Persian Jews or Iranian Jews (Persian: یهودیان ایرانی, yahudiān-e-Irāni; Hebrew: יהודים פרסים Yəhūdīm Parsīm) are the descendants of Jews who were historically associated with the Persian Empire, whose successor state is Iran.The biblical books of Esther, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah contain references to the lives and experiences of Jews who lived in Persia.

Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire).Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian).. Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets and seals of the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BCE to 300 BCE).

Nov 23, 2022 · The country’s difficulties led to the ascent in 1925 of the Pahlavi line, whose ill-planned efforts to modernize Iran led to widespread dissatisfaction and the dynasty’s subsequent overthrow in the revolution of 1979. This revolution brought a regime to power that uniquely combined elements of a parliamentary democracy with an Islamic theocracy run by the …

The replacement of the Pahlavi scripts with the Persian alphabet to write the Persian language was done by the Saffarid dynasty and Samanid dynasty in 9th-century Greater Khorasan. The script is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left; mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right.

The Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe. List of Afsharid monarchs No. Shah Portrait Reigned from Reigned until Time in office Seal Coinage ...

The Imperial State of Iran (Persian: کشور شاهنشاهی ایران, romanized: Kešvar-e Šâhanšâhi-ye Irân, known as the Imperial State of Persia from December 15, 1925 to March 21, 1935) was the official name of Iran under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty.. The polity was formed in 1925 and lasted until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the Iranian ...

Reza Pahlavi (Crown Prince of Pahlavi dynasty) Mohammad Hassan Mirza II (Crown Prince of Qajar dynasty) This is a list of monarchs of Persia (or monarchs of the Iranic peoples , in present-day Iran ), which are known by the royal title Shah or Shahanshah .

The name "Iran" is first attested in the Avesta as airyānąm (the text of which is composed in Avestan, an old Iranian language spoken in the northeastern part of Greater Iran, or in what are now Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan).. It reappears in the Achaemenid period where the Elamite version of the Behistun Inscription twice mentions Ahura Mazda as nap harriyanam …

The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty, ruling for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier in modern times, who took on the name of the Pahlavi language spoken in the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire in order to strengthen his nationalist credentials.

A chādor (Persian: چادر, lit. 'tent'), also variously spelled in English as chadah, chad(d)ar, chader, chud(d)ah, chadur, and naturalized as /tʃʌdər/, is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many women in the Persian-speaking countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent Tajikistan, as well as in Shia communities in Iraq, Bahrain, and Qatif in Saudi Arabia in areas in public ...