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The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak.
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
2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire. The festivities were opened on 12 October 1971, when the Shah and the Shahbanu paid homage to Cyrus the Great at his mausoleum at Pasargadae. For the next two days, the Shah and his wife greeted arriving guests, often directly at Shiraz's airport.
- 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire
- دوهزار و پانصدمین سال بنیانگذاری شاهنشاهی ایران
- 12–16 October 1971; 51 years ago
- Imperial State of Iran
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/ ə ˈ k iː m ə n ɪ d /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [18] or 'The Kingdom' [19] ), was the ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
- 5,500,000 km² (2,100,000 sq mi)
- Classical antiquity
t. e. Ibn Sina ( Arabic: اِبْن سِینَا, romanized : Ibn Sīnā; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( / ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/ ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [4] [5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [6]
Conquered the Mede empire c. 550, thus founding the Persian Empire; conquered Lydia in 545, which already controlled several Hellenic cities on the Anatolian coast; soon extended his control to include them; released the Hebrews enslaved by the Babylonians in 538. Cambyses II: 530–522 BCE
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Achaemenid Empire, or Persian Empire, [3] (550–330 BC) was the first Persian Empire to rule over significant portions of Greater Persia (or Iran ). It followed the Median Empire as the second great empire of the Iranian peoples. [4] .
