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Chelminar
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Proper noun
en historical obsolete en Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
en 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed. II 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...