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- 1.1 History of Iran
- 1.2 Qara Qoyunlu descendants had ruled in Hyderabad India by the name of the Qutub Shahi Dynasty
- 1.3 Spelling
- 1.4 Turkoman is not Turkman
- 1.5 template
- 1.6 Rule
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- 1.8 Herat and Musul
- 1.9 Naming
- 1.10 Flag
- 1.11 the article is not following the English common name for this confederation
History of Iran[edit]
Kara Koyunlular is a Turkish state. And there's no reason to put History of Iran. History of Iran is irrelevant in here. Therefore I removed it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) 21:09, 16 October 2006.
- The capital of Kara Koyunlu was Tabriz, which nowadays is an Iranian city. It is perfectly fair to say that Kara Koyunlu is part of Iran's history. Parishan 22:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It doesn't change anything. If you're going to put a History line, it must be History of Turks, instead of History of Iran. They conquered Iran, that doesn't make them Persian. Therefore we have to remove it immediately and put History of Turks. It is not fair to put Persian History Line instead of Turkish History.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.8.131.52 (talk • contribs) 07:04, 18 October 2006.
- Periods of conquest are also parts of a country's history. You can add a Turkish history template if you want, but the Iranian one should stay. Parishan 03:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok. There's no need to argue then. I understand, you see Kara Koyunlu as a part of your history. But we see Kara Koyunlu as a part of our history too. So I added ours without removing yours.
Qara Qoyunlu descendants had ruled in Hyderabad India by the name of the Qutub Shahi Dynasty[edit]
Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah the founder of the City of Hyderabad, India at the remnants of the Golconda Fort, was a direct descendant of the Turkish Qara Qoyunlu clan. His forefather Mirza Ali Quli Beg had migrated from Multan to the court of the Bahmani Emperor Tajuddin Second at Gulbarga and was appointed the governor of the Telengana Kakatiya province. On the decline and decadence of the Bahmani's of the Deccan, five new sultanates came into being from the five governors of the earstwhile Bahmani Sultanate, of which the Qutubshahi rulers of Hyderabad were renowned. The Qutub Shahis were a mixed blooded people of Turkish origin and a good amount of Multani blood in their veins from migration to the Multan and Sind provinces in India in circa 1500. They followed the Shia Isna-Ashariyya (Faith of the Twelve Imams) of the Shia sect of Muslims. The Qutub Shahi sultanate was put to end by victory of the Grand Mughal Emperor Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Aalamgir over the last Qutub Shahi Sultan Abu Al Hassan Taana Shah in 1698 AD. Lutfullah (talk) 08:58, 13 July 2011 (UTC)Lutfullah. Sources: "The Behmanis of Deccan" by Dr. Harun Khan Sherwani. National Book Trust. New Delhi. India. 1985. "Siyar Ul Mutakhhareen" (Persian) by Mirza Khafi Khan. Translation by Dr. Ghulam Rasool Mehr. Taj Company. Lahore. Pakistan. 1949. "Waqaa I Neimat Khan Aali" (Persian Manuscript) 1748 AD. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library. Patna. India.Lutfullah (talk) 09:04, 13 July 2011 (UTC)Lutfullah
The CORRET spelling of the name is Qara Qoyunlū. The q-sound is an original Turkic sound only lost in modern Anatolian Turkish (which replaces it with a normal /k/ sound), while it is preserved in allmost all other Turkic languages.
Besides the historical facts, the spellings Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu are also used by major scholarly and academic sources, such as the Encyclopaedia Iranica, Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Cambridge History of Iran.
See "Aq Qoyunlu" in Encyclopaedia Iranica (by Prof. Dr. Quiring-Zoche)
Tājik 22:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- Encyclopaedia Iranica is not a reliable source. If you look Britannica you would learn the right spelling. If you like you can look at how Turkmes wrote it at The Turkmen Tribal Federation Ak Koyunlu. Or you can look at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All these resources are valid and famous. No one should think Encyclopaedia Iranica as a reliable source. Because a lot of stuff has been changed in favor of Iran in this Encyclopaedia. My resources are much more known than some Iranic/Islamic unreliable source. Sorry mister, but correct spelling is "AK KOYUNLU" Some other resources: Ackland Art Museum; Iran Heritage Foundation; Middle East Open Encyclopedia; Encyclopædia Britannica Australia; ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ cagataycebi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs)
- Let's keep the discussion together at one place, at Talk:Ak Koyunlu, shall we? Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Actually Encyclopedia Iranicaspecializes in middle eastern history. Now the term Aq- Qoyunlu is correct because the letter Q exists in Azerbaijani Turkish. The letter Q (Arabic Qaf) does not exist in Anatolian Turkish because the Greeks did not have such a sound. The Persian and Arabic and Turkish spelling of the dynasty is : آق قویونلو. The letter ق is Q. Anatolian Turkish uses the latin script(since 80 years ago) and does not make this distinction. So Aq-Qoyunlu is the correct spelling. --alidoostzadeh 05:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Aq-Qoyunlu and Qara-Qoyunlu are turkmen dynasties which ruled Iran. They are part of Iran's history and they ruled Iran for good duration. Most of their official documents are in Persian and the capital of the Qara-Qoyunlu was in the Iranian city of Tabriz making it a very important part of Iran's history. --alidoostzadeh 08:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Turkoman is not Turkman[edit]
Turcoman is not Turkmen. Both have two different meanings. Turcoman comes from the persian words Turk and Manaad which means like Turks. Turcomans were not Turks but iranians who had the same battle clothes and who copied their style of battle.
