Look up Persian or persian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Persian may refer to: People and things from Iran, historically called Persia in the English...

This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Persian, also known by its endonym...

article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Persians, or Persian people, are an...

The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the...

The Persian cat, also known as the Persian Longhair or simply Persian, is a long-haired traditional breed of cat characterised by a round face and petite...

contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی...

The Achaemenid Empire (/əˈkiː.mə.nɪd/, ə-KEE-mə-nid; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom') was an ancient Iranian empire founded...

Persian expedition or Persian campaign may refer to: Persian campaign (Alexander the Great) (334–333 BC) Julian's Persian expedition (363) Persian expedition...

The Persians (Ancient Greek: Πέρσαι, romanized: Pérsai, Latinised as Persae) is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient...

article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Middle Persian, also known by its...

This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Persian literature comprises...

Persian names consist of a given name (Persian: نام, nâm) and a surname or family name (نام‌ خانوادگی, nâm-e khânevâdegi). Given names may be simple or...

Persian lime (Citrus × latifolia), also known by other common names such as seedless lime, Bearss lime, and Tahiti lime, is a citrus fruit species of...

Persian embroidery is a type of Persian art and handicraft. It has been speculated that Persian embroidery existed from ancient times and at least from...

Persianization (/ˌpɜːrʒəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃən/) or Persification (/ˌpɜːrsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/; Persian: پارسی‌سازی، پارسِش), is a sociological process of cultural change...

mythology, or Persian mythology in western term (Persian: اسطوره‌شناسی ایرانی), is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian...

The Persian Princess or Persian Mummy is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess who surfaced in Pakistani Baluchistan in October 2000. After considerable...

The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire from...

Persian Letters (French: Lettres persanes) is a satirical work, published in 1721, by Baron Charles de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two...

article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Iranian Persian (فارسی ایرانی, Fârsi-ye...

Other everyday usage names are: Doll Face Persian, Classic Persian, Old Fashioned Persian, Long-nosed Persian, Old-style Longhair, Traditional Longhair...

The Persian is a major character from the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the book, he is the one who tells most of the background...

Persian powder is an insecticide powder with natural pyrethrin as the active agent. It is also known as Persian pellitory, insect powder and internationally...

Persian language is similar to that of many other Indo-European languages. Persian became a more analytic language around the time of Middle Persian,...

A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی, romanized: negârgari-ye Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate...

Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Persian traditional music Persian ritual music Persian pop music Persian symphonic music Persian piano music Music of Iran This...

also known as Farsi Dari, Dari Persian, Eastern Persian, or Afghan Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan...

A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje...

Persian Patience (or simply Persian) is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. The unusual feature of this game is the...

Persian Lessons (German: Persischstunden) is a 2020 historical drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story...

New Persian (Persian: فارسی نو), also known as Modern Persian (Persian: فارسی نوین), is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th...

Persian War, Persia War, or, Persian Wars, may refer to: List of wars involving Iran (before 1979); Wars involving the predecessor states to the Islamic...

Persian LNG is the LNG project in Iran. It has been defined based on the reserves of the South Pars gas field. The project is developed by the National...

Persian Revival (also separated as Sasanian Revival and Achaemenid Revival) is a 19th-century architectural movement that began in Iran and draws inspiration...

Eastern Persian or Eastern Farsi may refer to: Aimaq dialect Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect) Dari Dehwari language Hazaragi dialect Pahlavani language...

transcription delimiters. The romanization of Persian is the representation of the Persian language (Iranian Persian, Dari and Tajik) with the Latin script....

A Persian, Persian roll or Pershing is a deep fried sweet roll with a spiral shape similar to a cinnamon bun. It may be covered with a sugar glaze, iced...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a historical study of the Persian Empire by popular historian Tom Holland, first published...

BBC Persian (Persian: بی‌بی‌سی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service. It broadcasts political, social, economical...

Traditional Persian clothing is the historical costume of the Persian people, and of ancient Persia (Iran) before the 1930s Pahlavi dynasty. Historically...

The Persian Corridor (Persian: دالان پارسی) was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies...

products from Iraq and Kuwait. A coalition began a military buildup in the Persian Gulf region. The broadest military alliance since World War II, its largest...

Persian columns or Persepolitan columns are the distinctive form of column developed in the Achaemenid architecture of ancient Persia, probably beginning...

Persian invasion may refer to: Persian invasion of Scythia, 513 BC Greco-Persian Wars First Persian invasion of Greece, 492–490 BC Second Persian invasion...

symbols. The Sasanian Empire (/sə.ˈsɑː.ni.ən/), officially Eranshahr (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩, romanized: Ērānšahr, lit. 'Empire of the Iranians')...

Persian blue comes in three major tones: Persian blue proper: a bright medium blue; medium Persian blue (a medium slightly grayish blue that is slightly...

Persian Room may refer to: A section of the Gayer-Anderson Museum Las Vegas music venues: Plaza Hotel (1934−1978) Dunes (1961−1971) This disambiguation...

The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured...

The Persian onager (Equus hemionus onager), also called the Persian wild ass or Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to...

Zabur-i-Ajam (زبور عجم, Persian Psalms) is a philosophical poetry book, written in Persian, by Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of the Indian subcontinent...

Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term,...

The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia...

Persian art or Iranian art (Persian: هنر ایرانی, romanized: Honar-è Irâni) has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in...

Persian satire refers to satires in Persian literature. The Arabic poetic genre of hija (satirical poetry) was introduced after the Islamic conquest of...

Persian berry, also called Avignon berry or French berry, is the fruit of the Avignon buckthorn (Rhamnus saxatilis), a species of buckthorn, used for...

Persian Kowli, also known as Ghorbati (Qorbati), Magadi (Mogadi), Qazulagi and Jogigi, Lafzi Mugat or Arabi/Arabcha in Central Asia, refers to various...

Persian calligraphy or Iranian calligraphy (Persian: خوشنِویسیِ ایرانی, romanized: Xošnevisi-ye Irani) is the calligraphy of the Persian language. It is...

Persian medicine may refer to: Iranian traditional medicine (traditional Persian medicine) Ancient Iranian medicine: premodern history of medicine in Persia...

Zarathustra, which is found in Middle Persian or Pahlavi texts including the Dēnkard and the Wizidagiha, and in New Persian texts including the Zaratosht-nama...

The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) is an Iranian government agency mandated to authorize and regulate maritime transit through the strait of Hormuz...

In garden design, Persian garden or Iranian garden (Persian: باغ ایرانی) is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in the Achaemenid Empire. Nine...

The Persian Caravanserai (Persian: کاروانسراهای ایرانی) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site composed of 54 different caravanserais. It was inscribed in 2023...

Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediā-ye Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia...

Rozbih Khwashbudhan or Rozbih Budhakhshan; c. 568 CE– c. 652 or 653 CE) was Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Muhammad. As a practicing...

Persian Iraq, also uncommonly spelled Persian Irak (Persian: عراقِ عجم Erāq-e Ajam or عراق عجمی Erāq-e Ajami; Arabic: عراق العجم ʿIrāq al-ʿAjam or العراق...

the Persian language varies between regional dialects and standard varieties. Persian is a pluricentric language and countries that have Persian as an...

The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece...

Look up persian lilac in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The name Persian lilac is commonly used for two different woody plants. Syringa × persica, a...

The term Persian Church or Persian church may refer to: Church in the Persian Empire, incorporating various Christian denominations and communities in...

Persian Trilogy is a set of three orchestral works composed by Iranian classical musician, Behzad Ranjbaran. All three works were inspired by stories...

Persian is a populated place in Jepara Regency, Central Java on the island of Java, Indonesia. Jepara GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 06°31′36″S 110°41′33″E...

The Persian term for riddle is chīstān (Persian: چیسْتان), literally 'what is it?', a word that frequently occurs in the opening formulae of Persian riddles...

include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian red and Persian blue. The color Persian green is named from the green color of some Persian pottery...

Persian verbs (Persian: فعل‌های فارسی, romanized: Fe’lhā-ye fārsi, pronounced [feʔlˈhɒːje fɒːɾˈsiː]) or (Persian: کارواژه, romanized: Kār-vāzhe) are very...

