The phoneme /r/ can also form a syllable peak; both the way Persian names with syllabic /r/ (such as Brdiya) are rendered in Elamite and its further development in Middle Persian suggest that before the syllabic /r/, an epenthetic vowel i had developed already in the Old Persian period, which later became u after labials.
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The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to the Greek name Xerxes, both deriving from the Old Persian language Xšayārša.
A "classical" period usually corresponds to a flowering of literature following an "archaic" period, such as Classical Latin succeeding Old Latin, Classical Sumerian succeeding Archaic Sumerian, Classical Sanskrit succeeding Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Persian succeeding Old Persian.
Spitamenes (in old Persian Spitamaneh; Greek Σπιταμένης; born 370 BC and killed 328 BC) Sogdian warlord, leader of the uprising in Sogdiana and Bactria against Alexander of Macedon 329 BC.
Attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform started in 1711 when some of Darius's inscriptions were published by Jean Chardin.
Sardār-e Īravānī was the title of Hossein Khan Sardar Qajar (1740-1830) and his brother Hasan Khan Qajar, the last governor of Eravan (Iravan, Jerevan, Yerevan) 1807-28, the son of Mohammad Khan Qajar (Amir Kabir) uncle of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar the founder of Qajar Dynasty in Persia and also the ancestor of family Sardari Iravani, an old Persian Qajar family.