- Please, don't mess here with assimilation propaganda of Iran against Azerbaijani Turks. Even today Turkmen are called as Turkoman in Persian.--126.96.36.199 (talk) 19:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
History of Greater Iran template covers both, so it should be fine now, no need to insert two different templates when there is one that covers both. Also, when there was two the formatting got kinda messed up.Hajji Piruz 17:36, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
- History of Azerbaijan is History of Azerbaijan. It might have common area with other countries histories but we hsould not mix templates. Roman history might covers hostory of several coutnries but templates of each (for example Spain, Italy, Greece) has been legitimately placed--Dacy69 15:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
- I think too many templates make the page unreadable. It's clear that Kara Koyunlu was Azerbaijani Turkic state, so most appropriate tags here are those of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. But to avoid confusion, we should just have none. Atabek 08:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- As I write here [1], "as I know , the Jahan shah- e- qaraquyounlu , was not only a king of Azerbaijan . He was also king of the Khuzestan , Kerman,Fars and Herat. He considered himself as Shahanshan ... " , then I don't know why the map does not shows the above mentioned areas.Maybe because that is an Arabian map , it is only considering the Arab populated areas and not the places with the vessel kings...
- As I write here [1], "as I know , the Jahan shah- e- qaraquyounlu , was not only a king of Azerbaijan . He was also king of the Khuzestan , Kerman,Fars and Herat. He considered himself as Shahanshan ... " , then I don't know why the map does not shows the above mentioned areas.Maybe because that is an Arabian map , it is only considering the Arab populated areas and not the places with the vessel kings...
I think it's better not to change the Iranian history tag --Alborz Fallah 07:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Alborz, addition of tags makes this article unreadable, we have been through this before. If we add History of Iran to Qara Qoyunlu, then addition of History of Azerbaijan and History of Turkey tags is also a must. Thus, it's better to avoid conflicts and inconveniences and just stay without tags. Let the reader read the article text, and conclude under which history he/she wants Qara Qoyunlu to be. Atabek 07:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Atabek, If we define the greater Iran as the the territories of Safavids and Qajars or even with cultural ties, almost all that area (except Baghdad) was and is part of Greater Iran. And the other important point is what is their "self-consciousness", "what they considered themselves to be", see alborz comment
- and being a Turkic dynasty, have no conflict with having Iranian identity.(Qaznavids, Safavids, Qajars,...)--Pejman47 23:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Alborz, addition of tags makes this article unreadable, we have been through this before. If we add History of Iran to Qara Qoyunlu, then addition of History of Azerbaijan and History of Turkey tags is also a must. Thus, it's better to avoid conflicts and inconveniences and just stay without tags. Let the reader read the article text, and conclude under which history he/she wants Qara Qoyunlu to be. Atabek 07:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Pejman47, Greater Iran is the same fable as Greater Turan. There are independent states now, and there were empire in past with well defined borders. Qara Qoyunlu had very little to do with "Iranian identity", but if you insist on having the tag, then OK, I inserted the tags of other related countries as well. Atabek 00:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- "then addition of History of Azerbaijan and History of Turkey tags is also a must" : Sure it is a must ! I will add this two country myself if no one does that! Don't you think everyone who is studying about the history of Azerbaijan republic or Turkey do needs to know about these two dynasties? The tag "Greater Iran" tends to cover all this categories, but its problem is its name! If that name was something alike "historical states of Iranian plateau and associated regions", that would not provoke negative feedbacks.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alborz Fallah (talk • contribs) 20:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
They ruled the southern Caucasus, Iraq, and Azerbaijan, I dont know why only Azerbaijan and Iraq were mentioned.Hajji Piruz 23:46, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I suggest removing all tags. But definitely History of Armenia tag is inapplicable because Karakoyunlu dynasty is not even listed in the above mentioned tag list. I suggest that we get rid of all tags for clarity of the article. Atabek 01:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Herat and Musul[edit]
In the introduction we read that they established their capital in Herat and they ruled over Musul. I think this sentence needs further explanation for Herat and Musul are not neighbouring cities. In fact bird's flight distance between the two is no less than 1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi). Besides the map excludes Herat. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 05:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Takabeg (talk) 02:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü wrote as follows:
',,,'bu Türkmen devletindeki bayraklar hakkında elde kâfi derecede vesika yoktur. Yalnız bunların bayraklarında Karakoyunlu aşiretler ittihadının bir alâmeti olarak kara koyun resimleri bulunduğu rivayet edilir. (About flags in this Turkmen (Oghuz) state, sufficient record is not oabained. But it is rumoured that there was the picture of sheep on their flags, as the simbol of the union of the Qara Qoyunlu tribes.)[1]
Same thing is written in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Ancak aşiret geleneklerini de korumuş olan bu Türkmen devletinin bayrakları hakkında elde yeterli belge yoktur.[2].
In short, there is no proof to verify the historical accuracy of this flag. Takabeg (talk) 15:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- ^ Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Orhan F. Köprülü, İslâm ve Türk Hukuk Tarihi Araştırmaları ve Vakıf Müessesesi, Akçağ Yayınları, 2005, ISBN 9789753387248, p. 171. (Turkish)
- ^ Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 5, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü, 1994, p. 252, (Turkish)
the article is not following the English common name for this confederation[edit]
I know it redirects from Black Sheep Turks, but that's what they've been know to history in English for centuries. I think the article should be moved to that name. HammerFilmFan (talk) 21:24, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Commentary on Thorne et al. (2012): HIV prevention and treatment in female injection drug users – a work in progress
Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03708.x
© 2011 The Author, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction
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HERSHOW, R. C. (2012), Commentary on Thorne et al. (2012): HIV prevention and treatment in female injection drug users – a work in progress. Addiction, 107: 129–130. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03708.x
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In this issue of Addiction, Thorne et al. [1], demonstrate convincingly that pregnant HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs) who underwent childbirth in Ukraine from 2000–2010 had more advanced HIV clinical status, less access to mother-to-child prevention (PMTCT) services, more adverse pregnancy outcomes, and a higher HIV vertical transmission rate than HIV-infected non-IDU women. More than three decades since the first description of an HIV outbreak among IDUs in New York City [2], these data reinforce the higher burden of HIV in this marginalized, impoverished and stigmatized population. This study's findings also offer an opportunity to reflect on the particular vulnerabilities and barriers to proven HIV prevention and treatment services confronting female IDUs.