The Persian embassy to Siam (1685) was a diplomatic mission sent by the Safavid Empire under Suleiman I to the Ayutthaya Kingdom under the rule of Narai...

Paul the Persian or Paulus Persa was a 6th-century East Syriac theologian and philosopher in the court of the Sassanid king Khosrow I (r. 531–579). Paul's...

The Persian Sibyl – also known as the Babylonian, Chaldaean, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl – was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle...

Persian melons (Persian: خربزه) are cultivars of Cucumis melo, a type of melon. They are elongate, unridged, with dark green skin with irregular yellowish...

The Persian jird (Meriones persicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan...

Persian, or Colourpoint Persian as it is commonly referred to in Europe), is a breed or sub-breed of long-haired cat similar in type to the Persian,...

Kuwaiti Persian, known in Kuwait as ʿīmi (sometimes spelled Eimi) is a combination of different varieties of the Persian language and Achomi language historically...

Persian wine, also called May (Persian: می), Mul (Persian: مل), and Bâdah (باده), is a cultural symbol and tradition in Iran, and has a significant presence...

The Arab states of the Persian Gulf, commonly referred to as the Gulf Arab states, comprise Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the...

The Persian Princess is a 1708 tragedy by the British writer Lewis Theobald. It was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It is also written as...

up Persian, Persia, or sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Persian Sea may refer to: Arabian Sea, a sea in the northern Indian Ocean Persian Gulf...

Immortals (Greek: Ἀθάνατοι, Athánatoi), or Persian Immortals, was the name given by the Greek historian Herodotus to a 10,000-strong unit of elite heavy...

Tajik, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely...

[bæːˈðæːn]; also Bādhām باذام [bæːˈðæːm] in Islamic historiography) was a Persian abna' leader and the Sasanian governor of Yemen during the reign of Khosrow...

Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, refers to the classical music...

CHALUKYAS PALA EMPIRE OGHUZ YABGUS The composite Turko-Persian, Turco-Persian, or Turco-Iranian (Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی) is the distinctive culture that...

The Blackhead Persian (also known as Swartkoppersie) is a fat-tailed breed of domestic sheep from Africa. The sheep is originally from Somalia and a direct...

The Persian Version is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz. The film stars Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Bijan...

Persian theater (Persian: تئاتر ایرانی) goes back to antiquity. Ancient Persian theatre and dance was significantly researched by the Greek historian...

Greeks and Persians.   Greek/Seleucid/Byzantine victory   Persian/Parthian/Sasanian victory   Inconclusive Byzantine–Sasanian Wars Greco-Persian Wars Decker...

The term Turco-Persian wars can refer to two sets of conflicts between Turkic states and Persian states: The Göktürk–Persian wars, between the Göktürks...

Persian astronomy or Iranian astronomy refers to the astronomy in ancient Persian history. Ancient Persians celebrated the vernal equinox, summer solstice...

dialect of the Persian language spoken in the city of Kermanshah, Eslamabad-e Gharb and Kangavar. A prominent feature of the Kermanshahi Persian dialect is...

Persian Gate or the Susian Gate was an ancient name of the pass now known as Tang-e Meyran, connecting Yasuj with Sedeh Eghlid to the east, crossing the...

The Persian and Urdu languages have had an intricate relationship throughout the history of the latter. Persian historically played a significant role...

The Ottoman–Persian Wars also called the Ottoman–Iranian Wars were a series of wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar...

empires, which emerged following the Greek conquest of the Persian Empire. Upon the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, the Achaemenid Empire established...

The Iranian religions, also known as the Persian religions, are, in the context of comparative religion, a grouping of religious movements that originated...

The Russo-Persian Wars (Russian: Русско-персидские войны, Rússko-Persídskije Vóiny), or the Russo-Iranian Wars (Persian: جنگ‌های ایران و روسیه Janghâ-ye...

The Roman–Persian wars, also called the Roman–Iranian wars, took place between the Greco-Roman world and the Iranian world, beginning with the Roman Republic...

have borne the name HMS Persian: HMS Persian (1809) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and wrecked in 1813. HMS Persian (1839) was an Acorn-class...

Persian nationalism (Persian: ملی‌گرایی پارسی) is an ethnonationalist ideology that defines the Persian people, language, and culture as the central foundations...

and Israel, with missile strikes occurring in many countries across the Persian Gulf region Search for "Gulf War"  or "Gulf Wars" on Wikipedia. "The Golf...

The Persian sturgeon (Huso persicus) is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found in the Caspian Sea and to a lesser extent the Black...

The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and, like many of their other conflicts, began...

Persian Braille (Persian: بریل فارسی) is the braille alphabet for the Persian language. It is largely compatible with Arabic Braille, which may be found...

The Persian Constitution of 1906 (Persian: قانون اساسی مشروطه, romanized: Qānun-e Asāsi-ye Mashrute), was the first constitution of the Sublime State...

This is a list of notable Persian and Iranian violinists. Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) Parviz Yahaghi (1936–2007) Ruhollah Khaleghi (1906–1965) Ali-Naqi...

Persian Toon (Persian: پرشین تون) was a British-based Persian-language television channel featuring content for children and teenagers on the Eutelsat...

The history of Persian Egypt refers to the two periods when ancient Egypt was controlled by the Achaemenid Empire: Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (525–404...

Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family, and many words in modern Persian usage ultimately originate from Proto-Indo-European. The language...

The Persian Diatessaron of Iwannis ‛Izz al-Din of Tabriz is a 13th-century Gospel harmony, the earliest of the Bible translations into Persian. It appears...

The Capture of Qeshm was a combined Anglo-Persian expedition that successfully captured the Portuguese garrison at Qeshm Island after months of siege...

Persian mysticism, or the Persian love tradition,[citation needed] is a traditional interpretation of existence, life and love, reliant upon revelatory...

Sistani Persians (Persian: فارس‌های سیستانی) (also known as the Sistanis, Sajestani, and historically referred to Sagzi) are a branch of Persians who mainly...

Empire, which was ruled by Darius III. After a series of victories over the Persians and the defeat of Darius, he began a campaign against local chieftains...

The Aksumite–Persian wars were a series of pre-Islamic battles that took place in the 6th century, when the Kingdom of Aksum and the Sasanian Empire fought...

490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis...

The santur (/sænˈtʊər/ san-TOOR; Persian: سنتور [sænˈt̪ʰuːɹ]) is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origin. The santur was invented and developed in Persia...

Middle Persian and Kurdish proved to be more enduring. Most of Middle Persian structure and vocabulary survived, evolving into New Persian. Persian incorporated...

Persian weave is a method of weave used in jewelry and other art forms, using jump rings. The Persian family of weaves is a chainmail weave based on a...

the second half of the seventh century BC. The Achaemenids united all Persian tribes under Cyrus I's son Cambyses I. Under Cambyses I's son, Cyrus II...

The Pasargadae were an Iranian tribe from Persis (Parsa in Old Persian) or Persia Proper, in modern southwestern Iran (this ancient country roughly matches...

Persian Renaissance or Iranian Renaissance may refer to: Iranian Intermezzo (821–1062), a period in Iranian history characterized by re-emergence of Iranian...

A Persian drill is a drill which is turned by pushing a nut back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder. It was formerly used for delicate operations...

Cyropolis 10 Persian Gate 9 Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus 2 Granicus 1 Pella     The Battle of the Persian Gate took place...

and heir of the Sasanian Persian general and briefly shahanshah, Shahrbaraz. Niketas was the son of Shahrbaraz, a famous Persian general who had led Sasanian...

extent. Right: Persian soldier. Left: Median soldier. Persian warriors. The Achaemenid Empire (559–330 BCE) was the first of the Persian Empires to rule...

this authority over all Greeks he launched a pan-Hellenic invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 334 BC, and with it began a series of campaigns which...

BC, when he was succeeded by his son, Pleistarchus. At the Second Greco-Persian War, Leonidas led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle...

(/θərˈmɒpɪliː/) was fought in 480 BC at Thermopylae between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta...

Persian metres (Persian: وزن شعر فارسی) refer to the quantitative metrical patterns of long and short syllables used in traditional Persian poetry. Historically...

