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• OUSELEY, William

  Peter Avery and EIr

  (1767-1842), officer and orientalist.

• OWL

  Cross-Reference

  See BŪF.

• OXATHRES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Persian masculine name, attested only in Greek forms, borne by several Achaemenid personages.

• OXUS TRUMPET

  Bo Lawergren

  an artifact mostly found in the border area between northern Afghanistan and southern parts of the former USSR.

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• OXYARTES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Bactrian noble, satrap under Alexander the Great.

• OXYATHRES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  brother of the Achaemenid Darius III and companion of Alexander the Great.

• OZAI-DURRANI, ATAULLAH K.

  EIr

  Afghan inventor and developer of fast-cooking rice, marketed under the name “Minute Rice.”

• ÖZGÄND

  Bertold Spuler

  in the Middle Ages, a thriving city on the eastern edge of the Ferghana basin, on one of the tributaries of the Jaxartes.