Meaning of Chilminar | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.

historical, obsolete

Examples

“CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...”

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