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5 days ago · Shiraz ( / ʃɪəˈrɑːz / ⓘ; Persian: شیراز, romanized : Širâz [ʃiːˈɾɒːz] ⓘ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran [4] and the capital of Fars Province, [5] which has been historically known as Pars ( پارس, Pārs) and Persis. [6] As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 people, and its ...
5 days ago · Example of an iwan and muqarnas decoration at the entrance of the Shah Mosque in Isfahan (17th century) Iranian architecture or Persian architecture ( Persian: معمارى ایرانی, Me'māri e Irāni) is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
5 days ago · Persepolis ( / pərˈsɛpəlɪs /; Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, romanized:Pārsa; New Persian: تخت جمشید, romanized :Takht-e Jamshīd, lit. 'Throne of Jamshid ') was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire ( c.550–330 BC ). It is situated in the plains of Marvdasht, encircled by southern Zagros mountains, Fars province of Iran.
4 days ago · Hassan Rouhani (born Hassan Fereydoun) was born on 12 November 1948 [8] in Sorkheh, near Semnan, in a religious Persian family. [28] His father, Haj Asadollah Fereydoun (died 2011), [29] had a spice shop in Sorkheh [30] and his mother lived in Semnan until her death in 2015 with her daughters and sons-in-law.
6 days ago · In Iran, Islamic fundamentalism and Islamism is primarily associated with the thought and practice of the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ("Khomeinism"), but may also involve figures such as Fazlullah Nouri, Navvab Safavi, and successors of Khomeini.
5 days ago · v. t. e. The Sasanian Empire ( / səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən /) or Sassanid Empire, sometimes referred to Second Persian Empire or Neo-Persian Empire [9], officially known as Eranshahr ("Kingdom of the Iranians"), [10] [11] was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
4 days ago · Iran ( farsi ایران), før 1934 kalla Persia [1] og offisielt Den islamske republikken Iran ( farsi جمهوری اسلامی ایران), [2] er eit land i Vest-Asia. [3] [4] Det grensar i nordvest til Armenia, den de facto sjølvstendige Republikken Artsakh, Aserbajdsjan og den aserbajdsjanske eksklaven Nakhitsjevan; i nord til Kaspihavet ...
