Chelminar

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  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis. alt-of, alternative, historical, obsolete

    "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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"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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