ANTIOCH, city name given to a number of Seleucid foundations. Antioch in Persis, a settlement founded or refounded in Persis…

ANSHAN (or ANZAN), the name of an important Elamite region in western Fārs and of its chief city. Akkadian and…

ISFAHAN iv. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD The name of Isfahan. In Middle Persian sources, Isfahan (Mid. Pers. Spahān) occurs clearly as the…