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DEŽ
Nasseraddin Parvin
a weekly of news and politics associated with the Tudeh Party that began publication on 27 May 1943 in Tehran and continued with some interruptions until June 1953.
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DEŽ Ī NEBEŠT
Mansour Shaki
(Mid. Pers. diz ī nibišt “fortress of archives,” lit. “writing”), supposedly one of two repositories in which copies of the Avesta and its exegesis (zand) were deposited for safekeeping.
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DEZ River
Cross-Reference
See ĀB-E DEZ.
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DEŽ-E BAHMAN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
lit. "fortress of Bahman"; according to legend a fortress in Azerbaijan conquered by the Kayānian king Kay Ḵosrow, son of Sīāvaš and grandson of Kāvūs, king of Iran.
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DEŽ-E GONBADĀN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
lit. "fortress of Gonbadān"; a fortress where the Iranian hero Esfandīār, son of the Kayānian king Goštāsb, was imprisoned.
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DEŽ-E RŪYĪN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
or Rūyīn-dež, lit. "brazen fortress"; castle belonging to the Turanian king Arjāsb and conquered by Esfandīār, son of the Kayanid king Goštāsb.
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DEŽ-E SAFĪD
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
lit. "white fortress"; Iranian fortress located near the border with Tūrān and conquered by Sohrāb, son of the Iranian hero Rostam by the Turanian princess Tahmīna.
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DEZFUL
Multiple Authors
a town and sub-province in northern Khuzestan province.
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DEZFŪL i. Geography
Massoud Kheirabadi
or Dez-pol, lit. "fortress bridge"; šahrestān (subprovincial administrative unit) and city in northern Ḵūzestān province.
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DEZFUL ii. Population, 1956-2011
Mohammad Hossein Nejatian
This article deals with the following population characteristics of Dezful: population growth from 1956 to 2011, age structure, average household size, literacy rate, and economic activity status.
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DEZFŪLĪ AND ŠŪŠTARĪ DIALECTS
COLIN MACKINNON
Dezfūlī and Šūštarī are two closely related Persian dialects spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Dezfūl and Šūštar in Ḵūzestān province.
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DEZKŪH
Farhad Daftary
or Šāhdez; a medieval mountain fortress situated in central Persia on the summit of Mount Ṣoffa, about 8 km south of Isfahan.
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DHABHAR, BAHMANJI NUSSERWANJI
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
(b. 1869, Navsari, d. 1952, Bombay), eminent Parsi scholar of Bhagaria stock.
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DHALLA, DASTUR MANECKJI NUSSERWANJI
Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa
In 1878 Dhalla came to Karachi with his father, married at the age of nine, and was ordained a priest (navar) in 1890. For a while he abandoned his studies and worked to augment the family’s meagre income, but his scholarly interest never waned.
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DHĀR, QĀŻĪ KHAN BADR
Cross-Reference
See DHĀRVĀL.
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DHĀRAṆĪ
Hiroshi Kumamoto, Yutaka Yoshida
magic spells in the Buddhist Mahāyānist and Tantric (esoteric) traditions.
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DHARMAŚARĪRA-SŪTRA
Hiroshi Kumamoto
a short Buddhist text belonging to the Mahāyānist tradition.
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DHĀRVĀL, QĀŻĪ KHAN BADR MOḤAMMAD DEHLAVĪ
M. Saleem Akhtar
or DHĀR, 15th-century Persian lexicographer in India, so named because he settled in Dhār (hence his nesba Dhārvāl), capital of the Ghurid principality of Malwa.
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DHŪTA-SŪTRA
Yutaka Yoshida
name of a Buddhist Sogdian text discovered at Tun-huang.
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DHYĀNA TEXT
Yutaka Yoshida
designation of a Buddhist Sogdian text of 405 lines discovered at Tun-huang.