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Farvardin ( Persian: فروردین, Persian pronunciation: [fæɾvæɾˈdiːn] [1]) is the Iranian Persian name for the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar, [1] the official calendar of Iran, and corresponds with Aries on the Zodiac. Farvardin has thirty-one days. [1] It is the first month of the spring season ( Bahar ), and is followed by ...
Islamic Reconciliation Party or Al-Wefaq Islamic Party (Persian: حزب وفاق اسلامی, Arabic: حزب الوفاق الاسلامي) formerly named Reconciliation Committee (Arabic: لجنةالوفاق; Lejnat Al-Wefaq), was an Iranian local ethnic party associated with Arab minority in Khuzestan Province.
Dehkhoda Dictionary. Dehkhoda Dictionary is the largest lexical compilation of the Persian language. The Dehkhoda Dictionary or Dehkhoda Lexicon ( Persian: لغتنامهٔ دهخدا or واژهنامه) is the largest comprehensive Persian encyclopedic dictionary ever published, comprising 200 volumes. It is published by the Tehran ...
Achaemenid dynasty (559–334/327 BC) The Great King, King of Kings, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the Four Corners of the World. Cyrus the Great. –. 600 BC. Son of Cambyses I king of Anshan and Mandana daughter of Astyages. 559–530 BC.
The term Persian, meaning "from Persia", derives from Latin Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís ( Περσίς ), [ 24] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa ( 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 ), which evolves into Fārs ( فارس) in modern Persian. [ 25] In the Bible, particularly in the books of Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemya, it is given as ...
History of Iran. The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf ...
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Standard of Cyrus the Great ( Derafsh Shahbaz ), founder of the Achaemenid Empire, featuring the Shahbaz (see List of Iranian flags) Cyrus II of Persia ( Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC ), [ b] commonly known as Cyrus the Great, [ 6] was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. [ 7] Hailing from Persis, he brought the ...