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- ↑ Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia:The Rise and Fall of an Empire, (I.B. Tauris, 2010), 2.
- ↑ "DABUYIDS". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2013-12-16.
- ↑ "BADUSPANIDS". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2013-12-16.
- ↑ Stokvis A.M.H.J., pp. 112, 129.
