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CTESIPHON
Jens Kröger
(Ṭīsfūn), ancient city on the Tigris adjacent to the Hellenistic city of Seleucia, ca. 35 km south of the later site of Baghdad.
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ČŪB BĀZĪ
Robyn C. Friend
a category of folk dance found all over Persia (Hamada) and distinguished from other types of folk dance by the fact that the dancers carry sticks, which they strike together.
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ČŪB ḴAṬṬ
Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yusofi
a stick 20-30 cm long formerly used by neighborhood shopkeepers, especially butchers and bakers, to keep accounts.
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Čub-bāzi
music sample
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CUCUMBER
Hūšang Aʿlam
Cucumis sativus L. (of the family Cucurbitaceae), in Persia generally called ḵīār (with occasional slight variants), a term that is also employed to designate the fruit of certain other plants.
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CUCURBITAE
Cross-Reference
See CUCUMBER.
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CULTURE
Cross-Reference
See FARHANG.
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CUMIN
Hūšang Aʿlam
an umbelliferous plant of the Old World and its aromatic seeds.
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CUMONT, FRANZ VALÉRY MARIE
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
classical philologist and historian of religions, whose research resulted in a substantial contribution to the understanding of Mithraism and other oriental religions in the Roman empire.
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CUNAXA
A. Shapur Shahbazi
the Greek form of the name of a village located some 50 miles north of Babylon, where a decisive battle was fought on 3 September 401 B.C.E. between Cyrus the Younger and his brother Artaxerxes II.