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ḠUR
C. Edmund Bosworth
a region of central Afghanistan, essentially the modern administrative province (welāyat) of Ḡōrāt.
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GUR-E AMIR
Cross-Reference
See SAMARQAND.
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GUR-E DOḴTAR
cross-reference
See BOZPĀR.
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GURĀN
Pierre Oberling
a tribe dwelling in the dehestān of Gurān, between Qaṣr-e Širin and Kermānšāh (Bāḵtarān), in Kurdistan.
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GURĀNI
D. N. Mackenzie
comprises a group of similar North-west Iranian dialects which includes that of Kandula, 25 miles north-north-west of Kermānšāh, and Bāǰalānī, in the region around Zohāb and Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, with an offshoot among the Šabak, Ṣārlī, and Bāǰalān (Bēǰwān) villages east of the city of Mosul in Iraq.
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GURDZIECKI, BOGDAN
Rudi Matthee
known in Persia as Bohtam Beg; Polish envoy of Georgian-Armenian origin and first permanent Polish resident in Safavid Persia (d. Moscow, 1700).
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ḠURIĀN
Cross-Reference
See FUŠANJ.
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GURKHAN
Cross-Reference
See QARA ḴETĀY; CENTRAL ASIA; TITLE OF RULERS.
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GURUMU
Cross-Reference
See BĒṮ GARMĒ.
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GUŠA
Jean During
lit. "corner" or "part"; a term in Persian music designating a unit of melody of variable importance, which occupies a special place in the development of one of the twelve modal systems (dastgāh or āvāz).