A previous study showed that the slow uptake of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in Ukraine's PMTCT programs contrasted with Western Europe where MTCT had nearly been eliminated [3]. Women in the Ukraine were also 83% less likely to receive an HIV diagnosis before pregnancy than Western European women [3]. As such, the data presented by Thorne et al. are particularly pertinent to resource-limited areas where IDU is the main epidemic driver: eastern, central and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
Their data show that PMTCT programs must be added to a list of HIV services with unequal access for IDUs—a list that includes general antiretroviral (ARVs) access. Indeed, in the five countries (including Ukraine) identified by Wolfe et al. [4] as IDU-driven mega-epidemics, IDUs represent 67% of HIV/AIDS cases, but only 25% of persons receiving ARVs [5]. Poor access to ARVs also occurs in resource-rich countries like the United States, partly attributable to health insurance disparities [6]. However, even in Canada, where all persons who clinically qualify have free access to ARVs, ARV utilization by female IDUs is suboptimal [7, 8].
As Thorne et al. indicate, one of the best ways to stop HIV vertical transmission is to prevent HIV infection in the mother. They and others [5, 9] have pointed to the current deficient availability of proven IDU HIV prevention strategies in the Ukraine and other areas of the world. Beyrer et al. [5] estimate that a 60% reduction in the unmet need for opioid substitution therapy, syringe exchange programs, and ARV therapy could reduce HIV transmission in Odessa by 41% between 2010–2015. These programs are urgently needed, but as this study demonstrates, the availability of free, state-run prevention programs does not always ensure equal access to IDUs. Women, in particular, may encounter individual, structural, and environmental level barriers that remain largely undefined.
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A morning trip to the huge Brikama Market in Gambia turned into a major event. As word spread around the market that I had a camera that could print the photos then and there – I became surrounded – at times it was three or four deep. Mums wanting photos of their beautiful babies, vegetable sellers, stall-holders in the fish market, street kids – all grabbing my arm and saying "me next, me next". I was, of course, delighted to help and was handing out little Polaroid prints as fast I could take and print them. It was all good-humored and fun – apart from the odd bumster trying to extract payment – but the stall-holders soon saw them off. It was only when I ran out of paper and there was no sign of my guide Mamadi that I got worried that I might not get out of the middle of the scrum in one piece. Happily, Manadi turned up and got me out before I had to explain to the disappointed mums that I run out of paper!
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Ahvāz was apparently a flourishing town in pre-Islamic times, to be identified either with the Aginis of the Greek geographers or, more probably, with the Achaemenid Tareiana, where the royal road from Susa to Persepolis and the heartland of Fārs crossed the river on a bridge of boats; Alexander's general Nearchus sailed his fleet to this city at the end of his epic voyage from India to the head of the Persian Gulf. The name Ahvāz goes back to the Ḵūzī, the original people of the province, the Ouxioi of the Greek authors, who also gave their name to the province (Ḵūzestān) and whose distinctive language apparently survived till Sasanian times (cf. Ḵᵛārazmī, Mafātīḥ al-ʿolūm, ed. van Vloten, Leiden, 1895, pp. 117; tr. J. M. Unvala, "The Translation of an Extract from Mafâtîḥ al-ʿUlûm of al-Khwârazmî," Journal of the K. R. Cama Research Institute 11, 1928, pp. 80, 90).
The Arabic geographers are confused about the original name of the town. It seems that the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, Ardašīr I, rebuilt it and renamed it Hormoz-Ardašīr (Ṭabarī, p. 820), a name which appears in the Arabic sources in various forms. According to Maqdesī (or Moqaddasī, p. 416) it was that king's son Šāpūr I who built the town on two sides of the river, calling one after God and the other after himself; they were then united under one name, Hormoz-Ardašīr, contracted to Dārāvāšīr (ibid., p. 406). Elsewhere, one town is named as the mercantile center, Hūǰestān-vāčār (the market of Ḵūzestān), and the other as the seat of the governor and the nobles, with the contracted form Hormošīr; the latter was destroyed in the course of the Arab invasions of the 1st/7th century, but the name of the former was translated by the Arabs as Sūq al-Ahwāz. P. Schwarz conjectured that the varying explanations of the sources are attempts to rationalize a popular name Hormošīr (Iran, pp. 315-18; Markwart, Provincial Capitals, p. 96). In the Syriac Christian sources, the region is called Bēṯ Hūzāyē, after the Ḵūzī, and the town itself is mentioned as a bishopric (from the time of the Synod of the Patriarch Isaac in 410 onwards) under the names of Hormozd Ardašīr or Hormezdšēr (I. Guidi, "Ostsyrische Bischöfe und Bischofssitze im V., VI. und VII. Jahrhundert," ZDMG 43, 1889, pp. 393ff.).
