Nizam
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Nisan: the 7th month (8th in leap years) of the Jewish religious calendar and the 1st month of the Jewish civil calendar; it corresponds roughly to March-April in the Gregorian calendar; it is the month that follows Adar (or Adar II in leap years) → rains stop in Nisan
- nizam: (Arabic) order
- Nizam: Nizam-al-Mulk, the title of the rulers of the Hyderabad State in the Indian Deccan from 1724-1949 → cf. Nizamaluco, a Portuguese form of Nizam-al-Mulk
- Nizam al-Mulk: Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Turkish Seljuq Empire
