iranian tribe (perhaps located in western Bactria), mentioned only by Pomponius Mela in an enumeration of the inhabitants of the interior lands.

• CHOANA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  the name of two Iranian towns mentioned by Ptolemy.

• CHOARA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  or CHOARENE; a town or village in Parthia mentioned by Ptolemy (6.5.3) and called “the most attractive place of Parthia” by Pliny.

• CHOASPES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  (or Coaspēs), ancient name of three rivers.

• CHOBANIDS

  Charles Melville and ʿAbbās Zaryāb

  a fam­ily of Mongol origin descended from the amir Čobān Noyan.

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