The Persian–Dutch War or Iranian–Dutch War (Persian: جنگ ایران و هلند) was a 1765 military conflict between Zand Iran and the Dutch East India Company...

While formal Urdu draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian and Arabic, formal Hindi draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently...

The Anglo-Persian War, also known as the Anglo-Iranian War (Persian: جنگ ایران و انگلستان, romanized: Jang-e Irân o Engelestan), was a war fought between...

the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It was borrowed from Classical Persian هندی Hindī (Iranian Persian pronunciation: Hendi), meaning 'of or belonging to Hind (India)'...

Persian Punch (1993–2004) was a Thoroughbred racehorse trained in the United Kingdom. He was frequently heralded by the Racing Post and his fans as the...

The Persian Bayán (Persian: بیان 'expression') is one of the principal scriptural writings of the Báb, the founder of Bábism, written in Persian. The Báb...

The Persian Relief Committee, established in 1916, was the name of an American organization in Iran that was formed to help the people affected by World...

The Persian Encyclopedia (Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias...

as furious and avid to rule over wilderness. The babr (Persian: ببر, tiger) features in Persian and Central Asian culture. The name "Babr-e Māzandarān"...

The Persian scale also known as Double Harmonic Major ♭5 is a musical scale occasionally found in guitar scale books, along with other scales inspired...

The Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723, known in Russian historiography as the Persian campaign of Peter the Great, was a war between the Russian Empire and...

and the Achaemenid (or Persian) Empire, led by Darius III. It was the second major battle in Alexander's invasion of the Persian empire, and the first...

further weakened during the Persian campaign of World War I and the invasion by the Ottoman Empire. Four years after the 1921 Persian coup d'état, the military...

Persian domes or Iranian domes have an ancient origin and a history extending to the modern era. The use of domes in ancient Mesopotamia was carried forward...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jan or Jaan (Persian: جان, romanized: jān, pronounced [dʒɑːn]) or jaan is name of Persian origin meaning for 'soul' or 'life',...

Persian red as a color name in English was in 1895. Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian blue...

in the Greco-Persian Wars. The plot revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), who leads 300 Spartans into battle against the Persian "God-King" Xerxes...

Persian Gulf Inferno (titled The Persian Gulf Inferno on the game's title screen) is a side-scrolling action-adventure game released for the Amiga in 1989...

Persian nouns have no grammatical gender, and the case markers have been greatly reduced since Old Persian—both characteristics of contact languages. Persian...

Parrotia persica, the Persian ironwood, is a deciduous tree in the family Hamamelidaceae, closely related to the witch-hazel genus Hamamelis. It is native...

The Persian ratsnake (Zamenis persicus) is a species of medium-sized nonvenomous snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species...

Persian Risk are a Welsh heavy metal band from the new wave of British heavy metal era formed in 1979 and hailing from Cardiff. The brainchild of ex-Stoned...

The Anglo-Persian Agreement, known in Iran as the Contract of 1919 (Persian: قرارداد ۱۹۱۹) involved the United Kingdom and Persia (official exonym of...

The Samanid Empire (Persian: سامانیان, romanized: Sāmāniyān) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin, from 819...

Tajiks (Persian: تاجیکان, Tajik: Тоҷикон), also spelled Tadzhiks or Tadjiks, are a group of various Persianate Eastern Iranian peoples native to Central...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; Persian: شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field...

Bible translations into Persian Languages have been made since the fourth or fifth century, although few early manuscripts survive. There are both Jewish...

Persian maqam (Persian: مقام) is a notion in Persian classical music. Quoting Nooshin, The distinction between gusheh and mode is rarely discussed in the...

Persian studies (Persian: مطالعات فارسی) is the study of the Persian language and its literature specifically. It is differentiated from Iranian studies...

some suggested Median linguistic remnants in Old Persian. Numerous non-Persian words in Old Persian texts are commonly assumed to be Median, and other...

A Habsburg–Persian alliance (Persian: اتحاد ایران-هابسبورگ; also Habsburg–Safavid alliance (اتحاد صفوی-هابسبورگ) or Habsburg–Iran alliance) was attempted...

Iranian Jews also known as Persian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate...

(since 900 CE). The two directly attested Old Iranian languages are Old Persian (from the Achaemenid Empire) and Avestan (the language of the Avesta)....

Stephen the Persian (Greek: Στέφανος ὁ Πέρσης; died 695) was a chief eunuch and sakellarios of the Byzantine Empire, who wielded great influence and power...

Look up Persian Empire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Persian Empire typically refers to the Achaemenid Empire, which existed between 550 and...

Persian Gulf University (also known as PGU; دانشگاه خلیج فارس) is a public university located in Bushehr, Iran. PGU is the first and largest public university...

The Valley: Persian Style is an American reality television series that premiered on January 8, 2026, on Bravo. Developed as a spin-off of both Shahs...

The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronologies (Persian: گاه‌شماری ایرانی, Gâh Šomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over...

This article is a list of diseases of Persian violets (Exacum affine). Common Names of Diseases, The American Phytopathological Society...

Farhād (Middle Persian: Frahāt, Persian: فرهاد) is a famous character in Persian literature and Persian mythology. The story of his love with Shirin is...

of cuneiform script. Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian. Texts written in this cuneiform...

"Persian conquest of Egypt" may refer to: First Achaemenid conquest of Egypt (525 BC) Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt (340/339 BC) Sasanian conquest...

that Cyrus is Kay Khosrow, a legendary Persian king of the Kayanian dynasty and a character in Shahnameh, a Persian epic. Some scholars, however, believe...

BBC News Persian (Persian: تلویزیون فارسی بی‌بی‌سی), formerly BBC Persian Television Televizion-e Fârsi-ye BBC) is the BBC's Persian language news channel...

The first Persian invasion of Greece took place from 492 BC to 490 BC, as part of the Greco-Persian Wars. It ended with a decisive Athenian-led victory...

The Persian Gulf Pro League, branded as the Persian Gulf Premier League (Persian: لیگ برتر خلیج فارس, Lig-e Bartar-e Xalij-e Fârs), formerly known as the...

Panthera pardus tulliana, also called the Persian leopard, Anatolian leopard and Caucasian leopard in different parts of its range, is a leopard subspecies...

29°45′21″N 52°25′53″E / 29.75583°N 52.43139°E / 29.75583; 52.43139 Persian Gulf Complex is the 18th largest shopping mall in the world, located in...

together meaning "the Persian city" or "the city of the Persians"). To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which is...

Cup, former sponsorship name of the UAE League Cup. Persian Gulf Cup, former name of the Persian Gulf Pro League for Iranian club association football...

Che, Če, Cheem, or Čeem (چ) is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent [t͡ʃ]. The letter derives from Jīm (ج) by the addition of two dots...

Pe (پ) is a letter in the Persian alphabet and the Kurdish alphabet used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive [p]. It is based on Bā' (ب) with...

of new letters and other symbols. Such languages using it are Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Urdu, Uyghur, Kurdish, Pashto, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi...

sel-JOOK in AmE), or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, Turco-Persian empire established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. The empire...

It is most generally based upon a disdain for Iranian culture or the Persian language, and has been recorded across several countries and regions for...

The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution is a political historical biography of Amir Abbas Hoveyda by Iranian-American...

royal jewelry, including a copious amount of mother-of-pearl from the Persian Gulf. The Iranian crown jewels are among the largest, most dazzling and...

The Persian–Uzbek Wars or Iranian–Uzbek Wars (Persian: جنگ‌های ایران و ازبکان) were a series of conflicts between the Uzbek dynasties and Iranian dynasties...

The Persian Socialist Soviet Republic (Persian: جمهوری شورايی سوسیالیستی ایران), also known as the Socialist Soviet Republic of Gilan (Gilaki: گیلانˇ شؤرایي...

music is aided by understanding the rhythmic structure of Persian poetry, the old Persian rhythmic cycles and the rhythmic characteristics of improvised...

Exacum affine, known commercially as the Persian violet, is a species of plant in the family Gentianaceae. It is endemic to Socotra, part of Yemen, though...

and one of the most prominent and influential singers in Iran and the Persian world. Born in Tehran, Hayedeh was the older sister of another prominent...

