DORŪD, a town in Lorestān province, situated at the foot of Oštorānkūh, at an altitude of 1,460 m (33° 28’…

DONBOLĪ, name of a turkicized Kurdish tribe in the Ḵoy and Salmās regions of northwestern Azarbaijan and of the leading…

COFFEEHOUSE (qahva-ḵāna), a shop and meeting place where coffee (q.v.) is prepared and served. In Persia tea replaced coffee as…

COFFEE (Ar. qahwa, Pers., qahva, etymology uncertain), a drink made by steeping in boiling water the dried, roasted, and ground…

i. CITY QUARTER Darrūs appears to be an ancient settlement, probably originally known as Garrūs (Kasrawī, p. 12). Until the…

EDUCATION ix. PRIMARY SCHOOLS A movement to introduce modern primary education into Persia began in 1315/1897, when the newly appointed…

DEYLAM, BANDAR-E, a port on the Persian Gulf (30° 3’ N, 50° 9’ E) in the province of Būšehr at…

DEHBĪD, town in the šahrestān of Ābāda, Fārs (30° 37’ N, 53° 12’ E), situated on the Shiraz-Isfahan road in…

DAŠT-E ARŽAN (also Arjan, Arzan, lit., “plain of the mountain or bitter almond”; Forṣat Šīrāzī, p. 275), a mountain basin…