When the Arabs invaded Ḵūzestān in the later 630s, after the overrunning of Iraq, the general ʿOtba b. Ḡazwān destroyed the administrative half of the town of Ahvāz, as noted above, but preserved the commercial one. The Persian general Hormozān withdrew from Ahvāz to Šūštar, and after a long siege, surrendered to ʿOmar's troops in 21/641-42 (Spuler, Iran, pp. 11-12; Camb. Hist. Iran IV, pp. 14-15). Later in this century, the region around Ahvāz was the scene of operations led by the Omayyad general ʿOṯmān b. ʿObaydallāh b. Maʿmar against the Kharijite sectarians (cf. Mobarrad, al-Kāmel, Cairo, 1376/1956, III, pp. 307-08). The geographers note that the town suffered badly during the Zanǰ rebellion of the later 3rd/9th century which enveloped lower Iraq and Ḵūzestān. Maqdesī (p. 406) mentions the ruin caused by the town's being occupied by "the veiled one" (al-mobarqaʿ) leading the insurgents, and Ṭabarī (III, p. 1889) records under 261/874-75 that the Zanǰ occupied the town, plundering, enslaving, and burning houses.
Of the 4th/10th century geographers, Maqdesī has the fullest description of Ahvāz. It was still the capital of the province in his time (ca. 370/980), but its prosperity had somewhat declined; a continuator of Ebn Ḥawqal in the 6th/12th century says that in his time, Ahvāz had become depopulated and ʿAskar Mokram had supplanted it as the premier town of Ḵūzestān. Maqdesī was unimpressed by the town, describing its streets as narrow and confused, dirty and stinking. The people included few notable scholars, theologians or lawyers, and there were no good Koran readers (in fact, Samʿānī [Hyderabad], I, pp. 395-97, names quite a few scholars and traditionists from Ahvāz). The people all had yellow, jaundiced complexions, and fever and other diseases were endemic because of the stagnant pools and lagoons in the vicinity, a fact already noted by Jāḥeẓ.
Ahvāz was essentially a commercial center, and its provisions, such as rice flour and fruit, had to be imported. It was the entrepot for Fārs and Isfahan in the interior of Persia; their products were sent down to the coast via Ahvāz to Baṣra. The covered markets (qayṣārīyas) were capacious, being situated, together with the Friday mosque, on the Persian, i.e., eastern bank of the Doǰayl. This was linked with the Iraqi or western bank by a bridge constructed of fired brick, the Qanṭara Hendovān on which there stood a mosque overlooking the river. The Buyid amir ʿAżod-al-dawla (r. 338-72/949-83) had pulled down an earlier bridge and replaced it by a new one, together with the mosque, planning to name it after himself; but the population had refused to abandon the old name. There were numerous water-mills and water-wheels (dawlāb, nāʿūra) along the river, whose waters were run off by qanāts to give the town a domestic water supply and to irrigate the fields. A notable feature was a large dam or weir (šāḏorvān) just below the town, constructed from rocks, in which water was stored for irrigation purposes; this had outlets for diverting water into three channels and sluice-gates to run off flood waters in the winter and spring, and it made so much noise that sleep was prevented. Navigation on the river was highly important at this time, as likewise in Iraq; both Ebn Ḥawqal and Maqdesī traveled on the Doǰayl; the former describes how he traveled downstream from ʿAskar Mokram to Ahvāz, a distance of ten farsaḵs, but after six farsaḵs had to leave the boat and walk along the dry bed of the river, since towards the end of the moon's phase the tides in the Persian Gulf were too low to send up sufficient tidal waters. Of the manufactures of Ahvāz, silk textiles and especially brocades (dībāǰ al-ḵazz) are frequently mentioned, and its sugar was said to be the finest of all that produced from sugarcane in Ḵūzestān. See Eṣṭaḵrī, pp. 88; Ebn Ḥawqal, pp. 251-53, tr. Kramers, pp. 248-50; Abū-Dulaf Misʿar ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950), ed. and tr. V. Minorsky, Cairo, 1955, p. 28, tr. p. 61; Maqdesī, pp. 406, 410-12, 414, 417; Ḥodūd al-ʿālam, p. 138; tr. Minorsky, p. 130. Ṯaʿālebī, Laṭāʾef al-maʿāref, ed. Abyārī and Ṣayrafī, Cairo, 1960, pp. 175-77, tr. Bosworth, The Book of Curious and Entertaining Information, pp. 126-27; Yāqūt (Beirut), I, pp. 284-86; Schwarz, Iran, pp. 315-23; R. B. Serjeant, Islamic Textiles, Material for a History up to the Mongol Conquest, Beirut, 1972, p. 40.
After the decline of the Buyids Ahvāz tends to sink out of mention in the chronicles. The Ḵᵛārazmšāh Jalāl-al-dīn conducted operations in Ḵūzestān in 622/1225 after his return from India, but his main effort was devoted to the besieging of Šūštar (Ebn al-Aṯīr, XII, pp. 425ff.). It may have been during the insecurity of the Mongol invasions that the great dam or weir was destroyed, though traces of it can still be seen today. In the post-Mongol period, Ḵūzestān passed eventually to the local line of the Āl-e Mošaʿšaʿ and then to the Safavids, but by now trade had ceased to pass through Ḵūzestān in any great volume, and Ahvāz sank to the status of a village. In the Anglo-Persian War of 1857, Ahvāz was occupied by a small Anglo-Indian force of General Outram's sent upstream from Moḥammara (the modern Ḵorramšahr). Under the Qajars, the province was known, as in Safavid times, as ʿArabestān, and during the Qajar period was administratively a governor-generalate.
See also Le Strange, Lands, pp. 233-34.
J. de Morgan, Mission scientifique en Perse. I. Ētudes géographiques, Paris, 1894, pp. 275ff.
Aḥmad Kasravī, Tārīḵ-epānṣad sāla-ye Ḵūzestān, Tehran, 1313 Š./1934.