The Persian Constitutional Revolution (Persian: مشروطیت, romanized: Mašrutiat, or انقلاب مشروطه Enqelâb-e Mašrute), also known as the Constitutional Revolution...

vassalage by the Assyrian queen Shammuramat (known as Semiramis to the Persians, Armenians and Greeks), acting as regent to his successor Adad-nirari III...

contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران...

The Mughal–Persian wars or Mughal–Iranian wars were a series of wars fought in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries between the Safavid and Afsharid Empires...

Indian Persian, or Indo-Persian, was the historical variety of Persian used as an official language of administration across much of the Indian subcontinent...

900km 559miles 15 Babylon 14 Malavas 13 Hydaspes 12 Cophen 11 Cyropolis 10 Persian Gate 9 Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus...

The Persian shearwater (Puffinus persicus) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly lumped in with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)...

Look up Persian Gulf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. Persian Gulf may also refer to: Iranian...

Strobilanthes dyeriana, the Persian shield or royal purple plant, is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family Acanthaceae, native to Myanmar...

the Persians in a two-phase offensive, amidst which the Persian king Xerxes the Great had issued an order calling for it to be torched. The Persian army...

coccineum (Willd.) Grierson – garden pyrethrum, painted daisy, Persian insect-flower, Persian chrysanthemum Tanacetum corymbosum (L.) Sch. Bip. – scentless...

influence by the Iranian peoples and Iranian languages — chiefly the Persians and the Persian language. Central to this region is the Iranian plateau, now covered...

The Persian expedition of Catherine the Great of 1796, like the Persian expedition of Peter the Great (1722–1723), was one of the Russo-Persian Wars of...

In a Persian Market is a piece of light classical music for orchestra with optional chorus by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1920. Subtitled Intermezzo...

Standard Persian (Persian: فارسی معیار) is the standard variety of Persian that is the official language of Iran and Tajikistan and one of the two official...

Gāf (گ; Persian: گاف), is the name of different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing /ɡ/. They are all derived from the letter Kāf (ک), with additional...

The trilogy of Persians and I (Parsian va Man, Persian: پارسیان و من) is the first modern Iranian mythical and epic fantasy series novels written by Arman...

or "metallic furnace"; the word has also been tentatively linked to the Persian word for a warrior, grivpan. However, it appears with more frequency in...

a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on Zāy (ز) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to...

In April 2024 heavy rain severely impacted states in the Persian Gulf, causing flash flooding across the region. Several states recorded nearly a year's...

of art in the area as well. The Old Persian word for "banner, standard" was drafša- (Avestan drafša-, Middle Persian drafš, cognate with Sanskrit drapsá-)...

The empire had a syncretic culture and combined Turkic, Mongolic, and Persian influences, with the last members of the dynasty being regarded as "ideal...

Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian...

The Persian Gulf Residency was a subdivision of the British Empire from 1822 until 1971, whereby the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of political...

Khalij-e Fars (Persian: موشک خلیج فارس, "Persian Gulf") is an Iranian single-stage solid-propellant, supersonic anti-ship quasi ballistic missile with...

Classical Persian dance is a style of concert dance which evolved from courtroom dance. The Qajar dynasty, which reigned from 1795 to 1925, had an important...

The 2026–27 Persian Gulf Pro League is the 45th season of Iran's Football League and 26th as Persian Gulf Pro League. No clubs were relegated from the...

Saffron (/ˈsæfrən, -rɒn/ SAF-rən, -⁠ron; Persian: زعفران, romanized: zafarān) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as...

Smerdis (Old Persian: 𐎲𐎼𐎮𐎡𐎹 Bardiya; Ancient Greek: Σμέρδις Smérdis; possibly died 522 BCE), also named as Tanyoxarces (Old Persian: *Tanūvazraka;...

d'état, known in Iran as 3 Esfand 1299 coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۳ اسفند ۱۲۹۹ with the Solar Persian date), refers to several major events in Qajar Iran...

name Hafez, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature. His works...

Middle Persian literature is the corpus of written works composed in Middle Persian, that is, the Middle Iranian dialect of Persia proper, the region in...

Mardonius (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹 Mr̥duniyaʰ; Ancient Greek: Μαρδόνιος Mardónios; died 27/28 August 479 BC) was a Persian military commander during...

The Persian Cossack Brigade, also known as the Iranian Cossack Brigade (Persian: بریگاد قزاق, romanized: Berīgād-e qazzāq), was a Cossack-style cavalry...

The Persian–Afghan Wars were a series of direct and indirect conflicts between the Afghans and the Persians beginning with the Hotak revolt on 21 April...

The Persian horned viper (Pseudocerastes persicus), known as the Persian horned viper, false horned viper, and by other common names, is a species of vipers...

transliterated as akinakes (Greek ἀκῑνάκης) or akinaka (unattested Old Persian *akīnakah, Sogdian kynʼk) is a type of dagger or xiphos (short sword) used...

Persian Gulf Airport (Persian: فرودگاه خلیج فارس) (IATA: PGU, ICAO: OIBP) is an airport in Asaluyeh, in Iran's Bushehr province. The airport has been...

M'pasqō Saḥāda), also called James the Mutilated, James the Persian or Jacob the Persian (also known in Cyprus as Akouphos), was a Christian saint born...

Sasanian Empire. It was the final and most devastating conflict of the Roman–Persian wars (54 BC – AD 628). The previous war between the two powers had ended...

The 2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League was the 43nd season of Iran's Football League and 25th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001...

by various common names including the common walnut, English walnut, or Persian walnut amongst other names, is a species of walnut. It is native to Eurasia...

The Persian Broadcasting Company (also known as Tapesh, Persian: طپش (lit. 'heartbeat') or Tapesh Media, LLC) is a Persian-language television company...

thought). Angra Mainyu was further developed by Middle Persian literature into Ahriman (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩), Ahura Mazda's direct adversary. The...

The Persian Gulf Bridge is a 2.4 km- (1.5 mi-) long road-rail bridge currently under construction, which will link Qeshm Island to Bandar Abbas on mainland...

Iranian hip hop (Persian: هیپ‌هاپ ایرانی), also known as Persian hip hop (هیپ‌هاپ فارسی), refers to hip hop music in the Persian language developed in...

(/pəˈsɑːrɡədi/; from Pāθra-gadā, lit. 'protective club' or 'strong club'; Persian: پاسارگاد, romanized: Pāsārgād) was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire...

family Araliaceae . It is native to the Middle East and commonly called Persian ivy or colchis ivy. It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 30 m...

The Persian Beach Soccer Cup is an international beach soccer tournament which is held in Bushehr, Iran. The invitation-only tournament has been held...

The Strait of Hormuz (/hɔːrˈmuːz/) is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies...

Greek tragedy The Persians by Aeschylus, Alexander the Great's defeat of the Persian emperor Darius III and conquest of the Persian empire, or the later...

A Persian Melody (Persian: جامه‌دران, "Jāme-darān") is a 2015 Iranian drama film directed by Hamid-Reza Ghotbi. "Shirin" (Mahtab Keramati) returns to...

Ramin or Rameen, transliterated from Rāmin (Persian: رامین), is a Persian masculine given name of Zoroastrian origin. It is also an occasional surname...

of weights and measures was established[citation needed] in the ancient Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (550–350 BCE). The shekel and mina...

Traditional Persian residential architecture is the architecture employed by builders and craftsmen in Greater Iran and the surrounding regions influenced...

Love in Persian (German: Liebe auf Persisch)(Persian: عشق به سبک فارسی) is a Television film in the genre of drama, romance and road directed by Florian...

number of words of French origin have entered the Persian language since the early modern period. Persian borrowed French words as France served as the most...

The Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) is a species of deer that once inhabited most of West Asia, but is currently only found in the wild in Iran...

Indo-Persian culture refers to a cultural synthesis present on the Indian subcontinent. It is characterised by the absorption or integration of Persian aspects...

refers to a group of dialects of Dari Persian. Afghan Persian, also known as Dari, is an eastern variety of the Persian language and has many dialects throughout...

