Chelminar

English

Proper noun

Chelminar

(historical, obsolete) Alternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
  CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſopolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...

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