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CRIMINOLOGY
Parviz Saney
the study of the causation, prevention, and correction of crime.
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CROCODILE
S. C. Anderson
(nahang, Baluchi gandū), Crocodylus palustris, the marsh crocodile. It inhabits fresh-water marshes, pools, and rivers, and probably the only suitable crocodile habitat in Persian Baluchistan is along the Sarbāz river. The present intermittent distribution of this species in Pakistan and Persian Baluchistan represents a fragmentation of a once more continuous range during moister climatic regimes in the recent past.
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CROCUS
Hūšang Aʿlam
generic name of a large number of hardy bulbous flowering plants of the family Iridaceae.
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CROESUS
A. Shapur Shahbazi
last king of Lydia (r. ca. 560-546 B.C.E.) who pioneered the coining of gold and silver money, was defeated and captured by Cyrus in the plain beside Sardis.
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CROSBY, OSCAR TERRY
Ronald E. Emmerick
(born Ponchatoula, Louisiana, 21 April 1861, d. Warrenton, Virginia, 2 January 1947), collector of an important group of Khotanese texts.
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CROW
Hūšang Aʿlam
a bird of the family Corvidae, represented in Persia and Afghanistan by six genera. Several of their features are more or less reflected in Persian literature and folklore. In poetry the blackness of the feathers (par[r]-e zāḡ) has often been used in similes to emphasize the blackness or darkness of a lock of hair, a certain night, clouds, and the like.
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CROWN
Multiple Authors
(Pers. and Ar. tāj), royal and divine headdress.
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CROWN i. In the Median and Achaemenid periods
Peter Calmeyer
In the Achaemenid period rulers were represented wearing two different kinds of crown. Most common was a rigid cylinder with crenellated decoration, which had a long tradition in Persia; crenellations appeared on the Elamite rock relief at Kūrāngūn in Fārs and were revived again for the crown of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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CROWN ii. From the Seleucids to the Islamic conquest
Elsie H. Peck
It was under the Sasanian monarchs that the crown, quintessential symbol of royal power, received its most elaborate and varied forms. From the earliest representations it is clear that new shapes were not adopted immediately; rather, the royal headgear of the conquered enemy was at first continued.
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CROWN iii. On monuments from the Islamic conquest to the Mongol invasion
Elsie H. Peck
One of the most durable types of royal headgear was the winged crown, first observed on coins and reliefs of the Sasanian Bahrām II.
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