Razmārā, Farhang VI, pp. 29-31.
S. A. Matheson, Persia: an Archaeological Guide, London, 1972, pp. 139-40.
(C. E. Bosworth)
Ahvāz was in the 19th century no more than a small borough inhabited by Šaʿb Arabs and a few Sabeans (1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants according to Ainsworth in 1835; 700 according to Curzon in 1890). Some modest cultivation was carried on; all traces of sugarcane plantations had disappeared, although some ruins of medieval sugarcane mills could still be observed. From 1830 Europeans several times forced their way through the rapids, notably Lieutenant Selby in the steamer Assyria in 1842; but only in October, 1888 was the lower course of the river opened to international trade. This event immediately brought about the development of a new settlement, called Bandar-e Nāṣerī in honor of the shah. It was about 2.5 km south of the ancient village, on a slight rise on the left bank dominating the point where vessels anchored below the rapids. Here the agency of the Lynch Company (Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company) and a small Persian administrative post became the nuclei of the new town. In 1889 The Persian Nāṣerī Company created a service on the upper course. Soon (1890) followed the concession to the Lynch Company for the building of a road to Šūštar suitable for vehicles. Šūštar was the point of departure of a mule road to Isfahan, the activity of which tended to supplant that of the Būšehr-Šīrāz road.
The transshipping necessitated by the rapids was thus the primary source of the development of the settlement. A second impetus occurred with the beginning of oil exploitation in 1908 at Masǰed-e Solaymān. Ahvāz served as a base camp for exploration and as a station for the pipeline to Ābādān. A third major event was the construction of the Transiranian railroad, which reached the town in 1929, crossing the river by a mile-long iron bridge (whose foundations rest on those of the great Sasanian barrage). Data on the stages of the resulting expansion of the city is contradictory; the naval intelligence geographical handbook (Persia, Oxford, 1945, pp. 514-16) gives 7,000 inhabitants in 1930 and 30,000 in 1939, estimates which seem too low; Lockhart (Persian Cities, London, 1960, p. 163) has 15,000 inhabitants in 1900, 35,000 in 1910, and 50,000 in 1920, figures which are certainly greatly exaggerated. The government of the province was transferred there from Šūštar in 1926, and by the time of
the Second World War Ahvāz had become the principal built-up area of interior Ḵūzestān. The British in 1942 constructed two branch lines of the Transiranian, one to Ḵorramšahr, the other to Tanūma (opposite Baṣra in Iraq) which rejoined the main line at Ahvāz. Thus the city's function as crossroads of road, railway, and river transport lines covering all of Ḵūzestān was completed. The population was counted as over 100,000 inhabitants in 1950 (Djazani, Wirtschaft, p. 89), and was given by the 1956 census as 120,000; in the 1950s immigration was very active.
The source of this population was to be sought beyond Ḵūzestān proper, in the entire western Zagros region. In 1956 only a little more than half (54 percent) of the entire population of the town had been born within the limits of its šahrestān; and this number formed less than one-third of the population aged over twenty-five years (adult immigrants) but 77 percent of those younger, indicating a rate or recent urbanization much above the mean rate of Iranian towns of the time. The increase slightly slowed during the 1960s, bringing the population to 202,000 in 1966 and 329,000 in 1976. The mean increase of 4.8 percent a year between the two last censuses shows the city to be the most dynamic of Ḵūzestān, since Ābādān is relatively stagnating. Ethnic and professional segregation remains well marked between various groups still feebly integrated—Arabs and Persians, and sub-groupings of Persians. Several remarkable specializations have been noted. Natives of the Isfahan region hold an important place in retail trade as grocers, drapers, and haberdashers, owners of cafes and hotels, and as craftsmen (smiths, carpenters, and cabinetmakers). On the other hand clockmakers, keepers of baths, masons and pavers, and sellers and repairers of tires are natives of Ḵūzestān. Bakers are from Šahr-e Kord. A small group of Sabeans (some one thousand) specialize in silversmithing, the Jews in pharmacy. Clan organization is very much alive among groups of Arabs and Baḵtīārīs.
The activities on which this rapid growth depended have, however, greatly changed with time. Until about 1940-50 commerce and port activity prevailed. But the Transiranian eliminated the need for transport with transshipment at the rapids and shifted trade to the ports of Ḵorramšahr, Ābādān, and Bandar Šāpūr; at the same time decision making in such matters tended to shift from local trade centers to Tehran. Some industrial activities then came to Ahvāz—a weaving and spinning factory, refinery of beet sugar, and exploitation of the nearby oilfield from 1958. Administrative and other activity (especially agricultural training) also came to the city, and its subsequent function as a regional capital of Ḵūzestān in a broad sense explains the continuation of its expansion.
The city has a modern aspect—a grid plan more or less adapted to the bends of the river. Its initial and still principal heart is on the left bank of the Kārūn; a new quarter has been added on the right bank, where the railway station has been located since the construction of the Transiranian. Besides the railway bridge an imposing road bridge links the two river banks.
W. F. Ainsworth, A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition, 2 vols., London, 1888, pp. 224-32.
G. N. Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, 2 vols., London, 1892, II, pp. 346-53.
Arnold T. Wilson, The Persian Gulf, London, 1928, p. 265 (enumeration of the up-river sailings on the Kārūn in the 19th century).
I. Djazani, Wirtschaft und Bevölkerung in Khuzistan und ihr Wandel unter dem Einfluss des Erdöls, (Tübinger Geographische Studien 8), Tübingen, 1963, pp. 89-91 (with plan).