The tar (Persian: تار [t̪ʰɒːɹ], lit. 'string') is an Iranian string instrument in the lute family, used by many cultures and countries in the Middle East...

Aush (/ˈɔːʃ, ˈɑːʃ/ AWSH, AHSH; Persian: آش [ˈɒːʃ]), properly romanized as āsh, is a variety of thick soup, usually served hot. It is part of Iranian cuisine...

block the Persian advance, a small force of Greeks blocked the pass of Thermopylae, while an Athenian-dominated allied navy engaged the Persian fleet in...

Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Persian and sometimes Arabic scripts, and is used for several significant Indo-Iranian...

but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey...

84°9′10.44″W / 45.6993500°N 84.1529000°W / 45.6993500; -84.1529000 Persian was an American 2–masted schooner built in 1855. She operated on the Great...

Exacum tetragonum, the bicolor Persian violet, is a species of plant in the family Gentianaceae. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist...

Ravagh Persian Grill (Persian: رواق, romanized: ravagh) is a chain of restaurants serving Iranian cuisine in the New York metropolitan area. The name of...

Persian Surgery Dervishes is a recording of two live solo electric organ concerts, the first held in Los Angeles on 18 April 1971 and the second in Paris...

definition") that were historically part of the Persian empire, whether or not such people were ethnic Persians or Iranians. In some cases, their exact ancestry...

A rubāʿī (Classical Persian: رباعی, romanized: robāʿī, from Arabic رباعيّ, rubāʿiyy, 'consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold'; plural: رباعيّات,...

The Ottoman–Persian War of 1820–1823 was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran from 1820 to 1823. Tensions between the two empires had been...

in the family Poaceae. It is referred to by the common names Persian darnel or Persian ryegrass, and is an annual grass. It has an upright stem, branching...

The Persian famine of 1917–1919 or the Iranian famine of 1917–1919 was a period of widespread mass starvation and disease in Iran under the rule of the...

general population". The same report called for more research on the issue. Persian Gulf War veterans have an increased risk of multiple sclerosis. A 2017...

Piracy in the Persian Gulf describes the naval warfare that was prevalent until the 19th century and occurred between seafaring Arabs in Eastern Arabia...

A Persian Princess is an oriental-themed Edwardian musical comedy in two acts, with a book by Leedham Bantock and P. J. Barrow, lyrics by Percy Greenbank...

The Persian vole (Microtus irani) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is only found in Iran. Mahmoudi, A.; Kennerley, R. (2019). "Microtus...

The Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828 was the last major military conflict between the Russian Empire and Qajar Iran, which was fought over territorial disputes...

Kuku or kookoo (Persian: کوکو) is an Iranian dish made of whipped eggs with various ingredients folded in. It is similar to the Italian frittata, the...

Ap̄rahaṭ, Persian: فرهاد, Arabic: أفراهاط الحكيم, Ancient Greek: Ἀφραάτης, and Latin Aphraates), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century...

conflicts represent a continuation of the Greco-Persian Wars, after the Ionian Revolt and the first and second Persian invasions of Greece. The Greek alliance...

The Persian revolts against the Rashidun Caliphate were a series of uprisings and insurgencies across former Sasanian territories between 646 and 661...

Persian Weekly (Persian: هفته نامه پرشین) is the only non-political, non-religious, non-affiliate and impartial weekly newspaper to exclusively serve...

millennium BC, during which they came to dominate the Eurasian Steppe and the Persian Plateau. Their religion is derived from Iranian religions, and therefore...

Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Corporation (PGPIC, Persian: شرکت صنایع پتروشیمی خلیج فارس, Sherkat-e Sanai'-ye Petrushimi-ye Xalij-e Fars) is an...

The Persian Gulf Basin (Persian: آبخیز شاخاب پارس), also known as the Arabian Gulf Basin (Arabic: حوض الخليج العربي), is found between the Eurasian and...

Ranunculus asiaticus, the Persian buttercup, is a species of buttercup (Ranunculus) native to the eastern Mediterranean region, southwestern Asia, southeastern...

Mithridates or Mithradates (Greek: Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης) was a Persian noble. His wife was the daughter of Darius III with the sister of Pharnaces...

Shāh (/ʃɑː/; Persian: شاه [ʃɒːh] ) is a royal title meaning 'king' in Persian. Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to...

The Persian Rider is an archaic Greek equestrian sculpture, c. 520–500 BCE, that once stood on the Acropolis of Athens. Only fragmentary remains survive;...

Pharnaces (died 334 BC, Greek: Φαρνάκης) was a Persian noble of the 4th century BC apparently belonging to the Pontic-Cappadocian nobility. His sister...

The Safavid dynasty (/ˈsæ.fə.vɪd, ˈsɑː.-/; Persian: دودمان صفوی, romanized: Dudmân-e Safavi, pronounced [d̪uːd̪ˈmɒːne sæfæˈviː]) was the ruling dynasty...

Avaz e Afshari (Persian:آواز افشاری) is a branch of Dastgah-e Shur in Persian classical music. Historically, it has been regarded as an independent modal...

The Medo-Persian conflict was a campaign led by the Median king Astyages against Persis in the mid 6th-century BCE. Classical sources claim that Persis...

Kurds in Iran (Kurdish: کورد لە ئێران, romanized: Kurdên Îranê, Persian: کردها در ایران) constitute a large minority in the country with a population...

Rostam or Rustam (Persian: رستم [rosˈtæm]) is an Iranian legendary hero in Iranian mythology and historical tradition. Being the son of Zāl and Rudaba...

rendition of the word, which in Middle Persian appears as either Zurvān, Zruvān or Zarvān. The Middle Persian name derives from Avestan (Avestan: 𐬰𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬥...

Potter, ed. (2009). The Persian Gulf in History. "The Gulf's Ethnic Diversity: An Evolutionary History" in Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles...

Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid...

Nagyszentmiklós Hunnic Empire Xiongnu Scythian art Thraco-Cimmerian Turko-Persian tradition Bulgarian's Treasures from the past by Ivan Venedikov, Sava Boyadjiev...

The Gulf War oil spill (or Persian Gulf oil spill) was the second largest oil spill in history, resulting from the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Iraqi forces...

Persian turpentine tree may refer to: Pistacia eurycarpa Pistacia atlantica This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Persian...

The Unibet Persian War Novices' Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is...

(/sɪˈmɜːrɡ/; Persian: سیمرغ; also spelled senmurv, simorgh, simorg, simurg, simoorg, simorq or simourv) is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and...

The Sistan and Baluchestan province (Persian: استان سيستان و بلوچستان), simply referred to as Sistan-Baluchestan, is the second largest of the 31 provinces...

The influence of Persian literature in Western culture is historically significant. In order to avoid what E.G. Browne calls "an altogether inadequate...

Usiris was a Persian general under King Artaxerxes I. According to Ctesias, he commanded a Persian army of 200,000 men against the 150,000 men (excluding...

is a list of historical and contemporary Persian calligraphers. One of the most influential historical Persian calligraphers was Mir Ali Tabrizi, known...

being the Battle of Plataea) that ended the second Persian invasion of Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars. It took place on 27 or 28 August, 479 BC on...

and Central Iranian Range, Khuzestan Plain and the northern coasts of Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. It includes the provinces of Fars (Persia),...

Shield And Desert Storm: A Chronology And Troop List for the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf Crisis" (PDF). apps.dtic.mil. Archived (PDF) from the original on...

The term Persian music has been equated with Persian traditional, Iranian traditional, Persian classical and Iranian classical music (Persian music). A...

Heracleum persicum, commonly known as Persian hogweed or by its native name golpar (Persian: گلپر), is a species of hogweed, a perennial herbaceous plant...

ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (Persian: ابوسعید عبدالحی بن ضحاک بن محمود گردیزی), better known as Gardizi (گردیزی), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official...

Khshayarsha, commonly known as Xerxes the Great; c. 518 BC – 465 BC) was a Persian ruler who reigned as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire...

The Persian Gulf naming dispute concerns the gulf known historically and internationally as the Persian Gulf, in southern Iran (historically known as...

Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ o majnun) is an ancient Arab love story...

al-Qadisiyyah (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة ٱلْقَادِسِيَّة Maʿrakat al-Qādisīyah; Persian: نبرد قادسیه Nâbārd-e Qâdisiyeh) took place between the armies of the Rashidun...

of Athens, a recurring theme in his political career. During the first Persian invasion of Greece, he fought at the Battle of Marathon (490 BC), and may...

Barbari bread (Persian: نان بربری, romanized: nân-e barbari) is a type of Iranian yeast leavened flatbread. It is one of the thickest flat breads and...

romanized Shahnama (lit. 'Book of Kings'), is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater...

The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran (Persian: اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British...

China–Iran relations (Chinese: 中国–伊朗关系, Persian: روابط ایران و چین) refer to the bilateral relations between the People's Republic of China and Iran....

Arab polity allied with the Roman Empire, and participated in the Roman–Persian wars of late antiquity. The kingdom was dissolved in 602 when the Sasanian...

Julian's Persian expedition took place from March to July 363 AD. It was the final military campaign to be undertaken by Roman emperor Julian, who died...

pretext of fighting Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Ionia, Cyrus assembled a massive army composed of native Persian soldiers and Greeks. Prior to waging...

(1923–1983), singer of western opera and Persian folk music, the first Persian singer to popularize Persian folk songs Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri (1905–1953)...

The Persian Gulf campaign (1719) consisted of two or three naval battles in the Persian Gulf in which the Kingdom of Portugal assisted Safavid Iran against...

Three Persian religions 唐代三夷教 The three Persian religions (Chinese: 唐代三夷教; pinyin: Táng-dài sān yí jiào; lit. 'Three Foreign Religions of the Tang Dynasty')...

The Hamamni Persian Baths is located in a historical building of Stone Town, Zanzibar. The name Hamamni is also used to refer to the neighbourhood where...

Persian war of succession may refer to: Persian war of succession (404–401 BCE) ending with the Battle of Cunaxa, after the death of Darius II of the...

Persian World is a scholarly journal publishing papers on Iran. Persian World scope includes all areas of the world with an Iranian or Persian legacy,...

The Persian Gulf campaign of 1809 was an operation by the British East India Company and Royal Navy to force the Al Qasimi (plural Qawasim, referred to...

calls Luri “an aberrant form of archaic Persian.” The language descends from either Middle Persian or Old Persian. It belongs to the “Perside southern Zagros...

by which Islam, though initially rejected, eventually spread among the Persians and the other Iranian peoples. Although Arabization was a common element...

primary language spoken and used is Persian. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran asserts that the Persian language alone must be used for schooling...

Masters of Persian Music is a Persian classical music ensemble (or "supergroup") founded in 2000 by four internationally recognized ustāds (masters) of...

Iranian-Iraqis, (Persian: ایرانیان عراق, Arabic: إيرانيون العراق) Iraqi Persians, (Persian: پارس‌های عراق, Arabic: فرس العراق) or Ajam, (Persian: عجم, Arabic:...

The Iranian plateau or Persian plateau is a geological feature spanning parts of Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia, and the South Caucasus. It makes...

The Capture of Hormuz (Persian: بازپس گیری هرمز) was a combined Anglo-Persian expedition in 1622 that successfully captured the Portuguese fortress at...

later known as Persians. They would then have migrated to the current region of Persis in the early 1st millennium BC. The ancient Persians were present...

The Ottoman–Persian War was a series of military conflicts fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid dynasty of Iran during the reign of Sultan...

The Persian famine of 1870–1872 was a period of mass starvation and disease in Iran (Persia) that occurred during the Qajar era. The best documented famine...

noble Persians, and is at the origin of the Parthian dynasty: Afterwards, the Parthian being submitted, Andragoras, chosen among noble Persians was given...

Jewish Berookhim family. The hotel's design was intended to reflect a Persian Garden. With the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, the Royal Gardens...

This is a list of fish recorded from the Persian Gulf, a penetration of the Indian Ocean bordering Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United...

Tunb (Persian: تنب بزرگ, romanized: Tonb-e Bozorg; Arabic: طنب الكبرى, romanized: Tunb el-Kubra) are two small islands in the eastern Persian Gulf, close...

Albizia julibrissin, the Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, or mimosa tree, is a species of tree in the Fabaceae family, native to southwestern and eastern...

Persian Talent Show is a reality television show competition that searches for the most talented acts across the Iranian diaspora. It is a talent show...

Luthrodes galba, the Persian grass blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Turkey, central and eastern Arabia, Iraq, Iran...

900km 559miles 15 Babylon 14 Malavas 13 Hydaspes 12 Cophen 11 Cyropolis 10 Persian Gate 9 Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5 Tyre 4 Issus 3 Miletus...

The Central Persian desert basins ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1313) covers the arid steppe and desert basins of central Iran, stretching into northwestern Afghanistan...

Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارگ, Persian pronunciation: [xɒːrɡ]), also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental...

Persian Lake is a small lake in northern Manitoba, near the border between northeastern Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba. The lake is among an extremely...

deposition of Ahmad Shah, the last monarch of the Qajar dynasty. Joining the Persian Cossack Brigade at age 14, he rose through the ranks, becoming a brigadier-general...

culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second...

The Achaemenid Persian Lion Rhyton (Persian: تکوک شیر غران) is a gold rhyton from the Achaemenid Empire, dated to about 500 BC. It is 6.7 inches high (about...

James Atkinson (17 March 1780 – 7 August 1852) was a surgeon, artist and Persian scholar — "a Renaissance man among Anglo-Indians". First arriving in India...

Ormus; Persian: هرمز; Portuguese: Ormuz) was a kingdom ruled by a dynasty of southern Arab origin. It was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf...

Persian Wars is a 2001 video game created by Cryo Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. Based on the tales of the Arabian Nights, one plays...

to Iran in the Western world, it is alternatively known as Persian cuisine, despite Persians being only one of a multitude of Iranian ethnic groups who...

Bishr (c. 786–845 ?), astrologer, mathematician Bukhtishu (8th century?), Persian Christian physician of Academy of Gundishapur Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn (c...

Iranian philosophy (Persian: فلسفه ایرانی) or Persian philosophy can be traced back as far as to Old Iranian philosophical traditions and thoughts which...

Persian pottery or Iranian pottery is the pottery made by the artists of Persia (Iran) and its history goes back to early Neolithic Age (7th millennium...

the heavens]'). The principles of these studies were rooted in Arabian, Persian, Babylonian, Hellenistic and Indian traditions and both were developed...

of legume commonly known, variously, as camelthorn, Caspian manna, and Persian mannaplant. This shrub is native to Eurasia, but has been introduced to...

clubs (Sanskrit: मुद्गर, romanized: mudgara), known in Iran as meels (Persian: میل, romanized: mil), are a type of exercise equipment used to present...

written in three alphabets over the course of its history: the original Persian alphabet, a briefly used Roman-based orthography, and—more recently—a Cyrillic-based...

Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire. The following Unicode-related...

name of a literary genre, i.e. Middle Persian literature, the term refers to Middle Iranian, mostly Middle Persian, texts dated near or after the fall of...

ISIRI 9147 is the Iranian national standard for Persian keyboard layout, based on ISIRI 6219 and the Unicode Standard. It was published on 2007-04-08...

official language was Persian, the court literature was in Persian, and most of the chancellors, ministers, and mandarins were Persian speakers of the highest...

Persian ritual music (sometimes called Iranian Ritual Music) (Persian: موسیقی مذهبی ایران) is a type of Persian music which is used for religious ceremonies...

were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC. At the heart of the rebellion was...

"Persischer Marsch" ("Persian March"), Op. 289, is a march in G minor composed by Johann Strauss II in the autumn of 1864. The composer conducted the...

The Persian Gulf Online Organization (or Persian Gulf Organization PGO, also known as Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC)'s Persian Gulf Task...

article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Lorestan province (Persian: استان لرستان)...

elsewhere in Iran. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. Azerbaijanis comprise the largest minority ethnic group in Iran. Apart...

Persian Air Services was an Iranian airline that merged to form Iranair. The airline was founded in 1954 by Ahmed Shafiq, who was the son of the Shah's...

