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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Iran west-southwest of Tehran. Founded in the fourth century AD, it was later a frontier fortress against the Ottoman Turks.
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Examples
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A recount of votes in Kermanshah, a Kurdish province, showed that 'there has been no irregularity,' the news agency reported.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Doris Lessing (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, on 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in Kermanshah in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor.
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Her perspective is different from my parents' -- her late first husband was from a town called Kermanshah, which is not far from the border with Iraq.
Archive 2006-06-01 tannaz 2006
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Her perspective is different from my parents' -- her late first husband was from a town called Kermanshah, which is not far from the border with Iraq.
The Book, Auntie Mohtaram, and One Last Category tannaz 2006
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The above list of the tribes of Kermanshah is the one to which I can least trust.
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The same websites reported that protest gatherings also took place in universities in other Iranian cities such as Kermanshah,
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The same websites reported that demonstrators gathered at universities in other Iranian cities such as Kermanshah, Mashad and Shiraz.
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The same websites reported that protest gatherings also took place in universities in other Iranian cities such as Kermanshah,
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They began by establishing a tiny HIV/AIDS clinic in their hometown of Kermanshah, a western town near where heroin flows across the Iraqi border into Iran.
chained_bear commented on the word Kermanshah
"A bronze Venus posed coquettishly on the mantelpiece, companioned by a pair of gold-rimmed porcelain bowls and silver-gilt candelabra, blazing with beeswax candles. A close-napped carpet that I recognized as a very good Kermanshah covered most of the floor and a spinet crouched in one corner...."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 822
January 3, 2010