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• KHALAJ

  Cross-Reference

  tribe and language. See ḴALAJ.

• KHALCHAYAN

  Lolita Nehru

  in Surxondaryo prov., southern Uzbekistan, site of a settlement and palace of the nomad Yuezhi, with paintings and sculptures of the mid-1st century BCE. The Yuezhi, and perhaps other nomad groups, overthrew the Hellenistic Greek dynasty which had ruled there since the mid-3rd century as successor to the post-Achaemenid governments of Alexander and the Seleucids.

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• KHALESI, MAHDI

  Omid Ghaemmaghami, and Mina Yazdani

  (1860-1925), a leading, outspoken, Kāẓemayn-based Shiʿite jurist from Iraq, whose close involvement in anti-British politics and opposition to British occupation in Iraq resulted in his exile to Iran.

• KHALILI, Abbas

  Cross-Reference

  (1895-1971), political activist, journalist, translator, poet and novelist. See ḴALILI, ʿABBĀS.

• KHALKHAL

  Multiple Authors

  southeasternmost district of Azerbaijan. 

• KHALKHAL i. The Town and District

  Marcel Bazin

  Mentions of Khalkhal and of some of its subdistricts and localities appeared relatively late in medieval geographical and historical chronicles. 

• KHALKHAL ii. Basic Population Data, 1956-2011

  Mohammad Hossein Nejatian

  Khalkhal has experienced a high rate of population growth, increasing more than sevenfold from a population of 5,422 in 1956 to 41,165 in 2011. 

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• KHAN

  Gene R. Garthwaite

  (ḵān), a Turkish high title indicating nobility.

• KHANLARI, PARVIZ

  ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Āḏarang and EIr

  scholar of Persian language and literature, poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, university professor, and founding editor of the periodical Soḵan.

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• KHANLARI, ZAHRA

  Zahra Khanloo

  (1913-1990), author, translator, literary scholar, and university professor. She was among the first women in Iran to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1939.

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