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The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,000,854 articles, 1,306,838 registered users, and 90,459 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
- December 19, 2003; 19 years ago
- Persian
- 1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)
- Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
The encyclopedia contains an introduction that explains in detail the principles and methods of work and how to use the encyclopedia. This encyclopedia has 43,000 entries, of which 23,000 are foreign entries, 11,000 are related to Iran and Islam, and the rest are reference entries.
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 ...
Rashid al-Din Hamadani. Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb ( Persian: رشیدالدین طبیب ; 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, Persian: رشیدالدین فضلالله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran. [1] Having converted to Islam from Judaism by the age of 30 in ...
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی ), known by his pen name Hafez ( حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [1] was a Persian lyric poet [2] [3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of ...
- Tomb of Hafez, Shiraz, Iran
Nov 12, 2019 · Persia (roughly modern-day Iran) is among the oldest inhabited regions in the world. Archaeological sites in the country have established human habitation dating back 100,000 years to the Paleolithic Age with semi-permanent settlements (most likely for hunting parties) established before 10,000 BCE.
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as 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.
