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DICHŌR
Erich Kettenhofen
city conquered by Šāpūr I (240-70) during his second campaign against Rome in 253, as recorded in his inscription at Kaʿba-ye Zardošt.
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DICKSON, MARTIN BERNARD
Kathryn Babayan
(b. Brooklyn, 22 March 1924, d. Princeton, 14 May 1991), Iranist and Central Asianist who specialized in Safavid history.
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DICTIONARIES
ʿAlī Ašraf Ṣādeqī, John R. Perry, Ḥosayn Sāmeʿī
The first extant Persian dictionary is Lōḡat-e fors of the poet Asadī Ṭūsī (q.v.). Entries are arranged according to their final letters and illustrated by examples from poetry. Over ten manuscripts are known to have reached us, all of which differ in the number of entries and verses as well as the entry definitions.
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DIDYMA
Rüdiger Schmitt
(Gk. tà Dídyma, probably of Carian origin), district ca. 20 km south of the Ionian Miletus and site of a pre-Greek sanctuary of Apollo, to which a famous oracle was attached.
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DIEU, LOUIS (LUDOVICUS) DE
J.T.P. de Bruijn
(b. Vlissingen, Flushing, April 7, 1590; d. Leiden, Dec. 23, 1642), Dutch orientalist.
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DIEULAFOY, JANE HENRIETTE MAGRE
Jean Calmard
(b. Toulouse, 29 June 1851, d. Château de Langlade, Haute-Garonne, 25 May 1916), French archeologist, explorer, folklorist, novelist, playwright, and journalist.
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DIEULAFOY, MARCEL-AUGUSTE
Pierre Amiet
(b. Toulouse, 3 August 1844, d. Paris, 25 February 1920), French archeologist.
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DIEZ, ERNST
Jens Kröger
(b. 27 January 1878, d. 8 July 1961), Austrian historian of Iranian and Islamic art.
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DIGOR
F. Thordarson
Ossetic tribal name.
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DILL
Hūšang Aʿlam
Anethum graveolens L. (fam. Umbellifera), an herb widely cultivated in Persia.