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The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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CROCODILE
(nahang, Baluchi gandū), Crocodylus palustris, the marsh crocodile. It inhabits fresh-water marshes, pools, and rivers, and probably the only suitable crocodile habitat in Persian Baluchistan is along the Sarbāz river. The present intermittent distribution of this species in Pakistan and Persian Baluchistan represents a fragmentation of a once more continuous range during moister climatic regimes in the recent past.
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MANICHEAN ART
term referring to objects with aesthetic appeal made for, and/or used in association with, the Manichean religion. Apart from a rock-crystal seal in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, no other item of Manichean art is known from Sasanian Mesopotamia, where the religion originated.