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 GENERAL INDEX

��Muzaffar ad-Din, Shah, granted a

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Nabarzanes, traitorous general of Nadir Shah, Derbent ravaged by, a Peacock Throne carried to Persia alleged destruction of a throne checked by the Afghans at the defeated the Afghans at Dam-

ghan, loo retook Sabzavar from the Afghans, fountain of, at the shrine in Narin Kalah, fortress at Derbent, Nasir ad-Din, scientific writer, born mentions the peculiar rocks of ordered the rebuilding of Khaira- records a legend about Armia, Nasir-i Khusrau, on the importance National Assembly, Persian, estab- Nestorian see, at Nishapur and at

Tus, 250, 279° newspapers, establishment of, in report concerning the author pub- Nisaya, suggested identification of, Nishapur, mentions of, in Oriental geographers, 178"

tomb of Omar Khayyam near, legends of the early history of, Nizami of Samarkand, the grave of relates Omar's prophecy as to on the burial of Firdausi, 283-4, references by travelers to wells of, Olearius, Adam, account of Baku Omar Khayyam, editions of, re- prophecy of, as to roses on his Othman, Caliph, Nishapur capitu-

��Pardah-i Rustam, mountain cavern,

Paredon, probably the Greek name for Afridhun, 132^

Parliament, Persian, see National Assembly

Parmenion, theory that the sarcoph- agus at Constantinople was the

Patashkhvargar, mountain, 137',

Peacock Throne, at Teheran, de- at Delhi, described by various a royal annalist's description of the question of the identity of the

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