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GRANT DUFF, Sir EVELYN MOUNTSTUART
Denis Wright
(b. 1863; d. Bath, 1926), British diplomat serving successively in Rome, Tehran, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Berlin, then London.
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GRANT, Captain NATHANIEL PHILIP
Denis Wright
(b. New York, 1774; k. Ḵorramābād, 1810), a military officer of the East India Company.
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GRANTOVSKIĬ, EDVIN ARVIDOVICH
Mohammad Dandamayev
Grantovskiĭ specialized in the history of ancient Iranian tribes (especially the Medes, Persians and Scythians) and their civilizations. His research was based on Akkadian and Urartian inscriptions, Iranian texts, and classical sources and on evidence of archaeology, ethnography, and folklore.
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GRAPES
Cross-Reference
See ANGŪR.
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GRAPHIC ARTS
Mortażā Momayyez, Peter Chelkowski
Broadly speaking, graphic art and design have a long history in Persia; their antecedents can be seen in graphic motifs and patterns on ancient clay and metal vessels, stone reliefs, seals, brickwork, glazed tiles, plaster and wood carvings, cloths, carpets, marquetry, miniature paintings, calligraphy, and illumination of manuscripts.
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GRAY, BASIL
John Michael Rogers
Gray's initiation into eastern art, for which there was then no provision at any British university, came in 1928, when he worked for a season on the excavations at the great palace of the Byzantine emperors in Constantinople, followed by study in Vienna under Josef Strzygowski, who was, however, already sunk deep in diffusionism.
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GRAY, LOUIS HERBERT
William W. Malandra
In 1921 Gray was appointed associate professor of philology at the University of Nebraska, where he remained until his appointment at Columbia University as professor of Oriental Languages in 1926. In 1935, he became Professor of Comparative Linguistics, a position he held until his retirement in 1944.
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GREAT BRITAIN
Multiple Authors
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Introduction, ii. An Overview of Relations: Safavid to the Present, iii. British influence in Persia in the 19th century, iv. British influence in Persia, 1900-21, v. British influence during the Reżā Shah period, 1921-41, vi. British influence in Persia, 1941-79, vii. British Travelers to Persia, viii. British Archeological Excavations, ix. Iranian Studies in Britian, Pre-Islamic, x. Iranian Studies in Britain, the Islamic Period, xi. Persian Art Collections in Britain, xii. The Persian Community in Britain, xiii. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), xiv. The British Institute of Persian Studies, xv. British Schools in Persia.
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GREAT BRITAIN i. INTRODUCTION
EIr
During the 16th century, several unsuccessful attempts were made by the Muscovy (or Russia) Company of London to develop trade between London and Persia via Russia.
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GREAT BRITAIN ii. An Overview of Relations: Safavid to the Present
Denis Wright
Prior to the Safavid period, contacts between Britain and Persia were confined to the 13th century, and were infrequent and of short duration.