The article analyzes application of the name Adurbadagan to both sides modern Azerbaijan divided by Araz river into southern or Iranian and northern independent Republic Azerbaijan. authors believe that roots Avestan words Azar Atash. As a historical political term, originates from Achaemenids’ Aturpatakan (Atropatena) evolving Sassanian Adurbadagan—a Zoroastrian center empire. Since late Antiq...

Any study of standards is complicated by the existence of numerous meanings of the term, which are often used virtually interchangeably. A few of these uses are most relevant to this book. It appears that the term fi rst came into general use in English at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. According to a contemporary observer, Richard of Hexham ([1138] 1988, 67), in this battle between the En...

it has long been supposed that zraiia vouruka?aiia (in yt.8.8) could be a locative singular form of the zraiiah- and vouruka?a- stems. i shall attempt to show here that this explanation is incorrect. there are, however, several good pieces of evidence in the above- mentioned avestan text that lead us to propose another reasonable explanation on this grammatical issue.

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