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• 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 REŻĀ

  Kathryn Babayan

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