Avesta
Americannoun
noun
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Peters says about 1,600 people have contacted the Avesta searching for affordable housing.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
Avesta says most of the 82 apartments would be reserved for low-income residents.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
And if they called the descendants of Astyages the descendants of the dragon, they obviously contracted the old cloud-demon of the Avesta, Azhi-dahaka, into Azdahag, and confounded him with Astyages.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
He was to take measures for the advancement of cultivation and the increase of the population in his province, both as fullfilling the rules of the Avesta, and in the interest of the kingdom.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
On these slopes of the Hindu Kush, the middle stage between the table-land and the deep plain of the Caspian Sea, lay the Bactrians—the Bakhtri of the Achæmenids, the Bakhdhi of the Avesta.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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