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- ↑ Floor, Willem (2010). "Who were the Shamkhal and the Usmi?". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 160 (2): 341–381. doi:10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0341. ISSN 0341-0137.
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