P. Vielle, La Féodalité et l'état en Iran, Paris, 1973, pp. 183-271.
(X. De Planhol)
Little of architectural interest appears to have survived from the medieval period. On the left or east bank of the Kārūn river, in the old part of the present city, is the tomb of ʿAlī b. Mehryār, a contemporary of Abū Nowās and a follower of Imam Reżā. The present building dates from the 18th century, and is a small square brick structure with a white plastered dome, encircled at its base by a single line of nastaʿlīq inscription. The major part of this quarter dates only from the development of Bandar-e Nāṣerī in the late 19th century. (By the early 20th century it was called Old Ahvāz to distinguish it from the "newer" city on the opposite bank of the Kārūn, actually the more ancient site.) The steel railroad bridge crossing the Kārūn just above the fourth rapids rests on the presumed foundations of the Sasanian dam or weir. It is built on an outcropping of sandstone in the riverbed. Some of the superstructure of the dam remained in the early 19th century for it to be described as a few small arches of very small bricks which were coated with vitrified bitumen. The foundations of the dam are constructed of large masonry blocks. Because the natural barrage on which the dam is built provides the easiest crossing at this part of the Kārūn, it is possible that the spot is also the location of the bridge of boats that spanned the river in Achaemenid times, and of the bridge encountered by Alexander's admiral, Nearchus, when he navigated the Kārūn in 325 B.C.
Although Bandar-e Nāṣerī on the left bank survives as the older quarter of the present city, medieval Ahvāz was concentrated on the right bank in the area of new Ahvāz. Tenth-century descriptions of the city hint at architectural riches (see part i). The poet and traveler Abū Dolaf Yanbūʿī writes of a mosque "spacious and beautiful," which may have been the Congregational Mosque mentioned by Moqaddasī; across the river was the Masǰed-e ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Reżā. Spanning the Kārūn at the fifth rapids, upstream from the Sasanian dam and the city itself, was a large bridge of kiln-baked brick which dated from at least ʿAbbasid times, and which had been restored by the Buyid ʿAżod-al-dawla.
In the vicinity of Ahvāz are several emāmzādas. Some have the white conical or sugar-loaf dome that is characteristic of the region, consisting of a number of stepped stages with concave or honey-combed surfaces. A typical example is the tomb of Daniel at Susa; another, the tomb of Robayn b. Yaʿqūb, 43 miles south of Ahvāz near Ḥosaynīya, is illustrated by G. N. Curzon (Persia and the Persian Question, London, 1898, II, facing p. 344). The type does not seem to be earlier than the Safavid period.
F. Bémont, Les villes de l'Iran, Paris, 1973, II, pp. 204-09.
A. Godard, "Les dômes alvéolés," Āthār-e Īrān 4, 1949, pp. 359-60.
L. Lockhart, Persian Cities, London, 1960, pp. 157-63.
Idem, "Khuzestan Past and Present," The Asiatic Review, October, 1948, pp. 2-7.
R. Mignan, "Some Accounts of the Ruins of Ahwaz; with Notes by Capt. R. Taylor," Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2, 1830, pp. 203-12.
V. Minorsky, ed., Abu-Dulaf Misʿar ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950), Cairo, 1955, pp. 61-62.
N. Pigulevskaya, Les villes de l'état iranien, Paris, 1963, p. 123.
P. Sykes, A History of Persia, 3rd ed., London, 1930, I, pp. 43-44.
Idem, Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, London, 1902, p. 248.
(J. Lerner)
(C. E. Bosworth, X. De Planhol, J. Lerner)
Originally Published: December 15, 1984
Last Updated: July 29, 2011
This article is available in print.
Vol. I, Fasc. 7, pp. 688-691
C. E. Bosworth, X. De Planhol, J. Lerner, "Ahvaz," Encyclopædia Iranica, I/7, pp. 688-691; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahvaz-a-town-of-southwestern-iran (accessed on 28 March 2014).


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Automatic organ donation: the pros and cons
More than 6,500 people are waiting for an organ transplant
More than 500 bereaved families have overruled the wishes of relatives who have offered organs for donation since 2010, according to figures released by the NHS. That amounts to one person in seven on the organ donation register.
In future, the NHS will no longer seek family members' consent as a matter of routine, and relatives who wish to veto the wishes of a patient will have to set out their objections in writing.
The 547 donors who were prevented from passing on their organs could have helped about 1,200 patients, the NHS said. There are currently more than 6,500 people on waiting lists for organs
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- More than 6,500 people in the UK need a transplant, but a shortage of donors means that fewer than 3,000 transplants are carried out annually.
- Advances in medical science mean that the number of people whose lives could be saved by a transplant is rising more rapidly than the number of willing donors.
- The law as it stands condemns many, some of them children, to an unnecessary death, simply because of the shortage of willing donors while, as the BMA puts it, 'bodies are buried or cremated complete with organs that could have been used to save lives'.
- Doctors and surgeons can be trusted not to abuse the licence which a change of the law would grant them.
- Objections to a change in the law are sheer sentimentality. A dead body is an inanimate object, incapable of feeling.
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- Few question the value of transplant operations or the need for more donors. But a programme designed to recruit more donors is preferable to a change in the law.
- The proposed change implies that our bodies belong to the State as soon as we are dead. The assumption is offensive.
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Oregon Occupiers Formally Surrender After A Tense Night Nearly Turned Violent
CREDIT: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
More than a month after armed men and women first seized an Oregon wildlife refuge, federal agents moved in on the last stragglers from that group on Wednesday night and demanded their surrender. The group reportedly agreed to yield on Thursday at roughly 8 a.m. local time, with two conservative public figures shepherding the handover. Two hours later, after a drawn out negotiation with one last occupier, David Fry, the occupation finally ended.
