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KARAJ i. Modern City
Bernard Hourcade
The area of Karaj has been inhabited since the Bronze Age at Tepe Khurvin, and the Iron Age at Kalāk on the left bank of the Karaj River.
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KARAJ ii. Population
Habibollah Zanjani
Since the 1976 census, when Tehran was no longer counted within the boundaries of Central (Markazi) province and formed its own province, Karaj has been one of its sub-provinces.
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KARAJ DAM
Cross-reference
See AMIR KABIR DAM (forthcoming online).
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KARAJ RIVER
Bernard Hourade
the second major permanent river of the central Iranian plateau after the Zāyandarud river.
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KARAKI
Rula Jurdi Abisaab
Nur-al-Din Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAli b. Ḥosayn b. ʿAbd-al-ʿĀli, known as Moḥaqqeq al-Ṯāni or Moḥaqqeq ʿAli (1464-1533), a major Imamite jurist.
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KARĀMA
Erik S. Ohlander
“(saintly) marvel, wonder, or miracle” in Arabic (pl. karāmāt).
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KARAPAN
William Malandra
(or Karpan), designation of members of a class of daivic priests opposed to the religion of Zarathustra.
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ḴᵛĀRAZMŠĀH
Cross-Reference
title assumed by various rulers of Ḵᵛārazm (Chorasmia). See CHORASMIA ii. In Islamic times and ĀL-E AFRĪḠ.
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KARBALA
Meir Litvak
a city in Iraq, situated about 90 km southwest of Baghdad. It is one of the four Shiʿite shrine cities (with Najaf, Kāẓemayn, and Sāmarrāʾ) in Iraq known in Shʿite Islam as ʿatabāt-e ʿaliāt or ʿatabāt-e moqaddasa.
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KÁRDAKES
Rüdiger Schmitt
the name of a Persian military unit mentioned several times by Greek and Roman authors, nearly always in relation to the Achaemenid period (cf. Huyse, p. 199, n. 6).