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Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,002,681 articles, 1,311,675 registered users, and 90,635 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by ...
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
The Persian Encyclopedia ( Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions ...
Mohammad Reza Shah's voice. Mohamed Reza on the nonrenewability of oil. Recorded 1971. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [a] (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah , [b] or just simply The Shah, was the last monarch of Iran. He began ruling the Imperial State of Iran after succeeding his father ...
April 6, 1977 (Wednesday) A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Iran, killing at least 348 people and destroying 2,100 homes. Hardest hit was the town of Naghan, where 202 people died. The quake came 15 days after a 7.0 tremor on March 22, near Bandar Abbas, that killed 167 people.
The Indo-Iranian peoples, [10] [11] [12] also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European speaking peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages to major parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards. They eventually branched out into the Iranian peoples and Indo-Aryan ...
Persians settle in Persis during the reign of their king Teispes. c. 550 BCE. Cyrus the Great of Persia founds the Achaemenid Empire . c. 550 BCE - 330 BCE. The Persian Achaemenid Empire reigns over Central Asia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Egypt . 330 BCE. Persian Achaemenid Empire falls to Alexander the Great . 312 BCE - 63 BCE.
