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DURA EUROPOS
Pierre Leriche, D. N. MacKenzie
ruined city on the right bank of the Euphrates between Antioch and Seleucia on the Tigris, founded in 303 BCE by Nicanor, a general of Seleucus I. Its military function of the Greek period was abandoned under the Parthians, but at that time it was an administrative and economic center.
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DURAND, HENRY MORTIMER
Rose L. Greaves
(b. Sehore, Bhopal State, India, 14 February 1850, d. Polden, Somerset, England, 8 June 1924), British diplomat and envoy to Tehran at the end of the 19th century.
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DŪRAOŠA
Jean Kellens
Avestan word, attested once in the Older Avesta, in the Younger Avesta the preferred and exclusive epithet of haoma, the ritual liquid.
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DŪRĀSRAW
D. N. MacKenzie
according to the Pahlavi tradition the name of two legendary personages in the history of Zoroastrianism.
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DURIS OF SAMOS
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
(Gk. Doûris), (ca. 340-281/270 B.C.E.), Greek historiographer of the early Hellenistic period.
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DŪRMEŠ, KHAN
Roger M. Savory
or Dormeš; b. ʿAbdī Beg TAVĀČĪ ŠĀMLŪ, powerful Qezelbāš amir, brother-in-law and confidant of Shah Esmāʿīl I.
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DŪRNEMĀ-YE ĪRĀN
Nassereddin Parvin
weekly of politics and culture edited and published by the Persian writer, scholar, and filmmaker ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Sepantā in Bombay from 30 November 1928 to March 1929.
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DÜRRI EFENDI, AḤMAD
Tahsin Yazici
(or Dorrī Afandī; (b. Van, date unknown, d. Istanbul, 1722), Ottoman poet, civil servant, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Tehran and wrote Sefārat-nāma, the first Turkish account of Safavid Persia.
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DUSHANBE
Muriel Atkin
capital and most populous city of Tajikistan.
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DŪST MOḤAMMAD KHAN BĀRAKZĪ
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See DŌST MOḤAMMAD KHAN.