Rasht (Persian: رشت, romanized: Rašt (); Gilaki: Rəšt; also romanized as Resht and Rast, and often spelt Recht in French and older German manuscripts) is the capital city of Gilan Province, Iran.Also known as the "City of Rain" (شهر باران, Ŝahre Bārān), it had a population of 679,995 as of the 2016 census and is the most populated city of northern Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (abbreviated as IRIR, or sometimes as RAI) (Persian: راه‌آهن جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Râhâhan-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân) is the national state-owned railway system of Iran.The Raja Passenger Train Company is an associate of the IR, and manages its passenger trains. The Railway Transportation Company is an associate of ...

The city used to have a professional football team competing in the top-flight of Azerbaijani football - Khazar Lankaran, which played in the Azerbaijan Premier League.Sporting venues in the city include the Lankaran City Stadium and Lankaran Olympic Sports Complex. The stadium was one of the venues for the group stages of the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Nader grew up during the final years of the Safavid dynasty which had ruled Iran since 1502. At its peak, under such figures as Abbas the Great, Safavid Iran had been a powerful empire, but by the early 18th century the state was in serious decline and the reigning shah, Soltan Hoseyn, was a weak ruler.When Sultan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in …

Peter I (9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 to 1721 and subsequently the Russian Empire until his death in 1725, jointly ruling with his elder half-brother, Ivan V until 1696. He is primarily credited with the modernisation of …

The following is a selected list of rose varieties and cultivars which currently (2017) hold the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Moscovo (português europeu) ou Moscou (português brasileiro) (em russo: Москва, transl Moskva, lido Maskvá — AFI: (escutar (ajuda · info))) é a capital e maior cidade da Rússia.Fica às margens do rio Moskva na região central do país, com uma população estimada em 12,4 milhões de habitantes dentro dos limites da cidade, [1] mais de 17 milhões de habitantes na área …

A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔfarˈsi]) or Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔfarˈsiː]), also known as Iranian carpet, is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran (historically known as Persia), for home use, local sale, and ...

Chechnya (Russian: Чечня́, tr. Chechnyá, IPA: [tɕɪtɕˈnʲa]; Chechen: Нохчийчоь, romanized: Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, close to the Caspian Sea.The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia to its south ...

Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) is an American geologist and oceanographer, and a former government official and NASA astronaut, who flew on three Space Shuttle missions. Sullivan was one of six women selected in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women.During her first mission, STS-41-G, Sullivan performed the first spacewalk by an American woman.