Encyclopædia Iranica
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LĀHIJĀN
Christian Bromberger
a city in the province of Gilān. It is located at 37°12′ N, long 50°0′ E, to the east of the lower reaches of Safidrud at an altitude of 4 m.
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LĀHŪRĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD
Cross-reference
17th-century Indo-Persian historian and author of the Pādšāh-nāma, the official account of the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān (1037-67/1628-57). See ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD LĀHŪRĪ.
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LAHUTI, Abu’l-Qasem
Kāmyār ʿĀbedi
(1887-1957), Marxist poet, political activist, and an important contributor to the modern of poetry of Tajikistan.
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LĀḴ-MAZĀR
V. A. Livshits
“Rocky sacred place (?),” name applied to gorges not far from the settlement of Kuč, 29 km southeast of Birjand in Khorasan Province (ostān).
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LAKHMIDS
C. Edmund Bosworth
an Arab dynasty that ruled in central Iraq with their capital at Ḥira for roughly three centuries, from about 300 to 602 CE, generally but intermittently as the allies and clients of the Sasanian kings of Persia.
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LANGARUD
Marcel Bazin and Christian Bromberger
a city and sub-provincial district (šahrestān) in Gilān located at lat 37°11′ N, long 50°09′ E on the Langarud River, which cuts through the city, dividing it into two parts.
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LĀRAK
Daniel T. Potts
a small island in the Straits of Hormuz to the south of Hormuz Island, located approximately 45 kms southeast of Bandar Abbas and 18 kms southeast of the eastern end of Qeshm Island at lat 26°51′0″ N, long 56°21′0″ E.
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LARK
Cross-Reference
See ČAKĀVAK.
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LAŠANI
Pierre Oberling
a Turkicized Kurdish tribe in Fārs. The Lašani accompanied Karim Khan Zand to the province in the mid-18th century.
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LAURENS, Jules Joseph Augustin
Jacqueline Calmard-Compas
(1825-1901), French artist in drawing, painting, and lithography who depicted Oriental and other subjects.