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    political and cultural base of the ancient Medes, one of the ancient Iranian peoples. Ray was one of the main strongholds of the Seleucid Empire. During the...
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  • Satyajit Ray's stories The Ray (Chardin), a 1728 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin Ray (surname) Ray (given name) Ray (wrestler), from Hong Kong Ray, Iran, a...
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    Ray County (Persian: شهرستان ری) is in Tehran province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Ray. After the 2006 National Census, villages were separated from...
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  • Ray County may refer to: Ray County, Iran Ray County, Missouri, U.S. Rhea County, Tennessee, U.S. This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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  • is a name that was historically used to indicate a person coming from Ray, Iran. It most commonly refers to: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925),...
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    Gorgen Ray Aghayan (July 28, 1928 – October 10, 2011) was an American fashion designer and costume designer for the United States film industry. He won...
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    Mohammad Reyshahri (category People from Ray, Iran)
    his return to Iran, he was imprisoned. While incarcerated, he met Ali Khamenei, who later became supreme leader of Iran. Until the Iranian Revolution, he...
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    Abu Bakr al-Razi (category People from Ray, Iran)
    became a successful doctor, and served as chief physician of Baghdad and Ray hospitals. As a teacher of medicine, he attracted students of all backgrounds...
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    Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash...
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    transition that was further reinforced due to the Seljuks' assimilation to Iranian-Muslim culture. "Tughril" was the Old Turkic word for a bird of prey, possibly...
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    Harun al-Rashid (category People from Ray, Iran)
    part of Jibal in the Abbasid Caliphate, in present-day Tehran Province, Iran. He was the son of al-Mahdi, the third Abbasid caliph (r. 775–785), and his...
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  • Abu Ja'far al-Khazin (category 10th-century Iranian mathematicians)
    in Ray, Iran by the ruler of the Buyid dynasty, Adhad ad-Dowleh, who ruled from 949 to 983. In 959/960, Khazin was required by the vizier of Ray, who...
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    Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (category People from Ray, Iran)
    from Iran and Iraq participated in these events. Google Doodle commemorated Al-Ṣūfī's 1113th birthday on 7 December, 2016. List of pre-modern Iranian scientists...
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  • Amīn Rāzī (category People from Ray, Iran)
    1593–94. Amin Razi was born in Ray, Persia into a prestigious family; his father was Ahmad Tehrani, the mayor of Ray by appointment of Tahmasp I (r....
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  • The Seven Great Houses of Iran, also known as the seven Parthian clans, were seven aristocracies of Parthian origin, who were allied with the Sasanian...
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    The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply...
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    death, while al-Ma'mun acted as viceroy of Khurasan province in Eastern Iran. Then al-Ma'mun or one of his sons would succeed al-Amin as caliph, and in...
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  • Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (category People from Ray, Iran)
    existence of the outer space beyond the known world. Al-Razi was born in Ray, Iran, and died in Herat, Afghanistan. He left a very rich corpus of philosophical...
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  • Ray Takeyh is an Iranian-American Middle East scholar, former United States Department of State official, and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign...
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    Tehran (redirect from Teheran, Iran)
    the Tehran–Ray region was not Persian, which is linguistically Southwest Iranian and originates in Fars, but a now extinct Northwestern Iranian language...
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    Bahram Chobin (category People from Ray, Iran)
    seven Great Houses of Iran. The family was of Parthian origin, and was centered in Ray, south of Tehran, the capital of present-day Iran. Bahram's father was...
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  • Shapur of Ray was a Sasanian military officer from the Mihran family. The city Ray in his name was the seat of the Mihran family. According to Abu Hanifa...
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    The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active...
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    AD) is referred to as "al-Razi" (lit. the one from Ray) due to his origins from the city of Ray, Iran. In the Levant, surnames were in use as early as the...
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    This article concerns the city of Ray, Iran (near Shahr-e-Rey) as a military objective, not the large territory of which it was once capital ("Ragau"...
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    This article lists the monarchs of Iran (Persia) from the establishment of the Medes around 678 BC until the deposition of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979...
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    Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (category People from Ray, Iran)
    Al-Kulayni was born in Kulayn, a village or small town situated near Rey, Iran. His father was Ya'qub al-Kulayni, who is buried at Rey. He lived in the...
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    Iran until the 5th/11th century. Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (died 507/1113) remarked that while Ibn Mājah's Sunan was well regarded in Ray, Iran,...
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  • Seljuk crown, but he was killed by the forces of his nephew Berkyaruq near Ray, Iran. Following this, Ridwan moved to Aleppo and proclaimed himself the new...
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    Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi (category People from Ray, Iran)
    Dorri-Najafabadi (Persian: قربانعلی دری نجف‌آبادی; born 3 December 1950) is an Iranian politician and cleric. He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts...
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