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History (Countries and Regions of the World): Internet Sites
Encyclopaedia from Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Indian subcontinent covering all aspects of Iranian history and culture.
ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Funded initially by a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, then by a larger digitization grant from the same foundation, the ETANA web portal was launched in 2001