Persian Heights (29 April 1985 – 18 March 1993) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. As a two-year-old in 1987 he won two of his first three...

Euronews is currently majority-owned by Alpac Capital. In 1992, following the Persian Gulf War, during which CNN's position as the preeminent source of 24-hour...

of the Persian. The Exotic is similar to the Persian in appearance with the exception of the short dense coat. In the late 1950s, the Persian was used...

The Saffarid dynasty (Persian: صفاریان, romanized: Safāriyān) was a culturally Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia...

Darius III (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Ancient Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 380 – 330 BC) was the thirteenth and last Achaemenid King of Kings...

The Shirvanshahs (singular: Shirvanshah, from Persian شروانشاه, lit. 'king of Shirvan') were the rulers of Shirvan (in present-day Azerbaijan) from 861...

Persepolis Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس, romanized: Bâšgâh-e Futbâl-e Perspolis) is an Iranian professional football club based in Tehran...

The Tehrani accent (Persian: لهجهٔ تهرانی), or Tehrani dialect (گویش تهرانی), is a dialect of Persian spoken in Tehran and the most common colloquial...

the early 2000s in the southern United States. Beshkan (Persian: بشكن), also known as the "Persian snap", is a traditional Iranian finger snap requiring...

Shatranj (Persian: شطرنج, pronounced [ʃaˈtˤrandʒ]; from Middle Persian chatrang) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins...

and Sohrab, an opera with Persian libretto that is based on the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab from prominent medieval Persian poet Ferdowsi's epic poem...

Great. The period of the 31st Dynasty was the second occasion in which Persian pharaohs ruled Egypt, hence the term "Second Egyptian Satrapy". Before...

during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia. At the time, Babylonia was the last major power in Western Asia that was not yet under Persian control. The...

West Azerbaijan province (Persian: استان آذربایجان غربی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia. It is in the northwest...

This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī...

Hayedeh: Legendary Persian Diva (Persian: سخن از هایده) is a 2009 documentary film about the late Iranian iconic singer Hayedeh, made by the exiled musician...

The Anglo-Portuguese rivalry in the Persian Gulf was a period of military and commercial competition between the Kingdom of Portugal and the English East...

Zāl (Persian: زال, pronounced [zɒːl]), alternatively spelled as Zaal,[citation needed] is a legendary Iranian king from Sistan, and is recognized as one...

Conomurex persicus, common name : the Persian conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs....

the famous Megiddo Ivories; various treasures from Persepolis, the old Persian capital; a collection of Luristan Bronzes; a colossal 40-ton Lamassu from...

Egypt (Old Persian: 𐎸𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹 Mudrāya) conquered by the expansive Achaemenid Empire under Cambyses, and Egypt become a satrapy. The Persians came to dominate...

The Iranian Intermezzo, also called the Persian Renaissance, was a period in Iranian history marked by the rise to power of the first Iranian Muslim dynasties...

Iran Inca road system Persian Corridor Trans-Iranian Railway Via Regia (Germany) Great Trunk Road Graf, David F. (1994). "The Persian Royal Road System"...

Pseudobiceros bedfordi (common names Persian carpet flatworm and Bedford's flatworm) is a species of flatworm in the family Pseudocerotidae. This species...

Greco-Persian art, also Graeco-Persian art or Anatolian–Persian, is an artistic synthesis between Ancient Greek art and Achaemenid Persian art, which can...

Rayan (Persian: رایان, romanized: rāyān; Arabic: ريّان or ريان, romanized: rayyān), also spelt Rayyan, Rayyaan, Rayaan, Raian, Rayen, or Ryan is generally...

Khosrow and Shirin (Persian: خسرو و شیرین, romanized: Xusraw u Šīrīn) is a romantic epic poem by Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). It is the second work of...

beloved by the narrator. Abdolhamid Ziaei considers the content of old Persian ghazal to include four elements: love, mysticism, education or excellence...

0°E / 37.6; 47.0 Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (Persian/Azerbaijani: آذربایجان, romanized: Āzarbāyjān, Persian pronunciation: [ɒːzæɾbɒːjˈdʒɒːn], Azerbaijani...

Basseri dialect (Persian: گویش باصری) is a Persian dialect spoken in Fars province by the Basseri people. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch...

in English was in 1588. Persian orange is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran. The first recorded use of Persian orange as a color name...

Amasis (fl. 550–500 BCE) was a Persian of the tribe of the Maraphii who was sent by Aryandes, the governor of Egypt under Cambyses, at the head of an...

Dahae, the Khwarazmians, the Massagetae, the Medes, the Parthians, the Persians, the Sagartians, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Scythians, the Sogdians...

The Iranian Highflying Tumbler pigeon also known as "Persian Highflying Tumbler" in Europe and "Tehrani" in Iran is a breed of domestic pigeon bred in...

A qanāt (Persian: قَنَات) or kārīz (کَارِیز) is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water...

Around 535 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great initiated a protracted campaign to absorb parts of northwestern Indian subcontinent into his nascent...

The 2023–24 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 41st season of Iran's Football League and 23rd as Persian Gulf Pro League...

The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: خاندان پهلوی, romanized: Xândân-e Pahlavi) is an Iranian royal dynasty that was the last to rule Iran before the country's...

Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece. The battle took place simultaneously with the land...

textile design using the boteh (Persian: بته) or buta, a teardrop-shaped motif with a curved upper end. Of Iranian/Persian origin, paisley designs became...

Kingdom of Macedonia was under the reign of the Achaemenid Persians. In 512/511 BC, the Persian general Megabyzus forced the Macedonian king Amyntas I to...

"Persian manuscript in Japan" (Japanese: 紙本墨書南番文字 Hepburn romanization: Shihonbokusho Nanban-Moji, Persian: دستخط پارسی ژاپن; also called "南蛮 Nanban")...

Iranian languages spoken throughout the formerly extensive realm of the Persian Empire. Judeo-Iranian dialects are generally conservative in comparison...

contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. East Azerbaijan Province (Persian: استان آذربایجان...

Aparat (Persian: آپارات, Âpârât) is an Iranian video-sharing and social media platform established in 2011 by Saba Idea. Headquartered in Tehran, Iran...

Kermanshah province (Persian: استان كرمانشاه) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, bordering Iraq. Its capital is the city of Kermanshah. It forms part...

Pleuroploca clava, the Persian horse conch is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the...

"The Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture" that will bring together scholars in Persian history, language, culture, art and literature...

indigenous boat made of tobacco leaves found in the Hamun Lake region Persian carpet Abadeh rug, type of carpet with a large diamond pattern Afshar rugs...

Persian Gulf National Day (Persian: روز ملی خلیج فارس) is an official holiday in Iran observed on the 10th day of Ordibehesht, the second month in the...

Persian embassy to Europe may refer to: Persian embassy to Europe (1599–1602) Persian embassy to Europe (1609–1615) This disambiguation page lists articles...

The Persian tribal uprisings of 1929 were a series of rebellions in the Sublime State of Persia by the Qashqai, Khamseh and the Buyir Ahmadi and the Bakhtiari...

legend in which the Derafsh-e Kāviyān was the standard of a mythological Persian blacksmith-turned-hero named Kaveh the Blacksmith, who led a popular uprising...

or Persian pop music (Persian: موسیقی پاپ ایرانی) refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional Persian dialects...

Judeo-Persian Persian (Western Farsi) Central Persian (Esfahani, Kermani Persian) Eastern Persian (Khorasan Persian, Sistani Persian) Northern Persian (Tehrani...

The Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professorship of Persian Studies is a Chair at the University of Oxford, England, associated with the Faculty of Oriental...

On the 2 August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait marking the beginning of the Persian Gulf war. There have been many speculated causes for the start of the war...

Abu Musa is a 12.8-square-kilometre (4.9 sq mi) island in the eastern Persian Gulf, near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The island is currently...

Spialia phlomidis, the Persian skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, southern Russia, Asia...

The Russo-Persian War of 1651–1653 was an armed conflict in the North Caucasus fought between the Safavid Empire and the Tsardom of Russia, associated...

