WebIran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country in Western Asia.It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area …

WebGreater Iran (Persian: ایران بزرگ, romanized: Irān-e Bozorg) refers to a region covering parts of Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Xinjiang, and the Caucasus, where both Iranian culture and Iranian languages have had a significant presence and impact. Historically, this was a region long-ruled by the dynasties of various Iranian empires, under whose rule the …

WebIrán (en persa, ایران ‎, romanizado: Irān), oficialmente República Islámica de Irán (en persa, جمهوری اسلامی ایران ‎, romanizado: Ŷomhurí-ye Eslāmí-ye Irān) es un país de Oriente Próximo y Asia Occidental.Es una república constitucional basada en los principios del islam chií.. Desde el I milenio a. C. hasta 1935 fue conocido en Occidente como Persia ...

WebPersia underwent a revival under the Safavid dynasty (1502–1736), the most prominent figure of which was Shah Abbas I. Some historians credit the Safavid dynasty for founding the modern nation-state of Iran. Iran's contemporary Shia character, and significant segments of Iran's current borders take their origin from this era (e.g. Treaty of ...

WebThe Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran or Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The invasion, code name Operation Countenance, was largely unopposed by the numerically and technologically outmatched Iranian forces.The multi-pronged …

Web16-11-2022 · Iran, a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia.Much of Iran consists of a central desert plateau, which is ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges that afford access to the interior through high passes.Most of the population lives on the edges of this forbidding, waterless waste. The capital is Tehrān, a …

WebIn the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name used for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah officially asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran (meaning the land of Aryans in Persian), the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence. Subsequently, the common adjective for citizens of Iran …

WebQajar Iran (listen (help · info)), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran (Persian: دولت علیّه ایران Dowlat-e 'Aliyye-ye Irân) and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran (Persian: ممالک محروسه ایران Mamâlek-e Mahruse-ye Irân), was an Iranian state ruled by the Qajar dynasty ...

WebEarly relations. Political relations between Iran (Persia) and the United States began when the Shah of Iran, Nassereddin Shah Qajar, officially dispatched Iran's first ambassador, Mirza Abolhasan to Washington, D.C., in 1856. In 1883, Samuel G. W. Benjamin was appointed by the United States as the first official diplomatic envoy to Iran; however, …

WebSafavid Iran or Safavid Persia (/ ˈ s æ f ə v ɪ d, ˈ s ɑː-/), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.