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4 unusual facts about Persian


Ahmad Kamyabi Mask

Kamyabi Mask has authored and translated numerous books and essays in French and Persian published in Paris and Tehran and Isfahan.

Karadayı

Karadayı is available in many languages, the most notable ones are Persian and Arabic.

Robert Warburton

Able to converse fluently with the learned in Persian and with the common folk in the vernacular Pushto, he succeeded, by his acquaintance with tribal life and character, in gaining an influence over the border Afghans which has never been equalled.

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi wrote and translated many books in Arabic and Persian language.


Abdul Ahad

Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd, name adopted by David Benjamin Keldani (1867–c.1940), Persian Catholic priest who converted to Islam

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Shams Alam a Research Scholars from 'Department of Arabic, Persian and Urdu' of University of Madras published a research paper on Daryabadi which was titled Moulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi ki ilmi wa adabi khidmath.

Abdullah Entezam

According to Abbas Milani's book 'The Persian Sphinx', he was the mentor of the Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida.

Afetes

The Persian fleet occupied the bay of Aphetae before the Battle of Artemisium, in 480 BC.

Afrasiyab

Afrasiab - a sorcerer and emperor who appears in the Persian epic Shahnameh and later in the Urdu Dastaan and Tilism-e-Hoshruba.

Amiriyah shelter bombing

Charles E. Allen, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning supported the selection of bomb targets during the Persian Gulf War.

Anglo-Russian Entente

# That Britain may not seek concessions “beyond a line starting from Qasr-e Shirin, passing through Isfahan, Yezd (Yazd), Kakhk, and ending at a point on the Persian frontier at the intersection of the Russian and Afghan frontiers.”

Arak, Iran

With the Persian Shah's approval, Yusuf Khan diverted the main river to drive out the hostiles and built the Soltan Abad fortress, or Baladeh, a war fortress to act as a buffer and serve as the foundation of what would become modern Arak.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Bahik

The "Village of Behik" is a protocol signed in Constantinople in 1913 which drew most of the Turco-Persian border.

Battle of Pelusium

Battle of Pelusium (343 BC), second battle fought between Achaemenid forces under Artaxerxes III (the Ochus) of Persia and pharaoh Nectanebo II, leading to defeat of Egyptian forces and the start of second Persian period in Egypt

East-Azerbaijan State Palace

On 1946, Governor Ali Mansur (in Persian: علی منصور), the rest of remaining parts of the palace destroyed and a new marble building built instead which is served as the office of the State Governor till now.

Eshaq

Eshaq Jahangiri (In Persian: اسحاق جهانگیری کوهشاهی) (born 1957), Iranian politician

Eustathius of Mtskheta

Eustathius is reported by the hagiographer to have been a Persian cobbler originally called Gvirobandak, son of a Zoroastrian priest (magi), from Ganzak.

Fareej Mushbir

It is also believed that, during the 1783 Bani Utbah invasion of Bahrain, the Mushbir canal was used by the Bani Utbah to capture the Persian-held Diwan Fort, then the administrative headquarters of Bahrain.

Ferishtah's Fancies

No connection was intended with the Persian historian Firishta.

Gordian III

Persian sources claim that a battle was fought (Battle of Misiche) near modern Fallujah (Iraq) and resulted in a major Roman defeat and the death of Gordian III.

Greece in 5th century BC

In 492 BC, the Persian generals Mardonios and Datis launched a naval assault on the Aegean islands, causing them to submit, then attempted to disembark to Marathon in 490 to take Athens.

Hakobyan

V. H. Hagopian, professor of Ottoman Turkish and Persian in Anatolia College.

Iraj Mirza

Among many poems that Iraj composed, his well-known poems include Satan (in Persian: Ebleess), Mother (in Persian: Maadar), A Letter to a Poet Aref Ghazvini (in Persian: Arefnameh), Woman's Picture (in Persian: Tassvir-e-Zan), Story of the Veil or Hijab (in Persian: hejab) and the Story of Zohreh and Manouchehr (in Persian: Daastan-e-Zohreh-o-Manouchehr), which is based on William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.

Kaduthuruthy Valiya Palli

Located in Kaduthuruthy, the present Kaduthuruthy St. Mary’s Valiapally is a third building serving the congregation, and is linked to the history of the Knanaya community known as Southists (തെക്കു൦ഭാഗർ) (Knanites(ക്നാനായക്കാര്‍)), who migrated to Kerala under the leadership of Kanai Thommen in AD 345 from East Syria to escape from the severe persecution of Persian emperor Shapor-II.

Kathleen A. McGrath

In the spring of 2000, during her command of the Jarrett,and just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships, the ship deployed to the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, hunting boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions.

Levan of Kartli

Thereafter he was appointed as naib of Kerman, Iran, and, as a commander of Georgian auxiliary forces, he secured the eastern provinces of the Persian empire from the rebellious Baluchi tribesmen from 1698 to 1701.

Mana Neyestani

He is particularly known for his work for the newspaper Zan and Persian language Radio Zamaneh.

Marco Polo – The Journey

It is one of the Renaissance's more eclectic works, covering not only the instrumental istanpittas of the Italian Trecento and earlier Franciscan laudas, but also Byzantine chant, girl songs from Cyprus preserved in the Manuscript 1203 kept in Iviron monastery, Persian and Arabic dances, traditional Music of Mongolia and Ancient Chinese ceremonial music.

Middle East

These were followed by the Hittite, Greek and Urartian civilisations of Asia Minor, Elam in pre-Iranian Persia, as well as the civilizations of the Levant (such as Ebla, Ugarit, Canaan, Aramea, Phoenicia and Israel), Persian and Median civilizations in Iran, North Africa (Carthage/Phoenicia) and the Arabian Peninsula (Magan, Sheba, Ubar).

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.

Nahravan

Nahrawan Canal, an ancient Persian irrigation system in modern-day Iraq

Najim

Re-titled "Près de toi (Suddenly)", it is a multilingual song in French, English and Persian and contains a sampling of Algerian classic "Abdel Kader" with Arash featuring Najim and Swedish-Mexican star Rebecca Zadig

Nazenin Ansari

Nazenin Ansari (Persian: نازنین انصاری) is an Iranian journalist in exile, working as the diplomatic editor of Kayhan London, a weekly Persian-language newspaper critical to the current government of Iran (not to be confused with the official Iranian newspaper Kayhan).

Nosratollah Noohian

His literary compilations include "Biographies of Poets of Semnan" (1958), which was republished in the US in 2001, "Shining Stars" (1959) a collection of published articles relating to Persian poetry, and "Works of Raf'at Semnani" (1960) (رفعت سمنانی) with an introduction by Zabihollah Safa.

Olim Kamalov

By learning the specific of miniature painting and restoring copies of miniatures of Middle Age Persian-Tajik artist K. Behzod, O. Kamalov works on the series of his own works of modern miniature.

Pär Lagerkvist

Among his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as the man who was freed instead of Jesus, Barabbas; and the Persian King, Ahasuerus.

Pearl hunting

Journey Around Parthia by Isidore of Charax, a 1st-century geographer from the city of Charax on the northern end of the Persian Gulf, deals with the subject of pearl fishing.

Polynikes

Polynikes dies during the final stand in a barehanded attack on a Persian chariot officer along with the remaining Spartans.

Pompertuzat

Jane Dieulafoy (née Magre), born June 29, 1851 and died May 25, 1916, in particular, brought with her husband Marcel Dieulafoy several Persian friezes that are exhibited at the Louvre (frieze of Lions and frieze of archers in particular), and produces a literary consistent, inspired by the many trips she made with her husband

Pyotr Kotlyarevsky

In 1810 he took hold of Meghri Citadel, withstood a siege by the Persian army and then routed them on the Araks River.

Quranism

He was Distinguished Professor of Arabic and Persian at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia.

Roksan Xerxes

The Roksan Xerxes transcription turntable (often shortened to Xerxes) is a record player named after the Persian king Xerxes I and produced by London-based Roksan Audio.

Safar Ghahremani

Safar Ghahremani (Persian: سفر قهرمانی) known as Safar Khan (Persian: سفر خان) (born in Azerbaijanregion – died 2002, in Tehran) was an Iranian leftist dissident and a member of (The Tudeh Party) of Iran, who spent several years of his life in prison.

Seistan Force

Raids on the lines of communication of the force were made by certain tribes of Persian Baluchistan, notably the Damanis of Sarhad.

Shaghayegh

Shaghayegh means corn poppy (a red flower) in Persian.

Siege of Kut

These Indian troops were involved in the capture of the frontier city of Karman and the detention of the British consul there, and they also successfully harassed Sir Percy Sykes' Persian campaign against the Baluchi and Persian tribal chiefs who were aided by the Germans.

Sinhala Kingdom

From Sinhala Diva' (Island of Sinhala) are derived the Persian/Arabic Serendip or Sarandib, and the European 'Ceilao', 'Zeylan' and 'Ceylon'.

Son of Maryam

The movie is about a young Persian boy who befriends an Assyrian priest and learns tolerance toward Christians in post-revolution Iran.

Stouts Hill

Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne.

Tithorea

The ancient city was built after the destruction of the nearby cities by Xerxes' Persian army in 480 BC.

Turkic migration

Thus the ethnonym "Turk" for the diverse Islamized Turkic tribes somehow served the same function as the name "Tajik" did for the diverse Iranian peoples who converted to Islam and adopted Persian as their lingua-franca.

Yousuf-e Payambar

It was filmed in Persian but has been dubbed into Arabic in Al-Kawthar and there is also another version with English subtitles, which has and is currently being broadcast on IRIB.

Zabihollah Rezaee

Zabihollah Rezaee (Persian: ذبیح الله رضایی) (PhD, CPA, CFE, CMA, CIA, CGFM, CSOXP, CGOVP, CGRCP, CGMA, CRMA) is the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and Professor of accounting at the University of Memphis.


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