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OTRĀR
C. E. Bosworth
medieval town of Transoxania, in a rural district (rostāq) of the middle Jaxartes River (Syr Darya), apparently known in early Islamic times as Fārāb/Pārāb/Bārāb.
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OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS i. UNDER SULTAN SELIM I AND SHAH ESMĀʿIL I
Osman G. Özgüdenli
The dynamics of Ottoman-Safavid relations during these almost contemporaneous reigns (1512-20 and 1501-24, respectively) are closely connected with the general socio-political and socio-religious conditions in Anatolia, Persia, and the border regions between the two empires since the second half of the 15th century.
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OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS ii. AFSHARID AND ZAND PERIODS
Ernest Tucker
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Ottoman conflicts with European powers overshadowed relations with the Safavids.
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OUPHARIZES
R. N. Frye
(Greek name or appellative Wahriz), general of cavalry in the time of Ḵosrow I.
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OUSELEY, Gore
Peter Avery and EIr
(1770-1844), entrepreneur, diplomat, and orientalist.
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OUSELEY, WILLIAM
Peter Avery and EIr
(1767-1842), officer and orientalist.
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OWL
Cross-Reference
See BŪF.
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OXATHRES
Rüdiger Schmitt
Persian masculine name, attested only in Greek forms, borne by several Achaemenid personages.
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OXUS RIVER
Cross-Reference
See ĀMŪ DARYĀ.
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OXUS TRUMPET
Bo Lawergren
Oxus trumpets are shorter (ca. 10 cm in length) than modern trumpets, but like modern ones they have a flaring bell at the front and a mouthpieces at the back. The most common material is silver, but copper, gold, lead, and gypsum are also used. Some are decorated with human and animal faces of high artistic merit.
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OXYARTES
Rüdiger Schmitt
Bactrian noble, satrap under Alexander the Great.
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OXYATHRES
Rüdiger Schmitt
brother of the Achaemenid Darius III and companion of Alexander the Great.
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OZAI-DURRANI, ATAULLAH K.
EIr
Afghan inventor and developer of fast-cooking rice, marketed under the name “Minute Rice.”
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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.
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O~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Cross-Reference
list of all the figure and plate images in the letter O entries.