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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 19, 2024
	Added the Farsi spellings--Surena and Suren--as alternative titles.	Amy Tikkanen	Jan 16, 2009
	Article thoroughly revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 19, 2008