may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere...

display the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia...

The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia...

during the Iranian Renaissance, now as a toponym for Greater Iran. The modern ethnonym Iranian is a back-formation from the toponym Eran, itself a back-formation...

includes Parthia, Media, Persis, and some of the previous territories of Greater Iran. The Zagros form the plateau's western boundary, and its eastern slopes...

Minister of Iran Jamshid Bahman Jamshidian, (1851–1933): pioneer of modern banking in Iran Keikhosrow Shahrokh, (1864–1929): proponent of the Iranian civil...

Iranian plateau, which accounts for the bulk of what is called "Greater Iran". The beliefs, activities, and cultural events of the ancient Iranians in...

reach of Greater Iran. The term Iran derives directly from Middle Persian Ērān / AEran (𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭) and Parthian Aryān. The Middle Iranian terms ērān...

Ardabil, the Safavids established control over parts of Greater Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region, thus becoming the first native...

Greater Khorāsān or Khorāsān or Khurāsān (Middle Persian: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau...

over Greater Iran; they lost territories such as the Caucasian provinces and Herat. The name "Iran" has denoted both the homeland of the Iranian people...

Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally...

The culture of Iran (Persian: فرهنگ ایران) or culture of Persia is among the most influential in the world. Iran (Persia) is widely considered to be one...

although also Zoroastrians – immigrated to the Indian subcontinent from Greater Iran many centuries prior, starting with the Islamic conquest of Persia. The...

Imperial State of Iran, officially the Imperial State of Persia until 1935, and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule...

The president of Iran (Persian: رئیس‌جمهور ایران, romanized: Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second...

2016[update] a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area, 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area, and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area, with the...

Geographically, the country of Iran is located in West Asia and borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. Topographically, it is predominantly...

Avestan, an old Iranian language spoken in the northeastern part of Greater Iran, or in what are now Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan). It reappears...

Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian...

large Iranian-speaking state has ruled over areas similar to the modern boundaries of Iran, and often much wider areas, sometimes called Greater Iran, where...

The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded...

inhabitants of the Land of Gog and Magog. In Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran, azhdahās appear in a number of stories. Sām, Rostam, Esfandiar, Bahram...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran and a member of the Cabinet. The office is currently hold...

The Supreme Leader of Iran, also referred to as Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, but officially called the Supreme Leadership Authority, is the...

religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian religion primarily the ancient Iranian religion. In turn these religious traditions strongly...

Africa, Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, Greater Iran, India, Eastern Europe, and Nusantara. In Russia, there are three known...

Iranian folklore encompasses the folk traditions that have evolved in Greater Iran. Storytelling has an important presence in Iranian culture. In classical...

symbols. Iranian Azerbaijanis (Persian: آذربایجانی‌های ایران; Azerbaijani: ایران آذربایجانلیلاری [iˈɾɑːn ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑnlɯlɑɾɯ]) are Iranians of Azerbaijani...

within Greater Iran. In ancient Persian mythology, the Shahbaz was a god who helped the Iranian peoples and guided the Faravahar to the Iranian lands....