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  • ERĀDA-YE MELLĪ

    Pīrāya Yaḡmāʾī

    lit. "national will"; a pro-British political party founded on 19 January 1944 by Sayyed Żīāʾ al-Dīn Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1891-1969), a devout anglophile politician and journalist.

  • ĒRĀN, ĒRĀNŠAHR

    D. N. MacKenzie

    ērānšahr properly denotes the empire, while ērān signifies “of the Iranians.”

  • ĒRĀN-ĀMĀRGAR

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀMĀRGAR.

  • ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Kawād [has] made Ērān peaceful"; name of a Sasanian province (šahr) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531).

  • ĒRĀN-ŠĀD-KAWĀD

    Rika Gyselen

    name of a Sasanian town occurring in post-Sasanian sources only.

  • ĒRĀN-ŠAHR

    Cross-Reference

    See ĒRĀN.

  • ĒRĀN-WĒZ

    D. N. MacKenzie

    the Middle Persian designation of the territory of the Aryans.

  • ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀ

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Kawād[has] arranged Ērān"; name of a Sasanian province (šahrestān) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531) in his reorganization of the empire.

  • ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Ērān, glory of Šāpūr"; Sasanian province (šahrestān) containing Susa and probably created by Šāpūr II (r. 309-379).

  • ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Ērān, glory of Yazdegerd"; Sasanian province probably created by Yazdegerd II (438-457).