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Articles
- Fazlinejad, Ahmad and Kheirandish, Abdolrasool (2019- 2020). “Trabzon, A Bridge Between East and West (Accompanying rulers A. Fazlinejad 79 with merchants in the late Middle Ages)”, in: Asia Minor Studies, No. 8, Autumn 2019 and Winter 2020, pp. 79-102.
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- Foruzani, Seyyed Abu al-ghasem. (2015). "Campaign on Rome, the Lost Wish of Sultan Mahmoud Ghaznavi”, in: seventeen articles (Articles on History, Politics, Literature, Religion and Art). Shiraz.
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