Manichaeism (/ˌmænɪˈkiː.ɪzəm/; Persian: آئین مانی, romanized: Āʾīn-i Mānī; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móníjiào) was a major world religion founded in the third...

first world history". It was in three volumes and published in Arabic and Persian versions. The extant manuscripts represent "one of the most important surviving...

was one of the Persian generals in the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). He was stationed on the Persian right during...

that is shared by the population in Eastern Arabia and areas around the Persian Gulf. Seafood is a significant part of the diet of the inhabitants of the...

Persian. The majority of the population of Iran, approximately 80%, consists of Iranian peoples. The largest groups in this category include Persians...

81°34′24″W / 28.42231°N 81.5734558°W / 28.42231; -81.5734558 Disney's Persian Resort was a themed hotel planned for Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake...

the Persian church began to achieve a recognized status. Through the Battle of Avarayr (451) and the resultant treaty of 484, for example, the Persian Empire's...

Arabic and Persian Research Institute (MAPRI) in Tonk in Rajasthan is an Indian institute promoting and furtherance of Arabic and Persian studies, established...

Nowruz (Persian: نوروز, Iranian Persian: [noːˈɾuːz], lit. 'New Day') is New Year's Day on the Iranian calendars, including the currently used Solar Hijri...

Persian King (foaled 18 February 2016) is a retired Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He showed very promising form as...

The Sarabi dog or Iranian mastiff (Persian: سرآبی) is a large breed of livestock guardian dog named after and originating from the Sarab County in Iran...

The Ottoman–Persian War of 1730–1735 was a conflict between the forces of Safavid Iran and those of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1735. After Ottoman...

Gol Gohar Sirjan Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فرهنگى ورزشى گل‌گهر سیرجان, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Gol Gohăr Sirjan) is an Iranian football club based in...

The Hadith of Persian Men (Persian: حدیث مردان پارسی) refers to a Hadith, an Islamic "report", "account," or "narrative" about the people of Iran (Persia)...

Ariaramnes (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎼𐎶𐎴 Ariyāramna; "peace of the Arya") was a great-uncle of Cyrus the Great and the great-grandfather of Darius I...

The 2007–08 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 25th season of Iran's Football League and seventh season of Iran Pro League since...

SS Persian Monarch was an iron-hulled trans-Atlantic ocean liner, built, as a steamer, for Monarch Line's London to New York route in 1880. Designed to...

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province (Persian: استان کهگیلویه و بویراحمد) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, in...

Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2025-04-01. When the Persian army spread itself too widely over the Roman East and lost its cohesion...

The Iranian Gendarmerie (Persian: ژاندارمری ایران), also known as the Government Gendarmerie (Persian: ژاندارمری دولتی, romanized: Žāndārmirī-ye Daulatī)...

by sheikhs of native Iranian (possibly Kurdish) origin, it was not only Persian-speaking, but also Turkic-speaking and Turkified. From their base in Ardabil...

Yazd (Persian: یزد; [jæzd] ) is a city in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and...

The Battle of the Persian Border was the second encounter between the forces of Media and Persia. Though not a decisive victory for Persia, it signaled...

The Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army service command established in December 1943 to facilitate the supply of US lend-lease war material...

Tahirid dynasty (Persian: طاهریان, romanized: Tâheriyân, pronounced [t̪ɒːheɾiˈjɒːn]) was a culturally Arabized, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Persian dehqan origin...

the Buyids were composed in Middle Persian, Syriac and Arabic. The etymology of the name Būya (Būyāk in Middle Persian) is defined by the Dehkhoda Dictionary...

The Persian legislative election of 1923 was held in November 1923 after the appointment of Reza Pahlavi as prime minister by Ahmad Shah Qajar. It was...

Middle Persian aždahāg are the source of the Middle Persian Manichaean demon of greed Až, Old Armenian mythological figure Aždahak, Modern Persian 'aždehâ/aždahâ'...

modern-day ethnonym "Persian" was typically used as a demonym for all Iranian nationals, regardless of whether or not they were ethnic Persians. This terminology...

Kaveh the Blacksmith (Persian: کاوه آهنگر, romanized: Kāveh Āhangar, IPA: [kʰɒːˈve ʔɒːɦæŋˈɡæɹ] ) is a figure in Iranian mythology who leads an uprising...

It is sometimes also called the Shamsi calendar, Khorshidi calendar, Persian calendar, or Iranian Solar calendar and the most recent of the Iranian...

Persian Gulf War. U.S. war on Iraq Iraq-Kuwait War «Persian Gulf Veterans National Medal». rallypoint. Retrieved at February 16, 2017. «The Persian Gulf...

Phrynocephalus persicus, commonly known as the Persian toad-headed agama, is a small diurnal desert lizard of the family Agamidae. It is the westernmost...

The 2008–09 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 26th season of Iran's Football League and eighth season of Iran Pro League since...

This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Golestan province is one of...

The Masnavi is an extensive Persian masnavi (a poetic form) written by Rumi, and one of the most influential works in the history of Sufism. It is a series...

loanwords in Old Persian. Nothing is known of its grammar, “but it shares important phonological isoglosses with Avestan, rather than Old Persian. Under the...

Hormozgan province (Persian: استان هرمزگان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Bandar Abbas. The province is in the south...

The Ghaznavid Empire (Persian: غزنویان, romanized: Ġaznaviyān) was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim state of Turkic mamluk origin. Flourishing from...

Turanana cytis, the Persian odd-spot blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is found in...

grandfather, Abdul-Muttalib, as the main character) on 24 July 2012 Salman the Persian (the story of Salman's quest for religious enlightenment) on 24 July 2012...

an Iranian jazz and blues singer living in New York, combines classical Persian poetry with modern jazz and blues. She has established a model to the jazz...

is the star's Bayer designation. This star is occasionally called "the Persian", after the Chinese name of its constellation, 波斯 (Bō Sī, English: Persia)...

words borrowed from Persian to Hebrew. As the Jews lived as an exiled and homecoming population for almost two centuries under the Persian Empire, many borrowed...

the zoologist Armand David. As T. streeti, a synonym, it is known as the Persian mole. Père David's mole is a medium-sized mole, 128 millimetres (5.0 in)...

Persian Gulf—Black Sea corridor is a transport and transit corridor project proposed and created by Iran. The corridor project starts from the Persian...

This is a list of Persian-language television channels organized by country of origin. This list may include active and defunct channels. Al-Alam News...

Cheshmeh Ali (Persian: چشمه علي) is a village in Kakasharaf Rural District of the Central District in Khorramabad County, Lorestan province, Iran. At...

Nay Angiz (Persian: ناي انگيز) is a village in Gerit Rural District of Papi District in Khorramabad County, Lorestan province, Iran. At the time of the...

Eyvashan Seyl (Persian: عيوشان سيل) is a village in Razan Rural District of Zagheh District in Khorramabad County, Lorestan province, Iran. At the time...

The culture of Iran (Persian: فرهنگ ایران) or culture of Persia is one of the oldest and among the most influential in the world. Iran (Persia) is widely...

EZ-ə-FAY or /ɪˈzɑːfeɪ/ iz-AH-fay; Persian: اضافه [ezɒːˈfe], lit. 'addition') is a grammatical particle found in Persian, in some other Iranian languages...

regarded as the celestial guardians of the sky during the time of the Persian Empire (550 BCE–330 BCE) and were considered markers of the four cardinal...

The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL; Persian: فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی, Farhangestân-e Zabân-o Adab-e Fârsi) is the regulatory body...

This is a list of magazines published in the Persian language. Media of Iran List of newspapers in Iran...

Swedish Iranians or Swedish Persians consist of people of Iranian nationality who have settled in Sweden, as well as Swedish residents and citizens of...

Bastani (Persian: بستنی), locally known as bastani sonnati (Persian: بستنی سنتی "traditional ice cream") or bastani sonnati zaferani (Persian: بستنی سنتی...

The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars province in Iran. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. They...

A great number of words of Persian origin have entered the Turkish language. The following is a list of a number of these loanwords. List of replaced...

Christian country, Christianity had enough of an impact on Persia and Persians to produce a considerable number of saints of this origin, at various times...

admiral who served the Persian Empire during the reign of Darius the Great (522–486 BC). He is known for his role in leading the Persian amphibious expedition...