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  • DESMAISONS, JEAN-JACQUES-PIERRE

    CATHÉRINE POUJOL

    or Petr Ivanovich Demezon (b. Chambéry, in the kingdom of Sardinia, 1807, d. Paris, 1873) diplomat and compiler of an important Persian-French dictionary.

  • DEUTSCHES ARCHÄOLOGISCHES INSTITUT

    Wolfram Kleiss

    or D.A.I., research institution administered by the German foreign ministry, with a number of branches, including the Abteilung Teheran in Persia.

  • DĒV

    Cross-Reference

    See DAIVA, DĒW, DĪV.

  • DEVECSERI, Gábor

    ANDRÁS BODROGLIGETI

    (1917-1971), Hungarian poet, scholar, and translator. 

  • DEVIL

    Cross-Reference

    See AHRIMAN; DĪV; EBLĪS.

  • DĒW

    A. V. Williams

    lit. "demon" in the Pahlavi books.

  • DĒWĀŠTĪČ

    Boris Marshak

    ruler of Sogdia (706?-22), referred to as “prince of Panč” (Panjīkant) and as “king of Sogdia, ruler of Samarkand” in the portion of his archives discovered at the castle on Mount Mug (Mōḡ), east of Samarkand, on the upper course of the Zarafšān river.

  • DEYHĪM

    Cross-Reference

    See CROWN.

  • DEYLAM, BANDAR-E

    Sayyed ʿAlī Āl-e Dāwūd

    a port on the Persian Gulf (30° 3’ N, 50° 9’ E) in the province of Būšehr at an elevation a little above 1 m.

  • DEYLAM, JOHN OF

    Nicholas Sims-Williams

    or Yoḥannān Daylomāyā (d. 738), Eastern Syrian saint and founder of monasteries in Fārs.