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Azra
Azra Azra carries the quality of unspoiled, uncompromised beauty — a name for characters who represent an ideal that others orbit around, whose purity (physical, moral, or spiritual) becomes the magnetic center of a narrative. Characters named Azra are often portrayed as both objects of intense devotion and women with their own complex interior responses to being desired.
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Azra
Vamiq and Azra — Unsuri
The beloved heroine of one of the oldest Persian romantic epics, whose love story with Vamiq draws on ancient Greek romance traditions filtered through Persian poetic sensibility.
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