The four holdouts from the original group set up a live stream on YouTube during the tense, hours-long standoff Wednesday, allowing tens of thousands of people to listen in to their end of the climactic encounter. The four repeatedly refused to exit the building they were in, saying they believed the feds were only pretending to allow them to surrender so that they could get a clean shot and kill them all. They also vowed to fire live ammunition at police if they launched tear gas. For long stretches of time, the situation seemed likely to veer in a deadly direction.
But in the end, the occupiers agreed to disarm and surrender themselves in the morning so long as the right-wing Reverend Franklin Graham, who spoke with one occupier by phone during the standoff, was on hand to physically escort them off the refuge. It took more than an hour from the first time that possibility was raised for the group to agree to it, in part because they remained convinced that the FBI would come in shooting overnight and in part because they said they would never agree to go to prison or give up their guns.
Pray for all involved in the #Oregonstandoff. On my way there now. https://t.co/xv8r7B53Aq
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 11, 2016
Around the same time that the live stream ended with the refuge holdouts apparently agreed to yield in the morning, their movement's figurehead was himself surrendering to authorities. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, the figurehead of this extremist movement and the father of the two men who initially led the Oregon occupation, was arrested upon arrival in Portland, Oregon late Wednesday. Bundy's refusal to pay more than a million dollars in grazing fees and trespassing fines has made him a hero to a radical, defiant fringe within the largely law-abiding ranching industry.
The DA has unsealed the Cliven Bundy booking mug https://t.co/XnJeet3mNe #Oregonstandoff pic.twitter.com/lpQfcZ417a
— KGW News (@KGWNews) February 11, 2016
Last night's standoff was small potatoes compared to the one Bundy provoked at his Nevada ranch nearly two years ago, when scores of militiamen forced federal land management officials and later bragged about how easily they could have killed the agents. And Wednesday's events in Oregon had exactly the opposite balance of power, with multiple armored vehicles and a large number of agents surrounding the four armed, agitated holdouts.
At one point, the rowdiest member of the group started yelling about the movie Braveheart, saying he'd rather die than betray the beliefs that drove him to the refuge in the first place. The occupation began when Bundy's sons splintered off from a peaceful protest over harsh prison sentences imposed on a pair of local ranchers and brought a small group of militants to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to dig in for a confrontation.
Credit for walking the group back from what seemed at times like a collective death wish goes primarily to an unlikely figure: Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore (R), a radical right-wing lawmaker and one of the most prominent elected officials to argue that federal authority over public lands is illegitimate.
Fiore has become something of an avatar for the Bundy movement, both through her public work as a lawmaker and in more symbolic ways like sending the occupiers a copy of a calendar illustrated by pictures of her posing with guns. She has also said that arming women is the solution to rape culture, that Barack Obama's White House win meant racism is over, and that occupier Lavoy Finicum's death at police hands after trying to run a barricade and appearing to reach for a gun was a pre-planned FBI execution. She has supported the Bundys both personally and legislatively.
Some of Fiore's ideological recklessness was audible Wednesday, as when she repeated the right-wing notion that local sheriffs trump federal criminal justice officials.
But on the whole, for one night at least, Fiore served as a calming influence, joking at times that the four needed to stay alive to pay the speeding tickets she expected to get on the drive from Portland.
In a more significant moment, Fiore told the occupiers they were incorrectly interpreting the Constitution. The Nevada lawmaker told them that the judicial branch of the government was the only legal and legitimate means for resolving disputes of this kind, urging them to surrender and pursue their cause in court. It's a straightforward legal point for most people, but something of a coup in this community where crackpot alternative legal theories often lead patriots afoul of the actual law.
The tense, hours-long conversation was peppered with miniature arguments about history, the law, and the Constitution, as the occupiers sought to rationalize their actions or resist Fiore's urgings to surrender themselves to a court system they distrust. "We have the right to defend ourselves," the lone woman among the occupiers said at one point. "Even Moses said that, and he was a Hebrew." A man in the group expressed frustration that other self-styled patriots had failed to show up and rescue them from their self-created plight, leading to a meandering and impassioned speech that culminated with "They're trying to take your guns!"
Almost two hours after the expected surrender, just one militant is left in the refuge. Jeff Banta and Sean and Sandy Anderson have surrendered, but David Fry is refusing to come out, saying he feels "suicidal."
Meanwhile, militia supporters arrived to protest:
Militia supporter arrive pic.twitter.com/QVtfeDfnme— Wanda Moore (@WandaKTVZ) February 11, 2016


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Dear Friends,
There is a tremendous difference between talking about what should be done, and rolling up your sleeves and getting things done.
I am a determined grassroots member of the Douglas County family, who will stop at nothing to restore Colorado to its conservative roots and solid foundation on God's Word.
I have stood beside you and fought against the war waged on our unborn children and took action against federal overreach in our towns. I have stood in the face of the liberal agenda to disarm our citizens and have fought diligently to uproot Common Core in our schools. I have demanded observance of our religious liberties by the state and challenged the constant assault on our parental rights. I have challenged the system when voter privacy was in question and have given my all to ensure we leave a better Colorado for our children.
Why do I want to be in the Colorado State Senate? To take our fight for values and liberty, with all of our fervor and tenacity, into the capitol. I have been called to stand as a citizen-legislator of faith and experience in the grassroots struggle for our freedom. I am driven to return our government to its intended form, coddling no sacred cows, and not beholden to any interest but those of my Douglas County constituents. You know me and my work. I ask you to trust me as your new Senator to ensure the will and the values of our community are held without compromise in the capitol. I will set our banner as the cornerstone of conservative values for the state and provide strength to our fellow conservatives fighting today.
