present-day Iran (Persia) from the establishment of the Medes around 678 BC until the deposition of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. Note: Ancient Persia is generally...

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 to...

The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires...

rewarded by an Arab empire encompassing the entire span between Egypt and Persia, with the exception of British possessions and interests in Kuwait, Aden...

Constitutional Revolution Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab is praised by Morgan Shuster, treasurer-general of Persia at the time. As of 1915, Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab was...

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq...

pre-Islamic Arabia, there were many Arabs who lived in the cultural sphere of Persia and thus used Persian as their written language. They were referred to as...

ruler of the Ilkhanate, in 1335, there was a power vacuum in Persia. In the end, Persia was split amongst the Muzaffarids, Kartids, Eretnids, Chobanids...

historians believe it was constructed under Shapur I who ruled Sassanian Persia from 242 to 272 AD and some other believe that construction possibly began...

condition, the modern-day Islamic Republic of Iran (historically known as Persia) has had a long and checkered military culture and history; ranging from...

Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt (hardcover). SUNY Press. pp. 40–42. ISBN 9780887068768. Hussein Ali Abdul Hussein al-Dukhayli (2011). البنية...

Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi was one of seven sons of a ruler of Shiraz, Persia, his mother was not ethnically habesha but rather a slave from the Land...

Afghan invaders on the Persian throne, the Ottoman possessions in western Persia, which were granted to them by the Hotaki dynasty, came under risk of re-incorporation...

travels of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier are particularly well known to Safavid Persia. France has an embassy in Tehran and Iran has an embassy in Paris. Recently...

deity of the city was Ishtar of Arbela. Following the Muslim conquest of Persia, the region no longer remained united, and during the Middle Ages, the city...

southern Persia which required his immediate presence). Battle of Samara Battle of Agh-Darband Nader Shah Topal Osman Pasha Moghtader, Gholam-Hussein (2008)...

the early Abbasid Caliphate, cf. Vizier (Abbasid Caliphate). In Muslim Persia, the prime minister under the political authority of the Shahanshah was...

Nahavandi, Houchang (1998). Shah Abbas, Empereur de Perse: 1587–1629 [Shah Abbas, Emperor of Persia: 1587–1629] (in French). Paris, France: Perrin. ISBN 2-2620-1131-1...

attended instead. Some of the guests who were invited include: Flames of Persia (1:00:01) Problems playing this file? See media help. Iran's National Film...

conflicted with the Hussein–McMahon Correspondence of 1915–1916. There were several points of difference, the most obvious being that Persia was placed in the...

bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Iran. Iran, which was called Persia by the West before 1935, has had political relations with England since...

was a well-established and influential Jewish community in Persia. Jews in ancient Persia mostly lived in their own communities. Iranian Jews lived in...

Georgians. From Sir John Chardin's "Travels in Persia, 1673–1677": There is scarce a Gentleman in Persia, whose Mother is not a Georgian, or a Circassian...

impact of his religious writings, in the long run, was the conversion of Persia from Sunni to Shia Islam. Examples of his poems are: Today I have come to...

attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised...

was the predominant religion in the region until the Muslims conquered Persia. Zoroastrians in Iran have had a long history reaching back thousands of...

Historian). Moghtader, Gholam-Hussein(2008). The Great Batlles of Nader Shah. Donyaye Ketab. Michael Axworthy (2010). Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal...

Ottoman army at the Battle of Kars in 1745. Axworthy, Michael, "The Sword of Persia; Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant", I B Tauris, 2009...

bureau was involved in intelligence-gathering and subversive missions to Persia and Egypt, and to Afghanistan,[citation needed] to dismantle the Anglo-Russian...

were established between Persia and Russia, with the latter acting as an intermediary in the trade between England and Persia. Transporting goods across...