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FĀRS viii. Dialects
Gernot Windfuhr
Local variants of Persian are found in most cities and towns and their vicinities, and, rurally, mainly in the northeastern parts of the region, all of which tend to reflect a good deal of the vocabulary and idiomatic features of the earlier non-Persian dialects.
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FĀRS ix. PREHISTORIC SEQUENCE
Abbas Alizadeh
Six archeological sites—Tall-e Muški, Tall-e Jari A and B, Tall-e Gap, and Tall-e Bākun A and B—in the Persepolis plain of the Marvdašt area are the primary sources for the study of the prehistoric cultural development in Fārs.
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FĀRS NEWSPAPER
Nassereddin Parvin
name of two newspapers published in Shiraz.
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FĀRS-NĀMA-YE EBN-E BALḴĪ
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See EBN AL-BALḴĪ.
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FĀRS-NĀMA-YE NĀṢERĪ
Heribert Busse; Ahmad Ashraf and Ali Banuazizi
a history and geography of the province of Fārs, with maps and illustrations, by Mīrzā Ḥasan Fasāʾī (1821-1898). Part two includes topics such as the climate of Fārs, its flora and fauna, agricultural products, the position of Fārs according to longitude and latitude, the problem of cartographic projection.
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FARSANG
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See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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FARŠĒDVARD
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
a Kayanian prince in the Iranian legendary history, son of Goštāsp and brother of Esfandīār.
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FĀRSĪ, ABŪ NAṢR ḤEBBAT-ALLĀH
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Official, soldier and poet of the Ghaznavid empire, flourished in the second half of the 5th/11th century during the reigns of the sultans Ebrāhīm b. Masʿūd I and Masʿūd III b. Ebrāhīm. See ABŪ NAṢR FĀRSĪ.
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FĀRSI, KAMĀL-AL-DIN
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(d. 1320), the most significant figure in optics after Ebn al-Hayṯam. See FĀRESĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD.
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FĀRSĪMADĀN
Pierre Oberling
one of the most important tribes of the Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy.