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• DELHI SULTANATE

  Gavin R. G. Hambly, Catherine B. Asher

  Muslim kingdom established in northern India by Central Asian Turkish warlords at the turn of the 13th century and continuing in an increasingly persianized milieu until its conquest by Bābor in 1526. The political style of the rulers of Delhi reflected traditional concepts of Persian kingship.

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• DELĪKĀNLŪ

  Pierre Oberling

  tribe of the Ḵalḵāl region in eastern Persian Azerbaijan.

• DELKAŠ

  Erik Nakjavani

  stage name of ʿEṣmat Bāqerpur Panbaforuš (b. Bābol, Māzandarān, 1924; d. Tehran, 2004) popular Persian singer and actress of the mid-20th century.

• DELKAŠ (1)

  Cathérine Poujol

  (b. Bukhara at an indeterminate date, d. Bukhara, 1902), Tajik poet and musician known and revered for melodies performed on the tanbūr.

• DELKAŠ (2)

  Jean During

  an important modal unit (šāh gūša) linked to the dastgāh Māhūr, constituting one of its four main modulations, perhaps the most important in expressive function, which contrasts strongly with that of Māhūr itself.

• DELLA VALLE, PIETRO

  John Gurney

  (b. Rome, 11 April 1586, d. Rome, 21 April 1652), one of the most remarkable travelers of the Renaissance, whose Viaggi is the best contemporary account of the lands between Istanbul and Goa in the early 17th century.

• DELOUGAZ

  Ezat O. Negahban

  (b. Ukraine, 16 July 1901, d. Čoḡā Mīš, Persia, 29 March 1975), archeologist and excavator of the ancient site of Čoḡā Mīš in Persia.

• DELŠĀD BARNĀ

  Evelin Grassi

  (1800-1905), Tajik educator, historian, and poetess bilingual in Persian and Chaghatay Turkish.

• DELŠĀD ḴĀTŪN

  Charles Melville

  eldest daughter of the Chobanid Demašq Ḵᵛāja and Tūrsīn Ḵātūn, granddaughter of the Il-khanid sultan Aḥmad Takūdār.

• DEMARATUS

  RÜDIGER SCHMITT

  king of Sparta (from at least as early as 510 B.C.E.) who took refuge with Darius I.