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A lawyer for the ten former "American Idol" contestants suing over alleged discrimination on the show has filed a new brief in the case that attempts to use statistics to prove racial disparity among disqualified contestants.
Per The Hollywood Reporter's Eriq Gardner:
The original complaint filed in New York was 429 pages long and covered a good amount of ground from "unconscionable Willy Wonka contracts" to allegedly manipulated reality television to support the notion that there was something fishy about the disparate amount of African Americans who were disqualified from competition over the years.
Since being filed eight months ago, the lawsuit has undergone a couple of revisions and is headed towards a judge's determination about whether it should go forward.
Three weeks ago, the defendants, including Fox Broadcasting, Freemantle, 19 Entertainment and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, brought a motion to dismiss that argued that the allegations were too late, barred by the First Amendment and that some of the plaintiffs lacked standing. Further, the defendants firmly denied that Idol is a rigged contest, that it was hardly falsely advertised and that contestant agreements are valid.
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Since the new Echo base is being released shortly (though it appears I won't get to do the first review ) I wanted to review this earlier Hoth set, since the new set is going to borrow some pieces and design from this one.... maybe. Like a bunch of the sets I own, I saw it on the internet and just mulled them over and over until I really just had to get it. Empire was my first movie, and the original snowspeeder one of my first SW Lego sets. How does it do?
Set#: 7666
Name: Hoth Rebel Base
Theme: Star Wars
Year: 2007
Pieces: 548
Minifigs: Dack Ralter (with Dark Bluish Gray Hips and Light Flesh Head), Luke Skywalker (Pilot, Light Flesh), 2 x Snowtrooper, Light Bluish Gray Hips, White Hands, K-3PO, 2 x Hoth Rebel 3
Price: I paid 10,000 yen
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The Pieces
There's one nice big size book with this.
Random page.
Here the pieces are split. The ice/door is on the left, the speeder on the right, the other parts in the middle. The pieces are unique enough, the white and grey, but there's not enough to do much than make little snow scenes (or maybe I just have a lousy imagination )
Some stellar (at the time) unique figures. Rebel soldiers are nice, snowtroopers are amazing, and K3P0 is fun to have. I quite like the good guy robots. Two rebel pilots since the snowspeeder is a two-person vehicle.
A rebel soldier with the goggles up.
The Snowspeeder
The base is set, the wings will go on these hinges.
At about 16 steps, a double cockpit cover is on, plus a wind up winch on the back.
In the cockpit, the control panel has a nice view of an AT-AT in the distance. I'm pretty sure the old set had the same thing, but not as a sticker
The wings are on, minus the engines, which are meant to come off easily (as we'll see later)
And engines on, with the flaps up. I like the color, very minimal, with spare orange and beige to catch your eye.
The winch on the back has a wind up mechanism to reel it in.
The seats are a little off. There isn't a proper slope to lean them on, but unless the guys are bent at a 45 degree angle, the top won't close. A little nit-picky, but can be easily modded.
The Base
At about 8 steps the big ice chunks are placed. These pieces are unwieldy, but the coloring process is really interesting... blue is injected in the mold, so it has a liquidy look, and so, like snowflakes, no two blocks are the same
16 steps in, the top is placed on, and so is the mechanism for opening the gates.
The doors are put in, and the black wheels will open and close them, those orange lights keep the doors locked in place.
Next we ad the computer screen, which really makes me think of the scenes in the movie.
On the other side is a base for the speeder that turns 360 degrees.
The rectangular piece on the bottom of the speeder fits right in.
And presto! That's a smart looking stand
Other Parts
The turret is unreasonably complicated on the inside. Pressing those grey pieces sticking out will push out the beams. This is not perfect. It doesn't simulate the actual turret, and those pieces fall out if tipped at all. It's a clever design, but not all that efficient. I'm interested to see the redesign.
But, standing still, it looks just fine, and swivels around.
This vehicle is meant to pick up the engine on the snowspeeder. It's good as a diorama part. Not a play toy though.
The snowtrooper's heavy laser. Interesting design on this, though I can do without the falling out lightsaber pieces. A little chunky.
And the probe droid. Fantastic little guy. The only way to make it better is to add a self-destruct button. I like the invisible stand.
The Finished Product
Echo base is looking busy today. Here, that yellow device is holding the engine here (sorry, I forgot a close up )
The Imperials are approaching! Close the perimeter!
The Final Verdict
Design: 8/10 It's solid, but since it's lots of little parts, and even those aren't fully coherent (from the movie) ie. probe droids are from the start of the Hoth scene, while the snowtroopers 30 minutes in, and neither interacted with snowspeeders, nor those turrets (that I remember). It sounds nitpicky, but compared to the 2009 Endor set, which seems totally coherent, that's kind of disappointing. Points for the gate being the perfect size for the speeder to fit through, and the connected speeder stand. Those are lovely. As is the probe droid.
Build: 7/10 It all goes by so fast. The ice set is pretty boring. The best techniques are on the turret, the probe droid, and the snowtrooper gun.
Playability: 8/10 As I wrote, it's not so coherent, but a kid wouldn't care. As a diorama, it's not great, it's good.
Minifigures: 10/10 Great selection, good number, and some unique figures.
Price: 9/10 With the American price, it's great; the Japanese price, reasonable. A fairly unique set with lots of pieces I'd never had before.
Overall: 8/10 Some stuff I love, some stuff I like. I think it depends on how you feel about Hoth. It is an interesting set as it's a playset, not a single ship, which is relatively rare for SW Lego. So, it's a balance of cool and so-so features. I think if I was 10 years old, it would get a 10/10 though.
Too slow, rebel scum!
Cheers all.


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