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  • DARRAGAZ

    Massoud Kheirabadi, Philip Kohl

    or DARGAZ (Valley of the tamarisks), a fertile valley about 50-55 km east-west and 30-35 km north-south in the Kopet Dagh range in northern Khorasan, at about 450 m above sea level, in which are located a šahrestān (subprovince) and a town of the same name.

  • DARRAŠŪRĪ

    Pierre Oberling

    one of the five major tribes of the Qašqāʾī tribal confederation.

  • DARRŪS

    Sayyed ʿAlī Āl-e Dāwūd, JOHN CURTIS

    district in northern Tehran east of Qol-hak and south of Qayṭarīya, all former suburbs of the city; it is located about 8 km from the center of the modern city.

  • DĀRŪ

    Cross-Reference

     See DRUGS.

  • DĀRŪḠA

    Cross-Reference

    See CITIES iii.

  • DARVĀZ

    Jan-Heeren Grevemeyer

    a largely autonomous principality with territory on both sides of the upper course of the Āmū Daryā, known as the Panj, until the partition between czarist Russia and the Afghan kingdom in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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  • DARVĀZA

    Wolfram Kleiss

    (gateway), generally an entrance opening wide enough to permit passage of vehicles, in contrast to doorways, which are smaller openings to permit passage through a wall or fence. 

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  • DARVĀZA TEPE

    Linda K. Jacobs

    (or Tall-e Darvāza), a village site in the southeastern Kor river basin, in Fārs province, occupied in three stages from 1800 B.C.E. to 800 B.C.E., according to radiocarbon dates of the finds, and characterized by an essential continuity in both architecture and other aspects of material culture.

  • DARVĪŠ

    Mansour Shaki, Hamid Algar

    a poor, indigent, ascetic, and abstemious person or recluse.

  • DARVĪŠ AḤMAD QĀBEŻ

    M. E. Subtelny

    (d. 1507), Timurid vizier.

  • DARVĪŠ ʿALĪ BŪZJĀNĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See BŪZJĀNĪ.

  • DARVĪŠ ʿALĪ, AMĪR NEẒĀM-AL-DĪN KüKäLTĀŠ KETĀBDĀR

    M. E. Subtelny

    Timurid amir under Solṭān-Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (1469-1506) and younger brother of ʿAlī-Šīr Navāʾ.

  • DARVĪŠ KHAN, ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN

    Margaret Caton

    (b. Tehran, 1872, d. Tehran, 23 November 1926), master musician, renowned teacher, and innovative composer of Persian classical music.

  • DARVĪŠ, ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ.

  • DARVĪŠREŻAÚ

    Kathryn Babayan

    (d. 1040/1631), a qezelbāš functionary who claimed to be the awaited Mahdī.

  • DARYĀ

    Xavier de Planhol

    sea or river.

  • DĀRYĀ

    Nassereddin Parvin

    a Tehran morning daily of news and politics, published with a number of interruptions from May 1944 to March 1951.

  • DARYĀ-YE ḴAZAR

    Cross-Reference

    See CASPIAN SEA.

  • DARYĀ-YE MĀZANDARĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See CASPIAN SEA.

  • DARYĀ-YE NŪR

    Yaḥyā Ḏokāʾ

    lit., “sea of light”; one of the largest diamonds in the world, kept and exhibited in the Jewel museum of the Central bank of Persia (Bānk-e markazī-e Īrān).